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[Qxxx]

Two factors, I believe.  First, experience with the effects of the virus and knowing what to look for has improved outcomes.  For example, a patient in ER may not appear to be having a serious breathing problem, but have an oxygen saturation level of 50%!  That is very bad news, and can lead to a cascade of organs shutting down--and "sudden" death.  Second, one-third of hospitalizations in my area are among those under 65, with a sharp increase in patients 18-49.  Younger patients often recover more rapidly.  And I do believe there has been some better use of anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-clotting meds.  Also antibody "rich" plasma from "recovered" COVID-19 patients is in use.  It will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Thanks for the rundown, VanFan. On doing some search, this article indicates some major factors are turning people onto their stomachs to improve lung filling, administering oxygen for some groups that might have been put onto ventilators previously, and use of steroids like dexmethasone to help curb inflammation. Remdesivir has been in use for several months now, but I am still surprised someone, somewheres hasn't found another effective therapeutic or antiviral agent. Something bizarre about this virus.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/8/2...-treatment-hospitals-remdesivir-dexamethasone

My area is like most of the country, 80% of cases are in people <60, and 80% of deaths in those >60. Except that the past several weeks, it's been all people >60 dying. It still amazes me that the countries in Europe have brought it under control, while this country is going the other way .... and fast. Even though people are supposed to be wearing masks around here, very few are doing so, and certainly none of the younger people that I see (shakes his head).

 

[Qxxx]

 Mason and Dixon are the names of the two men from England who did the surveying of the line. They were not "yankees" .  

From the previous post .... "So it says: "border between the free (Northern) states and the slave (Southern) states". Obviously written by a damn yankee".

I hardly expect a southerner would refer to his home in writing as "[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]the slave (Southern) states". [/font]
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[Qxxx]

Wind Cries Mary.

#1 Hendrix. Lord, who can write this stuff?

"Will the wind ever remember?
The names it has blown in the past
And with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers "no, this will be the last".

 

[maki2]

photo of today's job. My back is killing me with all this bending and twisting and reaching way inside of a cabinet. But it helps that I don't have any doors on the cabinets yet.

I had built a platform with some refrigerator rollers underneath it. What I was doing last night and today was fabricating brackets to secure two length of aluminum angle to act as guide rails and also to keep it from bouncing upwards. You can see one of those angles looking down towards the base. Inside of those angles I have some UHMW slippery tape adhered to the surface to make it glide and in out effortlessly. I just need to add two pins tomorrow that keep it from moving in and out while under way plus a foam bumper cushion on the rear wall of the cabinet. So 99 percent done, it will be checked off the build list tomorrow.

 

[desert_sailing]

NIce work!

I thought that was a washing machine at first. The picture makes it look huuuge.  Nice craftsmanship.

 

[Qxxx]

I wish I was in Dixie.

 

[maki2]

From the previous post .... "So it says: "border between the free (Northern) states and the slave (Southern) states". Obviously written by a damn yankee".

I hardly expect a southerner would refer to his home in writing as "[size=small][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]the slave (Southern) states". [/font]
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If someone I kew groing up in a Southern state was pround to be from the Rebel south with slavery I certainly never hward that from them. No doubt there are some, just saying  growing up I never heard anyoone say that. No rebel flags around either. Bigotry was not allowed in my household, racial equality was taught to us.

 

[Qxxx]

To put it all into perspective, it's pretty clear the terminology Dixie and Dixieland derived from the origination of the Mason-Dixon Line.

 

[maki2]

To put it all into perspective, it's pretty clear the terminology Dixie and Dixieland derived from the origination of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Buzz....sorry wrong answer. Assumptions about word origins are not always a match as you did not live through the time when the terms originated.
It is from the French word "dix"

From Britanica encylopedia
According to the most common explanation of the name, $10 notes issued before 1860 by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans and used largely by French-speaking residents were imprinted with dix (French: “ten”) on the reverse side; hence the land of Dixies, or Dixie Land, which applied to Louisiana and eventually the whole South.

The song “Dixie” was originally a “hooray song” or walk-around in Jerry Bryant’s minstrel show, for which Emmett, a native Ohioan of Virginian parents, performed and wrote music. It was played at the inauguration of Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis on Feb. 18, 1861, in Montgomery, Ala.

 

[Qxxx]

Yeah, I was expecting that, lol.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie#Origin_of_the_name

 

[travelaround]

I'm not from Dixie but have no problem with the word like some people apparently do. I think it is terrible the Dixie Chicks changed their name to get rid of Dixie... when it only means a 10 dollar bill or a man who surveyed an area of the country. I looked for it on the web and apparently it is a song about a former slave in the North longing for his former home in the South... not that he'd want to be a slave again, but just homesick for the former home/climate/area.

Anyhow, hope you all are having a good day. I went to the transfer station, the post office and the store and now am considering a more recreational drive - something I haven't done since March!

 

[Qxxx]

Geez, just the Chicks now. If political correctness gets any worse in this country, they'll have to burn all the textbooks and erase 500 years of american history. Wherein 500 years of white men of european extract (where they had been butchering one another for many centuries back to the Dark Ages) coming to the colonies and repeating the same exact behavior. Let's erase it all, and then our kids will really be ignorant.

Widespread use of Dixie based upon "dix" doesn't cut it for half a dozen reasons and more. High 90s here for the next week. I see Yuma still getting 108-113F, similar for Quartzsite and Phoenix. Sheesh.

 

[tx2sturgis]

Geez, just the Chicks now. 

Wait...what? Are you sayin the Chicks lost their DIX?

Oh lord....and I can see Thor's Hammer poised right over this comment, so I'm gonna archive it!

 

[Qxxx]

Yeah, and people think "I" am bad .... besides being wrong, overly sarcastic, a poor cook, and of ill humor in addition. The one thing I never do, however, is to ... point to the Heavens and tempt Fate. They could at least have renamed themselves the "Spice Chicks".

 

[wayne49]

"The Chicks" will soon have the attention of other special interests groups.

"A music group in search of a neutral, non-offensive name."

 

[Qxxx]

The Washington Redskins will now be called the DC Toe Suckers.

 

[VanFan]

Y'all are making me feel old!  I remember the Dixie Chicks playing in the underground pedestrian plaza of One Main Place in downtown Dallas at lunch time for chump change and a little exposure.  Who knew?

 

[desert_sailing]

The Washington Redskins will now be called the DC Toe Suckers.

I think they are actually going to switch to the Redtails..

not a joke..

but I can see lots of their nonfans making memes of diaper rash.

 

[Qxxx]

"Redtails", they must have paid some marketing firm millions for that one. Sheesh.

 

[B and C]

Red Tails were an all black flying squadron in WWII. They had an impressive legacy escorting the B-17 bombers over Germany.