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Post by Chesapeake on May 7, 2020 18:44:54 GMT -5
In the line of presidential succession, guess who would be president if Trump were to be incapacitated, and that he turned out to have infected Pence on his way out?
Hint: She's from California.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 6, 2020 22:06:11 GMT -5
I wonder how many get the reference to "Betty and Dupree." Did he ever buy her that diamond ring? Good ear!
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Post by Chesapeake on May 6, 2020 17:01:39 GMT -5
I wonder how many get the reference to "Betty and Dupree."
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Post by Chesapeake on May 6, 2020 13:25:00 GMT -5
This song has gotten me through some anxious times. Note the empty chair with a guitar in it to represent Roy Orbison, who had passed before the video was made. Also Jim Keltner on drums. That chair is still rockin'.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 5, 2020 22:43:29 GMT -5
Here's some more happy news: White House coronavirus task force to be wound down around Memorial Day (CNN) The White House coronavirus task force will start to wind down later this month, a senior White House official told CNN on Tuesday.
The official said the task force "will be phased down around Memorial Day. We will continue to have key medical experts advising (President Donald Trump) daily and accessible to press throughout the coming months ahead." The New York Times first reported the White House's plan to wind down the task force. The move would quash the most visible nerve center for the federal government's response to the virus. But a senior administration official told CNN to expect members of the task force to still be involved in conversations with governors and industry leaders because the White House is aware that leaders still want to hear from doctors as they reopen their states and businesses.
Oh good. Without those pesky lying scientists like Dr. Fauci do distract us, we can focus on the real authorities in the matter of pandemics, like Donald J. "Pass-the-Clorox" Trump.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 5, 2020 21:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on May 4, 2020 22:16:17 GMT -5
It’s not from apple, Don. It’s a random fishing thing tat pops up occasionally, just back out of it and continue doing whatever. The scammers are good at Spoofing something realistic looking. It’s not this site either, it’s random. Mike That's kind of what I figured. I have a feeling that I would have regretted tapping the "OK" button.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 4, 2020 12:14:36 GMT -5
I called up SoundHole a few minutes ago on my iPHone and got the following message: MALWARE ATTACK PRESS "OK" TO REPAIR. Supposedly the message was from Apple. Looked very official. I've noticed in the past that Proboards (sp?) can be a little squirrely, so I shut down the program and switched over to my laptop, which I'm posting this from.
Anybody else get this?
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Post by Chesapeake on May 3, 2020 20:09:15 GMT -5
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Post by Chesapeake on May 3, 2020 13:21:45 GMT -5
Such eloquent expressions of thoughts I think all of us have, but don't find words for. Perfect pairing with Emmylou's song.
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Post by Chesapeake on May 3, 2020 0:44:15 GMT -5
I've been intubated I think five times now during surgeries. How much do you remember about the experience?
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Post by Chesapeake on May 2, 2020 21:38:58 GMT -5
"Intubation" is a word I never gave much thought to until recently. I looked it up, and it doesn't sound like a lot of fun, given the ordeal itself, and also the low odds of survival once a patient has gone on a ventilator.
Obviously cases vary from one to another, but I'm just wondering what our docs think about the procedure.
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 30, 2020 12:20:07 GMT -5
Happy birthday!
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 29, 2020 20:56:54 GMT -5
Some of this reminds me of seventh-grade election etiquette at Lincolnia Elementary when it came to choosing a class president. The nominees were expected to vote for each other. I never did get that.
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 29, 2020 12:38:27 GMT -5
The humor seems a little forced. There's no way Ellen DeGeneres would settle for being an apostrophe.
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 28, 2020 15:55:21 GMT -5
I lost nearly two or three when I had a bad cold earlier this year, then gained a bit back and now I've dropped back below 180. I'm not sure that I'm consuming fewer calories, but since I'm still a couch potato, that's the only explanation. Maybe my five mini-meals a day are each a little smaller. (The dramatic loss--ten pounds plus--came a couple years ago when my myasthenia gravis presented and I had trouble eating for the month or two before it was identified and addressed. I then regained about half of the loss for a while.) One hundred and eighty pounds is a distant memory. That's what I weighed when I was in the army.
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 28, 2020 13:14:23 GMT -5
After the first few days of grappling with the pandemic, I noticed I'd lost a little weight. Damn little - maybe a pound over the first week or so. But it was something. Then it spiked back up a bit, then back down a bit, and so on. It seems like I'm consuming less food, but I'm not getting as much exercise either, so that might be a sum-zero proposition. Still trying to figure out if I can turn one little tiny piece of this calamity to something good, but not convinced it's going to work.
How about you? Any noticeable change in the P factor? (Pudgy.)
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 28, 2020 12:35:30 GMT -5
To paraphrase my fifth-grade home-room teacher, I could pick like that if I just applied myself.
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 27, 2020 12:33:46 GMT -5
You've certainly earned a vacation. Well done!
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Post by Chesapeake on Apr 26, 2020 14:55:04 GMT -5
About the wet markets: their products are not considered downscale at all, in case anybody might think that. In fact, the opposite is true. I'm reluctant to mention this here because it's so gross, but in the late 1980s a National Geographic colleague wrote and photographed a story about the global market in exotic animals. China is famously one of the major players in this market. One of the photos that did not get published was of a table full of wealthy Chinese businessmen in an exclusive restaurant eating raw monkey brains from the skull of a live monkey that had been strapped into a chair and had his skull sawed open. So I guess eating bats isn't that much of a stretch.
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