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Tornado warning up.

Some great info on what is going on in the hospitals in CT. Who is being hospitalized with COVID-19 in Connecticut? Almost exclusively unvaccinated people, officials say The overwhelming majority of Connecticut residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19 were not vaccinated before contracting the disease, hospital officials say. Despite more than half of Connecticut adults having been vaccinated, the state currently has 518 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, up nearly 40% over the past month. But data from local hospitals suggests this isn’t because vaccines aren’t working but rather because not enough people have yet been vaccinated. Yale New Haven Health, for example, has treated only six COVID-19 patients who have been fully vaccinated, out of hundreds who have come in and out of the system in recent weeks. Of those six, all were older and most had underlying conditions, yet none required intensive care and all have left the hospital. “Those are patients who would have been very much at risk for death a year ago, and they left the hospital and survived COVID without a severe course of illness,” said Dr. Deborah Rhodes, Yale New Haven’s vice president of care signature. “I really think it speaks to the effectiveness of vaccination.” https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-covid-hospitalizations-vaccine-20210415-zxftqu2m2zh4jhvrzwxbumofiy-story.html

Majority of this stuff is genetic. I paid a few companies to analyze my DNA and got a full genetic report. It was scary accurate and marched up exactly with prior health issues I have had. One interesting thing I found out was that I have a gene that makes me mostly immune to the norovirus and the flu. I have never gotten either.

Cannabis is not even remotely close to being as dangerous and harmful as alcohol. From the CDC. Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day. These deaths shorten the lives of those who die by an average of almost 29 years, for a total of 2.8 million years of potential life lost. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and cost the nation $249 billion in 2010. More than half of alcohol-attributable deaths are due to health effects from drinking too much over time, such as various types of cancer, liver disease, and heart disease. However, short-term health effects from consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time accounted for most of the years of potential life lost, such as deaths due to poisonings that involved another substance in addition to alcohol (e.g., drug overdoses), suicide, and motor vehicle crashes.

My wife has a fitbit that tracks her heart rate and it's quite disturbing what alcohol does to it. Its very common for people to report with fit bits their standing heart rates will increase 3-6 bpm for a day or two after drinking.

A battery leaf blower with a giant joint in the intake? Is there a video of this? Lol

You ride the zip line at two roads yet? Down a few IPA's and go for a zip.

I agree but its hard to grow year round in New England. Most people growing in tents are doing it organic with Fox Farm stuff from Humboldt County CA. They have an awesome organic soil and easy to use 3 step organic liquid fertilizer. There is a strain now called an autoflower. Its a cross with the cannabis rudelis from Northern Russia. Since where it grows has long sunlight and a quick summer it grows fast. It doesn't need a change in sunlight to flower and you can give it 24/7 light. It basically starts flowering in a few weeks and you harvest it around 3 or 4 months. A 4x4 tent with 2 autoflowers can yield 10-14 ozs .

Yep. A grow tent with a led light and carbon filter for a few hundred is all you need. You can legally buy seeds in the mail aka (souvenirs) from North Atlantic Seed Company in Maine. With autoflowers in 3 months you can have like the equivalent of a few grand in Mass recreational prices.

I use a rat zapper for chipmunks and squirrels. Jus put some bait in and they get shocked and are dead instantly. Way more humane than than drowning them in bucket water traps.

I had a small fence setup for the puppy before we got 230ft of vinyl fence put in this month. I shoveled his area all winter and were I put the snow piles it looked like I put down lesco.

It's been almost full sun all morning here around New Haven.

I tried out the Ecoscraps brand from Home Depot which I guess is the same product as Milorganite. Seems to be working great. Its my first time trying it as we just got a puppy so wanted something safe for him. Nice green up underway here on the CT shoreline with many trees leafing out.

Interesting article on how America will have a huge surplus of vaccines but can't donate any extra to other countries for liability reasons. We are also gearing up to produce most of the world's vaccines according to the article. The 2005 law gives manufacturers of vaccines and therapeutics developed in response to public health emergencies sweeping protection from liability, and makes the U.S. government a guarantor of that protection. The law provides an “almost Star Trek–level ‘shields up,’” said Nicholas Pace, a senior social scientist at the RAND Corporation. But “the moment that vial walks across the border, PREP has no effect. The cross-border liability problem is a huge one.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/why-the-us-still-cant-donate-covid-19-vaccines-to-countries-in-need

You can pretty much find out everything you want to know about your genetics/health with a DNA test now. I paid a few companies to analyze my DNA for health risks and traits. Its scary how accurate it is.

Yep. Here is CT's covid death rate by age. If your young and healthy your like 4000x more likely to probably die in a car crash or accident.

What a mess in Europe with the vaccine. Family member who works at a school In Spain is flying home just to get the vaccine. Vaccines are suspended there indefinitely and will only be open to 65+ when they restart. I think she said they only have the AstrZenca one approved there.

It was $14.98 for a 43lb bag that covers 2500 sq/ft. I'm only doing a 5000 sq/ft fenced in area for my puppy so only needed 2 bags. I didn't want to use any harsh fertilizer in his area. A big lawn would be pretty expensive. I guess its basically the same product as milorganite. It’s composed of heat-dried microbes that have digested the organic matter in wastewater treatment plants.

Dropped my sewer microbe sludge today. Home Depot had the ecoscraps brand. Definitely has a little poop smell to it and you can see the corn and seed kernels in it. Lol. The good thing is the puppy didn't seem to notice it at all on the grass and didn't mess with it.

I have a few friends that teach in some of the cities in CT. They all said like half the kids had little or zero remote learning. I don't think people fully realize the psychological harm done to these kids. It was reported last December that there were more child suicides in CT in that single month alone than all of 2019. 40 kids a day are waiting to get into the Yale Psychiatric hospital Here is a good article on the topic. Thousands of students didn’t show up for school this year. Where are the children? Hospital officials warn they have reached “a crisis level” as more kids show up at their emergency departments in distress, typically with threats of self-injury or suicide — and a record number of 40 children from low-income families on any given day are now stuck in the hospital while they await a bed in a psychiatric treatment facility. One in three students with ADHD is now chronically absent from school, and half of those with a diagnosed emotional disturbance, such as anxiety or bipolar disorder, are missing an excessive amount of school. https://ctmirror.org/2021/03/15/thousands-of-students-didnt-show-up-for-school-this-year-where-did-they-go/

My sister in law and friend who had covid last year had pretty severe reactions to the Moderna vaccine. My sister in law said she has sores in her mouth and a skin rash and flu like symptoms. She said she might not take the second dose. It probably doesn't make sense for someone that had covid to get it. I'm thinking the vaccine messes with their natural antibodies. Both had mild cases of covid originally and said the vaccine was worse than actual covid.

I work in a high demand skilled trade and there is still a ton of loyalty in the trades. I have been with my company 12 years. There is such a massive shortage of state licensed electricians, plumbers, hvac, etc. If employees are treated like shit its easy to walk as there are 25 other companies hiring and offering sign on bonuses. My company has to constantly offer better benefits to compete. It's like the complete opposite of the corporate office world.

They have been in full bloom for the last week or so on the CT shoreline. Everything seems a bit ahead this spring. Down in southwest CT its like full leaf out.

The reviews are pretty stellar. It looks like its mainly cedarwood oil and a bunch of other plant based oils. The ticks are out of control here already. The concentrated bottle, if your willing to mix seems really affordable for the coverage. They also have a sprayer you can attach to the hose. https://www.wondercide.com/pages/our-ingredients