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    Yes, it does work. I am going to assume that you understand what the word mitigate means. And I'll also assume you know what a carrier material is. And yes, masks do work, and at varying levels depending on the type and number worn. If they didn't, why do you think surgeons and nurses in OR's continue to wear them? The "cry" of "It doesn't stop the virus" is a straw man argument.
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    It's not that hard to retune them with the tuners I have. Takes just a couple of minutes. And when I saw the crimson red I fell in love with it. The nice thing about Sweetwater is they show the actual guitar photos of the ones they have in stock, not generic photos. They had 4 in stock when I ordered and the one I got had the best patterning in the wood of any of them. The one thing I did like about the MiM was they had reversed the switches, which is something that is commonly done by many. [ATTACH=full]2694._xfImport[/ATTACH]
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    Only problem... it's not designed to stop the virus. It's designed to stop/mitigate the carrier material.
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    This is mine. 2016 transparent crimson red American Professional. It has the ash body, which is now a custom shop item. It also has the rosewood fingerboard. It has 2 Shaw-designed V-Mod single-coil pickups. Paid $1550 for it new. The current ones are around $1700 and have pine or alder bodies. Not something I plan on getting rid of honestly. I had a MiM Telecaster that was butterscotch blonde that I sold. It wasn't one of the expensive ones, think I gave around $800 for it but it was a nice guitar. Figured I really didn't need 2 of them.
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    Say what you want... but very few (if any) can compete. Freddie's passing was a massive loss to the world. @Paul, notice he rocks a Telecaster in the ever popular butterscotch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXetWK-Ur8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXetWK-Ur8
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    Even the majority of the country music sucks salty balls. We don't have any Ronny Milsap's, Buck Owens, Kenny Rogers any more. Even the ones in the late 90's and early 20's sucked compared to the old music. I'm sorry, I'm really stuck on the late 60's, 70's and early 80's.
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    Flashback Friday!
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    The Winnebago FaceBook group (specific to the Minnie) I am a member of gets WAY more daily posts than the vBulletin "semi-official" Winnebago forum does a day.
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    Piloting

    13511 replied to SneakyDave's topic in Randomness

    If God wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings before we reach heaven... and I'm not in a hurry to get there so I'll stay off planes. :p
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    Is it bad that an almost 60 year old listens to Nirvana still?
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    Flashback Monday
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    Oh, we can get to the moon again... but the factor is the cost to benefit. I see most of the emphasis now being on making it to Mars since the moon has already been done. And yes, from what I understand a trip around the moon is still on the planning plate for Musk's SpaceX. Now, tell us how far along that NASA space and launch vehicle are? China will make it to the moon again (as far as landing) before the U.S. will most likely.
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    Yep, listened to it again and he found where he slipped it in as a quick aside. Only problem is, facts provided by Maryland government site does not support his statement.
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    In the world of Trump, that's entirely true. Of course, since Trump can no longer participate Twitter is no longer relevant to him.
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    Thanks for confirming that the Tweet was standard bogus information as given out by the Trump crowd. What you provided had nothing in it supporting the 40% death rate of Maryland persons and neither did the August 2021 interview. So feel free to provide the link to the alleged interview with Dr. Redfield that supports the tweet you shared. I provided you with data obtained directly from the Maryland COVID-19 website that refutes that statement of 40% death rate of vaccinated persons.
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    Some people know that myeloma affects the white blood cells. They also are aware that white blood cells are what helps fight infections and virus's. For one that knows that, it doesn't take having to be told that in an article to realize that if one suffers from myeloma one is going to have issues with fighting infections and virus's since their white blood cell count is negatively effected. Ah yes, the infamous tweet, the chosen method of Trump of spreading the "Truth". Have you actually tried researching the information given. Funny how as of yet, I have failed to find supporting data of the tweet. I've gone to Martha MacCallum's twitter feed where she tends to post such important information as this and it's not there (but there are other data points from her August 2021). I've done searches using a multitude of search words involving Redfield, Maryland, 40% death vaccinated, Martha MacCallum at both Google and Duck Duck Go and it seems that nothing can be found. Even on YouTube I can find multiple interviews she has done. Fact the matter is that the 08/12/2021 (the latest one she did) interview that she did with Redfield dealt with getting kids back into school, the need to be masked and the lab leak theory. Nothing said at all about 40% of Maryland deaths being amongst the vaccinated. I'm pretty sure she'd have that interview on her official "The Untold Story" on her FOX hosted web page: The Untold Story With Martha MacCallum ____ Baltimore Sun By COLIN CAMPBELL BALTIMORE SUN | AUG 06, 2021 AT 3:14 PM Some fully vaccinated Marylanders are continuing to contract COVID-19, but only a small percentage have died or been hospitalized, according state data. Only 0.12% of those fully vaccinated — about 3,836 people in the state — later tested positive for the virus, the Maryland Department of Health reported. The 53 fully vaccinated people who died accounted for 3.7% of the deaths confirmed to have been caused by the virus in the state since January, according to the state. The 454 fully vaccinated patients who have been hospitalized represent 3.8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations since then, the state said. All but 3.2% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland have been among the unvaccinated since vaccines began arriving in January 2021, the state reported, adding the data to the bottom of its online coronavirus dashboard Thursday evening. _____ I did find data that supports an increase in hospitalizations amongst the vaccinate. But that also applied to those that had "natural immunities" also.
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    No, they are absolutely REFUSING to take the vaccine, not that they want a "choice". That names them anti-vax, no matter what their reason is. Anti: opposed to or against Vaccine: a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. Refuse: indicate or show that one is not willing to do something When one refuses a vaccine one is showing that you are against/opposed to (anti) said vaccine. Fits the bill perfectly. If you refuse the vaccine you are anti-vaccine by the very definitions given above. I don't really give a shit if it's because it's against your religion, against your personal philosophy or The Great Spaghetti Monster told you not to get it. It is still anti-vaccine as they are against it, otherwise they would have already voluntarily gotten it. NBC News poll on who has been vaccinated broken down by demographics: Democrats: 88 percent Independents: 60 percent Republicans: 55 percent Republicans who support Trump more than party: 46 percent Republicans who support party more than Trump: 62 percent As you can see by this poll, Republicans by far way are the minority, the subsets of the Republican Party is even more telling.
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    Any idiot knows that a vaccine is not 100% effective. What the vaccine is VERY good at is keeping your silly ass out of the hospital or the morgue. Compare number of cases of vaccinated to unvaccinated. Then further break that down by vaccinated and non-vaccinated that have been hospitalized and/or died. I think you will find that those that are vaccinated are in the LARGE minority of those ending up in the hospital or taking dirt naps.
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    Feel pretty comfortable that they have their data based upon facts, especially when you consider that it is from Nebraska Medicine (actual medical providers and not a "mainstream news media medical site"). The problem you run into with the natural immunity is the probability of severe symptoms and/or death as a result to gain that natural immunity. Then you have the fact that a recent study showed that 36% of those that had COVID-19 developed no natural anti-bodies. Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection The vaccine lowers that impact of hospitalization and/or death noticeably (all studies have validated that).
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    Actually her oxygen level has dropped drastically and her family is looking at her having to go into the hospital here if they can find an empty bed, if not they will have to ship her to another hospital. Much research is showing that people that have been exposed should still get the vaccine. The reason being is that they are finding those that caught the virus, about 20%-30% of them developed no antibodies. The "no-antibodies" results are much lower than that with the vaccine alone. COVID-19 natural immunity versus vaccination And no, I'm not wrong. There are plenty of polls and supporting evidence that Republicans are far and away the majority of the no vaccine members. Why do you think the majority of the heaviest hit states in the nation for cases and deaths trended Republican in 2020 and are ran by Republican governors and legislatures?
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    There are anti-vaxxers on both sides of the aisle. It just so happens that a larger majority of them tend to lean to the right.
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    She's on the "You can't make me" side of the aisle, but doesn't have the fortitude to come out and say it since her bosses are all strong vaccination proponents. Abbott's mandate ban applies to private business and governmental. Only issue is that Federal requirements trump (see what I did there) state requirements. The ironic thing about Abbott is he's doing the exact thing he's bitching about Biden doing, only at the other extreme of the stick. He's telling private businesses that they have no option even if they choose to mandate it for THEIR employees protection. Abbott and DeSantis are the ultimate in hypocrisy. If they were REAL Republicans, they'd be saying "It's your business and your choice whether to mandate a vaccine for your employees/customers" and then leaving it to the free market to validate or invalidate their choices.
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    No, I actually know 4 RN's that quite their job and wen to work for small clinics in which the owner (physicians) did not require vaccination for their employees. I also know that the clinic that I do IT support for requires vaccination but their business manager had been putting it off until one of the vaccines was fully FDA approved. She continued putting it off even after it obtained approval. Guess what she's sitting at home (so far as it hasn't gotten severe last I heard) with right now. Yep, you got it, COVID-19. And the doctors at the clinic are not that happy with her as they have been talking to her the past 2 weeks about getting the vaccine and she continued to postpone it. They don't know it, but she in reality is an anti-vaxxer when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. She's been on the Ivermectin treatment regimen and just knew she was safe.
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    I have no issues with them quitting if they don't agree. But it's really weird about nurses, who are supposed to be fact based, don't use fact based information for their choices. I guess they (like many of the anti-vaxxers) want 20 years of testing for the vaccine before they take it. What's funny to me is that medicine today is not like medicine in 1950 when several other vaccines were developed. Our knowledge and our ability for research are way beyond that time period. I had a friend that recently got a BAD case of COVID-19. During one of my conversations with him he was wanting someone to feel sorry for him and I flat out told him that I had absolutely NO sympathy for him as he could have taken the vaccine and most likely not have had as serious of a case as he was suffering from. I'm a firm believer in personal choice, but if your choice turns around and bites you in the ass, don't expect a lick of sympathy from me.
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    I've got to go get some new double layer DVD's that are large enough to burn the new ISO onto. It's 5.5GB compressed ISO format.
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