I want to share some informations or my expierence regarding covid infection with you guys from Latvia, but mostly for foreign people who come here for work or tourist.
TL:DR
It is rly hard to get informations here in English language, but so sum up: you need to find a family doctor to talk to and maybe pay in advance. Helpfull number 8000 1234 and press "5"! A doctor that helped me i found at ARS Med: +371 67 201 007
So what happend?
I am here in Riga for work and on Sunday i decided by my own to do a covid rapid antigen test just to make sure that i am not having covid and will spread it to my appointments next week.
Surprise! Two rapid test have been positive. I directly informed the hotel and told them that i will go in self quarantine from now. They are realy in routine with this and told me how to proceed in terms of room service and breakfast.
Next job for me was to get a covid RNS/PCR test as soons as possible. I googled and found out to call 8303 or 8313. They managed to give me an appointment on Monday morning.
So i did the test, enjoyed my last walk for a while outside and waited for the test result.
Surprise - also positive!
Okay what to do next?
Hotel staff told me at the phone that the National Health Service will contact me... but i decided to not wait for them, because from my expierence in my home country they will struggle to manage the situation regarding to increasing number of covid-cases.
First i called +371 673 87 661 - which was so told me as the Health Ministry.... after a certain waiting period i reached somebody who told me that she could not speak english good and i should call again after 1pm, because then there is somebody who speaks English... okay no problem - would be the same in my country. So after 1pm i got an English-speaker at the phone. She could rarely help me but described the steps:
I have to stay in quarantine.
I have to find a family doctor who will take me as a client and talk to him. He will be in charge to decide about my quarantine-periode.
They asked me to call 8000 1234 - i called it.
There will start a recorded message in Latvian i do not understand - thought it is for waiting time, but after 02:09 min call is cancelled every time. After a while of trying i recorded the message and called the hotel staff to translate. They told me i should press number 1 - so i did next call. (WATCHOUT you need to press it in the correct moment... so i pressed 1 severa
Do your worst!
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies π
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
Theyβre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
On January 1, 1991, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world, covering some 8,650,000 square miles (22,400,000 square km), nearly one-sixth of Earthβs land surface. Its population numbered more than 290 million, and 100 distinct nationalities lived within its borders. It also boasted an arsenal of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, and its sphere of influence, exerted through such mechanisms as the Warsaw Pact, extended throughout eastern Europe. Within a year, the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. While it is, for all practical purposes, impossible to pinpoint a single cause for an event as complex and far-reaching as the dissolution of a global superpower, a number of internal and external factors were certainly at play in the collapse of the U.S.S.R.
The political factor
When Mikhail Gorbachev was named general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on March 11, 1985, his primary domestic goals were to jump-start the moribund Soviet economy and to streamline the cumbersome government bureaucracy. When his initial attempts at reform failed to yield significant results, he instituted the policies of glasnost (βopennessβ) and perestroika (βrestructuringβ). The former was intended to foster dialogue, while the latter introduced quasi free market policies to government-run industries. Rather than sparking a renaissance in Communist thought, glasnost opened the floodgates to criticism of the entire Soviet apparatus. The state lost control of both the media and the public sphere, and democratic reform movements gained steam throughout the Soviet bloc. Perestroika exhibited the worst of the capitalist and communist systems: price controls were lifted in some markets, but existing bureaucratic structures were left in place, meaning that Communist officials were able to push back against those policies that did not benefit them personally. In the end, Gorbachevβs reforms and his abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine hastened the demise of the Soviet empire. By the end of 1989 Hungary had dismantled its border fence with Austria, Solidarity had swept into power in Poland, the Baltic states were taking concrete steps toward independence, and the Berlin Wall had been toppled. The Iron Curtain had fallen, and the Soviet Union would not long outlast it.
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You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Why
Itβs pronounced βNoel.β
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
