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Aug 4, 2022Liked by Chad Orzel

Can completely relate. I slept and binged Netflix for most of the first week, but as I near the end of the rebound, day 18 overall, I'm just bored stiff with everything and back to doing some admin work and building weird things like guest room beds and a corsi-rosenthal box. Hang in there.

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Concerning working doing Covid. The informed people's take was not "capitalism", but the following: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1550248060072099841?s=20&t=671WBTTtFPKckxGOggCGhw

Snippets ->

"I know the political emphasis here is that the president is up to date with his vaccines, so his med team isn't expecting anything too eventful.

Statistically, that's very true. We observe this everywhere.

But it's still good to rest! Destigmatizing rest is a public health win."

"But also a note about the aftermath: something specific called "post-exertional malaise".

Essentially, doing too much too soon can exacerbate (fuel or trigger? unclear) complications. Taking it easy could avoid this.

How to recognize PEM in this thread:"

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Get well soon -- my sisters and father (but not my mother, somehow) had COVID19, and it was terribad. My father had exactly you're concerns.

To give you something to do -- I noticed you were involved in the book "Lost in Math", but is there an article summing up your feelings about the book now?

(Ironically, I find the book's content most salient when discussing some of the more extreme parts of leftie academia.)

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