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Glad, I think about affect/effect as --

Affect: an INFLUENCE ON something

Effect: a RESULT OF something

If I'm not sure which one to use, I substitute "influence on" or "result of" to tell if I'm using them correctly.

You used affect correctly. :-)

*I like the RAVEN acronym in the link. Remember Affect is a Verb, and Effect is a Noun.
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Send: Thank you. I am rounding the corner with this cold.
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Glad: Thank you. My cousin did well on January 12 for the double reconstruction as she had the bilateral mastectomy in October. I can understand it's a very personal decision and your's was right for you. My cousin is a 52 year old woman of very strong faith.

Yes, I was giving the opposite version of what Covid did to my sister in law, who was already 5 years into Alzheimer's disease. She went into a downward spiral of which she could not recover once she stopped eating, et al.

Yes, you used "affect" correctly, IMO.
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Affect/effect are words I stumble over often enough that I have a pot it note about it by my computer. Sometimes I still have trouble so I just mentally flip a coin.🤷‍♀️
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Disappointed - my new wheelchair won’t be delivered today and PT won’t happen either. Too much ice and snow out. But I did get half hour with my leg lowered which was good.
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The "side effects" really "affected" me.

Effect is a noun, affect is a verb.
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Thanks for the support, encouragement and prayers. It means a lot.

That family is not getting a break. As of yesterday, Sil has covid - probably got it from a guy at work. So far he has a bit of a cough, and is very muscle achy and tired. And, yes, he had two shots and a booster. Hopefully he won't get any worse or have lasting side effects. Also, hopefully, neither dd nor dgs will get it. It seems unpredictable who will get it in a family.

Blessings in disguise - I normally would have asked them for help with cleaning up the basement, but now not with dd and her health issue. Yesterday, I was thinking of going over to borrow their fan to dry things up. Glad I didn't. I am managing - just have to do a bit at a time. I will bag and put out the water damaged and moldy stuff today, and cover the area with mold spray. I am so done with water damage and mold!!!!
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Becky: Sorry that you won't get your wheelchair and PT wasn't happening. At least you got your leg lowered.
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golden: Sorry about your son in law and praying that others in the family don't get it. Did your downstairs flood or something?
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Thx llama - the drain from the humidifier on the furnace backed up because it wasn't properly installed. That drenched the surrounding area and cut the furnace off. I had some baseboard stored behind the furnaces, an assortment of furnace filters and a few other things that got wet. It was obvious when I cleared it out that this had been happening in a small way for a while as most of the baseboard was moldy and some of the floor tiles back there had lifted. I mopped and removed stuff yesterday, and managed to haul it all out to the garbage today and sprayed mold control everywhere. I'm getting too old for this!!!!! I really need to downsize!

re covid - I have to laugh as I already often have well more than half the symptoms due to allergies, and CFS/FM. How would I know that I got it? The things I would have to look for are a fever (haven't had one in years) and a headache. Oh well. Life goes on.
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Golden, you know there is help. There are mitigation companies that will come and clean up that mess for you. If it were me, that is what I would do.
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Hey all, Google Betty White and see what happens.
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Yes glad there are and I considered it, but this was a small job. A sewer back up would have been worth it.

If I can do it, I will do it. Muscles, that don't get used, atrophy!

And I have stubborn Scandinavian in me.😉
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Today is Betty White's 100th Birthday!
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LOL golden, I have stubborn Scandinavian in me too, but I also have I am too old for this nonsense in me too!
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Shoot! Google Betty White worked on my laptop but not on my kindle.
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It worked on google, my chromebook!

🎂🎊🎉🎉🪅🪅💯💫💫💥

Thanks for sharing!

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Was there sound on yours Glad?
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Shoot had my sound off! Will have to check tomorrow, it is off for the night. Did it sing happy birthday or thank you for being a friend?
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There was no sound, but there should have been!
Just checking!
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Covid is on everyone's mind.

from The Globe and Mail

"Meanwhile, a Red Deer restaurant has closed temporarily after public health inspectors say some of its staff accepted dog photos instead of vaccine passports to dine-in."

Takes all kinds!!!!

Sil is feeling better. Hopefully he will be over it in a few days. Dd has no signs of infection so far.

I am finding it very weird at my age to have one (adult)child with diabetes and one with cancer. The latter, particularly, is something I never expected.
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Israel is doing 4th dose of COVID shots while Turkey is offering 5th.

When was the last time anyone took 5 doses of any vaccines to be protected?

My guess is that it will not stop at #5.

Insanity!!!

These so called vaccines have been shown to be IN-effective, except to cause harm from maiming to death to many unlucky people.
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Ice storm coming, very unusual for this time of year. Hooray I already have chili in the freezer.

It should be snow!
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Just 5 days ago 281 new cases in the last 7 days. Today 591 in the last 7 days. No plateau here yet.
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According to the CDC, most Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated and boosted people.

https://news.yahoo.com/most-reported-u-omicron-cases-182642515.html

Meanwhile, Pfizer and Moderna are happy to sell more shots, raking in Billions of dollars worldwide. The more variants the better for them. Covid vaccines aren't free. We tax payers pay every red cent of it. And let's not forget, many people paid the ultimate price.
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For once you've posted something I agree with polarbear. I was willing to do my 2 initial shots and a booster and I'm willing to add another booster to my annual flu shot routine, but I think that this push toward 4 or more doses is insane. Maybe it's necessary for the immunocompromised who don't make proper antibodies, and maybe for the frail elderly, but not for everyone. The overwhelming number of the most seriously ill (in ICU and on vents) are totally unvaccinated and repeated boosting can not change that reality.
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cwillie - many places are now requiring booster shots to be considered fully vaccinated otherwise the persons are considered unvaxxed. So, I don't give any weight to the claim that the unvaxxed are in ICU and seriously ill.
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Different government (Canadian) so all your political rants and angst is irrelevant to me, I do not doubt the accuracy of my stats.
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I have to wonder how much of this increase is due to the National Western. Probably half of the county is there with animals or whatever. Initially, they said they would enforce mask mandates, then backed off and said they would loosely enforce. Whatever that means, to me no such thing as loosely, means not at all.

Extremely conservative here, vaccination rate is less than 40%.
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Canadian truckers are blocking routes from us to Canada to protest vaccine mandates but there is no mention of this on the tv from US news organizations. How about in Canada?

England just said they are ending all covid mandates. Inckuding forced vaccination, masks and social distancing. Doubt the USA media will report on this either. The narrative is slowly starting to crumble on this but I have to wonder what they have up their sleeves to keep it going.
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sp19690-how lucky for the people in England

Meanwhile, the dictator in the Philippines has ordered arrest of any unvaccinated people who violate his stay at home order. In Australia, indigenous people are being removed and forced to get vaccinated against their will.
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