Daily Archives: April 11, 2020
Bingeing . . .
Over the weekend Jan discovered that our CBS streaming service has every episode of Frasier available, so she’s been binge-streaming it, starting with the very first show. It’s amazing how well it’s held up, and how funny it is/was.
I went outside about 2pm to get our new shed installed on the plywood base I got at Home Depot on Thursday.
After getting the base into position, I used my RV leveler to level the board side to side, with a slight tilt to the rear for drainage. I did this by adding or removing larger rocks from underneath the board.
Then I used these 10” screw-in anchors and polypropylene strapping to fasten the base to the rock gravel.
And as hard as they were screw into the dirt/gravel/rock mix, they’re not coming out any time soon.
So now I was ready to slide the shed off the patio and onto the base. I did have to use a large pipe to lever the shed up on the base, but then it just slide into place with no problems.
I still have to use these metal bars to fasten the shed to the base through the shed floor,
but I’m going to wait and hear from the park owner to be sure he’s happy with where it’s positioned. Hopefully I should be able to screw it down tomorrow, and then we can get started sorting stuff in the bins and moving things out there.
For dinner tonight Jan rewarded me for all my hard work today by insisting I take her over to our nearby Whataburger for dinner. As before we did online ordering and then ate it in the WalMart parking lot across the street.
Starting off with the local HCQ news:
More Texas City nursing home patients get hydroxychloroquine as doctor sees progress.
And here’s a somewhat snarky version of the same story, courtesy of NPR.
And around the world:
According the CDC 90% of the patients sick enough to be hospitalized have underlying conditions.
And here’s 2 stories about the possibility that the WuFlu has been in the U.S. a lot longer than we originally thought.
New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew
Could that nasty crud you had last fall have been COVID-19?
Regular readers to the blog will remember that I had some sort of crud back around the end of February. In hindsight I got sick about 5 days after I was wet-sneezed on by a 3 year old Asian boy sitting in the cart next to mine in WalMart.
I was running a fever (100-101°), feeling very tired, and my head was so stopped up it felt like it was going to explode. The real problem was my cough. It just never stopped. And cough drops and cough medicine didn’t touch it. Though I never got any chest congestion, my cough made my chest hurt so much that it was hard to breathe because it was so painful.
So I think there’s a pretty good chance that I had the WuFlu back then, but I won’t know for sure until the antibodies test become more widely available.
HCQ Use in France with over 1000 patients.
And here in the U.S. 65% of physicians say they would use HCQ with a family member
And here’s Yale New Haven Hospital’s WuFlu treatment plan. Note both the non-severe and severe treatment routines included HCQ.
The VA and the US Bureau of Prisons started buying up HCQ two weeks ago.
But remember, it’s still an unproven drug and we shouldn’t use it until we’ve done 3 or 4 years of Triple-Blind Double-Controlled Studies.
Just to be safe. (Yes, this is sarcasm)
Thought For The Day:
Does the sheer incorrectness of the CoVid-19 infection models, going from 2.7 million deaths, to 240,000, to 93,000, to 49,000, maybe?, make you wonder about the Climate Change models that say we’ve only got 12 years, 10 years, 9.7 years, until we’re all DOOMED!
Of course, they’ve been saying this since the 80’s.
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