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  1. Thanks all.  We are still trying to decide. I really like the idea of hitting some of the state parks where an AS will go but the 5th wheel would get really tight in a hurry. And like @pop pop said, I really don’t like getting off at every other exit to feed the beast like when pulling the 5th wheel. Aerodynamics in the 90s did t seem to be their top priority. 

  2. @Danger Rane“The vaccine requires two shots to be effective, and has to be re-administered every year”

    sorry, this is incorrect. Per Pfizer data, curves start to diverge at 14 days. Yes a second dose at 21 days was used in the study and is what is planned. There is currently no plan for it to become a yearly vaccine. Might it?  Absolutely. The studies are going to continue to monitor levels. So far, the data only goes out about 140 days. 

     

  3. 7 hours ago, AuEagle said:

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    This is an interesting read. They wrote a follow up article which I have copied and pasted below. I will attempt to attach the link but given my level of technical proficiency..... well we will see. 

    We understand that some people are citing our Perspective article (published on April 1 at NEJM.org)1 as support for discrediting widespread masking. In truth, the intent of our article was to push for more masking, not less. It is apparent that many people with SARS-CoV-2 infection are asymptomatic or presymptomatic yet highly contagious and that these people account for a substantial fraction of all transmissions.2,3 Universal masking helps to prevent such people from spreading virus-laden secretions, whether they recognize that they are infected or not.4

    We did state in the article that “wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection,” but as the rest of the paragraph makes clear, we intended this statement to apply to passing encounters in public spaces, not sustained interactions within closed environments. A growing body of research shows that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is strongly correlated with the duration and intensity of contact: the risk of transmission among household members can be as high as 40%, whereas the risk of transmission from less intense and less sustained encounters is below 5%.5-7 This finding is also borne out by recent research associating mask wearing with less transmission of SARS-CoV-2, particularly in closed settings.8 We therefore strongly support the calls of public health agencies for all people to wear masks when circumstances compel them to be within 6 ft of others for sustained periods.

     

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2020836

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  4. 3 hours ago, DaveTN said:

    Why would a test showing negative on a sick person be assumed to be a false negative?

    It should not be assumed to be a false negative. It is all in the context of the situation.

    Rarely do we (humans) make a decision based on a single point of information. The test is just one point of information. Symptoms, disease activity in the area, timing, and yes our own experiences all combine to form a picture. Do we get the picture wrong sometimes? Absolutely!

    However, when you see this number of deaths congregated, most likely you have a common cause. Have some of these deaths been from something other than covid. Probably. “Tens of thousands” is highly unlikely. 

    Stay safe.  A high percentage of us on here (older, male, other medical issues) are at greatest risk with this thing. 

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  5. I think you have come to the wrong conclusion. 

    The goal of social distancing is to slow the spread of the illness.  By itself, it will not halt the spread of the illness.

    Now, as to how this could occur, there are multiple possibilities.  

    Coronavirus is a large family of viruses. Although most common colds are rhinovirus; coronavirus, parainfluenza, and rsv are all fairly common agents as well.  It isn’t clear if he has covid-19 or one of the other coronaviruses. 

    Any test will have a false positive and false negative rate.   Recently, the cdc has said perhaps as much as 20% of our current tests are falsely negative. I have not seen any of the labs quote their false positive rates.

    It is not clear if the covid-19 virus has a transmission vector other than humans. If it has an animal vector, this may be the mode of transmission. 

    Recent MIT research suggests a much greater distance of spread than the 6 feet that we use when discussing influenza. 

    Lastly, there are many things that I known that have been proven totally wrong. Therefore, absolutely nothing I have said may, in the end, be correct.

     In a handgun class I took a few years ago, the instructor kept talking about time and distance. That seems to be  good advice here, also. Spend as little time with crowds as possible and stay as far away from crowds as possible.  May you all stay safe.

     

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  6. If I read your post correctly, you probably have a subscleral hemorrhage. If your not seeing red (literally not metaphysically) from the experience or the redness does not cross into the iris (colored part of eye) this is probably your diagnosis. Subsceral hemorrhages  generally resolve spontaneously within a few days without any specific treatment. 

    Good luck with your recovery. 

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  7. Having an old house, we will get a nest in the walls every year or two. Tape a shop vac hose right under their take off point, fill the shop vac with couple of gallons of water, turn it on and come back in couple of days to empty.  

    Not as sexy as a gallon of gas, but the house still stands.  

    We had one nest of bumble bees in insulation or kitchen. They would walk out to ledge in kitchen to take flight. A glue trap in their walk path for about a week finished hem off. Interestingly, the bees got smaller as the week went along. I suspect the last few days were the juveniles trying to find momma and poppa. 

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