Special K: For those who are overeating.
3.4.20
Free shipping, experiences extra
b1-66er: The New York Times: Relationships Move Fast on a Slow Cargo Ship.
Special K: Momma K nd her family once cruised to South America on a freighter.
b1: Hey cool.
What gave them that idea?
What'd it cost?
How'd they like it?
Was there anything wacky that happened?
K: Dunno where the idea came from. Maybe from a book about it? I think
it's around here…
It was substantially cheaper than a cruise ship, but dunno how much. B was very young. They loved it. Only 100 passengers, great food, good entertainment.
When they crossed the equator, they hazed everybody.
b1: Super great.
2.4.20
Time to turn the board and paddle like hell
b1-66er: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/825200206/doctors-say-hospitals-are-stopping-them-from-wearing-masks
DENT: That's crazy and ridiculous. I could see rationing masks and saying you have to make these masks last all month. Use them as you see fit, but one person
can't hog all the masks. We are using each n95 mask for 5 days. I am working on a ridiculously simple process to disinfect them.
b1: I'm losing track of time. Are you back working now? How was you week of respite?
DENT: 1/3 I am back at the office. My clinic load is down at least 50% and all of the elective surgeries (which is nearly all of them) have been cancelled or rescheduled. The week off was good. Kind of a forced time out. I made French bread. The key is to add extra gluten and then spray the loaves with water as they bake.
Almost all of my time on my week off was watching the latest news and info on the coronavirus, of course. It is pretty much all consuming.
b1: Yes. I'm glad you were able to grab some sense if normalcy.
Everything to now has been softening fire.
DENT: It is going to get really ugly in the next 10 days or so. Doubling time is still 3 days. We will have 10x the cases in 2 weeks. The administration's estimate of 100,000-200,000 deaths is off by a factor of 10 at least. If 50% of the US population gets this (150 M) and you even use a very conservative mortality
rate of 1% you get 1.5M. The current death rate is 5% of those tested. Italy's death rate is 11%.
b1: Keep your viral pathways closed, my friend.
Good luck.
1.4.20
Remember those things called, "letters?"
Special K: Momma K found my letters to her in college. One year.
b1-66er: So good.
Marry that woman.
You worked harder writing her than you did in school...
And to better reward.
K: Marriage and life? More than I could imagine. Super lucky.
By far.
b1: Great answer.
Great life.
Wait...*I* know how to get a raise...
b1-66er/Special K: The produce that isn't America.
b1-67er (PE specializing in agricultural equipment -- has shipped equipment to Africa and others): They should be able to manage the shipboard freight somehow by keeping the boat people on the boat. But airplanes and perishable stuff is harder. I predict people who have the coronavirus antibodies will become premium pay workers for a while.
31.3.20
A day in the Alf -or- All things fuzzy
<ed: all TXTs here run in immediate succession>
b1-66er:
b1-67er: I've done a medium amount of reading on ecoli and lysteria. On all the bacteria stuff it's a war of numbers. You use chlorinated water and you get about 5 log kill step. Copper ions about a 2 log kill step. That's the number of zeros taken off the bacteria count. It's never about getting to zero, that won't happen.
66: Heavy.
It's as if things WANT to live.
67: I suspect the masks and distancing with virus need to be viewed the same way. Maybe it's 27 feet to get to zero, but zero probably isn't the important number.
I'm a little fuzzy on viruses. Are they alive?
Kid: Can he stay mom? ET got to stay!
Mom: ET was a movie. This is real!
[Alf episode 1]
My neighbor has gone full-on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
He's outside.
67: Do you have a fire extinguisher?
66: Absolutely.
Not one big enough to put out a house.
67: Big enough to put out a human?
66: I'm pretty sure it could put out a human.
Bring my bike over here and we'll try it.
Me: what it's that sound outside, something like a jet?
The Accomplice (rolling eyes): I don't hear anything.
M: I can't teach you how to listen.
TA: {opens door} There's a guy out here with a flamethrower.
M: That would be it.
I love the lockdown.
It's not all the same.
Everyday is weirder.
And I've only just seen episode 1 of Alf.
Just imagine what's possible from here.
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