The only person I saw wearing a mask in all the crowds today.
Good for her.
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She knew how bad he was gonna smell.
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Stevie Nicks is canceling concerts left and right because of covid in the band but yeah, covid is over.
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Just goes to show, but even with declining numbers…
We have COVID in the house, despite being about as careful as it gets. So far it’s just “mild”.
The patient is a youth, generally healthy, vaccinated to the maximum allowed, now isolated, filtration unit in his room for our protection, wearing an N95 mask, as we all are now, filtration running in the house elsewhere.
The patient will be feeling guilty about this so we’ll have to be gentle. The patient traveled literally around the world at the height of the pandemic (long story) and didn’t catch it.
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Good luck to you and everyone.
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DIY Time 
I was skeptical, at first, about how much a DIY filter could do, but there have been some engineering studies that won me over.
Our first household improvised air filter is a 20"x20" pollen-grade filter bungy-corded to a box fan. Not perfect, a bit noisy, but judging by the filter colour every couple of months it’s doing plenty. We had an idea for a variant that uses a Honeywell fan that’s not only fairly cheap, but already kicking around the house.
Today’s project used a 16"x25" filter on one side of the triangle, two corrugated plastic panels, cut to match the filter, for the other two sides. Equilateral triangles top and bottom. (The plastic is cheap enough at a craft store, or use your favourite politician’s old lawn sign). Duck tape the seams on the inside, clear tape outside. The fan comes off its original stand by gently lifting off the side caps and undoing a few screws (save the parts). Cut a tidy circle in the top with a compass and an approxo-knife. Thread the power cable of the fan through a corner, and just sit the fan on top. I had to duck tape off some of the back of the fan cowling.
Black duck tape would have been prettier but it’s also, inexplicably, a little more expensive at the moment. You could put the fan entirely inside, but then you have to do something to get at the switch.
We used an incense stick to generate smoke for a test (over the black mat by the front door for contrast). Lots of air was being pulled through the filter, leakage around the cowling of the fan was there, but minimal. At full power it matched the air speed through the filter of the box fan (put the filters at a 90° and the line between smoke going into each should be roughly 45°) so the filtration rate should be comparable. It’s still a little noisier than I would like, but thrifty at about ½ to ¼ the setup with 3 or 4 filters and a box fan, and takes up less space.
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I made one of these before covid because I wasn’t making it through a lot of nights without needing the rescue inhaler. I have asthma and I’m allergic to the 4 cats we have.
Once I put one of these in my bedroom it made a huge difference and there is a lot less dust in the house.
I used a 20 dollar box fan and 4 merv 13 2" filters. It’s on a smart plug so it comes on when I get up and turns off before bed.
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Not at all surprising, but here we go
MoRon lies, and hires people who lie. Pretty self-explanatory.
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The second shots will be limited to those age 65 and older who got their first shot of the bivalent vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech at least four months ago, and to those with weakened immune systems who got one of those shots at least two months ago, according to a federal official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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The main concern is that the protection people got from their last shot has been fading, not just against getting infected but also possibly against getting seriously ill. So Hotez says people as young as 50 should be able to get a second bivalent booster if they want one.
“It’s better than nothing,” Hotez wrote in an email to NPR about the FDA’s decision. “I think 65 could be lowered to 50 or 55 unless they have specific data that only supports that age cutoff.”
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Yep. Did that last month at the CVS. They didn’t care.
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It has now been four weeks since the Government of Japan downgraded its pandemic response, leaving masking up to “personal choice” instead of the previous “strongly recommended” (there was never a mandate).
And yet, people are still wearing masks. This article cites AI analysis of footage from Tokyo Station, which found that around 85% of people walking around the station (and we’re talking about millions of people per day) were wearing masks. That’s a 4% drop from a month ago, but I say again: 85%.
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““We cannot get insured and most of the big bands doing arena shows, by the time they do their first show and rehearsals and get the staging and crew together, all the buses and hotels, you’re upwards $600,000 to a million in the hole. To earn that back, if you’re doing a 12-show run, you don’t start to earn it back until the seventh or eighth show.”
“That’s just how the business works,” he concluded. “The trouble now is if you get COVID after the first show, you’ve (lost) that money.””
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That did not go unnoticed in the photos that my brother-in-law is posting from their family trip to Japan. Indeed, “spot the tourist” seems to be quite simple: they are the ones not wearing masks.
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Queen just announced 22 shows in the states and Canada and they’re adding more, thier shows are arena shows on steroids, not cheap.
Maybe The Who should consult with Brian and Roger.
This is the first tour I’m going to miss since the late 70s, ticket prices are a little bonkers and there is that chance a show gets canceled plus I’m still not sure about seeing a show with 20,000+ and me and the wife are the only ones wearing a mask.
The Who should also quit doing farewell tours to hype sales when they had no intention of quitting.
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The Who have been doing farewell tours for more than half of their existence by now.
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We saw their first farwell tour in 1982 with 80,000 other sucker’s at the Pontiac Silverdome.
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It sounds like they weren’t going to do enough cities to make up the cost if they had to cancel.
Queen without Freddy? Why would I be interested?
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I’m not going to sell it but check out Queen with Paul Rogers and Adam Lambert. There’s plenty of high def stuff on YouTube.
Any method of getting Brian and Roger on stage is a good thing. And they are still the Queen of cutting edge arena shows.
I’ve seen Freddie, of course that’s the gold standard but the remaining 2 are something to see with Lambert.
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