Maxwell 47: Vestigial Tales of the Messy Towel Drawer

[IReallyAmHopewell]

3 hours ago, Melissa1977 said:

Colds are not necessarily contagious. Kids catch colds very easily, for example playing in the lawn in a cold day, or being under the rain, etc. Of course, these situations are not always followed by a cold, but it's not rare.

I don't think Maxwells are careful enough, because what I see in their blog, but colds are not an evidence of being careless about covid risks.

They have never said that, so I assume he wasn't. But if he smoked, he left it to enter fundiedom, so he's been clean for 40 years. Sadly, people with healthy lifestyles can have health issues too, especially at Steven's age.

There are smokers everywhere. There are secret drinkers. There are porn addicts LOL.

[GreenBeans]

1 hour ago, Coconut Flan said:

I hate to burst some bubbles, but colds are caused by viruses.  They are not caused by allergies or running in the rain.  It is possible to have allergies that look and seem like colds because many of the symptoms can overlap, but without the virus by definition the condition is not a cold.  Kids can come down with a cold after playing in the rain both by pure coincidence or getting chilled lowering their resistance.  They still have to have the virus for a cold to develop.  Unlike COVID, colds can be transmitted by touching contaminated surfaces.  So if they are letting children leave the house at all or even unpack delivered groceries, it's possible for them to catch a cold virus.  

Yes, but taking COVID precautions certainly helps lowering the chances of catching a cold. It’s amazing, I haven’t had a cold in over 18 months, when normally I have 2-3 per year. I’m definitely keeping up with some of the extra hygiene even when it’s not required/recommended due to COVID anymore.

It’s not just my personal experience, the infectious disease monitoring system in Germany has shown that colds have been significantly less prevalent since the pandemic started, and this past influenza season had been virtually non-existent.

[Coconut Flan]

48 minutes ago, GreenBeans said:

Yes, but taking COVID precautions certainly helps lowering the chances of catching a cold. It’s amazing, I haven’t had a cold in over 18 months, when normally I have 2-3 per year. I’m definitely keeping up with some of the extra hygiene even when it’s not required/recommended due to COVID anymore.

It’s not just my personal experience, the infectious disease monitoring system in Germany has shown that colds have been significantly less prevalent since the pandemic started, and this past influenza season had been virtually non-existent.

COVID precautions have absolutely lowered the prevalence of other viruses especially colds, flu, and RSV.  I haven't had any viruses since December, 2019.  I plan to keep and use a supply of masks.  I already carried and used hand sanitizer, but I'll probably use it a lot more often in the future.  

Deaths from flu in the US are WAY, WAY down.

[Caroline]

I'm one of those lucky people who hasn't had a cold in years, Covid or no Covid.  I think it's because I've been exposed to everything there is from my million years of teaching and am just immune to it all.  That said, I've noticed that very few kids in my classes have been sick with the usual stuff this winter, and they're usually always sick with colds and stomach bugs.  Mask-wearing and distancing obviously work.

[Caroline]

On 4/15/2021 at 12:20 PM, Alisamer said:

am polite about it, but very very firm. My favorite for the MAGA-loving moron who is always posting anti-mask stuff in between her self-congratulatory abortion protest posts is "you cannot claim to be pro-life and refuse to protect already born people by wearing a mask in public." She's not managed to cobble together a response to that yet. 

Is her name MckMama?  Just kidding

[Black Aliss]

3 hours ago, Caroline said:

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My favorite for the MAGA-loving moron who is always posting anti-mask stuff in between her self-congratulatory abortion protest posts is "you cannot claim to be pro-life and refuse to protect already born people by wearing a mask in public." She's not managed to cobble together a response to that yet. 

Is her name MckMama?  Just kidding

Oh, it is taking all the restraint I possess to not leave a comment on MckMama's IG, congratulating her for becoming become pro-choice, realizing that we all have the right to make decisions about our own bodies!

[JermajestyDuggar]

My 6 year old has a cold right now  it is his first cold in well over a year. He talked so forcefully earlier that he spat when he talked and it hit my face. So I’m sure I’ll be getting the cold next. Ugh.

[Foudeb]

Also another huge benefit of masks - no hay-fever. It hit me yesterday when sitting in the garden (no mask, it's our own back yard) - that was the first sneezing fit I've had this year. Usually it hits me as soon as I leave the house this time of year, the mask must be keeping the pollen out of my nose. 

 

I do hope it remains socially acceptable to keep wearing a mask post pandemic. At least during allergy season. 

[mango_fandango]

Sarah still seems to be the one taking photos at family events, she wasn’t in the Resurrection Sunday photos. 
Looking back at the blog, she injured herself in February after injuring herself last year. The doctor said a 3-6 month recovery period back then. 
In the concussion post, she also mentioned that she wanted to try and make progress on the third Hill Top Adventures book, as she used the recovery time from the previous injury to work on “Learning Lessons”. 

[anachronistic]

I usually get so many colds but this winter I wasn’t going anywhere and so my doctors concluded it must be allergies causing my constant respiratory symptoms. I got tested a few weeks ago and am allergic to mold and dust mites. Now I’m entering the Battle of Accommodations with my housing authority, as my doctor has recommended removing the wall to wall carpet in my unit and the HA (landlords for public housing) want me to just move to another building. I love where I live, so.....not sure where this or I am going at all.

Also, when I landed in the ER this winter with terrible stomach symptoms I was told that it *must* be food poisoning because no stomach viruses were going around. Since I’m not eating anywhere but at home, I somehow managed to poison myself, which is certainly a WTF if there ever was one. 

[PlentyOfJesusFishInTheSea]

31 minutes ago, anachronistic said:

I usually get so many colds but this winter I wasn’t going anywhere and so my doctors concluded it must be allergies causing my constant respiratory symptoms. I got tested a few weeks ago and am allergic to mold and dust mites. Now I’m entering the Battle of Accommodations with my housing authority, as my doctor has recommended removing the wall to wall carpet in my unit and the HA (landlords for public housing) want me to just move to another building. I love where I live, so.....not sure where this or I am going at all.

Also, when I landed in the ER this winter with terrible stomach symptoms I was told that it *must* be food poisoning because no stomach viruses were going around. Since I’m not eating anywhere but at home, I somehow managed to poison myself, which is certainly a WTF if there ever was one. 

Sorry to hear this! You can definitely get food poisoning from food you buy at the grocery store and prepare yourself. For example, listeria outbreaks can be associated with deli meats and various fresh fruit and veggies.

[Jana814]

I haven’t gotten a cold this winter (I usually get at least one).  I did unfortunately get Covid back in February, I honestly thought I had bronchitis because of how bad I felt. 

[Alisamer]

Literally no one at my workplace (it's small though) has gotten sick at all this past year. Which is awesome since one has a wife who is a nurse AND an elementary-age kid. One co-worker's teenage grandson has gotten sick a couple times though thankfully not Covid, I think that's a combo of him and his buddies having to hang out all the time and refusing to take precautions and his mother being pretty slack in general. (Plus when it's him and his buddies, I'm pretty sure sharing your vape with the weed pod in it or passing a joint around is prime illness-spreading behavior.)

[Hane]

I retired in late 2018, and immediately noticed how many fewer bugs and colds I picked up—“Tight Building Syndrome” is indeed a thing, and leaving it did wonders for my health.

Then the COVID lockdown happened, and I haven’t gotten sick *at all*. Sign me up for masks every time I leave the house—maybe I can get rid of those seasonal respiratory allergies once and for all!

[MamaJunebug]

20 hours ago, GreenBeans said:

Yes, but taking COVID precautions certainly helps lowering the chances of catching a cold. It’s amazing, I haven’t had a cold in over 18 months, when normally I have 2-3 per year. I’m definitely keeping up with some of the extra hygiene even when it’s not required/recommended due to COVID anymore.

It’s not just my personal experience, the infectious disease monitoring system in Germany has shown that colds have been significantly less prevalent since the pandemic started, and this past influenza season had been virtually non-existent.

I didn’t contract a flu in ‘20 and I sailed through the fall allergy season in ‘20, for the first time in ... ever.  I’ll be masking in allergy season ‘til this ole cow is called to come home.   

5 hours ago, Foudeb said:

I do hope it remains socially acceptable to keep wearing a mask post pandemic. At least during allergy season. 

@Foudeb, my sister-sufferer in all things yay-fever, say it with me: “Socially acceptable, feh! I am masking for my health!”

[HoneyBunny]

I don’t think stress or playing in the rain can cause colds at all (as has been said, they’re caused by a virus), but stress can lower a person’s immune system and make one more susceptible getting sick.  I am one of the unlucky one who catches everything that comes around (hence my decision to isolate so much last year). A large part of it is my lifelong asthma, but that wouldn’t have caused the viral meningitis I got the last semester of grad school, or the lupus, or the cancer. I am one of those people who function perfectly well, do all the things we’re supposed to do (eat well, sleep well, stay active) but still get sick a lot, so much so that throughout my life people have seemed to feel compelled to comment on it and offer unsolicited advice. 
 

Let me just say that I HATE that with a passion. 
 

I’m happy for those people (I’m specifically thinking of a few frenemies here) that are never sick, and that don’t have so much as Tylenol in the house. Not coincidentally, they are the same people who think COVID is a hoax, mask mandates are overreach and the vaccine is evil. They can rest pretty sure that, if they do get COVID, they will recover fully in a week or two. But it is not a personal failing (and I’m speaking to you, LazyLori Alexander) to be one of those who are at high risk. 
 

These are also the same people who refuse to stay the heck home when they are sick (with anything, not just COVID), thinking it proves them tough to continue to go to work, ride public transit and go to the gym. Meanwhile, I am like the trash collector, picking up all the germs they leave in their wake. 
 

OK, sorry. Rant over.  Just had to get that off my chest. 

[Hane]

@HoneyBunny, I was one of those kids who got sick all the freaking time until I was about 8 or so. My youngest sister has always had such lousy resistance that she got sick whenever someone in a 50-mile radius sneezed—well, at least until COVID and the meticulous precautions she takes.

It drives me batty when people who “never get sick” assume that the rest of us are malingerers or reckless. One of my sister’s former colleagues made a crack about Baby Sister “always getting sick,” and I treated her to the story about my sister’s early childhood strep throats, with fevers as high as 106 F. That shut her up.

[CyborgKin]

Whatever Steve's been smoking, I sure don't want any!

[Lgirlrocks]

new post up. Who is persecuting christians in the US?

[fundiewatch]

New random life picture dump from Sarah. Spring is very full y’all. Anna is still referred to as “Jesse’s Anna,” we see Gracie a few times (NR Anna’s sister) but NR Anna is not in attendance at the meals, and Elissa and Calia wear some short dresses for the Max fam. No John and Chelsy sightings. Oh and the very pleasant looking friend from church brought Anna (and apparently Sarah) Starbucks and stayed for lunch. 

[freejugar]

Why does she say the US is in turmoil?

The only big current event in the US that I can think of is the Chauvin trial, but it hasn't have to do anything with christians.

[fundiewatch]

MN cop killed a man ten minutes from where Chauvin is being tried, there is a police brutality reckoning going on, and the pandemic isn’t over. I’m impressed that Sarah knows any of that TBH. 

[IReallyAmHopewell]

Today's post has a few gems:

"Everything looks some brown, although you can see a hint of green. Amazing what some time does to green things up."

"Dad and Joshua on a project, more on that later." There she goes again (as Regan used to say), building interest! Wowsers. How many posts on this will we get?

"Installing a gate we received at no cost, and it’s perfect for the deck." A free gate for the deck. Why?

And it's super hard not to snark on calling a kid "Little Debbie" even if they do spell it differently. I hope she has a snack for you, lol. [If you don't live in the Midwest you may not recognize Little Debbie Snacks-Nutty Bars are my personal favorite"

[Alisamer]

5 minutes ago, IReallyAmHopewell said:

Little Debbie Snacks-Nutty Bars are my personal favorite"

Mine too (here in the US south)! When did they change the name to Nutty Buddy? It's been within the last few years I think. It used to drive my sister crazy her husband called them Nutty Buddys when they were Nutty BARS thank you... and now they are Nutty Buddys.

Please let this not be a Berenstain/Barenstein Bears thing.

Edited April 20, 2021 by Alisamer

[Rosie]

2 hours ago, IReallyAmHopewell said:

Today's post has a few gems:

"Everything looks some brown, although you can see a hint of green. Amazing what some time does to green things up."

"Dad and Joshua on a project, more on that later." There she goes again (as Regan used to say), building interest! Wowsers. How many posts on this will we get?

"Installing a gate we received at no cost, and it’s perfect for the deck." A free gate for the deck. Why?

And it's super hard not to snark on calling a kid "Little Debbie" even if they do spell it differently. I hope she has a snack for you, lol. [If you don't live in the Midwest you may not recognize Little Debbie Snacks-Nutty Bars are my personal favorite"

Sarah is a truly terrible writer.  Just awful.