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Treefidy

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  1. Ive heard from 3 different people who are law enforcement (city, county, fed) that there's a lot of pressure to start opening things back up as civil unrest is growing, armed robbery spiking. Many departments initially gave directives to just go after bad stuff and let the rest slide for now in order to limit contact. Now they are being told to go back to doing their jobs so people behave again. Maybe we can get some other takes, @Constant ? Must be other LEO sources around here
  2. I get an example where say 150 years ago everyone travelled by boat, horse or foot (leaving railroads out for this example) and say everyone within 200 miles each coast/border have had virus A and have immunity while no one in the middle of the country has had the virus. So the border immunity serves as a buffer that protects the middle population from virus carriers coming by ship carrying virus A. But our ease of travel and overall population mobility today makes it seem like eventually an extremely high number of the population would have to get the virus in order for it to run out of victims. As contagious as this thing is it seems like nearly everyone either gets it or a vaccination to prevent getting it. When I first started hearing about herd immunity I thought it made perfect sense, yet the more I thought about it started making less sense in this day and age. I understand average rate of infection and how that's impacted as there become fewer possible people left to infect. Everything I've heard is there's an RO of about 3 for CV, or each person infects 3 others on average. So to me it's seems like around 75% of the population would need to be infected to have herd immunity,. I mean, sure. If everyone gets it the herd is immune. Maybe I'm way off on my 75? Not sure, but if the RO is ~3 then that seems about right before every carriers average 3 are all overlapping i don't really se a way to get to a vaccine before we hit 75% unless we all go into isolation for a coup,e months What we are doing is surely slowing it down, no doubt. But even if we slow doubling to once a month and we can get a vaccine out in 12 months we still fall short by several months
  3. I guess I don't really understand herd immunity. If the average person of some new virus infects 4 others but once 50% of the population gets it then they can only infect 2 because the other 2 already had it? (Oversimplification for sure, but the basis?) So rate of infection drops significantly the more peop,e get it. But then what? It slows down until everyone has had it or it simply disappears never to be heard from again? I'm not old enough to have have the polio arm scar, but it was my understanding everyone got that vaccine and polio disappears forever, except it came back recently on a limited run?
  4. Don't think you need to download an app for that, apparently it's already integrated into your phone and actively in use. https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/utah-entry-text-message-covid-19/73-5a1656e9-95aa-4b76-9399-0804648e4b According to Utah’s novel coronavirus response website, people driving into the state’s borders will automatically receive a text message directing them to fill out the survey
  5. Or go get the vaccine yourself and don't worry about the anti-vaxxers? As long as you and yours are protected why really give a fuck what other people do. i will get this vaccine though I have never had a flu one. I've been lucky and maybe had the flu 4-5 times in my life, I know people who get the vaccine every year and damned if they don't get one of the other strains every season.
  6. Looks like more evidence https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/what-the-blood-tests-of-a-covid-19-patient-can-tell-us/2020/03 https://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/medsur/ms-2014/ms143g.pdf
  7. Is it like I Am Legend up there? I assumed everyone not hospitalized split for the hamptons or Florida. Manhattan is at the top of my list of places I love to visit but could never live there. Best food across every ethnicity coupled with surrealistic environment for someone used to a country like lifestyle.
  8. I've always been a sucker for redheads, married to one. Bat they are bat shit fucking crazy, like not normal women fucking crazy.
  9. No shit. Zinc doesn't absorb into the cells all that well by itself, also several common things inhibit absorption. Chloroquine opens the doors for cell absorption. Zinc works well against viruses. Sooo.... let's test chloroquine by itself and see how it works.
  10. /never let a crisis go to waste/. With so many people demanding we give up our rights, why would all the assholes in charge want their serfs to get tested? There's plenty of tests for the ruling class. /tin foil hat- No CR/
  11. Unless of course you live under the austin fucking energy monopoly.
  12. That's been one of the treefidy paternal hand me downs since the Middle Ages,, like hunting, field dressing, stripping and cleaning firearms, reloading, auto mechanics, use of tools, and always start a relationship off by putting some new dark blue and red clothes in with the whites. Even just 1 new red shop towel does the trick. just make sure it's her whites and to the end of your days together you will never touch laundry again. Small price to pay to replace that batch of whites, and make sure to pass it along to the next generation.
  13. I want to take this a step further. Browsing the DSHS website today, looked at flu stats for 9/29/19 - 1/23/20 flu tests performed 110,900 flu tests positive. 27,318 the flu & influenza mortality rates for that period: age. Number 0-4 <10 5-17. <10 18-49. 101 50-64. 282 65+. 1,353 total positives 27,318 with total deaths at 1,748. Info does not specify specific cause of death, just the numbers. Age distribution looks pretty much just like CV. I also want to take a logic leap and ask something about shelter in place. Not saying in the least that we shouldn't be doing everything we can to slow this down, just raising a question while also agreeing that lowering the RO is a good thing however we do it. So many will agree that a heavy viral load is much more detrimental to your health, if you are exposed to a huge dose of the virus it has a big head start multiplying in your system and really fucking you up or killing you. And the sicker you are, the higher your viral shedding is likely to be. So a great number of people sheltering in place are doing so indoors, particularly in big cities like Ny or in places where the weather still sucks. And if you are sheltering in smaller places like NY apartments, and you are infected, and you are shedding a lot of virus, people in your close proximity are subject to much higher viral loads over longer periods of time than if some of those factors are lessened. Just pondering a what if this thing has been around longer than we think and SIP specifically might be exacerbating bad cases. It's almost certainly lowering the RO factor since people are having far fewer face to face contacts to whom they can spread the bug, but perhaps often making it worse for those they do infect.
  14. Local news just showed footage of DPS stop along the east border, long line of RVs trying to get into Texas fucked up situation either way you look at it. Theres a price to pay for personal freedoms and we have been racking up quite a tab. Looks like some of the swamp dwellers are skipping out on theirs and putting their drinks on our bill.
  15. Look up charts online for amperage/distance/size. If you are producing enough amps to run most or all of your house, you will need big wire or wire will fry under higher loads. The bus bar lugs on your panel aren't going to hold much larger than 6/3 wire, the main lugs will hold large aught wire. It's not hard to do at all, but no electrician is going to put their license on the line or risk burning your house down. For an emergency situation you could install a disconnect between the meter and the panel so you can absolutely disconnect power. Then just pull your main lines out of the panel luv and put your generator wires in their place. This is just allowing you to cut power to your main panel so you can safely mess with wires, similar to turning off your main breaker to hot wire a sub panel.
  16. Some lessons:. Did not anticipate hand sanitizer, I have 3 cases of everclear but also have 18 cases of mixed liquor set aside for trade. Need to fix that. Need to do a better job of stocking and rotating pasta. Beans and rice are fine but pasta doesn't store nearly as long. Need more fruit. Need to add it more to the diet so we can get a deeper stocking and rotation. Need more solar, also really would like to add a vertical wind turbine. Time to get back on a project I started planning several years ago. Solar water pump, draw water into a chute that travels about 100' with about 40' of drop with water wheel generators along the big drops. down to 88k rounds of ammo, situation getting dire. Need to correct that deficiency. A max of 6 chamberings would be ideal for prepping efficiency but alas...
  17. That's like half of Surly working from home without pants on all day. Back porch, or potted plant in the corner of the room? I did the same using HEPA AC filters when I'm somewhere with lower traffic like the liquor store. I have respirators for HEB, there's by far more people there than anywhere else I go. Speaking of liquor stores, which one of you was at Twin liquors today and told the cashier "shut up and give me my fucking receipt." You're still an asshole, but you walked away without letting me finish my thought on the matter. The glass is there to help protect that cashier from all the people coming in to buy booze. You were in the wrong fuckface, the sign said "place bottles with bar code facing glass" not "reach around the glass with your bottle of gin and then act like a cunt".
  18. It's deaths per 10,000 population 100 deaths in a county of 1M is 1/10,000 1 death in a county of 100 is 100/10,000 theres the skew
  19. Don't know the answer to that, but the exclusion of dependent kids between ages 17-24 us pure bullshit. I promise those of you with young kids, they are a LOT more expensive when they hit college.
  20. Yes it's pretty fucked up that we all understand the need for antibody testing yet very little is being said about a plan for it. It is happening though. Mother had pneumonia in early February with a cough that lasted for weeks and still lingers a little. She saw her doc then and they treated with meds. fast forward to 3/12 and her doc called her back in because they wanted to check something out. I thought it would be the test but it was not. Then 13 days later on 3/25 her docs office called and told her to isolate immediately because she was exposed fact to face during her 3/12 visit. She had a video chat with the doc, he started showing symptoms 3 days after their visit and tested positive. Speculated he may have got it from her and asked her to come get tested. I thought that was a bad idea to go in and get potentially exposed for the test since she was at 2 weeks with no new symptoms. She went, yesterday and instead of nasal stab they took blood to test for antibody. Should know results today.
  21. Asymptomatic is thrown around way too much, I think it's being misinterpreted. I know way too many who think ~80% of people don't get sick at all. I mean, 100% of people who get CV are asymptomatic at the beginning, but we have no idea what percentage is actually immune. I doubt that number is very high, how many people are immune to the flu? Antibody testing would certainly help, but we really won't know the answer unless most everyone gets tested Evidence points to the healthier you are, the stronger your immune system and the lighter the infection load, the better you will fare.
  22. You can, though I recommend getting the AC filters from Home Depot with the FPR 12. They still have plenty of those, I bought a few of the larger ones. Plenty of material there to make a mask or to cut filters for a reusable rig. I have some P100 respirators and was thinking to make a pre-filter for those since replacement cartridges are long gone. I also got a couple gallons of denatured alcohol that I use to clean heavier duty latex dipped shop gloves. Not safe for homemade hand sanitizer but works just fine to sterilize the gloves for continual use. Those disposable latex jobs are getting out of control, got gas yesterday and it looked like the restroom in pease park circa 1995 with all the discarded rubber.
  23. You should see the looks I get with the respirator, fuck them. I mess around with some exotic hardwoods sometimes and pretty much have to wear goggles and mask. A small splinter gets wildly infected inside a day, get one in the eye really sucks, not to mention how sick you get breathing the dust If you have just 1 n95 the balaclava would be a good cover up to keep the mask cleaner longer. I personally think they would be pretty high up on the alternative materials chart posted somewhere back thread. Not vacuum cleaner bag good but easily dish towel good. The multi layer plus a somewhat pleated effect from bunching is logically a good thing.
  24. Maybe, maybe not. Client is a California transplant lady in Texas who had flu like conditions with a cough lasting around 4 weeks and mild pneumonia that required hospitalization back in late January. Early 70's. My mother had a flu and pneumonia in early February with the lingering cough. 2 weeks ago today her doc asked her to come back in, I thought they might be testing to see if it had been CV but they didn't test. She got a call from their office yesterday telling her she has to quarantine because in that visit 2 weeks ago she was face to face with someone (presumably a nurse) who has tested positive. They also said she should go get tested and I told her to hold off a bit, it's 14 days today and she's good so far. If a nurse just tested positive I would think it likely happened a bit more recently and they are contacting all patients within a 14 or even longer window of potential exposure. My thoughts on testing at this point is it might be an unnecessary risk of exposure, she has been isolating for the past 2 weeks on lake Buchanan. 3rd is a good friends daughter was hospitalized in ICU and on a vent 2 months ago with pneumonia, 17 yrs old. They were smoking black market pot vapes (supposedly from china though I cannot confirm) 5 days prior. She's ok now Seems like an antibody test might do a better job of helping back trace when this thing actually arrived. I dont think I have known a single person who had pneumonia, then 3 near my circle all within a few weeks of one another.
  25. So I guess the relief bill might finally get passed, though there's shit like $400M earmarked to help make voting by mail easier. Congress arguing for days over pork for a bill designed to help We The People through a major disaster is just par for the course Well, how about a little pork for all the American people? I'll start with TERM LIMITS for every one of those assholes in congress, then we can negotiate from there. For the first 100 years in America we had STATESMEN whose average term in Congress was ~3 years. Only 1 of 10 ran for re-election. Only about 1 of 10 of those running for reelection were voted to a subsequent term. There were lawyers, doctors, soldiers, shop owners, and farmers. They lived in the communities they represented and were generally looked up to by their neighbors who voted them into office. So they would put their practices/farms/shops on hold, pack their shit into a wagon and head off to the capital to represent their CONSTITUENTS. After they did their public service they would return to their practice/shop/farm and resume their lives. .In the past 50 years we have POLITICIANS whose average term has risen to >27 years. 9 of 10 run for reelection and of those, 9 of 10 get elected again. These are career politicians, they are mostly multi-millionaires who probably don't live where they have been elected to represent, though they might buy a 3rd or 4th home in their district. They make a living in public service by representing corporations and the lobbyists who contribute to their wealth. The main goals are getting rich and getting reelected. Public service my ass.
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