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My late wife got Dexamethasone (Decadron) as part of her chemo cocktails. This is the wonder steroid that is making Трумп all happy and energetic. The various warnings that came with it said serious mood swings , and you will get multiples of them. happy, manic, hair trigger crabby, profound depression, possible psychotic breaks, and all the fun stuff. It talked about brain fog.

Basically it said never mind not operating heavy machinery, don't make heavy decisions. Deciding its lunch time is pretty safe, Call the lawyer about the will, and discover you left it all to a cat, and it wasn't even your cat.

My wife was quite honestly brilliant, far smarter than I. PhD in pure math from MIT, a public health degree, 80+ journal articles, ~10K cites. Kept a couple of novels in progress, so she could pick depending on her mood. Well a few hours after the dose, the fog would roll in solid. Never mind reading, she often couldn't cope with the pick-a-house shows on HGTV - we often kept the Cornell bird feeder cam on, to stave off frustration.

Oh yea, they use it for covid, because it moderates the immune response, so you don't burn it out (cf: 103 fever). This also means you quarantine longer, you keep shedding viral particles, so. Instead of 14 days they say minimum of 20 days, and double check that you really aren't still exhaling the virus.

So in frustration for how this place is dealing with the public health, and long tested methods that reduce the transmission of disease, I channeled my anger into HermancainMedal.com Its a wall of shame for those that fight mask use, sue to void emergency declarations regarding gatherings, bar openings, etc. I am cataloging super spreader events, and issuing dishonorable mentions to the people behind the efforts. Should they be sufficiently pigheaded to catch and die from the disease, they qualify for the medal. Anyhow, drop by, nominate some deserving idiot. (The medal is posthumous, you can be anonymous)

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Can we skip to President Pelosi already and quit fucking around?

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Al Haig says he's in charge.

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As far as I understand, Covid-19 is in charge at the White House right now.

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I hope people realize just how incompetent not just Trump but the entire administration is. They refuse to take necessary precautions and aren't doing any contact tracing (one of the journalists who got sick said the White House hasn't contacted him about contact tracing). Their lies are even more transparent than usual and no one knows what is going on.

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They should've done it 3.5 years ago.

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Pence has the courage of a wet noodle..... so don't hold your breath.

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In one way or another, everything regarding Trump is ass-related.

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OT: the Supreme Court begins a new session. There will be beer on ice.

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Long overdue. Pence will fuck things up, of course. But things are already fucked up, so we'll hardly notice the difference.

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Coronavirus has literally been the only thing positive about this administration

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