Last week I wrote, “What a difference a week makes. Last week I wrote about the first signs of spring and what do with it staying light out later. This week I’m figuring out how not to kill everyone I see panic buying groceries.” You can say that again.
It’s been a roller coaster this week. Monday I was in San Diego court for a hearing. My normally taciturn judge spent the first ten minutes on the bench telling everyone to spread out (people had already done a pretty good job of it) and reminding everyone to use Court Call for future hearings because no one knew how long this coronavirus thing would last. Fine. I finished my appearance and headed back to my office.
Wifey starts emailing me about courts announcing shutdowns. My paralegal lets me know our attorney service is hearing about courts shutting down. Tomorrow I must be in Los Angeles for a hearing, so I check their website. They had already announced restrictions but not a complete shutdown. No change. I drive up to LA to check into my hotel. Still no change. I banter with you lot until about 10 PM. No change. I get up in the morning and start getting ready to walk to court. I check the court’s website. The court is shut down through the end of the week. Motherf*cker.
In the next couple of days every court in southern California has announced shutdowns for at least a week. That seemed optimistic given the parade of bad news. By the end of the week all courts are shut down except for emergency matters for weeks to come. Fan-f*cking-tastic.
Every night I drove home from the office with my laptop because I was expecting my clueless governor to impose some sort of shelter in place order. Thursday night on the drive home I got a text from one of my employees. The order was issued. F*ck me. Anger Rising.
You know what’s worse than being unemployed? Being an employer and not being able to get much done because an indispensable part of your process is closed for weeks. Continuing overhead with little way of generating revenue. The low regard I have for government just got lower. If only there was some alternative worth trying rather than a government induced recession.
For the past week or so I have had to rely on bodyweight exercises. Lord knows it’s been important to me to do something physical to deal with the stress.
When it’s time to embrace the suck I ask myself WWGD? Yeah, I hate this situation, but I’ll be damned if it will get the best of me. I’m pissed I don’t have all that gym equipment available, but I know there are other ways to train. So, what if I could find another way to train? I am angrily embracing the opportunity.
This week has been a combination of bodyweight strength exercises or conditioning in the morning. Evenings have been ab work and some additional conditioning. Friday, I went balls out and just went until I was exhausted and couldn’t do anymore. That was revealing. Goggins is right. I’m soft. I haven’t really challenged myself. I’ve been doing “load management.” I’m a long way from being hard. I think I’m in the midst of turning the corner in embracing the suck.
If you don’t know where to start, here are 8 bodyweight exercises. Here is a more involved bodyweight circuit with both beginner and advanced exercises.
Finally, we are all going to have time on our hands. I wish I knew which of you to thank for introducing me to The Critical Drinker and Red Letter Media. They have both been good for hours of entertainment and have steered me away from wasting money on CBS All Access. I was hopeful Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek Picard would be worthy additions to the Star Trek legacy. Well, that didn’t pan out.
Here is The Critical Drinker on Star Trek Picard episode 1, episode 2, and episode 4. Why no episode 3 you ask? He hated it so much he couldn’t find anything interesting to say about it. Red Letter Media covered these episodes and more if you enjoy a good piling on.
Here is Red Letter Media on Star Trek Discovery pilot episode, mid-season review, season 1 review, and season 2 review.
That’s it with the links. SP is going to send me to Warty’s dungeon for all of these.
My knee pain did not return and I’m back on track. Day 22 of the “Ozy Challenge”.
First? And it’s even on-topic!
I’m now in day 30 of my version of this. I started at 5, so today was 34 reps. I’m now doing squats, push ups, sit ups, dips, standing toe touches, and a bent over row ( with whatever is convenient since I dont have any weights).
On some of these I can do the 34 reps straight, and I’m trying to work the others in that direction. The pushups are the toughest right now.
Also, it feels great.
Congratulations! I just finished my 22.
Still amazed, starting to be amused. It’s definitely doing me some good.
Thanks Ozy!
If it means anything, I’m proud AF of anyone who is using the opportunity to get themselves moving. The two greatest causes of disease in the United States (by any metric that matters) are (1) over-consumption of refined/processed carbohydrates, and (2) sedentarism. The solutions to both problems are simple and self-evident, but neither is easy. (Try kicking refined carbs for any period of time and you know how hard I’m talking about). The good news about fighting sedentarism is that (a) we’re made to move, and (b) you can work your way incrementally up from minimal movement to any fitness level – and the bonus is that as you increase your daily prescription of movement, you will (in my experience) eventually find your body beginning to crave better foods, as well as less food, in order to accommodate your movement needs.
Great job, O Glib friends.
Yeah, the trickling out of little restrictions and guidelines bit by bit prolongs the agony. Sorry you went to LA court for nothing.
Thanks HS.
So far I’m eating pretty well, mostly homemade. As long as grocers stay reasonable, all will be well. I can do without this or that if they have the staples.
I am gonna need toilet paper ina week though.
We are in good shape. Contact me if you run into trouble HS.
Confirmed NYC cases over 9600 – so nearly 1/3 of the entire US total from NYC alone.
The boardwalk here on Rockaway Beach has been pretty busy; everyone getting outside before our 8pm lockdown. My useless manager sent a text telling that, until further notice, we were to carry our name-tag and a pay-stub in case we get stopped for violating the quarantine. I haven’t bothered to tell him that, being overnight crew, we have no name tags and, getting paid via Direct Deposit, we have no pay-stubs. Sigh…
We’re paid by DD too, but our payroll processor generates a pay statement that we can print from their website. Any chance you’d have access to something like that?
Yeah, it’s all online and theoretically, I could print something out but I’m not gonna. I don’t foresee getting hassled, I’ll be in my work uniform, and if challenged, I will politely and respectfully question the statutory authority of any man to tell me to stay in my house.
Officer, would I dress like this if I wasn’t going to work?
Although, good cover for looting markets.
There’s also no prohibition on walking around outside just for the hell of it. So, yes – if anyone stops us we need to find a delicate way to tell them to piss off.
“This is a free country. Go fornicate yourself.”
Repeat as needed.
If they get close enough to grab you they are violating social distancing. That is assault isn’t it? So you can shoot them?
Will you be my attorney?
so everyone is dead now, right?
Sorry, Chafed – I thought I posted the OT on the other link. From a fitness perspective, happy to report that finally reasonable weather the past two days so back to walks with my husband – logged 5 miles at a good pace yesterday/today.
No apology needed. Good for you and your walking.
We got out on the horses today; great day for a ride, sunny but in the 40s. I’ll also go out for a walk shortly, but tomorrow will be on the elliptical given some rain in the forecast for the early part of the week. I’ve dropped 10 of the pounds I put on back over the holidays.
Seriously jealous here. It’s been 50 years since I’ve been on a horse. I miss it.
Horseback
Horses
Horses.
Horse
Unnamed Horse
Heavy Horse https://youtu.be/1yFa2bizEOU
A new Spotify follow. Thanks!
Jacuzzi Boys are good. Punks, but alot of psychedelia, even some new wave/disco influence? Very interesting and all very listenable.
Color
Horse girl
Named Horse
Oh, and I love that song.
The greatest horse song ever, the greatest Osmonds song ever, and possibly the greatest hard rock song ever…. Crazy Horses! https://youtu.be/iXcj8dFOd1E
What the hell did I just watch? I was repelled and intrigued all at the same time.
Famous horse ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqipMcwJeQI
Jesus Lizard with a live version of Horse. Loud as fuck! https://youtu.be/JLrlDq1bGwM
The horse.
Our horses – the bay is mine and the appaloosa is hers.
And the pale one in the background?
Dusty, aka The Old Man, he was our barn-owner’s original quarterhorse, but is retired now and just living out his life.
Beautiful juris – thanks for sharing. We had ~35 head growing-up – lots of appaloosas.
Very nice. Thanks!
Chestnut
I love that song. Uplifting.
Yup, one of my favorites as well.
Very nice.
Pony (close enough)
I love horses and riding. Still it is 1500 lbs of pure muscle with four hammers on one end and a brain smaller than your fist on the other. If you really want to get hurt you couldn’t do better than to get yourself a horse.
*I am just jealous because my wife made me quit for age and health reasons.
That’s one thing my wife can still do. She’s been at it long enough(50 years), that it’s in a different part of her brain. She rides with a trainer three days a week, including jumping, but has trouble getting food from the plate to her mouth. Go figure.
“Essential (or familial)” tremors? I’m cursed with those and it stinks. My neurologist just upped the dosage on the meds I take for it. I’ll be at 500mg a day of primidone (metabolized straight time barbiturate) by the beginning of April.
It helps, but things went downhill a bit when my beta blocker dose was cut in half. Medical whack-a-mole ;-\
Al Zheimer’s. I hate that guy.
Oh, man, I’m sorry to hear that. Mr Al Z is asshole.
Suthenboy knows what’s what. And they THINK with those tiny brains too.
I like my horses in chrome and on 2 wheels.
It helps to keep in mind that horses are a prey species. They react as prey reacts.
And they THINK with those tiny brains too.
[chuckling] So my boy decided he wanted to be lead horse for part of the ride, and we get to this one fork and he decides he’s going right (down a steep little stretch and the shorter path home) and I wasn’t quick enough to keep him to the left. Anyway, everyone else just rode on and when I got him to a safe enough place to stop I turned him so he could see that no one was following him. I said “well, are you going to just stand here or get your ass up that hill?” They’re called quarterhorses and they go from dead stop to full gallop in not much more than a heartbeat. 3 or 4 seconds later we’d caught up, but I made him bring up the rear the rest of the ride as penance for being a smart ass instead of an obedient horse.
I’ve gained five pounds over the last month or so. At a healthy 175lbs but I’m shooting for 180-185lbs. The weight gained has been mostly fat but I needed it.
Pot brownies FTW.
Believe it or not, I don’t really do edibles. I don’t know if it’s because I smoke so much or what but I feel nothing off them, completely wasted on me.
Took a nice 6 mile run on a new route this morning. Along the Burke-Gilman trail, across the Fremont Bridge, along the Ship Canal trail and back across the Ballard Bridge. Overcast, and 43 degrees. Perfect.
Steak and eggs for lunch, and bourbon.
It’s been hard for me to concentrate on diet & exercise with more restrictions coming almost every day. Can’t go to the Y, and we’ve gotten carryout from nearby local joints for dinner the last five nights (with limited low-carb options.) After tomorrow evening, it may be strictly home cookin’, which may help. And I should just push myself to get back on the treadmill. Don’t know what’s happening with my job after tomorrow. We’ll see if I suddenly have lots of time for exercise.
‘Don’t know what’s happening with my job after tomorrow.’
Found out a couple of hours ago that my job as been deemed essential and can continue to cross state lines and work.
It’s kinda hard to believe I just typed that.
Let me know if you come up into Liberty. Maybe meet up for lunch or something?
Yeah, I’d like that. SP has my personal email if you want to contact me.
My email is moriah at moriahjovan dot com.
Mr. Mojeaux reminded me that we can’t actually sit in a restaurant. LOL
I’ll cook.
Restaurants have been deemed essential, and carry out orders can continue.
Good! I’ll plan to continue getting carryout for dinner as long as our nearby local joints are open.
How long till that Donatos opens ?
I think I saw work vehicles there Friday morning, and they have the signs on the building! If not held up by the Health Department, with any luck it’ll be open soon!
(Happily, I love their Chicken Harvest Salad almost as much as their pizza!)
And looking through the order, it looks like you’re considered essential (12. i.).
Thank you!!! I wouldn’t have known where to look for the specifics.
It’s great how little Miss Empath is now our Dictator. It’s for our own good so we can’t complain.
I’m back up to about 10 pounds to get to my goal. Work has been going non-stop this week, and stress eating/drinking hasn’t been helping. My sleep has been suffering, and the exercise has fallen off after being burned out.
Now the girlfriend’s job will be closed, and Ohio’s going to be on lockdown starting Tuesday at midnight until April 6th at a minimum. I do not see my stress levels going down.
Neph that’s why finding some form of exercise is so important.
The problem is finding time/energy to do that after 10-12 hour work days.
Today I was hauling around grain, wort, and beer. I feel marginally better, but dreading the lockdown starting on Tuesday.
Wife’s gym is closed. She’s having her trainer come to our house Tuesday morning for a workout. Guess she’s cute.
Breakin’ the law!
Maybe I’ll serve drinks:)
Speaking of… I don’t see liquor stores on the essential list. So stock up fellow Buckeyes.
Good reminder!
I try to look out. I may have to run out tomorrow to pick up some midshelf replacements. Otherwise I can subsist on top shelf and cask strength for a while…
It said grocery stores selling alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Really just need Gin. I’m pretty good on everything else.
Right, but the liquor stores are separate, unless you like the 40 proof shit.
Maybe now #recalldewine can get some traction.
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/03/22/ohio-halts-nonessential-abortions-covid-19-crisis/
That reminds me – I was supposed to get a mammogram this coming Friday. Why couldn’t I have had the mammogram first and missed the colonoscopy?? #MyTimingSucks
I’m on board with recall 100%. Where do I sign up?
Sadly, what research some of us Buckeyes have done indicates that recall is only an option at the municipal level in OH. (Weird, huh?) Impeachment may be our only hope.
Would starting with a petition be any benefit ?
It won’t go anywere, we are in the minority as usual. Most people love this crap.
I was thinking that 10s of thousands of signatures would get some attention. Or put everyone on a list.
I predict this will go well beyond April 6th, and the excuse will be “re-emergence”.
Yep.
I poke around r/newhampshire every now and then. Holy shit there are lots of people posting there that want a California-style shutdown to come to New Hampshire. “WE NEED IT BY MONDAY IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THE VIRUS!” I get it is reddit, but still.
Wow. I didn’t see that one coming.
If only there was some alternative worth trying rather than a government induced recession.
It looks promising, but it’s really a bit too early to start celebrating a victory.
But there alternatives- such as getting people to wear simple surgical masks (even homemade ones) to stop unknowingly spreading the virus. But between the “people are too stupid to tell the difference between PPE respirators (N95 and others) and those sort of masks, so let’s lie lie lie” and cultural taboos against masks, it probably won’t happen until it doesn’t make that much of a difference.
Thinking about asking my wife to make a week’s worth of these
https://www.cottontimemagazine.com/page/10
Just not sure where to source the earloop material. Seems to be a poly-spandex, but has to be soft enough for long term wear.
Any fabric store will have suitable elastic material – common for any number of clothing items.
Ya, what RA said. Easy to find. Don’t you cruise the sewing and craft isle at your local Wmart? If I were you I would go with maybe faux leather and studs on the outside. That is a face mask for a post apocalyptic world.
or even aisle. Our wmart is not big enough to have an isle.
Thanks both!
Agreed and I don’t mean to imply it is the cure. I would like to see some experimentation with something other than shutting down the country.
I’d also like to see the FDA get the f out of the way of people seriously ill who want to try it. How many people need to die while they flex their power?
Absolutely. My body my choice. Let me try this stuff. I’ll either be example of foolish experimentation or cured. Everyone wins either way.
A hero or a warning to others.
‘Lost’ actor says drug Trump touted was ‘secret weapon’ to his COVID-19 recovery
I was in Harbor Freight earlier today and there was a couple wearing surplus gas masks.
Well, at least I’ll have beer. Double IPA (expected ABV 9.5%+; 9 ounces of hops during the boil, 3 ounces of hops for dry hopping) is just about done with an extended boil.
Thanks, Chafed.
Looks like my decision to do a bodyweight program was prescient.
After the suggestions here and some video review, my shoulder pain during pushups is pretty much gone. Form, form and then form.
Unlike the general practice during lockdown, I’m drying out and returning to keto. Otherwise with so much stress and anxiety, I’ll be a blimp by the time this is over.
Sleep has been better since I got the Spawn home safely. Weird how worried you can get even over adult kids.
So far walking hasn’t been banned. I’ve been getting some quality time on the trails around here. Weather is getting nicer, so the timing is good. Last fall I was doing 4 miles a day, at least 5 days a week. I’m gonna get back to that.
Good luck this week, peeps!
“Unlike the general practice during lockdown, I’m drying out and returning to keto.”
Quitter.
Drying out?
Good God, man…don’t do anything you’ll regret.
Lol!
I do it periodically anyway. Nice to mix things up a little.
I have linked this before. Probably more than once. It is from olden times back in 2002 when I was actually fit and I did this routine. I have the magazine on a shelf around here somewhere. I really liked it. It has a month by month plan no gym needed just a couple easy to obtain dumbbells and body weight resistance. Key for me was getting heart rate up. Now I might have a stroke but that may indeed improve my opinion of this country if all I can do is drool and stare at the wall. I am going for it!
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Chafed, I’ve always been curious about your area of practice. Could TPTB kindly assist you toward my e-mail address? It’s really really really not important.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrbxWOMpwfs
Do you need help with something Toxeth?
Hell no!! Just wondering, as I tried to convey above. You’re so sweet to ask!
There is also the buff dudes home workout which is interesting because it has some different exercises also the dude’s girl is hot (imo your taste may differ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpLgcYmJ-0E
Ya, she is hot.
Seconded.
Thirded
I’ve been going on walks and bike rides. Next week my wife and I plan to do the metric century that she had signed up for and was cancelled. I figure the safest place to be is outdoors.
And if they can catch up to you to on a bike, they aren’t having trouble breathing. 🙂
Good luck on the Metric century.
One hectometer? Not that impressive.
Chafed, Another strong Edition. For myself I’ve been hitting the trails…So has everyone else, which is great if you like people. This weekend went for the more obscure and technically difficult trails (i.e. steep terrain). Trying to get a couple K in altitude per outing.
Semi OT Electric: Started down a steep trail which winds about 1/2 mile. Saw a couple mountain bikers coming up. That’s never happened before because that trail is steep. Young d00ds barely breathing and barely peddling. New Specialized Electrics….That’s cheating, especially for the young. I can see an OG getting one to handle some terrain. Not sure what kind of workout you get from them either since you can modulate the pain… What would Googins say!
I think Mikey from MT has one.
It was great to see so many people out today. You are lucky to have the altitude challenge. 300 feet is…lacking.
/thinks back to the half century Sweet Corn challenge…
I’m used to +/- 500 on a ride (30+ miles). That was close to 3,000 feet of climbing over 50 miles. I was not ready for it.
There used to be a ride in N. Central Ohio called the “Horizontal Hundred” cause it as flat as a pancake.
As a teen, prior to getting a driver’s license, I did the Huffman100 in Miamisburg a couple times.
The Horizontal Hundred is still running.
I’ve had the goal of doing a century for the past couple years. So far my longest ride is 75 miles.
Tres Sr was an avid cyclist; used to commute to work from April 1- October 1, 34 miles each day. Consequently, that insured everyone else in the house became an avid cyclist too. Whether we wanted to or not.
Yep, it is great to see families out and about but I kind of worry about them sometimes when I see the kids playing in the poison oak and such.
I checked on the price of those E-Specialized and they aren’t cheap. (start at 4K and top out at 15K.)
PS: Thanks for the advice on hanging about for shoulder pain. It seems to be helpful.
Great! After Tejicano brought it up, I started every day again. I went away from it after my shoulder got better, but I’m gonna make it permanent.
It just feels good!
I’ve also been doing some exercises with bands to strengthen the rotator cuff area…but the hanging really made the most difference.
Yeah. My elecric has changed my life.
At 73 I’m back on the trails.
It’s like a regular bike only my legs are 19 yrs old again. Doesn’t do anything for the heart or the lungs (or anyting else).
You can get as much of a workout as you want. After a good ride my legs ache and my heart is pounding (as much as the beta blockers allow anyway. Depends on how hard you push You can just go faster and farther. And like those kids on the hill, there’s worlds of trails that open up. I see a big climb and insead of “screw that” I think ‘let’s see if I can make it.” Usually I can.
I’ve cycled all my like and thought I’d have to give it up.
My gym is still open, though they’re limiting the number of people in the gym at one time due to Sununu’s order prohibiting public gatherings of more than 50 people. Well, I think it is really only some public gatherings of more than 50 people. There were definitely more than 50 people in the grocery store the other day.
I triggered a bunch of sciatica pain with using the battle ropes against my PT’s advice. She was not thrilled when I fessed up. Pain levels have gone down nicely since then. Weight has held steady since last week. I assume since I’ve been eating take-out more in an attempt to help those restaurants that are still doing take-out.
Mine closed on Monday. A gym that tried to stay open by appointment only a couple towns over got busted and fined by our supreme dictator.
Fuck. And there are probably lots of folks cheering that he got fined.
Not to be outdone by DeWine, Dayton’s mayor gets in on the act:
Well, they were certainly happy to play with their tear-gas at UD couple weeks ago. Im sure they’re itching to do it again.
Now I’m irritated, I got shitty brewhouse efficiency for the batch I just brewed. It came in under the expected gravity by more then 15 points, and I don’t have any DME on hand to boost it up. That’s what I get for changing my process and trying to save some time.
Find some copper tubing and an old truck radiator….
Meh. I could get sugar for less then I got the malt, and freeze concentration is another way to increase alcohol. I do have some home made applejack sitting under the bar.
This shit’s a bummer. A bit frustrated and I can’t seem to stay focused to complete a task. I set out to do my taxes, but keep getting distracted. Can’t seem to zone out and relax either via video game or streaming entertainment.
Now I’m watching Verdict with Ted Cruz, it’s decent. Ted seems to have a knack for it. Here’s a link to the most recent episode for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvOV_fGenvs
I am also easily distracted today but I have so much to do. My head is muddled and this time it’s not my fault.
Right there with you Aus.
As it stands, I’m supposed to be down in C-bus in August. Assuming the BrewDog AGM still goes on.
/huh… guess I can try to extended that stay and burn some vacation days there.
I got out to the range for a bit this afternoon. Twas a bit on the chilly side, but there were others there with the same idea.
I’m still a couple lbs under my target weight.
To add – which is fine. I’m not trying to bulk up.
Nothing ever changes. Tunes on the juke box, 4 miles at 4 MPH on the treadmill, free weights for a half hour. Weigh the same.
One day spring will show up. Getting the seeds planted inside just in case.
My county just issued a “stay at home order.”
Fuck you, no.
Yup the quad county area collectively decided to strip us of our freedom. Can’t wait to hear how they explain themselves when they ruin the local economy over a few cases of CV.
You know, they instituted stay at home orders during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Didn’t do much good. One, no one could work from home. A World War had just ended. Sanitation and medical knowledge at that time were abysmal compared to that of the first world today.
Assuming this will be like the Spanish Flu pandemic is just fear mongering at it’s worst. There have been several pandemics in modern times that were no where near as bad as the Spanish Flu, but that were much more deadly than Coronavirus.
Also, Xi, woodchipper.
Interesting you should say that.
Boss Tom Pendergast (our Machine Boss who flouted Prohibition completely) was accused by an historian recently of making the Spanish flu fatalities in KC ~10x worse than they had to be becuase he would not issue stay-at-home orders, because he wanted people in the bars drinking.
That may or may not be true, and that may or may not have been a good thing (lives v liberty?) (Spanish flu was no joke), and Boss Tom could be as evil as he was benevolent, but he would NOT let do-gooders get in the way of profit, and that was what carried Kansas City through many an economic downturn in the last 100 years better than anywhere else because he completely ignored Prohibition and the alcohol and money flowed.
And now … *sigh*
I don’t give a shit about the virus because a) it doesn’t seem to be devastating like Spanish flu was and b) it acts just like every other flu in killing the already weakened and compromised (Spanish flu didn’t confine itself to the weak). I’m sorry, but this is a bad side effect of being human with frail bodies that age. We’re designed for obsolescence, one way or another.
The TP panic irritates me because all the panickers make the rest of us have to hoard just to get some.
The economic damage this will do terrifies me. The damage to our liberties just makes me sad. It was a long time coming, but this black swan just landed and … we’re done.
This American experiment had a good run, but humans gonna human and humans want other people to not do things they don’t like and so they seek power to control others.
Counter point:
A crap-ton of people suddenly realized they were responsible for their own safety and that of their families. Cleaning out gun stores across the country in the process. Many of them first time buyers.
Well, I don’t see that as a COUNTERpoint, per se. I see that as hope that maybe this experiment isn’t quite done.
I can’t have guns in my house because XY.
And that really makes me mad/sad.
Sorry.
How can you talk about freedom at a time like this, denier? WHY DO YOU HATE SCIENCE?
Pandemic Deniers!
Anti-Virusite!
I keep looking out the patio door windows to see if there are any bodies being stacked up like cord wood by the illegal alien landscapers. So far, nothing.
Can we go outside now?
We havent hit peak Net Neutrality yet. Its going to happen.
I just violated it.
Turned on the radio to hear the end of some government officials talk about why they need to take over the production of medical supplies so they can streamline the process. Oh just like the process they used to make CV test kits? That worked well.
Cuomo and De Blabbermouth have been all over this – as though the government jumps in an Ta-Da! ventilators, masks, and medical supplies reproduce “exponentially”
More and more PSA’s about social distancing, states/counties/cities issuing stay-at-home declarations. What I don’t see is anything hardcore directed at the high risk groups. Those people should be on a self-imposed lock-down, but in the same footage showing “Spring Breakers” at the beach, there are plenty of boomers. Stores here have special shopping hours for seniors – doesn’t matter – supermarkets full of old people.
It’s a 3 step social distancing program.
Step 1: Title IX
Step 2: #MeToo
Step 3: Cov19
All is going as planned.
I need to get back to walking tomorrow. Exercise truly is the best medicine.
PA business closure enforcement starts tomorrow
Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered the closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses and enforcement actions against businesses that do not close physical locations will begin at 8 a.m. Monday, March 23.
The enforcement time was delayed due to a high volume of waiver requests from business owners arguing that their operations are life-sustaining.
Wolf said his order would be enforced by state troopers, local officials, the state Health and Agriculture departments and the Liquor Control Board. The two-term governor had previously said he would not use police for enforcement.
The local car wash was still open today. I’m guessing they’re using the automotive repair exception since they do windshield repairs. Good for them.
The car wash is the only sure way to kill the virus.
they do windshield repairs
Safelight repair,
Safelight replace.
It’s time to punch you,
In the face.
/bratty nephew
He should roll over here and party with our governor. At a safe distance, of course.
In the near future, the only way to communicate with other humans will be through your World of Warcraft subscription. Cuomo and DeWine now own half of Blizzard Stock.
He’s served two consecutive terms, so when this term is over, he’s gotta do something to either kill some time so he can run again or move on to something bigger and better. Maybe they can team up to run for president?
I’ve almost finished KOTOR. About to enter the Star Forge and whip some Sith arse. One thing I find irritating though, my character stopped leveling up after lvl 20. 8 scoundrel, 12 sentinel. I seem to remember you could keep leveling up all the way to the end on KOTOR 2.
Oh well.
“lvl 20. 8 scoundrel, 12 sentinel”
Fake news, everyone posting on this site is 100% level 20 shitlord.
KOTOR 1 and 2 are a couple of my fav games of all time.
Did you go light side or dark side? Force focused or lightsaber focused?
Isn’t 2 a MMO?
Nope. That was The Old Republic. KOTOR 2 was made by Obsidian.
Oh, geez, that’s old. I’m just too much of a graphics whore.
I played the MMO as well. I enjoyed it for the first three months, then they did a patch that my old Dell apparently couldn’t handle so I never got to really dive into it.
I played it too, I recall enjoying it more than the typical MMOs of the era.
It actually did a solid job of capturing the Star Wars universe, in my opinion. Everything new still seemed familiar. Even the tech was well done. It was instantly recognizable yet more primitive in appearance and scope in comparison to the modern movie era. Not over the top or cartoonish with the npc’s or landscape and a good story mode. I liked it too.
The only MMO I’ve ever played much is ESO and I stopped because of the level scaling. You just never feel like you really accomplish anything no matter how much you grind.
To be honest, I like WOW a lot, it’s the best MMO, but I’m never paying a subscription to play a game. Black Desert Online is absolutely gorgeous, but the combat that so many people love is like a hack-n-slash JRPG nightmare from hell.
Isn’t that how they get you to purchase special items? To keep you a slight cut above the scaling for awhile until even that levels out and you have buy more?
I’m sure you’d know better than I but what I hear is that’s were they make their real money.
There’s no way to escape the level scaling in ESO, no matter how much money you spend in the store. You can walk around looking prettier, but you are still stuck in level scaling hell.
No, it had a multiplayer option, but it was single player mission oriented too.
Light side the first time around. I made my dude as versatile as possible. Good computer use, persuasion, demolitions, treat injury, neural implants, blaster deflection and near equal constitution and wisdom. I hate having to drag around a particular class side character just to do stuff for me. Jack of all trades, master of none.
Not a great hand to hand fighter but that’s nothing a stasis field, force immunity and energy resistance can’t compensate for.
Next time through I go full Force Sith Lord.
Hate to say it but playing Evil is just more fun. Plus, nothing’s cooler than walking into a room, freezing half a dozen troops and jedi, electrocuting the lot with lighting shooting from your finger tips, then using the force to lift any survivors into the air and snapping their spines one by one when you clinch your fist.
NERD ALERT!
Hey, I’m supposed to shelter in and I’ve already rubbed one out today. Just passing time, man.
I just talked to Tres Sr., and told him about the state pharmacy board putting the brakes on prescriptions for that anti-malarial.
He said, “Ive been taking hydroxychloroquine for years for my RA! Im immune!”
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Your dad is quite a character.
“Anderson detailed Ott’s worsening mood and health, as well as her attempts to reassure him that she would be fine if she just drank whiskey.”
https://nypost.com/2020/03/22/39-year-old-woman-dies-waiting-for-coronavirus-test-results/
Former Glib?
She has that dirty hippy look if you ask me. Probably wasn’t Cov19, but some more deadly pathogen contracted through her dirty reusable planet saving grocery bad while shopping at Wholefoods.
On reusable bags, grocery chain temporarily bans reusable bags because “as it is difficult to monitor the cleanliness of these items.”
Hy-Vee installing temporary windows at checkout
Link:
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/coronavirus/hy-vee-installing-temporary-windows-at-checkout
I was talking seriously about Wholefoods. I hate shopping there because of the dirty hippies. They take their items out of their dirty reusable bags and put them on the dirty conveyor belt one at a time. And the lines are longer because you have to stand a good distance behind them seeing as they haven’t taken a fucking bath or shower in who knows, months? Years? Ever?
Oops, wasn’t disagreeing, just adding support to your point.
Mine is next to a yoga studio. Totally different experience, especially when you know the class schedule.
“The time for joking about Covid-19 is over,” he wrote.
Q: what goes best with corona virus?
A: lyme disease!
LOL. +1 internetz!
Stolen.
I was actually given that via email from someone I know currently locked-down in Italy.
The funniest thing I heard prior to that was when one of my Korean co-workers said ‘Don’t worry, the virus won’t last long, it was made in China!’. He’s one of the crazy Koreans, which takes crazy to another level altogether. Before that he was walking around the office railing about South Korea’s fucking commie president and dirty Chinese cab drivers.
I was looking for something else, but I settled on this:
Straffin-san at work.
Effing LOL! Consider it stolen?
Too much? Too little? Too cheap? Too expensive?
Things we’ll never know.
Ouch.
Bummer. Sorry to hear of any death, but……
Is this now going to be like a hurricane when everyone who has a heart attack during a hurricane is now a hurricane fatality?
I feel like I did when I was in early elementary school and there was some draconian measure doled out by the authoritarian school principal preventing us from going outside at recess. Only now, I have beer and the internet. So fuck you, principal Hitler!
School’s Out!
I just cracked a Soul Shakin Imperial Red Ale from these guys. I like it. I have some elk back strap on the grill for a bit of high altitude dark timber surf and turf tonight. The strap is sitting cool side on the grill with some smoking hickory finishing it. I will re-warm in a pan of shrimp scampi and serve over par boiled spiral cut zucchini. I nibbled the small bits on the grill. I forgot how much I like elk. It has been a few years. This was given to me by a buddy. He shot it last season when I couldn’t go hunting. Good to have friends sometimes.
I’m drinking this.
Narragansett
No idea why, I never heard of it before. I ordered beer last night on Drizly just to see if they would deliver it. Sure enough, they showed up at my door with a box of beer.
Society and liberty are not completely dead yet, there’s still hope.
That was some of the cheapest beer around when I was in college.
One Cincinnati brewery has gone through and bought the rights to a lot of the old local beers. They are the ones who make Little Kings, Hudepohl Brewing, and several others.
That’s interesting. I guess there is money to be made in shitty beer too. Narragansett was called nasty ganset when I drank it. It was very cheap, got college students drunk, and had a pictogram inside every cap.
It is sort of a sensitive subject for some older Cincinnatians. Hudepohl, which was the lesser brewery in terms of quality, but larger bought out Schoenling and killed off all the better beers from Schoenling (they kept Little Kings alive.
I have fond (albeit fuzzy) memories of splitting a case of Little Kings with a friend – that’s what was for dinner – one summer night at Miami U lo these many years ago…
I laughed out loud when I was at a local store, and they had a “Try this! It’s new!” sticker under the Little Kings.
Okay, I’m jealous. Just sayin’.
The nibblings were really really good.
Iowa as of 22 March 2020 — Covid-19, 0 dead — Lakes and Rivers, 1 dead. When will the governor do something to stop these drowning deaths.
What you need, as a state, is an open and honest dialogue on common-sense waterway control.
You just need to take one of the grocery store, sanitizer factory, or restaurant jobs now.
That really was some condescending shit, wasn’t it?
To say that pissed me off would be an understatement. Of all the time to not be able to unplug from the news…
it’s Husted’s variation on LEARN TO CODE !
That’s literally what I was yelling at the stream.
And again, he’s been in politics for 20 years. Never held a normal job that I could find.
As of 5 PM today, all Iowans are required to wear a Coast Guard Personal Flotation Device (PDF) when outside. By order of the governor.
The shelves will be empty by 6 pm DST. I need to go buy 10 right now!
NE will mobilize their Admirals to enforce a similar order.
SD will have their navy blockade the NE and IA hordes at Sioux City.
No one will notice.
Dam the Missouri river and they won’t have water to drown in.
They tried that in the late 50s / early 60s. All the upstream dams the Corps of Engineers were so proud of are silting up. Flooding is still rampant. The Big Sioux joins the Missouri at Sioux City, there’s plenty of water.
I think Reynolds has done a reasonable job. Most stores are open here, she ensured gun/concealed carry doesn’t expire. I don’t think there was much choice on the bar/restaurant front. There should be additional messaging to high risk groups – seniors are in stores and proceeding as normal.
I think Reynolds has done a reasonable job.
So far. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Yea, really. The strategy should have been to protect and isolate seniors and immunocompromised people, not shut down the entire country over a pants-shitting fear of 20- and 30-year olds getting this weak-ass virus.
It’s only because those corn fed Iowan hicks are so racist they won’t allow any Chinamen in.
… Why is “Apothecary White” a darker gray than “Gray Seer”?
Pharmacists have bad eye sight?
I’m doing paint tests, these are colors from our friends at Games Workshop.
Obligatory (and apropos?)
GlibFit.
http://archive.li/K5TG0
#18 reminds me of someone that used to go to my gym.
#35’s instagram page
#2 looks like the girl from Pies link above. She is a cutie, and #3…..O.M.G.
6.
It is high 50s here, bright blue sky and no wind. If you have to be locked down, at least we’re not locked down in the house. The wife is sunning in a chair in the yard and I’m parked in a chair on the patio. Another hour and I’ll fire up the pizza oven. Last nights dinner was cooked start to finish in it. There are worse ways to be quarantined.
We first worlders are just absolute wimps when the least little thing throws us off our daily routine. We don’t even have any idea what hardship means compared to past generations. But it just all seems to scale down to our own reality.
Yep. i am annoyed the government is telling my where I can, and can’t go.
I hope Sloopy makes a lot of money auctioning off killdozers in the near future.
Utter madness, the degree of panic the politicians and media are whipping up to push these lockdowns is astounding. Even if there was 100% compliance, the numbers will still increase both from already infected people and from increase in diagnostic tests but these masses are screaming for government to save them from the bogeyman. What are they going to do when it looks like Italy?
The problem is government as a business. Government is way too big as it is. I remember a few weeks ago reading a memo that circulates with some of my clients. Apparently, the MD legislate branch had like 1600 bills waiting to be voted on. What the fuck? We already have to many unnecessary laws and regulations it’s absurd. When you give people who have nothing to do a job in which they need to do something, this is the sort of crazy fucking shit you get.
That’s because lawmakers are supposed to be off farming or blacksmsithing for most of the year, then meet a few months for important business and go home.
That’s a great idea. Plus maybe the Swiss model where you can only get elected to public office once and after serving your term, you have to go get a real job.
Really? Federal Council members can be elected to an unlimited number of terms.
Maybe I’m thinking of the old Swiss Model, before they were part of the EU? Or it may not be true at all, but someone did tell me that, at least it once existed.
When did they become part of the EU?
The Swiss were never part of the EU. They are part of the Schengen Zone. Switzerland is now part of the UN.
“What are they going to do when it looks like Italy?”
Tanks in the street? Curfew breakers shot on sight?
If we get tanks in the streets can I count on you to be there to hold my beer?
I should be nearly completely wrapped in foil by now, but Ive said it before- they all know this is BS, its a regular bug, and its going to peak then die off. Like every flu season.
This was a dry-run to determine how many people will comply, and how much they need to ratchet-up to deal with non-compliance.
A few days ago I almost changed my handle to: TH5150-Police State Trial Tester, but I wasn’t sure it would fit.
…and now for some reason I really, REALLY wish Agile Cyborg was around to…er…comment about the last month or so.
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 10:15 pm
America, love, is as naughty as my pinkie toe. America pretends to be naughty but she’s a goddamn bipolar sad condition, man. She’s tripping on the past while trying to embrace the future while dying in the present.
LSD is one hell of a drug.
Heh…
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 10:19 pm
Hyp is a good man. A peaceful thought man. A man that would wander the universe in the spaces with his ship gliding it into ports and stages calculated and reasoned. A man I think was perhaps shat from his mothers vagina several hundred years before we needed you like the Silk Road Pirate man and some of these other brothers strewn about this place and maybe several sisters because the sweet lilting call of the female ninja is in short supply but I’d like to pretend some of them cavort invisible like about the jungles of this thing, Hyp.
Hyperion
September.5.2015 at 10:49 pm
If we ever fold space together, Agile, I look forward to wandering the unknown reaches of the multiverse together in hedonism, forever.
Agile Cyborg
September.5.2015 at 11:00 pm
Sir, I offer you my hand in travel. Mayheart the wists fall upon the particles and I may be ever so lovingly blessed by glutton gleans of star angel pussy farts blowing bubbles outside this fucking thing called earth, lover… I will FUCKING float a pussy fart bubble up to your goddamn fucking craft… but if that doesn’t work, my lover, I think I have a humongous cock under the best national park in the united states called the space cock. I bu8ilt the space cock with grizzly bear anger and wolf meanness and I used wolverine jizz to weld all the shit together, hyp baby, and elk. FIELDS of elk. I entrapped their will to survive and calculated their will to survive and turned it into an engone…. and the blizzards screech I decided to turn into a laser of hell ice…….
yea… bitch,… we can fly out o here…. I plan on FUCKING making the mountains our skin….
He would always start out the day relatively coherent, direct, and easy to read. As the day went on he’d get more convoluted and more poetic. And yes, he was a poet even if he didn’t stack a bunch of lines.
I so wish he’d come back.
-1 trochaic tetrameter
Ah, thanks for that. It made me smile.
“star angel pussy farts”? Album name, or second stage @ Lilith Fair ?
Ha!
I forget which year, maybe 2015 at TOS, I was throwing myself a pity party because of strained relations with the family. It was around Christmas Eve or so and AC was kind enough to write me a short poem wishing me space coke and green skinned alien hookers or some such shit.
I’ll always love him for that.
Not the hero we deserve, the hero we NEED !
AC is William Shatner.
I miss Agile Cyborg.
The Last American Hero = 22 characters
Good thing I was too lazy to bother. 😉
This is me agreeing.
It has honestly gotten out of hand, but do you really think we will look like Italy? I am thinking different demographics, different country, different health care system, different everything.
“do you really think we will look like Italy? ”
No, and they know it. For one, we don’t have shitty socialized medicine. Completely different demographic and Italy has the world’s oldest population. Not to mention that their border suffered one of the most savage onslaughts in all the Euro woketards planned European invasion.
Merkel should be tried and executed for crimes against humanity. And Xi needs to be slowly fed into a woodchipper on live international TV.
Plus, the US never had a national woke moment where we were encouraged to “hug a returning Chinese worker”.
Well, Id rather that than hugging a cop.
Still safer.
I need to watch that again. One of my faves.
Yes, at least for certain local areas. And the media will play up any overload as confirmation.
I guess we shall see. I know you are way better at crunching data than I am. There is no doubt the media will play up anything related since that is already apparent.
Not data crunching as much as there are some parts of the country with higher rates of elderly or other increased risk factors and hospital care isn’t evenly distributed either.
Oh sure, bring common sense into it. We don’t do that anymore, didn’t you get the memo?
Huh. I have lived in Louisiana for most of my life and spent the majority of it outdoors. I rarely ever see anything here I have not seen before but every once in a while…
Just now I was putting out food for bees and saw a hummingbird moth crowding in with the bees to drink sugar water. I have seen hummingbird moths here before but not this particular species.
https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Nessus-Sphinx-Moth
Whadyaknow.
Impressive looking! And he doesn’t scare the hummingbirds?
Nah. It is fairly tiny. We have another species that is the size of a hummingbird. If you don’t look closely it is easy to confuse them with the birds.
If you want to see one just plant some Four o’clocks and watch for them in the evening.
We have hummingbird moths here in Japan. I first saw one about 40 years ago and thought I was seeing a hummingbird. Many years later I told a buddy about that and he informed me that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas so there is no way I saw a hummingbird in Japan. It was only when the internet came into being that I found out what I had seen.
The sun finally cooperated and gave us a nice day to sit outside. Grilling shall commence momentarily.
I downloaded the flu mortality data from the CDC website. They add up death numbers for pneumonia and influenza, see the last column here. The 2017-18 flu season was bad: there were nine weeks with more than 5,000 deaths per week and 15 weeks with more than 4,000 deaths per week. In the worst two weeks there were more than 1000 deaths per day.
Apparently right now the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. is 347, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Cumulative. Total.
See my $0.05 worth in comment #40
I am not sure what to think. The people giving us data are clearly using this as a pretense for a power grab and are proven liars. On the other hand this, like a house fire, seems to start small and rapidly build into an inferno. Japan and South Korea seem to have gotten a handle on it but they don’t have the CDC tripping them up with every effective strategy.
Until we reach 1000 deaths per day from coronavirus, it’s still not as bad as the 2017-18 season. Sure, there are non-coronavirus flu and pneumonia deaths, which might add 400 deaths per day on their own.
I agree. The problem I am having is that I believe almost nothing I have been told about this particular bug.
But if we don’t act now, it will be too late to effectively do something!
This is really going to the sleazy salesman territory. There’s no time to ponder alternatives, must act now or the deal is gone.
Well, and like I said previously in Ohio, Gov. Hizzoner DeWine put us in lockdown till April 6th. He’s loving this, and when that time rolls around, it will be extended into “we’re afraid of a re-emergence”.
/waves at his summer vacation to Europe
What fries me is the lack of reporting asking questions in that vein GL. The closest I’ve seen is a WSJ editorial on Saturday in which they wonder if trade offs have been considered and questioning how long Americans will accede to a lockdown. On their op-ed page, Holman Jenkins has a wonderful piece saying what’s happening now is an overreaction and will cause more harm than good.
Isn’t it around .1% right now for the US? Way lower than the hysteria would lead us to believe? I’m sticking with my past prediction, this is way, way overblown almost to criminal levels by the media and many politicians.
If I remember correctly the Spanish Flu mortality rate was near 20%. And they want us to live in fear of something of that level?
The cuomo brothers are making total asses of themselves.
So it’s business as usual?
Look at how absurd the Russia hoax was and how many people bought into it. With this there is tangible evidence to be overblown. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.
It’s sort of like deer after you’ve removed all natural predators from their environment and they are protected by law from being hunted most of the year. They become a destructive force and perpetual nuisance and there is no upside.
I miss collusion. Collusion didn’t turn everyone’s life upside down.
Well, maybe Roger Stone.
People didn’t buy into it. They WANTED to believe it.
At least this isn’t another Encephalitis Lethargica Pandemic of 1915-1926:
https://youtu.be/AnCtWJEkCzw
Freaking yikes.
A fate worse than death indeed.
CNN’s Jake Tapper under fire after admitting he didn’t fact-check AOC on Trump-coronavirus claim
?
It’s ok to lie because we’ve been bitching about how this guy lies all the time.
“I guess that’s the problem with a politician who lies so often; while I agree that Democrats are mischaracterizing what he said, what he did say was also false so it’s tough to justify taking the time for a fact check when it’s not taking a stand defining the truth.”
All projection, all of the time.
Tapper needs to be quarantined and treated immediately for a life threatening case of TDS.
The ned to sore political points is getting more and more disgusting.
De Blasio: If Trump does not act on coronavirus outbreak, ‘people will die’
“De Blasio said he asked for the military to be sent out ”
I wonder if voters will remember that DeBlasio plead for martial law.
He can’t run for mayor again. Why do you think he blew his wad trying to be president?
Well that just figures
Dictate me, baby.
I addition to wanting the military he wants govt to destroy the production of medical equipment and supplies.
It’s amazing isn’t it? All of these people who suddenly want Literally Hitler to have near autocratic powers over the military, their movements and the means of production.
You gotta give them this, even Trump can’t sway them from the desire for absolute power within the executive branch.
It’s time to make Escape From New York a documentary.
Rand Paul has CV.
Now if he loved us he would break quarantine and spit on everyone’s desks.
He went to the senate gym and pool after being tested but before the results.
Wait, serious or joke?
If I had any Warburg’s tincture, I’d send it to him. I’d also take a bot myself just to be safe.
I wonder if quinine is potentially helpful and how much tonic water you’d have to drink to get a sufficient dose.
Quinine is what chloroquine and similar drugs are based on. It probably works great but has more side effects.
But – yeah, I’ll probably pick some up next time I venture into the wastelands.
I did a quick look up and you’d have to drink two liters per day to get a sufficient dose for malaria and I don’t know if that means sufficient for one day or one dose.
The FDA limits tonic to 83mg of quinine per liter. G&T may make you feel better for a while, but it isn’t going to do anything about COVID-19.
A while back I read a news story about young adults overdosing on quinine accidentally after making their own tonic water.
A lot. Modern tonic water doesn’t have near the dosage it did when it was an anti malarial.
Related
Chuck Roast cooking all day in crock pot. Soooooo yummmy.
Went with a local Indian place for takeout tonight. Sourdough waffles for breakfast.
Nice
Been texting the family. The niece is interested in grabbing some sourdough starter, my sister is laughing at me that the girlfriend will now be home full time, and my parents are apparently following the suggestions to self-isolate if you’re at risk.
My wife and I are on vacation this week. Sounds like hers may be extended.
The girlfriend’s work is shut down as non-essential. She tried to file for unemployment when she got home, and the site was already crashing under the load.
Rand Paul has CV.
The thing I saw this morning (can’t even remember which Fake Nooze outlet) included an insinuation that something nefarious had happened, because he was tested despite being asymptomatic. Right after they quoted his office that he was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his travel schedule.
They just cannot help themselves.
Kroger Grocery in Ohio is giving out papers to their employees to show to police if they are stopped. “Your papers, please.”
Damn. Thankfully the company I support is one that’s deemed essential. So I can at least carry that badge with me when I start going stir crazy.
Link please ?
I have been doing longer and more frequent walks with the dog, to the point she is starting to object. Day 8 of squats. Now, off to eat carbs. Nom, nom,nom.
NY Post (no linky)-
New York City is The Most Important City in America. If the federal government doesn’t bail out the MTA, the entire economy will implode when they default on their bonds.
“Buy this magazine, or we’ll kill this dog.”
Drink shlitz or I’ll kill you.
FedGov can take over the MTA if they default.
“New York City is The Most Important City in America.”
*facepalm*
Auction it to the highest bidder
be that a trillion or be it a nickel
* claps dust off hands *
How about 60 guilders worth of trade goods.
well played, sir; well played
Also no linky –
Deblasio says he’ll see Cuomo’s authoritarianism and raise him “papers, please” and “get used to it not for weeks but for months”.
Because we won’t already be in Depression II, We’re Fucked Boogaloo long before then.
How long before NYC’s populace turns on DeBlasio Rhy?
Nobody’s turning on any of them, anywhere. Mark my words.
I’m going to room to have a good cry.
Yep.
I moved on to this to have with a cup of coffee. I like to be awake when I plan on tying one on.
Open-Minded People Have a Different Visual Perception of Reality
They then tested who experienced a visual perception phenomenon called “binocular rivalry.” This phenomenon occurs when each eye is shown a different image—in this case, a red patch in one eye and a green patch to another. Most people switch back and forwards between the two incompatible images, as the brain can only perceive one at a time. But some people merge the two images into a unified red-green patch. Participants who scored higher on openness were more likely to perceive this combined image.
I wonder if this is correct and whether it matters . . . at least a little intriguing.
I’m skeptical of these kinds of studies.
But I also can’t see red and green covers of binoculars at the same time.
I am suspicious. Every time I have heard about some study distinguishing people with desirable mental traits from others the conclusion comes down to ‘conservative bad, pinko good’.
I am too drunk to take a hard look at that one now.
These kind of studies are rarely reproducable.
Rarely reproducable, and never tied to any real-life behavior.
Open minded or gullible?
HEROES
Across the United States, the nation’s 3.5 million professional truckers are working flat-out to keep stores and businesses stocked as consumers worry about riding out home quarantines prompted by the coronavirus outbreak and try to snap up enough toilet paper, rice, beans, tuna and other staples to get through this period of uncertainty.
Many truckers said they aren’t overly concerned about getting sick, although their jobs — which require touching shipments that could be contaminated, interacting with others, and going out in public at a time when many lawmakers are urging people to stay home — could put them at increased risk of contracting the virus.
Restrictions on which businesses can remain open have also made their jobs more difficult, forcing some truck drivers to cook for themselves in their trucks as restaurants across the nation shutdown. In other cases, it has left them without a place to wash their hands or to park and sleep at night. Dozens of rest stops were closed, for example, in Pennsylvania, Texas, Nebraska and Michigan this week because of efforts to slow down the coronavirus closures.
A trim man with neatly trimmed hair and goatee reflecting the barber he was until 18 months ago, Robertson, along with many other truck drivers, now finds himself on the front lines of the nation’s efforts to survive an outbreak that has forced tens of thousands of restaurants to close and emptied grocery store shelves nationwide.
“They told me that I’m essential personnel so don’t even think about getting sick,” Robertson says with a laugh.
Move over, First Responders.
“A trim man with neatly trimmed hair and goatee reflecting..”
Is no trucker ever.
Never mind the regulations on trucking.
These are my people, so I see a lot of this sort of stuff even when there’s not a national situation. It never ends: the puffery of simple people who provide, at best, a commodity (bushel of corn is a bushel of corn, and a ton*mile is a ton*mile). It’s noble to hold down a job, but what this really is is a pretense to special treatment, the prime vector to which is good old victimhood. There’s always this blaming of situations, blaming of some lack of national common sense, common man confidence that they should reorder society, and never one scintilla of personal responsibility. Few of these discussions go more than five seconds with me before they will hear “well why do you do that” or “why don’t you quit” or “sounds like a stupid job to me.” I took my first commercial truck ride in 1969 on the doghouse of an 18wheel tank wagon rig; I drove for Coke when I was a kid; the posture hasn’t changed an ounce since so far as I know.
I know what you are talking about but I don’t care about any of that. I run into people from all walks, classes and intelligence/education levels who are convinced they know better than I do how I should live. I do know this – my wife ate well today because the shelves at the local grocery were well stocked.
I know what you are talking about but I don’t care about any of that. Everyone’s a hero by that definition, and I have no intention of ingesting a hundred different how-important-am-I essays. It never ends and it’s all true and none of it matters. We do what we do because of markets. All the items the holy truckers are delivering were designed, industrialized, manufactured . . . where are those Great American Medals?
I will admit now is the time to throw their party: in ten years the economy will have utterly replaced them. Then you will be able to sit around and listen all day to country western tunes about back when the steel horses ruled the roads.
You’re a good guy, but this is pap.
Everyone’s a hero in their own way
Not me. I tell lies for a living.
Or at least, I wish my lies paid my bills.
It’s not enough to bash in heads, you’ve got to bash in minds.
All the items the holy truckers are delivering were designed, industrialized, manufactured . . . where are those Great American Medals?
They don’t get medals because the shit designed these days is disposable and doesn’t last like the shit designed 20 years ago before the engineers today made it better?
You don’t get a medal for doing your damn job. You get a medal for doing something extraordinary. (which I think is what Don is saying so I am just being redundant).
‘We do what we do because of markets.’
And my profession has been arbitrarily designated as an essential job. I’m painting the trim and walls of a residential home that is destined to be flipped for a quick profit. Well, was. I’m not sure how the current situation will affect the housing market over the next few months. It can’t be good, I’m sure. Anyway, I fall under the Housing/Contractor related jobs designation so I’m considered ‘too important’ to quarantine.
I agree with Suthen that actual delivery of market goods, especially food, is more important than what I do, but agree that LARPing as a hero right now is distasteful.
I’m essential under supporting the ability for others to work from home. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow.
Five times the work, same pay?
Larping as a hero or pointing out how important you are to society is always distasteful. If there is one thing my 54 years on this planet has taught me it is that nobody is indispensable to any operation, project, life or anyfucking thing. This includes me. If the trucks could not drive and deliver to stores it would stall this nation out because that is the supply chain that developed for better or worse. I tried to be a truck driver and couldn’t hack it. Absolutely the most boring thing I have ever done in my life. I could not do it. So ya, I am glad for those mostly fat uneducated fucks who drive all day and all night to bring me what I want to buy. Am I glad for the engineer today who changed a perfectly functional clutch system to one that is hard to replace because he had a “great idea”. No, I want to kick that asshole in the nuts.
I will concede. My brother is one of the best civil engineers in the country and he isn’t being sent home. He is working his ass off. The country is full of people like that.
Agreed. And yet the ‘civil servants’ are also trying to hold themselves up as heroes instead of ‘civil engineers’ like your brother.
Having worked in a county medical system for many years up until a half-decade ago, I’m far too familiar with civil servants and have rarely met more than one in ten who you’d want to have a beer with, especially the middle manager types. Oh wow, you worked your way up to some kind of supervisor not by any talent, but because you stayed around long enough. And now you come in at ten, leave at three and take a two-hour lunch, while claiming credit for the work of people on the front lines so they can claim to be heroes. Yikes.
Disclaimer — nothing against Uncivil Servant or anyone else on these hallowed boards who might be in such roles, who’m I’m sure are the exceptions and the ones in ten you’d want to have a beer with.
Careful now. Remember what happened last time I made that observation?
Yeah, but you were calling thicc ass a commodity.
Observing that someone underage will develop in a certain way is how you deal in the futures market. Facts is facts.
I don’t remember and I’m being serious.
If you missed it, you’re fortunate.
“Many truckers said they aren’t overly concerned about getting sick, although their jobs — which require touching shipments that could be contaminated”
Truckers have good reason not to be too concerned. CV isn’t on everything we touch. 32k confirmed infected although I wouldn’t be surprised if the true number is near 1 million. Regardless, you’re not likely to get the virus, and even less likely to get it touching a box. (insert box joke here)
My ex-wife wasnt much of a wrestler, but you shoulda seen her box!
*she was an amateur boxer
I have one of those exes too.
But mine ate ass (mine).
Yours ?
We may have been in a bigamous relationship all this time.
Biandrous unless one of you is hiding a taco.
You’re thinking of -gyn. “-gam” comes from the Greek “gamos”, meaning marriage.
Shimata! I bow my head in shame Sensei.
It’s all good in the ‘hood.
Heroic Mulatto, are you at Applebee’s?
I just mentioned that to my wife yesterday. The truckers and related personnel are the real heroes in this clusterfuck.
The kid who stocks the supermarket: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Soccer Moms on fire in the aisle with the Charmin. I watched barcode scanners glitter in the dark near the Trader Joe’s. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
?
It might be time to give the kid a day off.
+1origami unicorn
+5 different cuts.
The latest and presumably “final” director’s cut is truly the best. What say you?
I’ve got it in my Netflix queue. Maybe I’ll watch it tonight.
I’m partial to the original director’s cut over the “final” cut. But none of them really capture the book. PKD has been ill served by most movie versions of his books. With the brutal exception of A Scanner Darkly.
Nice.
A little Dragon’s Milk for tonight.
A very good one. If you like bourbon, they also finish a bourbon in the barrels they aged the Dragon’s Milk in. I’ve pimped it here before (it’s no longer sold in Ohio, but I’ve got two bottles stashed away).
What the heck did ever come from the Vegas shooting?
confusion, conflation, muddy waters and zero explanations for all of the squirrelly shit that went on.
Radio silence.
We have a winner.
Another botched CIA-FBI gun operation
Stop spreading fake news conspiracy theories that there was a shooting in Las Vegas!
It is that utterly disappeared.
I do like this latest photo for your avatar. It makes you look like a 1940s movie star.
Yes.
That looks like something I would like. Maybe the #LibertarianMoment of allowing brewers to deliver beer during the plague will expand to allow them to ship to us in the nether regions.
It’s from New Holland, and is fairly widely distributed. They also do several variants that are released throughout the year in certain locations.
And they said that butt chugging wasn’t a thing.
Seems I accidentally inhaled the Kolsch and move on to this. It is an IPA I like.
Ska brewing makes some good things. Too bad they don’t distribute to Ohio.
If you want me to hook you up let me know.
Just finished my second 12oz bottle. Great beer.
Trump is saying the right things in the presser right now. A mass trial of malaria drug starting in New York.
There’s a lot of hope behind hydroxychloroquine. Granted the first “trial” wasn’t exactly scientific, but there is a lot of anecdotal stories coming out of people recovering.
There’s likely a greater than 99% chance they would anyway.
There’s an old Beverly Hillbillies episode where Mr. Drysdale thinks he can strike it rich because Granny has a hillbilly cure for the common cold. She later reveals, yes, take her elixir, and in a week or two, you’re completely fine!
It doesn’t matter what he says or does. He is guilty.
Yeah, he’s right to tell them all to go f’k themselves. They’ll attack him no matter what he does, so he may as well do what the hell he wants.
Drinking a Gin and Tonic tonight. I figure if lime prevents scurvy let’s take a chance with CV. And if I do get it, everyone knows Corona is better with a lime.
It’s the tonic what is going to save you. I love gin and tonics but that is a summertime when it is 105 cocktail. If lime is the cure, I am good. I am mostly just a tequila lime and soda guy.
Someone was saying the other day on here that modern tonic water has barely any quinine in it anymore?
Too bad if that’s the case.
A gin and tonic with lime was supposed to be the perfect drink for sailors to prevent scurvy and malaria.
You are correct. Modern tonic has little. There are other sources of tonic though. Not sure what drink post I read about it in but this is the shiznit. It was either RC Dean or Jesse who mentioned this. I miss those posts.
Not that I know if it has more quinine, I just joke about that. Kind of like a gin and tonic could prevent malaria. Pretty sure that was never the case.
Ah to heck with the permasnarkers, I’m enjoying Picard, even with the shoehorned in family drama backstory for Raffi at the hilariously transparent sce in the space branch of Planned Parenthood.
*scene
Shitty phone.
how can i watch it for free?
I hate to say I was a huge fan of “Laird of the Glen”
If I ever decide to teach myself not to touch my face, I’ll just handle some hot chiles first.
Ow!
Yeah, I rubbed my eyes once after chopping habenaros. Like an idiot. Ran straight to the shower for a very uncomfortable eye wash. I wear nitrile gloves now for that.
Habanera.
Noice. Pepper an Milk https://youtu.be/niNCFUONhGs
*nods*
Not bad.
I will be dicing up a scorpion pepper tomorrow to put into some salsa.
No fucking gloves.
Y’all need to harden up. (And wash up with Dawn).
I chopped some peppers bareback, washed 2X with Dawn and some really hot water. Then took out my contacts.
0/10 would not do again. Its like I had been pepper-sprayed. And since the lenses are porous, it took a couple solid rinses and soaks before they were wearable.
I prepped some pepper seed to ship to someone (ghost chilis), washed my hands, but not well enough. After touching my eye, the pain was great. I knew I was going to burn for ~20 minutes. I contemplated pouring a shot of milk in my eye to try to tame it, but figured it would just make things worse.
“milk”…..sure
I was having trouble with squirrels eating my tomatoes, and I read that they’re repelled by the scent of capcaicin. I mixed up a concoction of vegetable oil, PureCap (highly concentrated capsaicin in an eye-dropper bottle) and Sriracha and proceeded to paint the top of the fence with it. Yep, I accidentally flicked a little droplet of it in my eye. It was a very painful hour.
(Squirrels are not repelled by capsaicin, by the way, so don’t waste your time)
Any mammals detect capsaicin, how long did you let the oil sit with the capsaicin in it? I ask because I had a squirrel/chipmunk issue in my yard. Until I left 4 ghost chilies sit in vegetable oil for a couple weeks, and then sprayed it down every hole/gap I could find in my yard. I think I caught one of the chipmunks in the eye… I heard it spinning in the tunnel right after I squirted some into it.
Crawfish night means no rubbing eyes, picking nose, be careful when you pee and no sex. We joke that the crawfish make the no sex worth it.
How yankees solve the problem.
Why? Honestly, I don’t know.
So in Vegas the controller at the ATCT got a positive for the ca-ro-na! virus and I have been home for 4-5 days. Im well, all my peers are well (we mostly work on a different floor) but because I went to the tower to fix a display back on March 12th or so…I am not allowed back at work. Lets see…March 12 to March 22…tomorrow is the 23rd, take away one…that means I get to enjoy another week at home!
Better then the Clampdown in Ohio…
You’re en fuego, Neph. Great tune.
Disease https://youtu.be/JPQ0Ogk5pok
Very nice…
I was expecting something along these lines.
It is slow, I haven’t posted any music lately so I will. I am not normally a fan of A cappella but I am a fan of these chicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FK-ZRHx8tU
Social media is just intolerable right now. all these self-righteous middle class salaried people talking about how no one should be allowed to guy outside.
go outside
Right now?
After 8 years of arrogance and sanctimony from the creepy, slavish cult of the Chocolate Jesus followed by nearly four years of spittle flecked screeching TDS from the same crowd I thought we were all immune to the insufferable shit from the left.
Or from anyone really.
Were you able to capture a colony or 2 of bees? With the one simple trick
Curious in MN
Yeah, I can’t stand it. This is a prime case of confirmation bias. Lefties are telling me how Trump is responsible, etc. Righties are telling me what a great job he is doing. Thanks. Not interested.
A bunch of assholes getting a paid vacation ordered by the Government being sanctimonious about how anyone objecting is putting a ‘few dollars’ ahead of Grandma’s life.
It’s times like this I’m glad that my only social media exposure are here and a weekly glance at LinkedIn. I cant imagine the level of derp.
Even LinkedIn has gone off the rails in the past few weeks. It used to be just people in similar lines of work sharing accomplishments and feel-good stories. But the TDS and the “can’t say the virus is from China” crowd are getting pretty loud in my feed, as are the thoughtful holier-than-thou posers saying ‘call the police on any kids playing together outside, don’t they know they could kill us all?”.
Well, the air force has cancelled all space-A travel other than official travel. So my planned trip to the US is cancelled.
I was expecting to be one of a small number of passengers on a cargo plane then driving a rental by myself down to New Mexico. Little to no contact with others so nearly zero risk of catching Winnie the Flu. No idea when/if I’ll get this chance again.
just sneak across the border. everyone does it.
Ha ha! Having grown up right on the border I actually know a bunch of ways in even with the wall.
*Checks flights to Mexico…*
So sorry. I know you were looking forward to the trip. : (
Yeah, we’re stuck on this island for a while. I call dibs on Mary Anne.
Ew. I think she’s 80.
Doesn’t matter. I close my eyes and think of Thurston.
“Mmm.. Mrs. Howell… mmm..”
Sorry to hear that man.
Well, crap. But I am well aware of the uncertainties of the military travel system.
You’ve got my email, let me know when you’re ready for a meet-up.
Evan Williams, ice, Perrier. Pork chops thawing on the counter. Buttered/braised cabbage, kale, and onion. Tomato salad with balsamic dressing and shredded asiago.
Currently sipping on a 15 year old Glenlivet. Spent grain is drying in the oven, a small amount has been processed into flour already. Sourdough starter has been pulled out of the fridge as the niece wants some.
This is either going to be disgusting or delicious. I’ve had two sips and I’m not sure which it is. I guess I have to drink more of it.
Curious.
It’s not bad. I have to drink the whole 32 oz crowler by myself since I’m here alone, so I think I might start hating it by the end. My gut tells me this is a “enjoy in small quantities” beer.
It sounds like something I might like. Something I’d like to try, at least. Prost!
Having more. It’s good.
Peanut Butter And Banana On Dunkelweiss
Euphemism of the Year.
Government chose the hammer because, well, the government will always choose the hammer if they can.
You can’t blame them. We all look like nails.
Ill say it for the (n)th time….this is just a dry run. They want to know how people are gonna react when November comes around, how hard they can push, and what’s coming back at them.
Also, I said it upthread, but Straffin-San at work
The Donger went straight. Disappointing.
Yep.
GF roasted up some pork (with garlic) today as part of her meal prep. The house smells divine.
I did a Santa Maria style tri tip with roasted asparagus.
‘Twas a hit with the family.
And just like that, I’m hungry…
Pork is God’s way of telling the World he loves Christians, and hates Jews. Truth.
Enchanted Porkfist https://youtu.be/sgCCEr08rDw
In home news, it sounds as if the girlfriend wants to learn at least some basic cooking skills.
This may help my sanity, just pulled a roast out of the freezer, we have carrots, parsnips, potatoes, and onions on hand already.
Baby steps in the right direction.
Sounds good. Maybe I’ll make some ginger pork tonight.
Karma is kind of a dick. All this just to get Weinstein.
Hasn’t that guy suffered enough?
I am still skeptical that he did anything I would consider criminal.
I didn’t pay attention to any of that. Was any proof offered? Or just he said/she said?
I didn’t follow it closely but it sounded like the prosecutors relied heavily on testimony about what a jerk he was. I am just skeptical about victims of rape coming forward years later, after having extensive friendly relationships withe accused after the alleged rape.
At least one of the witnesses talked about having a relationship with Weinstein for years after he “raped” her. I don’t remember the details, but I remember my first thought on reading that news was, “She’s lying about being raped.”
I didn’t follow the case at all. Given how it turned into mob justice, it would surprise me if he got railroaded.
*wouldn’t.
Just came across an interesting find. My great uncle x2 was investigated by the Bureau of Investigation (future FBI) in 1918 for slackery. Local officials reported him to the feds for behavior they thought was attempting to avoid the draft. More than likely it was because he was 1st generation American in a German family. Nevermind my Great Grandfather and two of his other brothers served. Another hint was the case file was in a cache called “The German Files”. Based on the statement he made in the case file it looks like he was forced into volunteering to serve.
Correction they were called the Old German Files
Slackery. First time I’ve heard of that crime. Nice.
When we were still newly weds, years ago, I’d hum this as my hands did the work.
36 holes today, I played with some old chums and met a new one, Casey the Cali Cancer victim, this guy wants to open a club for like minded people, I’m in, it’s a Libertarian Club, how neat is that. I just wont join a club that would have me, anyway, Golf adventure awaits!
/My Shoulder is killing me……..
We are doing a virtual dinner with out-of-state prisoners of Cali tonight. Smoked ribs, leftover smoked pork loin from last night, baked beans (I made em…not from a can) and we were gonna do corn bread
My neighbor is not social distancing. He has friends over and got the guns out. They went with what I assume is a 50 cal for awhile and blew up a pumpkin or two.Then some smaller calibers and then to the hand guns. They then took a break and now the big gun is out again. No pumpkin explosions as of yet. This happens when he has guests. He usually blows them up on first or second shot when it is just him and his girls. Am I calling the Sheriff? Fuck no, I want that guy on my side, plus I don’t care.
If your neighbor has enough land to shoot a .50, I’d say you have sufficient social distance. And that busybodies would be at risk 🙂
Our lots back up to a vacant section of adobe back stop a big hill we both look at. I am not sure if it is a 50 but it looks like one. At least he has moved the pumpkins so the pieces don’t land on my truck when they explode. He said sorry for that episode. I thought it was hilarious.
Sheriff? your a Glib you probably enjoy the noise,
Cheers!
Gah! Lately, instead of checking the news I just pop by glibs in the morning. Made the mistake of looking at Drudge right now. Your neighbor has the right idea.
Drudge has really gotten terrible over the past year and lately has gotten worse. I mostly just check up on RCP for the roundabout of politics stuff besides here of course.
Shit, I want some trigger time on that.
I like this neighbor.
If I were living in the US and had a neighbor like that I would be reloading rounds for him in trade for some trigger time.
(Of course I’m assuming you’re talking about a 50 BMG – not a muzzle loader)
It looks like a 50 BMG and sounds like what I would imagine one sounds like but I have never asked him or shot one. I prefer to not talk to my neighbors unless I have too. He does know I DGAF. We have talked about that.
I got your drinkin’ money, so tune up your dobro.
I’m in tune what can I play for you Mo,
/apologizes
Aw, thanks, Yusef. I’m good if you’re good ‘cuz I don’t want to be at odds with you.
Love ya Mo, really!
Love you too, Yusef. <3
You two are so cute. Specially that lil spat.
It could be perfect teaching materials for an LISW candidate.
Hell, I’m gonna blow bof ya’all motherfuckers!
TALL MOTHERFUCKIN CANS!
People said he was useless,
them people were all fools
Cuz Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues.
So there’s not going to be any “Sunday Night Open Post”?
There’s really nothing left to say.
It is closed by order!
All the cryptids have been quarantined.
You know I get paid by the comment, right?
Wait… we get paid?
Internet money! Your ticket number is 493,678,387 They are presently serving #7
You haven’t gotten your Kong bucks?
CCP troll confirmed
I am in the midst of organizing my shit, both physical and digital, culling knickknacks and keepsakes, moving computer files around and recategorizing them, tagging my music files, etc.
All that to say that if I pop up with random lyrics and asides, now you know why.
Also, Pierce Brosnan…nom nom nom 4evah
DON’T FORGET THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC!
New Hampshire will receive $28.1 million in the coming year to battle the state’s drug abuse epidemic, the state’s two U.S. senators announced late Friday.
The grant marks a decline from the record $34.9 million the state previously received, mainly because the number of fatal overdoses declined in 2019.
In 2018, the state had 471 fatal overdoses.
That number dropped in 2019, though the official total is not yet known.
In 2018, New Hampshire had the third-highest overdose rate, behind only West Virginia and Ohio.
All the meth heads that OD’ed don’t look so stupid now, do they?
Isn’t the current pandemic the cure for the opiod epidemic?
Testing reveals dugout canoe was made in the 17th century
In the midst of cancellations, school closures and escalating negative reports about the coronavirus comes a bright spot of history-related news from the Lakes Region.
A research firm recently determined that a dugout canoe recovered from Squam Lake 81 years ago dates to the mid-17th century, a hundred years before the town of Holderness was created. The testing was conducted by the PaleoResearch Institute of Golden, Colo., with the results relayed to the Holderness Historical Society, custodial curators of the canoe.
The canoe was discovered by three fishermen from Tilton in the fall of 1939 under 14 feet of water in Verrie Cove along Squam’s northwest shore. After failing to spark local interest, the canoe found its way to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, where it was identified as Native American.
My niece just became my favorite relative. She offered to bring me beer when she swings by tomorrow before the lockdown to pick up some sourdough starter.
Doesn’t that depend on what beer? If she shows up with a sixer of PBR you may regret the reranking.
There’s nothing wrong with PBR, at least when it’s in bottles.
I took her out drinking for her 21st. There were some discussions when she admitted to having been in the places before while she was surprised at how much staff I knew.
One of the local breweries has offered up $.01 six packs for first responders and service industry folks who lost their job. I’m not sure how long they’ll keep up that offer.
Not bad.
Covid-19 cases have jumped to 33,276 in the US… placing us 3rd behind only China and Italy! 417 have died in the USA, but only 178 are officially recorded as “recovered”, indicating that we are still extremely early in the curve.
All data per Johns Hopkins tracking map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AI15GsZAN4
New York, with nearly half of those cases, is showing what early denial followed by semi-draconian measures and lots of speech making can do. Luckily, the governor is getting much praise for his speeches. Glowing twitter reviews and CNN hero-making have pushed Cuomo to the forefront of “next time around” presidential contenders. So good job New York, you made us proud! You caught up with the west coast and passed them easily, despite a 2 week head start!
Actually, this should be a good parallel for Italy. New York is roughly 20 million strong. They are piling on cases extremely rapidly – having about the number of cases that Italy had when things started going sideways there a couple of weeks ago. So we shall see…. will their healthcare system collapse?
Italy and Switzerland have had fairly similar rates of incidence (per 1M population, Italy slightly more) and yet the cases in Switzerland have yielded far fewer deaths. There is no reason to presume an Italian deathrate unless you perhaps have an Italian demographic.
Getting the coronavirus is an effective way to lose weight.
Noravirus works even better, and it is less lethal.
Tapeworms are even safer and longer acting.
Cancer does a great job…. but the downsides are really not worth it.
Getting kidnapped by ISIL is a sure-fire way to lose weight. Maybe even 23 lbs at one time.
Yup. Being locked up with the kids is bringing out the dark side of my sense of humor.
So is sniffing Hillary’s panties, but I’m not that desperate.
Wow. I thought I was being dark.
Yeah Straff. We have our limits.
I said “sniffing” not “huffing”.
Carry on then.
Best weight loss program I ever experienced was contracting giardia. It wasn’t pleasant for those around me, but it worked!
I had a friend a few years back who had unexplained weight loss. Doctors couldn’t figure it out. He was scary lean.
We went to his house for a pool party. I developed Giardia shortly after. It took 2 tests and a colonoscopy to confirm. I told him to get another fecal test. He said they did it 3 times already. I told him to go for 4. Yup. Giardia. Thanks buddy. And gross. I’m just going to assume it was the pool and leave it at that. He did do the food prep though.
I acquired my case in S Sudan. I flew home via Canada on that work outing to visit family. I went to a doc who happened to be S Sudanese. When the test came back, he asked, “have you traveled?” I of course told him where I had been. He laughed and said, “Everyone in the Sudd has Giardia. You will be fine.” My new avatar is a pic taken during that trip.
Do you miss those days? You had (and still have) some wild stories back on TOS.
Plus, were you working security at those locations? You’ve got some stories to tell.
Yes I miss those days a lot, and is why I probably repeat myself over and over again with those stories. I am sorry about that but thanks for indulging me. It was who I was. I loved it. I loved being in the middle of no where with no back up other than what we had set up as a crew and just getting a job done. Walking neck deep in a swamp waiting to be eaten, or being offshore and hoping a storm didn’t fuck us. No I was not security, although we often did have security. I was just an oil and gas exploration field grunt. I did obtain my USCG Captains license through it all so I had that. I lost that though. I didn’t maintain enough sea time to renew. I will get it back someday if the plague doesn’t get me. I built a boat. Sea time is sea time muthafuckas!!!!
I always enjoyed your dispatches from the jungle; or wherever. Stay weird. ???
My best weight loss program was having my tonsils out in my mid-20s.
Axsually, I take that back. I lost 20 lbs in three weeks during divorce number one. For quick weight loss I recommend a nervous breakdown.
Comin’ up!
Depression (many years back) did wonders for my weight – to the point my doctor was going to hospitalize me if I lost another couple of pounds.
Damn my brain making me eat during times of stress and uncertainty. I already knew my brain meat didn’t work the same as others. I didn’t need it to help me gain weight during problem times (even though it’s probably an evolutionary advantage).
Same. I’m self-medicating with carbs through this bullshit, gaining weight, and for the first time in my life, not caring.
You are far from alone in stress-eating. I’ve had to actively stop myselfmore than once.
I’m the opposite – stress makes me skip meals.
I just ate my first meal of the day. With a vodka chaser.
Vodka Sonic https://youtu.be/mMaYTKeHQMQ
Catchy!
After Vaca is over I need to come up with a WFH eating strategy. A little extra snacking when it was one day a week was ok, but 5 days a week is going to be a problem.
Ya that episode in life accompanied a good dose of depression, insomnia, poverty, and just plain “fuck living”. Not a good time but I was trim! Wife number two thought I was hot which led to the next disaster. That one didn’t end much better but time makes all things better. The only thing I miss is drinking with #2. She was fun.
A little story to pick up your spirits this evening…
A couple of months ago, our 10yo dog started to get finicky about eating. She is part Lab and finicky is not a thing for them, generally. Time goes by and she starts to lose weight and gets more finicky. She wasn’t eating scrap steak but she is drinking water like no tomorrow. Over a couple weeks, she goes from about 75# to about 65# but is not acting much different in terms of energy and demeanor. Then she stops eating all together, is becoming listless, looks a little jaundice and her urine is the color of Guinness.
We take her to our vet and they run some blood work. Her liver enzymes are all out of wack and bilirubin is thru the roof. We take her to a specialty vet for an ultra-sound the same night as test blood results. Ultra-sound shows no sign of cancer but the liver looks like she has cirrhosis (she doesn’t drink). Specialty vet recommends a liver biopsy. Cost for biopsy is $7K. (assume liver transplant extra). I bock at the cost. Wife gives me “you’re a cheap-ass…and if this dog dies because you cheap..you will wish it was you” look.
We leave the specialty vet that night and go home to do some research. Because of market incentives, there is not much canine hepatic research available. Most of the treatments are based on humans. Anyway, there are basically 3 treatment courses available for dogs. Steroid, immunosuppressant and trace mineral control and management (in order of cost and drug toxicity). “Without a biopsy, there is no way to have a definitive therapy to recommend”. From my reading, even with a biopsy the treatment course is pretty much a guess. I am thinking that $7K can buy a lot of blood testing…
Next day, we go back to our vet. Our dog is down to 61# and things are not looking good. Vet recommends milk thistle supplement and wishes us best of luck. Whoa..wait a minute; that’s it… Anyway, we convince our vet that maybe the least toxic therapy with a steroid blast and tapper might work. The vet gives her a shot of prednisolone, some appetite stimulants and the remaining a steroids. Wishes us more luck and asks us to call her over the weekend…
We get home and dog looks “kill me” terrible. We decide she needs to eat, so we cram the appetite stimulant down her throat and hope for the best. That night there was a lot of doubt about what the next day would bring.
Next day, dog gets up and looks a little better. Goes over to bowl and eats a bit. We take her out for a little hike. Her last hike was 100 yds and ended with a lay down. This hike we go a slow ¼ mi. Get back home and dog asks for some steak with her pills. Eats that and more of her dog food.
Sunday comes and the dog looks better and has an attitude. I call the vet and leave a message that our dog is on the mend and looking good. She calls me back and asks if I was joking and if was I serious… Over the course of a couple weeks, she gains back most of lost weight and has typical stamina. Blood work shows dramatic improvement (some elevated numbers but better, bilirubin levels normal).
For us it was a miracle…Things may turn in the future but for now we are just grateful.
Like the CV issue, “you gotta lay it out..to play it out”. Maybe we just need to be pragmatic and go with the least toxic course of treatment.
Hang in there everyone and have a great week.
Anyway, we convince our vet that maybe the least toxic therapy with a steroid blast and tapper might work. The vet gives her a shot of prednisolone, some appetite stimulants and the remaining a steroids. Wishes us more luck and asks us to call her over the weekend…
Your vet sounds like a cool dude.
That is a good story about your dog.
Dog Log https://youtu.be/E3V_mUFYAe0
Best wishes for pups.
Well handled…. Congratulations on your dog’s recovery! I’m not sure our dog is going to recover from his current penchant for peeing on the bath mat and on the kitchen rug. He might catch “My wife sent him to go live at the farm disease” if he keeps it up.
As for 10 year olds…. well, my 10 year old can be a picky eater. But today she decided that she wanted squash for lunch. Sliced thin, oven baked. It took 3 rounds to cook enough for her and her brother – 2 baking sheets at a time. Still – they ate their veggies, so I counted it as a win. Younger sister gave her analysis: “I hate squash”. Pretty succinct. So she had leftover pork tenderloin. With ketchup. Because she’s 7. So I won’t strangle her for defiling my perfectly prepared pork tenderloin with ketchup. Even though I was relegated to 3 day old leftover veggie stir fry because she ate what was going to become my sandwich.
So if that counts as hanging in there…. I’m hanging in there!
Prednisolone (converted in the body to prednisone) is a fairly powerful appetite stimulant by itself. We had our GSD on it when he had lymphatic cancer and his appetite went from typical dog hungry all the time to STARVING OH MY GOD FEED ME RIGHT NOW PLEASE I WILL DO ANYTHING. He gained 20 lbs before his time finally came.
I hope your dog recovers!
Unpopular opinion: I do not like Mozart.
Fuck a duck.
Was the dog named Mozart? Is Mojeaux really really mean?
Stupid dad joke I’ve used for years because it translates well: What is Beethoven’s favorite fruit?
Ba na na na.
I’m not a huge fan myself. I don’t dislike him, just that he doesn’t “do anything” for me in the same way as lots of others.
That’s a great story. I hope things stay well for your dog.
Well wishes for you guys and the dog.
Thanks for the well wishes.
Part of the reason I decided to share this was..sometimes..sometimes even the experts focus on the wrong thing. Much like when you jump off a cliff into the water– you should be more concerned about your balls and the depth of the water than the relative density of the water due to temperature.
The number of people that “test positive” is not as important as the number who get sick and die. Maybe we should educate peoples on how to wash their hands, how to decontaminate something that has not been controlled that is suspected, why groups of 20, 30 or 50 people increase the risk of exposure, why mass transit precautions should be amplified, how to protect the vulnerable, ect. Instead we get misinformation/disinformation and edicts that no one know for why.
Tonio! El Perfecto!
Is it wrong to ask Africa for all that We Are The World cash back?
They have latitude privilege and a bunch of quinine on the shelves of every RX. I think it is only fair.
*Nods in agreement* Those muscular dystrophy kids better still have my money.
While we’re at it can’t we get those 49ers Super Bowl LIV champions shirts back too. We’re a little short on TP.
Can we* stupid phone
Worked both ways, didn’t it.
Sorry, it was all pissed away on hookers and blow.
Exactly
Only a Nigerian Prince can help you with that
First!
No need to worry. The military will take care of us.
Operation ‘Granite Shadow’ – The US Military’s Above-To-Secret Plans If COVID-19 Cripples Government
When I was an idealistic brand-new mother thinking I was going to teach Olivia Walton a thing or two.
Huh, I found a stray soccer match. The Sydney Derby was played yesterday in Australia. Some matches “postponed” I believe for quarantine reasons – stupid New Zealand.
I’m using the Covid 19 country by country numbers and imagining it’s a medal count.
Except this time China is cheating for the bronze.
USA! USA!
I’ve been watching the death counts. Obviously there is more to the numbers. So you can’t jump to conclusions. But I can’t help but notice France,
the Uk, Italy and Spain getting hammered. I thought Universal health care was superior? And then you have the Germans who appear to be hiding the cure from the rest of the world.
Those numbers are virtually worthless for us. No idea how much testing is going on.
I agree, the case numbers are certainly understated. You can look at the death count, but how many of those people were going to die anyways the next time they caught any type of bug.
Take out NY numbers and the US looks pretty good. I keep hearing that it’s going to get exponentially worse. I hope they’re wrong.
AFL suspended.
NRL says it will continue to play until government tells it directly to shut down.
Yeah, I saw the announcement live last night.
I hear that in Homer’s voice.
This is bullllshit. Every time I act “bold” I get arrested.
Try it with your clothes on.
Prudent.
Gillum disagrees.
That’s why I’m a Smooth Operator,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A
I’m going to do a video shoot tomorrow, it’s my first real, big project, I figure 8 hours of video for a 2:30 minute song. I have a script and storyboard written down, the Song is Great, and deserves some good video, wish me luck either way,
Good luck. And check the gate.