PhineasC

Really glad the parched areas of SNE are going to get some extended soaking rains this holiday weekend. Those lawns are gonna look great, guys. The HOA inspectors will be so pleased. Enjoy it!

My wife will be pissed if that verifies.

I forgot how much I hate these warmish, humid nights without AC.

Looks better than the majority of storms in February and March up here.

Yeah, the flies are chewing up my kids pretty bad right now.

Well, there are some real studies saying this. It's isn't just a Fox News headline. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us I understand there are questions around how some of the claims are categorized. A large number of the yearly claims are based on a "failure to diagnose" issue which seems like a very broad category with a lot of wiggle room. This kind of misplaced blame is very common in engineering and business as well, so I understand your questioning of these statistics. If an engineering project fails, the public usually blames the chief engineer first and foremost, even if the issue was more with the construction implementation, as an example. It's even worse on a government project. They always throw us contractors under the bus right away. LOL I am just elbowing people in the ribs tonight in a good-natured way. Nothing serious intended.

LOL Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.

That's interesting, because I have noticed last few days zero ticks here, even out in the tall grass of my field. Last year this time they were all over me.

Temp staying up tonight. Still 71. Stiff breeze.

That's how I picture @WhitinsvilleWX looking when he sees someone driving in their car with a mask on.

Stopping before the point of no return is my issue. Once I have a couple I have a couple more and so on. For me, there is clearly some magical line that once I cross I will have a hangover the next day no matter how much water I drink. If I stay under that line, I’m fine. I mostly just drink when out for dinner or at social events now. I cut out the nightly drinking at home.

Yes, you definitely hit a wall eventually on being able to drink and recover easily. Last few years, it takes less and less to make me feel like death the next day. I have cut back on drinking during the pandemic. It’s tough but worth it I think.

Channeling John Daly for sure.

She might easily fit the profile of someone with psychosomatic symptoms and hypochondria. That’s easier to believe than she had breakthrough long-haul COVID after vaccination.

Debunking obvious conspiracy theories is fine, but the appeal to authority model is not flawless. The experts told us there was no chance this virus escaped from a lab and they are now walking that back, as an example. There has been a lot of this over the last year and a half.

Some of my technical guys were talking about creating an exchange system or miner application. I should check in on that... LOL

Sorry, but this paper disagrees. Says very clearly mRNA vaccines are a form of gene therapy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076378/ meh, looks like Europe considers mRNA vaccines directed at tumors to be gene therapy but those directed at infectious disease are not. I think any therapy that involves injecting genetic material into the cells for some purpose to be gene therapy, but clearly that is a scary term for people out there based on what I have been reading online. I don’t care if it is considered gene therapy or not. I didn’t use that term to denote extra scariness.

There are broad swaths of the world where almost no one is vaccinated. I see that as the greater source of any variants. We can’t keep them all out of the country forever (that would be “xenophobic” of us). Injecting toddlers with experimental gene therapy over the bogeyman of variants of a virus that barely affects them is gross.

Just FYI, China is not really a threat. They are just the latest fear bogeyman being used by the government now that the Muslim terrorism fear that has carried us since the 1990s has petered out. The real enemy is the tiny elite that controls over 50% of wealth worldwide and wields enormous power over governments and militaries. China just very aggressively wants to "do business" with the world and have their status as a great power recognized. They have zero interest in starting a war with their best trading partners. The modern history of China is a series of humiliations forced on them by other world powers; you need to grasp that history to understand why they seem paranoid and aggressive sometimes. If the common man wants to get fired up and take the fight to the enemy, he should get a mob together and visit people like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, the banking families, and various politicians. That's a good start.

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Yeah, the vaccine definitely makes sense as an option for adults. There are many reasons why an adult could and should get the vaccine. But the talk of vaccinating kids as young as 18 months is just messed up.

Bad data is driving this push for kids to be jabbed. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/05/study-number-of-kids-hospitalized-for-covid-is-overcounted.html

It’s not shocking, but why even risk it with kids when their threat of severe COVID is extremely low.

Selfish adults who have doubts about the efficacy of their vaccines are driving this.

Decent chance the vaccine is more dangerous for kids than COVID.