How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

[esoxlucius]

Hello; I just read this article.

A supercomputer found a promising theory about why COVID-19 cases go downhill fast. It even explains the bizarre range of symptoms.

It is still speculation so more needs to be tested. Two things positive maybe. One is there may be a new effective medication in time. That will not help us now but there is another nod toward the use of Vitamin D as well.
I am spending plenty of time outside as it is late summer here. So likely am getting some D production from sun exposure. I take a supplement D and this reminds me it is time to take one.

That's quite interesting but i'm on the fence. We're in a very serious global situation so these boffins go and put all the info into the SECOND fastest computer in the world!!! I say put the info through the fastest computer in the world and let's get a second opinion!!

 

[skjl47]

Another lads missus has got it too so he's at home isolating with her. He got tested because you'd obviously expect him to have it too living with her, but the test result was negative, how the hell does that work!!!

Hello; This sort of thing has happened with infectious disease. For some reason some folks do not get a new disease agent. Sometimes the reason gets figured out, but not always. My WAG is because the covid19 is of the same family of virus (corona virus) that causes things such as the common cold, there may be an immunity of sorts if a person has already had a cold or other corona virus with similar protein spike shapes to the covid19. A wild guess only.

Anyway I believe it is common enough for some percentage of a population to not become infected when exposed. I suppose in time some number may be given for this, but likely long after the dust has settled.

 

[skjl47]

That's quite interesting but i'm on the fence. We're in a very serious global situation so these boffins go and put all the info into the SECOND fastest computer in the world!!! I say put the info through the fastest computer in the world and let's get a second opinion!!

Hello; At one time I had a friend who worked in Oak Ridge TN. He was employed by a subcontractor for the national labs. NOAA I think (weather) I recall him telling of looking out the window of the particular lab building and seeing full hazard suited folks walking around.

Makes me wonder what the fastest computer is doing?

 

[esoxlucius]

Hello; This sort of thing has happened with infectious disease. For some reason some folks do not get a new disease agent. Sometimes the reason gets figured out, but not always. My WAG is because the covid19 is of the same family of virus (corona virus) that causes things such as the common cold, there may be an immunity of sorts if a person has already had a cold or other corona virus with similar protein spike shapes to the covid19. A wild guess only.

Anyway I believe it is common enough for some percentage of a population to not become infected when exposed. I suppose in time some number may be given for this, but likely long after the dust has settled.

It's all very bewildering. Some people are exposed and don't get it. Some people are exposed, get it, but are asymptomatic. And some poor buggers get it and are absolutely floored by it.

I wouldn't mind getting it just to see which category I fit into but I'm a right wuss. Knowing my luck i'd get a right devils dose of it and I'd hate to see my sons face as his old dad whimpered and wept like a girl in front of him! Lol.

 

[esoxlucius]

Hello; At one time I had a friend who worked in Oak Ridge TN. He was employed by a subcontractor for the national labs. NOAA I think (weather) I recall him telling of looking out the window of the particular lab building and seeing full hazard suited folks walking around.

Makes me wonder what the fastest computer is doing?

Maybe the fastest computer in the world is laid up in bed with coronavirus!!!! Social distancing measures mean they can't go anywhere near it to run the info through it.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Looks like covid hasn’t affected the progress of the new middle school being built

 

[skjl47]

Hello; On a couple of different note and on thread topic sorta. First the Tour De France. The tour normally is held in July and since it has been televised I have watched the 21 stages. This year the tour was canceled for July but was rescheduled for September. The race finished this past Sunday. What should have been an enjoyable thing to watch has left me angry. The race moderators interfered with at least two or three of the riders. One for sure lost his green jersey and the other maybe lost the yellow jersey.
The green jersey has been won by Peter Sagan for seven or eight years. The green jersey is the prize for the sprinters. Sagan is not always the fastest sprinter but is fast. He is however able to go well on smaller hills so has been around after climbs to win points in the sprints. Most other sprinters cannot climb much at all. Sagan had the green jersey a few days then lost it for a few days. On the day he won it back during a sprint at the finish line the moderators stepped in and took away all his points for that day. They claimed he did an illegal move. I watched the reply and saw what they used against him. They left out that he was about to run into a part of the barrier sticking out into the road and had to move left or crash. The sprinter to his left had drifted toward him and was squeezing him into the barrier. So Sagan leaned his head onto that rider just enough to move him back a bit so to avoid the barrier. Both riders continued to race No one crashed. No one was injured in any way.
The points from that particular sprint were taken away and as if that were not enough the took away other points from Sagan from earlier sprints. A punishment tailored to punish Sagan well beyond what seemed reasonable, of course in my opinion. The end result being Sagan did not do the impossible and make up the lost points and someone else won.

The other rider was had held the yellow jersey for many stages. At the end of one of the later stages one of the moderators took it on himself to take apart the yellow jersey holders bicycle looking for a hidden motor or some such. No illegal parts were found but the bicycle was damaged by the moderator in the process. The team boss of the yellow jersey rider gave the moderator a bad verbal chewing out over the incident and he was banned from the race. He was furious as that bicycle was specially tuned to the rider and knew a substitute bicycle would not work as well and might even cause strains or other physical damage to his rider during the intense racing. Guess what? That rider lost the yellow jersey. I cannot say for sure the damaged bike was the cause of course.

There was one other incident early in the race. A rider who was leading the race took a water bottle from his uncle I think and was docked enough time so that he was no longer in the lead. He also never made up those seconds.

Should I be angry? Perhaps not, but I am. There are too many things outside the activities of the riders making a difference. Oh, one more thing. Back a few years ago Peter Sagan was tossed out of the tour after a crash during a sprint. He was sent home but later the moderators reversed their decision. So what, he was already out of the race.


Next the 24 hours of LeMans. That race was to happen last June but was cancelled. Well it happened this past weekend. Fine except it was not televised like it normally is. I think it could be streamed for a fee. This did not make me angry. However it is something else to be frustrated about. Small stuff compared to getting very sick or dying I know. Those who get sick or die have a very much worse outcome due to the virus. I do, of course, still have a chance to catch the virus as far as that goes. Pointless Rant over.

 

[esoxlucius]

It's nice to see someone, other than myself, who loves the tour de france. I've watched it religiously for the past 20 years. I know of the incidents you refer to but I don't feel that anything underhand or unfair was carried out by the race organisers.

I love Peter Sagan but when it gets to the nitty gritty of the stage, the finishing sprint, which is his domain, he is ruthless. He is well known for using his head and elbows to shimmy his way through to a more advantageous position. I was there at the 2014 finish in Sheffield where he nearly killed Mark Cavendish at about 70kph, on stage one I think it was!!! He was sent home from the race and Cavendish was injured so badly he pulled out. So what makes Peter Sagan a great bike rider can, on occasion be his downfall too.

On the bike check. Sadly mechanical doping is as commonplace in the peloton as riders doping. Though I must add it's not nearly as common as it was as back in the day of Mr Armstrong! Routine checks are carried out by race officials regularly and I can say with a high degree of certainty that Primoz Roglic's bike wouldn't have been the only one checked out. If his bike was damaged in some way it's not really a big deal nowadays, the riders have several well tuned bikes each, both race bikes and aero bikes that they can use. What do you think happens if a rider falls off his bike in a crash and snaps his carbon frame in two!! He just jumps on a replacement. It's not generally a bike that will let a rider down, it's his legs!!

And the incident regarding Julien Allaphilippe and his drinks bottle collecting antics is plain and simply his own fault. The race had passed the 20km to go marker, I think they were 18km from the finish, when he took that bottle. It states within race rules that no extra drinks are to be taken, other than what you have on your bike, once you are within the 20km to go mark. I'm not overly familiar with the semantics of it all, i'd have to dig deeper in this one but the rules are the rules.

I'm just glad that i've found someone who gets as animated as me over bike riding! Maybe we'll have to start out own annual Tour de France thread, lol. We'll be the only two participants!

 

[fishhead0103666]

You bike riders are insane, putting yourself through that with no guarantee of victory, I’d sooner learn rocket science than put my body through that.

 

[esoxlucius]

You bike riders are insane, putting yourself through that with no guarantee of victory, I’d sooner learn rocket science than put my body through that.
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Lol. My body can handle bike riding, not that i'm anywhere near tour de france level, but my brain certainly couldn't handle rocket science. Give me a bike anyday. Lol.