Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

On the other hand, that study from Spain didn’t control for how often the respondents were exposed to the public overall, and how many people they were exposed to at once, which could skew the outcomes quite a bit. It’s difficult for me to understand why food delivery would be more likely to infect me than going to the store to buy food, with all those people sneezing, coughing, and refusing to distance. Not to mention handling the register/payment machine.

Experts in the US are no longer recommending that groceries be wiped down.

Washington Post Article

Chicago Tribune Article

I’d guess because the delivery storeroom and loading dock and delivery trucks get visited by many employees, all huffing and puffing from carrying products and assembling shipping boxes.
Or working in a kitchen around open containers, for home delivery of cooked food.

There are a lot of reports of grocery store employees being likely to catch and spread the virus. More contact, more virus load spread around.

I’d rather pick out my own purchases, and wipe down the handle of the shopping cart with sanitizer I bring myself.

Just speculating mind you.

Yeah, that’s a reasonable speculation. I would rather buy my food at the store, too, but hauling it home for the last several months is doing serious damage to my arthritic knees, and I can’t do that anymore if I can help it. I will still go to the store every weekend to buy certain things, but I need to lighten my load. Now, I can be exposed to the virus through both in-store shopping and home delivery. Yipee!

On a more positive note, there’s a story posted on the CNN website today about a helicopter crew that discovered a large, rectangular monolith sticking out of the desert in Utah. See it here: Monolith Article

This explains why I woke up today with a taste for tapir. Now, I have to sign off, before my computer tries to kill me.

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.”

“I enjoy working with people.”

- HAL9000

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Are More Lockdowns Inevitable Or Can Other Measures Stop The Surge?
November 24, 2020

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Hat tip to Soylent News:

Says it all. Thank you.
I hope other Joe’s read this.

I wish Joe a speedy recovery so he can get back to his job at the factory…

Can i get my 1:51 back…NO!

And yet, the Centers for Disease Control in the USA will probably shorten their quarantine recommendation to just seven to ten days, for people who test negative after seven to ten days in quarantine.

Article

Yeah, there were initial fears that the intersection of COVID-19 and the flu season would be absolutely overwhelming to the medical system.
Thankfully, the measures we’re taking for the coronavirus are just as effective for stymying the seasonal flu.

@hank, your last two posts look like this in Firefox. (latest version)
You might want check out an image host like imgbb.com. I started using imgbb because some people were telling me they couldn’t see my images.

Looks like hank is posting Facebook images, which I can see fine, but clearly not everyone can.

@hank, I’m running Firefox ESR 52.9.0 (32 bits) and lately I’m having problems with some Imgur links. But your last two pictures are perfectly visible for me.

Bad news guys, I found the issue, and it’s not a compatibility problem. It’s a tracking-your-a$s problem. I have a plugin that cripples Facebooks ability to track my activity on BLF. If you can see hank’s images, facebook is watching you.

Oops, I’ll try to find an intermediate host. You mean not everyone in the world has a Facebook account? My gosh. My bad.

Let’s see if Postimage works:

In other news: Doctors warn about eye damage from UV lights to kill the coronavirus

I do have a facebook account. The problem isn’t a matter of being logged into facebook or not. (I actually am logged in to FB.) It’s a matter of dirty tactics used by Facebook to see everyone on BLF.

You can avoid Facebook’s massive tracking engine by never, never, never allowing “login using Facebook” on any site anywhere.
Yes, it’s tiresome to keep a password manager file up to date and use a unique login and password for every site you visit. So?

Facebook gets that login tool build into other people’s sites so whenever you use it anywhere, Facebook can collect your information.

And by the way if you use Facebook, log out of Facebook as soon as you’re done using it.