Fresh out of college I was a lubricants research engineer with Amoco Oil. One of the projects I worked on was investigating Slick-50. We spent over $50k (this was in 1985) trying to validate ANY of their claims. Not only were none of their claims supported, our tests proved the oil was detrimental to an engine. It truly is a modern snake oil. The marketing BS written on the side of the can used the words “solution” and “suspension” interchangeably when referring to the ground-up Teflon. We burst out laughing when we read that out loud.
I think those marketing guys found a good home a DSS/SWX. (Note the absence of purple font.)
Yes it has! We’ve lost my two oldest sisters and my father-in-law. Numerous other family members have tested positive but so far all the rest have come through it.
My wife and I have both had both vaccinations. I had Moderna, she had Phizer.
Update:
My brother was hospitalized last night with a high fever due to Covid. I don’t mean to dump this on everyone but I’m having trouble thinking of anything else right now.
It seems like the Covid gods have decided that my family is an especially juicy target.
Update #2:
My brother was released from the hospital last night.
He’s still on oxygen and steroids but at least he’s home! ><
I hope as we move the study of this disease along that they do more genetic related research. There seems to be such a massive divide with little or no obvious relationship.
My Mother was telling me of a couple she is friends with. Both older 70-80, both tested positive, both in similar health and living together. One could assume they were likely exposed at the same amount and at a similar time probably from the same source. The husband ended up in the hospital while the wife almost didn’t get checked because she had no symptoms.
I’ve heard many stories like this and many stories of families getting hit hard while some almost no reaction. My neighbor has five kids, the father had it early on and got “A little sick”, didn’t even know he had it until they wouldn’t let him in to work because he had a slightly elevated temp. Either no one else in the house got it, which is hard to believe considering family size and age of kids…or none of them reacted very much to it.
I’m more fascinated by the idea that it took us 200K years to figure out how to fly and then a mere 100 years to figure out how to fly on another freakin’ planet.
The advancement rate we are moving at is stunning. I wonder if they’ll have Mars Terraformed before I die
My cousin and his wife both both got it at the same time. He was sick for a few days and recovered. She was in the hospital on a ventilator for 5 weeks and then died, and tested positive for Covid right up until the end.
I always thought this was an odd statement considering the brutality of our history…so I did some digging. Yes, by pure number of deaths the 20th century was bloodiest century by quite a bit. However when you start looking at “Deaths per thousand of population”…it wasn’t even close.
The second most deadly conflict, I think, the Mongul conquests, took place in the 12th century when the population was in the 300-350M people range. The low estimate of deaths in this war was 30M people…that’s 10% of the global population at the time. By comparison you would have had to have 240M deaths during WWII to be equal. At the same time the Christian vs Muslim Crusades, War for Scottish Independence and the Cathar Crusades all took place over or partially in the same century. Again by deaths per hundred thousand this century was almost four times as bloody.
In fact, deaths per hundred thousand, the 20th century was second to last bloodiest for the centuries including 13th thru the 20th. Throw in an estimate 75-200M deaths from the Black plague in the 14th century and by comparison the 20th century was pretty civilized. The only centuries less bloody during this time frame was the 15th and 18th centuries.
Also if I had to guess I’d say in reality that the older centuries where even far worse. Along side the large wars where constant skirmishes and raids where people were regularly killed with impunity. By the 20th century nearly all of this kind of behavior was gone in the relatively developed countries.
And here I thought we were done with snow… Woke up this morning with another 3 inch on the ground… Thankfully this should definetly be the last we get.
In a little more then a month, I’ll be on vacation up North to fish pikes and walleyes with friends for a whole week. Kind of eager for it.
