> Baseball never ends

Sometimes it seems that way when you actually watch it. I think they need a "pitch clock" sort of like the "shot clock" on basketball. May help things too...less spitting and scratching in odd places.

> Our house is on a slab.

My first house was that way and I had the same issues with the "what if" a pipe bust under the slab.

House I've been in now for 20 years I designed. All brick exterior, lots of insulation, and on a 4 foot fully lit, closed (no vents) and heated and air conditioned crawl space fully sealed. Crawl still looks new under there, and A/C equipment that has had to come out and be changed one time had the installers saying the 16 year old one looked like it just came out of the box. No dust or bug problems.

Then again, I even put hurricane tie-downs on the roofing. So I was out to stop crap from happening.

I heard a church on Nuckols Road in Glen Allen had a pipe burst Saturday night. Eight year earlier the same pipe went and plumbers were called in to repair it. That section was supposed to be insulated, and when they did the work eight years ago, they never put on the insulation. So all damage and loss is due to sloppy work done eight years earlier.

When someone is there to fix things, make sure they do what they should/or said they would be doing to correct the problem.

Lucky you....that's a fairly rare situation to have, but a good one.

Depends on what it was going to be. A few of my neighbors blew leaves for hours the other day (including yesterday). With all the wind gusts we are having (and leaves falling), now they have to start over.

My dad, several years ago, fell off the roof of the house (cleaning leaves off) just a couple of days after Christmas -- he passed away from massive head trauma. It wasn't the same after that.

Some doctors have reported seeing RSV in some adults. It's rare, but not impossible.

> Holidays can be especially lonely.

It gets slowly worse as you age. In the 1990s we still had big family gatherings. Now most older relatives, grandparents, parents, and other family have passed on. A lot of friends also.

Looking back, Christmas, while always special, is really something when you are a kid. Half the time you couldn't fully sleep the night before.

I think my first time there might have been in the 1980s. In any event, amazing how long it has been kept up on Wister.

Have to agree. It's getting out to see the lights, and wondering just how far some people will go. Still amazing how people get power out to all that stuff if their yard/house is really loaded with lights without blowing a breaker.

More than one: /r/coronavirusVA/

Edit: the regular Coronavirus sub has 2,300,822 readers.

Coworkers who come in sick. The gift that keeps on giving. How bad did it get with you -- just "sinuses or allergies" as you said, or did it hit harder?

Most people are in their own bubble, news wise.

You mean..... Something green!?

BTW, I put this up here in good faith asking if anyone knew anything. I live near Richmond and am the main poster for the Virginia COVID subboard. I was not taking potshots at anyone, but was generally curious why I had seen a change recently in the city. I've been a member of the RVA board for a fairly long time.

I have a friend who did the same thing you did; both at once. Knocked her on her butt for about four days. And I think you are correct. From what I've been hearing, the flu vaccine can really kick your ass.

Damn, sorry to hear that.

We are far lower in the curve now than in August. We are in a bottom.

Yes, you are correct in the vaccination rate being low. Real low. One Virginia county has only something like 0.5% of the residents vaxxed. And if you guessed it was in a "red" area, you would be correct.

I have not had COVID yet either, nor my spouse who works in healthcare and has patients with COVID she is hands on with.

Open mouth, insert foot on that one.

Edit: I think he said it thinking it would help the mid-terms. And at least we did get less crazies in office than we thought we were...

Wednesday, Richmond was #3 in the state, only beat out by two high population northern VA counties.

Edit: /r/coronavirusVA/comments/z4nf5u/virginia_breakdown_by_citycounty_of_new_covid/

Sorry he is under the weather.

As per COVID three times, there is this (solid source):

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-reinfections-and-long-covid

Virginia is actually at a very low point at the moment....bottom of a curve and a new curve (surge) for COVID has not yet started.

Wednesday:

/r/coronavirusVA/comments/z2w9b4/virginia_covid_case_hospital_numbers_report_for/

/r/coronavirusVA/comments/z4nf5u/virginia_breakdown_by_citycounty_of_new_covid/

> I don't think it's a coincidence that the more conservative counties are touting lower numbers: it fits with their agenda.

Although the CDC this week left the main counties that have a higher rate in the Southwest of the state. But politics is always going to get into things.

Problem is, each time you get covid, more organs, etc., inside usually get damaged, so we are going to see a lot of problems down the line.

Solid Source: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-reinfections-and-long-covid
and an earlier article
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-reinfection-red-flag

If you need to find out who Eric Topol is, he is on wikipedia.

That's...well, I smell politics.