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And some people think vaccines cause autism. They're wrong also.

The French Government has now advised to stop taking NSAIDs (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc) to avoid possible complications with COVID-19. They are saying to take Tylenol instead as a fever reducer. Of course you should call your doctor if you're not convinced, but apparently evidence is emerging to support the association between NSAIDs and COVID-19 complications.

20%, not 1000%. Your porn will be smoother on your phone.

many of us will have some free time this week (and maybe weeks after), and that free time would be better spent outdoors than indoors. but if the rains come, trails could be in poor shape for riding. we should all spend some time cutting branches like this one. I did that a bit Sunday afternoon. it's a great upper-body workout too! the pocket chainsaw will kick your butt.

The fed government is pretty tight with ensuring those are exposed to ionizing radiation are monitored and their doses are measured shiftly, monthly or quarterly. There are quarterly and yearly limits that are not exceeded for ionizing radiation dosage. weird side note, nuclear workers who are routinely exposed to low level ionizing radiation have cancer rates lower than the rest of the population. Most likely is due to the small sample size of the population.

While I am not convinced of your particular version, make no mistake: opportunistic powers will take advantage of this situation to consolidate power. Those actors come from all corners of the globe from governments, corporations, and other institutions. The US government and the military-industrial complex are among those with the most egregious record for doing this sort of thing. Naomi Klein's excellent book on the topic, The Shock Doctrine, illustrates many examples. Real estate developers swoop in after a hurricane and re-zone land where poor people once lived and build high-rises where affordable housing once stood. That sort of thing. Otherwise, are you spouting some Infowars nonsense?

EMF Scientist are kind of Unbelievable, to pun an old song. They're very much akin to the many scientist (in non-biology fields) who are "skeptical" of evolution, which has been hilariously rebutted by "Steves." But go ahead with your aluminum foil hat. Because "so far the apparent risk from non-ionizing radiation from radiofrequency devices appears to be little to none..." https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/scientists-sign-petition-warning-about-emf/

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/doctor-note-ibuprofen-coronavirus-worse-200316045046677.html

Oh god, I just got a little tingly. When do we start?

I say the health insurance CEOs need to be led to a guillotine. Every last one of them them.

Trail sanitation! Grrrr! (too soon?)

on the plus side mtb is a great sport to do in this age of coronavirus. 1) sun kills the virus 2) wind disperses the virus 3) sweat kills viruses 4) you are not in close contact with other riders 5) you have to "work" from home Im going to have to stop brazilian jiu jitsu and start mtb again. See you all on the trails.

The only kind of radiation that can cause somatic changes ( damage DNA) is ionizing radiation.

First I would say this: 4G/5G antenna densification is escalating health risks This is not just about 5G, but also 4G that has been deployed for many years and has been checked heavily by the scientific/medical sectors. Then: The Appeal calls on the United Nations to resolve the inconsistencies among its sub-organizations and to seriously address the rapidly escalating health and environmental crisis caused by man-made EMF pollution. "Rapidly escalating health and environmental crisis"? I'm with Barry. And why don't we let the cancer experts weigh in: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phones.html Ultimately, while I am generally skeptical of new technologies, knowing that 5G is going to be using many of the same frequency bands that are already in use today is a clearer indication that a lot of this is overblown. When is the last time that any of us climbed a cell tower? We live with radiation every day from a variety of sources.

All I had to see was ohlins and 2.8 rear. What a fucking mess that bike is. I really wish intense would get their shit together, and stop acting like the drunk uncle of bikes.

There's ugly and there's ugly, and then there's this. Yikes. And the "MX" branding with a dual crown fork? That's just...hilarious. I'll give it to them, that's good trolling.

Yes, he is.

You're a fucking tumor to this forum. Take your gaslighting elsewhere

Spent less than $50 on this 1995 (?) GT Backwoods. Everything is functioning now that I flushed the right shifter, replaced the left one, retaped the rims, sealed the tubes, etc. Thinking about using it as a beater bike, but not sure I'll actually ride it much. A brief ride up the street and back confirmed that '90s bikes could be quite awful. I have half a mind to try riding trails on it just for the experience of knowing what a twitchy old rigid mtb was like, but afraid I'll break something on it and not want to spend any more to fix it.

It was explained to me like this. Once the full network is up and running it will allow computers to make basically all the job site decisions. The real world example this gentleman gave me was: unmanned tractor harvest a field. once its full, it sends signal to a unmanned truck that come and picks up grain and delivers to silo, etc. I say what happens to the farmer. He says he sits on his porch and watches this all go down. I ask myself who will be able to actually afford this technology when it first comes out and thus crush the competition. Top 1% The future is very scary to me and I’ll strongly encourage all my children to study engineering/computer science and business!

To think if crowd funding had existed prior to the invention of health insurance health care might be much more affordable. Our system is so broken I don’t know if it can be fixed. I would say the insurance companies do need some kind of checks imposed on them but now your introducing another group that has to be paid that isn’t making you healthier. I could rant on some of the most ridiculous blatant theft of services by health insurance companies to providers and there is nothing the provider can do about it.

The sad thing is that big insurance doesn't really provide that much insurance. When you exclude Medicare and Medicaid, 60% of what's left is self-funded, mostly by large employers. The insurance giants just get paid to administer the delivery of healthcare, i.e. forming provider networks, maintaining eligibility, processing claims, etc., and skimming 20 cents off of every health care dollar to do so. The true cost to administer should be between 8-12% (less if inefficiencies were addressed). So the difference just goes to shareholders and executive salaries / bonuses. What has made this system so dangerous over the years is that there are no checks and balances. While it is true that under some plans services will be denied by the insurer, for most employer plans it doesn't matter to them because the claim payments just get passed through to whoever is sponsoring / funding the care anyway. In the insurance world claim payments are referred to as "medical loss" but it is only for the small percentage of underwritten risk that the medical expense actually sits on the insurer's books. Most of it just gets passed through to the sponsoring entity. Either way, the lever for keeping the numbers "right" is to simply raise premiums for us consumers. EDIT: It's 60% of private health insurance that is self-funded vs. the 90% I had originally stated. The 90% only applied for employers with 5000+ employees. Still the majority though!

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As long as we are laughing...

This wood ladder is the B-line. To do the main line you must clear the gap, its 8 feet down and 8 feet out to the lip of the landing, 10-12 feet out and down is where you should be landing. The b-line is not easy, the ladder is 45 degrees down with the end of the ladder still 2 feet above the landing. Look at it before you try it.

I have been avoiding saying much for a while now but this getting to be too much for me to take. This rant is based on very little education, research, training or knowledge. This is what I think is common sense. The current virus is new. The best I can find is that the first known patient was in China in November 2019. That is a matter of months ago. It spread like crazy because it is a "new" virus. People don't have an immunity to it - yet. There is no vaccine - yet. Even the test had to be developed in the months since it was "discovered". I don't have a feel for if it spread faster or slower than other "new" viruses but I don't think it matters. The way people move around the globe these days means it spread easily and quickly. People are dying from it. From what I can tell, the fatality rate is not far off the fatality rate of many common viruses. News stories make it sound like if you test positive you might as well attempt suicide because you have a better chance of surviving. The same news stories say that, so far, the fatalities have all be elderly or people with compromised health. Young and / or healthy people are recovering just like they recover from the flu or colds. Wait didn't the early news reports that this virus WAS in the same family at the cold / flu???? What should we do???? You should do what you want. I intend to live as I always have. Be healthy. That includes riding and exercising. Washing my hands. Keeping my body and my environment clean and healthy as I can within reason. (I will not do a daily Lysol scrub of my house / car / bike / etc.) I will avoid people who appear to be sick. I will try to stay away from other when I feel sick. All of these are things I normally do. What do I change? My 401K is getting "rebalanced". (stock broker way of saying I am taking advantage of panic selling.) I am looking at things with a longer term view than most people appear to be. I think this will pass in a matter of months. After all - China is reported to have closed the last temporary hospital because the patients have recovered. Maybe people will learn from it. IMHO, they will not. And there will be similar opportunities again soon. But the biggest thing I change is to quarantine. I will quarantine myself from the hysteria that plays on the news in the current 24 hour news media. My wife keeps pointing out that with 24 hour news on many different channels, they all have to out "hysteria" each other to attract audience. And that is where I think the problem is originating. That is the true "patient zero". Anyway - this post is just my opinion and it is worth what you paid for it.

I know things like that were shown in the news and on the internet. But please check my math - $500 million divided by 330 million people in the USA (google reported) gives each of us in the USA about $1.60 each. That is ONE dollar and sixty cents. You know what they say - "they can't put in the internet if it *IS* true..." or something like that.

You come from a life working in the medical arena you know what the answer to your question is. This virus is only three months old, it is very new as a strain that infects people and because of that we have no immunity whatsoever to it. A virus that has never infected a human before is extremely dangerous not only due to the actual symptoms it creates but also the potential for the bodies immune system to over produce anti bodies or Cytokines creating what doctors refer to as Cytokine storm. The largest demographic of fatalities in the 1918 Spanish flu was healthy 19-25 year olds. They had healthy immune systems that went into overdrive when they contracted the virus causing them to die from their bodies response rather than from the flu itself. All because their bodies had never encountered a disease like it before. Be smart limit social contact as much as possible. The wife and I went out to dinner last night to a popular Austin restaurant that is usually very busy on a Saturday night, last night not so much. I discussed with the wife that this would be our last outing like that for a little while and that we should be smart and try to help slowing this thing down by "social distancing". My wife is also a hot yoga junkie and I explained to her that she's going to need to put that on pause for a little while. She was not happy about that. There is more to this than just the physical aspect, of course no one wants to die or see a family member or friend die but there is also the financial burden that something like this can create. Even with health insurance which I have none thanks to Obamacare it can create unsurmountable bills. Oh wait I forgot "everyone likes their health care and wants to keep it". This is just an example of why we need single payer healthcare. I know that's socialist talk, but the politicians have single payer healthcare provided by us through our tax dollars. The ultra wealthy don't give a f@ck about us. Bloomberg spent $500 million on a campaign that went nowhere, that's enough money to give each American 1.6 million dollars each. My hope for a good outcome from this virus is that it might help level the playing field a little bit. Viruses don't negotiate or care about money or for that matter toilet paper.

I saw reports it was not a broken leg. It was a leg impaled on a broken off branch pointed at the trail. Rider was reported to have not even fallen into the "spear", but was impaled as he rode by. Heard they ended up cutting the branch off the tree and left it in his leg while getting him to the hospital. Let's be careful what kind of things we leave behind on the trail. Best to CUT branches back to the trunk (preferred) or back to a branch collar.

Saw the same thing. Heard his leg was messed up but he’ll live. Be careful out there people. We need to keep those hospital beds open. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got in a great solo ride today. Can’t. Be around anyone for the next 96 hours as I prep for surgery (have a small window, don’t want to blow it). Good mental therapy to be out there.

Time flies when you're having fun! Blew away my previous best on PP this morning. Feels good to be back after so many setbacks this past year.

Can I take that "80" back? The SATN is easily over 90 miles now. On another note, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I have to do a PSA. Just about every time I ride Drip Drop, or anything in the area (wink wink, new stuff) I come across someone walking their dog. I hope like hell that all riders are being as courteous as possible to these people who are no doubt homeowners and a part of the HOA that Drip Drop is on. "Hello." "Nice day isn't it?" "Pretty dog" "Thanks" (for stepping out of the way) It only takes ONE vocal resident to make a stink to get that lovely area removed from our SATN access. DON'T be the person that triggers that!

You can't shoot a virus, silly!

Here's the complete ride report from Rich. Probably the best Spider testimonial I've seen to date, especially for somebody who earns their living mountain biking in Bentonville. He's a ripper too which makes the vid really entertaining to watch.

I work for a state agency. Large office, not enough toilets, small cubicle layout. Still no word on whether I am expected to be at the office tomorrow. (Update: I got the memo too late and went in. I was at work for about two hours, then went home.) I guess I better buy some of the toothpaste Alex Jones is shilling.