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Blue_true's JournalNot that anyone on DU who is not a lurking right winger needs to be convinced
of the power of proper mask wearing (all parts of nose and mouth covered, nose wire used to conform top of mask to cheeks) and social distancing. But below is an actual (albeit) unintentional case study. The person that made this boo-boo is a smart man, Peter Diamandis (Engineering degree, Medical degree and I think one other technical degree, and the Founder of the XPrize that awarded $10 million in 2004 to a person that developed a scheme for private manned space flights).
Any way. The guy was going to put on a big tech convention that is held each year, looking at futuristic tech stuff. Except this year he initially made it remote, until people bugged him about attending in person. So he gave in to the people wanting to attend in person. Being a really smart person, looks like he figured out a way to keep everyone safe. He had people take PCR COVID19 tests repeatedly before they arrived and they were tested during and after the conference. As the old saying goes, “regardless of how smart you are or think you are, you don’t know what you don’t know”. Well his idea, bad ideal. Interestingly one group that was there the whole time had NO ONE set sick from COVID19, by now, you likely have guessed what the group did.
Some details below: I posted a key excerpt in case the article is paid view to you.
There were four groups:
Organization members: 12 of 30 got sick
Faculty: 4 of 9 got sick
Staff: 5 of 10 got sick
Video production: 0 of 35 got sick, all wore masks at all times and social distanced.
https://apple.news/ATjR8SkJuT_mKQXKU3pE6FQ
A suggestion.
Once when I went home for a visit from an out of state engineering job assignment, my Mom presented me with one of the old fashioned quilts, the type that weigh like 20 pounds and are made by hand. She lived in Florida and really didn’t need anything like that quilt, but she knew that I was working in a place that got cold during the Winter and maybe she saw snow storms on tv news and thought about me. It was a really nice quilt, but I had no idea of what to do with it. I dutifully took it back with me and for a number of years packed it and took it with me during my new job postings. Since there was no good place to store something that bulky and I didn’t want to leave it laying near the floor, I always found a corner in a closet where ever I was living at the time.
Long story short. On a brutally cold night, the heat in the apartment that I was living in on the assignment went out. Within a hour in the middle of the night, the place went dead frigid cold. There was not a hotel that I could go check into. I pulled all of the store bought warm blankets and used every one of them and was still freezing. Desperate, I found that bulky old quilt that my Mom had given me. I put it on top of the other blankets, immediately I the air around my body started warming up, so much so that I had to take off one of the store bought warm blankets to avoid overheating. It may be hyperbole, but to this day I am convinced that quilt saved my life that night. The nice American made warm blankets were no match for the brutal cold, that quilt that my Mom bought from a group of ladies that hand made such bed covering was more than a match.
As I read the news coming out of Texas one of my first thoughts is why people would not use blankets. Then I remember that night, even the best made modern warm blankets likely were no match for the cold that hit parts of Texas. The situation also made me realize how much of the old time crafts, like quilt making we no longer have. The big bulky “warmers” that can be bought in department store simply can’t match the thick quilts old people used to sit and make, thick and warm internal filling stitched every couple inches so that the quilt could likely be hit by a tank shell and would mostly be still there. It is sad in a way because we have lost that craft, the old ladies likely passed away years ago, but unlike much of the “old days” stuff that people like Trumpers pine about, things like quilt craft and home goods craft done by old women and men is something that is truly lost to us and is irreplaceable.
I have to get this off my chest because it is bothering me.
I apologize if this had been discussed.
The situation with the Deputy Press Secretary really bothers me. I feel that his ass should have been fired and here is why. The alleged language that he used, to me, denotes a person that is turned on by the trappings of power. In my experience, the most influential powerful people have been the ones that were not taken by having power, but instead were relentlessly mission driven, to give an extreme, they were just as comfortable and content having dinner at a homeless shelter with homeless people as they were being part of a glitzy affair that drew in the rich and powerful.
I read the articles about his actions and that he was not fired is bothersome. A mission driven person would have never done what he did to begin with. We need mission driven Democrats surrounding President Biden, IMO.
Have any of you suddenly discover something about yourself that you never realized?
I have used rakes a lot in my life. I was recently raking leaves at my home and realized that all my life, I have naturally raked left handed. I never realized that until that moment. I am right handed with a dominant right handed tendency, but if I try to rake from the right, I can only do so weakly and for less than a minute.
I know that it is simple-minded, but have you ever had a revelation about something that you do naturally, but based upon your overall makeup, should do another way?
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