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  1. Why not? It’s all his fault right?

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    Interesting????

     

    Look out!!!

    And we are now on the brink....
     
    "When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of Communism; we will not take it under the label of Socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people, and have been speared too much. We will take the United States under labels we have made very lovable; we will take it under “Liberalism,” under “Progressivism,” under “Democracy.” But take it we will."
    ~ Alexander Trachtenberg, at the National Convention of Communist Parties, Madison Square Garden, 1944
     
    “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
    ~ Norman Thomas, (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America

  11. Just joking

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     THESE ARE PERFECT FOR 2020...…………...


     
     
    1.     The dumbest thing I ever bought was a 2020 planner.
     
    2.     I was so bored I called Jake from State Farm just to talk to someone.  He asked me what I was  wearing.
     
    3.     2019:  Stay away from negative people.  2020:  Stay away from positive people.
     
    4.     The world has turned upside down.  Old folks are sneaking out of the house & their kids are yelling at them to stay indoors!
     
    5.     This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her dog.  It was obvious she thought her dog understood her.  I came into my house & told my cat.  We laughed a lot.
     
    6.     Every few days try your jeans on just to make sure they fit.  Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom.
     
    7.  Does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands?
     
    8.  This virus has done what no woman has been able to do.  Cancel sports, shut down all bars & keep men at home!
     
    9.  I never thought the comment, “I wouldn’t touch him/her with a 6-foot pole” would become a national policy, but here we are!
     
    10. I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator.
     
    11. I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to the Backyard.  I’m getting tired of the Living Room.
     
    12. Appropriate analogy.  "The curve is flattening so we can start lifting restrictions now” is like saying “The parachute has slowed our rate of descent, so we can take it off now.”
     
    13. Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask & asking for money.
     
    14. The spread of COVID-19 is based on 2 things: 
            1.  How dense the population is. 
            2.  How dense the population is .

  13. Just joking

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    Donald Trump, George Bush and Joe Biden were set to face a firing squad in a small central American country.  Donald Trump was the first one placed against the wall and just before the order was given he yelled out "Earthquake".  The firing squad fell into a panic and Donald Trump jumped over the wall and escaped during the confusion.

     

    George Bush was the second one placed against the wall.  The squad was reassembled and George pondered what he had just witnessed.  Again before the order was given George yelled out "Tornado".  Again the squad fell apart and George slipped over the wall.

     

    The last person Joe Biden was placed against the wall.  He was thinking, I see the pattern here, just scream out something about a disaster and hop over the wall.  He confidently refused the blindfold as the firing squad was reassembled.  As the rifles were raised in his direction, he grinned from ear to ear and yelled "Fire".

  14. Covid 19 Discussion

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    A professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto sent this to his family.

    For this pandemic, there’s a greater chance of survival for those
    getting infected 7 months later like October 2020 than those who got
    infected 7 months earlier say February 2020. The reason for this is
    that doctors and scientists know more about Covid-19 now than 7 months
    ago and hence are able to treat patients better. I will list "5
    important things" that we know now that we didn’t know in February
    2020.


    1. COVID-19 was initially thought to cause deaths due to *pneumonia -
    a lung infection* and so ventilators were thought to be the best way
    to treat sick patients who couldn’t breathe. Now we are realizing that
     the virus causes blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs and
    other parts of the body and this causes reduced oxygenation. Now we
    know that just providing oxygen by ventilators will not help but we
    have to prevent and dissolve the micro clots in the lungs. This is why
    we are using drugs like Aspirin and Heparin (blood thinners that
    prevents clotting) as protocol in treatment regimens in October 2020.

    2. Previously patients used to drop dead even before reaching a
    hospital due to reduced oxygen in their blood - "oxygen saturation."
    This was because of "happy hypoxia" - where even though the oxygen
    saturation was gradually reducing, the covid -19 patients did not have
    symptoms until it became critically less, like sometimes even 70%.
    Normally we become breathless if oxygen saturation reduces below 90%.
    This breathlessness is not triggered in covid patients and so we were
    getting the sick patients very late to the hospitals in February 2020.
    Now since knowing about happy hypoxia we are monitoring oxygen
    saturation of all covid patients with a simple home use "pulse
    oximeter" and getting them to the hospital if their oxygen saturation
    drops to 93% or less.. This gives more time for doctors to correct the
    oxygen deficiency in the blood and a better survival chance in October
    2020.

    3. We did not have drugs to fight the corona virus in February 2020.
    We were only treating the complications caused by it... hypoxia. Hence
    most patients became severely infected. "Now we have 2 important
    medicines, Favipiravir and Remdesivir." These are antivirals that can
    kill the corona virus. By using these two medicines we can prevent
    patients from becoming severely infected
    and therefore cure them "before they go to hypoxia". This knowledge we
    have in October 2020... not in February 2020.

    4. Many Covid-19 patients die not just because of the virus but also
    due the patient’s own immune system responding in an exaggerated
    manner called "Cytokine Storm". This stormy strong immune response not
    only kills the virus but also kills the patients. In February 2020 we
    didn’t know how to prevent it from happening. Now in October 2020, we
    know that easily available medicines called steroids that doctors
    around the world have been using for almost 80 years can be used to
    prevent the cytokine storm in some patients.

    Note: Timing is the critical factor in whether steroids help covid 19
    patients against cytokine storm.

    5. Now we also know that people with hypoxia became better just by
    making them lie down on their belly - known as prone position. Apart
    from this a few days ago Israeli scientists have discovered that a
    chemical known as "alpha defensin" produced by the patients white
    blood cells can cause the micro clots in blood vessels of the lungs
    and this could possibly be prevented by a drug called Colchicine used
    over many decades in the treatment of Gout.


    Now we know for sure that patients have a better chance at surviving
    the COVID-19 infection in October 2020 than in February 2020.

    Going forward there’s nothing to panic about Covid -19 if we remember
    that a person who gets infected later has a better chance of survival
    than one who got infected earlier. Let’s continue to follow
    precautions: wear masks, use sanitizer or wash our hands frequently
    with soap/water and practice social distancing. Please distribute this
    message, as we all need some positive news.

     Above all still, use common sense and wear your masks to protect
    others around you and yourself, avoid groups and pay attention to
    social distancing.

     

  23. What are you going to do to pass the time?

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    On 6/24/2020 at 8:59 AM, iceman said:

    I hear ya. This deck project I need to take full responsibility. It’s replacement is directly related to my actions. Though only with the best of intentions, I made a major mistake. The idea was good the results were, let’s say bad.... is putting it mildly.

    Started out great, as I used my 4500psi pressure washing rig to clean concrete patio. Beautiful. 

    Then it went like this, the conversation in my head was sort of.....

    ”hey that works great let’s try it on the pool deck.”

    “yeah yeah do it” 

    4500 psi might be just fine but its all about the nozzle. Mine shredded the deck into carpet of torture. Splinters for all. 

    Game over. Play again.

     

    Can't wait to see what the deck will look like in 2 weeks!

  24. Covid 19 Discussion

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    Fauci: Hydroxychloroquine not effective against coronavirus

    Zachary Brennan
    PoliticoMay 27, 2020, 10:22 AM EDT
     
     
    Fauci: Hydroxychloroquine not effective against coronavirus
    Fauci: Hydroxychloroquine not effective against coronavirus

    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Wednesday became the first Trump administration official to say definitively that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus, based on the available data.

    "The scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy," Fauci — the U.S. government's top infectious disease expert — said on CNN.

    But he stopped short of calling for an outright ban of the drug, which President Trump said he was taking last week as a preventative measure after a top White House aide was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

    Fauci's comments come days after the Lancet published a 96,000-patient observational study that concluded that hydroxychloroquine had no effect on Covid-19 and may have even caused some harm.

    France decided this week to ban the use of hydroxychloroquine, even in clinical trials, and the WHO has paused its clinical trials of the drug.

    There is no data yet from randomized, controlled clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine — the gold standard for evaluating potential treatments. But Fauci was unequivocal on Wednesday, saying that "the data are clear right now."

     

     

     

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