[ExI] 228 and rising

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] 228 and rising

>...You might need to go further east than Reno.
Check <http://aqicn.org/map/usa/>
to find a place with clean air...

Thanks for the source site BillK!

I am watching the smoke maps and the smoke cloud movement.

>...You may need to go into hospital to get oxygen therapy if you get sick.
Best wishes, BillK


Not one chance in hell I will go anywhere near the hospital, no way Jose,
not even if I ride a motorcycle over there.  I wouldn't do that even if I
knew for sure I was immune to covid: there are people all over this valley
who need that place and that oxygen worse than I do, people with more money
than I have (so they are more deserving of medical care than I am (because
they are older and sicker (and they paid for more of it than I did.)))

On a brighter note: hey cool!  My bride gave me one of those nifty FitBit
watches for Christmas.  It counts your pulse rate and logs it (no kidding
{8^D).  So I just noted that my pulse rate rises with falling air quality.
I suppose it makes sense that it would, even though I don't really know the
exact mechanism.  Medics or medical hipsters, do those things really go
together or is it coincidence?

In any case, I just got back: I filled my fuel tank and made a tornado
grocery trip, sucked up everything in the joint, crammed the camper full of
food and supplies, got her ready to roll should we decide to bug on out for
parts east.  Reasoning: I am not the only one in the Silicon Valley who owns
an RV, nor the only one looking at the smoke map.  

It looks great out about in Reno Nevada, and I have friends out there who
will let me park in their driveway for a few days.  But there will likely be
few or no supplies available out there: the freeway is already clogged going
north and east from here (which happens anyway on Friday afternoon) but this
fleeing horde will devour everything edible in its path like a swarm of
ravenous locusts on a ripe corn field.  So I am self-contained now with at
least a week and two weekends supply of everything, ready to roll if we
decide to do that.  If we do, it will be early tomorrow morning.

The cool part: my son can still go right on to school Monday as if nothing
happened: his school is all online now, his reference material too, he just
goes right on as if all is normal from wherever he is because I bought a
high-capacity mobile hotspot: this thing can get full internet from anywhere
the phone operates, which is along any freeway I have ever traversed.  Is
this cool or what?  My son can go to school wherever we are.

I don't really want to go: if we find clear skies and clear air, it will be
in the Nevada desert which this time of year is brutally hot.

spike