Are You Sure You Want to Delete These Files?

The other day, I sat down at the computer. With the best of intentions. I was going to back up my hard drive, like I do every year. You probably know where this is going. Yep, it happened. To me, for the first time in how many years of playing and working with computers?.

I stuck a thumb drive in and navigated to it and highlighted everything on it and hit delete. Oh no, I wasn’t on my thumb drive. I just deleted all the data on my hard drive!

I use Linux without the comfortable “Trash” folder that Windows has. So, recovering the data was a little trickier, but doable. It just took me 2 weeks on the learning curve, but I got everything back.

Then yesterday, I got one of those epiphanies that drive you crazy (well, they do me anyway). Yeah, I know computers have been flying commercial air liners for probably 20 years. But driver-less cars have not met the standards set by commercial air travel. I mean, there have already been several fatalities, injuries and malfunctions and we’re still in the testing phase. Last week, that saucy wench on Google took me to within 5 miles of Tony’s wedding reception. But, it was the wrong place, 5 miles away.

Do you really want a driver-less car who’s brain can be deleted with the push of a wrong button?

From your grumpy Uncle Dave.

Coronalie 38, COVID or Flu

‘”CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses,”‘1

Say, What? Are they saying that for the last 1 1/2 years, they couldn’t tell the difference?

“The U.S. has reported more than 34.4 million cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began in 2020 and more than 610,000 deaths.” And, as we’ve seen, many of those reported deaths were due to causes other than coronavirus and some where coronavirus wasn’t even involved.

“According to data released by the CDC earlier this month, influenza mortality rates were significantly lower throughout 2020 than previous years.” Hum!

“There were 646 deaths relating to the flu among adults reported in 2020, whereas in 2019 the CDC estimated that between 24,000 and 62,000 people died from influenza-related illnesses.” Wow! What a decline in influenza.

Meaning the coronavirus disease has been a much better vaccine against influenza virus than the CDC approved influenza vaccines have ever thought of being.

From your grumpy Uncle Dave.

  1. CDC urges labs to use COVID tests that can differentiate from flu. Caitlin McFall. FoxNews.com. 7/25/2021. Retrieved 7/25/2021 from https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-labs-covid-tests-differentiate-flu

Benadryl, a Child’s Choice

Caution: Do Not drink Alcohol while taking Benadryl.

The subject tonight was a 15 year old who had been out with friends. His Mom was contacted by those friends to come get him because he was acting goofy. When she arrived, he was laying in the parking lot and unable to get up without assistance. He was laughing and his speech was slurred. He stated that he had been taking sequentially larger doses of his sleeping medicine at his doctors instruction and had done so tonight. Despite being out with friends. At midnight.

Later he told the nurse that he had also drank 1/2 of a bottle of Benadryl Elixir. The stuff you’d give a young child for a poison ivy rash or chicken pox.

Well, the last bit of information sparked discussion about whether or not Benadryl contained ethyl alcohol, and if so,how much? Ethyl alcohol as opposed to other alcohols that are poison to the human body, is the devils elixir. Google it.

Google to the rescue. Yes Benadryl Elixir has alcohol in it, 14%. The rest of the Benadryl family of products have 5% alcohol.

Wines have 8-12 % alcohol. A 160 lb person would require 3 glasses (about 24 oz.) of wine to get to the (il)legal level of alcohol.

This patient’s alcohol level was over the legal limit (80mg/dl) at 96mg/dl.

Most of the websites about Benadryl tell you, “Warning, do not drink alcohol while taking Benadryl!”

But they put a whopping dose of alcohol in Benadryl.

No wonder parents give their children a dose of Benadryl when making a long car trip.

From your retired but not yet dead grumpy Uncle Dave.

Death and Taxes

Why are COVID-19 vaccines FREE?1

While greatly subsidized, the rest of the armory of deadly-disease-vaccines are not (consider; MMR, H influenza, HIV, Influenza, Herpes, pneumonia, etc). Why? Know that the socialists in power at the moment would socialize all of medicine so that they could control yet another aspect of American society, if they could. But the incident in question started under a very conservative administration. Why?

Are we seeing the penultimate expression of guilt?

Well actually, the vaccine is not FREE! We, the taxpayers in the United States are paying for the R&D, distribution and administration of all of the vaccines, and their rush-to-administer errors that have accompanied them. With moneys forceably taken from hard working citizens. Yeah? Try not paying your taxes and see what forceably happens.

In a letter written in 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”2 (I’m not saying he was the first to say this.)

But that’s not completely true anymore. Just get on welfare. Not only do you not pay taxes on the pittance you are allowed to earn (or not) and still collect welfare, you get more back from the IRS than you paid or earned.

From your grumpy Uncle Dave.

  1. COVID-19 Vaccines Are Free to the Public. National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. May 24, 2021. Retrieved July 17, 2021 from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/no-cost.html
  2. The meaning and origin of the expression: Nothing is certain but death and taxes. The Phrase Finder. Author unknown. Date of post unknown. Retrieved July 17, 2021 from https://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html

Coronalie-17a, Conspiracy Part 1

(Excuse this late post. It was supposed to be posted sometime before 7/20/2020. But it still needs to be out there.)

So, you want conspiracy theories? OK, but I warn you ahead of time, this’ll curl your toes.

The Communist Chinese Party knew darn well exactly what it was doing at the Nationalist Peoples Biological Weapon Research Development facility (or other such clumsily named unit) or the live animal market in Wuhan, China in December of 2019. The Western Nations would finally be brought to their knees. China would not only own them economically, but would finally rule them without a shot being fired. Wouldn’t want to dent that 1.4 billion population. A few here or there wouldn’t hurt if it meant wiping out the round eyes.

We still haven’t gotten to the conspiracy part, yet.

All of the western world knew what China was up to. Where are there secrets left in this world? But there are, from us, the general population. The leaders did not want to tell the population what was coming in the face of no vaccine, no treatment and a lack of understanding the specific pathophysiology of the novel virus.. Wide spread public panic and confusion would spread like wildfire. Uncontrollable unrest. Like yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater! It just couldn’t be done.

Did you know that Trump has been on hydroxychloroquine since November, 2019?

So how do you limit the spread of an influenza-like novel virus until you can develop a vaccine for it? You make everybody stay home. No contact. No transmit.

I’ve always had the idea that the fastest way to take down America was to bomb the battery factories. I’ve been proven wrong, anti-social distancing and masking have proven to be a better plan.

An absolutely fictitious account of events by your grumpy Uncle Dave.

Coronalie-27, Along Comes State Run Medicine

Coronalie-17a, Conspiracy Part 1

Coronalie-17b, Conspiracy Part 2

Coronalie-26, Conspiracy Part 3

Coronalie-21, What the Hell Happened