NDSU grad

Update on my Covid situation. Myself and both kids negative. Wife still with moderate cold symptoms but lessening. 14 year old daughter complained of a headache for two days and 11 year old son thought his legs were kind of achy for a night. I have no symptoms.

In addition to my previous post it’s estimated the pandemic of 1889-90 killed about 1 million people worldwide, slightly less than Covid deaths in the current pandemic. The global population in 1890 was 1.6 billion, compared to the 7.8 billion people who populate the globe today.

There’s no ‘solution’. Humans are now susceptible to 7 coronaviruses instead of 5. There was an interesting article from The Atlantic where epidemiologists looked at the genetic material of one of the seasonal coronaviruses known to infect humans. They dated some of the genetic mutations in that virus to the late 19th century. Coincidentally that corresponds to an epidemic in 1889 that had previously been attributed to influenza. Some epidemiologistS now attribute that epidemic to a ‘novel’ coronavirus.

Yep and if you want to get out of purgatory a day or two earlier you tell your contract tracer you developed symptoms a couple of days before your positive test, because then it reverts back to when your ‘symptoms’ first started developing. They don’t ask you any questions about your health when you test so you can make up anything to your contract tracer. If you test negative you’re screwed. Let that sink in. Your quarantine is the longest if you’re a completely healthy person who doesn’t have Covid.

Then you make up a date to tell your contract tracer you’ve developed symptoms. 10 days after that date you’re good to go.

It was easy for us. Mass testing event. Just had to fill out the registration forms. I was a little leery too but myself and the two kids were in and out in 15 minutes.

I’ll just add that if a kid is a close contact it makes sense to get them tested and hope for a positive so they can get back to school sooner.

Going through the same thing. Wife is positive and symptomatic. She can go back to work 10 says after first symptoms. I am asymptomatic and have to quarantine for 14 days + the 10 days after her first symptoms, hence the 24 days. I got tested yesterday and am hoping for a positive so I can start living my life sooner.

LOL. Odds are definitely in our favor. Wife has moderate cold symptoms and I am completely asymptomatic. I’m going to get tested tomorrow.

The wife popped a positive yesterday. There’s a testing event tomorrow. If I go and test positive I shorten my quarantine by about 12 days. Science.

Well those NDSU guys are usually pretty smart. Ha ha.

I'm really curious to see what happens with wrestling. Not just in MN, but everywhere.

About 5.7 million people were prescribed hydroxy chloroquine in 2017. Weird there would be so many prescriptions for a drug ‘proven’ to be unsafe.

Not at all. But I do know the difference between a tax return and a balance sheet. I think I learned that my sophomore year of high school in an accounting class.

How does a tax return show somebody’s balance sheet?

Jefferson characterized people as falling into two group, liberal and servile. Modern conservatives fall into the liberal category, while people who currently characterize themselves as liberal/progressive fall into the servile category. Jefferson's direct quote on classic liberalism is "those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them cherish and consider them as the most honest & safe,...". His direct quote on serviles is "those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes". Even though he wrote that 196 years ago I think it still rings true today.

Testing will set us free.

And we were told more testing was key in preventing cases.

Follow Ari Fleischer on Twitter today for a fascinating minute by minute of the happenings of 9/11.

It’s more so clean coal technology and tighter emissions that have led to better air quality. Particularly the reduction in sulfur containing compounds. I don’t have access to data on fossil fuel usage, but I don’t think there’s been a reduction compared to 40 years ago.

There is actually pretty decent empirical evidence for this. Whether Trump can take credit for it is another story. It’s actually kind of ridiculous how ‘clean’ the air over the U.S. is compared to other developed countries.

I don’t think this will really get sorted out until we have data regarding causes of death for 2020. Unfortunately the latest CDC data I can find is for 2017. The two categories to keep an eye on are ‘chronic lower respiratory diseases’ and ‘Influenza and pneumonia’. If there’s a decrease in those two categories roughly equaling COVID deaths we have definitely all been hoodwinked. We probably won’t know for a while though.

What I’ve heard is she had a drug overdose two days prior to her death. Also had contracted MRSA and pneumonia prior to testing positive.

That article was so two days ago. We’ve learned so much about the virus since then.

Meh. Minot’s a red town and no decision has been made yet. Parents and teachers favor a full in classroom model though.