... talk about anything you like.
The photo shows a mellow western view at 6:32 a.m.
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At the Lunchtime Café...
... talk about anything you like.
The photo shows a mellow western view at 6:32 a.m.
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I've had my first two zoom meetings. You know what I like about them? You know immediately who the nimrods are who don't know how to mute their computer because their names are blazoned across the screen.
An amazing amount of Yard Waste accumulated on the street terraces of Madison over the weekend.
Went to Publix early this AM. The other well trained customers all kept a 6 foot distance with an attitude. Maybe they did not like my smiling in this moment of invisible death. But the store employees liked me and were very cheerful. Just the other customers were the ones scurrying around behind their masks afraid of being breathed on by a happy man. Crazy Days are here.
I took a good long break from corona coverage. I turned on Fox News about an hour ago to see where we're at. Two messages are being hammered home:
-This is the week the dead pile up like cord wood
-We need to stop talking about Hydrochloroquine. There are 'plenty of other drugs that could be promising'.
...back to my news quarantine.
so this tiger king show is crazy, I haven't seen it, but the pitch guys summary suffices,
-This is the week the dead pile up like cord wood
...so "Don’t Go To Grocery Store Or Pharmacy Unless Essential"
If they actually scare a significant number of people away from going to the grocery store or pharmacy, they made it a good time to go to the grocery store or pharmacy.
NYS
Hospital
admissions - discharges
3/23 564
3/24 458
3/25 798
3/26 626
3/27 166
3/28 329
3/29 382
3/30 641
3/31 130
4/1 -135
4/2 -25
4/3 -497
4/4 -1135
4/5 -821
Source: https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus-ny/
I miss my grandson, who is two years and ten months old.
He had been spending two or three days a week with me and my wife.
His parents (my step-daughter and son-in-law) had made reservations for a week in Las Vegas. My wife had obtained that week off from her employer. So, my wife and I would have our grandson for an entire week, and we were looking forward to it.
Then everything changed fast. My step-daughter self-quarantined her home from my wife's and my home. The Las Vegas trip was canceled.
There is no animosity in this situation. It's just that my step-daughter is very afraid of the virus and so is very strict about precautions. She does not want her son or my wife or me to get sick.
My son-in-law owns an electrician business and continues to work.
I too continue to work every day, in the administration of a home-health-care agency.
I really love my grandson, and I miss him. He likes to talk and joke. He made me "exercise" for my heart (walk around with him in our apartment when he wanted more of my attention).
He lives only 15 minutes away, but I can't spend any time with him. I see him on the computer and through the window of his apartment. My step-daughter will not let us even take him for a walk in a park near her apartment.
This situation might continue for many months more. I am sad about this.
"Wise Latina" Sotomayor only dissenting vote in Kansas police stop case. Even Kagan and Ginsburg voted against her.
Could she be the dumbest SC justice ever? I don't think she even reads the cases. Just votes her hard left progressive agenda.
Another Obama accomplishment.
Did a grocery pickup. First time I've seen lots of people walking in and out wearing masks. I saw another guy doing grocery pickup wearing a mask in his car. That was funny. But hey, a guy who wears a mask in his car is probably also wearing one any time he gets out, so good for him.
" I saw another guy doing grocery pickup wearing a mask in his car. That was funny. But hey, a guy who wears a mask in his car is probably also wearing one any time he gets out, so good for him."
The less you handle it, the better. We wore our masks home from the grocery store because we intended to hang them up in the garage for reuse and the less we handled them, the better.
I'm so sorry, Mike.
I related a story the other day about how I saw on a brain-candy police show someone called 911 because a suspicious person was hanging around outside a nursing home. Turned out it was the wife of one of the patients at the facility. He'd had a stroke and was in rehab, and his wife of 68 years was not allowed to visit and was reduced to crossing the lawn to talk to him through the window of his room which she did daily at dinnertime. The officer and the woman both cried.
Someone linked an article pointing out that around 350,000 Americans will die in the next twelve months, most completely unrelated to CV, and what we are experiencing now is what they are experiencing during their last days on earth. Missing weddings, graduations, family dinners, card games, walks in the park, hugs from loved ones. Performances, movies, travel.
I'm not saying we should be taking no precautions. I don't want people introducing a horrible virus into nursing homes. It's just awful, that's all.
Boris Johnson is reportedly in good spirits as he keeps a firm hand on the tiller from his hospital bed. Meanwhile, senior cabinet ministers are at odds about when to sound the All Clear.
Purple haze, but no red sun.
Something remarkable in the state of Ohio:
The Governor, Mike DeWine, is calling out the Ohio National Guard to help in a federal prison. Three prisoners have died there (Elkton prison). Several inmates have symptoms. The Guard will only be helping with medical issues, not security. Normally the Governor wouldn't have jurisdiction, but the Gov called the head of federal prisons and received authority. He also requested that no new prisoners be added.
I voted for DeWine, but never paid him too much attention. He is knocking it out of the park, in my opinion. Same with Dr. Amy Acton and Lt. Gov. Husted. These are heroes of our time.
I made an unplanned trip to Costco today. I expected it to be busy. It's always busy. Today it was very much not busy. The parking lot was maybe half-full. I live in low density, low risk Clackamas County, but I assume people are heeding the warning promulgated by the Feds for this week.
Columbo just arrested Rob Petri! A few days ago he arrested The Man With The X-Ray Eyes and Spock's Wife was there! Small world...
around 350,000 Americans will die in the next twelve months, most completely unrelated to CV,
It's closer to about 10 times that many, ~2.8 million deaths per year in the US.
"The less you handle it, the better. We wore our masks home from the grocery store because we intended to hang them up in the garage for reuse and the less we handled them, the better."
True, but this guy wasn't even going in the store. He was doing pickup, like me, where you pull up, and they load the stuff into your trunk.
Thanks, Ferd. My typo.
Boris Johnson is reportedly in good spirits as he keeps a firm hand on the tiller from his hospital bed. Meanwhile, senior cabinet ministers are at odds about when to sound the All Clear.
He's in the ICU now and, if a ventilator is required, the foreign sec'y will have to assume leadership.
If they actually scare a significant number of people away from going to the grocery store or pharmacy, they made it a good time to go to the grocery store or pharmacy.
Unfortunately, that's what everybody assumes. The stores were packed when I was there. I'm assuming that some of the snowbirds are stocking up for their migration north out of AZ.
Original Mike et al... Hospital in Michigan re-uses masks after they have been exposed to Ultraviolet C lamps. Hanging on a wire in an enclosed box w/the opposing side of box lined w/reflective material. Used for sanitizing heat exchanging coil in furnace duct work. Got mine for $109.00 on amazon complete setup. Works great. Use the portal. Great for allergies when in the duct work.
I completed my adventure out and about without incident. Of the four buses I used, three of them had, noticeably, more passengers than last week's, although they were far from crowded or full. Walmart still had no toilet paper on its shelves but did have paper towel, ramen, and Ricola throat lozenges again. I had to find bandages, 2" by 3", and those were marked one box per customer. There was also a notice that their suppliers' were raising the price of eggs and that, while the good ministers of the Temple of Commerce are refraining from raising their sales price, for the time being, inevitably change will come.
I forgot to look for 'throat care' tea (a tisane made from slippery elm inter alia, really) and so stopped also in the local Safeway where, to my surprise (and unlike at Walmart), very many were wearing masks. The Rite Aid pharmacy where I collected the new antiobiotic capsules had two other customers when I was there; they-- the capsules not the customers-- are an attractive shade of pale green but uncomfortably large.
He's in the ICU now and, if a ventilator is required, the foreign sec'y will have to assume leadership.
I'm just concerned that he might not be getting the hydoxychloroquine for political reasons. Think about if Churchill had not gotten that early sulfa drug in 1942 for his pneumonia. No controlled trials.
Been praying a St Jude Novena, for those interested:
https://www.praywithme.com/may-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-be-adored-glorified-loved-and-preserved-throughout-the-world-now-and-forever.html
Second teenager is arrested in the murder of a doctor and her husband who were found dumped in a ditch at the University of Wisconsin arboretum
Mihael K remarks: I'm just concerned that he might not be getting the hydoxychloroquine for political reasons.
Something like the governor of NV banning its use---except for prisoners? TDS may end up killing more people than COVID-19.
Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight
Non-COVID news: 'Pussy Galore' actress Honor Blackman who has died from natural causes age 94
They are doing it!
The Tesla Ventilator
The ventilator is largely assembled from Tesla Model 3 car parts.
brylun reports: Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight
A black female Democrat, at that. Bet it won't make the 6:00 news.
Battlestar Galactica starts tonight in prime time on Comet. First the mini-series kickoff/pilot, then the regular series.
Meanwhile, Sliders begins today too on Comet, and also Quantum Leap starts again at the beginning.
I saw when she played steed's first sidekick in the early season of the avengers, Patrick macnee was the narrator in the pilot, later count iblis,
Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight
A black female Democrat, at that. Bet it won't make the 6:00 news.
As more Dems, etc. have positive outcomes with hydroxychloroquine, they are going start telling the Dem leadership and MSM to fuck-off -- they would rather have Trump and live than revel in the usual anti-Trump bile and not live.
Started.
Meanwhile, word is that the Dem's big electoral strategy is to blast Trump for tanking the economy.
FYI - this just in from Detroit Free Press:
"LANSING — A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.
State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18.
"It was less than two hours" before she started to feel relief, said Whitsett, who had experienced shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, and what felt like a sinus infection. She is still experiencing headaches, she said."
Would ya lookitthat??
Fuck everyone with TDS. Y'all will be forgotten by history, as will your shrill communist leadership and your dementia-addled candidate.
Ahhh, Mark beat me to it!
My message still stands. Fuck everyone with TDS. I hope y'all get coughed on by a sickly pangolin that just kissed a dying bat in a drain puddle outside the Wuhan biolab.
I'm a FedEx pilot, and have been flying pretty much non-stop for the last several weeks.
Last week was four nights of Houston-Indy-Houston. Virtually the only callsigns I heard were UPS or FedEx. The airfield notices for Houston mention lots of closed taxiways — on account of they are chock-a-block with parked jets.
This week is four nights of SLC-OAK-SLC. Decided I couldn't trust the passenger airlines to get me to SLC, or back at the end of the trip. Beautiful drive from Boise, even if it was on my own dime, with 900 added for doing 93 in an 80 zone. Having recently returned from nearly five years in Germany, it seems my eyeballs need recalibrating.
Three weeks of being under virtual hotel-arrest isn't as much fun as you might think.
My last flight is Friday. I turn 65, the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots, Monday.
Hell of a way to go out.
Mark: "Meanwhile, word is that the Dem's big electoral strategy is to blast Trump for tanking the economy."
It will be a 2-pronged attack.
Trump purposely tanked the economy AND Trump murdered American citizens.
The dems aren't even being subtle about it.
Hey Skipper: it is a hell of a way to go out; good luck!
My plan was to work through June; currently furloughed, so we'll see...
I did the pick-up at Walmart today looking less than fetching in my blue and pink floral hajab. Did fast food while I was out.
What effect will our turning to unfamiliar brands in this time of scarcity have when we get back to normal? Will non-conglomerates see improved business, you think?
It's one thing for Republicans and conservatives to reject the anti-Trump Dem strategy.
What I'm saying is that there will come a point where DEMOCRATS themselves will condemn that talk because of positive outcomes with hydroxychloroquine.
"Meanwhile, Sliders begins today too on Comet, and also Quantum Leap starts again at the beginning."
Watching Quantum Leap. I'm puzzled that the scan format appears to be 16:9.
"My last flight is Friday. I turn 65, the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots, Monday.
Hell of a way to go out."
I'll say. Good luck in retirement!
Hey Skipper, congratulations and good luck.
Tomcc:
Sorry to hear that. I have a couple of those furlough t-shirts in my closet.
Trump would do everyone a big favor if he declared hydroxychloroquine a hoax. Then maybe it would be taken seriously as a remedy.
President just finished -- up there an hour and a half talking and answering questions.
Yeah, I don't know how they convert those 4x3 shows to 16:9 without distortion. Maybe they are cutting the edges?
I've seen other non-HD channels display a 4x3 in 16:9, but without any adjustment and everything is stretched out or squashed down.
Hey Skipper: thanks, but it's all fine; I'm using the furlough as a "practice" retirement.
If this had happened 20 years ago, I'd be crapping bricks.
Quantum Leap had a rather bittersweet series end.
Well, that is lunchtime for ducks.
it was set in 1999, when it was presumed that we would have an operational time machine, the producer was the assistant to archangel on air wolf, even though don bellisario, of magnum fame was the show runner,
after everywhere and everywhen, he had been, where could they go.
Deborah pratt who was the co executive producer, was the voice of the computer, and the show's narrator,
You FOOLS!
Don't you know that if you create mechanical beings to serve you that eventually they will become sentient and rebel and KILL YOU???
And in walks Six.
The question is -- just exactly how long have the Cylons been walking around in the colonies?
Ann's November 2016 vote is, again, noted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9jrxQDqPpM&ebc=ANyPxKrGwp6gPFdKWMX9xsnFzul8wVONPNGJPp7mETRwrTbXKwa6DW_vnEYyQyvqAIerYNvGEVcUsxCjM2-DlyFXWVi3HQ2xmw
Its been 40 years since the last war, when adama was a junior officer. They developed the skills to camouflage themselves.
The deep embeds are the key to determining the time line.
So, did Six snap the baby's neck out of malice or to save the child from the imminent attack?
Tcrosse suggests: Trump would do everyone a big favor if he declared hydroxychloroquine a hoax. Then maybe it would be taken seriously as a remedy. .
Yep. ;-)
Meanwhile, on the other channel --
E Plebnista.
That vietnam analogy gets tiring over time, although it could have been tibet or raiwan.
I1MMR in Genoa Italy is still there (7026.5) right now. Apparently a survivor.
Q: Is Boris getting the Trump nostrum?
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