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From Ralph the Rex's FB Page:
Wow! That was fast!
I meant the fact that the military has to actually deliver toilet paper because people have all hoarded it!
Another nominee for the Darwin Awards...
..yes it can.
When I was at a small college in Olympia WA a few decades ago, I learned about this one stairwell in the communication's building that had a lovely resonance (in fact it was nicknamed the "echo stairwell"). People wold go there to play their guitars, flutes ,saxophones, violins to bask in the depth it gave to their music. Well some scientific minded types decided to check the space to find it's resonant node. They set up a tone generator hooked up to a couple speakers on the second floor landing (which seemed to be the most "alive" spot). They finally dialled the generator up to the proper tone but shortly afterwards it began to go slowly out of sync. As they continued to adjust the frequency, the same kept happening again and again. Realising what was occurring, they shut the equipment down as they discovered the amplified sound waves were actually causing the building's frame in that corner to start bending. No real physical damage was done (fortunately) as they were slowly changing the frequency by small increments..
Another time back when I was at a city festival in Seattle, there was a band setting up and testing their equipment before a performance when one of the crew accidentally hit a subsonic feedback loop that suddenly made people in the area (self included) nauseous and a bit dizzy. Once it stopped, everyone felt fine again.
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Speaking of resonances in halls, ... Probably nobody noticed, but at the funeral of President Ronald Reagan, they had bands and orchestras playing at the ceremonies under the Rotunda in the US Capitol building. Horrible echoes in that place. Most of the music groups played stock songs just as if they would at any other function without taking into consideration the acoustics of that stark marble enclosure under a high huge dome. Unsurprisingly, the music sounded just awful because of the echoes being out of phase with the music. However, one group, had a conductor who obviously knew of the problems and they played a piece that had the right cadence and they used the echoes to their advantage. It was marvelous, it was like that hall came alive, he played it like an instrument. Even through the TV I could tell that the music was in phase with the echoes and came together in amazing crecendos of sound. The conductor really knew what he was doing. I kept waiting for one of the TV announcers to mention it but they never did. Shame. But I keep telling the story, hoping that someone else in this wide world noticed too.
...."as to the opposite side of the spectrum, "The Auditorium" in Independence MO is an interesting place it is almost acoustically perfect as the main hall is oval in shape and has a unique curve to the domed ceiling that actually enhances sound. A person standing on the opposite end of the hall from you can speak in a normal voice and it sounds as if he/she were standing right next to you
Saint Paul's Cathedral in London has a whispering gallery which is supposed to be like that where a whisper on one side can be heard on the other. Never been there though to find out.
https://www.stpauls.co.uk/history-collections/history/explore-the-cathedral/climb-the-dome
I remember trying one somewhere, I can't remember. I think it was the one in the Louvre, because of all the ones listed in Wikipedia, that's the only one I could have been to. Anyway, it's like the other person is talking inside your head. Freaky. "I hear voices..."
we have a Whispering wall reservoir here where people can hear others speaking the other side as if by them
Ah OK, yeah that is pretty damn crazy!
There are many countries with lot of infected people but mortality rate is low enough compared to other countries. Is people are tough enough or medical facilities are high quality? Why?
If it is medical facilities lowering mortality rate then it is time to upgrade, also developed countrirs need to help developing countries regarding medical upgradation if possible.
had to unfriend my SIL and brother on facebook over their racist posts
am sad but some things I cannot compromise on
One of the factors the mortality depends on is the infected group - are the of a risk group? Are the cases mild or serious because of that? Do they need ventilators?
Another related factor is the number of venilators available in the country and the general capacity of hospital units for serious/emergency cases. If the cases needing a ventilator and the cases of infected doctors and nurses overwhelm a health care system's capacity, deaths will sky rocket. See Italy and Spain. Some of the stories relayed over the Internet by the health care workers from those countries are true horrors. A Slovak doctor working in Spain posted, that she was absolutely exhausted, and awfully depressed, because what they were doing to serious cases aged 75+ was simply giving them sedatives and letting them fall asleep and suffocate to death in their sleep, without as much fear and pain as if left awake and without the unavilable treatment and ventilators. There was literally nothing slse they could do for them.
Here in the Czech Republic, most cases are younger people, many of them brought that damned thing back from their skiing vacations in Italy, despite all the warnings, before the quarantine was announced for the whole country. Many of the infected have kids, who also tested positive. They would usually not fall into the high risk category, thankfully. We managed to drop to R0 of 1.25 or so, thanks to the emergency measures and everyone wearing a face mask. As long as the hospitals can treat the infected without collapsing, I have high hopes we are going to be fine. The ecenomy will suffer horribly, though, but that is inevitable.
Take care everyone, stay safe, protect yourselves and the others. Wearing a cotton face mask is no shame and it helps a lot. We can get through it, it will hurt and take time, but we will make it.
Apparently Covid 19 is no respector of persons and postion
Definitely not. Prince Albert of Monaco was also tested positive last week, in France we have several ministers and members of Parliament who are infected too, and I'm sure there are similar cases in other countries.
There's also a side chamber (still a big space) in the US Capitol building, I think on the Senate side, that is a whispering gallery.
It works. It's is great when you take a youngish child or children up there and get their Stepfather to tell them to behave from the opposite side of the Dome.
There have been a lot of people saying this is the worst public health emergency ever. It is actually the worst public health emegency while people have had our current expectations of how easy life should be and how every danger to life will be dealt with. During the black death most people expected life to be hard, during the 1919 flu pandemic people had much lower expectacions than we do now.
I'm not playing down the seriousness of the crisis, just saying that there have been extremely bad crises before.
Social media also muddies things up. Yes, it's a blessing in a lot of ways...but it's also a curse in many others. The amount of misinformation and rumors and fearmongering flying around is insane and that is what is making things even worse and more dangerous.
just sharing this here for those whose rolls ran down to cardboard
If you don't have any good quality respirators or facial shields available, and you are a frontline fighter in dire need of those, you can always hack some scuba masks, courtesy of Czech Technical University in Prague:
Regarding Prince Charles, when I heard the news as it came across as 'Breaking News' I felt like a hit in the gut. I had hoped the Royal Family would be safe, but especially Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles. My best wishes for him, and that everyone in the family is okay and stays that way.
I bought Teen Jamie today and thought to use him to reflect so many teens and younger children trying to study on their own, so as not to fall back in school. I used the Study Room and with a slew of shaders personalized it. I have a lot of respect for that. School is a social activity, but you also learn a lot from other's questions and the interaction in class. Now they don't have it as much.
Mary
As far as I know due to weather and water temperature it is not applicable or comfortable for the people who are doing wiping instead of washing from ancient times. Now I can say coronavirus may be not fatal as much as other deadly pandemic but it is the worst virus in the history.
you don't have a hot water tap and heater?
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...watched that yesterday evening. Seems similar in ways to an account I read of the situation in Italy.
It is another story for me. In my house it is necessary to go while wearing only a towel (other clothes not allowed) otherwise permission will not granted to enter in my room again with those clothes. However I usually go while wearing sleevless vest and towel and change it before entering the room or as soon as entered the room.
interesting angle
Interview with coronavirus:
What is your name?
Corona virus.
What do you do?
Insurance.*
[*It compensate survivors (the movie 12 monkeys)]