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ah, my father was taken there after a bike crash...fortunately he got dealt with quite well.
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well...went to work this morning, no job on but 1st day back of the sick so had to show my face. pottered about for a bit, did some photo editing...now im back home agian and decided to finsih the table i started 2 weeks ago...8 welds left, all could be done from a straight standing position but some would be overhead as a result, no issue...gasless mig is easy overhead...until i got halfway through the second weld and ran out of wire 
cant even pop out to get more as the vice i ordered at 4pm yesterday is marked as out for delivery today so need to stay in for that...so, stick welding it is...not my proudest weld, but 2mm thick box section with a 2.5mm super6 6013, 70 amps, DCEN overhead (table was leaning away maybe 15 degrees so not directly overhead, but close enough) and the first overhead stick weld ive tried in more years than i can remember...looks rough, felt bad while i was doing it, but im sure it will hold. did poke around in the little worm hole to dig the slag out then filled it in again after it cooled...and yes i know the metal is rusty, its been outside for 2 weeks and i wasnt crouching down to get at it with the grinder. the joint got threatened with a wire brush and thats about all it was ever going to get at this point.
its now finished apart from clean up and paint but thats another days job as its just started raining again.
this post may also be used int he future to remind me that i have absolutely no idea what im talking about when i give welding advice to beginners
the weld above it was gasless mig...thats the bastid i was doing when my back went, although it was on the floor at the time
cant even pop out to get more as the vice i ordered at 4pm yesterday is marked as out for delivery today so need to stay in for that...so, stick welding it is...not my proudest weld, but 2mm thick box section with a 2.5mm super6 6013, 70 amps, DCEN overhead (table was leaning away maybe 15 degrees so not directly overhead, but close enough) and the first overhead stick weld ive tried in more years than i can remember...looks rough, felt bad while i was doing it, but im sure it will hold. did poke around in the little worm hole to dig the slag out then filled it in again after it cooled...and yes i know the metal is rusty, its been outside for 2 weeks and i wasnt crouching down to get at it with the grinder. the joint got threatened with a wire brush and thats about all it was ever going to get at this point.its now finished apart from clean up and paint but thats another days job as its just started raining again.
this post may also be used int he future to remind me that i have absolutely no idea what im talking about when i give welding advice to beginners
the weld above it was gasless mig...thats the bastid i was doing when my back went, although it was on the floor at the time
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Government guidelines apparently, we asked the same question.
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Another thinning of the heard will boost Rachel from accounts coffers.
There is now widespread immunity to COVID in the population, so infections tend to be much less serious than they were five years ago, when COVID first reached our shores. The problem with flu, is that the virus mutates greatly from one year to the next, because of the way the mutations are generated.
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? Because it mutates, or because there's something funky about the mutation(s)?
No it has always done this. Nothing odd about it.
Although the COVID virus has undergone a number of mutations over time, and numerous lineages have been recognised, each of the mutations usually result in changes in only one or two amino acids in the viral protein at a time, and the mutations occur relatively infrequently. Generally, our immune systems, having already had to deal with previous COVID infections, are able to recognise the mutated forms and provide some degree of immunity, as well as developing new antibodies against new mutants.
With influenza, the replication machinery of the virus does not have a so-called proofreading mechanism, so mutations occur frequently, and a much more greatly changed (from one year to the next) virus variant tends to predominate and infect humans during the "flu season". There is also interspecies mixing of different influenza virus types, which can lead to inter-virus swapping of large chunks of the viral genomes. (Not sure if this is the correct terminology). This makes flu more challenging to treat.
That's not to say that one day, a COVID variant might come along that is much more troublesome to the human population. Hopefully, it will be caught in time by surveillance programs, allowing for a new vaccine to be developed against it.
With influenza, the replication machinery of the virus does not have a so-called proofreading mechanism, so mutations occur frequently, and a much more greatly changed (from one year to the next) virus variant tends to predominate and infect humans during the "flu season". There is also interspecies mixing of different influenza virus types, which can lead to inter-virus swapping of large chunks of the viral genomes. (Not sure if this is the correct terminology). This makes flu more challenging to treat.
That's not to say that one day, a COVID variant might come along that is much more troublesome to the human population. Hopefully, it will be caught in time by surveillance programs, allowing for a new vaccine to be developed against it.
Getting back on topic, how's the back now @BrokenBiker ?
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At present, it's ok. Still having some bad days where it aches a lot and limits what I can do, but more good days than bad. I put that down to stretching and a bit more exercise than before.
