Let this be a thread where the common sense of others will shed light on our questions.
This is not a rant thread and we don’t get to make accusations about the actions of other people necessarily, these are sincere questions here. Thank you.
Printable View
Let this be a thread where the common sense of others will shed light on our questions.
This is not a rant thread and we don’t get to make accusations about the actions of other people necessarily, these are sincere questions here. Thank you.
Golf shoes.
They have spikes on the bottom. Why is that, to aerate the soil?
Would these shoes be any good on ice?
I believe it's to provide a more stable stance, less chance of slipping.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Quote:
Would these shoes be any good on ice?
I would think not, the spikes are more like rubber cleats these days and I doubt they'd grip the ice, probably the opposite effect.
I've tried, but I found ice skates worked better, I achieved higher speed, was able to turn better, and my slap shots were superior.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
If (cloth or other) masks protect you against Covid-19 why can't people put on a mask, going into the ICU, and say goodbye to their loved ones dying of coronavirus? If masks don't protect why the legal mandates, store requirements, and social pressure to wear one? Is it just a way for people to feel they can do something in a situation where they are largely helpless, or a way to justify going out in public when they should not because they are restless stuck at home?
My understanding is that they help somewhat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
For the same reason that coughing into your elbow does not keep you from getting sick. Masks keep the people around you from getting sick, they don’t keep the wearer from getting sick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
So if a mask were put on the dying covid patient people could visit him or her in the hospital?Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
IL, great initial question--you might enjoy this thread I found where others wondered the same:
https://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/th...he-snow.21248/
Jeppy,, I think of it this way: hospitals must have higher standards, and do have higher standards, than those of us out in the wild. In fact that they had better have higher standards, I expect that as a hospital patient. There are levels of effectiveness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Things DH told me:
When I ask him why we don’t hear about people committing suicide by carbon monoxide in their garage with the car running, he said it’s because modern cars have catalytic converters (or maybe it was another mechanical thing ) and don’t put out those emissions.
Is this right?
If one is so inclined to commit suicide that method always seemed the best to me.
And here I thought your thread had taken a refreshing turn away from morbidity!
It’s just an intellectual exercise!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Please explain to me why....
People may or may not stand in line for a $3M Powerball but they absolutely stand in a long line to buy a $100M Powerball ticket.
Better advertising and promotion for the big one! $3M isn’t that much money, by the time you split it with the government it is downright paltry, haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Time is money and those piddly payouts aren't worth mine. >8)"Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Actually, I think it's because we all know we're not going to win a $3M prize, but when it gets to be $100M you think "Yeah, but what if?"
Why are people willing to stand in line for any lottery with patience but struggle to wait in line for simple daily activities?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Maybe because it's more fun to daydream about spending your millions while waiting to buy a lottery ticket than it is to fantasize about meal prep or driving around with a new driver's license or new auto tags, while waiting in those lines, lol.Quote:
Why are people willing to stand in line for any lottery with patience but struggle to wait in line for simple daily activities?
Here ya go, IL:
Granted, it's not a new study, but....
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/1998/...t-gas-suicides
There are charts available that show how much they help by mask composition and fit. As I recall it varies between 20% and 95%. Of course, if you're forced to wear one for hours or days while exposed to patients shedding lots of virus, you're probably doomed.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
nice answer!Quote:
Originally Posted by early morning
91-1992.
Conclusion: Catalytic converters and the associated lower CO emission limits of 9.3 g/km had not, by 1995, resulted in a reduction in numbers, rates or percentages of exhaust gas suicides in Australia.
I hear the question clearly-as someone who has buried both parents, a brother and a BIL. And I was with 3 of the 4 when they died.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
As a RN, and understanding the critical nature of PPE and current scarcity of PPE (yes it is still scarce so ignore what you hear from the President) and the fact that staff are reusing it, dressing the family members down is a tremendous use of those resources. And that puts the staff at even higher risk as they will have to reuse even longer.
Imagine going to work a 12hour shift: don a gown, gloves, hat, a tight fit-tested mask with tight elastic straps around your head, another mask over it to attempt to prevent splashing on it, walking into the COVID unit and not coming out for 12-16 hours? No food, no liquid, no bathroom break.
Now wear all that even longer because a bunch of PPE is consumed bringing in family.
It's horrible-I can't imagine not being present with my family members. However, protecting the lives of those who WILL live, takes priority. And I have no doubt they shed many tears for those family members as they are present at the deaths.
I will turn the topic to a great mystery to me and that is why all the old men on my street spend hours tending their lawns. No flowers or plants - just their bright green squares of lawn. Water, water, weed and feed, edge, edge, blow, blow, mow, mow. Repeat. Is it a sense of control over their turf? Please explain.
As an old man on my street I'd suggest that we just like the lawn to look nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I agree--that's an interesting question.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
I respect that--it is the prototypical idea of suburban beauty and a very reasonable response, but if another "old man" chose NOT to cut grass so short it needs excess irrigation; NOT to weed and feed and infiltrate ground water with pesticides, NOT to blow stuff around and add to noise pollution; while instead creating a more diversified yet beautiful landscape that required fewer poisons and less water, and more color using beautiful native perennials and shrubs that provide habitat and food and pollen for wildlife--that's what I could consider a yard that "looks nice."Quote:
As an old man on my street I'd suggest that we just like the lawn to look nice.
But I do agree that in most subdivisions in America, the yard with the most monocultured, weed-free, velveteen, carefully edged blocks of lawn wins. It's all a matter of perspective.
Is that the old woman equivalent of coloring her hair?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
There are a wide variety of lawns here, many people do go the native plant route, I like it much more, but very few are doing pure grass, some have a bit of grass, native plants, flowers, trees, some go full country cottage with roses and other flowers etc.. A few go rocks, or wood chips or if unkempt bare dirt (white rocks are by far the worst look imo, bare dirt looks better). So it's interesting to walk because there is a wide variety of landscaping. If there actually exists anywhere (or is that just a myth really?) it is just lawns that sounds horribly boring.
Yes, could be. Some women definitely go for the very carefully manicured look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
The lawn issue: Yes I will explain it to you all, you anti-lawn rangers.
Here in the Midwest, particularly the upper Midwest and probably New England and certain parts of the PNW, Kentucky bluegrass and similar cultivars which like cooler weather will do fine without a whole lot of fussing. Yeah you may have clover and other weedy things mixed in, but overall, it’s easy to maintain a decent looking grass carpet. Now if you want a perfect lawn with only blades of grass and nothing else, then you have to fuss with it quite a lot.
Recently I attended the national convention of the American Iris society which was held in Des Moines Iowa. There were people from all over the country, including a loudmouth hybridizer from California who is known for his strong opinions and booming voice. During one of the bus tours I sat and listened to him pontificate about all these midwesterners and the gallons of chemicals they pour on their lawns and the hours and hours they spend maintaining lawns, what a waste, Etc etc.
Most of the turf we were seeing as we drove through the countryside was mow-it-and-forget-it stuff. I know that, being from Des
Moines. Mr.California Loudmouth probably didnt quite understand how low maintenance grass is here because in his land of brown it requires herculean efforts.
Me, I want a strip of grass to front my perennial garden. I don’t care about a big grassy lawn but I I do want a strip of emerald green to set off the flowers.
DH, having been a professional lawn jockey, used to expend a lot of effort on our lawn. Now he is too busy to do that, some bare spots and weeds have taken over, but it still looks just fine. It keeps the mud out of the house and sets off the flowers.
There are lots of ground covers available now to provide that strip of green--and you don't have to mow or fertilize them. You can even walk on those known as "stepables."
Perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
As I have a neighbour to the right of me with the perfectly manicured lawn, built in irrigation, chemicals, watering every other day and mowing every 3rd day using a gas lawn mower, a gas trimmer and a gas blower each time, I can comment with some insight. Said individual is retired, complains if a neighbour's ball lands in his back yard, calls the fire department if there is smoke visible in his yard from a neighbour's fire-pit, complains at the proposed paint markings of my new fence until the fencing company using rope indicates the surveyor's rods, front and back, that are being used. This dear man is well known and avoided for his nature. That said, he waves cheerfully at me whenever He sees me, washes his car every weekend or oftener and their property always looks neat.
I think these men are smart capable, OCD and just bored out of their skulls. Busy people are doing volunteering, golfing, fishing, mentoring children, cooking, walking dogs, etc. Lawns are not as important to them it seems.
I suspect the same might be said of the women who choose the very carefully manicured look mentioned above.
There is one house not far from me that is the very opposite in maintenance, plantings, repair, pests, triggering complaints to the bylaw officer from several people; I will take the bored OCD lawn maintainer each time.
After living here for a few years , I must admit that after a while the persistent white of snow and/or the brown of the prairie start to get to you. You have three months of summer and you want to see green. I get that. Also, these guys would probably have nothing to do if they weren't out tending their lawns. I spent most of my years in TX living with drought and restrictions so my perspective on saving water is ingrained. It just amazes me how much effort goes into these big green boring squares.
Mow-it-and-forget-it Midwestern lawns are not irrigated. Irrigation systems are pretty unusual there in normal houses although I’m sure out in the toney Macmansionland they have irrigation systems all over the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
In Hermann we have 1 acre much of it in grass lawn and DH mows it, trims it every other mowing, but no chemicals, certainly no crazy expensive irrigation system.We complain about the moles and stomp down their tunnels,but have not done anything about them. I suppose if they start in on Iris I would have to change my mind about that.
We never had irrigation until we moved to Wichita. Definitely needed it at times. Here we have it in our garden and bushes.
I have Aguga and ivy and vinca in several places as ground covers, but those do not hold up to heavy foot traffic no matter what the eco warriors tell you. But they are perfectly fine for many of the tiny yards around my neighborhood where people seldom step. They are easy to maintain as well and I think they look nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Our lawn has lots of non-grass stuff. As long as it's green, I'm fine. I do pull the occasional dandelion. I don't want a bunch of chemicals. We don't water. If it dies back during the summer, oh well.
I am taking it from your response that as I have asserted elsewhere masks that are not N95 are feel good measures that do not protect against covid. I totally get why you would want to save what actually works for medical personnel. I also appreciate that you get that the wearer of PPE dons it to protect him or herself from sick people, not necessarily to avoid infecting other people. Some others seem to miss this point. Why else would medical personnel who tested negative at the beginning of their shift wear PPE? They are not protecting others, they are protecting themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gardnr
Thank you for your response.
By the way, I have had the opportunity to try both a homemade cloth mask and a KN95 at work, and the former is far less restrictive, but I would imagine much less protective. The bandannas I would think are of even less utility, not to mention how often people take off random face coverings and let them dangle below their chins.
Wearing a cloth covering is hard enough, full PPE must be truly daunting. It is not some minor inconvenience and in my opinion covering up shouldn't be mandated when it is of little to no benefit, such as with ill-fitting, amateur coverings in non-medical situations where one is not within 6 feet of the same person for 15 minutes or more (the standard for contact tracing).
Here's a few questions I've pondered.
Why do you saute onions first when they will go into a dish that is going to cook anyway.
Why do celebrities who most likely are well set with millions and millions endorse cheesy products. Like William Shatner, former Commander of the Starship Enterprise promoting CPAP cleaning machines machines, or Joe Namoth selling reverse mortgages, or Alex Trebek and life insurance.
Is forcing some businesses and public areas closed due to CV-19 risk really against the constitution, or is that just something the protesters totally fabricate.
Another thing I wonder about is why bazilllionaires buy/live in massive-sized houses?