Our RV Adventures

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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For dinner tonight we used our Ninja Foodie Air Fryer Grille to cook up a batch of these Pilgrim’s Blazing Wings. They’re pre-breaded and ready to pop in the grille.

And they turned out great, juicy and crispy. But Blazing Hot they were not. At least not for Jan and I. Mildly Warm would be more accurate.

But they were good, and we’ll get them again, if only just for the convenience.

Our park owner said he was fine with the shed’s location, so I’ll bolt it down to the base tomorrow and then we can start sorting stuff and moving things into it.

I’m also going to replace all the inside and outside RG-6 cables for our satellite system. They’re all about 10 years old, and it seems like some of the connectors have become kind of flakey. Though I could go through and replace all the F connectors, it’s just quicker and easier to replace the cables.

I post some links a couple of days ago talking about whether or not the WuFlu has been circulating around the U.S. for longer than we realize. And here’s some more data on that.

CDC data suggests coronavirus may have been in California as early as December

And Iceland found that half of their population have apparently already had the WuFlu without knowing it.

Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found HALF of people have the disease without realising – with only seven deaths in 1,600 cases

And I’ve seen a number of posts from individuals who were sick around the December timeframe and went to the doctor. They were tested for Flu A, Flu B, mono, and strep, and it all came back negative. So they were told they had an ‘atypical’ flu, and sent home.

And another data point is the fact that a number of sewage plants around the country that tested for WuFlu found high levels of the virus in the sewage even in areas with a low number of diagnosed cases.

If this is correct, and there are a lot more people out who have already had the Kung Flu with no dire results, it means two things. One, that there are a lot less people who can still catch the virus, which means that things could be opened back up sooner. And two, the mortality rate is actually a lot lower that thought, maybe even as low as the 0.1% from the seasonal flu.

Remember in all this that according to the CDC, 80 to 85% of people who get the WuFlu have little or no symptoms.

Thought For The Day:

If a woman says, “do what you want”, do not do what you want. Stand still, don’t blink, don’t answer, don’t even breathe. Just play dead.

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