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[*] posted on 12-14-2022 at 10:57 PM


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So a Canadian study show that people who don’t believe everything the government comes around selling without question are more of a danger to public safety than are drunks?

Those researchers have never driven in Mexico where even which side of the road to drive on is only a suggestion. ( Not even a strong suggestion either!)

After thinking on it. Mexico isn’t even close to the worst place.
These guys drive on a 2 lane road mostly without shoulders just like those in Baja! Traffic runs 120KM/H!

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[*] posted on 12-15-2022 at 06:37 PM


RfClark....I did a search for Glendambo Tourist Center and discovered that your photo was taken in Australia. For what it is worth, I encountered two sets of semis hauling triples when I was on Hwy 95 northbound through Nevada in October.

What a dangerous pain to pass one of those on a two-lane road! There are a whole lot of miles between passing lanes on that road.




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[*] posted on 12-15-2022 at 07:20 PM


Quote: Originally posted by lencho  
Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
For what it is worth, I encountered two sets of semis hauling triples when I was on Hwy 95 northbound through Nevada in October.
Good lord! I didn't realize triples were legal anywhere in the U.S. :o

Doubles are bad enough!


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[*] posted on 12-15-2022 at 07:21 PM


Guys,

These are not US sized trailers! That rig is over 150’ Long (176’)!! The tractors have Roo catchers made out of RR track! We drove 1200KM each way to see Ares Rock with them. Give me 1000KM to Cabo any day!

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[*] posted on 12-21-2022 at 10:02 AM
Mask up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Mask up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[*] posted on 1-2-2023 at 01:28 PM


After 3 years, finally got Covid.

Low grade fever for 2 days. A little coughing on day 3. Mostly symptom free by day 4.

No way we should have locked down the country beyond the first 3 months. Never again.




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[*] posted on 1-2-2023 at 02:33 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
After 3 years, finally got Covid.

Low grade fever for 2 days. A little coughing on day 3. Mostly symptom free by day 4.

No way we should have locked down the country beyond the first 3 months. Never again.


Your personal anecdotal experience is what health professionals, scientists and govts. should base their recommendations on? How about the 6 and a half million who have died, or suffered terribly, or ended up with long Covid, and how many more would have died had there not been lockdowns and other precautions taken?
Oh, wait, I almost forgot that you care about no one but yourself.

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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 07:50 AM
Circling back to the OP


So... would it be accurate to say that Covid is "surging" in Baja California and Baja California Sur, or is the answer more nuanced? Is it, for example, only surging in certain communities, or certain segments of the population? Are businesses beginning to mask up and encouraging customers to do the same?

Here on Cape Cod, masking is very sparse, although my wife and I plan to mask up when we fly down to Cabo next month. The latest booster hasn't generated much excitement, but we're boosted as well. We've also been selective in our ventures out in public, using common sense and avoiding those who don't!




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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 04:32 PM


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There were all sorts of “Hippies” with all sorts of philosophies. I was there at the start. I know a lot of “Hippies” who ended up driving “bemers” and a lot that ended up on a ventilator.

Being self-adsorbed was very “”Hippie”! The”Beatniks” were often the “intelligenca” the “Hippies” were more often the “rabble”!

Many of the “Hippies” that were into themselves and substance abuse are long dead! Some are popular screen and TV writers and are still very “Hippie” like.
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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 04:59 PM


I thank god that I had the good adolescent sense to grow up a punk rocker instead of a smelly hippie :biggrin:



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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 07:13 PM


No masks or Covid in Loreto today.








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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 08:40 PM


Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
S,

There were all sorts of “Hippies” with all sorts of philosophies. I was there at the start. I know a lot of “Hippies” who ended up driving “bemers”...

Being self-adsorbed was very “”Hippie”! The”Beatniks” were often the “intelligenca” the “Hippies” were more often the “rabble”!



You missed my whole point. If they turned into their parents and ended up driving beemers, they were never really hippies to start with. Once a real hippie, always a hippie. It has nothing to do with tie-dye.

Being self-absorbed was not at all hippie, so you obviously have no idea what you are talking about and took fake hippies for real ones. Hippie was about love, peace, sharing, non-materialism, communal living, and working together for the good of all, which is the opposite of self-absorbed. Dressing like a hippie, having long hair, smoking dope, and other visible identifiers associated by the mainstream with hippiedom has nothing to do with having real hippie mindset. Anyone can play dress-up.

And beatniks was a culture from the 50s and early 60s. Hippies came later.


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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 09:02 PM


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I was there! For both! Hippies were mostly into themselves and extorting money from their folks! Beatniks were late ‘40s and ‘50s. They were mostly gone by ‘60 except for a few over 60s who turned into Hippie Gurus!

“Working for all and communal living”! When everyone owns something the best job is being the someone who takes care of it for “everyone”! Every group of “Hippies” has a click that ran it.

Remind me to tell you about the Collectivist and the Genie sometime.
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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 09:11 PM


Wherever "there" you were, it obviously wasn't representative of true hippie culture, which I was part of. No hippie I knew extorted money from their parents- they mostly rejected everything about their parents' lifestyle, including their money. Hippies ran businesses doing arts and crafts, were musicians and writers and house builders and organic gardeners. Some were even doctors and lawyers and teachers. And the communal living situations didn't revolve around some guru, everyone had an equal voice, no clique that ran it. (FYI it's a French word which is neither spelled nor pronounced "click")

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[*] posted on 1-3-2023 at 09:58 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
After 3 years, finally got Covid.

Low grade fever for 2 days. A little coughing on day 3. Mostly symptom free by day 4.

No way we should have locked down the country beyond the first 3 months. Never again.


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
No masks or Covid in Loreto today.






I bet you did not isolate or wear a a mask once in your contagious travels,…
How many people did you infect?




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[*] posted on 1-5-2023 at 01:18 PM
We interrupt the bickering...


...to briefly get back on topic. I posed the same question I asked here a few days ago on Talk Baja and got some fresh first-hand responses. I asked if there were any new restrictions noted in BCS, and what they might be. Apparently many businesses are requesting masks indoors (i.e. no official mandates), although enforcement has been somewhat spotty. As a guest, I want to be respectful to my hosts, although I will definitely remove my mask when I sip that first margarita next month. :cool:

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Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena  
...to briefly get back on topic. I posed the same question I asked here a few days ago on Talk Baja and got some fresh first-hand responses. I asked if there were any new restrictions noted in BCS, and what they might be. Apparently many businesses are requesting masks indoors (i.e. no official mandates), although enforcement has been somewhat spotty. As a guest, I want to be respectful to my hosts, although I will definitely remove my mask when I sip that first margarita next month. :cool:

We now return to our regularly scheduled squabbling...


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Quote: Originally posted by pauldavidmena  
...to briefly get back on topic. I posed the same question I asked here a few days ago on Talk Baja and got some fresh first-hand responses. I asked if there were any new restrictions noted in BCS, and what they might be. Apparently many businesses are requesting masks indoors (i.e. no official mandates), although enforcement has been somewhat spotty. As a guest, I want to be respectful to my hosts, although I will definitely remove my mask when I sip that first margarita next month. :cool:

We now return to our regularly scheduled squabbling...


Covid is over.

Ley is the one and only place in Loreto making you wear a mask.





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[*] posted on 1-5-2023 at 07:54 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  


Covid is over.





Nominated for the most idiotic statement of the day.

Covid stats, Jan.5, 2023

Active cases worldwide 21,623,671
In serious or critical condition 43,843

Active cases US 2,126,887
In serious or critical condition 5,028

Active cases Mexico 431,731
In serious or critical condition 4,798

Mask mandates and lockdowns were and are necessary because of idiotic azzholes like you who travel when they have Covid, and brag about not having to wear a mask, while you infect countless people, some of whom may die, which would make you a murderer.

You should have a t-shirt printed with "Covid is over" on it and wear it everywhere to warn people to stay far away from you.

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[*] posted on 1-6-2023 at 10:18 AM


That chart conveniently ignores the time period of the Rhino virus.

Covid is over. Get out of your basement. Take those double masks off. Go live life.



"The debate over COVID's mortality rate hinges on what counts as a COVID-19 death. Gandhi and other researchers argue that the daily death toll attributed to COVID is exaggerated because many deaths blamed on the disease are actually from other causes. Some of the people who died for other reasons happened to also test positive for the coronavirus.

"We are now seeing consistently that more than 70% of our COVID hospitalizations are in that category," says Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease specialist at the Tufts Medical Center and a professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine. "If you're counting them all as hospitalizations, and then those people die and you count them all as COVID deaths, you are pretty dramatically overcounting."

If deaths were classified more accurately, then the daily death toll would be closer to the toll the flu takes during a typical season, Doron says. If this is true, the odds of a person dying if they get a COVID infection — what's called the case fatality rate — would be about the same as the flu now, which is estimated to be around 0.1%, or perhaps even lower.

In a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Thursday, researchers attempted to filter out other deaths to analyze mortality rates for people hospitalized "primarily for COVID-19." They find the death rate has dropped significantly in the omicron era, compared to the delta period."




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