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No one I know who wore a mask properly and kept a distance from others were infected with covid. If you don't wear them properly they don't work, it's as simple as that and it doesn't matter what your age is.

One of the real issues for children is we didn't have a supply of masks designed for them. We only had access to cheap cloth and paper masks designed to fit adults.

Another is the cheap cloth and paper masks that were available the 1st year were not designed to prevent covid infections, they were only for reducing the distance covid would spread in the air when breathing and coughing.

Where I live, most of the very conservative folks who live here (78% of the population) flat out refused to wear a mask and made a point to boldly walk into stores cocked and primed to take anyone on who told them they must. I wore them and was snarled at everywhere I went. Fair to say their children were taught to refuse to wear them too, and that while required to wear them in school, almost none of the schools staff enforced that here.

So, yeah, if you analyze the effectiveness of masks reducing covid infections in children here you'd conclude they did not work, but you had to be here to know why.

Hmmm... I became a single parent when my daughter was 10 months old and I was 26 years old. There are laws in some States against dropping your sick child off at a daycare provider, and that makes sense, but it also meant I had to stay home with her.

Because of that I was struggling to make ends meet so every dollar I earned was desperately needed. For the most part "Single Moms" are far more common than single fathers and they generally make less money than men so charging a single parent to park a car will take away a lot more for them than most others. And it will cost low income families more than others.

So this sounds like yet another "screw the poor more" idea to me. I'd much rather see a tax on the wealthy to deal with the cost mentioned in this article.

To bad this got buried because it's very informative.

Thank You!

I grew up around guys building custom cars and started working with my father building custom cars at Barris Kustom when I was 14 years old. I was cutting up brand new cars with an oxy/acetylene torch and mig welding custom sheet metal on them before I was 15 years old.

I think it's fair to say that most of the kids my age back then were no where near being ready to do the work I was doing at that age. I said "no" to adults I worked with when I was still a teen who told me to do something stupid too many times to recall them all.

When I was 16 years old I saw a guy set himself on fire when he started welding inside a van that another guy was spreading flammable glue on the floor to level it out with strips plywood. I could smell that glue 50 ft from that van. That guy went to school to learn how to weld and he had some kind of official certificate that certified he was qualified to do it.

George Barris set me on fire trying to start a truck he was buying by pouring gas in the carburetor from a pop can. It backfired and caught the can of gas of fire and he threw it and it hit me in the chest and caught my shirt on fire. I had to "stop, drop, and roll" to put it out. I didn't get burned at all because I knew what to do.

Tony Nancy almost cut his thumb off trying to show me how to do something I refused to do on a custom car he was building and that was after I explained to him why we didn't need to it.

All that said, it was up to the owner of that business to make sure that 16 year old kid was properly trained to do that work and I won't cut him any slack at all. It may not rise to "murder" but it's as close as one can get and absolutely negligent.

The link didn't work for me.

It was and still is defective, and it always will be until it includes real time road and traffic data, and that requires installing sensors in and along roads.

Elon may be the wealthiest man on the planet but it would take a lot more than his last dollar to implement even a few percent of the cost to do that, and it still won't be safer than an attentive driver.

I've been flamed here over the past few years for pointing that out but as time passes Tesla owners keep providing the evidence that proves it.

That's interesting to me because I get splitting headaches from just a few sips of red wine. I've always assumed it was sulfites that caused that.

Here's a link to their "Motor Vehicle Order Agreement Terms & Conditions"

https://www.tesla.com/configurator/api/v3/terms?locale=en_US...

Personally I prefer to take away from this the aspects that might work for me, as opposed to looking for anything I can come up with to rip the author a new ass.

In my case, I decided to keep using jQuery as opposed to React or other newer frameworks when I started building an app I was getting ready to update around 5-6 years ago. Not because I found anything negative about React.js and other, newer, JavaScript libraries, but because jQuery still does what I needed and I was familiar with it.

I have no doubt that React is a great choice for teams but end users don't care at all about what's under the hood, they care about usability and stability. What I cared about was my personal productivity.

If I were managing a team I likely would've used React.

It's all fun until they steal your work.

Yeah, I'm old enough to recall "Purple Microdot" back in the `70s.

I thought this was pretty funny so you got an upvote from me.

I don't have many QOL apps.

I like Pixelmator. Photoshop is way to expensive and Pixelmator is both affordable and feature rich.

I also have Alfred set up so I can monitor what's going on outside. Doesn't always work well for me, but the phones I use for cameras are really old.

Aside from that I have quite a few web browsers I use to test my apps.

I mostly use BBEdit and Fetch, and those are about the only apps I pay to keep updated, but that's pretty rare.

I will take a look at the apps "is_taken" has listed here though.

I got 97% on the first part and was impressed with myself, but you're experience with design work is certainly the professional difference. That's impressive!

I'm pretty happy with Thunderbird. Apple's latest "Mail" app is good too but I still use Thunderbird.

I just checked and mine says "115.3.3 (64-bit) Thunderbird is up to date" so I guess I'll be waiting a bit for the update but I haven't run into any of the issues they cite so I'm in no hurry.

I've been dealing with tinnitus for about a year now. The only thing I've found that helps is Ginko Biloba. I'm buying that at a "Dollar General" store so the source is iffy and so is the effectiveness, but it certainly does help.

My wife has a friend who told her just a few days ago that her husband has had some success toning his done by chewing Bay leaves. I've not tried that yet, but I will soon.

From what I've read there is still no "cure". But those two things may contain a clue that's worth looking for.

I visited Yellowstone back in the early 80's, and that's probably about right for me, and for good reason. I got there late at night and pulled off on a forest road to sleep and early in the morning I got up to take a pee. I walked about 20 feet from my van and started peeing and then heard a loud "whoosh" noise and then two big billows of what looked like steam blew by me.

I'd been looking at my feet while peeing so I watched the billows blow by and then heard another big whoosh noise. My first thought was there must be some kind of little geyser around so I looked to find the source of the steam and saw it wasn't a geyser, it was a giant bull moose not more than 20 from me and it was snorting at me and basically telling me it was about ready to kill me.

Pretty much every year we hear about someone getting killed by bears there. I have spent many nights in many national forests and bushwhacked many miles off trail in them, but not Yellowstone. I'll leave that to the bears and those giant freaking moose.

That's truly awesome to hear. It's truly "crazy times" we're living in now and we all have to figure out how to deal with it.

Years ago I realized that watching the "News" was getting to me. I'd get up in the morning and go to work and felt fine but after watching the "News" I felt like shit.

Basically I was consuming all the horrendous tragedies in the city, State, U.S., and the rest of the world for an 1-1/2 hours every evening and it was very depressing. I realized that I, myself, had it pretty good and for the most part so did all of those I knew and were close to. So I quit watching the news everyday and that made a big difference.

Now I monitor the news, as opposed to consuming like it effects me personally, when in fact it mostly does not, or is beyond my reach of influence.

That's pretty crazy. Back in the `80s I listened to the head of the USC Med school on the radio talk about doctors graduating who just barely passed the grade and then said "going to the doctor was the #1 cause of avoidable deaths". I read a few years ago that it's now the #3 cause of avoidable death, but that's still very high.

I'm 63 now and I've only went to a doctor 3 times in the past 40 years. All of those were for lung infections from a "cold" that was going around and I asked for and got a shot of penicillin.

The last time was about 10-12 years ago and I asked for a shot of penicillin and the "Nurse practitioner" that saw me got all snippy with me, told me "You can't come in here and tell us what to prescribe!". That just cracked me up. Everyone I knew at the time who'd got that crud was getting prescribed a "z-pac antibiotic" and it was making them all sick af and I told her that, and that I wouldn't take it.

She ran to the Doctor to tell on me and they told her to give me the penicillin. I was feeling better the next day. Haven't been sick since. I didn't get infected with covid either, but I did mask up and keep a distance and got vaxxed and boosted asap for that.

I'd thought about working on this myself after hearing about "ShotSpotter" on the YouTube channel "Live on Patrol". That company apparently charges quite a bit for those and it seemed to me that using an RPi would be a lot less expensive, so it's great to see you've actually done the work on this.

I live a rural area surrounded by public land and lots of hunters so hearing gunshots is common because there's almost always some kind of game in season, and fireworks are common as well because those are legal all year long here as well.

I found this awhile back: https://www.best-microcontroller-projects.com/sound-origin-d..., but I've not tried to set it up.

I have a few old RPi boards so I'll see if I can get this up and running.

Personally I don't think YouTube should have any restrictions on who they let use their platform.

If I started a platform for Bluegrass musicians to upload their music and someone started uploading videos of shooting guns I should be able to cut them off without any interference at all.

And they should be able to start their own website that lets folks upload videos of people shooting their guns.

YouTube is pretty liberal in the range of content they allow. They didn't boot Brand off the platform, the just quit paying him for using it. That doesn't bother me a bit.

I've been working on an simple invoicing app for small businesses for over 20 years. It has become a somewhat complex project and my app does not do much of what's cited in this article.

>> Now, when someone asks for advice about their billing system, my answer is clear: DO NOT build it yourself.

Moving from using CGI.pm to CouchDB/PouchDB about 10 years ago made it much easier to manage users and their data, and implement the UI. It also moved most of the workload to the user's web browser and made the app much faster for users.

CouchDB was practically designed for this. Early on their developers used "invoicing" as an example for using CouchDB.

But... if you have a marketing team that keeps moving the goals it wouldn't matter what you built the app with, it's going to take time to build and debug it. Could be that CouchDB/PouchDB could make that easier, but my experience is developers who've only been using SQL may get frustrated with it.

This is a dumb move. The font in their old logo is unique and instantly recognizable. The new logo font is plain and boring as Helvitica.

Well they can't write in cursive either, so that's pretty close to dead now too.

To be fair, it is kind of a pita to use those tiny text entry apps on phones and that's how most folks converse remotely nowadays. So it really does makes sense to find ways to make it easier.

I'm old, so it does take me some time to decipher some of those, but I do in most cases.

I think the core problems are some people love bullshit and others are willing to sell it to them. That's become a booming business nowadays.

Those that love and buy bullshit being sold don't care that it's bullshit. I have literally been told "I don't care if it's a lie, it's still the truth."

I watch the "Virtual Railfan" youtube channel now and then and some (quite a few) of those trains have cars with wheel bearings just screaming from being worn out.

There are also videos of trains derailing where you can see those failing and cars piling up and tipping over.

I grew up in the 60s-70s with railroad tracks less than 200ft from our home and rarely ever heard wheel bearings screeching like that.

I've gotten pretty good at ignoring/blocking trolls over the years.

FB has become a favorite place for old geezers to crap on each other.

About 5 years ago I started whittling down my "Friends List" to less than 100 because so many started ignoring/stopped caring about truth and facts and started getting so belligerent that keeping them around because a sort of self abuse.

I don't regret that all because things haven't gotten better since.

Alzheimer's is listed in the "Topics" related to that article on that web page.

An obvious next step would be a controlled test to see what happens with those folks.

Seems to me it'd be worth a shot if you were close to someone dealing with that. I can't see how it could hurt.

I doubt that because I have personally felt the physical effects of fragrances, both good and bad, and they can be very noticeable.

A 3x improvement maybe not really be all that surprising. Smell is a pretty strong sense when you're young but it doe's fade when you get older, especially after the age of 60. It may be rewiring/re-energizing neural connections that are getting rusty (so to speak).

Should be pretty easy to test on one's self but you might have to be 60+ years old to get those results.