Kraut Dawg

I've had no more problems with people in Europe than I would being back in metro Atlanta with people with whom I disagree. And like the US, there are neighborhoods you don't enter. If you're traveling & it doesn't feel right, follow your gut. There are bad areas everywhere.

Generally, people are people. When I'm polite & grateful, I usually get that in return. But we're human, sometimes they're rude because of their day, sometimes I am.

Barcelona & Los Angeles for me.

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Why is this such an obsession with the "trust the science" crowd?

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"Long Covid" is a term that has an incredibly open-ended definition. If Long Covid symptoms can be everything, then anything could be Long Covid.

Take someone who clings to this term. I imagine they never admit they're wrong, never apologize, there's always an excuse. The CDC's definition allows them to continue their virtue signaling while being pretentiously indignant.

Read the definition per the CDC
People with Long COVID can have a wide variety of symptoms that can range from mild to severe and may be similar to symptoms from other illnesses. Symptoms can last weeks, months, or years after COVID-19 illness and can emerge, persist, resolve, and reemerge over different lengths of time.

I live in Europe & in almost all cases, people are just people. Stereotypes exist for a reason & Italians being dismissive like that is one I've not heard.

My wife & I were in a restaurant the other day & a German woman just comes up talking to us, asking if we're American. Then she wants to tell us about her vacation to Arizona.

Thinking that this restaurant didn't want to serve you because you're American sounds like the gripes when people don't get their way or their conveniences & claim victim status because of their skin color. Truth is, they're restaurant workers, & were probably just lazy.

Those that truly need it aren't awarded enough. If you lost a foot to frostbite because you were stuck in a muddy hole for days on end, then no amount of disability money is worth that.

42A/72L differ from an 11X.

Too many G1 desk jockeys with six years in get disability because they strained their back typing emails & got fat eating lunch at the PX Burger King every day. Seems like there are a lot of the latter in this thread defending their military welfare.

It's true that retiring NCOs & FGOs start asking around for info about which doctors are more lenient. I have a friend doing this right now. Makes it harder to respect him when he's trying to game the system.

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