Posted on 05/23/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by riri
Are we being seeded by foreign enemies or our own who go out of their way to intentionally fly in the face of simple cautions and preventions?
TX positivity rate is at 14.35%
After telling Austinites to stay home, Austin, TX mayor says he regrets going with 7 families to vacation in Mexico in Nov. Prior to the vacation, he hosted his daughter’s wedding with more than the Stage 3 10 guest guideline. Now he’s talking “dire challenges and now is not the time to relax.” What a piece of work is he. This when TX will be getting a vaccine in 11 days. Guess he’ll be first in line so he can party hearty for Christmas and ring in the New Year wherever his private plane takes him.
LA mayor says stay home what with the surge of cases there.
Queen Elizabeth and the family aren’t doing their traditional big family Christmas this year. They’re staying in their own separate palaces with their “HRH Bubble” staff who isolate before rotating into periods of duty. Ah, just like me but without the staff.
Heads up for those who renew their vehicle registration online. TX is being flooded with online payments this year so is running behind getting the stickers mailed out. Behind as in people not getting their stickers until after the expiration date.
Even if an officer sees the expired tag as PC to pull you over, a check with the dispatcher will show your registration to be current in the online system. Knowing that they are behind in mailing, the officer should check before making the decision to pull you over.
Maybe. If he bothers to check.
https://dailytimes.com/promotions/article_8de57c6a-36af-11eb-9a0f-4f16351b8a47.html
34th Kerrville Death. Dies alone in SA with family peering through window.
Burnet, TX middle school principal died Sunday with complications from CV and/or a years long management of a blood vessel problem. He was asymptomatic and at school last week. Ain’t that just great! How many kids and teachers did he infect? Where was he during Thanksgiving?
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/hundreds-ill-1-dead-due-to-unidentified-disease-in-india
So, when will we be getting this?
In WA State tab enforcement has been deemphasized by the WSP to the point where expired tabs are being ignored unless they really need a reason to stop (i.e. suspected criminal activity). I haven’t bothered to re-tab one of my infrequently-driven vehicles.
I think I have about the same number of motorcycles but haven’t ridden due to less than stellar health. But hoping things improve in the spring. I only renew tabs when I actually use something. WA just started requiring liability coverage for motorcycles and I will purchase (maybe) if I start riding again. There is no linkage (so far) with insurance. The vehicle registrations here are all around $100 unless the GVWR is higher than normal. Some of the bikes have vintage collector plates and don’t need renewal.
The lack of use derives from working 70 weeks and a limited riding season in Idaho. What little time off I have is spent with my wife going to dinner or doing household shopping on a weekend. In San Diego, I rented a room so I could work a contract there. The motorcycle was ridden daily to work and on weekends. 50 to 60 hour weeks, but responsible to cover all my daily living needs e.g. shopping, laundry, food. I would call my wife in the evening after dinner. 5 years of that with just 2 weeks home each week.
San Diego is like Motorcycle heaven. Perfect weather, lane splitting. In the Navy, the older guys, who had mostly moved to Harleys, tried to mentor the young guys on their sportbikes. But sadly, we always lost the less experienced guys who couldn't see what what was coming.
I took my Sporty to San Diego with under 10 hours on the seat. My first day back to work was greeted with a huge backup of SR52. I was lane splitting on 52 from Santee to just over the hill where the Tierra Santa bridge crosses. That was the accident site. From there to I805 was clear sailing on the way to Campus Point.
Great description of how the mRNA vaccine works...
https://twitter.com/WheatNOil/status/1339624815137722368
“... So scientists took the blueprint for the asshole protein on COVID and made an mRNA version of it. Literally just the instructions on how to make that protein.
These instructions “are” the vaccine.
Let me explain....”
Boy, thread is dead.
The fly in the ointment is that mRNA is never supposed to get outside a cell. It exists in the nucleus or the cytoplasm. What becomes of mRNA that fails to find its way inside a host cell? Exogenous mRNA deposited by injection is a fairly new technique. The intended action is for the mRNA to make its way inside a cell and leverage the cell machinery just as a virus does. The beta test for what happens in large populations is underway.
Covid variant VUI – 202012/01.
“Here you come again
Just when I’ve begun to get myself together
You waltz right in the door, just like you’ve done before
And wrap my heart ‘round your little finger”
It has been more than a few months since I posted here of early studies that hinted Indomethacin might be effective against SARS-CoV2. (feels like years ago). Well, there has finally been a trial, though in India where they like cheap drugs and can’t afford monoclonal antibodies and other fancy $1000/dose medicines.
The results were:
“It was observed that patients treated with Indomethacin had a reduction in the number of days to become afebrile, reduction in cough and myalgia by half compared to the paracetamol set. Only one out of 72 patients in the Indomethacin arm of the first group required supplementary oxygen while 28 of the 72 patients required supplementary oxygen in the paracetamol arm. No one in the second group deteriorated enough to require mechanical ventilation. There was no evidence of adverse reaction to indomethacin or deterioration of renal or liver function”.
I actually have indo in my medicine cabinet, so this is good news. It’s easy to get and cheap, like Ivermectin.
How many Covid previously took an invasive flu vaccine?
Plans are to delay the second shot of the 2-dose vaccines and instead concentrate on getting the first shot to more people.
In a discussion, the key point made for this change in plans is “6/ If one instead looks at the day 10 to day 22 period one instead gets an efficacy value of 86% (there will be confidence intervals around that). “
https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1344347380917940226
We’ll learn a lot from this experiment.
On reflection I’m not too worried about this mRNA vaccine.
But what future uses will the tech be put to?
If you can tell a cell to do one thing then you can tell it to do others- maybe terrible things.
https://www.kxan.com/news/no-flu-cases-at-texas-childrens-pediatrics-yet-in-unusual-season/
There have been zero regular flu cases at Texas Childrens hospital in Austin, TX so far this year. It usually tests at 15%.
Masks and social distancing works for the flu. Well, duuuuh.
Great shredding of China’s attempt to claim the virus didn’t come from them:
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1320344055230963712
China lies, and pays others to lie.
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