Too many climbers not practicing social separation

Jimmy Downhillinthesnow wrote: ED doc here... there are certainly places you can go to climb that would be fine right now. Bishop is not one of them. Nor is Index. Anywhere within a reasonable drive from a big city, please don’t. Young people can still get sick, and even require ICU care, and if the local 3-bed ICU is full up, not only does someone need a helicopter ride but then the bird has to get decontaminated so it’s out of commission for hours... etc etc.

If you’re gonna go boulder/TR solo/group of 2 climbers somewhere hella obscure, great. I’m gonna do the same as soon as the weather and my shifts overlap. Bishop is NOT that place. 

Are you sure as an erectile dysfunction dr. You should be giving out advice on covid-19? 

M Mobes wrote: And you shouldn't be in a rush since he whole island is almost shut down. It wont be much longer until the island closes to non residents, we seem to have a ton of people leaving their craphole NE cities and coming here which is a bit upsetting to the locals.

Yeah I heard, plus they’re canceling cruise ships(yay! Haha). We need to get a wiring harness, which is not available through regular parts stores, but I also just need the diagram and I should be able to fix it myself. Mostly just concerned with getting the boot from where we are. Seems like they closed down the state parks around, and most of the forest service roads won’t be open for a little since it’s still early spring. I just hope this blows over quick and I can fix my van and get back to work. Miss y’all up there! 

Let me know what you find, I have a 2001 Shagstro that has a ground that I cannot find. I installed a transfer switch to easily cutoff the battery so it doesn't drain overnight. Good luck finding and fixing this, I troubleshot this for months and finally gave into the workaround.

I'm digging this whole social distancing thing and I realized that I've been doing it since before it was cool.

Most people are seriously gross and for whatever reason really want to be within 3 ft of you just to talk. What's the deal with that? I'm a "stay 6 ft back" before, now, and forever kind of guy.

I'm full germaphobe now and feeling quite smug about it   

Tradiban wrote: I'm digging this whole social distancing thing and I realized that I've been doing it since before it was cool.

Most people are seriously gross and for whatever reason really want to be within 3 ft of you just to talk. What's the deal with that? I'm a "stay 6 ft back" before, now, and forever kind of guy.

I'm full germaphobe now and feeling quite smug about it   

Thats a whole lot of "I"s tradi

Carlos Danger wrote: This is a great time to go top rope solo by yourself. 

Do you top rope solo with a partner during normal times?

jessie briggs wrote:

Yeah I heard, plus they’re canceling cruise ships(yay! Haha). We need to get a wiring harness, which is not available through regular parts stores, but I also just need the diagram and I should be able to fix it myself. Mostly just concerned with getting the boot from where we are. Seems like they closed down the state parks around, and most of the forest service roads won’t be open for a little since it’s still early spring. I just hope this blows over quick and I can fix my van and get back to work. Miss y’all up there! 

You probably don’t need a new wiring harness.  Find the broken/grounded wire and slap a butt connector on it.  There’s plenty of people on this site that know how to fix shit in addition to climbing rocks.  Start a thread, post some pics and watch the free mechanical advice roll in.

Juffrey T wrote: I’m ok to be backlashed. Let’s be realistic here. Separating everyone won’t do shit to get rid of it. All it does is just contains it and become dormant. Once we all get back together in social gatherings, it can trigger it again and become even a bigger problem. This is a virus, it doesn’t leave because everyone’s separated, it will always be a part of our cells and can be activated for those that are infected.

There is no evidence the virus becomes dormant and will lie in wait for a social gathering.  Follow me in this thought experiment.  Person A has the virus and is separated from Person B.  Person A with a functioning immune system recovers by his/her immune response and destroys the virus.  Person A can no longer infect Person B.  If Person A interacts with Person B before getting rid of the virus, what happens?

M Mobes wrote:

Are you sure as an erectile dysfunction dr. You should be giving out advice on covid-19? 

These are hard times, and even dick doctors gotta contribute. The Italians are actually using viagra for sick CoVID patients—it’s a pulmonary vasodilator. 

(On the off chance you weren’t joking, and for anyone else, ED is ER, because it’s a whole department and not a single room)

Jessie--try pulling fuses for things like the radio and cab lights. does it smoke with key on, does it smoke in Acc.?

Jimmy Downhillinthesnow wrote:

These are hard times, and even dick doctors gotta contribute. The Italians are actually using viagra for sick CoVID patients—it’s a pulmonary vasodilator. 

(On the off chance you weren’t joking, and for anyone else, ED is ER, because it’s a whole department and not a single room)

At least they won't be able to roll outta bed

Fast Eddie McBradish wrote: Jessie--try pulling fuses for things like the radio and cab lights. does it smoke with key on, does it smoke in Acc.?

I checked the fuses, nothing blown. Ripped dash apart, there is one small wire in a cluster of wires that go into the Ignition switch that has burnt up. A lot of the other wires got burnt but luckily nothing else showed bare wire beside this one. The smoking happened after driving for many hours and has stopped when the key is in the off position. I pulled the wire(which is a 2ft piece going from one connector to the next) and haven’t seen any smoke yet but am nervous to keep driving not knowing what the wire does or why it shorted out in the first place. Thanks for the advice y’all if someone happened to have a wiring diagram for the ignition switch in a 2004 Astro/safari that wold be rad. Since cars have so many clusters of wires and they go everywhere it’s pretty hard to trace a wire and much easier to just read a diagram. To add to the confusion I can’t find a single thing that does not work since pulling the wire. 

Juffrey T wrote: I’m ok to be backlashed. Let’s be realistic here. Separating everyone won’t do shit to get rid of it. All it does is just contains it and become dormant. Once we all get back together in social gatherings, it can trigger it again and become even a bigger problem. This is a virus, it doesn’t leave because everyone’s separated, it will always be a part of our cells and can be activated for those that are infected.

If you are going to say things that are wrong... you can at least put your level of education and speciality.

But hey, not a epidemiologist ether. Just a man whoese sister is immune supressed.

Keep this shit to yourself.

M Mobes wrote:

Are you sure as an erectile dysfunction dr. You should be giving out advice on covid-19? 

He did go to medical school... which makes himm.. a fucking doctor? 

Juffrey T wrote: I’m ok to be backlashed. Let’s be realistic here. Separating everyone won’t do shit to get rid of it. All it does is just contains it and become dormant. Once we all get back together in social gatherings, it can trigger it again and become even a bigger problem. This is a virus, it doesn’t leave because everyone’s separated, it will always be a part of our cells and can be activated for those that are infected.

Im not trying to be a dick here, but the only true part of your statement is that you're ok to be backlashed.

Tradiban wrote: I'm digging this whole social distancing thing and I realized that I've been doing it since before it was cool.

Most people are seriously gross and for whatever reason really want to be within 3 ft of you just to talk. What's the deal with that? I'm a "stay 6 ft back" before, now, and forever kind of guy.

I'm full germaphobe now and feeling quite smug about it   

Have you considered it might be nobody wants to come near you?

jessie briggs wrote:

I checked the fuses, nothing blown. Ripped dash apart, there is one small wire in a cluster of wires that go into the Ignition switch that has burnt up. A lot of the other wires got burnt but luckily nothing else showed bare wire beside this one. The smoking happened after driving for many hours and has stopped when the key is in the off position. I pulled the wire(which is a 2ft piece going from one connector to the next) and haven’t seen any smoke yet but am nervous to keep driving not knowing what the wire does or why it shorted out in the first place. Thanks for the advice y’all if someone happened to have a wiring diagram for the ignition switch in a 2004 Astro/safari that wold be rad. Since cars have so many clusters of wires and they go everywhere it’s pretty hard to trace a wire and much easier to just read a diagram. To add to the confusion I can’t find a single thing that does not work since pulling the wire. 

If the car is running fine, no codes and all essential electronics work, you are good to send it. 

Jim Titt wrote:

Have you considered it might be nobody wants to come near you?

It's the other way around, they come too close to me! That's why I'm such a dick, to repel sport climbers but they just eat it up and come closer. What's the deal?!

Tradiban wrote:

It's the other way around, they come too close to me! That's why I'm such a dick, to repel sport climbers but they just eat it up and come closer. What's the deal?!

They feel the need for everyone to like them.

Cor wrote: Crags are closed across Italy, France, and others.

Not true about Italy,

Crags are not closed but we are forced home so, if going to a crag, we risk serious penal consequences if found travelling for no good reason. Result: nobody goes climbing. But orgs are definitely not closed.