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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either. They make one hell of a Trilogy though.

 

What song title is more appropriate at this time than this one? ((go ahead and guess, you can guess this)):

 

 

 

 

 

HAHAHA!

 

JB!

 

You are making me think!

 

If we are taking about Whitesnake, I think the song "SPIT IT OUT" is more relevant than "Slip Of The Tongue!" LOL! I don't want that virus!!!! LOL! "Spit it out, if you don't like it!"

 

If you are referring to The Police.....

 

"Contact?" Off of the "Regatta De Blanc" record? LOL! I don't want any contact with Covid!!! LOL!

 

So did you check which vid i put up?

 

I don't have Covid so fuckk yes! HUMANS!! "DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME!!!!!" LOL!

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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either. They make one hell of a Trilogy though.

Aye!

 

Who's the better Police guitarist Andy Summers or Alex Lifeson??

 

They are both Legends and of course RUSH was heavily influenced by The Police on the "Signals" record.

 

Alex over Andy.

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either. They make one hell of a Trilogy though.

Aye!

 

Who's the better Police guitarist Andy Summers or Alex Lifeson??

 

They are both Legends and of course RUSH was heavily influenced by The Police on the "Signals" record.

 

Alex over Andy.

Andy is a lot older than the other two, Copeland is 67, Sting is 68 and Andy is 77, he's older than Jagger and KEEF and only six months younger than Paul McCartney.

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

Have you got the results yet Earl?

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vai is truly next level.

 

his double live disc with the orchestra is the best rock orchestra ever. disc one is his studio records reworked for different. disc two is all new and its great too.

 

sound theories 1 and 2 is the shit.

 

i agree he declined after sex and religion but he still had a lot of music left in. the fire garden suite in particular is a fave of mine

The Fire Garden suite is good yeah, that's one of his better songs. I still say his Alive in an Ultra World album is where he got his mojo back but then lost it ever since.

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Nope, I don't want to die from it. I also don't want to die in a car accident, but I drive every day and take that risk knowing 38,000 people die every single year and knowing that I am taking a risk on my own life as ell as my children in the car every time. I don't want to die of the flu when it goes around every year, but I still go out. Life is full of risks. That is the decision for me to make in everything I do. I don't want cancer so I CHOSE to stop smoking. No one made me. 647,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. Do I want the government to make fast food and fried food (or anything else the government deems "unsafe") illegal in the name of saving lives? Nope. I think I'll make the choice myself whether to eat like shit or not.

 

 

Well here is a really simple solution:

 

If YOU are scared to go out because of the virus, the You don't have to go out.

 

If Joe who owns Joe's Barber Shop wants to "take the risk" and risk exposing him self to Covid 19, then he can do so. His opening his barber shop doesn't affect you at all - because you are staying home, right?

 

Look at it this way - you should want things to open up while you hunker down because herd immunity will happen much quicker. Then when it's all over in a few years you can unseal your bunker and come out and have a beer with me in a bar without maintaining 6 feet distance. :cheers:

 

I'd argue that this virus is significantly more deadly than any other thing. Even if you don't want to say 80,000 dead in the US because of inflated numbers. I'll be generous and cut that in half. So 40,000 dead in 2 months.

 

Houston, we have a problem. The number of increased deaths is undeniable. They are burying people in mass graves in NYC, because so many are dying. So many more than normal. What's the cause of all that death? The media shoving it down our throats?

 

It's real buddy.

 

And the solution isn't as simple as some guy afraid of dying staying home. Staying home is also supposed to SLOW THE VIRUS DOWN, so that it has a reduced chance to spread to the vulnerable. Until there are vaccines and treatments.

 

People are really showing their selfish, true colors with this thing. Normally I wouldn't give a shit. But people are dying because of it.

 

And yeah, I look forward to the day that we can safely have beer together. I'll buy the first round.

 

No shit it's real, buddy.

 

So is the flu.

 

Do you react like this every year when the flu comes around and kills up to 60,000- 65,000 people? No? Why not? It's a real question you should ask yourself.

 

You almost seem militant to anyone who doesn't completely agree with you and want to seal themselves in a cave and not come out until a vaccine is ready. That is your choice to do that. Seal yourself in. Many of the rest of us are ready to get back to normal life and would rather "take the risk".

 

Keep yourself sealed in - and people who feel they are at risk - stay in hiding. The opening of businesses and regular life that you are so against does not affect you because you are hunkering down until there is a vaccine or the virus goes away through herd immunity. So my going out won't affect you at all. In fact you should want people to all go out while you don't and then the 60-70% herd immunity will happen for you.

 

Maybe you are the one who is selfish, not the ones willing to "take a chance" and who want to get the economic engine of this country running again.

 

Militant? Strong willed is more like it.

 

I'm not being selfish by understanding the nature of the virus, understanding that it's a killer, and not wanting to be one who'd infect someone else with it.

 

When you're taking that risk, you're not just taking that risk for yourself. You are taking that risk for everyone down the line who you'd infect. Remember that.

 

I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

 

Then you could apply that to the flu or any "dangerous thing" like driving, no? Do you drive? How can you do that when you might kill someone? I mean 38,000 lives lost every year just in the US, 1.3 million world wide. Don't you care about people? Just one life saved... How can you ever go out in the flu season again? I mean you might have it and give it to someone who is going to a nursing home to visit their mother or grandmother! Give me a f***ing break. Again - if YOU are not going out then YOU can't get the virus right? Seriously, stay the f**k indoors and away from people if you want. That is your choice.

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vai is truly next level.

 

his double live disc with the orchestra is the best rock orchestra ever. disc one is his studio records reworked for different. disc two is all new and its great too.

 

sound theories 1 and 2 is the shit.

 

i agree he declined after sex and religion but he still had a lot of music left in. the fire garden suite in particular is a fave of mine

The Fire Garden suite is good yeah, that's one of his better songs. I still say his Alive in an Ultra World album is where he got his mojo back but then lost it ever since.

 

alive in an ultra world is a great record and a very unique idea.

 

i tell ya the orchestra one is great. steve doesnt even play guitar on side 1 Iirc

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Nope, I don't want to die from it. I also don't want to die in a car accident, but I drive every day and take that risk knowing 38,000 people die every single year and knowing that I am taking a risk on my own life as ell as my children in the car every time. I don't want to die of the flu when it goes around every year, but I still go out. Life is full of risks. That is the decision for me to make in everything I do. I don't want cancer so I CHOSE to stop smoking. No one made me. 647,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. Do I want the government to make fast food and fried food (or anything else the government deems "unsafe") illegal in the name of saving lives? Nope. I think I'll make the choice myself whether to eat like shit or not.

 

 

Well here is a really simple solution:

 

If YOU are scared to go out because of the virus, the You don't have to go out.

 

If Joe who owns Joe's Barber Shop wants to "take the risk" and risk exposing him self to Covid 19, then he can do so. His opening his barber shop doesn't affect you at all - because you are staying home, right?

 

Look at it this way - you should want things to open up while you hunker down because herd immunity will happen much quicker. Then when it's all over in a few years you can unseal your bunker and come out and have a beer with me in a bar without maintaining 6 feet distance. :cheers:

 

I'd argue that this virus is significantly more deadly than any other thing. Even if you don't want to say 80,000 dead in the US because of inflated numbers. I'll be generous and cut that in half. So 40,000 dead in 2 months.

 

Houston, we have a problem. The number of increased deaths is undeniable. They are burying people in mass graves in NYC, because so many are dying. So many more than normal. What's the cause of all that death? The media shoving it down our throats?

 

It's real buddy.

 

And the solution isn't as simple as some guy afraid of dying staying home. Staying home is also supposed to SLOW THE VIRUS DOWN, so that it has a reduced chance to spread to the vulnerable. Until there are vaccines and treatments.

 

People are really showing their selfish, true colors with this thing. Normally I wouldn't give a shit. But people are dying because of it.

 

And yeah, I look forward to the day that we can safely have beer together. I'll buy the first round.

 

No shit it's real, buddy.

 

So is the flu.

 

Do you react like this every year when the flu comes around and kills up to 60,000- 65,000 people? No? Why not? It's a real question you should ask yourself.

 

You almost seem militant to anyone who doesn't completely agree with you and want to seal themselves in a cave and not come out until a vaccine is ready. That is your choice to do that. Seal yourself in. Many of the rest of us are ready to get back to normal life and would rather "take the risk".

 

Keep yourself sealed in - and people who feel they are at risk - stay in hiding. The opening of businesses and regular life that you are so against does not affect you because you are hunkering down until there is a vaccine or the virus goes away through herd immunity. So my going out won't affect you at all. In fact you should want people to all go out while you don't and then the 60-70% herd immunity will happen for you.

 

Maybe you are the one who is selfish, not the ones willing to "take a chance" and who want to get the economic engine of this country running again.

 

Militant? Strong willed is more like it.

 

I'm not being selfish by understanding the nature of the virus, understanding that it's a killer, and not wanting to be one who'd infect someone else with it.

 

When you're taking that risk, you're not just taking that risk for yourself. You are taking that risk for everyone down the line who you'd infect. Remember that.

 

I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

 

Then you could apply that to the flu or any "dangerous thing" like driving, no? Do you drive? How can you do that when you might kill someone? I mean 38,000 lives lost every year just in the US, 1.3 million world wide. Don't you care about people? Just one life saved... How can you ever go out in the flu season again? I mean you might have it and give it to someone who is going to a nursing home to visit their mother or grandmother! Give me a f***ing break. Again - if YOU are not going out then YOU can't get the virus right? Seriously, stay the f**k indoors and away from people if you want. That is your choice.

 

Let's talk about risk vs impact then.

 

One of us could slip in the shower and break our necks. There's risk in everything. In that case, it would just be our necks. The death would stop there. Limited exposure.

 

Or we could get in the car and kill ourselves or someone else. Any number of ways. Again, pretty limited exposure as tragic as it is. Nobody else outside that small circle will be impacted.

 

The Flu. Infectious. We pass it along and the R0 is usually around 1. It sucks, but that's the nature of the typical flu virus. So more exposure and chance of death than the singleton events above. Fortunately we as humans have some protection in built up immunity and mostly effective vaccines. For the most part flu isn't communacable until symptoms appear in the carrier. So smart people who are sick with the flu stay home, heal up, and as a net effect limit spread to he next person. 30 something thousand dead in a year sucks, but without vaccines and immunity would be a lot worse..... like it was in the past before modern medical science and vaccines were developed for the common flu strains.

 

Which leads us to the COVID situation:

 

COVID 19. R0 of as high as 5.6. No built up immunity thus far. No working vaccines or treatments. High mortality rate. That R0 means that one person can potentially infect more than 5 new people. That would be ASYMPTOMATIC spread. Spreaders may not know they have it. So they just go to the beach and the bar, catch it, and spread it unaware that it's happening. Risk potential for spreading to people down the line is huge - as we've seen. (and they spread to 4 friends, and they spread to 4 friends, and so on and so on and so on).

 

 

We're up to 90,000 dead from COVID/related. In the US, in less than 3 months.

 

Some would say that number is inflated. OK. let's roll with that.

 

How inflated?

 

Let's try to assign some percentages or values to the 'inflation categories' then come back to a 'real' COVID number.

 

What % of the number is outright bullshit? Sources?

What % of the number is 'medicare bonus' inflation? Sources?

What % of the number are retroactive and thus suspect? Sources?

Other categories of inaccuracy?

Type. %, Hard source.

Type. %, Hard source.

 

When we have that we can then talk about 90K being an inaccurate number.

 

I agree that the number might be inaccurate it's plausible. My question is why and by how much. I certainly wouldn't want to minimize the real number of dead with hersay and gut feelings - with the motivation of slanting that number to make it appear that the virus isn't as impactful as it really is. So if we're going to say that the number isn't real, why isn't it real?

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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either.

It was Miles Copeland's idea, apparently.
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I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

Maybe you can find a metric based on these recent figures from the US...

 

94K US COVID-attributed deaths

38 Million US unemployed

 

That's just over 400 futures derailed (plus their families') for every COVID death. Be sure to consider the mean age of each population as you do the math.

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I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

Maybe you can find a metric based on these recent figures from the US...

 

94K US COVID-attributed deaths

38 Million US unemployed

 

That's just over 400 futures derailed (plus their families') for every COVID death. Be sure to consider the mean age of each population as you do the math.

 

That IS an interesting way to look at it. Thank you.

 

My POV, is that the unemployed can be taken care of somehow. We just need to do a much better job of it. The US has always shit on it's disadvantaged - that needs to change. But at least they can be helped.

 

You can't bring back the dead.

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Nope, I don't want to die from it. I also don't want to die in a car accident, but I drive every day and take that risk knowing 38,000 people die every single year and knowing that I am taking a risk on my own life as ell as my children in the car every time. I don't want to die of the flu when it goes around every year, but I still go out. Life is full of risks. That is the decision for me to make in everything I do. I don't want cancer so I CHOSE to stop smoking. No one made me. 647,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. Do I want the government to make fast food and fried food (or anything else the government deems "unsafe") illegal in the name of saving lives? Nope. I think I'll make the choice myself whether to eat like shit or not.

 

 

Well here is a really simple solution:

 

If YOU are scared to go out because of the virus, the You don't have to go out.

 

If Joe who owns Joe's Barber Shop wants to "take the risk" and risk exposing him self to Covid 19, then he can do so. His opening his barber shop doesn't affect you at all - because you are staying home, right?

 

Look at it this way - you should want things to open up while you hunker down because herd immunity will happen much quicker. Then when it's all over in a few years you can unseal your bunker and come out and have a beer with me in a bar without maintaining 6 feet distance. :cheers:

 

I'd argue that this virus is significantly more deadly than any other thing. Even if you don't want to say 80,000 dead in the US because of inflated numbers. I'll be generous and cut that in half. So 40,000 dead in 2 months.

 

Houston, we have a problem. The number of increased deaths is undeniable. They are burying people in mass graves in NYC, because so many are dying. So many more than normal. What's the cause of all that death? The media shoving it down our throats?

 

It's real buddy.

 

And the solution isn't as simple as some guy afraid of dying staying home. Staying home is also supposed to SLOW THE VIRUS DOWN, so that it has a reduced chance to spread to the vulnerable. Until there are vaccines and treatments.

 

People are really showing their selfish, true colors with this thing. Normally I wouldn't give a shit. But people are dying because of it.

 

And yeah, I look forward to the day that we can safely have beer together. I'll buy the first round.

 

No shit it's real, buddy.

 

So is the flu.

 

Do you react like this every year when the flu comes around and kills up to 60,000- 65,000 people? No? Why not? It's a real question you should ask yourself.

 

You almost seem militant to anyone who doesn't completely agree with you and want to seal themselves in a cave and not come out until a vaccine is ready. That is your choice to do that. Seal yourself in. Many of the rest of us are ready to get back to normal life and would rather "take the risk".

 

Keep yourself sealed in - and people who feel they are at risk - stay in hiding. The opening of businesses and regular life that you are so against does not affect you because you are hunkering down until there is a vaccine or the virus goes away through herd immunity. So my going out won't affect you at all. In fact you should want people to all go out while you don't and then the 60-70% herd immunity will happen for you.

 

Maybe you are the one who is selfish, not the ones willing to "take a chance" and who want to get the economic engine of this country running again.

 

Militant? Strong willed is more like it.

 

I'm not being selfish by understanding the nature of the virus, understanding that it's a killer, and not wanting to be one who'd infect someone else with it.

 

When you're taking that risk, you're not just taking that risk for yourself. You are taking that risk for everyone down the line who you'd infect. Remember that.

 

I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

 

Then you could apply that to the flu or any "dangerous thing" like driving, no? Do you drive? How can you do that when you might kill someone? I mean 38,000 lives lost every year just in the US, 1.3 million world wide. Don't you care about people? Just one life saved... How can you ever go out in the flu season again? I mean you might have it and give it to someone who is going to a nursing home to visit their mother or grandmother! Give me a f***ing break. Again - if YOU are not going out then YOU can't get the virus right? Seriously, stay the f**k indoors and away from people if you want. That is your choice.

 

Let's talk about risk vs impact then.

 

One of us could slip in the shower and break our necks. There's risk in everything. In that case, it would just be our necks. The death would stop there. Limited exposure.

 

Or we could get in the car and kill ourselves or someone else. Any number of ways. Again, pretty limited exposure as tragic as it is. Nobody else outside that small circle will be impacted.

 

The Flu. Infectious. We pass it along and the R0 is usually 1 or less. It sucks, but that's the nature of the typical flu virus. So more exposure and chance of death than the singleton events above. Fortunately we as humans have some protection in built up immunity and mostly effective vaccines. For the most part flu isn't communacable until symptoms appear in the carrier. So smart people who are sick with the flu stay home, heal up, and as a net effect limit spread to he next person. 30 something thousand dead in a year sucks, but without vaccines and immunity would be a lot worse..... like it was in the past before modern medical science and vaccines were developed for the common flu strains.

 

Which leads us to the COVID situation:

 

COVID 19. R0 of as high as 5.6. No built up immunity thus far. No working vaccines or treatments. High mortality rate. That R0 means that one person can potentially infect more than 5 new people. That would be ASYMPTOMATIC spread. Spreaders may not know they have it. So they just go to the beach and the bar, catch it, and spread it unaware that it's happening. Risk potential for spreading to people down the line is huge - as we've seen.

 

 

We're up to 90,000 dead from COVID/related. In the US, in less than 3 months.

 

Some would say that number is inflated. OK. let's roll with that.

 

How inflated?

 

Let's try to assign some percentages or values to the 'inflation categories' then come back to a 'real' COVID number.

 

What % of the number is outright bullshit? Sources?

What % of the number is medicare 'bonus' inflation? Sources?

What % of the number are retroactive and thus suspect? Sources?

Other categories of inaccuracy?

Type. %, Hard soruce.

Type. %, Hard soruce.

 

When we have that we can then talk about 90K being an inaccurate number.

 

I agree that the number might be inaccurate it plausable. My question is why and by how much. I certainly wouldn't want to minimize the real number of dead with hersay and gut feelings. With the motivation of slanting that number to make it appear that the virus isn't as impactful as it really is. So if we're going to say that the number isn't real, why isn't it real?

 

:facepalm: Thank God people like you can't impose your will against people like me, at least not in my country.

 

While you are sitting in your bunker running the numbers, I'll be out to dinner with my wife tonight for the first time in 10 weeks :) Go live your life in fear. I'll be enjoying my life and feeling sorry for people like you.

 

By the way, how are the Wisconsin numbers since they opened up? Must be tens of thousands new cases daily by now with people dying in the streets right? And in Georgia, Florida, etc right? Must be like the apocalypse in those states by now. At what point do you admit that the lock down and "stay at home" orders and closure of business and all this horseshit isn't doing what you claim?

 

:cheers:

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Nope, I don't want to die from it. I also don't want to die in a car accident, but I drive every day and take that risk knowing 38,000 people die every single year and knowing that I am taking a risk on my own life as ell as my children in the car every time. I don't want to die of the flu when it goes around every year, but I still go out. Life is full of risks. That is the decision for me to make in everything I do. I don't want cancer so I CHOSE to stop smoking. No one made me. 647,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. Do I want the government to make fast food and fried food (or anything else the government deems "unsafe") illegal in the name of saving lives? Nope. I think I'll make the choice myself whether to eat like shit or not.

 

 

Well here is a really simple solution:

 

If YOU are scared to go out because of the virus, the You don't have to go out.

 

If Joe who owns Joe's Barber Shop wants to "take the risk" and risk exposing him self to Covid 19, then he can do so. His opening his barber shop doesn't affect you at all - because you are staying home, right?

 

Look at it this way - you should want things to open up while you hunker down because herd immunity will happen much quicker. Then when it's all over in a few years you can unseal your bunker and come out and have a beer with me in a bar without maintaining 6 feet distance. :cheers:

 

I'd argue that this virus is significantly more deadly than any other thing. Even if you don't want to say 80,000 dead in the US because of inflated numbers. I'll be generous and cut that in half. So 40,000 dead in 2 months.

 

Houston, we have a problem. The number of increased deaths is undeniable. They are burying people in mass graves in NYC, because so many are dying. So many more than normal. What's the cause of all that death? The media shoving it down our throats?

 

It's real buddy.

 

And the solution isn't as simple as some guy afraid of dying staying home. Staying home is also supposed to SLOW THE VIRUS DOWN, so that it has a reduced chance to spread to the vulnerable. Until there are vaccines and treatments.

 

People are really showing their selfish, true colors with this thing. Normally I wouldn't give a shit. But people are dying because of it.

 

And yeah, I look forward to the day that we can safely have beer together. I'll buy the first round.

 

No shit it's real, buddy.

 

So is the flu.

 

Do you react like this every year when the flu comes around and kills up to 60,000- 65,000 people? No? Why not? It's a real question you should ask yourself.

 

You almost seem militant to anyone who doesn't completely agree with you and want to seal themselves in a cave and not come out until a vaccine is ready. That is your choice to do that. Seal yourself in. Many of the rest of us are ready to get back to normal life and would rather "take the risk".

 

Keep yourself sealed in - and people who feel they are at risk - stay in hiding. The opening of businesses and regular life that you are so against does not affect you because you are hunkering down until there is a vaccine or the virus goes away through herd immunity. So my going out won't affect you at all. In fact you should want people to all go out while you don't and then the 60-70% herd immunity will happen for you.

 

Maybe you are the one who is selfish, not the ones willing to "take a chance" and who want to get the economic engine of this country running again.

 

Militant? Strong willed is more like it.

 

I'm not being selfish by understanding the nature of the virus, understanding that it's a killer, and not wanting to be one who'd infect someone else with it.

 

When you're taking that risk, you're not just taking that risk for yourself. You are taking that risk for everyone down the line who you'd infect. Remember that.

 

I do notice though that no one ever directly answers the question about what lives are worth.

 

Then you could apply that to the flu or any "dangerous thing" like driving, no? Do you drive? How can you do that when you might kill someone? I mean 38,000 lives lost every year just in the US, 1.3 million world wide. Don't you care about people? Just one life saved... How can you ever go out in the flu season again? I mean you might have it and give it to someone who is going to a nursing home to visit their mother or grandmother! Give me a f***ing break. Again - if YOU are not going out then YOU can't get the virus right? Seriously, stay the f**k indoors and away from people if you want. That is your choice.

 

Let's talk about risk vs impact then.

 

One of us could slip in the shower and break our necks. There's risk in everything. In that case, it would just be our necks. The death would stop there. Limited exposure.

 

Or we could get in the car and kill ourselves or someone else. Any number of ways. Again, pretty limited exposure as tragic as it is. Nobody else outside that small circle will be impacted.

 

The Flu. Infectious. We pass it along and the R0 is usually 1 or less. It sucks, but that's the nature of the typical flu virus. So more exposure and chance of death than the singleton events above. Fortunately we as humans have some protection in built up immunity and mostly effective vaccines. For the most part flu isn't communacable until symptoms appear in the carrier. So smart people who are sick with the flu stay home, heal up, and as a net effect limit spread to he next person. 30 something thousand dead in a year sucks, but without vaccines and immunity would be a lot worse..... like it was in the past before modern medical science and vaccines were developed for the common flu strains.

 

Which leads us to the COVID situation:

 

COVID 19. R0 of as high as 5.6. No built up immunity thus far. No working vaccines or treatments. High mortality rate. That R0 means that one person can potentially infect more than 5 new people. That would be ASYMPTOMATIC spread. Spreaders may not know they have it. So they just go to the beach and the bar, catch it, and spread it unaware that it's happening. Risk potential for spreading to people down the line is huge - as we've seen.

 

 

We're up to 90,000 dead from COVID/related. In the US, in less than 3 months.

 

Some would say that number is inflated. OK. let's roll with that.

 

How inflated?

 

Let's try to assign some percentages or values to the 'inflation categories' then come back to a 'real' COVID number.

 

What % of the number is outright bullshit? Sources?

What % of the number is medicare 'bonus' inflation? Sources?

What % of the number are retroactive and thus suspect? Sources?

Other categories of inaccuracy?

Type. %, Hard soruce.

Type. %, Hard soruce.

 

When we have that we can then talk about 90K being an inaccurate number.

 

I agree that the number might be inaccurate it plausable. My question is why and by how much. I certainly wouldn't want to minimize the real number of dead with hersay and gut feelings. With the motivation of slanting that number to make it appear that the virus isn't as impactful as it really is. So if we're going to say that the number isn't real, why isn't it real?

 

:facepalm: Thank God people like you can't impose your will against people like me, at least not in my country.

 

While you are sitting in your bunker running the numbers, I'll be out to dinner with my wife tonight for the first time in 10 weeks :) Go live your life in fear. I'll be enjoying my life and feeling sorry for people like you.

 

By the way, how are the Wisconsin numbers since they opened up? Must be tens of thousands new cases daily by now with people dying in the streets right? And in Georgia, Florida, etc right? Must be like the apocalypse in those states by now. At what point do you admit that the lock down and "stay at home" orders and closure of business and all this horseshit isn't doing what you claim?

 

:cheers:

 

Thank you.

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Whatever! I'm 52 and very healthy! I thought for sure I had Covid 19 in early February. It wasn't. Just a fuckking super flu. I rarely get that sick. I wanted to die.

So again! The world is saddened by all the human loss with this horrific virus!! It's on our news channels 24/7!!!!

 

So where is the thread about the 200000 plus a year who pass away from the FLU!!!!!?????????

Where is the daily news story about humans dying daily from the common flu???????????????

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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either. They make one hell of a Trilogy though.

Aye!

 

Who's the better Police guitarist Andy Summers or Alex Lifeson??

 

They are both Legends and of course RUSH was heavily influenced by The Police on the "Signals" record.

 

Alex over Andy.

Andy is a lot older than the other two, Copeland is 67, Sting is 68 and Andy is 77, he's older than Jagger and KEEF and only six months younger than Paul McCartney.

 

Incredible Pat. I never knew that. It's like Mick Mars in Motley Crue. The older dude on the guitar.

Every concert here is cancelled for the year. Yet the Crue Def Poison deal is still hanging on by a thread.

I am sure it will be postponed until next summer.

I like it. I am not bummed.

I will keep my tickets and wait.

This will give Vince a whole fuckking year to get his shit together.

I hope Mick will stay healthy too.

As for the Crue rhythm section, they are sold as a fuckking anchor.

 

I have amazing GUNS N ROSES seats for SF.

They are postponed at this time.

So I will hang onto these.

I will hang on to my Crue tix too.

 

I just got a LIVE NATION email for my two Sammy Whitesnake Night Ranger tix. Fuckk that Pat. They want you to hang on to a credit. They will give you 100% credit plus 50% extra.

FUCKK THAT PAT! You may think I am a f***ing pussy ass death metal hater, but I am a business man too.

No way will I let Live Nation hold my funds for a year or two. It's for a good cause.

But I'm getting my refunds for those two gigs.

Coverdale is on ice man with his hernia operation.

Hoping for next year.

If not oh well.

Pat, I also got the same offer for Foreigner Kansas and Europe.

I had Europe meet and greets.

I am taking the refund on that one too. Fuckk it dude.

 

There is so much uncertainty in the world. Fuckk Live Nation and Ticket Bastard.

They are trying so hard to hang on to the money.

 

I am learning not to be a nostalgic nerd. However, I am happy for my GNR tix and my Crue Def Tix. Hoping for next summer!!!

 

Sammy Hagar sucks Pat.

 

Whitesnake should have headlined anyway.

 

Night Ranger is better than Sammy Hagar.

 

VOA

 

VENOM

OVER

ANGER

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

Have you got the results yet Earl?

 

Pat!!

 

I do apologize! I thought I posted my results here last night.

 

I got my results back from Labcorp yesterday.

 

You were right all along Pat. Capt Tripps! That's me!

 

I really thought I had Covid back in early Feb.

it was just a really bad flu. I wanted to die Pat.

I am sure many Rushhead Haters wish I was dead.

I'm still six feet up. Not down mutherfuckkers.

 

Pat!

 

I tested negative for the Covid antibodies.

 

So I was worried about nothing.

 

Cheers Mate!

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

Have you got the results yet Earl?

 

Pat!!

 

I do apologize! I thought I posted my results here last night.

 

I got my results back from Labcorp yesterday.

 

You were right all along Pat. Capt Tripps! That's me!

 

I really thought I had Covid back in early Feb.

it was just a really bad flu. I wanted to die Pat.

I am sure many Rushhead Haters wish I was dead.

I'm still six feet up. Not down mutherfuckkers.

 

Pat!

 

I tested negative for the Covid antibodies.

 

So I was worried about nothing.

 

Cheers Mate!

Mind you the virus isn't always present in your nose or throat, as long as it's attached to the ACE2 enzyme it could be there usually in the lungs. So it could be a false negative, but hopefully not.

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Vai doesn't look all that different from the Crossroads days even though he's 60 now.

 

Well Pat. He is the Devil.

 

Satan never ages.

 

Makes sense to me.

I still like Vai's old stuff, the David Lee Roth stuff, Alcatrazz, Whitesnake and his earlier solo albums, Flexable, Passion & Warfare, Sex & Religion, but after that he lost his way for me with his patchy albums with weak tunes and bad singing. Listening to that song there from his 1995 mini album Alien Love Secrets, the song and his playing and his overall style sounds way too gimmicky to me now. There's not much to that song and the soloing lacks balls and is too effects-heavy. His last good album was that live album from 2001 which he recorded on tour with first time performances during gigs. I liked how he based each song on each city of the world he was in which forced him to use his imagination to come up with different chords and weird scales instead of the standard Vai tapping licks and riffs. Since then in the last 20 years he's released 2 more weak albums, about 50 compilation albums and about 20 live albums, so he's fresh out of ideas altogether now.

 

Well we are brothers Pat. I feel the same way about VAI. He totally lost me after "Sex & Religion." Don't forget the ep "Alien Love Secrets." I liked it. I have a Japan cd pressing first pressing with guitar pick.

He needs to do another album like that Live Zone from 2001 or whatever it's called, that's his only hope. And there was no singing on it which was a bonus because he can't sing live!

 

I agree.

Earl how do you feel about The Police today, the band that is. Also how do you feel about the 70's Jeff Beck albums and the one from 1980?

 

I just went through a big The Police phase a few weeks ago. Hell yes Pat, I love them. I love all five studio albums. The weakest being "Ghost In The Machine." Dude, you know that Stewart is my top three drummer of all time right? I love The Police.

 

I love Jeff Beck too. You must have a video camera the size of a pinhead in my living room. I also just went through a Jeff Beck phase. I love all the Jeff Beck stuff. Including the two with Rod on vocals.

Then the solo stuff with Cozy on the drums. I love the instrumental albums. "There And Back" with Simon on the drums is a masterpiece. "Space Boogie" baby!!

I even dig "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" with Bozzio on the kit.

I'm not so keen on the Beck albums with the group, I don't like that singer although obviously Cozy is on there. I prefer Truth, Beck-Ola, Wired and Blow By Blow. And There and Back but some people like to diss that album for some reason. And I do like Guitar Shop as well, I got that when it was first released with SRV's In Step and Steve Morse's High Tension Wires, what a guitar batch that was!

 

I'm not big on Sting I think he's a self-important douche nozzle who hates people winning the lottery because they might catch up with his bank account. That's what keeps him up at night, people playing Powerball! It's his biggest nightmare. I haven't got any Police albums I should probably bag the 5 studio albums I could probably get them for £20.

 

I understand you completely. We were born from the same cloth. I bought Guitar Shop, In Step and High Tension Wires at the same time as well. We are crazy in a great way Pat.

Who gives a fuckk what people think.

I wouldn't change a thing Pat.

 

People diss "There And Back?" They must be snorting crack cocaine with whiskey.

 

Dude, I fuckking HATE STING. Just like I fuckking can't stand that cock ROGER WATERS! UGH!!!!!!!

 

You nailed STING to a tee, but I can't help it. I love The Police.

 

I can't stand all these wankers and their ultra liberal views and political agendas. HYPOCRITICAL GREED MONGERS!!! I just WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC!!!!!

 

If STING is such a wonderful human being he should be giving a lot of his money to charity. Homelessness. Covid survivors. Abused animals.

 

FUCKK STING.

 

I love that Stewart hates his guts. I love when they fight. I want Stewie to really kick STING's ass one day. STUNG!!!! DUNG!!!! F YOU TOO STING!! F YOU ROGER WATERS!!!!

Yeah Sting is a t**t, but I think he became the kind of smug preachy little bastard after he left the Police. So I think it's ok to like the Police but I draw the line at his crap poser "jazz" solo albums.

 

We're insane for great music! Around that time I also got Steve Lukather's first solo album Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys, and I must have got Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue too, I think I got the Steve albums on the same day, I'm not sure if it was before the SRV, Jeff Beck, Steve Morse batch or after. I remember I recorded the Lukather and Slip of the Tongue on the same cassette tape, so it must have been around the same time.

 

You and I are nuts. I just bought the Los Lobotomys Japan Live Cd. Simon Phillips. Also Baked Potato Live! Jeff Pocaro on drums. All Steven dude. We are brothers.

 

People on here just let us type our jam because we rock.

 

Slip Of The Tongue Rules. Saw the tour.

I actually like Slip of the Tongue more than the 1987 album, I think it's got better songs overall.

 

Which is your favourite Police album?

 

I totally agree about "Slip Of The Tongue" over "1987." Much better production too!!!

 

Favorite Police album? That's easy. Get it....

 

"Zenyatta Mondatta"

I wonder why they used those weird titles for the first three albums?

 

That is a great question Pat. I don't get it either. They make one hell of a Trilogy though.

Aye!

 

Who's the better Police guitarist Andy Summers or Alex Lifeson??

 

They are both Legends and of course RUSH was heavily influenced by The Police on the "Signals" record.

 

Alex over Andy.

Andy is a lot older than the other two, Copeland is 67, Sting is 68 and Andy is 77, he's older than Jagger and KEEF and only six months younger than Paul McCartney.

 

Incredible Pat. I never knew that. It's like Mick Mars in Motley Crue. The older dude on the guitar.

Every concert here is cancelled for the year. Yet the Crue Def Poison deal is still hanging on by a thread.

I am sure it will be postponed until next summer.

I like it. I am not bummed.

I will keep my tickets and wait.

This will give Vince a whole fuckking year to get his shit together.

I hope Mick will stay healthy too.

As for the Crue rhythm section, they are sold as a fuckking anchor.

 

I have amazing GUNS N ROSES seats for SF.

They are postponed at this time.

So I will hang onto these.

I will hang on to my Crue tix too.

 

I just got a LIVE NATION email for my two Sammy Whitesnake Night Ranger tix. Fuckk that Pat. They want you to hang on to a credit. They will give you 100% credit plus 50% extra.

FUCKK THAT PAT! You may think I am a f***ing pussy ass death metal hater, but I am a business man too.

No way will I let Live Nation hold my funds for a year or two. It's for a good cause.

But I'm getting my refunds for those two gigs.

Coverdale is on ice man with his hernia operation.

Hoping for next year.

If not oh well.

Pat, I also got the same offer for Foreigner Kansas and Europe.

I had Europe meet and greets.

I am taking the refund on that one too. Fuckk it dude.

 

There is so much uncertainty in the world. Fuckk Live Nation and Ticket Bastard.

They are trying so hard to hang on to the money.

 

I am learning not to be a nostalgic nerd. However, I am happy for my GNR tix and my Crue Def Tix. Hoping for next summer!!!

 

Sammy Hagar sucks Pat.

 

Whitesnake should have headlined anyway.

 

Night Ranger is better than Sammy Hagar.

 

VOA

 

VENOM

OVER

ANGER

Yeah Andy Summers is the old man of rock. Only Paul and Ringo are older, apart from jazz guys, old blues guys and 50's rock n rollers. Andy is older than Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Ray Davies, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton. Even Hank Marvin and John McLaughlin are only 1 year older and Hank's been a recording artist since 1958!

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

Have you got the results yet Earl?

 

Pat!!

 

I do apologize! I thought I posted my results here last night.

 

I got my results back from Labcorp yesterday.

 

You were right all along Pat. Capt Tripps! That's me!

 

I really thought I had Covid back in early Feb.

it was just a really bad flu. I wanted to die Pat.

I am sure many Rushhead Haters wish I was dead.

I'm still six feet up. Not down mutherfuckkers.

 

Pat!

 

I tested negative for the Covid antibodies.

 

So I was worried about nothing.

 

Cheers Mate!

Mind you the virus isn't always present in your nose or throat, as long as it's attached to the ACE2 enzyme it could be there usually in the lungs. So it could be a false negative, but hopefully not.

 

I've heard about all the false negatives.

 

I breathe like a breath of a sleeping white dragon. I'm good mate. Fukk it.

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If it's in US, we won't know . . . still very little testing!

 

There's over 4000 confirmed cases in 49 states. It's definitely here and certainly should be a concern but it's not time for a full on panic yet. They're taking the proper measures I believe in the limitations they've made in my state when it comes to big get togethers. It's gonna be different for a while but we'll get back to some normalcy soon enough.

 

I think people are overreacting over here actually. At least it doesn't make total sense why everything's shutting down indefinitely for this one, but Swine Flu and Bird Flu and Sars and Ebola and ever other major health scare of the past 20 years didn't have half this effect. But oh well, people overreacting is probably what will keep the US from winding up like China in this mess...

 

I don't think history is going to be particularly kind to this post.

 

It wasn't, you're right. Mostly because all my optimism has been proven wrong by the numbers that stacked up since then. I should've stayed scared when I first heard about it ripping through China in late January, might've made a point of actually saying goodbye to more classmates I still won't be seeing again for months, and some indefinitely. I haven't lost anyone to the virus and I don't know anyone personally who's got it, but I'm sure as heck that if we'd all stayed at our normal lives and normal paces those numbers wouldn't begin to compare to what the flu does every year....they'd be much much worse...I still can't imagine what China's real numbers must look like...

 

Nobody has been completely right about everything. Many have been wrong about many things.

 

My sister-in-law and a couple of cousins are nurses in Florida and Norway and have been treating covid-19 patients. So the threat has been pretty close to me personally. As they're in the thick of it, hearing their points of view and their work experiences weigh a lot more than many news broadcasts, folks' conspiracy theories, and politicians' pissings.

 

And today marks the end of my telework as tonight the State of Emergency for Osaka prefecture is supposed to be made official. Tomorrow's trains to work should be well packed (think literal 'sardine can'), and yeah I'm not too confident that it's safe...because in almost all likelihood, it's not.

 

I can't say that I'm scared or have been at any point. 'Numb' is probably a better word.

 

http://youtu.be/gRfgpuPNMPk

 

Take it easy, EP.

 

:blaze:

 

I prefer "Grace Under Pressure."

 

Yes! I know lots of stuff too on my end.

 

My test came from a reliable lab, but still, it could all be a horror show.

 

There are many strains and shite.

 

Who knows??????

 

All I know is that I will respect protocol and take care of myself. I'm glad I didn't have Covid in Feb. But if that test is wrong and I did, well I survived and I have been healthy as a horse ever since!

 

So fuckk it.

 

One day at a time.

 

Casinos are opening up here this month.

 

I'm going to meet me woman hopefully next month.

 

Napa is opening restaurants.

 

RUSH ON!!!!

Have you got the results yet Earl?

 

Pat!!

 

I do apologize! I thought I posted my results here last night.

 

I got my results back from Labcorp yesterday.

 

You were right all along Pat. Capt Tripps! That's me!

 

I really thought I had Covid back in early Feb.

it was just a really bad flu. I wanted to die Pat.

I am sure many Rushhead Haters wish I was dead.

I'm still six feet up. Not down mutherfuckkers.

 

Pat!

 

I tested negative for the Covid antibodies.

 

So I was worried about nothing.

 

Cheers Mate!

Mind you the virus isn't always present in your nose or throat, as long as it's attached to the ACE2 enzyme it could be there usually in the lungs. So it could be a false negative, but hopefully not.

 

I've heard about all the false negatives.

 

I breathe like a breath of a sleeping white dragon. I'm good mate. Fukk it.

I don't even get colds or flu so I probably won't get this either.

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Yeah Andy Summers is the old man of rock. Only Paul and Ringo are older, apart from jazz guys, old blues guys and 50's rock n rollers. Andy is older than Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Ray Davies, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton. Even Hank Marvin and John McLaughlin are only 1 year older and Hank's been a recording artist since 1958!

 

Charlie Watts is older than all of them, he'll be 79 in two weeks.

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