Sunny and warm.
Yesterday was nice. Sunny with a steady breeze, and highs in the low 90s. I hid from the sun.
Which meant I got some stuff done in my garage and house.
I did some cleaning (with a leaf blower- 3 females with long hair, a dog, and the tree pollen). The blower is very good at dusting and then moving everything out the door. Hairballs like tumbleweeds…
Moved some food around, restocking the shelves in the back of the garage. Also going through piles of stuff and boxes on top of boxes. There is still stuff that I would like to lay my hands on that I can’t find.
In my office, I took on of my HF rigs down. I wasn’t using it (still have two others) and I’ve been meaning to put it away for some time. I thought about selling it at the hamfest in March, but decided to keep it for any future lake house or bug out location.
My wife’s been cleaning up the house too, which means I’m rescuing stuff. Grrr. And it gets moved so I don’t know where to find it. She’s been very patient.
Dinner was HEB’s version of hamburger helper, in the Smoky BBQ flavor. It was good. For the hamburger, I tried something new. I cooked it first before freezing it when I broke down the bulk purchase. So for dinner, I just had to defrost and heat it. It made it quick and easy to get dinner going, and was pretty much indistinguishable from thawing and then cooking. Accompanied by, what else?, canned corn. Did I mention that it turns out I’ve got a lot of canned corn? Birthday cake for dessert.
Today will be more of the same, garden, yard, garage, office, housework….
Stay in, stay safe, work on improving your situation.
I am getting the Roborock 6S. A friend has one and highly recommended. No cats, but dogs. Unit will return to recharge until it completes the cleaning. It will map out the house which can be viewed on an app. Using the app areas can be marked to avoid or completely block rooms. I ordered the white unit.
Interesting. When I graduated from my Masters program, the only student in the department who landed a job at Exxon was also the biggest knucklehead among the undergraduates who managed to finish their degrees that year. I thought it a fluke, but he’s been out there for three years doing … something.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-exxonmobil-coronavirus-oil-demand/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Shrub!
Accept the mask kabuki. You live with the gropings at the airport security kabuki.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-former-president-bush-c7269eea-84ae-46e1-bd54-e7ca5c0737b5.html
I wonder what motivated Shrub to open his yap? Money, spotlight, get rid of Biden in lieu of Cankles/Moochelle ticket?
The dems don’t care who wins the White House as long as they win the Senate and keep the House. From now to the election, they will put all their resources into winning the Senate, without a care in the world who wins the presidency. If they win the Senate and keep the house, they will be able to Throw Trump and Pence out the first day they are sworn in. Pelosi is the Speaker of the house, which is third in line for the presidency behind Trump and Pence. They will impeach and remove Trump and Pence with the same vote. Then Pelosi will be President and she will be able to appoint anyone the Dems want for Vice President, (Bernie or Hillary) and then she can resign and have whoever she picked as VP as the President for life. There will never, ever, be another Republican president. The fix will be permanently in (Mail in ballots) unless Trump and Barr do something now about the swamp!!!
Huh, maybe my sleep deficit is finally resolving itself. I’m still going to bed too late, but for the last two days I pretty much woke up without the alarm after 6 hours, just like I used to.
Now I have to start shifting the time back to normal (for me.) I get a lot more done in the day if I spend my time online first thing in the morning, and not take all morning.
n
They will impeach and remove Trump and Pence with the same vote.
Need 67 votes in the Senate to impeach. At best, they will have 50 seats after November.
I wonder what motivated Shrub to open his yap? Money, spotlight, get rid of Biden in lieu of Cankles/Moochelle ticket?
The red phone connected from Haliburton/KBR HQ out to Midland rang.
To be fair, I imagine there is one out at LBJ’s ranch too. In the run up to the Gulf War I, I remember Bill Moyers getting snippy with some reporter who asked him about his KBR airplane experiences during Johnson’s Senate runs in the 50s.
That touched a nerve. He’s the Great Bill Moyers (TM), Dean of the Old School of Objectivity.
I remember almost nothing of that. On top of working my day job I was seeing if I could get assigned to a unit and sent over there, which took a fair amount of time every day. One would have thought I’d be a good fit, having been off active duty just a couple years, speaking enough Eastern Arabic to get by, and having had a previous job or three in the area. (Though those were highly classified, so maybe they weren’t seen by whoever was trying to fit people to slots.) But no, in the Army’s infinite wisdom they decided I wasn’t needed. My closest connection to Gulf War I was that General Shalikashvili demanded all of the Guardrail family of surveillance aircraft, on the development of which I’d played a small role. (And when I say “all of them”, I mean all. Every one in the world. Word is that threats were issued when the general in charge of Central America (IIRC) wouldn’t release his because they were needed for the drug war.)
“In the run up to the Gulf War I”
I remember almost nothing of that.
My bad. It was Gulf War II, when Cheney’s ties to Haliburton were legitimate concerns. Still, it was sufficiently long ago that the reporters would occasionally ask the Dems tough questions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/massachusetts-walmart-ravaged-covid-21-employees-infected-store-closed
That’s only a few miles from family, and certain other commentors here.
n
Well, technically, more than ‘a few’ but still pretty close.
n
Hatred of Trump?
I wasn’t contradicting your tale of events, Greg. I meant that I remember almost nothing of late Summer 1990. Between work, commuting to work, talking with Army personnel people, and unpacking my uniforms and stuff and hunting for replacements for the missing stuff (because it looked like I was going), I was really busy. I watched and listened to the news enough to know that things weren’t dying down but remember none of it.
I wasn’t contradicting your tale of events, Greg. I meant that I remember almost nothing of late Summer 1990.
I know. Your post fired some brain cells that made me remember the timeframe more clearly.
Haliburton/KBR definitely has political influence on both sides, but, for certain construction projects, IIRC, there are only 6-7 companies in the world that can handle logistics on the scale of rebuilding an entire country’s infrastructure or building oil field facilities.
I have no doubt that the negative oil futures prices caused panic in many board rooms and the rolodexes came out.
Real rolodexes with paper, kept in a vault, with landline phone numbers. “For Emergency Use Only”.
I remember seeing the owner and president of the Rolodex company on some documentary a long time ago. When they introduced the lockable Rolodex, sales shot up. He couldn’t keep himself from laughing when he admitted that every last one of them opened with the same key.
Ha! Wish I could do that. Maybe if I boxed up all the knickknacks ….. all this talk of robovaccuums is putting ideas in my head. We don’t have pets, but live in a dry climate. How the dust accumulates I don’t know. We don’t even have central heat/AC nor open windows.
Our church had regular services today. Paul told me it was ok for me to go if I wanted to, but I think that is too close quarters yet. He’s at risk so he still needs to avoid crowds.
I gave myself and Paul haircuts this morning. About 8 or 10 years ago, Paul came home from the barber shop, having stopped off and bought a Wahl trimmer. We started out with the #4 guard, in the past couple of years we use the #2. I finally had to replace the trimmer last year, it still works but is a bit dull. Bought one from Amazon that quit on month 4, after only 2 uses. Of course the Amazon seller’s warranty was expired so I wrote directly to Wahl. They were awesome!!! They gave me a label and had me mail the trimmer to them. About a month later, Wahl sent us a new one. I expect this one to last as long as the old one did.
My hair, I wear longer, in a straight blunt cut between chin and shoulders. For some reason, it is difficult to find anyone who knows how to cut it. After several disappointments, on a whim in February, I looked up various instructions and found something that seemed doable. I used Method #2, followed by a modified Method #7 – using 2 rubber bands on each side as in Method #2. Paul said it was better than most cuts I had paid for. So I tried again today, in case that was a fluke. Once more, a good cut. There is one less stresser (and expense) gone from my life. I just use a good pair of normal scissors. My hair is thin and fine so those are sufficient. Might be different altogether with thick hair.
Temperature Forecast for today is 96F. Last year at this time it was 77F – which has been normal for the past several years. The record was 103F, set in 1920.
That’s a hoot! I always wondered if Master Locks only had a few key mechanisms that they rotated through.
Ignition key on my mower is the same key for all the mowers from the manufacturer. One key to rule them all. Expensive mower, $8K with air cushion seat, mulch kit and taxes. Anyone could steal the mower. Actually four guys could lift it onto a trailer without the key. So why have a key? Three positions I guess. Off, run, start. A more common and comfortable interface for the human. For security, not a chance. Keep it locked in an outdoor shed, which has had two attempts to break in. Probably not for the mower but for the gas and other tools.
“When they introduced the lockable Rolodex, sales shot up. He couldn’t keep himself from laughing when he admitted that every last one of them opened with the same key. ”
That’s a hoot! I always wondered if Master Locks only had a few key mechanisms that they rotated through.
The lock on a Rolodex isn’t about securing the contents as much as establishing a reasonable expectation of privacy in legal situations. The keys get lost all the time, but even the most dim bulb juror can understand the concept of what the lock represents, adding to the complexity of truth building for opposing counsel in court.
The most laughable mechanism I’ve seen is the standard laptop lock. Most of those can be picked with a piece of cardboard rolled into a tube. The locks are simply about preventing the laptop from being grabbed off a desk in one motion.
Child proofing.
Locks. When I overhauled an old Ford tractor for a friend, in exchange for some use, I went through everything. The ignition switch was in poor condition, so I suggested replacing it with a simple toggle switch. He thought that was a great idea. No keys to worry about!
I always liked the 1950s GM auto and decades-long Harley-Davidson (HD used to use Delco electrics, so there was some connection) ignition locks. They had a CCW position that was the lock position. Insert the key, turn it one click CW, and remove it if desired, or leave it inserted. Then, use the “ears” to turn the switch to whatever position desired. The key is again required to turn to the lock position, but the switch can just be left in the OFF position if locking is not needed. This is especially nice on a motorcycle, because keys are not flopping all over. I had a Triumph MC that I converted to that, also.
Some day, I will be stopped by the police while riding. I have been told that nowadays the first thing they order is to remove and hand them the keys. That will be a hoot! Most of the time, I don’t even take the keys with me. If someone can kick start my bike, they just might be up to riding it. No battery, either.
I always wanted a bike with a suicide clutch and tank shift, and came close to buying an Indian so equipped back in the 1980s. Another user interface that might baffle some of the young’uns.
Thanks. I have a roomba. It works. It’s also noisy, gets full quickly (cats & dog), gets stuck a lot, and tries to clean things it shouldn’t. The Roborock looks like it’s a lot smarter.
Again, I don’t think the virus cases being higher among certain demographics and/or regions than others has as much to do with genetics as it does p*ss poor decision making. Plus sneakers are another product which have been increasingly fetishized and made into arbitraged merchandise which turns any Air Jordan release into a “once in a lifetime” opportunity for anyone willing to hustle.
The virus problem in America in a nutshell.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/03/crowds-gather-to-buy-new-air-jordan-sneakers-in-atlanta-after-lockdown-lifted/
Really, Nike? This weekend?
Anther user interface that might baffle some of the young’uns.
You baffled this old tyke! Admittedly, I don’t know much about bikes but what the hell is a suicide clutch or a tank shift?
Yep. Have to capitalize on the ESPN Bulls series“The Last Dance” which is now airing.
“When they introduced the lockable Rolodex, sales shot up. He couldn’t keep himself from laughing when he admitted that every last one of them opened with the same key. ”
That’s a hoot! I always wondered if Master Locks only had a few key mechanisms that they rotated through.
The lock on a Rolodex isn’t about securing the contents as much as establishing a reasonable expectation of privacy in legal situations. The keys get lost all the time, but even the most dim bulb juror can understand the concept of what the lock represents, adding to the complexity of truth building for opposing counsel in court.
Locks are to tell honest people where the limits are. If you go through a lock, you just “crossed the line” legally.
You baffled this old tyke! Admittedly, I don’t know much about bikes but what the hell is a suicide clutch or a tank shift?
Back in the day, older motorcycles had a foot operated clutch and a hand operated shifter. That meant that you could only put one foot down on the ground while stopped and the engine running since you left the tranny in first gear and your left foot on the clutch pedal. Sitting at light with a bike in neutral is dangerous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_clutch
All four of my bikes, 1973 CB350, 1973 CB350, 1999 CB750 Nighthawk, and 2003 Honda Valkyrie, had the modern left hand clutch and left foot shifter. Worked awesomely and allowed both feet down.
I would love to have that CB750 back again. Great bike, not too big, not too little. The Valkyrie, 1500cc flat six, was too big. But with six carbs, solid lifters, and straight pipes, it was a blast starting out at traffic lights.
“Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits”
https://apnews.com/8948150b9dec5b468dde0563ad28689f
Goodbye nursing homes if the lawyers are turned loose on them.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
I wonder what motivated Shrub to open his yap?
Hatred of Trump?
Because he is a jerk. And Obola is a jerk squared.
Even Clinton is keeping his yap shut on this disaster.
Maybe but I am not so sure. You have to set the brake, be sitting, control arms full out, blade disengaged, before the engine will start. After starting moving the control arms in with the brake engaged kills the engine; getting out of the seat with the blade engaged, arms not extended, brake not set kills the engine; getting out of the seat with the blade engaged kills the engine. I doubt a small child has enough weight to activate the seat switch. All the safety features can confuse an adult.
Sounds complicated. But I just have a plain ol’ riding lawnmower, not a zero turn. Removing the key stops the kids from taking the mower for a drive…
Same for the side by side.
[snip] when he admitted that every last one of them opened with the same key. [snip]
There are three dominant brands of golf carts, and the same is true for each of them. An EZ Go key won’t work in a Yamaha, but all EZ Go keys are the same. If you buy & customize a cart you can get a custom key. I can remember my folks driving GM vehicles in the 70’s & 80’s. IIRC the key for the ignition switch had a square head, the one for the door was oval. Dad ground down the sides of the ignition key for his Suburban and just left it in the switch. If for some reason he needed to remove it he could still thread a split ring and pull, otherwise it was always ready to go. Everyone in the family had a copy of the door key.
“Who is at risk from the Chinese Virus? Some hard data at last #coronavirus”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/03/who-is-at-risk-from-the-chinese-virus-some-hard-data-at-last-coronavirus/
“Features of 16,749 hospitalized UK patients with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterization Protocol is full of useful facts of which governments can take advantage.”
“Perhaps the most startling results were that a third of all hospitalized patients died, 17% are still in hospital and only half have been discharged. Almost half of all intensive-care or high-dependency patients and more than half of all ventilated patients died. Almost half of those admitted to hospital had no comorbidities: age seems to be the most important risk factor.”
“Those aged 50-69 were 4 times likelier to die than those under 50: those in their 70s were 10 times likelier to die; those over 80 were 14 times likelier to die; females were 20% less likely to die than males.”
Interesting. 28% of the known infected were admitted to the hospital. Half of the people admitted to the hospital in the UK did not have known cormorbidities. Of them, the most common comorbidity was 29% had heart issues (fairly personal for me). Diabetes was number two at 19%. Non asthmatic lung disease was also 19%.
Stay out out of the hospital. Double stay off the ventilator.
[snip] Even Clinton is keeping his yap shut on this disaster. [snip]
I’m sure the Ds can find a sacrificial bimbo or three to keep him occupied.
When I worked events, these rings were like gold…. but in the old days you had to amass the ring one extra key at a time, and it was a mark that you rented a LOT of equipment.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=heavy+equipment+key+set&tag=ttgnet-20
I’ve got a ring full of MasterLock keys. I can usually find one that will open just about any lock, sometimes with a little jiggling.
Watch “the lockpicking lawyer” or “bosnian bill” on youtube if bypassing locks is interesting to you.
n
BTW, I was listening to Dr. Oz on Sean Hannity’s radio show last Thursday. I did not know that he is a heart surgeon with a very large practice and many partners. He stated that they are testing all of their patients for SARS-COV-2 as they come in. Out of several thousand patients tested, 90% of those who tested positive were asymptomatic. While this does not mean that 90% of the general population is asymptomatic, it may be close to actuality.
“I wonder what motivated Shrub to open his yap?”
Hatred of Trump?
Nah. I don’t think “W” cares one way or another about Trump. Though, he may secretly like the fact that Trump sent Jeb! packing.
Jeb! was supposed to be the “smarter” brother who ran for President in 2000, but he failed to win the FL Governor’s mansion on schedule in 1994.
What is Nike thinking? Social responsibility out the window. I pray those people don’t get sick. 🙁
The article says they also want protection from criminal liability, as well as civil. It’s New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center all over again. There is one lesson: Never be in, or allow anyone you care about to be in, any institution when some disaster breaks. The first thing, take them home.
My Mom’s nursing home shut down visitation in February. They say she’s doing fine, eating well, interacting with the other inmates.
And this is in podunk Burnet.
I’m impressed, actually.
Edit: And I suspect the nursing home in Comanche is just as smart.
Even Clinton is keeping his yap shut on this disaster.
Bubba wasn’t looking well in 2016.
Still, Bill Clinton’s fingerprints are all over the Larry King video about Biden resurfacing after 30 years. Who remembers Larry King’s guests from 30 years ago besides Ross Perot’s infamous “spontaneous”* announcement about running for President.
He’s still around but not working the room like he used to do.
*We knew the truth about ol’ Ross’ spontaneity in Tampa, where the test marketing for the campaign was conducted at fake rallies in the early 90s.
Suicide clutch. Lynn described it well. However, most (all I have seen, but I don’t get around much) HDs actually had a “rocker” clutch pedal, which is described in the article he linked. This would stay in either the engaged or disengaged position, so both feet could be put to the ground while coasting to a stop. Lots of choppers modified this to operate like a car clutch, and I believe this might be the origin of the term “suicide clutch,” so called because unless the transmission was in neutral, the rider had to keep his foot on the clutch pedal, exactly like a car. Choppers were “stripped,” and a sparse appearance was desired, so that is likely why this modification was done. Not sure. Either clutch pedal design was awkward compared to modern controls, but those were used for over fifty years, and were well established. Besides, those older motorcycles bragged about being able to accelerate from very low speeds in high gear (they usually had three speeds.)
I never rode an Indian, but their controls were almost a mirror image of the HD. The shifter was on the right of the tank, but the clutch was still the left foot, although its operation was opposite the HD. Here’s where it gets tricky. HD had the throttle on the right handlebar and the spark advance (automatic advance was still a luxury!) on the left, while Indian reversed them. Supposedly, this was to cater to police officers, who could fire a pistol (assuming they were right handed) while in pursuit, heady stuff. Didn’t matter, HD practically owned the police market for decades. Mostly, the reason was they catered with factory designed police accessories. It was believed Indian made better bikes, however. “Harley Davidson, made of tin. Ride them out and push them in!”
Somewhere around the early 1970s, the US made rules that forced all motorcycles to have the throttle and front brake on the right handlebar, the clutch on the left handlebar, the rear brake by the right foot, and the shifter by the left foot. Those of us who preferred left foot rear brake and right foot shift were ignored, except by Moto Guzzi, an Italian company. AFAIK, they were the only company that put cross shafts under the bike. The brake and shifter pedals could be exchanged, and there was a bellcrank that could make the shift pattern work either up or down for first gear. Neat little piece of history.
I would like to have a few more bikes. Are you listening Jay? 🙂
Lynn, I really liked the CB350 when they were new. Beautiful, ran well, well made. They were too small for me; I’m 6′-3″. The later CB450 was a little bigger, and a real hoot. Called the Do-bop because of its unusual sound. Some of them had problems, but others were great. They are now sought after. Ironically, the CB200 (the last of the old 160 series) had a roomy size. It has a 360 degree crank (both pistons rise and fall together for even firing, so it sounds a little like a Triumph,) so it is different. It is the perfect around town bike: smooth, quiet, and light. A neighbor has a 175, which is a little smaller and about the same, but he will never sell it.
From the above, you might guess I like two cylinder street bikes, and you would be right. The only possible exception might be one of the three cylinder bikes. I also like two strokes, one, two, or three cylinders. Different.
He’s the last person I would take medical advice from outside of cardiac surgery – and I’d be wary there. He promotes unscientific woo-woo like Chi fields and the like on his show. I saw him doing a promo for the Houston station that carries him where he advised one of the female anchors to put her lipstick in the freezer each night to kill the bacteria and viruses on it. Nope. Won’t work. He was sued and settled for big bucks for pushing ineffective diet supplements. And more.
I’m so glad to hear it, and I pray she continues from strength to strength. There is a caveat for little bitty towns, the smaller the better. The risk is lower. If anything happens to me, my Paul has already picked out the little town nursing home he would move to.
For the people that love changes to Windows 10 (or not. 🙂 ). The following is likely:
Well, cleaning and organizing continues. It’s hot out, so I’m working in the garage and the house.
I got 18 items ready to list. I need to get pix and descriptions, then I can go live.
I went through another couple of boxes and moved or tossed some things.
I moved a bit of food around.
Some small stuff in my office.
Getting the stuff ready to leave my bedroom was the biggest thing done today though.
n
“Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits”
Goodbye nursing homes if the lawyers are turned loose on them.
The article says they also want protection from criminal liability, as well as civil. It’s New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center all over again. There is one lesson: Never be in, or allow anyone you care about to be in, any institution when some disaster breaks. The first thing, take them home.
My wife has her father in a nursing home in Lewisville, Texas. His nursing home has been on lockdown since early March. He is 6’2″ and 300 lbs. He is 87 and paralyzed from the high waist on down. He broke his back in the army back when he was 30 or so and has been on disability since he was 37. Also his left arm does not work very well at all. We cannot take care of him due to his paralysis and size so he has to stay in the nursing home.
Sadly, his mental faculties are failing also. He has been in the nursing home for six years now. He is not answering his cell phone now, even for his girl friend of 15+ years. His girl friend and his other daughter go up to the nursing home and tap on his window. He sees them and he waves at them but he cannot hear them through the window. The wife needs to get the nursing home staff to check his phone and see if it still works. But the staff are going crazy at the moment and really do not have time to check out his cell phone. Sigh.
Lynn, I really liked the CB350 when they were new. Beautiful, ran well, well made.
I broke a piston ring on my 1973 ??? CB350 when I revved it to 11,000 rpm (the redline) in 1979. I got about 10 ft and the piston ring broke, dropping about 5,000 rpm. So I sold it to a guy for $100 (I had paid $300 for it the year before). It still ran, crappily and smoking from the broken cylinder. I had never checked or changed the oil in it so I have nobody to blame but myself. I bought another one in six months and kept it about a year until I needed money.
I loved the CB750 Nighthawk inline four. Beautiful, wonderful bike for a 6’1″ 250 lb guy. Scared me one time when came up on a red light at 50 mph, hit the front brake and found out there was a puddle of oil or diesel under me. Ended up managing to slow the bike down to 15 mph or so and then laid the bike down before I skidded out into the intersection. No damage to my bike, my jeans and shoes kept me getting skinned up, just my pride got hurt. All in all, it handled beautifully. But I thought I needed more power.
The Honda Valkyrie was fun, too fun. I looked down one day and I was running 95 mph on the old four lane bridge across the Brazos River. It would go 130 mph, don’t ask me how I know that.
I had completely forgotten about the Pandemic of 1968 when a Chinese virus killed over 100,000 Americans. We didn’t shut down anything that I recall.
https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
I had a friend, now deceased but not from any MC accident, who had a Yamaha XS11. He could have made your comment. He was going fast on a nearby two lane highway, and came up on a turn too fast. Making it was hopeless, so he got hard on the brakes before he went off into the brush and bumpy terrain. He woke up in the hospital several hours later. Surprisingly, he was OK, just bruises. He sold the bike and went back to Brit bikes. You can have more terror on a Triumph at 50 mph than on that XS11 at 100 mph, but the hurt is proportional to the square of the speed ratio.
Before that incident, he let me ride it, but only around town. It didn’t handle well at low speeds, which really put the damper on it for me. After I returned, he said he forgot to tell me that, and said it was much better at higher speeds. Hurt squared.
I had completely forgotten about the Pandemic of 1968 when a Chinese virus killed over 100,000 Americans. We didn’t shut down anything that I recall.
https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
Interesting. The only thing that I remember from 1968 is when the radio in Mom’s VW Bus broke into a song and announced that Bobby Kennedy had been shot in California and sadly died later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
“Was That a Cough? Going Back to the Movies in Texas.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/was-that-a-cough-going-back-to-the-movies-in-texas/
#explainyourcough
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
On the COVID data: interesting top comment about the correlation with vitamin D insufficiency. Note: “correlation” – doesn’t necessary mean anything, but interesting nonetheless. They don’t list hypertension as a factor, unless they included that under cardiac disease (which would be a bit weird).
FWIW, some information has come out of Italy – part of the reason COVID got so bad there was this little sequence: (1) too few intensive care stations, so they decided to (2) move some COVID patients to stations in nursing homes. With the inevitable result.
I find all the second-guessing by folks annoying. “Government overreacted”, etc.. Maybe, and maybe not. Short of an alternate universe, there’s no way to know. There’s just no point to retroactive second-guessing. I do note that the death rates *with the lockdown) still somewhat exceed a bad flu season (with no lockdown).
There are a few odd bits of information. Apparently, there are several Austrian divers who came down with COVID, and now have severe, permanent lung damage. Why, is unclear – bad luck, something to do with diving – no one knows…
I find all the second-guessing by folks annoying. “Government overreacted”, etc.. Maybe, and maybe not.
Killjoy. :-p
I’m pretty sure it is considered a cardiovascular disease.