It's been a year.
01-03-21, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by rsbob
Seriously? It’s not just in the U.S.? Could that be why our fearless leader calls it the China virus? I never put that together. I wonder if other people know this too? Super appreciate the info. I feel like such an idiot.
Have a good day.
Have a good day.
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
I miss going to a pub that sponsored a music jam every Sunday night. The blues, the music I love and have played for 50 years. Going on stage and playing for a woman that had been going through the hell of stage 3 breast cancer for two years. She loves to dance like I love to ride. Also told me many times she loved my music. Her cancer is as big as my head injury. She knows that while I have no idea of the details of her journey, I completely get the magnitude. I see her as a fighter, tough as nails, and one who dances like I rode the season after my head injury - because we both had to. (She came to the jam 10 days after her double mastectomy, near out of it on drugs, but she danced, Fell, probably tore a bunch of stitches, but she did it. While others were admonishing her (not to her face) I stayed quiet, I knew exactly why she had to do it.
I miss her hugs. I never had attraction to her (the connection pre-cancer was that her SO was a Harley rider my age and had a riding background as long as mine; a fellow biker!) but after our conversation when I told her of my journey, those hugs were from the heart. I was on stage as she was leaving early 2 days before the big surgery. Stepped down for the hug, knowing she would never be the same. (And the following hugs were a rather intimate sharingf of her reconstruction journey.) A year later, COVID. Never learned her last name. Think of her a lot but when all this is done, it is highly unlikely I will ever see her again.
I also miss the music. The jam was lead by Robbie Laws, a gifted guitarist. The drummer and bass player were both pros who could play anything. I never knew who I was going up with and sometimes it was bad but there were other times, both with that great house band and with others that you would never guess, we hit it off. The magic of music. Sometimes we hit it off when Tonya was dancing. The real gift; to me.
I miss her hugs. I never had attraction to her (the connection pre-cancer was that her SO was a Harley rider my age and had a riding background as long as mine; a fellow biker!) but after our conversation when I told her of my journey, those hugs were from the heart. I was on stage as she was leaving early 2 days before the big surgery. Stepped down for the hug, knowing she would never be the same. (And the following hugs were a rather intimate sharingf of her reconstruction journey.) A year later, COVID. Never learned her last name. Think of her a lot but when all this is done, it is highly unlikely I will ever see her again.
I also miss the music. The jam was lead by Robbie Laws, a gifted guitarist. The drummer and bass player were both pros who could play anything. I never knew who I was going up with and sometimes it was bad but there were other times, both with that great house band and with others that you would never guess, we hit it off. The magic of music. Sometimes we hit it off when Tonya was dancing. The real gift; to me.
My wife is a singer and I often set up the mics and amps and am familiar to the other music folks (I can drive a soldering iron). We used to go out 2-3 times a week to a music event... and man, I miss that crazy beat!
01-04-21, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by genec
I don't know your pubs, nor Tonya, but I do miss the local jams and open mike scene.... and I don't even play an instrument.
My wife is a singer and I often set up the mics and amps and am familiar to the other music folks (I can drive a soldering iron). We used to go out 2-3 times a week to a music event... and man, I miss that crazy beat!
My wife is a singer and I often set up the mics and amps and am familiar to the other music folks (I can drive a soldering iron). We used to go out 2-3 times a week to a music event... and man, I miss that crazy beat!
Oh, fun side on playing in my living room. The sound of my first tube amp was good. Big step up from the solid state I started with. But several years later, I re-did the room with the new laminate flooring replacing deep carpet. Set the amp down on it beside the stereo speaker, right where I had it before. Put on my favorite song. Played the first note and it was "Wow!" This amp and room just came alive!"
The many amps is because I have been plagued with feedback on stage so I've been on a quest to find the amp that sounds good, is loud enough and feedback free. Seems I now have it. Only drawback - 50 pounds. This skinny aging guy has had to get into lifting weight so he can get it on stage and off without hurting himself or taking forever. (It is a jam.)
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The good news is that it will be April soon.
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Originally Posted by noisebeam
The good news is that it will be April soon.
01-04-21, 07:36 PM
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Well, I heard that in April it miraculously goes away.
Just not sure which April...
Just not sure which April...
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Originally Posted by noisebeam
Well, I heard that in April it miraculously goes away.
Just not sure which April...
Just not sure which April...
Someone would come into power somewhere and would get rid of it ... *snap* ... just like that.
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01-05-21, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Machka
I heard that it would miraculously go away in November 2020 ... and then again in January 2021.
Someone would come into power somewhere and would get rid of it ... *snap* ... just like that.
Someone would come into power somewhere and would get rid of it ... *snap* ... just like that.
Stay safe down there in Oz.
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Originally Posted by genec
Yeah, right... as if it was not a real global pandemic...
Stay safe down there in Oz.
Stay safe down there in Oz.
Our biggest risk is returning travelers and the virus escaping from the quarantine system, that's how all of our previous flare ups started. The UK/SA variant has some authorities worried as it might escape easier.
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Originally Posted by Machka
I heard that it would miraculously go away in November 2020 ... and then again in January 2021.
Someone would come into power somewhere and would get rid of it ... *snap* ... just like that.
Someone would come into power somewhere and would get rid of it ... *snap* ... just like that.
01-05-21, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by jon c.
The point was not that it would actually go away, but that it is and always was relatively inconsequential and grossly overplayed by the media. It was the media attention and public concern that was projected by some to go away on the dates noted.
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01-06-21, 11:58 AM
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Sunlight kills the virus. Shutting most of the population inside away from sunlight is stupid on this particular issue plus generally unhealthy for most people. Part of the response to the 1918 flu was move to sunnier areas. Moving to flooded Florida or desert states running out of water would be a shorter term solution now, but there are architectural options, starting with less hovels in towers and more separate entrances to apartments. In winter, we need to ride more to get the same amount of sunlight of short summer rides.
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Originally Posted by Zedoo
Sunlight kills the virus. Shutting most of the population inside away from sunlight is stupid on this particular issue plus generally unhealthy for most people. Part of the response to the 1918 flu was move to sunnier areas. Moving to flooded Florida or desert states running out of water would be a shorter term solution now, but there are architectural options, starting with less hovels in towers and more separate entrances to apartments. In winter, we need to ride more to get the same amount of sunlight of short summer rides.
The vast majority of apartment buildings in the desert regions of AZ have outdoor access to every apartment.
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Originally Posted by Zedoo
Sunlight kills the virus. Shutting most of the population inside away from sunlight is stupid on this particular issue plus generally unhealthy for most people. Part of the response to the 1918 flu was move to sunnier areas. Moving to flooded Florida or desert states running out of water would be a shorter term solution now, but there are architectural options, starting with less hovels in towers and more separate entrances to apartments. In winter, we need to ride more to get the same amount of sunlight of short summer rides.
Experts say that Summertime = people are indoors using AC which moves the virus all over the place. Experts say that Wintertime = people are indoors because its cold and the virus spreads.
In the US, there was very very little 'shutting most of the population inside away from sunlight' during the summer, yet the virus didnt go away and cases continued to roll thru areas like waves.
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01-06-21, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by noisebeam
Arizona has the highest infection rate in the world right now and it is sunny and perfect to be outside every day and has been for the past couple months.
The vast majority of apartment buildings in the desert regions of AZ have outdoor access to every apartment.
The vast majority of apartment buildings in the desert regions of AZ have outdoor access to every apartment.
AZ has far too much sunlight for my pale skin, plus the lack of water and Californication of costs of living. Kentucky is my approximate limit of moving south. Maybe Nebraska for slightly southwards and more sky.
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Originally Posted by Zedoo
Arizona has fungal lung infections (valley fever) and probably other factors affecting respiratory health, but which state currently has the highest covid rate is a trivial detail when everyone will get it eventually. The important detail is how many die of it, minus the deaths of people who had it but died mostly of other causes.
AZ has far too much sunlight for my pale skin, plus the lack of water and Californication of costs of living. Kentucky is my approximate limit of moving south. Maybe Nebraska for slightly southwards and more sky.
AZ has far too much sunlight for my pale skin, plus the lack of water and Californication of costs of living. Kentucky is my approximate limit of moving south. Maybe Nebraska for slightly southwards and more sky.
never mind
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Originally Posted by noisebeam
Oh you are one of those..
never mind
never mind
Sorry man, just had to do it.
BTW in case anyone is wondering... "valley fever" is a central California issue too... Gee, is it any wonder the "elites" prefer the coasts?
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It seems that uranium isn't a suitable vaccine/sanitizer for COVID. Shucks.
