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I want to take this a step further. Browsing the DSHS website today, looked at flu stats for 9/29/19 - 1/23/20 flu tests performed 110,900 flu tests positive. 27,318 the flu & influenza mortality rates for that period: age. Number 0-4 <10 5-17. <10 18-49. 101 50-64. 282 65+. 1,353 total positives 27,318 with total deaths at 1,748. Info does not specify specific cause of death, just the numbers. Age distribution looks pretty much just like CV. I also want to take a logic leap and ask something about shelter in place. Not saying in the least that we shouldn't be doing everything we can to slow this down, just raising a question while also agreeing that lowering the RO is a good thing however we do it. So many will agree that a heavy viral load is much more detrimental to your health, if you are exposed to a huge dose of the virus it has a big head start multiplying in your system and really fucking you up or killing you. And the sicker you are, the higher your viral shedding is likely to be. So a great number of people sheltering in place are doing so indoors, particularly in big cities like Ny or in places where the weather still sucks. And if you are sheltering in smaller places like NY apartments, and you are infected, and you are shedding a lot of virus, people in your close proximity are subject to much higher viral loads over longer periods of time than if some of those factors are lessened. Just pondering a what if this thing has been around longer than we think and SIP specifically might be exacerbating bad cases. It's almost certainly lowering the RO factor since people are having far fewer face to face contacts to whom they can spread the bug, but perhaps often making it worse for those they do infect.

Local news just showed footage of DPS stop along the east border, long line of RVs trying to get into Texas fucked up situation either way you look at it. Theres a price to pay for personal freedoms and we have been racking up quite a tab. Looks like some of the swamp dwellers are skipping out on theirs and putting their drinks on our bill.

Look up charts online for amperage/distance/size. If you are producing enough amps to run most or all of your house, you will need big wire or wire will fry under higher loads. The bus bar lugs on your panel aren't going to hold much larger than 6/3 wire, the main lugs will hold large aught wire. It's not hard to do at all, but no electrician is going to put their license on the line or risk burning your house down. For an emergency situation you could install a disconnect between the meter and the panel so you can absolutely disconnect power. Then just pull your main lines out of the panel luv and put your generator wires in their place. This is just allowing you to cut power to your main panel so you can safely mess with wires, similar to turning off your main breaker to hot wire a sub panel.

Some lessons:. Did not anticipate hand sanitizer, I have 3 cases of everclear but also have 18 cases of mixed liquor set aside for trade. Need to fix that. Need to do a better job of stocking and rotating pasta. Beans and rice are fine but pasta doesn't store nearly as long. Need more fruit. Need to add it more to the diet so we can get a deeper stocking and rotation. Need more solar, also really would like to add a vertical wind turbine. Time to get back on a project I started planning several years ago. Solar water pump, draw water into a chute that travels about 100' with about 40' of drop with water wheel generators along the big drops. down to 88k rounds of ammo, situation getting dire. Need to correct that deficiency. A max of 6 chamberings would be ideal for prepping efficiency but alas...

That's like half of Surly working from home without pants on all day. Back porch, or potted plant in the corner of the room? I did the same using HEPA AC filters when I'm somewhere with lower traffic like the liquor store. I have respirators for HEB, there's by far more people there than anywhere else I go. Speaking of liquor stores, which one of you was at Twin liquors today and told the cashier "shut up and give me my fucking receipt." You're still an asshole, but you walked away without letting me finish my thought on the matter. The glass is there to help protect that cashier from all the people coming in to buy booze. You were in the wrong fuckface, the sign said "place bottles with bar code facing glass" not "reach around the glass with your bottle of gin and then act like a cunt".

It's deaths per 10,000 population 100 deaths in a county of 1M is 1/10,000 1 death in a county of 100 is 100/10,000 theres the skew

Don't know the answer to that, but the exclusion of dependent kids between ages 17-24 us pure bullshit. I promise those of you with young kids, they are a LOT more expensive when they hit college.

Yes it's pretty fucked up that we all understand the need for antibody testing yet very little is being said about a plan for it. It is happening though. Mother had pneumonia in early February with a cough that lasted for weeks and still lingers a little. She saw her doc then and they treated with meds. fast forward to 3/12 and her doc called her back in because they wanted to check something out. I thought it would be the test but it was not. Then 13 days later on 3/25 her docs office called and told her to isolate immediately because she was exposed fact to face during her 3/12 visit. She had a video chat with the doc, he started showing symptoms 3 days after their visit and tested positive. Speculated he may have got it from her and asked her to come get tested. I thought that was a bad idea to go in and get potentially exposed for the test since she was at 2 weeks with no new symptoms. She went, yesterday and instead of nasal stab they took blood to test for antibody. Should know results today.

Asymptomatic is thrown around way too much, I think it's being misinterpreted. I know way too many who think ~80% of people don't get sick at all. I mean, 100% of people who get CV are asymptomatic at the beginning, but we have no idea what percentage is actually immune. I doubt that number is very high, how many people are immune to the flu? Antibody testing would certainly help, but we really won't know the answer unless most everyone gets tested Evidence points to the healthier you are, the stronger your immune system and the lighter the infection load, the better you will fare.

You can, though I recommend getting the AC filters from Home Depot with the FPR 12. They still have plenty of those, I bought a few of the larger ones. Plenty of material there to make a mask or to cut filters for a reusable rig. I have some P100 respirators and was thinking to make a pre-filter for those since replacement cartridges are long gone. I also got a couple gallons of denatured alcohol that I use to clean heavier duty latex dipped shop gloves. Not safe for homemade hand sanitizer but works just fine to sterilize the gloves for continual use. Those disposable latex jobs are getting out of control, got gas yesterday and it looked like the restroom in pease park circa 1995 with all the discarded rubber.

You should see the looks I get with the respirator, fuck them. I mess around with some exotic hardwoods sometimes and pretty much have to wear goggles and mask. A small splinter gets wildly infected inside a day, get one in the eye really sucks, not to mention how sick you get breathing the dust If you have just 1 n95 the balaclava would be a good cover up to keep the mask cleaner longer. I personally think they would be pretty high up on the alternative materials chart posted somewhere back thread. Not vacuum cleaner bag good but easily dish towel good. The multi layer plus a somewhat pleated effect from bunching is logically a good thing.

Maybe, maybe not. Client is a California transplant lady in Texas who had flu like conditions with a cough lasting around 4 weeks and mild pneumonia that required hospitalization back in late January. Early 70's. My mother had a flu and pneumonia in early February with the lingering cough. 2 weeks ago today her doc asked her to come back in, I thought they might be testing to see if it had been CV but they didn't test. She got a call from their office yesterday telling her she has to quarantine because in that visit 2 weeks ago she was face to face with someone (presumably a nurse) who has tested positive. They also said she should go get tested and I told her to hold off a bit, it's 14 days today and she's good so far. If a nurse just tested positive I would think it likely happened a bit more recently and they are contacting all patients within a 14 or even longer window of potential exposure. My thoughts on testing at this point is it might be an unnecessary risk of exposure, she has been isolating for the past 2 weeks on lake Buchanan. 3rd is a good friends daughter was hospitalized in ICU and on a vent 2 months ago with pneumonia, 17 yrs old. They were smoking black market pot vapes (supposedly from china though I cannot confirm) 5 days prior. She's ok now Seems like an antibody test might do a better job of helping back trace when this thing actually arrived. I dont think I have known a single person who had pneumonia, then 3 near my circle all within a few weeks of one another.

So I guess the relief bill might finally get passed, though there's shit like $400M earmarked to help make voting by mail easier. Congress arguing for days over pork for a bill designed to help We The People through a major disaster is just par for the course Well, how about a little pork for all the American people? I'll start with TERM LIMITS for every one of those assholes in congress, then we can negotiate from there. For the first 100 years in America we had STATESMEN whose average term in Congress was ~3 years. Only 1 of 10 ran for re-election. Only about 1 of 10 of those running for reelection were voted to a subsequent term. There were lawyers, doctors, soldiers, shop owners, and farmers. They lived in the communities they represented and were generally looked up to by their neighbors who voted them into office. So they would put their practices/farms/shops on hold, pack their shit into a wagon and head off to the capital to represent their CONSTITUENTS. After they did their public service they would return to their practice/shop/farm and resume their lives. .In the past 50 years we have POLITICIANS whose average term has risen to >27 years. 9 of 10 run for reelection and of those, 9 of 10 get elected again. These are career politicians, they are mostly multi-millionaires who probably don't live where they have been elected to represent, though they might buy a 3rd or 4th home in their district. They make a living in public service by representing corporations and the lobbyists who contribute to their wealth. The main goals are getting rich and getting reelected. Public service my ass.

$400M earmarked to help make voting by mail easier.

I avoid public restrooms like the plague they are, here's a couple things about fecal/oral transmission and also about the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong and likely spread through building plumbing Raises another possible cause for high density living and viral transmission Fecal/oral: https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=229095 Viral spreading through plumbing systems: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-spread-building-pipes.html i have always preferred living in a more rural setting for many reasons, give me >10 acres and a good septic system over density any day

Thinking about CV transmission and hot spots being high density areas, plumbing drain and vent systems seem like a good candidate for spreading. Buildings and their shared systems, traps dry out frequently if not used often, and I would not be surprised if they find that to be strong contributor. Any plumbing people around here who could confirm or dismiss this? We have a floor drain in the mud room and it took me a while to get into the habit of pouring water down it once a month to keep the trap full. The smell was my reminder before I started regularly taking care of it.

It is in America if you're married. Or he could pay the American rate for a wife and have a fucking harem that would make Abdullah look like a pussy.

See, now that's how you shift the Overton Window. Go hard right telling people you are shutting everything down, then peel back on a few concessions you don't really give a shit about to get the people to willingly comply with what you really want. Imagine in the 2000's if you told people you would have to show up to the airport 2+ hours early, wait in long security lines for searches, only ticketed passengers at gates, and you basically had to leave your rights at the door. No way that would fly. We could show up 5 min before a flight with no security, birthing as much baggage as your could carry, and have family meet you at the gate. So tell them to you want them to show up 5 hours early, get strip searched and probed, no luggage allowed carry-on, and everyone is shackled to their seat for the duration of the flight. Then walk it back to the middle.

Maybe a UV light instead of washing? Or direct sunlight for a couple hours?

They can't agree on the specific pork in the bill to help the American people, neither side can agree on their respective inputs how about a little input from the American people, a little pork from our side. I'll be happy with TERM LIMITS for every asshole in congress. No/cr

The logistics of supply/demand seem very clear regarding grocery stores So what's going on with all the restaurant supplies, Sysco and who ever. There must be a significant surplus there, correct? Plus a parallel supply chain (some overlap, though they seem fairly independent).

Ever lived in Texas and had your AC take a shit? Speaking of shit, plumbers and electricians could be deemed very necessary in some cases. The list posted several pages back broke construction into categories and things like framing, trim carpentry, painting etc were on the no go list.

Buy a set top induction cook top ($59) a pressure cooker (~$50) and an air fryer over ($99) and you have an instant kitchen, all 120v so regular outlets will do. You could also get a garage style stand up basin sink to wash dishes ($80) if the bathroom sink isn't large enough, hook it to a hose bib or if there's space in the bathroom ask your builder to put Tees on the hot and cold faucets so you can get hot water.

I don't remember what spurred me on 7-8 years ago but I have 600# of rice, 450# of beans and 50 gallons of honey when I checked the supply depot a coup,e days ago. The chickens started laying pretty consistently again a few weeks ago, last year I gave away hundreds because 6 eggs a day adds up quickly Anyone have a recipe for that? I also rediscovered 3 cases of everclear and CVS had tons of aloe after sunburn gel so I should be able to make a little impromptu hand sanitizer

Holy shit you are running dangerously low on medical supplies