May 18

LC Me3

I had a cold recently (not Covid) and it took me about a week after I’d “recovered” to get fully better.

Did I have “Long Coldvid?”

May 18

Annie D.

Also one of my favorite Dillard quotes. Hoarding ideas and the good bits means they are lost, not that you’ve saved them for later. Put it all out there and more arise from below to take their place; you’re not helping the world or yourself by being parsimonious. Dillard is one of the very few writers whose works I read and think, I wish I could write like she does.

May 18

True and Cry

Absolutely correct. I love it because it’s true and because it makes the Fat Acceptance clowns cry. If you work out correctly and eat protein, even in a caloric deficit you will not lose muscle. Another FA myth.

May 18

Spaces

What the shit. That actually works. That might be the equivalent of putting spaces between words (Latin didn’t do that) as to ease of reading. I’d only want this for non-fiction stuff, though.

May 18

Markers

That’s a strange trend in country music. A bad one.

May 18

Pose

And philosophy is opposed and denigrated as “useless” because it’s all that can provide the framework to halt this.

May 18

Realibee

To be clear, I don’t believe Long Covid is much of an issue and won’t be a huge societal problem. It’s mostly “medium” Covid and most of the “disabling” issues are very minor, and mostly temporary.

Yes, it’s real, just as it is for flu, RSV, etc. But it’s just not the thing many libs wish it were, no matter how many dubious papers they trot out. But time will tell, as it always does.

May 18

Real Doom

Obesity is already a bigger social burden than Long Covid will ever be, even in the Long Covid “doom” scenarios, but one of those we’re permitted to talk about as an enormous problem and the other one — the “everyone being the size of a house” one — we’re not supposed to discuss.

I think I see a problem here.

May 18

Bozo Food Explosion

It’s sad to see how many people feel they have to kowtow to the Fat Acceptance movement or get eviscerated.

But I do not and will not. Fuck the Fat Acceptance movement and anyone who buys into their horseshit. What a bunch of deranged clowns.