The Goat Pen

eCat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:03 pm the worst part about being bald is the midpoint where you still have enough hair to care but not enough to hide the fact you're going bald

once its all gone, its actually pretty easy - just grab the clippers, set it position #1 and go to town - hair, eyebrows, ear hair - its like mowing the yard. do that once a month or once every two weeks if you're really vain and be done with it.

I'm not there yet, and the worst part of me is that I have a large head (I wear a size 8 fitted hat, which is larger than Barry Bonds after steroids iirc) and it is harder for me to find hats that fit well (and snapback / adjustable hats never work for me). Golf / high crown visors (think Spurrier style) have been my "go to" for 20+ years, but that is now problematic with the amount of skin being left exposed to the sun (and as much as my head sweats, even the most water resistant sunscreen loses effectiveness quickly).

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:18 pm

A new study from Israel confirms that natural immunity to COVID-19 is superior to vaccine-induced immunity, even with the Delta variant. Between June 1 and Aug. 14, when Delta was dominant in Israel, the risk of infections was 13 times higher for vaccinated people than for previously infected, unvaccinated people when either the infection or vaccination had occurred between four and seven months before. The risk for symptomatic breakthrough infections was 27-fold higher. While natural immunity did wane somewhat over time, vaccinated persons still had a six-fold higher risk for infection and a seven-fold higher risk for symptomatic illness than people infected up to 10 months before vaccinations started.

Of course.

If you already HAD IT (I mean truly had it) you are not going to get it AGAIN. It is still a very good idea for the people who HAD covid to go out and get vaccinated. I had Covid and I got vaccinated after the fact. But is it necessary for them? Meh. I have never been vaccinated for Chicken Pox and I would feel perfectly comfortable walking into a ward full of Chicken Pox patients knowing full well that even if they touched me or coughed on me, I'm not going to get it AGAIN.

Public health is policy and politics. Its words, rhetoric. Its used to shame the ignorant into altering their behavior.

Medicine is unnatural, inorganic, quite often synthetic (but still, vastly more important than public health.) Unlike public health, medicine is tangible.

But natural immunity, that is organic, mathematical, and science. Opinions on its importance are irrelevant.

Yes, you are an immunologist and virologist as well. What a fucking genius.

Re e's post: I would question judging immunity based upon blood donors. I would bet blood donors are the types more likely to obtain the vaccine and be diligent.

I am not above getting hair plugs. Fuck it. If women can get work done, I can get plugs.

you don't want plugs, you want that deal where they put in strips of hair they harvest from the back of your hair line.

check out Bosley.

back when I thought it actually mattered, I considered dropping 10K on it, but I got over it.

I mean if I could take a pill and grow hair I would but honetly, I don't even think about it now. Its just a very low priority for a 50'ish year old man.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:13 pm

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:18 pm

A new study from Israel confirms that natural immunity to COVID-19 is superior to vaccine-induced immunity, even with the Delta variant. Between June 1 and Aug. 14, when Delta was dominant in Israel, the risk of infections was 13 times higher for vaccinated people than for previously infected, unvaccinated people when either the infection or vaccination had occurred between four and seven months before. The risk for symptomatic breakthrough infections was 27-fold higher. While natural immunity did wane somewhat over time, vaccinated persons still had a six-fold higher risk for infection and a seven-fold higher risk for symptomatic illness than people infected up to 10 months before vaccinations started.

Of course.

If you already HAD IT (I mean truly had it) you are not going to get it AGAIN. It is still a very good idea for the people who HAD covid to go out and get vaccinated. I had Covid and I got vaccinated after the fact. But is it necessary for them? Meh. I have never been vaccinated for Chicken Pox and I would feel perfectly comfortable walking into a ward full of Chicken Pox patients knowing full well that even if they touched me or coughed on me, I'm not going to get it AGAIN.

Public health is policy and politics. Its words, rhetoric. Its used to shame the ignorant into altering their behavior.

Medicine is unnatural, inorganic, quite often synthetic (but still, vastly more important than public health.) Unlike public health, medicine is tangible.

But natural immunity, that is organic, mathematical, and science. Opinions on its importance are irrelevant.

Yes, you are an immunologist and virologist as well. What a fucking genius.

Re e's post: I would question judging immunity based upon blood donors. I would bet blood donors are the types more likely to obtain the vaccine and be diligent.

Your condescending argument to me about not being an immunologist nor a virologist is just a leftist trick appealing to "authority." What you are saying is that I am not allowed to know something or even have an opinion unless I have the appropriate credential.

Uh, NO.

No that is not the way it works. That is only the way it works for leftists. It works that way for leftists because they like to shut down debate and discussion. They tried that trick on Ben Shaprio and it didn't work then and its not working now. I'm still correct. Even though I am no immunologist, I am still correct.

You know DS, when I was 20, I had an asshole economics professor who was very Keynesian. Being a Keynesian is NOT what made him an asshole. No, what made him an asshole is that he REFUSED to have intelligent questions asked of him defending his positions in economics because the people in the room did not have the appropriate "credential" that he had. He just wanted to shut all that "Classicalist" and "Monetist" arguments down before they even started. He was in "authority" and under no circumstances would anyone be allowed to question it.

He was wrong and you are wrong.

Hedge, you're dating a nurse who isn't vaccinated and you don't even know why and aren't the least bit curious?

I once saw a guy on TV preform brain surgery on a child. I can walk you guys through it if you need me too.

Get the shot. Shut up. I'll wait until a week or so after this past weekend to look at the numbers. Lots of large events.

I will never go bald. Ever. The hair on top of my head is thicker than the masterpiece it grows upon.

"and wear a hat when its not appropriate"

You mean like church? I would think in Kentucky even that would be OK...

"Hedge, you're dating a nurse who isn't vaccinated and you don't even know why and aren't the least bit curious?"

Don't know why I'm dating her or don't know why she isn't vaccinated?

This guy kinda looks like eCat if you elongated eCat's chin a little bit...

Republicans in California are already crying fixed election and it just started. Is this their new game plan everywhere?

Definitely. They've been saying it for weeks...

in a diluted field making Larry Elder the leading candidate to replace Newsom,

I can see a bunch of people fed up with Newsom's draconian approach to the pandemic, but with California being the land of fruits and nuts, they'd rather be locked down than have a conservative leader.

Pussies

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:14 am "and wear a hat when its not appropriate"

You mean like church? I would think in Kentucky even that would be OK...

probably

I still stick to not wearing a hat indoors (unless its like Walmart or some shit) - but I also wear at least a polo shirt when I go to a restaurant that is cloth napkins and real silverware.

But home depot? walmart? not only will I wear a hat but I wear jeans that are stained with the crotch blown out of them. I'm buying oil and a loaf of bread, so I'll be lumped in with the 400 pound woman in yoga pants riding around on a scooter.

Do you ever wear a stocking cap?

a knit cap? I prefer it in the winter over a cap.

I do have one of those fur lined cousin eddie deals too, but it works too well. My head sweats in anything above zero wearing it.

I meant something like this:

So let me get this straight. Ocasio-Cortez went to the Met Gala, an event where the super rich buy ludicrously expensive tickets primarily as (presumably) a charitable tax write-off wearing a dress that said “Tax the Rich” and it actually wasnt, like, a protest against the event itself or the people there and the tax breaks they receive, but more like just like an artistic flourish while she mingled happily with the cultural and economic elites? Wtf?

You're from Texas, you don't understand this level of high culture/haute couture...