May 22, 2020

Has anyone kept a tally of how many people have died from taking Chloroquine

specifically to treat Covid-19?

May 14, 2020

Remember the gold stars in WWII? We need them now.

I'm thinking it may be time to do something like this for families of people who died from Covid-19. Maybe a black star with a gold or blue border. No need to sell them -- just do a web site where you can download it, print it, and hang it in the window. No donations required.

Of course, given the current regime, the site may need to be hosted outside of the US so the government can't force the owners to take it down.

May 14, 2020

Just received this from Photobucket

Just got this:

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Verrry interesting... I used Photobucket for a few years before they decided to charge people for photos they had uploaded on a free account, but I wouldn't have a clue how to host photos, let alone what a "free tier" account is. So I'm wondering if it's a scam. I'm going to contact them directly thru their web site and see what happens. Obviously, no way I'm going to click on the links.

UPDATE: I just tried their web site, but there doesn't seem to be any way to contact them directly. So the hell with it.

May 10, 2020

My response to "why are you wearing a mask?"

So next time somebody asks me that, I'll say, "Well, see, I'm one of those moron idiot shit-for-brains assholes who really believes it's easier to prevent a fire than to put it out. So I'd rather wear this thing than find myself in a hospital plugged into a ventilator. Besides, I don't like hospital food."

May 10, 2020

Some people can be so fucking ignorant.

I went to pick up a take-out order, and a guy behind me was kvetching about the lockdown, going on and on about how "everyone" is pissed off, and how demonstrations are going to happen, and so on and on. Of course, he was the only one not wearing a mask in the small group.

Then he started in on how one of these days they're going to bring the trains in, and get people to board them on the promise of going to a better place to live. "Another Holocaust," he said.

Sometimes I wish someone would die and make me king: I would send these assholes somewhere where they would have to see how fucking dumb they are and beg me to get them outta there.

April 29, 2020

Anyone here outside Kentucky contributing to Amy McGrath?

Just curious. She's getting mine later today.

April 24, 2020

If we inject disinfectant,

would we end up dead with a very clean virus?

April 22, 2020

I am so sick of everything getting politicized.

I've said here before that I have an old out-of-town friend who's a Republican. Mostly, we avoid talking politics and just focus on common interests and the adventure of growing older by the day. But every now and then he sends me a clip or a link about something political, and recently it was about Covid-19 and how the Democrats this-or-that. I sent back a reply telling him that I detested the fact that an international tragedy is getting politicized, and that people seem more interested in talking about "the other side" than about the pandemic itself and what's being done about it -- and especially about how the MSM sells a lot more ad time talking about the cases and the deaths than about how many people have recovered.

It seems to be getting harder and harder to talk about anything without dragging "the other side'" in. Geez, a bird pooped on my windshield. If I'm a Democrat, it's the Republicans' fault, and if I were a Republican, it'd be the Democrats' fault.

Are we really getting to the point where everything is about politics? I'm getting to the point where I don't even want to talk to people any more about anything besides the weather and simplistic stuff. Even chatting about wearing a mask of not turns into politics.

And yeah, I know... I hang out in a political chat room.

April 21, 2020

This is overboard-thinking, but is POtuS starting a mini-Holocaust?

Given that older people seem to be more in danger of dying from Covid-19, and given his (its?) refusal to take action and listen to experts, and his (its?) politicizing a worldwide tragedy, and all this bullshit about dying for the economy, is it remotely possible that he (it) deliberately wants to eliminate a specific segment of the population?

I know this goes way beyond tin-hat time, but it does make me wonder.

Ironically, given the status quo, it would seem that a good chunk of the people who will die are his own supporters who refuse to take the precautions suggested by medical experts.

April 21, 2020

A little help with file sharing, please..

I'm looking to make three files (under a meg each) available to people who want to use them. This is a one-time thing, the files are free, and there's no registration needed. Basically, "if you want to use the files, you can download them here." I know about Dropbox and a couple of others, but wanted to see if you folks have other suggestions or favorite sites.