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Well, the Wife and kids are watching a movie I can't stand, so I'm sitting here with some bourbon watching ACDC videos... 
That's where you can always trust laptops, monitor won't fail in troubleshooting mode. Well unless the monitor is the problem. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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What! No flickering LED to your HDD!
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Well unless the monitor is the problem.
Perhaps your HDD has evaporated!
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Herself is watching TV, and an advert made me think: "cough and cold" remedy companies must really hate Covid - I've not seen or spoken to anyone with even a sniffle this year, probably because "don't catch Covid" measures are also very effective against colds and flu.
So here's the question: have you noticed a lot less seasonal sniffles? Or is it a local thing / figment of my imagination?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The only sniffles I've had are due to allergies since March, or a slight reaction to my Flu Shot.
However, your question made me think, if someone has caught a cold, then they have been doing things that are just as likely to have resulted in them getting COVID.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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As a heavy lifetime allergy sufferer, I am acutely aware that my occasional sneezes (always into the sleeve) and throat clears are attracting FAR MORE CONCERNED GLANCES when I'm picking out my produce these days.
Folks with allergies can't always tell when they're sick in the early stages of an illness, because the symptoms of allergies are often similar to colds, flu, pink eye, etc. Always wondering if you're catching something or it's just your normal sinus issues is a bit stressful. It's like being a hypochondriac, except there are actually symptoms.
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Not wishing to tempt fate, but: so far, so good. 
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There has been nearly zero cases of seasonal flu (influenza) in Québec and Canada since April.
2 things, masks and hand washing and social distancing really helps with Influenza (and with a large normal vaccination program) and that the COVID is really a bitch and is easily transmissible.
In French :
Québec : fin ce vendredi de la campagne de vaccination contre l'influenza | Radio-Canada.ca
(google translate)
"The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) observed that the spread of influenza has greatly decreased and that the influenza activity index has been almost zero since last April, both in Quebec and in the rest of Canada..."
"...The low prevalence of seasonal flu in Quebec reflects what happened during the winter that ended in the countries of the southern hemisphere. Australia, New Zealand, Chile and South Africa have all reported a plunge in the number of influenza cases compared to the previous winter."
I'd rather be phishing!
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Rhinovirus is responsible for the common cold. very different than covid.
Thousands have had the common cold and thousands have died from the flu (not covid), worldwide.
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Flu's down something like 95% in most of the US. Wasted my time, it seems, getting my first flu shot.
But as for colds and sniffles? Where I live, post-nasal drip is a given and the occasional sniffle going along with it; Mrs. Wife has allergies and such.
An interesting thought, however, when we talk about colds. We now know how to virtually eliminate our changes of getting cold/flu - when COVID's finally gone then we may still decide to self-isolate during certain times of the year. Is that a good idea in terms of not exercising one's immune system?
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I also got my flu vaccine, better be safe than sorry.
I'd rather be phishing!
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At some point I'll fully accept my real age - but the vaccine's so hit-and-miss, mostly miss these last few years. Mix into that those who get a degree of misery from the shot.
My father had a very bad reaction some years ago and apparently that was common; my wife had a bad enough reaction to say 'never again'. She started taking them, mainly, when she was teaching and it was requires (or wear a mask in class). She's since retired.
So - better safe? Always risk/reward. COVID is life and death, and even should you recover that does not mean you will escape lingering damage. Like polio, tetanus, diphtheria, &etc., It's worth the shot for some reasonably long-term coverage. Flu? It's only good for the current year (maybe) and it's rarely life threatening or prone to leaving lingering damage.
So, for me, flu vaccine is not so clear-cut as many other immunizations.
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I don't want to have to social distance and wear a mask my entire life.
If that means I get the flu and/or cold, so be it.
People suggesting we social distance forever and wear masks forever, just so we don't get the cold/flu, are bloody crazy.
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Slacker007 wrote: People suggesting we social distance forever and wear masks forever, just so we don't get the cold/flu, are bloody crazy.
Not to mention that there will be fewer people, because dating is pretty much a show stopper with mask wearing and social distancing.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Not to mention that there will be fewer people,
I think our planet would say "Thank you" for that
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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A couple days ago it was reported that the total mortality rate in Norway has been almost exactly the same since covid made its entrance, compared month-by-month with 2019.
If I remember the details right: There hasn't been a single death due to the seasonal flu. (Several other common causes of death have seen a reduction.) So the corona measures, such as social distancing and home offices, have significantly reduced the spread of the common flu as well. But corona deaths make up for the "missing" deaths from flu and other causes.
The report mentioned that most European countries have indeed seen a raise in total mortality. Most have similar drops in flu deaths, and other causes, but the number of corona deaths are much higher; Norway is almost at the bottom of the Europe list of corona deaths per million. Apparently, our measures have been quite successful, at least when comparing to the list tops (and, of course, USA with thirteen times as many deaths per million as Norway).
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I shed more fake crocodile tears for the people who believe I don't know they pretend to love me.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Why is America full of underwater stores for Cetaceans? So many WhaleMarts ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Well - we've a lot of variety in USA. We can go for BJ's[^]. And who can use more of those? But, with all the potholes in the road, it's best to consider Tar-get[^]. The tale's been told before, or, as we put it, retail.
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It serves a porpoise especially when they have a seal (sale) on.
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Oh! The huge-manitee!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I would think anything by "Rage Against The Machine" would be more appropriate, at least for me. 
However, I can see the song you linked to, playing in the background, as I prepare the nuclear warheads for Operation Microsoft Be Gone.
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Cue Taking The Power Back!
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Nice music. Thanks for introducing me to a new band! (Well, not 'new,' but 'new'!)
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Current results are mostly useless, is this something that needs someone to create a slack integration of some sort, or is it just Slack trying and failing to usefully parse CPs html?
This is a direct forum link, view thread is equally useless:
https://i.imgur.com/tk5DMOZ.png
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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