Oh great, just great. Over 70 and a vitamin D deficiency every winter. I am as good as dead. DR. appointment today, I will ask for more vitamin D pills.

I'm not a doctor so can't give medical advice. But I do take D3 supplements, and advocate that when weather allows a person gets a couple hours of healthy sunlight each day on plenty of skin surface area, as it makes sense the body manufactures the best kind of vitamin D for our uses. Obviously avoid intense sun light that leads to sunburn.

 

I'm not a doctor so can't give medical advice. But I do take D3 supplements, and advocate that when weather allows a person gets a couple hours of healthy sunlight each day on plenty of skin surface area, as it makes sense the body manufactures the best kind of vitamin D for our uses. Obviously avoid intense sun light that leads to sunburn.

Vitamin D is something you can do without worry, so take it in addition to sunlight. Some people take as much as 10,000u a day, if your brown skin more is better if you don’t have the advantage to get blood tests, my wife gets them regular, I give 4,000u a day, she’s been ok, if your black its very difficult to keep your levels up.

kv

 

While this 'pandemic' is ongoing many places are finding it good to do video conferencing over computer or cell phone rather than a physical meeting.
I just had a video conference meeting with my doctor yesterday so i didnt have to go into the office. Of course it was not a meeting where i had to have bloodwork or any tests just a basic chat meeting.
The platform was Zoom which many schools are using now too in order to teach kids without them having to attend the classroom. If you get a chance check it out see what you think. I think it is sort of like Skype but the operation seems smoother.

 

Zoom has been having their share of problems. I figure with the right people on board things will get better. A very good and long time friend of mine. Our dads grew up together is an encryption genius, MIT Bachelor and Masters and his big thing is encryption including Air Force One. I remember as kids when we went to the 63-64 Worlds Fair how we were memorized by the Bell Labs "picture phone". The guy is just incredible. Zoom needs him.

Ron

 

Zoom works fine for me, to keep in touch with family abroad. As you say, it does seem smoother than Skype. It doesn't take long to get to grips with the UI.

 

My Company uses Teams screen sharing works pretty well also.

kv

 

The official song of the quarantine!

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242480931.html

It was March 1 when Florida announced its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a 29-year-old Hillsborough County woman who had traveled to Italy and a 63-year-old Manatee County man. But buried in data recently published by the Florida health department is an intriguing revelation: The spread of COVID-19 in Florida likely began in January, if not earlier.

State health officials have documented at least 170 COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms between Dec. 31, 2019, and February 29, according to a Miami Herald analysis of state health data. Of them, 40 percent had no apparent contact with someone else with the virus. The majority had not traveled.

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242480931.html

I have wondered about that. By Dec 27th I was miserable but attributed it to a bad cold with flu like symptoms. Damn thing just hung on too. I was a couch potato. Took about two weeks and I was fine. No one else in the family was sick with the exception of one sister who hosted everyone for the holidays. I just wrote it off and really doubt is was COVID related.

Ron

 

https://www.kptv.com/watch-inmates-...cle_e5e3e6c3-aa51-540c-b837-40cf2636c145.html

(Meredith) -- The sheriff at the Los Angeles County jail said inmates are deliberately trying to infect themselves with the coronavirus.

Surveillance footage from April 26, 2020, shows inmates sharing bottles and masks to try and contract COVID-19.

"It's sad to think that someone would deliberately expose themselves to COVID-19. As a result of this behavior from this particular module, 21 inmates tested positive for COVID-19 within a week of these videos being taken," Sheriff Alex Villanueva told CNN.

 

I have wondered about that. By Dec 27th I was miserable but attributed it to a bad cold with flu like symptoms. Damn thing just hung on too. I was a couch potato. Took about two weeks and I was fine. No one else in the family was sick with the exception of one sister who hosted everyone for the holidays. I just wrote it off and really doubt is was COVID related.

Ron

Didn't you get the memo? EVERYTHING is related to and caused by Covid 19.
If you stub your big toe it was caused because you were dizzy from Covid 19.
If you get pregnant it was either from being home with the other partner or you got fertilized directly from Covid 19 !!

 

https://www.kptv.com/watch-inmates-...cle_e5e3e6c3-aa51-540c-b837-40cf2636c145.html

Yeah they might then be released. It was surprising who they released recently.

 

Didn't you get the memo? EVERYTHING is related to and caused by Covid 19.
If you stub your big toe it was caused because you were dizzy from Covid 19.
If you get pregnant it was either from being home with the other partner or you got fertilized directly from Covid 19 !!

Yeah, that's right. I should be able to get some compensation I feel I am a victim.

Ron

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-warns-virus-spread-far-from-over/3108333001/

"This damn virus is going to keep going until it infects everybody it possibly can," Osterholm said Monday during a meeting with the USA TODAY Editorial Board. "It surely won’t slow down until it hits 60 to 70%" of the population, the number that would create herd immunity and halt the spread of the virus.
...
Osterholm acknowledges that the nation "can't lock down for 18 months" and said political and business leaders need to find a way to resume activities while adapting to a virus that won't soon disappear. He doesn't believe there has been enough of a frank assessment on the economic harm the virus will cause over coming months and its disruption to international supply chains.

"We all have to confront the fact there’s not a magic bullet, short of a vaccine, that’s going to make this go away," he said. "We’re going to be living with it. And we’re not having that discussion at all."

A nurse holds a newborn baby wearing a face shield, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, at the National Maternity Hospital in Hanoi on May 6, 2020.

 

The global death tally map shows no deaths in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Perhaps they are lying? Vietnam has a population nearly 20X my state of Minnesota. We have around 600 deaths. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

 

The global death tally map shows no deaths in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Perhaps they are lying? Vietnam has a population nearly 20X my state of Minnesota. We have around 600 deaths. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

The local beer must be a miracle cure.

 

Just to be safe, I'll take her, and the beer.

 

Yeah, that's right. I should be able to get some compensation I feel I am a victim.

Ron

Yeah all of us are.

I hate being right all the time:
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/are-covid-toes-and-rashes-common-symptoms-of-coronavirus/
Covid toes ???

 

“It’s not uncommon for someone to have a viral infection and have a rash or blotchy areas on their body. This can happen with other viral respiratory infections like measles. And sometimes, antibiotics might cause skin rashes,” says Dr. Choi. But at this time, there is no specific rash pattern that’s associated with COVID-19.

People are paranoid about COVID-19. Just wait your turn to get it along with the rest of us. When we get to 60% to 70% infected COVID-19 will fade like they all do. The sooner this happens, the better.

 

You might want to be careful what you wish for. It might not play out the way you think. The problem is -- we just don't know for sure.