Daily Archives: April 14, 2020
It’s Finally Done . . .
After getting the all-clear from Rob, our park owner, about the location of the shed, I went outside and used 2” wood screws to fasten the shed’s plastic flooring to the 3/4” plywood base, using the metal bars to reinforce the flooring.
This should hold it in place through any normal winds around here. If we do have something like another Harvey coming through, my pants and suspenders solution is to use ratchet straps over the roof tied down to additional screw-in anchors.
Now to fill it up.
I’ve mentioned several times in the past that according to the CDC, 80-85% of people who contract WuFlu have little or no symptoms. And a prominent example of that is Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
“In my case, I had an extraordinarily mild case. I had no symptoms. Never had a headache. Never had a body ache. Never had a fever. Never had a cough. I didn’t really have any symptoms. In fact, I would have never gone to the hospital had I not — or not to the hospital, I would not have even gone to the doctor’s office had I not known this was about and that I had been traveling so much.”
In other words, he wouldn’t have even known he had it if he hadn’t gotten tested because he had been traveling a lot and thought he might have been exposed.
And think the whole (HCQ) HydroxyChloroquine thing is some new ‘unproven’ snake oil cure that the President is pushing that is endangering people?
While back in 2005 HCQ was all the rage for its use against the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus caused by a newly-discovered coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that arrived on the scene in late 2002.
This article in Virology Journal entitled “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”
And to cut to the chase for the conclusion to this multi-page, jargon-filled, scientific article:
Conclusion
Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiosis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. The fact that the drug has significant inhibitory antiviral effect when the susceptible cells were treated either prior to or after infection suggests a possible prophylactic and therapeutic use.
So let me get this straight, back in 2005 HCQ was the recommended treatment for both preventing and curing the CoVid virus, but 15 years later, it’s unproven and needs years of study.
What am I missing here?
But it does look like the government is officially finally coming up to speed on HCQ.
FEMA ships out nearly 20 million hydroxychloroquine tablets
They’re going out to the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, as well as Washington, D.C.; Baton Rouge; St. Louis; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Miami; Milwaukee; Indianapolis; Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Orleans, New York City and Chicago.
Wrapping up, do you have a Nest cam at your home, and maybe wonder where all your data is going? This article talks about how Google is lowering the default video quality of your Nest cam to help reduce the load on the Internet with so many people at home.
But what surprised me was the amount of data a Nest camera uses at the highest settings. It’s a stunning 400GB a month. So they’re lowering it down to 300GB per month, though you can bump it back up if you want.
But really, 400GB a month? Yes, some data plans have a 1TB cap, but one Nest cam uses almost half of your cap. And with two cams, Yikes!
Thought For The Day:
“In wine there is joy; in beer there is happiness; in water there is bacteria.” – probably not Ben Franklin
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