Late Again, Borrowed Holiday, New Vaccine, Big Shaking, Closing Up
Hey there all, I hope your day is going great! Well, I did it again, I stayed out too late with some friends. I wasn't drinking or anything like that but we were grilling some good meat and telling stories all night. So I'm sorry for not writing last night, I already had a few things written down but went right to bed after getting home. I guess the quarantine has come here to Columbia because my gym closed down today. Not sure how long it'll be down, hopefully not long because I am not good at working out at home. Plus I mostly do weightlifting and I don't have any weights here, I was planning on buying some when garage sale season stared up in a month or so. Oh well, I'm sure I'll live but I'll be staying home a lot over the next few days before I go stir crazy and just have to get out of the apartment. With that out of the way, let me get into it!
History Day! So yesterday was St. Patricks Day, at least as it's celebrated here in America. I know that some Irish people don't like us over here celebrating but that's what we do. We take other peoples holidays and turn them into a reason to get drunk, like Cinco De Mayo. I am sure that some of you know this but Americans were not always nice to the Irish when they first made it to the new world. They came here in droves when the potato famine hit Ireland, some 2 million made the trip across the Atlantic. But before that, the first parade for St. Patrick's Day was held in America in 1695 and we have been having one almost every year after in some fashion. Also, there is a legend that St. Patrick had vanquished all the snakes from Ireland but there is not any archaeological record of there every being snakes on the island. So it's probably made up. Anyway, here is an article about St. Patrick; https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-facts
So the first vaccine for COVID-19 has been trialed for the first time, of course the actual vaccine would take around 12 months but this is a good step to it. I am afraid that it will come to late for a lot that are in danger and the spread could probably be over way before that. I would have signed up for the trial but I wasn't allowed to since my health history is too great, in short they need more healthy young people for it. A little history on the virus, humans first started to study coronavirus in about 1965. That's when they started but you would have thought they might try to make a vaccine at that time but they were only studying it's affects on animals like birds. So that's something they should have thought of but it wasn't thought at that time to transfer from animals to humans but the virus mutated, like they all do. Because of those mutations makes me more fearful of something like smallpox coming back, now that would really be horrible. Anyway, here is an article about that person that got the shot; https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/first-person-test-coronavirus-vaccine-200333342.html
Have a small article for this one but there was an earthquake over close to Salt Lake City, Utah. I have an uncle that lives out there but he is fine, some things got smashed up but they can be replaced. It was a larger quake at 5.7 and hit this morning before 7am local time. It was the first quake that they have had in the region since 1992 and Utah is not known for having a fault line there but it's not as big as the New Madrid fault that will hit at some point. That was the strongest quake in history, it rang church bells in Philly and made the Mississippi run backwards. Hope that doesn't hit anytime soon, the country is not prepared for that one. Here is that article on the SLC quake; https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/utah-rocked-by-5-7-magnitude-earthquake-that-took-down-coronavirus-hotline/
Don't have an article for this, just wanted to say something about it. I remember back in high school they told us that the ozone layer had a huge hole in it over Antarctica. That we were destroying it with the use of hairspray and driving cars. 30 years later we never hear about it and why is that? It is because the hole is closing up because we don't use CFC's as bad as we did in the 1980's, that's the era of big hair bands. Just wanted to say that.
So that's all for me tonight. I really hope you all stay safe and have a great night or day, take care!
History Day! So yesterday was St. Patricks Day, at least as it's celebrated here in America. I know that some Irish people don't like us over here celebrating but that's what we do. We take other peoples holidays and turn them into a reason to get drunk, like Cinco De Mayo. I am sure that some of you know this but Americans were not always nice to the Irish when they first made it to the new world. They came here in droves when the potato famine hit Ireland, some 2 million made the trip across the Atlantic. But before that, the first parade for St. Patrick's Day was held in America in 1695 and we have been having one almost every year after in some fashion. Also, there is a legend that St. Patrick had vanquished all the snakes from Ireland but there is not any archaeological record of there every being snakes on the island. So it's probably made up. Anyway, here is an article about St. Patrick; https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-facts
So the first vaccine for COVID-19 has been trialed for the first time, of course the actual vaccine would take around 12 months but this is a good step to it. I am afraid that it will come to late for a lot that are in danger and the spread could probably be over way before that. I would have signed up for the trial but I wasn't allowed to since my health history is too great, in short they need more healthy young people for it. A little history on the virus, humans first started to study coronavirus in about 1965. That's when they started but you would have thought they might try to make a vaccine at that time but they were only studying it's affects on animals like birds. So that's something they should have thought of but it wasn't thought at that time to transfer from animals to humans but the virus mutated, like they all do. Because of those mutations makes me more fearful of something like smallpox coming back, now that would really be horrible. Anyway, here is an article about that person that got the shot; https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/first-person-test-coronavirus-vaccine-200333342.html
Have a small article for this one but there was an earthquake over close to Salt Lake City, Utah. I have an uncle that lives out there but he is fine, some things got smashed up but they can be replaced. It was a larger quake at 5.7 and hit this morning before 7am local time. It was the first quake that they have had in the region since 1992 and Utah is not known for having a fault line there but it's not as big as the New Madrid fault that will hit at some point. That was the strongest quake in history, it rang church bells in Philly and made the Mississippi run backwards. Hope that doesn't hit anytime soon, the country is not prepared for that one. Here is that article on the SLC quake; https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/utah-rocked-by-5-7-magnitude-earthquake-that-took-down-coronavirus-hotline/
Don't have an article for this, just wanted to say something about it. I remember back in high school they told us that the ozone layer had a huge hole in it over Antarctica. That we were destroying it with the use of hairspray and driving cars. 30 years later we never hear about it and why is that? It is because the hole is closing up because we don't use CFC's as bad as we did in the 1980's, that's the era of big hair bands. Just wanted to say that.
So that's all for me tonight. I really hope you all stay safe and have a great night or day, take care!
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