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26 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Day 3 from Spain 2019: Some of this “positioning hike” VERY similar to Wichita Mtns. in Oklahoma, but big (6000 ft+) mountains loom. Short day to just past Cercedilla, because next stretch is quite long without services as you go through a high pass. (More)
This stretch of trail is the playground of Madrid, with lots of bikes and people walking (sometimes not so friendly) dogs. I was walking with purpose--I needed a good rest before the climb the next day, so not many pictures. (more)
But I should have taken some time in Cercedilla, a large tourist ($$) town, because my hostel...had no dinner. I walked up to a hotel/restaurant, not open. Ate out of a vending machine and some emergency food. (more)
Had a nice quiet single room, $15 or so for room and breakfast. But bored and alone. Again.

Surprised, since conditions for hiking were perfect, if not a bit warm for October.

Unfortunately, breakfast served after dawn, and tomorrow would be a LONG (but scenic) day.
#caminodesantiago on the Camino Madrid.

Started 10/24/2019 from Madrid

46 miles/3 days = 15.3 mile/day average

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Richard
27 Oct
Why long travel threads when so much to deal with in NOT @HealthyOklahoma.

I need to remember WHY I fight COVIDiots like @GovStitt and @GovRonDeSantis.

Spain and Portugal (where I travel later) among most vaccinated, life now lived safely and well.

Not so in Oklahoma (~50%). Image
I am journaling my trip from 2 years ago, to remind myself and my Oklahoma friends what life used to be, and what we can return to if we just use common sense, and not throw all caution to the wind.

Live with the virus, like most of EU.

But don't ignore it, like UK, OK, FL...
Living WITH the virus is mostly just:

1) getting vaccinated
2) getting a booster when necessary
3) avoiding poorly ventilated indoor spaces if possible
4) wearing a good mask indoors if you can't

#4 only necessary until low infection level, but even then, still recommended.
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Richard
27 Oct
Day 4 was so Oklahoma, and so not. Mountain pass vs cows/horses. A palace vs Rt 66 bar. Though really, Oklahoma has all, if you look hard (Ouachitas, Tulsa’s Philbrook). Hard to give these 19 miles justice in a thread on today’s busy OSDH data day, but I’ll have to make time! ImageImageImageImage
To clarify, this is in Spain on the Camino Madrid, one of the many #caminodesantiago routes. I am posting about my 2019 October/November trip on (exactly) a 2 year time delay.

I will pin my most recent report, unless something really important about Oklahoma and COVID pops up.
Back to trip report. As mentioned yesterday, breakfast was served too late in the morning, and was interesting... It turned out that the youth hostel was quite institutional, and seemed like a place where parents would essentially warehouse unwanted children in the off season.
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Richard
25 Oct
Oklahoma Health Commissioner Frye's delusion we are not still in a pandemic is one of many reasons I am glad he is gone.

This statement by Frye is not going to age well.

But expected when @GovStitt appointed someone with no public health experience to be head of public health.
Does this look like a nuisance endemic or "Mission Accomplished" to you Oklahoma and @HealthyOklahoma?

Over 1000 COVID dead last month, and still counting? Image
Compare to Maryland, a state having 50% more people, but 40% of Oklahoma's September deaths.

Of course, practicing universal masking and having the most vaccinated large county (100,000+) in the U.S. (Montgomery, 76%) could have something to do with that.

Oklahoma is not OK. Image
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Richard
23 Oct
Not a good start for Oklahoma against Kansas?!

But maybe @GovStitt or his PR team can step in and fudge the statistics, to make Oklahoma look better.
Don't worry, @GovStitt has the score at Kansas 5, Oklahoma 0. Reducing the stats like he did during much of the pandemic.

Oh wait, we lost on that?...
Don't worry, @GovStitt says that last Kansas touchdown against Oklahoma doesn't officially count, because there was not a PCR test for it, only a rapid antigen test.

If Stitt gets around to it, he will do a PCR test (much) later, to see if the touchdown was real.

OU 7, KU 5.
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Richard
23 Oct
@SenatorLankford spreads dangerous COVID disinformation and misrepresents Israeli study.

Such encourages vaccination via variolation--by getting COVID with mortality rate ~1-2%--over a near zero mortality rate vaccine.

Suspension merited per @TwitterSupport policies.

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At best, natural immunity is ~1% more effective than 2-dose Pfizer vaccine from 6/1/21-8/14/21.*

Pfizer vaccine: 16024 of 16215 protected from symptomatic infection (~99%)

Prior infection: 16207 of 16215

Both ~100% effective against hospitalization and death during time.
Count 1: @SenatorLankford is a Senator from Oklahoma and has paid staff resources, including the Congressional Research Service, to adequately understand and communicate the results of vaccine studies, yet has failed to use that staff effectively.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressi…
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Richard
17 Oct
A partial timeline of what to do if you want to deceive your citizens, and kill tens of thousands from COVID and full hospitals.

Thanks to the efforts of many, Oklahoma has been much more transparent in its data than Florida.

But all can do better.
This is what happens when you hide data from your citizens, ban mask mandates, and ban vaccine mandates.

Plus add about 25% to these counts to count excess deaths, undercounted COVID deaths, deaths from full hospitals, etc.

The @CDCgov not faultless in this data failure, but Florida epidemiologists knew, or should have known, Floridians were not informed of the extraordinarily high infection and death rate in the state.

Of the 10 worst weeks since 5/1/2021, based on excess deaths, 5 were in Florida
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