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    Is "preparedness" a state of mind?

    Dunno if anyone has seen this stuff, but, from the UK gov. Get prepared for emergencies
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Indeed it is for confected fear to be the motivator of both moral panics and modern politics
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    MSR Miniworks EX Water Filter questions

    Yeah I have one of these things that's not really seen much use in the fifteen years or so I've had it, but I am considering putting it back into service, but before I do that I really do need to replace the inlet hose to need to know what material the ' stay flexy rubbery material ' the...
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    What are you growing?

    What am I growing, well an organic Kombucha Scoby - it started out as a brew but I lost interest in it and now the jar is now nearly all Scoby. Beyond that the ginger root I was going to make a ginger beer plant out of has become it's own plant through sprouting cane like shoots.
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    Boring Freelander 2 stuff

    I'd love a Land Rover again, my first and last I still mourn the loss of; a '55 86 incher that I took to restoring before I could legally drive, where from I learned so many mechanical things. Think I might like a lightweight next as it has Series One ' properties ' about it
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Beyond all the death, what did the pandemic do for you? Have you noticed anything about yourselves be it your health physical and/or mental that is different to how it was or maybe it's changed you in ways perhaps in positive ways? What did the pandemic experience do for you...
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Yeah we have a problem with the media in the UK
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    Scam calls.

    I use TPS and I don't get any scam calls on the landline and I tend to ignore the cell phone Telephone Preference Service
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    I did too, it provided some interest researching patterns making and finding what worked to in the end make five layer masks that did restrict breathing but could be managed with hey, yogic breathing of which I already knew how to do from a yoga past. I still have my masks and one of them the...
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    The point of the masks we were told to wear and particularly the low protection medical examination grade masks most took to wearing was for the purpose of ideally arresting projected infection from exhalation and forced exhalation from such as coughing. The idea being protection from...
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Aww gawd steroids, yeah I know about them as it was corticosteroids that did my damage, and yeah weight loss, over the space of the last two years I have lost three of the unwanted stone I gained, to have a further one and a half stone yet to shift to get back to my pre pandemic, pre...
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    A downside with myself was that not only did I become massively overweight to the point of morbidly obese the damned meds I was taking were well known for both weight gain and the destruction of the immune system.
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    I I was referencing the folks you met in the woods, of whom were examples of many I came across on the weekly shopping run - of which may I add was pre planned with precison to spend as little time as possible out amongst folk.
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Aye you don't care about the health and safety of the people you come into contact with.
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    The next one will be in ways worse as perhaps trust in authority has been eroded.
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    And now with the kids it's Measles
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Yeah I am seeing a lot of that, of which is not at all encouraging me to venture out from my own isolation, for immunocompromised as I am I emerged into a society I no longer recognise. I too will do my level best to not deal with public transport. In addition I still carry face masks gloves and...
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    What did the Pandemic do for you ?

    Beyond all the death, what did the pandemic do for you? Have you noticed anything about yourselves be it your health physical and/or mental that is different to how it was or maybe it's changed you in ways perhaps in positive ways? What did the pandemic experience do for you?
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    Do you smoke a pipe?

    Aww, rollies I miss em, and yes I did for a while run the same tobacco through a pipe. Also a lover of the aroma, I have pondered the idea of using pipe tobacco as incense, the only trouble with the idea is will I be able to resist wrapping a rollie out of my ' incense '
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    Daily Supplementation

    Possibly yes, but it requires an assessment to take place before I may find effective medication for I am suspected by more than one med pro of having ADHD. The waiting period for ADHD assessment is 7 years nationwide. Interestingly the medication for ADHD has the side effects so as to be...