3 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Titania

 

4 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

Titania

 

5 minutes ago, Matt! said:

 

9 minutes ago, Matt! said:

 

 

Bigots should let Titania teach them love.

 

1 minute ago, Enrico_sw said:

Bigots should let Titania teach them love.

 

 

Gross! Boo! 

8 minutes ago, Matt! said:

Gross! Boo! 

 

 

Nightrain in standard tuning is so fucking high pitched  

On 4/23/2020 at 12:32 AM, Matt! said:

I've seen random DS9 episodes back in the days. The Star Trek universe is just weird and complicated    

On 4/28/2020 at 2:59 AM, Matt! said:

Just finished the finale of Community. What a great show #andamovie 

 

Now that you finished community, you should give DS9 a go! It is the ST series where you don't really need to know the universe to understand it. It's just about a station close to a wormhole linking two quadrants of the galaxy. The rest is up to each episode.

 

It's fun, because the characters feel "real", unlike many new shows. They're not perfect, and they do the best they can to struggle complex (and sometimes morally ambiguous) situations. Sisko is one of my favorite captains.

 

Give it a go

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Do you know/like Cowoboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo?

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first Covid related death "6 degrees" away.  He was my mom's coworker and died in 2 weeks.   

1 hour ago, Cult Icon said:

first Covid related death "6 degrees" away.  He was my mom's coworker and died in 2 weeks.   

 

I'm sorry to hear that 

Rules for different groups doing similar things.

 

Note to self: it's a bad idea to stop playing bass for a couple of weeks  

Oh how my fingers hurt now  

24 minutes ago, Stormbringer said:

Note to self: it's a bad idea to stop playing bass for a couple of weeks  

Oh how my fingers hurt now  

 

Yep and guitar strings can be even worse. I once tried to replay one of my old folk guitars (a Norman with very stiff feeling) and the high E string nearly cut my finger...    It never happens with an electric guitar.

2 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

Yep and guitar strings can be even worse. I once tried to replay one of my old folk guitars (a Norman with very stiff feeling) and the high E string nearly cut my finger...    It never happens with an electric guitar.

 

In this particular case I'm referring to the right hand fingers  

But it has happened to me as well in the left hand. Actually my acoustic guitar I have it with rather heavy/stiff strings and my left hand fingers can hurt a bit too on that one when playing for too long a while.

23 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Give it a go

 

 

Maybe I'll give it another go after I'm done with GLOW ()

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I agree that this needs to happen.

 

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The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts. Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, rather than keep emphasizing hypothetical projections; combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology established for decades; and then thoughtfully restore the country to function.

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation

 

 

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Five key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.

 

Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.

 

The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies.  

 

In New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic with more than one-third of all U.S. deaths, the rate of death for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01 percent, or 10 per 100,000 in the population. On the other hand, people aged 75 and over have a death rate 80 times that. For people under 18 years old, the rate of death is zero per 100,000. 

Of all fatal cases in New York state, two-thirds were in patients over 70 years of age; more than 95 percent were over 50 years of age; and about 90 percent of all fatal cases had an underlying illness. Of 6,570 confirmed COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions to date, 6,520, or 99.2 percent, had an underlying illness. If you do not already have an underlying chronic condition, your chances of dying are small, regardless of age. And young adults and children in normal health have almost no risk of any serious illness from COVID-19.

 

Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.

 

We can learn about hospital utilization from data from New York City, the hotbed of COVID-19 with more than 34,600 hospitalizations to date. For those under 18 years of age, hospitalization from the virus is 0.01 percent, or 11 per 100,000 people; for those 18 to 44 years old, hospitalization is 0.1 percent. Even for people ages 65 to 74, only 1.7 percent were hospitalized. Of 4,103 confirmed COVID-19 patients with symptoms bad enough to seek medical care, Dr. Leora Horwitz of NYU Medical Center concluded "age is far and away the strongest risk factor for hospitalization." Even early WHO reports noted that 80 percent of all cases were mild, and more recent studies show a far more widespread rate of infection and lower rate of serious illness. Half of all people testing positive for infection have no symptoms at all. The vast majority of younger, otherwise healthy people do not need significant medical care if they catch this infection.

 

Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.

 

We know from decades of medical science that infection itself allows people to generate an immune response — antibodies — so that the infection is controlled throughout the population by “herd immunity.” Indeed, that is the main purpose of widespread immunization in other viral diseases — to assist with population immunity. In this virus, we know that medical care is not even necessary for the vast majority of people who are infected. It is so mild that half of infected people are asymptomatic, shown in early data from the Diamond Princess ship, and then in Iceland and Italy. That has been falsely portrayed as a problem requiring mass isolation. In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity. By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing.

 

Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.

 

Critical health care for millions of Americans is being ignored and people are dying to accommodate “potential” COVID-19 patients and for fear of spreading the disease. Most states and many hospitals abruptly stopped “nonessential” procedures and surgery. That prevented diagnoses of life-threatening diseases, like cancer screening, biopsies of tumors now undiscovered and potentially deadly brain aneurysms. Treatments, including emergency care, for the most serious illnesses were also missed. Cancer patients deferred chemotherapy. An estimated 80 percent of brain surgery cases were skipped. Acute stroke and heart attack patients missed their only chances for treatment, some dying and many now facing permanent disability.

 

Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.

 

The overwhelming evidence all over the world consistently shows that a clearly defined group — older people and others with underlying conditions — is more likely to have a serious illness requiring hospitalization and more likely to die from COVID-19. Knowing that, it is a commonsense, achievable goal to target isolation policy to that group, including strictly monitoring those who interact with them. Nursing home residents, the highest risk, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry.

 

The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions. This would allow the essential socializing to generate immunity among those with minimal risk of serious consequence, while saving lives, preventing overcrowding of hospitals and limiting the enormous harms compounded by continued total isolation. Let’s stop underemphasizing empirical evidence while instead doubling down on hypothetical models. Facts matter.

 

 

 

Guitar solos for a new original song done!