covid 19 wash state emergency update

[Strylian]

I'm playing the Pirates in one of the new games and I was thinking of how the PI might think of Covid 19?  A sea chantey seems in order.

We could have some fun adding lines to this, maybe reflecting the different kingdoms.  Of course it's not that we don't take this world wide crisis seriously and pray for all those souls impacted by it, which includes nearly everyone at some point.

I'm a salty old pirate
And I'm sailing the sea.
I'll take all your gold
But the virus goes free.

I was shot in the shoulder
And stabbed in the spleen
But what put me down
Was that Covid 19!

I've plundered gold and jewels
as I've sailed the seas
but most precious of all
was a roll of TP.

Good one sir.  Did Pirates have TP?  So far from shore?

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

[Draugr]

I've plundered gold and jewels
as I've sailed the seas
but most precious of all
was a roll of TP.

Good one sir.  Did Pirates have TP?  So far from shore?

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

So your saying the Romans were the first to do the floss dance

[Strylian]

Good one sir.  Did Pirates have TP?  So far from shore?

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

So your saying the Romans were the first to do the floss dance

I can not say definitively if they were the first. They just brought it to the rest of the world.

[Strylian]

No fake news about the butt wipe shortage.. reduced to using paper towels, and if it continues, ive got a few old t shirts ready for the block!

But it beats the dried leaves senior t had to use on a long drive home when we was in the corps! LOL

Do you know why grocery stores are having such a hard time keeping toilet paper in stock?

It's because one person sneezes and ten people shit themselves.

[Wookie Panz]

I've plundered gold and jewels
as I've sailed the seas
but most precious of all
was a roll of TP.

Good one sir.  Did Pirates have TP?  So far from shore?

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

Well done.  You have captured the pirate spirit for sure.  And you have added another meaning to being, "on the ropes."

[Wookie Panz]

Good one sir.  Did Pirates have TP?  So far from shore?

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

Well done.  You have captured the pirate spirit for sure.  And you have added another meaning to being, "on the ropes."

So before two ply they used.....three strand?

[Strylian]

A grape shot took me leg off
And a dagger got me eye
But I'd gladly lose'em both
For a roll'o double ply!

lol

With me newly won roll still in my hand
on the poopdeck, I make me last stand
For if any of my mates should give it a try
with a slice from my cutlass, I shall defend my 2ply



Sailors used a piece of rope that was soaked in saltwater. Just like the Romans did.

Well done.  You have captured the pirate spirit for sure.  And you have added another meaning to being, "on the ropes."

So before two ply they used.....three strand?

Nice. 

3 strand which was probably made from hemp. So they could smoke afterwards.
Or they would tie a sheepshank to the line to give a dull voyage a little bit of excitement.

[Strylian]

I may check out the expanse, If the wife agrees,  I saw the next season of Ozark dropped and she loves that.  I notice much deep philosophical discussion on the brain and consciousness.  Very interesting.  Here is my attempt at a poem, I will not be offended with any bashing.  
As the Necromancer pondered the situation
A world with Covid-19 and social isolation
He gathered his wizards to conjure and plan
We must benefit from this chaos,  if we can
They developed a way to spread the contagion
Even with reduced contact and separation
As the virus was spread through the community
The Necromancer recruited those with low immunity
The world was cleansed and renewed, by majority opinion
And  Alamaze was brought under the Necromancers dominion

Nice

[Airetar]

I may check out the expanse, If the wife agrees,  I saw the next season of Ozark dropped and she loves that.  I notice much deep philosophical discussion on the brain and consciousness.  Very interesting.  Here is my attempt at a poem, I will not be offended with any bashing.  
As the Necromancer pondered the situation
A world with Covid-19 and social isolation
He gathered his wizards to conjure and plan
We must benefit from this chaos,  if we can
They developed a way to spread the contagion
Even with reduced contact and separation
As the virus was spread through the community
The Necromancer recruited those with low immunity
The world was cleansed and renewed, by majority opinion
And  Alamaze was brought under the Necromancers dominion

Nicely done.

[Airetar]

A virus is very simple.  The primary component of a virus is small proto-protein (technically a neucleic acid) resembling a strand of RNA. This is the "brain" of the virus, so to speak, the blueprint for creating more virus. This is covered in a membrane of fat and proteins which contain various "keys and locks" which interact with the cells of other living things.

If you know how your cells produce proteins, you can skip this paragraph.  Imagine the DNA of your cells as a 10 foot long zipper.  To create a protien, half of the DNA strand "breaks" at a specific point, and unzips an inch or two.  The cell copies the "unzipped part" and then breaks off.  The DNA then re-zips and unbreaks.  The strand that breaks off is called RNA.  The cell then takes the RNA then fills in the other "half" so it becomes a small zipper itself... this is a protein.

When a virus finally gets inside the cell it hijacks the cells mechanisms, which are normally used to turn RNA into protien, to recreate itself instead.  It does this until virus completely fills the cell and the cell bursts, sprewing virus into the body to be either destroyed by the immune system or to successfully attack other cells.

As far as trying to comprehendnd a viral or bacterial "invasion" it helps to think of both virus and bacteria, not as living things, but rather as complicated magnets.  There are four forces in the universe responsible for literally all behavior, from that of a virus to that of a black hole.  These forces are magnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak atomic forces.  The strong atomic force is that which binds the components of atoms together, and the weak is the force that binds atoms with other atoms to create molecules.

Think of a virus as a very complicated magnet, although not using magnetism but rather the weak atomic force.  The cells of your body are magnets as well, repelling and attracting in very complicated ways.

Bacteria are somewhat different, but can be thought of the same way.  Experiments have actually shown the ability of bacteria to use classical conditioning, in essence the ability to learn without benefit of a brain.  See, there is hope for you yet Agent orange

I should probably make this a private conversation, but I think Alamaze players can endure it without harm.  And of course, no one is obligated to read it.  

You might be the only one that puts more metaphors into a paragraph than I.    

We could go down to the chemical reactions, documented, on how (and again, I prefer asking why) viruses do the dirty things they do, but yeah, I want to know why.  And Science telling us they have been around from the beginning.  So, WHY are there these little bastards, and how do they know what to do? 

I just don't see all these things as accidents and coincidence.  I'm not saying I have the answer.  In my mind though, none of this is just accident.  Just look at the DNA or RNA molecule:  very pretty accident, eh?