https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...break-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures

The outbreak is the most significant in China since February, prompting fears of a second wave and questions over how the virus was able to spread given severe quarantine measures taken by authorities. The outbreak is potentially embarrassing for Beijing, which had declared victory over the virus and ordered citizens back to work.

The capital, where measures were among the strictest in the country, had reported no new locally transmitted cases for 56 consecutive days before a cluster of diagnoses began on Thursday. Before that most new cases had come from Chinese nationals returning from abroad.


On Tuesday, state media appeared to push the idea that the virus had come from abroad. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said the strain was most similar to those seen in Europe, the US or Russia.


“It clearly indicates the virus strain is different from what it was two months ago,” he told state broadcaster CGTN. “The virus strain is the major epidemic strain in European countries. So it is from outside China brought to Beijing.”

In a similar vein, a deputy director at the pathogen biology department at Wuhan University, told state media he believed the new outbreak involved a more contagious strain of the virus than the one that hit Wuhan at the beginning of the pandemic.

 

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2020.0376

 

Bad guesses are still bad guesses regardless of how sophisticated the model may seem. The data are out there. They only need t be collected and are being ignored.

Ask every patient presenting, "See, if you had worn a mask, you wouldn't be here." Record the responses. Subject to rephrasing. Do not ask, "Did you wear a mask?"

 

In British Columbia, total COVID deaths are 168. 170 people died of drug overdoses in May alone. It is interesting that opioid crisis has been N. America wide for years now, but there has been no coordinated response to it. People affected are often young males...

 

but there has been no coordinated response to it

In 1997 I was finally allowed to take oxycodone a month before disk surgery; without it I may well have gone mad. So talk of "response" makes me very nervous. Virtually certain, they WILL make matters worse, they always do.

 

In 1997 I was finally allowed to take oxycodone a month before disk surgery; without it I may well have gone mad. So talk of "response" makes me very nervous. Virtually certain, they WILL make matters worse, they always do.

True. We will reap the benefits of COVID response soon... Small businesses shuttered, Amazon all the way!

 

It is interesting that opioid crisis has been N. America wide for years now, but there has been no coordinated response to it.

Didn't they put Sonny Crockett on the case? And call the DEA into existence and all of that?

 

Small businesses shuttered, Amazon all the way!

Recently my mower quit so I looked on Amazon for a new one. Then I considered going to the huge farm supply store, but settled on buying from the little neighborhood Ace hardware store; they could use the business. I picked the 2nd from the top model they had so they took it back but told me it was making a strange noise. They had another identical unit, and it started fine. So I took it home and mowed the lawn. Unfortunately there is something wrong though, as it every so often the RPM would drop and slowly return. Hopefully the warranty will cover it, but I can help thinking, no good deed goes unpunished.

 

Recently my mower quit so I looked on Amazon for a new one. Then I considered going to the huge farm supply store, but settled on buying from the little neighborhood Ace hardware store; they could use the business. I picked the 2nd from the top model they had so they took it back but told me it was making a strange noise. They had another identical unit, and it started fine. So I took it home and mowed the lawn. Unfortunately there is something wrong though, as it every so often the RPM would drop and slowly return. Hopefully the warranty will cover it, but I can help thinking, no good deed goes unpunished.

I am sure the warranty will cover it. I have never used Amazon. I did have to buy a few things online Last one was shoes as local stores did not have what I needed. I live in a very small area.

I am doing my best to shop local - meat from a farm about 200 miles away. They deliver once a month. I am doing siding on my house and got cedar from a small mill in a town over, had to pay through the nose to gwt it delivered but saved a bit even with that and got top notch product with custom profile!

One terrible outcome so far is that the yarn store folded.

 

OT: That looks like white cedar. I need rough sawn, 4/4 white cedar. Any recommendations?

BTW, I also shop local. Local pork here is as good as Iowa's.

 

Hello,

I found some info about using UVc lamps.
https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/does-uv-light-kill-coronavirus/uv-light-covid/

It shows the energy dose needed to disable the viruses. It is much lower than i though it would be.
I was measuring around 1.2mw but they are saying that even 5uw could do it.

 

Hello,

I found some info about using UVc lamps.
https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/does-uv-light-kill-coronavirus/uv-light-covid/

It shows the energy dose needed to disable the viruses. It is much lower than i though it would be.
I was measuring around 1.2mw but they are saying that even 5uw could do it.

If it's that low, maybe direct sunlight does the trick on exposed surfaces...

 

If it's that low, maybe direct sunlight does the trick on exposed surfaces...

Or maybe something like this?

 

Maybe this?

Sure! ... that oughta do away with the pesky virus ... and the patient

 

OT: That looks like white cedar. I need rough sawn, 4/4 white cedar. Any recommendations?

BTW, I also shop local. Local pork here is as good as Iowa's.

It is red, the pacific NW specialty
I would imagine there should be a lot of options in Ontario for white cedar suppliers?

 

It is red, the pacific NW specialty
I would imagine there should be a lot of options in Ontario for white cedar suppliers?

Relatively fresh, it looked white. Of course, they age very differently. My only source is Michigan -- mostly North of Ann Arbor. Oh well, now that Michigan is opening, maybe a trip is in order.

 

Relatively fresh, it looked white. Of course, they age very differently. My only source is Michigan -- mostly North of Ann Arbor. Oh well, now that Michigan is opening, maybe a trip is in order.

Pieces varied in color. It was cut to order so freshly milled. Had to wait for it to be kiln dried.

I am a bit sad as I am painting it to put it up so that beautiful grain is being covered... Still looks nice, i dont really want my house to have a "cabin" look.

It is amazing how many people are doing renovations while in this lockout. Hardware stores sold out of everything. I have to work and do the reno and walk the dogs, feel like I am missing out

 

i dont really want my house to have a "cabin" look.

It's a matter of taste, I guess. But there are ways of making wood show its natural grain beautifully without making it look "cabin-like" ... take alcohol-based pigment stains, for instance.

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It's a matter of taste, I guess. But there are ways of making wood show its natural grain beautifully without making it look "cabin-like" ... take alcohol-based pigment stains, for instance.

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Yes. I have learned a lot since I started to do work on my house. I am only doing one side so I figured it should match the rest.

I love cabins, but i really do live in an area where I need something other than the forest to keep my sanity

Where I live (in the photo is a secret sauna by a lake, not my actual house)

And where I am from


It is a bit of a contrast...

 

Yes. I have learned a lot since I started to do work on my house. I am only doing one side so I figured it should match the rest.

I love cabins, but i really do live in an area where I need something other than the forest to keep my sanity

Where I live (in the photo is a secret sauna by a lake, not my actual house) View attachment 210111

And where I am from
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It is a bit of a contrast...

I envy you ... I live in an overcrowded, overnoisy and overpriced city that's underorderly, underclean and underforested ... wanna trade places?