tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post4010876982849150829..comments2024-03-27T17:10:55.396-05:00Comments on Johnday's Blog: New ManagementJohn Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-21879328208824598342020-07-17T07:58:36.324-05:002020-07-17T07:58:36.324-05:00It doesn't like my primitive HTML "skills...It doesn't like my primitive HTML "skills", but it will work if you cut'n'paste into your browserRobin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-66428809328245685342020-07-17T07:58:02.115-05:002020-07-17T07:58:02.115-05:00<A HREF="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiA...<A HREF="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiAuAxDU/XpR0-E0gkYI/AAAAAAAABug/84yipoA-P3Axv0rUuKC1d0HEXaNiwTF8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s400/back%2Bfuture%2Bmeme.jpg</A>Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-78313672390492325902020-07-17T07:57:31.256-05:002020-07-17T07:57:31.256-05:00<A HREF="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiA...<A HREF="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiAuAxDU/XpR0-E0gkYI/AAAAAAAABug/84yipoA-P3Axv0rUuKC1d0HEXaNiwTF8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s400/back%2Bfuture%2Bmeme.jpg</A>Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-74749805201726919792020-07-16T18:59:39.181-05:002020-07-16T18:59:39.181-05:00Hi Robin.
That doesn't seem to be a live link ...Hi Robin.<br />That doesn't seem to be a live link r file.John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-91743956237202390142020-07-16T17:53:49.719-05:002020-07-16T17:53:49.719-05:00One more thing. Go to this website:
https://ww...One more thing. Go to this website:<br /><br /> https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm<br /><br />scroll down a few pages until you see the US graph, then select California or Texas. This is an weekly excess mortality (total deaths per week around 60,000 for the entire US). The US total is heavily hit by NYC. CA and TX look pretty good :-}Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474186700213601890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-90830159789027386522020-07-16T15:02:47.290-05:002020-07-16T15:02:47.290-05:00Hi John
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think ...Hi John<br /><br />Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think your plan is a good one.<br /><br />I forgot to mention the university system (where I still work). It feels like it is being set up for a controlled demolition itself, after years of insane price inflation and insane increases in student debt -- and gradually every year a slightly higher percentage of non-academic staff. I still have tons of books, which will still work when the cloud gets ricketty :-}<br /><br />There are a large number of randomized controlled studies of masks and respiratory viruses out there that I have read. Even meta-analyses. I'll leave it at that.<br /><br />I'm already eating lower on the food chain. After changing over to a whole foods plant based diet several years ago, my LDL dropped by half and my arthritis went away. I continue to cycle to work, even after having been hit by a car in 2018. That resulted in a number of broken bones and a tension pneumothorax after being dumped off the ambulance into the emergency waiting room for 3.5 hours (no brain damage). There is a kind of reverse discrimination -- being in good shape, I wasn't even out of breath, so they took in the guys with sniffly noses before me :-} (but to be fair, as soon as they saw the xray, I had a chest tube in minutes).<br /><br />Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474186700213601890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-38772442398113969882020-07-16T13:22:12.211-05:002020-07-16T13:22:12.211-05:00https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiAuAxDU/XpR0-E0gkYI...https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zq2RiAuAxDU/XpR0-E0gkYI/AAAAAAAABug/84yipoA-P3Axv0rUuKC1d0HEXaNiwTF8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s400/back%2Bfuture%2Bmeme.jpgRobin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-66258188440062610112020-07-16T10:37:33.077-05:002020-07-16T10:37:33.077-05:00Buddy holly would be proud of this band. Marty Stu...Buddy holly would be proud of this band. Marty Stuart has "Evangelist Hair". <br />Good voice, good guitars, good band. West Texas sound.<br />Thanks for the referrals. I try to be of service.John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-86941676711819164612020-07-16T10:19:38.887-05:002020-07-16T10:19:38.887-05:00Dr. D... oy vey.
For the record, your work is ver...Dr. D... oy vey.<br /><br />For the record, your work is very much appreciated. I refer people to your blog for sound info regarding covid issues.<br /><br />You're from Texas. I just now discovered this wonder band:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-y8ALeK7Y&list=RDkGCw9TwtYaE&index=2<br /><br />The love story 'tween Marty and Connie Smith is a gem.Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-69649823665409790862020-07-16T10:08:01.168-05:002020-07-16T10:08:01.168-05:00Kurt Vonnegut had some good ideas, and was able to...Kurt Vonnegut had some good ideas, and was able to present them with whimsy, as a door to insight. Cat's Cradle contained Karass. Cat's Cradle explains Bokononism, the major premise of which is: "Truth is a lie". One of the practices is touching-soles, of the feet. Pretty good, really.<br />I'll just do what I can and die without regrets. <br />It seems to be consistent with my wiring.<br />The mask opening was a reply to "DR.D" who remains a vocal-mask-heretic, yet appeals to "SCIENCE". It also addresses others on both sides of the abyss, inviting them to meet on common-ground in the middle, or something.John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-68854331015098930312020-07-16T09:57:57.524-05:002020-07-16T09:57:57.524-05:00Actually, I don't lurk at TAE any more. God bl...Actually, I don't lurk at TAE any more. God bless Raul but a man has to 'splain himself or be ignored. I said goodbye and haven't looked back since. ALso, I wasn't really learning anything new there any more, and reading the same old reactionary/denial jive is bad for my bile.<br /><br />It is rational for the elites to avoid destruction of valuable infrastructure, but my reading of history says that sociopathic elites are as irrational as most human beings, and humans seem compelled to destroy the old before building the new.<br /><br />Famine and pestilence are likely to prove too destabilizing for what little rationality remains to prevent things like nuclear conflict, imo. <br /><br />Thanx for introducing me to the concept of karass. :)Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-63327146314310031492020-07-16T08:51:43.571-05:002020-07-16T08:51:43.571-05:00Dining outdoors might be better than the burka-ten...Dining outdoors might be better than the burka-tent option, at least until Malaria comes back to Texas. Oregon is safe from Malaria.<br />Thanks for commenting, Robin. I presume you yet lurk at TAE.<br />Notice that Marty introduced himself above and asked for both barrels, and got it.<br />:-)John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-81522880346592023322020-07-16T08:43:35.970-05:002020-07-16T08:43:35.970-05:00Hi Brother Marty,
I spent my first 6.5 years in an...Hi Brother Marty,<br />I spent my first 6.5 years in and near San Diego, a different San Diego, much nicer and smaller; more beautiful. My grandparents had a very nice house on "Banker's Hill", a short walk to Balboa Park. That house left our family after Dad died on March 1 2018, few days after his 90th birthday. That was always a mark in his mind. After that, I sought out another place (better overall) to be a family homestead, so you see pictures of the Yoakum project, which we "bought" in November 2018, and may pay off next month, before banks start failing and claiming we still owe $112,000 or something.<br />I was in high school in Yokohama, Japan, around February 1974, when one of our teachers spent a class session explaining The Limits To Growth to us. It seemed straightforward then, and still does now. Here is the last time I referenced it a few weeks ago http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/06/nobodys-in-charge.html <br />Excuse me, what was the question again?<br />Oh, "practical plan for future?"<br />My leading scenario is underpinned with the Seneca's Cliff type fall in production of net fossil fuel energy, concurrent with collapse of the current western economic paradigm, and with sociopathic western power elites sword fighting on the deck of the sinking trireme, with the rest of us chained to our stations at the oars. I have secretly found a way out of my shackle, but I'm still at station on the sinking trireme.<br />I think this coronavirus leaked out, either from Ft Detrick or Wuhan, so contingency plans had to be run haphazardly and cobbled together on the fly. There is some coordination of these between power factions, like US and China, and was laid out in mid October 2019 https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about<br />What we can see is that this crisis is not going to waste, as one elite alliance uses it to shut down human engagement as they do a massive wealth transfer, and the economy tanks, as was inevitable. Another alliance of elites really wants to get their businesses going again. Both make lip service to the human condition of the rowers on the benches, but different lip services. Really, they are fine with culling a lot of the rowers, especially the older ones, and those with chronic medical conditions, who slow down their trireme.<br />I actually think that the mode of battle has been set for this round of transition. It will not be nuclear war, which destroys infrastructure, which can't be rebuilt with depleting oul/minerals. It's PESTILENCE and FAMINE at the reins.<br />I think there will be more rounds of pestilence. Pestilence took a hit from penicillin, but Pestilence is back in play. Masks? Keep them around, and practice basic public health measures, but keep your immune system well tuned with fresh vgetables, vitamin-D and productive engagement in projects, and with other humans in your "Karass" https://www.yourdictionary.com/karass#:~:text=karass-,karass,fulfill%20the%20will%20of%20God <br />I can't tell you what projects to work on, or where, but consider basic diversified small farming, with a cash-crop. This was working out pretty well between the Civil War and WW-2, for most people. That's my project in Yoakum. Keep your day-job, too, but give away vegetables at work sometimes. Human-capital is really important and undervalued by bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is a way to drown at the oars going forward.<br />I hope this is helpful. Opportunity favors the prepared. <br />Become comfortable with the non-physical aspect of your being.<br />Don't be a fighting-pawn. John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-80019077450591260522020-07-15T23:26:26.011-05:002020-07-15T23:26:26.011-05:00table-tenttable-tentRobin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-45349311517666151952020-07-15T23:24:51.906-05:002020-07-15T23:24:51.906-05:00I went to a casino with my wife two weekends ago f...I went to a casino with my wife two weekends ago for our anniversary. She likes casinos. I like her.<br /><br />Casinos have super powerful AC airflow currents. Aerosol particles were swirling like the biggest invisible STar Wars mother of all galactic battle scenes.<br /><br />I am glad we were all wearing masks. It was far from perfect prevention, but in that insanely turbulent dried out iar, any help was good.<br /><br />Fortunately, it was in backwoods Oregon so both the number and strain opf covid are presumably much less/worse than places like your turf.<br /><br />But not for long.<br /><br />I wish I could feel that the military-pharma-information-surveillance complex were preparing any kind of future for us, but I perceive merely repeating the same old pillage and predation. I see them as incapable of doing anything but what they've been doing, which is grossly misreading/ignoring real consequences in their pursuit of greed and mindless dogma.<br /><br />Burkha-for-two table-ent dining gonna be a thing.Robin Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098768488282086396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-73470237904075017202020-07-15T21:23:44.556-05:002020-07-15T21:23:44.556-05:00This is from long time reader who visits many of t...This is from long time reader who visits many of the same sites as you do. As background, I was aware (a 1978 ugrad geologist), of peak oil (peak net energy) back in 2002 before the (second) Iraq war and gave a public speech against the war. Then as a neurophysiologist from 1981 until 2006, I have had extensive experience with masks, intubation, and vents.<br /><br />Here in San Diego, where we have been locked down again, the total number of covid deaths this season is roughly the same as the flu deaths in the 2017-2018 season.<br /><br />What is your vision of a practical plan for the future? Masks for healthy people forever, throughout the world? Threat of lockdowns every few months, throughout the world, forever? New experimental vaccines every few months, under threat of employment suspension (NEJM DOI:10.1056/NEJMp2020926), forever?<br /><br />And what if a really bad bug came through?<br /><br />I find the level of 'Salem witch trial-like' fear among my educated colleagues dismaying. Now add to that a 'New Red Guard', the popping of the largest everything bubble in history, the crushing of small businesses which provide 50% of all jobs in the US, 1/3 of the working population still out of work, a tsunami of evictions, defaults, foreclosures, and commercial real estate failures on the near horizon as benefits expire over the next few months, and finally, peak net energy -- and for once, even I'm frightened.<br /><br />The dystopian future being prepared for us by the military-pharma-information-surveillance complex is frankly utterly terrifying.<br /><br />We must fight back before it's too late.Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474186700213601890noreply@blogger.com