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Richard MacCutchan wrote: it did work last year
Getting old, eh? 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yes, very. 
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That's better than the alternative!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Just so long as my body and mind keep a semblance of order.
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Why are you testing ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Herself works in an old folks home, and they are insisting on daily testing to try and keep it out of the home. Since I go different places, if I test daily as well it reduces the chances that she'll accidently take it in on her clothes, shoes, hair ... - even if she passes that morning.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I see - my mother is in a home and they also insist on visitors taking a lateral flow test and waiting 20 minutes for the result.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My mom's in an old folks home, and they apparently had 3 staff members and a resident catch Covid (despite all staff and residents having both shots + their booster).
What I don't understand is, if they knew this, why did they allow my dad to go visit my mom despite knowing they had this small outbreak - meaning, my dad subsequently had to go on quarantine as a result. And because of that, he was refused the booster shot he was scheduled to take the next day.
Pardon me for looking at this situation and questioning the effectiveness of either shots or boosters.
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As you know, I've had Covid - but you may not know how I got it.
I got it from Herself, who got it at the old folks home, from patients that were forcibly relocated there from the local hospital (as in the home manager being told that if she didn't take them the police would be involved) and who despite assurances that they were Covid free weren't, and in fact hadn't been tested. Since all testing was reserved for NHS use the home couldn't test them.
Stringent rules were put in place in case they did have covid, but with dementia patients rules don't always work, and Herself and a few others were infected - plus PPE was made of unobtainium at the time (reserved for NHS again, thanks Boris).
Most homes do try, but ... residents don't always help and sometimes the rules are just plain wrong.
The home where Herself works has had a few outbreaks since and that has delayed Herself's jabs a couple of times but despite that neither of us has caught it for long enough to show up on a LFT done twice weekly.
I'd say the shots and boosters do help - if only to mitigate the severity of the disease when you do catch it (and I think the way Omicron is going, it's a case of "when" not "if" now - the last R number I heard was estimated to be over 5!).
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While I agree with your regular testing, I'm not convinced there's much point reporting to BigBrother any more.
Over Christmas week I know 4 people who caught Covid, all with symptoms, all confirmed with lateral flow tests. Not one reported their positive result, let alone their previous negatives. Over New Year, another 4 relatives caught it; 3 with symptoms, confirmed with lateral flow, one with no symptoms, tested positive at school on a PCR (first day back). Again none of the four reported to gov. Everyone seems to be saying "what's the point?"
The point is that, while the experts are still warning caution over Omicron being less severe, if (say) only 10% of people with it are reporting, then we have a drastically wrong view of how prevalent it is. Moreover if only a small proportion report it, then maybe 1% of people reported "positive" end up in hospital, while the true case is nearer 0.1%. So the dangers are over-stated, fear is spread, restrictions are enforced etc.. etc.. But it seems scanning a barcode is too much effort for people, especially when they're self-isolating with nothing to do for a week... 
If 90% of the population aren't reporting even when they're positive, the gathered data is such poor quality as to be pretty-much meaningless.
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Previous to last night my only experience of an earthquake was a very minor shoogle while I was offshore Qatar, and thought it was just the crane driver being rough with a load landing.
Last night however! Was woken up at 3.07am local, with everything moving randomly, cupboard doors rattling etc. real WTF moment
Turns out there was a Magnitude 6.6, 48km WNW of Polis, off the west coast of Cyprus.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000gaqu/executive
I guess once the weather clears and I get the observatory open again, I'll need to recheck the polar alignment on the scope! 
Thankfully all good, no damage here, but quite exciting at the time!
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I experienced several 6-7.0+ earthquakes and many subsequent aftershocks while living in southern California in the late 80's early 90's. Exciting and scary all at the same time, for sure.
Brick buildings can be beautiful, but they are no match for a good earthquake. Many historical buildings were damaged and/or destroyed during that time period.
Glad you had no damage.
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Lots of complaints here in the Netherlands from people living in the North in the province of Groningen.
Although earthquakes are a rarity over here, due to gas exploitation things are not stable anymore and lots of houses are damaged.
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RickZeeland wrote: due to gas exploitation things are not stable anymore and lots of houses are damaged
That's nuts. I hope said gas exploitation companies are paying for the repairs?
I live in an area with a lot of nearby housing development going on. They're doing a lot of work involving dynamite. It's my understanding that the developer was required to take picture of neighboring houses (specifically, foundations) so if any cracks appear as a result of their work, they're on the hook.
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Paying for the repairs proved to be very problematic, despite promises from the government people are waiting for years now. The government also just broke their promise not to extract gas anymore, needless to say that the "Groningers" are not amused 
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I had the pleasure to visit PTT office in Groningen in the 90s. Most secure building I ever visited.
It was surrounded by a moat with a guarded bridge.
My host lived out in a small town on the “new” ground in a house that was built around the founding of United States.
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Speaking about the founding of the United States, on Dutch television I'm watching a series of documentaries about the voyage of the Mayflower that started in the Netherlands.
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Some years ago I lived in Chicago . While working at my desk w/ my leg lightly pressed against the desk's leg I felt the pressure increase by a bit . I knew instantly it was an earthquake as I did not move my leg to cause it . The desk moved perhaps a tenth of a millimeter . That evening it was so reported on the local news . So I survived the great Chicago Earthquake
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I'm glad you made it through, Dave! My last was almost 30 years ago; things have been pretty tame since moving to AZ. The last one, the double quake that hit Landers and Big Bear City in the Peoples' Republic of California, caught me on the sleeping on the third floor of a mountain cabin. Well, the first one did - by the time the second hit an hour later, I was quite awake! I started out the door to check for gas leaks, but seeing my first ever live mountain lion sitting at the top of my stairs, very twitchy, made me reconsider. Initial reports on that first hit set it at a magnitude 9.1. Being centered just a couple of miles away, that was quite a memorable day. I no longer get out of bed for anything less than a 7.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm definitely refusing. 
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Wonderful.
Dylan would have laughed too.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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one of my mother's favorite poems 
as someone who often was a wild-man in daze of yore, i have always found a deep something in the fourth stanza:
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night. now, tamed (broken ?) by age, i am left with a ghost of a roar
i'm sorry to say mother, like Dylan Thomas, went out not raging, or grieving, but, in an alcoholic stupor.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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No one on my team is working on the same stuff as I am! 
Let me tell you, that makes for a very poor code review experience! 
modified 10-Jan-22 23:43pm.
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