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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #952 on: March 16, 2020, 11:14:49 AM »
Atlanta is here because in 1837 a rail spur was built south from Chattanooga.  It stopped at a place called Terminus, which later was named Marthasville after the governor's daughter.  An east-west line was then built that connected and the name Atlanta came to be because of the Western & Atlantic RR Co.  The downtown streets are angled at a 45° from the rest of the streets (aside from meandering) because of how the RRs ran.  The town grew to a population of 10,000 by 1860.

Tulsa's downtown streets are similarly angled differently because of the railroad, the St. Louis-San Francisco (a.k.a. "Frisco"), which ran from the ENE to the WSW.  About 30 degrees counterclockwise from a normal N-S/E-W grid.
The Frisco was absorbed in 1980 by the Burlington Northern, which was itself the product of a merger between the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Great Northern, and which later became part of the merger that created the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, now officially the BNSF.
You could write a history of the United State from 1840 to the present through the lens of railroading and you wouldn't miss much.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #953 on: March 16, 2020, 11:20:46 AM »
I like OUR social media. As in, this site.

And.. I've got a slight fever. 99.8. F'ing awesome.

My partners and I just agreed on a conference call to become a work-from-home company for the time-being.

I'm cancelling next week's trip to Florida.

Dammit.
Good luck, Badge. Hopefully it's nothing. 99.8 isn't much, as others have mentioned.

If it progresses into a dry cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, that's when the symptoms start aligning with COVID.

My understanding (from my healthcare-adjacent wife) is that acetaminophen is processed through the liver, as is alcohol. Doubling the two puts more aggressive strain on the liver. Ibuprofen is processed through the kidneys, so it has less of a contraindication with alcohol.  

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #954 on: March 16, 2020, 11:26:00 AM »
The Tulsa Union Depot is a beautiful art deco structure that now houses the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.  This is the side facing WSW, where taxis would drop off their passengers.  The bridge at the extreme left goes over the tracks down below.



Tulsa's period of rapid growth was the 1920s, and it was a hotbed of art deco construction.  I have read that at one point Tulsa's downtown had the highest proportion of art deco buildings of any downtown in the country.  But thanks to the "urban renewal" projects of the 1960s and '70s, many of those buildings were torn down and replaced with either insipid modernist structures or, worse, parking lots.  It has taken decades to recover from that period of enthusiastic "out with the old, in with something worse" activity.

When I was in HS, the Union Depot was a derelict building inhabited by bums.  Fortunately, it was saved and restored instead of being razed. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #955 on: March 16, 2020, 11:47:29 AM »
Good luck, Badge. Hopefully it's nothing. 99.8 isn't much, as others have mentioned.

If it progresses into a dry cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, that's when the symptoms start aligning with COVID.

My understanding (from my healthcare-adjacent wife) is that acetaminophen is processed through the liver, as is alcohol. Doubling the two puts more aggressive strain on the liver. Ibuprofen is processed through the kidneys, so it has less of a contraindication with alcohol. 
and to complicate things further, there are currently some doctors that believe that NSAIDs (which include ibuprofen and aspirin) are causing complications with COVID19 cases, and that where there are cases of death among the younger populations, NSAIDs might have been involved as well.

So, that's nice, for anyone trying to get through the viral infection and the fever associated with it...

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #956 on: March 16, 2020, 11:48:50 AM »
and to complicate things further, there are currently some doctors that believe that NSAIDs (which include ibuprofen and aspirin) are causing complications with COVID19 cases, and that where there are cases of death among the younger populations, NSAIDs might have been involved as well.

So, that's nice, for anyone trying to get through the viral infection and the fever associated with it...
Thanks... I hadn't heard that myself, but if I have any symptoms it's definitely something I'll research before taking anything. 

So Badge... Tylenol and no booze for you!

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #957 on: March 16, 2020, 11:51:58 AM »
Badge would probably rather die! :)

We're still not on complete lockdown here.  If/when it happens, the no-carb diet is over and beer consumption will resume!

But, I'll also have plenty of time to exercise and work off those calories, so...

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #958 on: March 16, 2020, 11:54:59 AM »
and to complicate things further, there are currently some doctors that believe that NSAIDs (which include ibuprofen and aspirin) are causing complications with COVID19 cases, and that where there are cases of death among the younger populations, NSAIDs might have been involved as well.

So, that's nice, for anyone trying to get through the viral infection and the fever associated with it...
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #959 on: March 16, 2020, 01:20:41 PM »
The wife and I are back from a pretty long walk.  We discovered a part of the park we'd never been to before and walked in the Beltline.  I wanted to find out how best to walk to a nice Indian restaurant we found and  were driving to get there.  The pub next door is closed and doing only take out now.  The botanical garden is closed, which is a shame because spring is really springing here now.

The economic hit of all this is going to be severe, I hope it is a V.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #960 on: March 16, 2020, 01:46:17 PM »
Good luck, Badge. Hopefully it's nothing. 99.8 isn't much, as others have mentioned.

If it progresses into a dry cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, that's when the symptoms start aligning with COVID.

My understanding (from my healthcare-adjacent wife) is that acetaminophen is processed through the liver, as is alcohol. Doubling the two puts more aggressive strain on the liver. Ibuprofen is processed through the kidneys, so it has less of a contraindication with alcohol. 
Good Luck and you don't have to drink - or so I've been told
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #961 on: March 16, 2020, 01:48:29 PM »
We're still not on complete lockdown here.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #962 on: March 16, 2020, 01:55:17 PM »
Wtf does that even mean, lockdown?   There is no enforcement element, selective businesses are being ordered closed, yes but people are milling around, many places are open.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #963 on: March 16, 2020, 02:42:14 PM »
Wtf does that even mean, lockdown?  There is no enforcement element, selective businesses are being ordered closed, yes but people are milling around, many places are open.
Essentially it's tough to truly tell, but here is a story about the restrictions imposed in Italy.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/italy-coronavirus-lockdown-restrictions-200310050125680.html

So yeah, it's not locking everything down 100%. But with the closure of businesses, actual restrictions on "travel"--which I would take to mean intercity rail or air travel--and basically shutting down everything except the hospital and supermarket, people won't have much reason to go out.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #964 on: March 16, 2020, 02:55:29 PM »
Many food places are drive-thru only here in Phoenix.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #965 on: March 16, 2020, 03:00:58 PM »
Our daughter in France describes the same kind of lockdown.  They can go out only for bare essentials at the Carrefour or Monoprix.

Every other kind of meeting or gather is banned except I surmise for higher level government meetings and medical professionals.

The economy recovery from all this is going to be ... unpredictable.

 

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