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Or at least the grade 7 one is.
My eldest just did the grade 7 contest (Gauss) remotely, and had a very good experience.
I thought I'd post to let you all know that this contest is homeschooler friendly - easy to register as a homeschool, and not expensive. $5 CAD per school plus $4 CAD per kid.
(I remember writing these myself in high school. They were fun then too!)
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I thought this was a good SIRVA article.
I think we will see a relative increase in SIRVA with covid mass vax programs. Lots and lots of HCW workers pressed into working mass vax clinics, not all of whom have great training, I don't think, or may have training that's very out of date.
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36 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:
I like to have both a poncho and a rain jacket. Good for different things.
34 minutes ago, Ottakee said:I have both too....but really prefer not to have to need either of them😀
Add a golf umbrella for super luxury car camping 🙂
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7 minutes ago, Ottakee said:
I have a similar one but not name brand. If I were to solo it back country I might upgrade...but usually I will have several friends along and it would be rare for more than 1 stove to malfunction at a time.
We will see how mine does. I have used it to make coffee and tea.
This is one of the reasons why group hiking is safer than solo (beyond the obvious). Friends = built in equipment redundancy
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Just now, Ottakee said:
Because I don't want to waste my mountain house dehydrated meals. Maybe I can make my own up....but, ok, really, I just love a hot dog cooked over an open fire.
Good enough reason!
But you could cook soup out of a can on your backpacking stove to go with your hotdogs. And boil up some tea!
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15 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:
Love my jet-boil for a light stove!
They're not for me; too tippy, and not versatile enough (I like to play around with cooking while on the trail). I love my trusty Trangia; it's bomb-proof (I actually have two - my dad's 27 model from the 1970's, and a newer 25). Next best white gas MSR whisperlite from the 90's.
Funny stove story: I took a winter camping seminar for scouts leaders a couple of years ago. It was bring your own stove and cook your own lunch. The trainers both had cooking mishaps: The jetboil guy's jet boil tipped over and dumped his lunch on the ground, and the white-gas trainer somehow lit his whole stove (and some of the surrounding pine needles on the ground) on fire. Trusty Trangia made soup and grilled cheese without incident. ETA; with plenty to share with the lunchless trainers 🙂
Now I want to know what kind of stove @Ottakeehas!
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3 minutes ago, Ottakee said:
This will sorta be a combo of trying out some backpacking stuff but also having more comforts. I can't totally go backpack mode as my tent is a 7*7 and weighs 8-10# and I just have a plain big, heavy sleeping bag and pad....and I want my pillow😀.
I might do hotdogs over the fire and s'mores for supper but then try out my backpacking stove to make coffee/tea, oatmeal, etc for breakfast.
I will use my phone battery bank charger and carry my water.
Total hybrid camping. I will have a fire and likely my regular lawn chair but I will have my hammock in my pack.
Why not use your backpacking stove for supper too? Test, test, test.
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4 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:
Love rain boots or something else waterproof to slip on at night or early am for a quick trip to the restroom with dry feet.
Yes, extra footwear! You can have rain boots and sneakers and hiking boots and crocs......
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So this is meant to be a dry run with your backpacking stuff? (or what backpacking stuff you have so far?) That's a really good idea; it's always best to test equipment in a controlled environment before you take it on the trail.
My car camping equipment list is very different than my backpacking list. And my solo car camping list is very different than my family car camping list.
Extras that I really appreciate while car-camping solo:
- a chair (my fave is a taco style chair - they add a lot of comfort to picnic tables), or at the very least, a sit pad or square of foamie
- a tarp for over the picnic table
- a propane stove (in addition to my backpacking stove)
- a hammock
- base-camp self-inflating sleeping pad plus a foamie pad
- a real pillow
- books
- extra lighting - a small lantern in addition to my headlamp
- heavy food, like fresh fruit and fresh veg and real milk (tetra-pak) for my tea
- a thermos (for hot tea)
- spare nalgene to use as a hot water bottle at night
Obviously, if your goal is to test your backpacking stuff, then you should use that. I would have backups of key systems in the car: firelighting (matches, lighter, fire-starters), lighting (spare flashlight), shelter (tarp), extra blanket, and a second stove.
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10 hours ago, BaseballandHockey said:
Oooh could I stick one in my mask?
Ice usually works for me, especially nugget ice but this is a masked event that I need to not get thrown out of.
I don't see why not.
As a bonus, you mask will actually make it quite discreet I should think.
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Weird but true: sniffing isopropyl alcohol prep pads works really well for some people. Especially for short term relief, with essentially no side effects.
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5 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:
Yeah, that's what I was referring to. I wish I knew what it was, lol -- but it does sound like they tested efficacy after washes!
You could email Happy Masks and ask them for the details of their Repeat Wash Test. They are pretty good about responding to questions by email.
(If you do, let me know what you find out ) 🙂
Airing the ask for a few days will minimized covid self-contamination risk. But the inside surface of masks gets pretty gross - respiratory droplets, sneezes, snot..... I'd probably wash.
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1 hour ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle said:
Also remember that with compressions only CPR, the deceased isn’t ventilating or being ventilated. There’s no Covid being spewed out and about, as the patient isn’t breathing or being breathed for. Since there were others in the house that had Covid its probably it was hanging around in the air, but overall, their risk sounds very very low.
Yes. Chest compressions alone is not an aerosol generating procedure. Relatively low risk.
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1 hour ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle said:
What kind of PPE were they wearing? If they were wearing N95s and possibly eye protection, then it’s not considered an exposure.
They should be notified if the patient was determined to be positive if an autopsy was done.your DH is fine. He should be fully protected. Your DD should be mostly protected.
Were either of them managing the airway?If we are wearing appropriate PPE(an N95) we do not consider any patient contact with a covid positive patient an exposure. I think the risk is probably fairly low considering their vaccine status.
Yes. HCW doing CPR while wearing appropriate PPE (here that would mean n95, faceshield, gown, and gloves) does not count as an exposure.
Lack of eye protection would not be acceptable here - it would be counted as an exposure if eye protection was not worn.
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29 minutes ago, Catwoman said:
If you see another doctor and you sense resistance, can you lie and say that your neighbor has Lyme or your dog has Lyme or whatever it takes to get that prescription? If it's a phone appointment, can you say there's a bullseye rash?
I hate to tell anyone to lie, but sometimes there is no other option if the doctors are being uninformed jerks.
OK, if you mean to say that doctors who prescribe as per CDC guidelines are uninformed jerks, then maybe I am a little offended.
(But just a little. I'll cope! And we can still be friends. This clearly isn't the right thread for me, is all. Carry on)
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25 minutes ago, Catwoman said:
I'm sorry, but I have to completely disagree with you on this. The single dose of doxycycline is simply not good enough, nor is a 2 week course of doxy.
Perhaps things are different where you live, but the only doctors I have ever known who went along with the protocols you mentioned are NOT experienced with Lyme disease. The doctors who see it all the time are sticking with the month-long course.
I have a lot of experience with Lyme, as I have had it three times. The time when I saw a different doctor (because my regular doctor was on vacation,) and didn't get the longer term prescription, I ended up suffering for YEARS with chronic Lyme.
Quite frankly, there is no reason whatsoever for not going with the month of doxycycline. Antibiotic resistance is the reasoning I hear most often for going with the short term or single dose, but that is the least of a patient's concerns when faced with a potentially devastating disease. And even after having literally lived for years on very strong antibiotics, I have still not seen the slightest resistance to them when I have needed to take them for other things since then.
I'm sorry if I sound aggressive -- I don't mean to be rude! You are always so nice and I know you are trying to be helpful, but too many doctors take Lyme disease far too casually, and many people are suffering from long term consequences as a result.
No worries. I am not offended. This is a JAWM, afterall. (I did think that it was worth pointing out that there is a distinction between prophylaxis and treatment, and that each has a different standard protocol.)
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18 hours ago, Arctic Bunny said:
If anyone is interested in how it works in my province..... I presented my provincial health card at the time of immunization. They verified my identity by date of birth, address. I did get a card stamped with the date, but I’ve also just checked my electronic health record, and it’s there, with date and time, place and vaccine type.
We have a centralized provincial database for covid vaccinations here too. DH and I both got emails with provincial vaccine receipts that have all the details: what, where, when, given by whom, which arm, lot numbers, all of it's on there.
ETA I was vaccinated at a provincially run health unit mass vax site, DH had his at t eh family doctor. All covid vaccinators in the province are using the same database
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OP,
Just putting it out there that Lyme post-exposure prophylaxis protocols are different than protocols for treatment of established infection (symptomatic Lyme). I feel like they might be getting conflated in this thread.
Lyme prophylaxis protocols (Rx within 72 hours of exposure in a Lyme endemic area) involve much shorter duration of antibiotics, usually a single dose of doxycycline.
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I don't think this has been posted yet.
WHO upgraded their "Coronavirus Disease: How is it Transmitted?" page to formally acknowledge aerosol transmission.
CDC has done the same.
This is a very big deal. Canadian news has been quiet on the subject. I think because hospital just don't have the resources to treat it as airborne. (We're still in pleated medical ear-loop masks for almost everything, including care of covid patients. Respirators/n95's are strictly reserved for aerosol generating medical procedures only. And, to be fair, it's been mostly working; hospital staff covid rates are lower than community rates where I am)
Here is a very nice NYT opinion piece on the issue; it's worth reading, "Why Did It Take So Long To Accept The Facts About Covid?"
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3 hours ago, TrulySusan said:
Are you sure the facility won’t be providing masks? My DD recently participated in research at her university and before beginning, she had to take the mask they provided and have it tested. It was really interesting and involved spraying something in a bag that was over her head to see if she smelled it or not. They didn’t like the original mask and changed it to another one during testing. Then, they had the supervising professor order more of that kind of mask so they would be available to her later.
It sounds like you are describing a respirator fit test - example of equipment used.
I did a re-fit test for a new made-in-Canada (yay!) respirator yesterday. The bitter spray tastes super bitter. It's really gross, and the after-taste for hours.
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1 minute ago, wathe said:
I was married by a hospital chaplain.
I don't have firsthand experience, but I see them at work regularly. Our hospital's spiritual care team does great work. They support patients, families, and staff. I think it would be an emotionally heavy job - though since I'm in emerg, I only really see them at work during crises.
ETA there is an on-call component, so after-hours work is part of the job here.
oops, quoted instead of editing.
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I was married by a hospital chaplain.
I don't have firsthand experience, but I see them at work regularly. Our hospital's spiritual care team does great work. They support patients, families, and staff. I think it would be an emotionally heavy job - though since I'm in emerg, I only really see them at work during crises.
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Our hospital standard right now is safety glasses in all clinical areas. Upgrade to faceshield for interaction with patients on droplet/contact or aerosol precautions.
I think the mechanism is two-fold: droplets landing on the mucous membranes of the eye, and virus rubbed into the eye when we touch/rub them with less than clean hands.
I wear clear safety glasses when grocery shopping or any other task in an indoor space with people (they look like sport sunglasses, but with clear lenses). I look like a dork, but I don't care.
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A quick google turns up this nice review article.
Consider using the search terms "ocular" and "mucous membrane" to find more.
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University of Waterloo CEMC math contests are homeschool friendly
in General Education Discussion Board
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The only other math contest he's done is Math Kangaroo (which according to their marketing material here is a "game", not a contest).
CEMC Gauss contest felt similar to Grade 7 Kangaroo, but Gauss felt a little more serious, and the Gauss questions are definitely better written than Kangaroo.