I love practical solutions.

@poet1b I am reasonably sure most politicians -- Republicrats or Democans, doesn't matter -- are crooks. The only reason Trump has been as successful as he have against politicians is that he isn't one. As for being a crook, he may be a "typical New York businessman" but he clearly didn't pick his current job to enrich himself.

@Kylo Pretty well. Taking longer than I like but I guess it is necessary to make sure you catch all the crooks.

@Andrew Pam Actually, I don't believe anything inside the US is real.From Bill Gates to the Bidens, I see US things are only done for profit.

@debo I do believe the US statistics -- now that the CDC has admitted the real numbers are 6% of what they originally claimed.
The chart about halfway down the page on a42.com/pg/s/wiki/health/covid… reproduced from a42.com which was a reproduction from somewhere else, helps clarify my HCQ claim on a world level. BTW, I live in Guatemala.

@Jess Nut Here is an important fact related to U.S. covid-19 deaths. Hospitals received a "bonus" for treating covid-19 patients and a bigger bonus if a ventilator was used. Not trivial amounts. I remember it was around $20,000 for a non-ventilator patient and around $30,000 if the ventilator was used. Thus there was a huge incentive for patients to be called covid-19 patients -- no matter what they had.
Or, put another way, there was a huge incentive to check the covid-19 box. I think the numbers of real covid-19 deaths vs. BS is out on a42.com. The current CDC "admission" is that only about 6% of those claimed to be covid-19 deaths really were. A very big difference.
I also pointed out that proper treatment (for example, using HCQ and zinc which is very inexpensive) pretty much eliminates covid-19 deaths if given early enough.
Bottom line: yes, covid-19 exists, it was likely "fabricated", and people can die from it -- just like other kinds of flu -- but, private profit and politics created the big issue.

@Violante de Rojas Please. If the dead or dying have the covid-19 antibody it means they had been exposed to covid-19. That's all. For example, there was a person listed as a covid-19 death in Florida because he had covid-19 antibodies. No matter that he died in a motorcycle accident.

@Jess Nut Of course we change. But we don't economically shut down the whole world because some people catch "the flu". What we do is 1) allow herd immunity take effect and 2) use treatments where necessary that have been proven to work. That doesn't mean send infected people to nursing homes to infect others. As I said in another comment, see a42.com/pg/s/wiki/health/covid… and get a clue.

@Andrew Pam Give me a break. I agree the numbers are way off but way too high. Covid-19 is a synonym for "maybe some lung problem was part of the reason someone died. Don't believe it? Compare recent flu numbers to what they were last year. Close to zero now.
And then there is the fact that a cure has existed all along -- HCQ -- but Bill Gates and Dr. Fauchi don't like it because it would cost them billions. Finally, I know of no hospitals that have been overwhelmed. The two hospital ships that Trump sent to New York and somewhere on the west coast treated close to zero patients. And hospitals have been closing. a42.com/pg/s/wiki/health/covid… offers some clues.

This doesn't hold together. Airplane flights are very different from death statistics. Let's call that number 400,000/year even though it is likely to be much less now that we know how to deal with it. Looking at worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-… this is less than Asthma, Malaria or Breast Cancer. About half that of Suicide and one quarter of Diabetes and Traffic Accidents. Good? No but clearly not the biggest problem going on and clearly nothing to shut down the world economy over.

As you don't seem to be getting any local answers, here is at least a thought. There are muffler repair kits. Might you be able to use such a kit to repair the firebox.

My friend Lee (who played guitar) did his slightly modified version -- The Girl with Emphysema.

@John Ervin nw-connection.com/?p=6147

That is really interesting. Too bad humans can stop killing each other and investigate (and publish about) things like this.

@Robert Dinse There was virtually nothing when I lived on Lake Atitlan. Here in Guatemala City I think there is some interesting stuff (including a place called Jazz Cafe just a few blocks away) but once I got settled, covid-19 struck. We'll see.

Nice song. When I first moved to Seattle I got into the Folk Music scene. (I dated a rather well-known folk singer in the Seattle scene--Heidi Muller--back in 1980.) I got to know lots of folkies and many were excellent. This song reminded me how much I miss that music scene.

Link appears broken. I am guessing the video is youtu.be/fsyaBFeRiiI and, yes, her delivery really sucks.

Reminds me of a T-shirt that we (Linux Journal) did -- In a world without fences, who needs Gates.

Strange. Try the YouTube URL directly at youtu.be/gFL9y1NzvBI

Ivan, I recommend you check out another of my posts: friendica.eskimo.com/redir/532…

Great interview and sounds like a great book. I planned to post this but you bet me to it.

I think they had better, Tulsi Gabbard being my favorite example, but she would not sell out to the DNC plan. Maybe once the career Democrat politicians die off, the party can move forward.

The big difference is AIDS lacked a cure and people legitimately freaked out. Back in 2005 Fauci told the world that HCQ was a great treatment for SARS. Today, with his connection with Bill Gates and other vaccine pushers (for vaccines that don't yet exist) he is saying HCQ doesn't work, is dangerous, ... See a42.com/pg/s/wiki/health/covid… for articles and links that put the picture together.