Black Dog

Boy, you're not kidding...

I think I'm supposed to like that guitar but I just don't.

Where did you see that number? I've checked a bunch of different sites and I can't find that. The data below comes from the State's website. https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Death-Data.aspx

It's the Southern Hemisphere.

He needs to learn to snort though, until then he'll just be second fiddle on the flute.

That was hilarious. Her reactions and expressions are great. She's definitely not a fan of the snorting sounds. LOL.

As far as I know, the Federal Government has not issued any stay at home order or closure of any specific sectors of the economy. Only social distancing recommendations and some international travel restrictions. The States have issued various forms of stay at home orders and business shut downs. Many of those have been and are being challenged and found to be unconstitutional. And, yes, we do have a right to disobey unconstitutional orders. It's called civil disobedience.

I am really curious to see what will happen in the Southern Hemisphere. The virus came to you in your summer. As you go into the Flu season it's going to be very interesting. It seems that there have been very few cases in Australia. If not very many people have had it, then there will be no herd immunity and I would suspect that it should come back fairly significantly. OTOH, if there have been a lot of asymptomatic or mild infections then maybe not. For everyone's sake I hope that's the case. We'll find out soon enough.

More signs that it's ending. https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/people-flock-to-nyc-area-bars-beaches-as-quarantine-fatigue-intensifies/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/health/coronavirus-plague-pandemic-history.html

I was a 15 year old kid in Miami, Fl at the time. I remember it but honestly at that time I didn't really care that much about it. More recently, I have watched some documentaries about it and was blown away by the utter devastation it caused. The images are just incredible and heartbreaking. Now I live not very far away from it and I can see it from some of spots we hike to.

The same thing happened in S. Korea. They were testing positive from virus fragments. False positive tests. It depends what type of test you are using. The most accurate is a PCR test. If they are on a ship it's probably a antigen test which tests for viral "pieces". That's most likely what happened. Don't forget that all these tests have their limitations and all of them have been thrown together very quickly without as much validation as you would normally have. Lots of false positives and false negatives. Also, in many viral infections viral shedding can occur fairly long after the infection/illness is gone. So far there have been no confirmed cases of people getting it twice and there is a lot of evidence that having the infection confers immunity.

They told us we had to follow the stay at home order to flatten the curve so we don't overwhelm the hospitals. That's done. The curve is at flat as it's gonna get. The hospitals are empty. Time to open all the way. Also, stay at home orders don't seem to work. In NY during the stay at home order, 66% of new cases were from people saying at home. Those were either retirees, previously unemployed or newly unemployed. 18% were nursing home patients. Only 16% were from essential workers (including high risk health care workers). Staying at home increased your risk. The lock downs don't work. There is evidence now that there was an event in Wuhan in early October. That's probably when it really started. Wuhan is a international city of 11 million with lots of travel in and out. By the time we issued stay at home orders it was way too late. All just a waist of time.

I never listened to him very much but I always thought this commercial was pretty funny.

The two main roles I see for this would be for someone who is just trying to start learning about working on their guitar or for someone that has some experience but has a problem they just can't figure out.

This is pretty cool. I think everyone should be familiar with working on their guitars. This looks like a great way for someone just starting to get some good instruction and build confidence. https://www.gibson.com/News/Gibson-Launches-Worldwide-Gibson-Virtual-Guitar-Tech-Service

Sunset from my house tonight

What I know is what I've been saying for a long time here. The virus is/has been many, many steps ahead of us the whole time. That's what viruses do. All the things we've been doing are too little too late. It's a folly to think we can beat it in the short run. In the long run yes, we, or nature, will. That's the reality of virology.

As I have pointed out about other antivirals like Tamiflu and Relenza.

You are a complete idiot and you have demonstrated no redeeming characteristics whatsoever.

Yes, that would involve testing for antibodies. Some of that has already been done and there will be more. It is likely a very large number based on some of the early results. Since they won't be able to test all 325 million people in the US, they'll have to test samples and make estimates based on that.

And what has changed about the effectiveness of the drug? Maybe one day there will be good data that it reduces mortality. If that happens, it'll be great. Until then you'll just keep yapping I guess.

And would it surprise you to know that doctors often speak differently among themselves than around staff and patients? Surely you've thought of that.

It's funny that we would disagree on this one. To me, the far more scary physician is the one who thinks they know it all or that they've seen it all. The one who is so confident they fail to consider all possibilities. The one who accepts dogma. You don't have to be a doctor for long to realize that medicine is constantly changing and there is always something you have't seen before or defies what you thought you knew. Text books are one thing. Real life is something else.

And now meat rationing in the US. Bad times. Sorry, that's not very optimistic.