Strange Times

It isn't limited to motorcycles.
One of the local TV stations has been running a feature about speeding on the freeways in central Florida.
They have written a record number of tickets for 100+ in the last couple of weeks; cars, trucks and bikes. Seems like the light traffic is an open invitation to floor it.......for some.

My theory is that these people have no regard for ANY rules about anything.......and they are the ones most likely to ignore the rules about not congregating in groups and contract the virus as a result.
Too bad that their selfish actions can't take just THEM out without some collateral damage.

Having to go before a Judge for "reckless driving" probably won't phase them in the least.

 

i think the cops are afraid to pull anyone over. would have to get up close and personal

 

Same has been happening here in the OC of California. They act like its ok due to no traffic. But, they are very loud!!

 

I'm not yet hearing a reduction in the continual din of boy racers in the distance, taking advantage of the open roads (and more audible now because of reduced noise from other traffic?), but the troopers are busting more:

'Stop driving like you're a NASCAR racer': Trooper busts 127, 120 and 117 mph drivers

Based on other stories, it seems that speed-related organ donations are continuing as usual.

 

They call em Donor Cycles for a reason......

 

Technically, I am a scientist -- but other than a general idea, virology is not my field -- you know:

Oh, you want a tree frog expert. Well, I only work with tree frogs that dwell in Douglas fir trees that grow below 600 meters on the west sector of the Trout Creek Mountains.

There is no way I would want to be stuck with a vaccine that was rushed into production. Talk to me in a couple of years after they do the due.....or when this pandemic gets MUCH< MUCH< worse -- then maybe.

Wasn't only a couple of years ago they had big problem with one of the seasonal vaccines, IIRC.

And, yes, the polio issue is a well-known and often cited example of not dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
kris

 

i've been getting vax for nigh on 60 years, no issues. okay, mybe you think y=that's the cause of my problems

 

Yeah, my point. Obviously, the protection against "Old Timer's Disease" is not working....

BTW, my great grandmother seriously thought it was "Old Timer's Disease," not Alzheimer’s disease. Her hearing, well....

 

More 4-wheel than 2-wheel donors so far.

On the cycles, so far during the shutdown, it seems to be more drivers donating the organs of their ladyfriend passengers than their own.

 

If that is what you mean by very rural Oregon, then you aren't-a-kidding.

But I wasn't aware that anything there was at an elevation under 1200 meters. Or was that part of the point?

 

I'm tired, have a few more hours of work ahead before I can hit the pillow, but in Electric's great grand's case, a fair number of people have -- let's call it immunity" -- though technically, it is not, from "pass down."

Meaning, some folks had folks that had the virus or something like it, or had folks....

So, those caregivers were very precious.
kris

 

Hey, I like to say ...uhmm...wait...married with child.....let's just say, I am one of the few female HUMANS in my area -- although I saw a quite cute REAL cougar the other evening. \ Elevation....well that's a relative thing....
kris

 

We don't any of us get out alive anyway, so there is a lot to be said for her choosing for herself to use her gifts of time and energy in the ways she felt called to do. (The question of endangering great grandfather without his consent seems stickier, but it's complicated and we weren't there.)

There seems to be enough latitude in my own thinking that I can be moved by and respectful of your great grandmother's decision to put herself on the line, and still at the same time feel that, say, Dan Patrick sounds a little too glib on the subject of putting lots of people who aren't Dan Patrick on the line, and that his reasoning comes across as a bit heat'n'serve, as if he maybe hasn't put even as much time in thinking about it as you did to thoughtfully share this story.

 

Our techs cover a wide area, and we're held to time metrics for closing trouble tickets.
This leads to the wish that somebody would invent a Star Trek style transporter.....but the running joke is that we'd want to shove a few cats through it first!!

Would I take one of the first vaccines?
Sure....if it's an attenuated virus vaccine!
That's not 'new technology'.....it's simply using a refinement of a technique first used in the 1790s, and UNLIKE polio, smallpox, or the measles, COVID-19 has a relatively high survival rate AND an even higher rate of full recovery.

Plus....
SOMEBODY has to be first.
In this case, the juice would be worth the squeeze.

 

Pretty sure that is NOT the way they do it anymore.......and it was an "attenuated" virus that caused the polio vaccine problem.

Now they isolate one component of the bad virus protein that will activate the immune response without the entire structure of the virus being present.

 

...which would make it SAFER.....riiiight?

@ road speeders....
Saw my first 'revenge of the Po Po' yesterday!!

So....there I was.
I'm clamping along at PSL+5 being a proud representative of Priusdom and a good ambassador for my company, four seconds behind a van who is two seconds behind a Sherrif's patrol.....
...a little boy racer in a Yota comes smoking by me like I'm going backwards, and SLAMS on brakes when he sees the fuzz in front of the van.

Didn't work....
One minute me and the van are clamping along at PSL+ "maybe" a little bit more than 5mph with me being a proud representative of Priusdom and a good ambassador for my company...
A few years ago i would have paddled my brakes to warn the wanna-be drifter....but he was ABSOLUTELY busting 100 and traffic was way too thick where we were to be having that much fun.


Beware.
States are not going to stop collecting fines and fees from speeders for much longer.....

 

Please don't insult me yet again for contradicting you with reference articles, but ...

The big polio vaccine blowup happened from Salk's "killed virus" vaccine, due to manufacturing and inspection failures at Cutter Laboratories, the smallest of four companies making the product. The products made at the three larger companies did not display this problem. (Though some indicate Wyeth also had some problems.)

After Sabin's "attenuated virus" vaccine was proved out, it became the vaccine of choice in 1961. It was cheaper, easier to administer (orally, not by injection), and even produced some 'contact immunity' in close un-immunized people. But in rare cases the virus would reactivate in the gut and cause the disease.

An improved version of Salk's killed virus injected vaccine was licensed in 1987, and has become the vaccine of choice in the U.S. But worldwide, both are still in use, each with its own advantages. The Sabin oral type remains far cheaper, and a better choice for mass immunizations in developing regions.

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis