Barbaraok

I have spent over 4 hours over the past few days trying to get it fixed. The problem is establishing the setup to be able to look at the account from my computer. I have the hotspot, it is working, just can't look at the account from my notebook computer because I can't log into the account because they can't sent a text to the hotspot phone number.

Well, I finally have the hotspot, it is working great and while speed goes down in the afternoon and early evening, everything is fine. HOWEVER, I can not get online account that I can see set up because I do not have a T-mobile cell phone! So if I want to change the credit card the monthly fee is charged to, I have to call in, etc. Over almost 2 hours being bounced from pillar to post today, and the people couldn't understand how I could have the hotspot but not a T-mobile phone! The reason I can't log in from my laptop is that they need a T-Mobile number to send a text to with the PIN number to enter to verify the account. AGGGGH!

Packnrat, it's your choice not to fly. You can't get on a plane without either a REAL ID (DL with a Star) or a passport. Up to you which you want to have with you if you plan to fly.

Will you be coming into Arizona for Spring Training? Unless you can commit to being someone where for a month, I think you have better wait until the shots are readily available from Pharmacies or get the J&J one dose vaccine with a booster next year. Of course, we may all be having boosters next year.

I’m sorry I used the term enhanced for the non-commercial Class A or Class B license. The DL with the enhanced STAR used for flying is completely different, and you don’t have to have it, though I’m not sure how easy it would be to get one now without a star. You can fly with a passport instead. We always carry both with us.

Had a little muscle ache this morning plus sore arm, but an Aleve took care of that. Agree the serpentine is interesting. Second dose, they didn’t ask for DL, just the appointment number, logged us in and 20 minutes late4 we drove out.

Already filed ours.

H1N1, the virus name for the 1918 Pandemic virus is STILL around. Same virus caused the "Swine" flu, it is endemic world wide and passes easily from livestock to humans back to livestock. I am one of those who had the 1976 vaccination for Swine Flu because we were bringing home a premie who would be extremely vulnerable to the infection. One of the many sub variants of Influenza A viruses. As to the political involvement - President Wilson did not acknowledge that our soldiers on the ships to Europe that summer had a flu that came out of the midwest, probably linked to chicken and pig farmers. First identified in a military camp in the SPRING of 1918, it became rampant in European war area in August of 1918. Spanish Flu and nothing to do with Spain, except that they were the first to describe symptoms, and warn that is way very contagious and moved quickly through populations. CDC page on H1N1

Yes, the problems with infection-related herd immunity were many. First is the theory that every infection will be the same and the every person will react the same. As has been seen, some people have very slight infections, recovered quickly but any immunity didn't last (wasn't enough to completely turn on immunity system) and people did get infected, often with disastrous results. Second was the very real problem of people being overwhelmed by the virus and DYING. With vaccinations, each person is getting sufficient numbers of particles to induce a full immune response in most people, that is why the clinical trials, as they try different dosages to see which dosage, or multiple dosages, gives the best antibody titer. And the plus is that when immunization is done rapidly a large population then renders the spread to practically nothing, so mutations are limited.

Just who saying that you have to have one? You are perfectly free not to buy one and, depending upon your age, that may never be a problem for you, or if you are younger, you will one day find yourself with the need for a newer vehicle and nothing available. As for where tax dollars go, I don't want mine going for several things. Doesn't always work in our system of government.

Each day more and more people are vaccinated, and with the early rounds, that includes people like us that a much more likely to have complications and be hospitalized. As more of us get both vaccinations, even if we do contract the virus, the incidence of long hospitalization is reduced, so the rates will continue to fall. They will not go to zero because Covid-19 will be endemic to the country because so many will refuse vaccination, so there will always be a well of virus waiting to break out. And more and more of those who refuse the virus will either get sick and develop some antibodies, or will die, thereby reducing the spread as time goes on.

We just did a 2 hour Sunday drive, drove over to Cardinal Stadium (80 miles round trip) and got our 2nd vaccine. Never asked about Medicare, actually didn't even look at DLs, since we had our vaccine cards and were getting our second shot. Had a serpentine tour of the huge parking lots as we entered, where they got everyone sorted out, then they did a quick checkin, verifying our reservation number, got us sorted into the correct line and 20 minutes later we had a shot, did our wait time, had our cards filled out and we were on our way! Can't say I feel invincible, but it will be nice in 2 weeks to get my hair cut. And pick out my own produce again!

No one said you had to buy one. But there will come a time when there won't be a new one for sale. No one is mandated to drive on Interstates, but it took the Federal government to do it because the whole country needed to be able to move people and material to help with national defense. President Eisenhower KNEW each state wouldn't do it without Federal Government pushing them.

Well, if one doesn't get vaccine, the chances goes up that when one does get the disease they will get sick and recover, with some immunity protection, or die and then not be around when next survey is done. Once the vaccines are no longer under emergency release, but instead as regular vaccinations, the military will require them and a lot of businesses will require them, schools will require them for incoming students just like polio, chicken pox, measles, etc. Airlines might start requiring them to be able to fly and other countries might require vaccination certification for the next few years. And since we don't know how long immunity will last, it will be a few years before we really the status of the general population.

Yes, it was just a comic book whim! My daughter wears hers all of the time. Yes, the market place will decide. That's why the market place built the Interstate Highway System - right? The market place did decide in Texas. They decided to make money and to hell with the customers that were caught because preventative maintenance and planning for change in environmental change doesn't make money for investors. Market place will decide on drug efficacy and safety. We don't need FDA. We don't need meat inspections, etc, market place will decide and if enough people die people won't shop there anymore. Market place will decide when bridges should be replaced. Rural electrification wasn't needed, the market place would have gotten around to those area in 100 years or so, maybe!

When we got our first dose we weren't asked for them, even though we had them out. Going to get our second doses in an hour and will see whether or not we get asked for them. Did get ask for drivers license to verify age, and was kidded about which lane to get in for 'out-of-state' plates, but never asked for Medicare card.

Yes, we left our snow throwers with a friend when we left Michigan, but took our manual snow shovel, and ice scrapers with long handles, with us to Oklahoma and Texas and used them for a variety of things. Long manual snow shovels are great for helping to bag oak leaves when you live in a subdivision called The Woods on Big Oak Drive!

NUMBER OF YEARS. That doesn't mean tomorrow, next month, or next year. That's the goal and they will get there in steps. Can't figure out how so many people think change can't happen. Whether you want it or not, buggy whip manufacturers went out of business. Tube televisions are no longer for sale and airplanes can fly all around the world! Change is going to happen. Either embrace it or be prepared to be left behind, that is your choice. My mother was born in a Soddy on the Montana plains in 1922. She lived to be 97 and got to FLY to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, FiJi, Norway, and Germany all after turned 75! My grandfather had the first auto service center in Dotson, Montana - because he ran the livery stable! Times change and what we think is impossible today becomes routine in the future.

Did you get the polio vaccination? Have you gotten tetanus vaccinations? Are you old enough to have had smallpox vaccinations? While I think we should make flu vaccinations mandatory, they are not. We don't allow children to attend school without having a large assortment of vaccinations through out their early years because we can prevent the spread of communicable diseases that caused death as well as other types of injuries. One of my aunts was deaf in one ear because of the measles she caught as an infant. As far as I know, most insurance companies cover flu vaccinations (just like Medicare does) because it makes sense to KEEP PEOPLE HEALTHY. Much, much cheaper to pay for vaccinations than for treatment of the flu including hospitalization! And in a lot of states THIS YEAR, flu vaccinations were free for those who didn't have insurance as a way of reducing flu spread at the same time as the Covid spread. Lo and behold, because of wearing masks, social distancing, and flu vaccinations, FLU CASES ARE DRAMATICALLY DOWN all over the country. Pediatric cases of flu are almost non-existent! Vaccinations work! Just an aside, we may see some new flu vaccine development coming down the pike along the lines of the work done on Covid-19.

I imagine a lot of people bring their snow blowers from the north when they move to Texas. And I wouldn't be surprised that a lot of firms might have one or two they picked up from some garage sale cheap "just in case". We were in the Fort Worth area one Christmas a couple of years ago when it was snowing on the west side of Fort Worth with tornados on the east side of Dallas - at the same time! Weather can get really freaky when gulf air full of moisture hits cold air coming south. And in the winter, there is nothing between Dallas and the Canadian border but flat, flat, prairie. It is the ICE that really causes problems, because no snow removal and drivers that will still be doing 70 mph when they hit ice. We were hit in 1978 with ice - for 3 days my husband couldn't get to work and our 2 yr old was asking to "Slide Daddy Slide" on the slick driveway incline. He was so tired after 3 days he practically left at dawn when it was safe to drive to get to work! 😉. BTW, at that time only DFW could land planes in the south, the ice storm had shut down almost every major airport. And the reason they could - they had put in deicing equipment, and everyone laughed. The airport was fairly new at the time. So they could land and take off, but no one could get to either Dallas or Fort Worth because all of the roads were sheets of ice.

And no one said that fossil fuels or nuclear would be done away with immediately! But you would never know that from all of the histrionics going on. More and more alternatives will come along and we will use less and less fossil fuels. I am just amazed that people don't understand that petroleum is a fuel-stock for pharmaceuticals, plastics, composites and all sort of things we don't even know about yet, which should lead us to keeping as much in the ground as possible since it is likely that we are on the downward part of the Hubbert Curve. I have seen class action lawsuits are already starting to be filed in Texas, the cost of the cleanup to homes is going to negate the 'savings' the people were supposedly getting by the state being 'deregulated'. The only deregulation was the amount of profits that could go into owners of companies, not consumers.

Correct, I got the order wrong. Gov Abbott Appoints the Public Utility Commissioners and they appoint ERCOT.

Only 10 yrs late, glad the legislature decided to do something! ERCOT board lives IIRC, out of state, and is appointed by governor!

Except this is what was warned could happen after the 2011 storm. Nothing unforeseen at all!

Charlie, I'm just questioning the reason it was put out IN THE MIDDLE OF CRISIS? And this doesn't show a bias? No mention of the fact that the way the wind turbines were allowed to function GUARANTEED that they would fail in these conditions, whereas they have been shown to be reliable during even harsher polar climates. Then there is the final conclusion: Doesn't that show their bias?