‘COVID toes’ are emblematic of how much is still unknown about the disease | FOX 5 New York

Monday, May 4, 2020

The COVID toes condition tends to go away on its own within about a week and you will not have long-term damage to your skin, doctors said. But if you do get this symptom, you should call your doctor and get tested for COVID-19 as well as the antibody test.
— Read on www.fox5ny.com/news/covid-toes-are-emblematic-of-how-much-is-still-unknown-about-the-disease

YET ANOTHER THING WE DO NOT KNOW?

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GOVERNACIDE: FDA approves coronavirus antibody test that boasts near-perfect accuracy

Sunday, May 3, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to a COVID-19 antibody test that boasts near-perfect accuracy, the company said Sunday.

Source: FDA approves coronavirus antibody test that boasts near-perfect accuracy

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SO WHAT!

It’s like that joke about telling you useless information.

“No guessing required.’ answered the farmer. ‘You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows.

So what if I get perfectly accurate information that of a certain date and time, I have the antibodies or not.

If I have the antibodies, does that mean I have had it and can’t get it again. Or not?

If I don’t have the antibodies, does that mean I haven’t had it and can get it.

It’s frustrating.

  • The aircraft carrier shows that the “experts” don’t understand how it infects others.
  • The fudged death numbers (high and low) shows that the “experts” don’t understand that stats of infection and deaths.
  • The smokers shows that the “experts” don’t understand the effect of nicotine on the pandemic.
  • The minority death rate shows that the “experts” don’t understand the demographics.
  • Sweden’s experience is confounding.
  • China’s “opaque” data further confused everything.
  • I can’t believe anything that the politicians and bureaucrats say is true.
  • AND, the USA’s politicians and bureaucrats don’t make clarity any easier with their self-serving press conferences!

It’s a good way to to die. No bleach required.

So I just shrug my shoulders and plod along.

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INSPIRATIONAL: The Activity Trap

Sunday, May 3, 2020

“Chop wood, carry water. seek enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

Anyone who doubts the existence of “The Activity Trap” — prodigies amounts of activity with little or no accomplishments — merely has to “stay at home” for a lot of (seemingly unending) days with a 2¾ year old boy and you’ll see it demonstrated.

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AP Admits Not Reporting, Deleting Tara Reade 2019 Interview

Saturday, May 2, 2020

The Associated Press reported on Saturday it interviewed Tara Reade Friday about her allegations that former Vice President and presumptive 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s when she was an aide in his Senate office but buried that the outlet failed to report on its interviews with Reade in 2019, when she first made public her dealings with Biden.

Source: AP Admits Not Reporting, Deleting Tara Reade 2019 Interview

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This is yet another example of the egregious double standard by the liberal media!

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Can this germ-zapping robot really kill the coronavirus?

Friday, May 1, 2020

Whereas similar companies use pulsed mercury UV devices, Xenex touts their unique pulsed xenon UV technology, which is more efficient and environmentally friendly than the former method, the company’s CEO Morris Miller told Crunchbase News last month.

Source: Can this germ-zapping robot really kill the coronavirus?

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Interesting in that could this be the silver bullet for disinfecting anything?

Price has to come down before regular individuals can buy one.

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HEALTH: The covid test maybe available thru regular channels

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Tue, Apr 28, 9:44 PM (2 days ago) 

https://www.labcorp.com/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/patient-information/covid-19-testing-options?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20_patient_corp_COVID-19-test-options

>Why get tested if no symptoms ? 

Curiosity. Knowing.

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Labcorp sent a notice that they were offering the test for $100.

“Everyone” was ridiculing me for thinking about get it done.

With all the “information” floating around about the WuFlu:

  • The death count is either inflated (by hospitals to get Federal money) or undercounted (by ignoring deaths in nursing homes).
  • No one seems to understand it. (For example, how can the Roosevelt aircraft carrier (Link) have only a fraction of the crew infected if it’s so contagious?)
  • There seems to be some “interesting” (uneven) stratification in the impact.  Seems to impact the old and sick.  Seems to impact minorities disparately.  Seems to be spread by people that don’t have symptoms.
  • The politicians and bureaucrats have confused the issue with a delayed response and an over-reaction.
  • The “celebrities” are elbowing into the spotlight to improve their visibility and spouting uninformed opinions.
  • Some experts are opining outside their areas of expertise.  Stepping into “policy” from “findings” or “recommendations”.
  • No one seems to know who’s immune and why?
  • Seem to be two groups of doctors that seem to have conflicting diametrically opposed opinions about what the issues are?

So, if there is some sort of “immunity”, perhaps it is signaled by the antibodies in the testing.  

It might be nice to know if I have the antibodies which would indicate:

  1. I had a the mild version that people get with no symptoms;
  2. I will know I have immunity when and if the experts find that “immunity” is denoted by the antibodies;
  3. I will know by the absence of those antibodies would be a warning that I might still be at risk.

QED thinking about getting the test isn’t crazy.

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Stimulate the LP | Libertarian Party

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

In the middle of a global pandemic and a nearly complete economic halt, our elected officials could not comprehend the obvious idea of giving taxpayers their money back to help them keep their bills paid without adding in more than a trillion dollars of corporate bailouts and pork-barrel spending. When we actually break down the […]

Source: Stimulate the LP | Libertarian Party

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Government leaders who believe you and I could not survive without them think the only way to solve a problem is to throw tax dollars at it. We do have very real, deep problems in this country that need to be addressed — health insurance costs, ever-increasing student debt, the opioid crisis, veteran homelessness and suicide — and these problems vary from community to community. Not every American is living with the same issues, and what works in one state may not have the same effect on a different population.

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“We, The Sheeple” have real problems.

Adding to posterity’s future debt with trillions of stimulus, bailouts, and just waste.

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POLITICAL: Did NY Democrats just tank Biden’s nomination?

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

From the Catholic perspective, Cuomo represents another pro-choice Catholic politician who has tangled with bishops, not unlike Biden. If New York’s governor ends up with the nomination, it would put a spotlight back on the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has faced calls in the past to formally sanction Cuomo for his aggressively pro-abortion action in the governor’s mansion. But whether Biden secures the nomination, or Cuomo becomes a convention spoiler, bishops this autumn will face the challenge of a candidate who flaunts his Catholicism while flouting Catholic teaching on abortion.

Source: Analysis: Did NY Democrats just tank Biden’s nomination?

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The “mainstream media” is ignoring Biden’s dementia, sexual harassment allegation, and his lifetime lack of achievement.  Never mind the Ukraine and other scandals.

I don’t understand how anyone can support him?

And the “Catholic” bishops kowtowing  to the CINO politicians make me wonder if the FIX is in (i.e., the politicians get a pass so does the Church for the pedophilia scandal)?

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TECHNOLOGY: Blur’s “Masked Cards”

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

What are Masked Cards?

Masked Cards are unique, disposable, private credit cards created in the amount you specify. They are real MasterCards that function like a pre-paid gift card that you create on the fly as you shop. Use Masked Cards whenever you’re uncomfortable giving out your real card information.

Source: Blur

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​I’m trialing this as a way to keep autorenewals from autorenewing.  For a 100+$ per year, it MIGHT be an effective solution.
So for stuff I am keeping forever, I’ll just give them my permanent card.  For stuff that I am not (i.e., websites; domain names; software subscriptions), I’ll use a masked card.  Since there is a small handling charge due to card processing fees, I’ll have to run two distinct lists (i.e., stuff on the permanent card and one for the masked cards).
SO I’ll report back how it worked out.
YMMV
Of course, I’m interested in any feedback you have abut this.
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College student is shocked that her professor can read her ‘private’ conversations on Zoom | Daily Mail Online

Monday, April 27, 2020

An American college student was horrified to learn — too late — that her professor can read all of the ‘private’ messages she sends on Zoom.

The young woman, Faith, has been trading casual messages — with some profanity — with other students, thinking that that the words were kept between them.

But when she received an email from her angry professor, she learned that the educator has been reading what she wrote all along.

Source: College student is shocked that her professor can read her ‘private’ conversations on Zoom | Daily Mail Online

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Remember the old advice: “Say it, forget it; write it, regret it”.

One better understand ALL the technology you use.

I was always amazed that coworkers would think that their employer couldn’t see what they were doing on “their” (company) laptop on the company’s network connection.

VPN anyone?

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