Thursday, February 6, 2020
The funky John Lennon painted limousine at the Royal BC Museum. I am there.
Saturday, February 8, 2020. Before.
After. I decided to shave. I wasn't intending to have that look lifelong. I might grow the mustache and goatee again one day.
One secret to dancing is to make faces the entire time as you're dancing. You make the face, the face doesn't make you. Like Rick said in the walking dead, "You look like you're wearing the hat rather than the hat wearing you."
Chinese New Year. I'm going to get some barbequed duck some time in the next few days. I thought it was $60 and I wasn't going to get it. But I saw the website and it costs $14. How did I ever think it was $60? Delusional much?
I'm not hurting today. After talking a few fine women in this town, I went to a luxury restaurant and had a lot of mussels in Dijon cream sauce. Then I'm having beer and white truffles. Can you imagine me having a luxurious meal? This town is pretty good. Sometimes I think of leaving, but a lot of the time, I don't.
For some reason, Google play is giving me achievements like crazy. Usually it takes me months to get from one level to another. In the last month, I got elevated from Level 21 to Level 24. But it's a pyrrhic victory. All sound and fury signifying nothing. What does it mean? What do I get? It's not a materially quantifiable achievement.
Life is good. I have no complaints. Just my mind wandering. That's all its ever been.
They found a brain turned to glass at Mt Vesuvius. That would make a good snow globe. Some meth user would want to make a pipe out of it which would be the worst drug story I've heard since Keith Richards mixing his father's ashes with a line of coke and snorting it. Would this be the beer and truffles talking?
More people die from the coronavirus. Talk about a mass coronal ejection.
"Shoot for the stars." Except with the corona virus, it's shoot for the SARS.
Apparently, coronavirus is more contagious than SARS, that's the bad News so if it could get downgraded to something as dangerous as SARS, that would be a good start. The good news is containment and quarantine methods have improved, and using CRISPR, it took less than a week to find the DNA sequence and Germany is working on a vaccine that should fully arrive in less than a month, therefore the actual outbreak and number of people afflicted isn't as bad as the 2003 SARS outbreak. The containment method is better because the population is larger than it was in 2003, containment means more drastic moves like shutting down Chinese New Year and quarantining entire regions. Also even in North America some malls are shutting down for the weekend. The News said that Sehmiamhoo Mall is shutting down for a weekend specifically for this reason. Wherever that is.
It's the year of the rat. And rats cause corona virus. It is one of the vectors of coronavirus, also snakes cause corona virus.
But do rats cause coronavirus just because it's the year of the rat or is that merely poetically convenient even if it isn't true? Quinton Reviews on YouTube did a The Beatles conspiracy video where he said that conspiracy theories are like a table top without legs, then one looks for the legs to support that bullshit conspiracy theory tabletop instead of the normal way which is to research each of the table legs independently and see where they go regardless of whether or not it coincides with the conspiracy theory.
This would be like the opening seconds of the Asphalt Xtreme: Rally Racing from Gameloft SE trailer where you swear you are seeing the speeding scenery of the road until the camera pulls back in a Kubrickian pull away and it turns out to be the reflection off of a shiny smooth truck front bumper.
Stock up on multivitamins. One of the primary results of any cold, fever etc is vitamin deficiency which is the cause of and the result of colds, fevers, etc.
Coronavirus is spreading at an alarming rate. 170 people and counting dead world wide. 3 cases in Canada. A stitch in time saves nine. Coronavirus has a lot of benefits for a lot of interests. It makes it easy for China to expel foreigners who are unwanted there anyways, it helps other countries discourage travel and thus emigration to China. The News stations get another sensational story. The drug companies get huge profits from either a huge price spike due to scarcity of drug or else huge international supply and distribution which again means huge profits. It puts any protest plans on hold indefinitely. The only loser in this game of musical chairs is a poor person with no access to medical treatment.
It's the trendy disease of 2020 although I'm not sure that you would want to keep up with the Joneses when it comes to this one. It's not exactly a status symbol.
As sensational as it is, heart attacks and cancer and car accidents not only give coronavirus a run for its money, it beats it by a country mile. In terms of that, nothing has changed as those are still the world's biggest killers.
All of these pneumocystic viruses run a similar pathological course. SARS was given a designate H5N1. The letters stand for 2 proteins called hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. The treatment they came up for SARS was tamiflu which is the street name and osiltamavir is the trade name.
Usually a bronchial dilator, vitamin C as well as multivitamins. Rest, quarantine, definitely no presenteeism, and hot baths, spas, hydrotherapy, schvitzes and massages and drink lots of soup and hot liquids, diuretics like coffee and tea are actually helpful because it helps flush out and expunge the poison virus from the body.
Tea is rich in antioxidants.
Coffee, tea and even grape juice has tannins which is an antioxidant.
Anything that enters the lung other than clean oxygen like smoke, dust, exhaust, etc are free radicals. Antioxidants clean the lung of those free radicals. That's the idea behind antioxidants. Countries where people drink a lot of green tea have fewer per capita incidences of lung cancer even amongst smokers.
Maybe some homeopathic medicines like St John's Wort and Echinacea would be helpful.
Exercise, do 30 pushups and 10 pull ups, settle for 10 pushups and 5 pull ups still acceptable, because exercise greatly helps fight cols for some reason.
Take an aspirin. They are always helpful for colds. It cuts down inflammation of the muscles surrounding the lungs from coughing too much and it thins the blood helping the cold to run it's course.
Smoking a cigarette or some cannabis in a pipe during a bronchial type of cold is helpful because it helps to collate and coalesce any loose phlegm in the lung into a calculated congealed mass that can then be expectorated or else spit out. Those cigarette commercials of the 50s and early 60s was right; "The surgeon General of America recommends smoking." Smoking in very moderate doses during a cold or else for those with asthma could be helpful.*
* Not be be mistaken for actual medical advice. I'm not a doctor. For actual medical advice, see a professional doctor.
The immune system, helper T cells, cytotoxic or killer T cells, macrophages, B cells or lymphocytes do a good job in fight in viruses and colds. It's someone with AIDS who'd have a real problem if they caught this. With SARS, the vast majority of people survived it but not without a somewhat pricey medical treatment as diseases have to be attacked on multiple fronts.
Maybe the government should distribute emergency supplies of heroin as standard issue. I mean if one has a terminal disease that's not curable was the vaccine will not be available until a year later. That means it will have reached international distribution then.
The worst colds take 9 days. 3 days getting into it, 3 days having it, and 3 days to recover. Most colds are 3 day colds. And if you get a strain of cold once, you'll never get it again. But there are 3,000 strains of cold, H5N1, H4N2, etc so how many strains of coronavirus are there?
There are some examples in fiction of trendy diseases such as Albert Camus The Plague and Edgar Allen Poe's The Mask of Red Death.
I'm slightly worried that I'll get coronavirus. If I do, you're all welcome to visit me at the hospital. Wait. In this case, betteŕ not to since its an airborne disease like tuberculosis was. TB was worse as a person could be infected up to two hours afterwards.
Doctors tow a line of pushing legally sanctioned designer drugs. They will second guess and side swipe you. Not all doctors. One doctor told me to drink lots of water and to do muscle stretches. He ertainly wasn't pushing anything.
No. Apparently corona virus is a tactile disease and not airborne.
In China, they use TCM which is alchemy based.
Two words. Delivery drones. One would think that the skies of Wu Han China would be gutted with aerial delivery drones to deliver medical supplies during an outbreak landing on people's roofs as they practice kung fu sparring.
Again, I'm not a doctor, so here goes. The one thing that heroin and Lsd have in common was that when they were first synthesized or discovered, the discoverers were looking for a cure for the common cold. Adolph von Bayer was working for Bayer Laboratories in Germany when he first synthesized diacetyl morphine aka heroin. Bayer aspirin, that Bayer. And Albert Hoffman was working for Saandoz Laboratories, when he first synthesized Lsd, pounds shillings pence. These drugs are panacea and work really well but the drug companies don't like that. They'd rather you use something that works kind of well so that you would keep going back for more treatment. Doctors and Officials at City Hall* suffer from the same accusation that they're members of the Back pocket Brigade - they're in someone or others back pocket. Is this true? Street connoisseurs of the drug world and some of these people include those who once worked in the medical industry to whatever degree use heroin because it's the connoisseurs choice amongst those who choose to self medicate. I don't know about Lsd but moderate doses of heroin could help with coronavirus because it was designed to fend off colds and flus.
Coronavirus is a virus that broke the species barrier. A person who caught it from an animal and then spread it to other people is called a spillover infection. The doubling rate of coronavirus is 6 days. There are a few strains of coronavirus. Most are mild but a few are lethal.
Hospitals may not be the best places. First off all, it's crammed with the infected. Nosocomial infection. Second of all, it's really busy so you get treatment at their pace. If you're on your own self medicating, you an quickly do the things you need to do in an attack the problem on many fronts approach. But at the hospital you get access to the knowledge of doctors and nurses whose knowledge is on another level to what the average person knows. If you're self medicating, you're left with your own knowledge.
British Columbia's top medical Officer, Doctor Bonnie Henry encourages people to self isolate.
There is a worldwide shortage of face masks and hand sanitizer. You can McGyver all that. Hand sanitizer is a teaspoon of bleach a teaspoon of sunlight dishwashing detergent and a large bowl of water. YouTube has videos How to make hand sanitizer and face masks. Cut a patch from a piece of clothing and affix string to it.
The News said that people traveling from China would be quarantined for two weeks. Quarante. The original meaning of the word quarantine is 40 days and it comes from the story of a town in the middle ages during a time of plague that had newly arrived travelers stay on boats in a dock for 40 days before being allowed into town to prevent the spread of the plague. Kind of how the word Fortnite meaning two weeks originated from fourteen nights.
Coronavirus now has a name. COVID-19. That almost sounds like corvid meaning crow. Therefore the etymology is curious. Going from corona meaning crown to corvid meaning crow. I heard of eating crow but this is ridiculous. Crown. Take away the last letter and you got crow. Crow-na virus.
Quebec couple stranded aboard the Diamond Princess says the ship is an incubator. At this point the Dynamics would have shifted. What was once an escape is now a trap. Doesn't that describe the entirety of life? The ship which was once a quarantine refuge is now an incubator of the disease. A hotbox or else hotbed of coronavirus. What can you say? Wup! Backwater politics. Local yokels. Policy wonks. Too many quacks and hacks side swiping and second-guessing one another. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Do they seriously lack the imagination to bring the passengers to a fenced off area of land where they could each have a radius away from each other? Lots of plants around too which absorbs the virus yet the plants are immune to the virus. No leave them on the ship to die. The incompetence is collosal like Colossus of X-Men. I lament the human species. I've often thought of giving up on life altogether which at this point should come as no surprise.
Some then, passengers over 80 with no symptoms have been allowed to disembark to continue their quarantine on land.
Meanwhile in China, Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Covid, I mean Michael Kovrig are being held in an old fashioned prisoner exchange program for HuaWei's Meng Wanzhou of whom the US recently introduced 16 new charges. Usually in court they introduce the most major pieces of evidence first. Evidence that's most likely to stick. Then the secondary evidence. They're introducing the 16 new charges because it doesn't look like the original charges are going to stick. But again secondary evidence. Who would introduce the most major evidence as an afterthought? If the charges we're that major, they would have been levelled a long time ago. At this point it's grasping at straws but one that is still portentous and pricey for those expensive high powered lawyers.
Kovrig, Covid. I heard of Deep Cove, but this is ridiculous.
*Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum is accused of being in the taxi industry's pocket as he refuses to allow Uber in Surrey. It's a very interesting story. He says Uber is comparatively unregulated and because of jurisdictions, it isn't a level playing field. The taxi industry is all East Indians in Surrey, Vancouver, Victoria. I have yet to see a White or Chinese taxi driver. Maybe in Dawson Creek you could meet a White taxi driver like the Original Ascer. "Mr Cab Driver won't stop to let me in, Mr Cab Driver don't like the colour of my skin..." Kenny Kravitz
A few famous people died this month but Kobe Bryant's death was the unkindest cut of all. He was the archetypal basketball legend. The way he died was so senseless, so tragic. No more words can express.
The UK has separated from the EU. Brexit is finally realized and with no obstreporous obsfuscations this time. London is also a city where you'll probably see no other taxi drivers other than East Indians. Therefore taxi driving is either a glamour detail or a shit detail.
Taxi drivers theoretically have to pay a $250,000 a year license in Vancouver. In New York it's a million dollars a year. Theoretically because the taxi company would cover it if a driver is qualified. You'd have to make $3,000 a day just to break even. Is it a front for a money laundering scam or else how expensive are taxis? Uber drivers don't have to pay that licensing fee so the fares are cheaper because they don't have to make up for the shortfall. Taxi drivers need a class 4 license while Uber drivers only have to watch a 13 minute YouTube video.
Taxi drivers in Surrey are all down to the last man, East Indian. "Every man, Jack, of them." Doctor Strangelove To say that Surrey is saturated with East Indian gangs and gangsters is the understatement of the Century.
"If I fail, it will be 20 years before they give another woman this job." Edie Falco, Tommy
That's the case with Theresa May. She failed with her Brexit plan so we're prob a my not going to see another UK female PM for 20 years. It had been about 25 between Thatcher and Theresa May. There's a YouTube video about Margaret Thatcher swaying something about Britain paying too much to the EU etc so this Brexit argument, the very early roots of it go back to then.
Usually, it's eat now pay later, but with this strange Brexit, this is a kind of pay now eat later kind of deal. With treaties, usually the details are hammered out then the deal is ratified. But with this Brexit, the deal is so called ratified and then within a year from now, will the details be meted out piecemeal and who knows if they will ask for an extension on that. Would it surprise me if they did? No. So in essence Brexit is done, but on the other hand, it's not, really. Global News quoted Winston Churchill: "This is not the end, nor is it the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning."
As it turns out, they didn't crash out of the EU with a No Deal Brexit as many had feared. They crashed out of the EU with a deal to be pending work in progress deal Brexit. Right now, Brexit is in development hell.
I see it as a kind of knuckling under.
This reminds me of the American Declaration of Independence. You would think that a declaration of independence would be made after a war is over, but in this case they made the American Declaration of Independence and then fought an 8 year War of Independence 1775 - 1783.
It is also like Trump's so called impeachment. They impeached him on paper in Congress, but then the Senate is expected to overturn that decision. You would think that only after the Senate agreed with the decision and he's out of Office is he then impeached. The whole thing is convoluted. Obverse. Wtf?
It is kind of like a courtroom, a person pleads innocent or guilty and even if they plead guilty, there is still deliberations where evidence is presented to the jury and then it's left to the jury to agree or disagree to the plea.
Brexit at this stage is little more than a mutual ha it agreement, they agreed to it in essence but that's just one side of the Peace and Prosperity Brexit coin. They might take a year to hammer out a deal, fail, try again and then fail again and then wind up having another yet pricey referendum, this time to rejoin Europe. It's a slim possibility but I wouldn't put it past them. It's a roundabout.
Any street celebrations in London are therefore premature.
Brexit is agreed to in principle but it isn't ratified. Ratified is when the terms are all drawn out. Like Nathan Rich, King of Hot Pot said, "They said it was ratified. Ratified means a deal is all drawn out and they signed off on it. It isn't. They thought the public wouldn't notice that but guess what? I did!"
Shen Yun is a magnificent acrobatic display. Shen Yun sounds like serng yun which is Chinese for addiction. Due to the latest crisis in China, they could be renamed The Coronavirus Traveling Circus which, and you thought Circuit Circus was bad.
I installed Lsd comics. It is a great comic from Italy. A young man sees his girlfriend with another guy. He takes his friends earlier offer to do LSD. After doing the acid, the story stops. To read the story further, one has to pay about $4. I have to get a $15 Google card. Do they sell them in $10 amounts? Sometime in the next month I'll get the card and find out how it ends. "A woman decides whether she likes you or not in the first few moments. Wooing is useless." The LSD for this person is like spinach for Popeye. I guess he finds some newfound inner resource to deal with his dilemma. I was hoping I could find out how the story ends for free.
Here is how I'm guessing the story ends. After doing more acid or not, he uses the energy of that into learning the play the church organ mentioned earlier in the story like a maniac. He went to the legendary Crossroads of musicians like the musician Robert Johnson did. This impresses the girl into being with him again or else he finds newer better girls. Either way he wins. Thursday, February 6, 2020. Today I plonked down the $3.59 needed to get LSD comics. Soon, I will find out what happens. It is not difficult to see why I would have commitment issues if I cannot commit to a type, let alone a person. When looking at porn, it's older women one week, younger women another week, all different Nationalities and also all shapes and sizes. And I wonder why I have commitment issues.
The comic was OK and definitely worth the $3.59.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Trump refuses to shake Pelosi's hand. "Like a boss" all of a sudden Trump has sunglasses on and is smoking a blunt. THUG LIFE
Pelosi rips up Trump's notes right after his speech. "Like a boss" all of a sudden Pelosi is wearing sunglasses and smoking a chronic. THUG LIFE
Highly recommended app: The Cat's Meow Town. Best virtual pet ever. I have one one each of my two tablets. Two cats.
Polybius is now available on Android apps. You can actually set it for subliminal messages, strobing, even nightmares and sleep paralysis or not. It supposed to be the legendary 1981 video game. It looks real enough. Cutting edge in 1981 but looks primitive now. Real night terrors? Maybe but if it is, how could it be legal? How did this one get past the censors? This video game is crude, prototypical and silly. The urban legend surrounding it is much better than the actual videogame itself.
I know of someone who is a multi millionaire and has grandchildren. Meanwhile I'm 50 and don't have a wife let alone any children or grandchildren so I don't really see a reason why I have to go on much longer. The thing is, I don't want to have children or start a family. I never did. Ever. It was never a priority of any kind for me. It still isn't. Why don't I just give up on life and call it quits? Any reasons for quitting life are completely incidental anyways. My friend's reasons for living are on a totally different level, it's a totally different dynamic. I don't have a reason for living on quite that kind of dynamic. I wish I could just quit life and move on to the next dimension, the afterlife. Religion is science mystified and science is religion mystified but if it works correctly, the more you study them, the more they will prove each other true.
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you" Werner Heisenberg
There is an afterlife and I'd like to quit this dimension and go to that one. Quitting life is a choice but would it be an option? There isn't much hope in my life but that's because I'm living in the wrong town.
Why should my life be hopeful any more than why should my life be long? Why should my life be hopeful any more than why should this country let alone town be hopeful? All are forms of perfectionism. There's so much of a premium placed on perfectionism which is a subjective ideal to begin with. I'm not a perfectionist. Would anyone be legally required to be a perfectionist?
My life should be over in a couple of decades or less. When it's over, it's over. A good life, a bad life, when they're over, one is just as over as the other, one is no more or less over than the other.
I envy the dead. Life is a struggle. A hassle. Repetitive. Why not just quit life altogether with a heroin overdose? I'd be willing to quit life altogether if I had any kind of chance to be able to do it. I don't mean much to life and life doesn't mean much to me.
I wish I lived in Vancouver. If life doesn't work out and I want to give up, it's profoundly simple to score heroin in Vancouver and just give up on life altogether.
I wish I had a heroin connection. I'm not sure that I want to live for another 20 years.
A lot of those people who died of coronavirus, their lives were full of Hope, they had careers, they had families and children, and they wanted very much to live and they died. Meanwhile my life is hopeless, I have no family or children, no career and I don't particularly care if I live or not. I wouldn't want to die of coronavirus but a heroin overdose would be acceptable to me. Why is it that they have to die and I have to go on living? As far as I'm concerned, if I were to die, to me, it'd be like winning the lottery. I wouldn't mind taking a leap into the wild blue yonder or else the wild fuschia sky with soft white-pink clouds yonder. My life is going nowhere. I wouldn't mind it if I were to have an early reprieve. I hope that the Angel of Death visits me. I would say the 4 magic words: "Take me with you."
Oil train details in Saskatchewan sending hugs black plumes of smoke into the sky. Don't let Greta Thunberg see that!
Dune. Paul Atreides. Kwisatz haderach - Jewish name. Maud Dib - Islamic name.
