It will work but it's a lot harder to work with.

Since it's your first time attempting to mud and tape drywall I wouldn't make it any harder than need be.

I would swap it out for a bag of 15 or 30 min and a small tub of blue premixed compound.

The bag stuff needs mixed with water and it kicks off in that amount of time. You only use it to put the tape on. The fast dry time lets you get the blue on in the same day and it sticks the tape to the wall better than the lightweight compound. Then a few thin coats of blue to taper it in.

Less is more when mudding drywall. It's better to do 4-5 thin coats to get what you want than globbing it in and having to sand the chit out of it.

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Thanks for the tips.

The weather is decent right now, so I may just wait a few days/weeks and exchange the spackle for real mud. The hole in the wall is ugly but it's not like I'm trying to sell the house right now.

More from my MIT friend:

Hi folks. More about COVID-19.

Now is the time for most of the USA to buckle down and stay home. For the sake of everyone around you. Death rates for the elderly and vulnerable will skyrocket if/when hospitals are overwhelmed (for example, imagine 10% of those over 65 years old dying).

Hospitals in many areas, including Boston and New York, are about a week away from getting completely slammed. When >1/1,000 people in your area have COVID-19, this will send > 1/20,000 people to the ICU (these are very rough ballpark numbers, but give you a sense). Given that people need ICU's for other things, this is about or over what hospitals can handle while giving people good care.

There has clearly been a lot of undiagnosed circulation in the USA. There has been a complete failure of our federal response. Without getting into politics, let's try to save our country with a bottom-up response to limit transmission.

Please:
--Stay away from the ER if you suspect you have COVID-19, unless you are in extreme distress (can't say a full sentence without being out of breath). Talk to your doctor via phone and get tested at a location that minimizes exposure to others.
--Ideally, just stay home. If you have to go out, do not go to parties, concerts, bars, or anywhere where you have more than 10 people in a room, unless you absolutely need to. Don't hang out with friends who are going to crowded areas.
--Maybe pick a few friends to hang out with regularly, and keep it a closed network.
--Order food from restaurants (ones that you trust) to go or for delivery.
--Stay home!! Go for walks in uncrowded areas.
--Take care of yourself.

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Something is up with WV. Not one reported case of the virus. Or they all are dead from it. :icon14:

This kind of put things in place. :rofl2:

True

:iagree:

I am hearing we will know more of where we are in 2 months. This may be the end of Zdayz this year. We shall see. It took 4 months for China to peak and start coming back down.

I think we will know more in 3 weeks on how all of this will play out. Look for food prices to go up. Late planting due to the virus and flooded fields. The fields that need planted now are swamp lands.

Most of my dogs diet consists of real meat. I'm so mad. I was lucky to find some chicken legs... and 5 lbs of ground pork... everything else is sold out.

:rofl2::rofl2:

When we went to walmart last night. All the meat cases was empty. Beef, pork, and chicken, gone. This is why I keep a stock pile of stuff at home. Worst case, I'm good for 3 months.

My order from "My Patriot Supply" should be here next Wednesday. I ordered it back on 2/14. They have a huge demand for their stuff right now. Normally, it's 2 days.

I usually buy meat once a week. Since friday til now, we must've have gone to 10 different stores. They're all empty.

Bongino pushes that stuff

No problems in my area. It's just the bigger cities with all the nut jobs that are having issues.

I normally get Mountain House. But they been cancelling orders lately. So I'm trying Patriot Supply.

Give it time.

Is any of that stuff good? I have serveral cases of MREs.

Mountain House is good. :yum: I haven't tried the other stuff yet. I have a few MRE's too.

With the long lag between exposure and symptoms (and people may be contagious after symptoms disappear), plus the folks that refuse to self-quarantine, it's going to spread. For those of us in rural areas, it may take a little longer to get here, but it will.

As far as people freaking out, that's going on in cities of all sizes. My tiny burg is out of TP and most meats right now. (I can understand the run on meat and other foods, but a roll of TP lasts a long time. You don't need to buy it up by the grocery cart. Get a 24-pack and leave some for others.)

I have a friend that eats take-out a lot. He's thinking about selling paper napkins for $1 a piece on Ebay. Most are plain white but some of them have pretty graphics. Get 'em while they're hot! :)

Some of the stuff I've read last night says we are about 10 to 14 days behind Italy and their issues. It's going to get worse before it gets better. Some of the reports out of Europe is saying the young are getting it too now.

There is a thing called viral load. It's how much infection you get the first time. Say you pick up a few viruses floating around. It will take about 60 hrs before you come down symptoms and your body has a chance to fight back.

Now if someone coughs and you're in the direct path of it. And you get a truck load of viruses. You may only have 4 hrs before you show symptoms. The virus will hit you harder because your body had less time to start fighting it.

I"m not sweating the TP hoarding. I have firearms and ammo, I'll just track down who's hoarding and take what I need....:stirthepot:

Seriously, some of the folks on YT need to chill tf out. Being prepared is a good thing, but continuing to spread information that is not confirmed or is made up, is just criminal. :shakes head::shakes head:

The declaration in Champaign doesn't surprise me, it's Illinois after all... and it's downwind from Chicago, so the manifest stupidity flows south.. :eek:

I'm for good, common sense type of things, but with the level of stupid people out and about, I'm pondering staying home for a couple of weeks and letting Darwinism take its course. It's well past time for the thinning of the gene pool, it's overflowing with idiots that procreate mindlessly.... :icon23:

Confucious say: "Stay strapped or get clapped" :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

The more we quarantine the longer this shìt will take to settle. I'm thinking people with the virus should stand on a street corner and cough on people lined up waiting. Like when parents used to send their kids over to play with that kid down the street who had the measles or chickenpox. That way we can just get it over with.

If we had the medical facilities to handle every one at once, that might not be a bad idea. But we don't, so it's not. "Flatten the curve"

That exactly what we did at the asylum with all the news about the virus!
The warden said lets have all of them infected so we dont have to worry about segregating them.


The next morning we all had a memo “Open season Group hug in the showers” :ugh2:

Exactly. The idea and hope is to "distibute" the hospitalizations over time to a point where our facilities aren't overwhelmed.

Our healthcare infrastructure isn't even close to capable of handling something like this. I wasn't suggesting that we treat people. Let them contract it and then go home. One of two things will happen.

Btw everyone... unless you have explosive diarrhea, you don't need to wrap your hand like you're making a boxing glove out of TP to wipe your âss. Five squares folded properly should be plenty for most bowel movements.

# 3k!

That would be good for the planet but I don't think it's a plan that will garner much support in today's society. But, if the hospital get overwhelmed, there may not be a choice.

:iagree: Most people don't know what's good for them.

Jar I wish we can test everyone to know if one has the virus and treat them to get a vaccine.
Im talking about healthy subjects. But due to Hipa laws and people fearful that may turn out positive be subjected to quarantine in a facility.

Its like testing someone with HIv. Everyone is fearful there name be broadcast as carrier of the virus. Then that whole town where he/she lives will be on lock down.


You think Tom Hanks name will land in the papers if he was tested in the US?

If its CNN probably 90% fake.

This song was so prophetic!!

Now I say Im a believer he has it!!! Lol

In Michigan Just reported: all bars and restaurants to close at 3pm, restaurants carry out only

Just found out that the Vascular office next door had a patient come in last week with a 103 degree fever. They told them to go to the ER, they went home instead.

Im sure they also touched a few surfaces like the elevator button, bathroom door, etc. And they arent letting anyone work from home here...smh..

At least I scored a box of gloves and sanitizing hand wipes to go along with the other stuff I scored last week.

And how does open borders and “free” healthcare for “everyone” going to help?