KY_EnviroGuy
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Dean Parks (acoustic) and Tim Pierce (electric) sit down and play the guitar parts from Clapton's Change The World. Dean played on the original LA sessions.
Tim Pierce Guitar
Eric Clapton | Change The World | Dean Parks | Tim Pierce | Performance | Talk
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Mar 1, 2018
Here's the original Clapton song for reference:
Eric Clapton - Change The World
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Throwing this idea out for discussion regarding community coronavirus prevention.
What if communities provided one-page leaflets to pass out to our communities in stores, airports and bus stations, entertainment venues, schools and businesses?
I'm thinking a simple review of the disease, how to prevent becoming infected, what to do if you think you may have it, contact phone numbers and local/federal web sites.......and written in layman's language.
The sheets could be passed out at say, grocery store entrances or placed in racks for self-service at checkouts, passed out to kids in school and placed in the mailboxes of employees or emailed in a PDF file.
I feel too many people are relying on bogus and unprofessional info floating around social media and some public media.
I'm thinking of proposing this idea to my local metro council members.
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(no-germ hug, just electrons).....
Parents: Read this to check your kid's disease safety at school.
This article is written by health professionals at Harvard with excellent credentials. This is good reference info for taking to your local schools to check how well they're doing on coronavirus, flu and measles safety:
To Prepare for Coronavirus, Simple Measures Are Often Most Effective
Public health experts and educators emphasize clear benefits of handwashing habits and well-stocked restrooms in schools
By: Emily Boudreau
Posted: March 8, 2020
Read it here: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/20/03/prepare-coronavirus-simple-measures-are-often-most-effective
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And yet well-stocked school restrooms and healthy handwashing habits are not always the norm. A recent investigation by the Boston Globe revealed that public health inspectors had found problems in 89 of 111 Boston Public Schools bathrooms. In Detroit, students filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Education noting nonworking sinks and lack of basic supplies such as toilet paper. The issues extend beyond infrastructure. “New York City teachers have described elementary schools that refuse to allow students to use bathroom sinks because washing hands ‘wastes time’ and ‘causes incidents (such as water fights),’” says Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Meira Levinson. “This is a good time to turn these approaches around. By investing in bathroom maintenance and improvements and by changing the culture around handwashing, schools have an opportunity to show students both that their health and wellbeing are critically important and that they can be part of a public health solution that will help others.”
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Schools should build disease-prevention practices into daily schedules.
Add 5 minutes to lunch and recess periods to ensure students have time to wash their hands.
Build in the practice of handwashing throughout the day, during transition times.
Provide hand sanitizer at school entrances.
Set up hand-sanitizer stations in each classroom, so that each time children return to the classroom, they get a squirt. Students should be taught to spread the sanitizer evenly and entirely over both hands and to allow their hands to air-dry. (Note that public health guidance says that washing hands with soap and water is most effective, but hand sanitizers with at least 60 percent alcohol are a sound alternative when soap and water are unavailable.)
Post handwashing reminders around the school that reinforce proper handwashing techniques.
Make it a classroom habit to regularly clean or wipe surfaces that everyone touches often. Appoint students to a “clean squad,”and make it as special as being appointed line leader or any other classroom perk.
Schools should ensure that all restrooms are always well stocked with soap and paper towels. Sinks should all have hot and cold running water. Washrooms should be accessible — all students should be able to reach the sink. Clean public washrooms frequently.
Schools can mobilize PTO and parent volunteers to equip schools and classrooms with cleaning supplies, as needed.
Smooth out processes to accept parent donations of soap, hand sanitizer, and cleaning supplies.
Take advantage of classroom representatives, if they exist at your school. These classroom-based parent volunteers can coordinate preparedness at a hyper-local level. These preparations can be fun and customized to each classroom.
.........and much more good info including links to other pro articles and the CDC, WHO, etc.
With this knowledge, parents and teachers can approach school administers on how to correct deficiences. Let's all remember schools usually have deficiencies due to severe budget cuts or troubled kids, so we need to be compassionate with our approach.
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Experts make a sobering point about virus prevention in our schools...
Former FDA chief & Harvard professor: Take smart steps to slow spread of the coronavirusSmall steps like hand-washing and covering coughs can not only reduce our risks of infection but also have a big impact on the scope of an epidemic.
Scott Gottlieb and Marc Lipsitch
March 6, 2020
Link to article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/06/former-fda-chief-gottlieb-actions-needed-fight-coronavirus-covid-19-column/4967137002/
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These small steps can reduce your individual risk of becoming infected, but practiced on a wide scale, they can have a big impact on the scope of an outbreak or epidemic. We can make all of these measures easier for ourselves and others through our actions at the workplace and in schools. Every workplace, school, and other public areas should have adequate facilities for hand-washing, including hot water and soap, as well as alcohol-based sanitizer. In our personal experience, schools in particular often have cold water only in the bathrooms, and no soap. This has long been a problem, but COVID-19 raises it to a critical public health issue.
Should parents be pressing schools to provide at least some bar soap or perhaps foaming liquid soap, along with training for the kids?
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Best article I've seen so far on hand cleansing to remove and destroy viruses....
with what appears to be scientific credibility.
Deadly viruses are no match for plain, old soap — here’s the science behind it
Published: March 8, 2020 at 10:42 a.m. ET
By Palli Thordarson
Soap works better than alcohol and disinfectants at destroying the structure of viruses
Read it here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deadly-viruses-are-no-match-for-plain-old-soap-heres-the-science-behind-it-2020-03-08?mod=home-page
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That sounds scientific. Let me explain.
Soap dissolves the fat membrane, and the virus falls apart like a house of cards and “dies,” or rather, it becomes inactive as viruses aren’t really alive. Viruses can be active outside the body for hours, even days.
Disinfectants, or liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol (and soap) have a similar effect but are not as good as regular soap. Apart from alcohol and soap, antibacterial agents in those products don’t affect the virus structure much. Consequently, many antibacterial products are basically just an expensive version of soap in how they act on viruses. Soap is the best, but alcohol wipes are good when soap is not practical or handy, for example in office reception areas.
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Short essay on the history of the humble potato.
I found this piece a welcome break from all the stress over coronavirus and the tRump infection pandemic.......
How the humble potato changed the world
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
BBC Travel
3 March 2020
Read it here: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200302-the-true-origins-of-the-humble-potato
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“Despite its origins in the Andes, it’s an incredibly successful global food,” said food historian Rebecca Earle, who’s tracing the potato’s planetary journey in a forthcoming book called Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. “It’s grown practically everywhere in the world, and practically everywhere, people consider it one of ‘our foods’.”
A good place to understand its origins is the Spanish Centro Internacional de la Papaa (CIP), or International Potato Center, a research-for-development centre that researches and promotes all things potato-related. It’s set in an arid suburb in the Peruvian capital, Lima, and harbours a collection of thousands of potato samples from across the continent. “The Andes is where the biggest genetic diversity lies, but you can find potatoes from Chile to the United States,” René Gómez, senior curator at the CIP genebank, told me there.
He explained that potatoes were domesticated high in the Andes, near Lake Titicaca, nearly 1,000km south-east of Lima. Following domestication, these early potatoes spread through the cordillera and became a crucial food supply for indigenous communities, including the Inca, particularly as a staple foodstuff called chuño, a freeze-dried potato product that can last years or even decades.
We probably have Americans that think potatoes originated at McDonald's......
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First coronavirus case in Kentucky/Harrison County.....
which is about 10-mi. north of Lexington (University of KY) and around 30-mi. south of metro Cincinnati and just off I-75. I believe the largest town is Cynthiana.
Gov. Beshear provides update on coronavirus: 'Dont panic. Be prepared'
First patient is a resident of Harrison County, Kentucky
Link: https://www.wlky.com/article/watch-gov-to-provide-update-on-coronavirus-in-kentucky/31269307
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This update comes one day after Kentucky's first confirmed case. Beshear said on Friday that a man who lives in Harrison County recently tested positive for the illness.
The man is in isolation and receiving treatment at UK's Chandler Hospital in Lexington. Beshear said the patient was first treated at Harrison Memorial Hospital. He was listed in serious condition but is improving, Beshear said.
Link to KY Dept. of Health Coronavirus web page: https://chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/Pages/covid19.aspx
COVID-19 Hotline 1-800-722-5725
PLEASE NOTE: COVID-19 is a reportable disease in Kentucky
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(cross-posted from GD)
First coronavirus case in Kentucky/Harrison County.....
which is about 10-mi. north of Lexington (University of KY) and around 30-mi. south of metro Cincinnati and just off I-75. I believe the largest town is Cynthiana.
Gov. Beshear provides update on coronavirus: 'Dont panic. Be prepared'
First patient is a resident of Harrison County, Kentucky
Link: https://www.wlky.com/article/watch-gov-to-provide-update-on-coronavirus-in-kentucky/31269307
(snips)
This update comes one day after Kentucky's first confirmed case. Beshear said on Friday that a man who lives in Harrison County recently tested positive for the illness.
The man is in isolation and receiving treatment at UK's Chandler Hospital in Lexington. Beshear said the patient was first treated at Harrison Memorial Hospital. He was listed in serious condition but is improving, Beshear said.
Link to KY Dept. of Health Coronavirus web page: https://chfs.ky.gov/agencies/dph/Pages/covid19.aspx
COVID-19 Hotline 1-800-722-5725
PLEASE NOTE: COVID-19 is a reportable disease in Kentucky
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Shoppers brawl over toilet paper in Sydney
Perhaps a good fake sign to post on our front doors.......
'It isn't Mad Max': Police warning after shoppers brawl over toilet paper in Sydney
Police called to a western Sydney supermarket on Saturday over reports of a physical altercation
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/07/it-isnt-mad-max-police-warning-after-shoppers-brawl-over-toilet-paper-in-sydney
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“We just ask that people don’t panic like this when they go out shopping,” NSW police acting inspector Andrew New said. “There is no need for it. It isn’t the Thunderdome, it isn’t Mad Max, we don’t need to do that. “Violence of this nature will not be tolerated and anyone involved in this behaviour may be committing an offence and find themselves before the court.
“There is no need for people to go out and panic buy at supermarkets, paracetamol and canned food or toilet paper.” Police said they were called to a Woolworths store at Chullora about 7am after reports a 49-year-old woman had been assaulted.
A video of the incident was shared on social media and showed a small group of women pushing, yelling and fighting over a shopping cart filled with toilet paper.
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Coronavirus and pets: can you kiss your dog?
Text:
The Covid-19 outbreak, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has so far infected tens out thousands of people and killed more than 3,400 people globally. But what do we know about the virus and how it might affect our pets? Guardian reporter Helen Davidson answers some of the most common and pressing questions surrounding the coronavirus outbreak and whether it's still safe to kiss your pets
Bottom line: Because there are no scientific studies yet done, we don't know if or how animal carriers can spread the disease so it's best to play it safe.
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