Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2021 5:53:51 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2021 6:38:59 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

The Democrats went down to Georgia
They were looking for votes to steal
They were in a bind if they wanted to find
A way to pass their Green New Deal.

lucius septimius 1/5/2021 8:47:48 AM

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I went and voted.  My polling place houses (in two different parts of the building) voting for two districts.  It was fun watching people get lost.

Meanwhile, I didn't have to wait, though after me the line started building.  Roughly equal numbers of Freedom and Communism signs in the nieghborhood.

JCM 1/5/2021 8:58:39 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

After counting lucius voted 4 times for the democrat and -3 times for the republican.

JCM 1/5/2021 9:18:28 AM

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Story Dec. 21 no ICU beds available.

However in the LA County Health Dept. Hospital Census shows.

That on Dec. 21 75% of ICU beds were available.

Farther down in the report they set the number of COVID beds at 600 and 553 are filled, but hospital capacity is hardly burst at the seams only that the number of beds arbitrarily set aside were nearly at capacity.

lucius septimius 1/5/2021 9:22:20 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

I did shudder a bit when I saw the Dominion machine that I was supposed to feed my paper ballot into.  Looked very much like a shredder.

vxbush 1/5/2021 9:37:13 AM

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In #5 JCM said: Story Dec. 21 no ICU beds available. However in the LA County Health Dept. Hospital Census shows. That on Dec. 21 75% of ICU beds were available. Farther down in the report they set the number of COVID beds at 600 and 553 are filled, but hospital capacity is hardly burst at the seams only that the number of beds arbitrarily set aside were nearly at capacity.

This imprecision is no laughing matter; a friend's mother died because she was sent home from the ER after several broken ribs because there was no capacity, and she died at home the next day because they didn't track her closely enough. Absolutely heartbreaking. I've been in hospitals in big cities, and they are nothing like the hospitals in smaller towns. Big city hospitals are dangerous places because you get ignored for long periods of time.  

JCM 1/5/2021 9:40:28 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

As good as Children's Hospital is in Seattle when my daughter was there for two weeks 18 months ago my wife and I were there the whole time. Mostly me because I could work from her room.

Childrens provides a section for parents, showers, laundry, lounge.

With the LA data another example of fiddling with numbers to make it covid look far worse that it is.

vxbush 1/5/2021 9:51:58 AM

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In #8 JCM said: As good as Children's Hospital is in Seattle when my daughter was there for two weeks 18 months ago my wife and I were there the whole time. Mostly me because I could work from her room. Childrens provides a section for parents, showers, laundry, lounge. With the LA data another example of fiddling with numbers to make it covid look far worse that it is.

While amenities for families are great, I'm more worried about the protocols set up for staffing ratios and frequency of nurse/patient contact. The nurses I interacted with at the bigger hospitals were very very cold and impersonal and barely showed up, whereas the smaller hospitals had much nicer nurses who paid much more attention. 

vxbush 1/5/2021 9:52:43 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

I'm really getting to hate and despise the media and public relations people. 

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2021 9:52:48 AM

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Hello!  Total disaster here.  ALL the mailboxes on my Mac laptop mail program---all the client folders, personal folders, info folders, everything---have just VANISHED, and the "Mac Support Store" is keeping covid hours---1 to 5 PM---by online appointment only.  

I hate computers.  Hate them.

Anyone who knows how I can re-capture all those necessary folders, please let me know.

vxbush 1/5/2021 10:09:55 AM

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In #11 buzzsawmonkey said: Hello!  Total disaster here.  ALL the mailboxes on my Mac laptop mail program---all the client folders, personal folders, info folders, everything---have just VANISHED, and the "Mac Support Store" is keeping covid hours---1 to 5 PM---by online appointment only.  

Did you update the OS? Reboot? Have files on more than one drive? 

Occasional Reader 1/5/2021 10:18:13 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2021 10:23:21 AM

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In #12 vxbush said: Did you update the OS? Reboot? Have files on more than one drive? 

Rebooted, yes.  Do I have a backup hard drive? Yes.  

I've been avoiding updating the OS because the last time I had a similar mail-vanishing problem it was the result of that most-recent update.

JCM 1/5/2021 10:24:08 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13:

Symptomatic?

Standard protocol is if no symptoms appear in 1-4 days then he's clear.

But this is *scream*COVID*scream* which means he's a leper for 14 days and likely to die.

JCM 1/5/2021 10:27:39 AM

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Something else I noted in the above LA County data.

Schools shut down.

0, ZERO hospitalized in the 0-17 age group.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2021 10:33:05 AM

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In #15 JCM said: Symptomatic?

He didn’t say. He’s in his late 20s and in good health as far as I know, I’m sure that even if he is symptomatic or becomes symptomatic he’ll be fine.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2021 10:37:09 AM

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In #9 vxbush said: The nurses I interacted with at the bigger hospitals were very very cold

I have to say, the nurses who attended to me at Georgetown hospital during my recent stay there for my knee surgery were very good.

Kosh's Shadow 1/5/2021 11:04:50 AM

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In #16 JCM said: Schools shut down. 0, ZERO hospitalized in the 0-17 age group.

However, kids interact with parents, grandparents, other relatives.

In many cases, it would be possible to cut down those interactions, especially with elderly, and open the schools, however. But not all cases (grandparents living with the children, for example)

JCM 1/5/2021 11:11:49 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19:

Asymptomatic individuals are not infectious. Data out of Europe shows that age group is even less likely to transmit the covid virus compared to "regular" flu viruses.

vxbush 1/5/2021 11:24:31 AM

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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: Rebooted, yes.  Do I have a backup hard drive? Yes.   I've been avoiding updating the OS because the last time I had a similar mail-vanishing problem it was the result of that most-recent update.

Which version of MacOS are you at? 

vxbush 1/5/2021 11:25:25 AM

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In #20 JCM said: Asymptomatic individuals are not infectious. Data out of Europe shows that age group is even less likely to transmit the covid virus compared to "regular" flu viruses.

I believe there are two studies that confirm this and not just the one out of Europe. 

Occasional Reader 1/5/2021 12:38:29 PM

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Reply to JCM in 20:

So basically you’re saying...

https://youtu.be/afam2nIae4o

JCM 1/5/2021 12:50:24 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 22:

I am so sick of the garbage we're being told about COVID.

Not ONE damn salient fact we are told is the truth.

Mortality, infection rate, morbidity, none of it. Yet people's lives and livelihoods are ruined based on a house of lies.

How many reporters do you think are in LA? Yet not one looked up the hospital census data and asked "why are reporting hospitals are full when they clearly are not?" No reports are asking the CDC you are calling the "regular" flu a COVID Like Illness and then counting it as COVID why is this being done?"

My first assumption now with any COVID story... it is a lie.

And that is a very dangerous thing. In the future if a health official says something is a problem and we need to act, I'm going to assume he's lying about it.

doppelganglander 1/5/2021 2:16:26 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 6:

Did you get this sticker? I've never seen that before.A dumb slogan is not enough to restore confidence in a corrupt system.

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2021 2:37:35 PM

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In #21 vxbush said: Which version of MacOS are you at? 

I'm on "High Sierra," version 10.13.4

I managed to get the missing email mailboxes back, and might possibly---possibly---have gotten rid of an annoying popup about how the machine can't connect to Mac's icloud, but I'll know about that in a day or two.  

Shot most of the day taking care of it, and got a nice fat parking ticket too.

So, now I can relax and wait for the Georgia returns, as the US goes full Soviet.

Occasional Reader 1/5/2021 4:19:30 PM

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Stigmata, detected:

https://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2021/01/stigmata-detected.html

JCM 1/5/2021 4:31:12 PM

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We have a new 5 year plan!

We're saved!

A new name will make all the difference, you see the old and busted Safe Washington, lockdowns, distancing and masks didn't work but the new and shiny Health Washington lockdowns, distancing and masks are the cure!

buzzsawmonkey 1/5/2021 4:54:34 PM

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