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McDonalds- softserv vanilla, strawberry and chocolate 12 oz shakes are available on the GRAB app for Dumaguete and suburbs. If they arrive soft pop them in the freezer. To double the portion, refill the cup after dumping into the blender with 12 oz. of Fresh Milk and blend.

I've been after the local management for 14 years to bring shakes to the Philippines.

Also on the Grab app is the place for instructions such as extra pickles and extra onions on your hamburger.

Grab and FoodPanda are going head to head but missing items and debit card payments are also collected in cash by the riders by unsuspecting customers have led us to use Grab more and more.

Current favorites are:

Mooone:
Ribeye and or Tenderloin steaks.
Thin-sliced onion rings.
Potato soup.

Lantau
Lomi soup, best local flavor.
Watermelon shakes.

Flamin Grill:
Crunchy French fried onion rings.

Chia:
Omelet
Buritto

shakey aka John

 

A recent study in the Netherlands (according to my neighbour there's been a similar study in the UK with similar results) shows these characteristics:
1. The study was done for a sample of over 2000 patients with an average age of 47 (range 39-54), 86% of whom reported being in good health before getting infected with Covid-19
2. A very large majority of them (95%) had mild symptoms and were not admitted to hospital
3. The most prevalent symptoms during infection were fatigue (95%) and dyspnoea (difficulty with breathing, 90%)
4. At follow up 3 months later the same two symptoms persisted in 87% and 71% of patients respectively.
5. After 6 months these percentages were still at 86% and 59% respectively.

The researchers are careful with their conclusions but suggest there is evidence of a "post covid syndrome" across all ages of patients.
Original research paper (in English) is here:
https://openres.ersjournals.com/content/erjor/early/2020/09/01/23120541.00542-2020.full.pdf

Only caveat might be that their sample of patients is not necessarily representative for all patients in the age group.

 

It has been on my mind a while the question: When is a posting from a moderator done wearing the moderator's hat and when just as an individual member of the Forum with an opinion?

This has become more relevant as I found two of my posts on the thread "looking to move to Duma" deleted with no notification or reason given. When I repeated them, one (the one connected with a moderator, the person who deleted my posts) was very swiftly moved to off-topic. That one was in reply to a moderator's comment (which I considered trollin') and he is the moderator who deleted the posts! But, interestingly, his off-topic trollin' post remained

This has now led to me being threatened with 'actions' for daring to question this. I believe in fairness, so you never find me crawling into the 'hole' allocated to me by those with power. Never have and never will. I am not bothered by negative ratings, mockery, threats - or anything. And that's in colour!

The moderator had the option as an individual to give a rating or a written reply to my postings - but chose instead, using moderating powers no ordinary member has, to delete them.

I SUGGEST if it is time for moderators to have a 'Moderator profile' separate from their personal one. This means they can comment as moderators, which I accept they have the right to do, or separately in a personal capacity. This prevents any misunderstanding of which 'hat' they are wearing. I have no grudge against moderation as such as I understand and accept that without it any Forum would run amok.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ults-in-minutes-to-be-rolled-out-across-world

It is about time, a relatively cheap (under 5 €) and reliable test that gives results "while you wait" (30 mins or so), thank you Bill Gates and the European Union.
Now let's hope the Philippine government manages to get their hands on 100,000 or so of these fast, and many more of them later, so we can halt the extraordinary death toll among doctors and nurses, make contact tracing much more effective and less of a hassle, and last but certainly not least, stem the tide of infections while we wait for an effective vaccine.

 

Pandemics, communists, friends passing away, critics, I am taking my mind back to when I was a happy kid, albeit a poor one.
- my first crush, 6th grade
- learning baseball, basketball, football, soccer at the Boys Club
- paper route to earn money for a bicycle, levi’s, hot chocolate floats during the winters
- picking apples, peaches, cherries, strawberries from neighbourhood yards
- learning math and geography and history
- watching Annette mature
AND THEN TURNED 18 AND SUDDENLY WASN’T FUN ANY MORE

 

Who?

WHO.

Yes, so who?

WHO - they just got it, 5 months into the crisis (source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52945210) :

"The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn in public to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

The global body said new information showed they could provide "a barrier for potentially infectious droplets".

It points to recent research that people can be highly infectious in the few days before they show symptoms [pre-symptomatic] and that some people catch the virus but never show symptoms at all [asymptomatic]" (Duh! I think most people on this Forum knew this months ago!). The BOLD and [ ] are my additions to the original.

How many lives have been lost due to crass ignorance from an organisation supposedly at the top of the game??? Tip: You do not need "research" to know the obvious.

 

Is this the first successfully grown beef tomato in Dumaguete?