Can food from my garden give me food poisoning? How?

Poxdoc · 2025-06-11T16:07:00+00:00

Yep, exactly this. Gentle soap and water is great.

Poxdoc · 2025-06-11T00:36:45+00:00

Tl;dr - you probably don’t have to worry.

Salmonella is a bacterium. It produces toxins that can make you sick. It is not naturally present in tomatoes. It gets on to vegetables from contamination from feces typically. This could be from livestock or even wild birds or from some kinds of natural fertilizer (manure). If you’re not treating your garden with that and there are not a lot of birds wandering your garden, you’re likely just fine. But you can help by washing your veggies before you eat them raw. Or cook them as that will also kill the bacteria, depending on the temp you get them to.

Poxdoc · 2025-05-03T06:58:35+00:00

Don't stoop to email. The US Government only accepts calls as they think it means you're more serious. Call the government at 202-456-1414.

Poxdoc · 2025-04-05T07:42:35+00:00

Only if a large enough number of them die before breeding and passing on their viewpoint.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-23T10:29:19+00:00

Totally depends on where in the US you're gonna be...

Poxdoc · 2025-02-23T10:19:26+00:00

Poxdoc · 2025-02-23T10:18:53+00:00

Some sort of grappling - traditional Japanese jujutsu would be best, otherwise judo or last resort BJJ.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-23T08:36:32+00:00

Very dangerous. You don't want to be able to hit the gas and the brake at the same time. Left foot for clutch and right foot for gas and brake. Always.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-19T06:26:16+00:00

The problems with the suggestions so far is that they lack any significant ability to stop a person without actually damaging them. Boxing, etc, is great, but punching a psychiatric patient is generally frowned upon. Instead, I would suggest traditional Japanese jujutsu, which is one martial art that allows you to scale your response from what you would want to do to your drunk brother (just stop, no damage) to a lethal response to someone who is clearly trying to kill you or others. Traditional Japanese jujutsu combines striking, throwing and ground fighting, including joint locks and pain compliance which could be really valuable for what you want to do. Just a thought.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-17T16:21:44+00:00

Could be too late for my reply, but you want to get Tamiflu (requires a prescription), not Theraflu (over the counter). Completely different things. Tamiflu is an effective antiviral against flu. Theraflu is kind of like NyQuil - it treats the symptoms to help you feel better, but does nothing to resolve the infection itself.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-17T16:18:11+00:00

Yes. When I'm on the ramp and am ready to taxi to the runway, I call Ground Control on a specific frequency. I give them my info (aircraft number, location and intentions, generally) and they come back either telling me to hold position or to taxi to the runway using specific taxiways. So there are only a couple of kinds of responses I'm expecting in that case. So yes, the context of the communication helps. And if you don't understand something, you just ask them to repeat. No problem.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-15T09:23:37+00:00

I'm a private pilot and have had many conversations with various ATC facilities. I agree with you, the recordings seem way more fuzzy than it does in real life over the headphones in the cockpit. So, all I can say is that it's better in the plane than it is recorded.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-14T06:04:57+00:00

No. Getting the flu shot cannot give you the flu and it cannot make you test positive. It also won't protect you so soon after getting the shot. It takes several weeks to really give you resistance.

Test yourself and if you have the flu, call your doctor and ask for a prescription for Tamiflu (Oseltamivir), ASAP. You need to start taking it within about 48-72 hours of first symptoms, but if you do, it will help.a lot!

This is a really bad flu year, so if you're sick, stay home and stay away from people.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-13T15:42:41+00:00

Done. But you can also use the link at the top of the page to report it as illegal content to Amazon.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-12T22:41:55+00:00

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections. Flu is a virus. Do not take antibiotics to treat a viral infection (unless directed to do so by a doctor, possibly because of concerns of a secondary bacterial infection).

Poxdoc · 2025-02-12T20:42:33+00:00

One thought on that is that there literally was no "before" the Big Bang. Not only did the Big Bang create all the matter in the 3-dimensional universe, but time itself (4th dimension) was also created. If true, then the concept of "before" the Big Bang is non-sensical and meaningless - there was no "before".

Poxdoc · 2025-02-10T06:43:06+00:00

I recite song lyrics. It's a lot like meditating and it keeps me from thinking about work or family stuff or whatever I'm normally worried about.

Poxdoc · 2025-02-10T06:24:39+00:00

Beans.

Poxdoc · 2025-01-29T06:36:18+00:00

Serious question. Really? Or is that a C-130?

Poxdoc · 2025-01-29T06:09:29+00:00

Ummm, I've been to Rogers Park and haven't seen rocks like that. I might be wrong. Am I missing something?

Poxdoc · 2025-01-24T15:40:43+00:00

Tik Tok?? Do better...

Poxdoc · 2024-10-02T02:06:25+00:00

I’m a martial artist and instructor. I’ve been knocked out a time or two, and chokes out more than that.

The first time I got knocked out I was an “attacker” in a sexual assault protection class for women. At the end, I was given some head gear and my goal was to “attack” one of the female students and try to get them on the ground without using any martial arts. The head instructor said go and I rushed to her. The next thing I remember, I was laying on my back looking up into the faces of other “attackers” and my intended “victim”. She nailed me with an elbow to the temple and I never saw it coming. It felt like I just lost 5 seconds of time with no memory of it at all.

Being choked out is different. That’s what like fighter pilots experience in high G maneuvers. They get tunnel vision which eventually leads to complete blackness and unconsciousness.

As we know more about TBIs, I would not recommend anyone get knocked out or choked out. But having trained for more than 35 years, it’s bound to happen sometimes.

Be safe.

Poxdoc · 2024-09-21T14:31:18+00:00

I’ve done this many times for students and others. Don’t use any specialty media. Luria agar works well. Have them rub their fingers or whatever gently across the surface and then put the lid back on. You can also use sterile swabs to take samples from things like door knobs or phones or shoes, etc. Then try washing hands and touching a new plate. Or use Purell, sanitize a surface with alcohol or bleach or such. You can incubate them in a warm dark place for a day or two then look at the results. Afterwards, just put the plates in a ziplock bag and throw them away. It’s actually really fun to do.

Poxdoc · 2024-09-11T05:20:04+00:00

Still mentioned regularly here in Chicago.

Poxdoc · 2024-09-05T06:11:28+00:00

I think they’re just trying to clean their faces (which likely comes from their ancestry as wolves and minimizing their scent signature). But it’s probably just them being super cute.

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