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People continually act as if having separate washers and dryers makes for a big improvement in how long it takes to do a couple of loads of wash. In fact, having separate units results in a ~one hour reduction in the length of time it takes to do two loads of wash (out of a six hour wash/dry cycle.) If you have two loads to wash, having separate units means that the second wash can get started when the first wash is finished. For argument sake, let's assume washes take one hour and dry cycles take two hours. So at the end of the first hour the first load of clothes goes into the dryer and the second load of clothes goes into the washer. At the end of the second hour the second load of clothes has finished washing but the first load is still drying. At the end of the third hour the first load of wash will have finished drying and the second load can then be dried for two more hours. Total elapsed time 5 hours. With a combo the total elapsed time would be roughly 2 times the 3 hour wash/dry cycle = 6 hours. For us that one hour saving wouldn't balance out the loss of the huge storage pantry we have in the space above the combo. Yes, we could fit separate units in the space but we wouldn't want to lose the storage. Furthermore, we typically wash single loads when we have them and rarely have two loads of clothes to wash at one time. For us, the beauty of having our own washer/dryer is that we don't have to accumulate dirty clothes to wash. JMO

My wife is an RN. She agrees with your tattoo approach, but she thinks that "no-makers" should also have DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) tattooed on their chests so that medical personnel don't waste their time with them! ☹️ (Those with legitimate medical reasons for not wearing a mask don't have to have the DNR tattoo.)

More likely: I ain't scared of no virus! 😁

My suspicion is that someone using the park's IP address was suspected of being part of a Denial of Service attack which is something that Cloudflare commonly protects sites against. The person's computer may have been "infected" in the sense that it had been hijacked and was, subsequently, part of a DOS attack.

Maybe people would accept wearing masks more if they understood that the data is showing that masks appear to reduce the severity of the disease if you do catch it. It's what the doctors call the "viral load". Your body can fight off a small number of virus particles without you getting all that sick, but if you inhale lots of them they can overwhelm your defenses. Mask wearing can reduce severity of COVID-19 cases

The first question I would ask is how does the "backpressure" from these filters affect the the air flow through the A/C? You can't get something for nothing. The nonwoven fabric used in the filter is essentially the same sort of HEPA filter material that my wife bought and is using in the face masks she is making to give to friends and family. Even a single layer of that stuff makes it more difficult to breath through, so the 8 layers claimed for these filters will add substantial extra pressure the net result of which will be to make the fan work harder and to reduce the circulation. If this outfit knows what it is doing they ought be able to quantify the backpressure and discuss the air flow reduction. It they don't know anything about it or simply wave their hands, I'd look elsewhere.

I've had a Pixel 2XL for >2 years and still love it. I'm a demanding phone user but I still am quite satisfied with it. I don't use it for gaming and its response to touch is plenty fast for me. Since I own a DSLR for serious photography, the camera is more than adequate for snapping "Facebook photos"; I don't feel any need for multiple lenses. And it is sized to fit easily in my pocket. I did have to replace one Pixel because of a charging port issue, but, so far, this one is charging OK. JMO

I'm glad you said that; I feel much the same way. Even with a MH there is fair amount of effort associated with putting stuff away and getting ready to travel. Somehow, doing that for just a week or two jaunt hardly seems worth it. Last summer we traveled from south TX to Atlantic Canada and spent nearly 4 months on the road.

The Tuskegee syphilis study ran from 1932-1972. Are we naive enough to think the world has changed all that much in 50 years?

The feature called Smart View by Samsung is more generally called Miracast. Unless huge improvements have been made in the past couple of years it's more than just finicky. We used it and eventually gave up because of its jerkiness and other issues.

You aren't going to get statistically significant data from a test involving one person. From what I've read you won't get reputable researchers to intentionally expose a person to a potentially fatal disease in order to test a vaccine.

The influenza virus mutates often and, therefore, it is a guessing game to decide what version of the virus will be prevalent during the winter flu season. The "guess" has to be made long before the actual flu season to allow enough time to ramp up production for the millions of doses that are used each year. As a result, how close the guess is to the actual virus strain varies each year. Some years the vaccine provides more benefit than in others. The flu is not a coronavirus and, therefore, there is little one can extrapolate from our experience with it. From the data we have to date it appears that its rate of mutation may be less than that of the flu but there definitely has been a change from the version that was first seen in Asia and that which swept through Europe and the US. The bottom line is that we won't know how effective the vaccine is until we have one (or more of them) to try. One fact to keep in mind is that because COVID-19 is considered to be a lethal disease, the Phase 2 tests of vaccine candidates will not include intentional infection of volunteers. Rather, a test group of subjects will be inoculated and after several months their incidence of catching the virus will be compared to that of a control group. That's a much less direct way of determining efficacy than would be intentional infection. So it will be even harder to determine how effective any vaccine really is.

Unfortunately, because of the nonsense that people are hearing from some politicians, I don't think the majority of the country (or the world for that matter) fully appreciates that we are going to be stuck with masks and restricted activities for that length of time. The economic disruptions this will bring about will be huge. For example, how many people will want to go on a cruise before this is under control? Even though Disney World opened yesterday, do you seriously want to crowd onto a ride or do you really believe every seat in every ride is going to be wiped clean every time? Most restaurants aren't profitable if they can't open past the 50% point. Etc, etc, the list goes on.

The sewer hose connection for our Beaver is below the basement floor and it is exceedingly difficult to maintain a slope to a drain, particularly if it is placed above ground level as many of them are. I do the best I can but many sewer hose supports are taller than the height of my sewer output, especially when I've dumped the airbags.

It's always more satisfying to blame unfortunate events on someone else--"the other". Sometimes it's difficult to accept the fact that bad things simply happen; that we're not in control of lots of aspects of our lives. It's so much easier to say that these bad things wouldn't have happened "if it weren't for [name you own boogeyman]." So it's lot easier to blame the Chinese for the virus, Hispanics for drugs loss of jobs, etc.

I can't speak for what TX will do, but there have been multiple articles about the fact that some college faculty members are raising objections to being in the classroom this fall. Of course, most of them are older than public school teachers, but the same rationale still applies. I wouldn't be surprised to see some lawsuits about "unsafe workplaces." If I were still teaching I'd think twice before going back.

That's an excellent point that is often overlooked. You have to be cautious with people from outside your immediate household even if they are family. You can't vouch for what they've been exposed to.

My wife is now on her "3rd generation" mask design. Her current design has a pocket for a piece of HEPA fabric, a prefabricated nose piece and tightening clips for the elastic ear loops. She's made them for friends and family all over the country.

We now call that kind of reasoning Aristotelian deductive logic. It was the principal reasoning method employed before the scientific revolution. Identify things that agree with your theory and pretty much ignore those that don't. During the Renaissance, the world began to realize the shortcomings of this approach and what we now call the scientific method was adopted instead. More formally one can refer to it as inductive logic. The idea is to present a hypothesis and then search for ANY evidence that contradicts it. The theory hold until such time as contradictory evidence is found. At that point it has to be altered or abandoned. All we're seeing in this case is the "anti-science" attitude of a large segment of the American public. It's as if science, and facts, in general, are things you don't have to "agree with!" Unfortunately, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "everyone is entitled to his own opinions but not his own facts!"

Yesterday we had a US Senator, Rand Paul, question why "experts" should be allowed to tell us what to do! Science, itself, has now become something which people choose to "believe in" or not! 😰

I'm sorry to say this, but but I've begun to "discard" friends like this. I won't discard a friend purely over political beliefs, but if someone is willing to risk my health and the health of others because of their political views then I no longer have anything in common with them.

Even if we felt safe traveling in our own MH, the question becomes "where would we go?" We like to go to major scenic attractions which means there will be lots of other people which won't make us comfortable. We can't even consider going to Canada (our normal summer retreat) until the border is reopened. Last year we stayed at B&B's in Newfoundland for a couple of weeks, I can't even imagine doing that this year. And what about spending 6 hours in chairs on the ferry!!

As a result of your sojourn in Africa you have a perfect opportunity to disconnect yourself from the State of California. There is nothing that prevents people from having property in a state other than the one they are domiciled in. However, you don't say how much time you plan to spend in CA once you start RVing. If the State were to question whether or not you had truly established a domicile elsewhere, a key piece of evidence would be how much time you (and your RV) spent in CA. For example, if you came through twice a year for a couple of weeks each time to visit family and could document this you probably would be fine. But if you spent half the year in CA I think there would be a strong argument that you really haven't left the State. Your income sources sound perfect for life as RVers. Many of us work online from our RVs and there are lots of traveling nurses doing the same thing. Joel (AKA docj)

One interesting note--the original notice said "your device isn't ready" for the update. "When your device is ready" we'll let you know. The current message says "Once it’s ready for your device, you’ll see the update available on this page." At least the message is more accurate now since it's not as if they're doing anything to my device in order to make it possible to install their upgrade.

No, it uses 12V which is supplied by the battery and the converter. There is no "switching" involved. If you are connected to shore power the converter should always be on. Any lights or other devices that use 12V will be powered by the battery bank which is backed up by the converter. There's no way for you to tell where the electrons come from.