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Here's the latest on "surviving" COVID-19. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200714144739.htm https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/19/covid-19-smell-loss-brain-attack-depression-anxiety-university-cincinnati-research/5451349002/ "You can't smell anything. Taste is botched. How depressing, right? Well, yes, that is right. But the real question is, why do you feel depressed when you have COVID-19 with smell loss? The answer could be that the disease caused by the novel coronavirus might be attacking your brain."

Thanks to all of you for your efforts to help. Siteunseen - I have bought parts from zKars in the past, but for some reason he did not come to mind. Guess I am getting old. Anyway it was a great suggestion and I appreciate it - thank you. zKars is great he had exactly what I needed and spared no effort to get it in the mail today. Can't say enough good things about him.

Lungs, brain, kidneys, are a few of the confirmed organs but they haven't discovered all the areas of the body this virus will attack yet. Another interesting area of research is the possibility that some blood types are more susceptible to Covid-19 than others. It has to do with the different antigens and antibodies in the various blood types. I'm O Positive which seems to have more immunity to C-19 than others. That said, I'm about 75% sure I had it in April. I'd had a lot of contact with the homeless in March, a few had been in the hospital with a pneumonia that had been going around throughout the winter. I woke up one morning to a lower backache that soon progressed to vicious muscle spasms. I thought OK, no big deal, I've been to this rodeo many times in the past. Normally it would take about a week to get back to some form of normality but into the second week the spasms were just as bad as week one. Then one morning I felt like I had been punched in the left kidney. My urine turned the color of diluted cola. (TMI?) That lasted about 2 days and went away. I didn't go to the Dr. because in April everyone was paranoid about going anywhere near a medical facility and the spasms were so bad I couldn't get into the car. I also had a minor nagging cough, 1/2 hour long spiking fevers, and general body aches. Long story short. the spasms and symptoms lasted almost 4 weeks. At the time I didn't really think I was sick enough to see a Dr. along with the philosophy of I'll either get over it or get used to it, if not I'll go see a Dr. The good news is, I got over it, I think. No more symptoms now other than my long term hip problem is worse, I feel like I got a royal as$ kicking and I'm not back to normal strength yet.

Highly editorial comment: I think the GOP in the Senate is starting to smell the outcome, but they're still unwilling to take on Cadet Bone Spurs in public. That's another way in which they're betraying their constituents.

I really feel for the people who have kids. They, the kids and the parents, are being used as pawns in this crazy game. This is from The Guardian - "This is Lois Beckett, picking up this afternoon’s live politics coverage from our California office. Comments from a Friday radio interview with Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, are continuing to spark condemnation and alarm, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports today: “These kids have got to get back to school,” the governor said on Friday. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get Covid-19, which they will – and they will when they go to school – they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.” “We gotta move on,” he added later. “We can’t just let this thing stop us in our tracks.” Among the many responses, the Post-Dispatch reported, was one Democrat running for governor in Missouri, who responded: “Does he not realize multiple American kids have died after being infected?” Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a Harvard epidemiologist, called the comments “dystopian”. "

Not only them. We need to take a serious look at ALL leaders in our society and see what drives them. Usually it's fame and fortune, with a percentage of Public Service thrown in for good looks. The signs of Narcissism are lack of empathy, superiority, need for recognition, arrogance, paranoia, entitlement, fantasies of love power & success, exploitation, and admiration. Sound familiar? Everyone has experienced some of these, to some degree, in their life. The ones at the higher end of the spectrum, the ones who crave power in their adult life, are the very ones that should not be running anything that feeds their ego's need for power over others. the more their ego is fed the more they resemble Jabba the hutt.

They filmed a movie about Kent state here in gadsden. Most at our junior college campus and some at my middle school. We were in class one morning and an old huey landed on our baseball field right outside the classroom. 1981... https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082608/locations

I do stay away from downtown these days because of Covid-19 and some physical limitations that prevent me from walking long distances otherwise I'd be there. Free speech is alive and well in Portland. If it gets a bit rowdy at times, it's because free speech and, at times, civil unrest are needed for change.

Also, the new NAFTA 2.0 just kicked in so no duty is paid on orders under $150 CND.

@davewormald welcome to the joys of being a 240z owner In need of parts in Canada!... From my experience, like grannyknot said, the US is the best place to get parts. Not much if nothing available here, yes there are some vendors in Canada, but very limited variety of parts offered and very questionable service offered compared to the USA. The only advice I can tell you is to make lists of parts, accumulate for a while (if non essential) and bundle them in one purchase sourced from the USA. That is what I do every other month, costly in shipping fees but you get what you need!