Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Biographics" channel.

Audie Murphy was a most amazing man! His movie To Hell and Back should be required watching in history classes. As it is, it shows his strong countenance and strength of command. He is a real person in this movie, not an over-dramatic actor. It is a good medium to portray him as he was. No, don't try to immitate him. Texas accents are a lot more subtle than people assume.
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YES! Cashiers are required to stand up all the time! Pain starts in the feet even when there's a fatigue mat to stand on. The pain builds and continues up the legs and into the lower back. It sometimes happens that it travels to upper back, too. Not much you can do about it except suffer. And, no, we can't sit down because we must turn around and bag the items. Be kind to your cashiers. They have a bad time of it.
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I got my vaccines as a child before 10 years old. I remember having a scar, a tiny one. But by the time I was 19, there were no scars to see.
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I'm sorry to say I knew next to nothing about Frida Khalo. Shame on me: my Dad also had polio and had to redefine himself over the years as he fought the complications that followed him throughout his life. Now that I know, I can appreciate and honor her more.
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This is one reason writers get a bit skittish about researching stuff for their books.
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Utmost.
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We can't start out with, 'It was a dark and stormy night...' Awwww! 😔
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Funny. Indians thought that torrential rains would save m from flu. People here in the United States tout that summer would relieve us of Covid-19. Nope to both counts. Rather tantamount to praying to God to save people from disease, eh?
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Yes. It happened around Halloween in 1980 and prompted parents to give out non - candy little prizes like cool pencils and other nifties. It was my worst Halloween ever. But at least Mom and Dad had the best kind of candy reserved for us after we'd collected our loot. They always did. The following year Mom and Dad relented, and Halloween was for the kiddos again. In about 1974 was when hospitals offered to X-ray children's candy bags. Mom worked at an emergency room that was doing it and we asked Dad to take us. (No, he said. Oh well.) I think the hospitals were also doing it for PR, too. What better way to help children understand how helpful hospitals and the people who work there by providing a service that a kindly staff can use to give them peace of mind. And the hospitals thus imparted good will to children to make them confident and less scared to go to a hospital in time of need. I thought it was brilliant when I looked back on it. That's probably why Dad didn't allow us to go. He knew the limitations, and he knew it might take up resources away from someone who really needed an emergency X-ray. (Savvy Dad. Glad to have had him in my life!) (Edit: 1982? I guess so.)
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Here's to future invention successes. Don't be afraid to fail, though. And don't think of it as failing. Writers don't fail. They just edit for a second draft.
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The blister packets, bottle seals and safety caps were infuriatingly hard to open, too. And caplets are not easier to swallow, despite what they say.
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And child - proof caps.
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Maybe we should say "What an accomplished person!" There are plenty of LGBTQ+ serving in the US military including my younger sister and her life partner. And my sister was one I'd rather have at my back in any sort of combat.
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Cole and Marmalade, the cats of Chris Poole "Catman Chris" were more accurate in predicting the Superbowl a few years back, which they did by choosing one of two boxes side-by-side with team names on them to sit in. Both in turn chose the same box, and the team on the box won. But that's no better than a hunch bet. Unless that bet is done with any extraterrestrial Abyssinian cat with a fancy magical collar.
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@B0risTheBlade Yes, Werner Von Braun was of the Nazi party. While developing the V2 rocket—a rocket that was thought to be a devastating rocket to Allied powers if used—WWII had ended, and he was brain-drained to the US. He was responsible for the development of the Apollo rockets at NASA. From one source I heard (read?) that Von Braun didn't care whom he worked for; he just wanted to work on his projects. Another Nazi I know about was Eberhard Ernst Hermann Weber. As my Dad told me (Dad worked in the same group as Weber at North American Rockwell) Weber was a member of the Hitler Youth. It was a necessity in order to survive. Otherwise, he as a child would be killed. 😢 So he was siphoned out of Germany, and he ended up in aerospace alongside Dad and Dad's friend, Roy Ayres. (Look this man up in Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.) Weber became an American Citizen in the 1960's, and his group at Rockwell celebrated. We have a picture of him at a desk with signs around him: Joe American Yanqui go home! Post No Bills and a few others. ("Yanqui go home" was a play on "Yankee go home!" often an epithet used by Mexicans who considered parts of the Southwest from Texas to California still theirs. Yankees thus means any white person invading their territory. I'm not sure we ever established our right to claim that territory, but the US claims it and recognizes it as part of USA.) So these are 2 Nazis that were brought to USA. Brain Drained.
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Prime Minister Cromwell, abolisher of Christmas: booooo! Hissssss!
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America supported Chiang Kai Shek, which was counter to the Chinese people's choice. It makes sense to me now why, because in WWII it would undermine Japan's war efforts. As China evolved, though, America's support of him made less and less sense, except that Chiang Kai Shek was in cahoots with the American government and would do our government's bidding. Our government used him to further our agenda in the East. No, it's not right or fair. Once a country's people galvanize to forge their own country, other countries should take their mitts off of their lands. Unrest in the American people who protested American involvement in the Vietnam war and other wars was indicative of this. France should've let go of Vietnam, and America should have pulled out long before 1970.
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Stay home, stay safe, and wash your hands. And healthy at work.
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Isn't it amazing what a person can accomplish by devoting what time they want at a steady pace. This is the kind of work model that works for a number of people
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Hey! Florence Nightingale had a time of it just trying tio get doctors to wash their hangs between patients!
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This is what many graduate students are cheated off about they do the tedious, repetitive work of their research with upper eschalons in science research. Either the tenured professors take full credit, or any research they do in private companies cannot claim patents because these patents are the property of the company by contract with the company. However, like scientists of Hermes and Blue Origin, such information is not lost to these people, and they create new things that can't help but include their expertise garnered from where they worked. It is all that grunt work that leads to breakthroughs. So if you even work at assembly - line work, you are no different from the scientists that bring innovations to the public. Like the medical researcher who dissected heart after human heart to discover an important part and its function, you, in repeating tasks over again can come up with innovations!
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Amazing story! What a tragic life she lived. Interesting she should be discovered soon after a wealthy family became ill. And she became vilified and infamous. And no other carrier seemed to be as notorious as she was. I see the hand of the wealthy in all this, that those with means would have Miss Mallon stopped and shamed and persecuted and jailed and isolated by means of power, authority, or sheer wealth they wielded. And it would have truly been a much different story if she had, say, met with Florence Nightingale who had insisted that Civil War doctors-- wearing aprons as bloodied as a butcher's-- wash their hands between each patient. This along with personal toilet hygiene would have gone far to protect her employers and anyone else. Now we know that keeping cooked and raw meats separate and contaminated surfaces disinfected as well as using gloves protectors restaurant patrons from all manner of disease- causing entities. However, I have seen many more than one food handler wipe their nose with a gloved hand and then use that gloved hand on food b creating possible instances of transferring rhinoviruses to patrons. But most contamination comes from not washing hands before handling foods normally eaten raw, leading to outbreaks of E. coli , recalls of tons of fresh vegetables, and mostly diarrhea in those ininfected. Not since E. coli O157 has there been reported such a wicked outbreak of a deadly form of E. coli . Yet the fear lingers on. All it takes is one person mishandling this food to pass on this contamination. This might be from some workers not being allowed to handle their elimination needs except in the fields where they work. I'm looking at you, Big Ag!
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But a mere application of a small bit of detergent makes all the difference in the world, as it removes the cause of outbreak. When I cut up a lettuce, I put it in water with a drop of detergent and swish it all around. Then I strain the solution and then rinse the lettuce 3 times in the same way, both removing E. coli and the detergent used so that the lettuce well not taste soapy. Works like a charm.
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Single - minded people always lay the groundwork and do the bulk of the repetitive testing in science while the professors claim the discoveries. Unfair to many a poor university research grunt.
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Virginia O'Hanlon is my heroine! And so is the editor of the Sun a hero of mine! I remember my mom and dad said on a number of Christmases that they had to help Santa. It made sense, and that was when I was older. Before that, I had wondered how it was they knew how to play the electronic games Santa gave us. This was when electronic games were rather new in about 1976 or '77: part electrical and mechanical (like my sister's race car game) and part electronics, like my LED baseball game (probably controlled with a simple counter or 2). Game consoles —even Atari —were still a couple of years off.
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Parents clamoring for a vaccine. My dad contracted polio in 1953 at 13 years old. That was when parents were clamoring for a vaccine. My Mom and Dad, in their 20's when they had children, sat on pins and needles till I and my sisters could get the vaccine. My Mom is almost 80 years old, and Dad (who lived to 2001) would have been 81. Mom and Dad were of the clamoring generation. It is quite telling that the generation in their 80's, as a group, demanded the Covid -19 vaccine, and showed up in droves to get it. It seems that a lot of cohorts in between 1953 and today didn't get the message that vaccines have saved and save billions of lives. (millions if you must correct me, but the population worldwide increased by a few billion in that time.)
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"heirs and spares" 😏 dare I laugh?
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