balzaccom
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Post by balzaccom on Apr 2, 2020 21:18:45 GMT -8
Daveg, That my favorite post of the week. Thank you. What a little sweetheart!
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Apr 3, 2020 10:34:32 GMT -8
About a week ago I donated a chunk of money to a local food bank. I haven't spoken with them since, but based on these examples from around the country it looks like it's already time to do so again.
At one food pantry in Central Texas, the queue of cars waiting to pick up boxes of food stretches a quarter-mile. In Dayton, Ohio, the line extends about a mile. In Pittsburgh, it’s miles, plural, as families wait hours so they won’t go hungry. Across the country, one of the less visible parts of the social safety net — tens of thousands of food pantries and food banks — is starting to fray. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-next-threat-hunger-in-america/2020/04/02/cde04dfa-7525-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html
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mk
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Post by mk on Apr 3, 2020 10:56:32 GMT -8
Thanks for the photos daveg. Babies are the best - and I hear that grand babies are better than the best. It's a scary time for parents to be bringing home newborns, but it's so good to have happy news. Congrats again.
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mk
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Post by mk on Apr 3, 2020 11:17:41 GMT -8
Thanks for the reminder that a lot of people are struggling to eat reuben. Donation made.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Apr 3, 2020 11:43:06 GMT -8
Thanks for the reminder that a lot of people are struggling to eat reuben. Please don't eat me yet. I'm still alive. But you can have all of the reuben sandwiches you'd like.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Apr 3, 2020 12:28:28 GMT -8
Cuomo has deployed the National Guard to seize ventilators and PPE from Upstate NY hospitals. www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/04/new-cuomo-order-forces-hospitals-to-give-up-ventilators-protective-equipment-to-state.htmlMake no mistake... they are not being shared... they are being forcibly taken. They will still be in use when the virus is expected to peak Upstate. They aren't going to unhook a patient in NYC because an Upstate hospital wants their ventilator back. Oh, and he continues to ship infected patients to Upstate hospitals. Yet, no travel restrictions to/from NYC. Those who can are fleeing the City, to Upstate summer homes or hotels.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Apr 3, 2020 15:04:25 GMT -8
I avoid shopping like the scourge that it is, but I ran across an article with a picture of a local shopping mall.
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rangewalker
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Post by rangewalker on Apr 3, 2020 16:43:09 GMT -8
Taking a weekend walk or hike on a week day is more likely as working at home I tend to put in longer hours and may start up on a Sunday if the weather takes a dump. And there is no more burger at the diner or A roadhouse on the way home. And we do not talk about the next week at day's end 'cause it is no longer certain it may be allowed or smart. Tramping in the first snow of April. Stay fit and safe
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Post by bradmacmt on Apr 3, 2020 17:14:31 GMT -8
Yup. My wife and I went for a long walk this past Sunday...
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Post by bcpete on Apr 3, 2020 18:27:50 GMT -8
My wife & I have been fortunate in that we live in a pretty quiet part of BC, and we've been able to get out for a snowshoe everyday this week (it's been nicely chilly this week also, so perfect conditions with blue skies). Yesterday we came across the tracks that a pack of 10 wolves laid down!!! Absolutely incredible. We followed their path down our route (old discontinued forest service road) for about 5 kms total. It was quite a learning experience to see how they fan out at certain times, and then regroup in more open spaces. We inspected about 8 decent piles of poop along the way also. A couple of take-a-ways from yesterday ... wolves definitely prefer to walk their own track when conditions are good for it - they fan out a lot. They seem to like to roll in snow quite a bit also - probably a cleaning thing like polar bears. Finally, when I started to think about what an awesome hunting machine 10 wolves are, I admit to getting a little nervous about meeting them! This from a guy who has had about 30 close grizzly encounters over the years.
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Post by autumnmist on Apr 3, 2020 19:55:03 GMT -8
rangewalker and bradmacmt , your photos are so serene and lovely in a thread and time of so much unsettling activity.
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Post by daveg on Apr 3, 2020 19:59:56 GMT -8
It's a scary time for parents to be bringing home newborns Yeah. Michigan has a lot of COVID-19 cases. Most are concentrated in the Detroit area; only about 130 cases have been confirmed in the tri-county area where we and my daughter live. But she's a doctor at a hospital located about two hours north of Detroit. If we start getting a surge of cases in our area, she may need to go back to work sooner than planned. Understandable, but one more reason for her parents to worry about her and her family's safety.
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Post by tigger on Apr 3, 2020 23:22:56 GMT -8
Never in my life did I think.... Someone knocked on my door. I opened the door and nobody was there. There was a single wrapped roll of TP on the doormat from a local church as a donation with "You've been TP'ed" on it. I looked around and saw nobody....paused, and then shut the door. I grabbed a Lysol wipe and went back out, wiped the door and then proceeded to pick up the TP roll carefully with the wipe, took it inside to the kitchen. I proceeded to wash my right hand while holding the TP in my left hand. The phone rings...but I'm not willing to lose the TP, so I continue. I take off the wrapper with my dirty hand and carefully threw the wrapper in the trashcan without touching it. Then, I went back and washed both hands and the trash can lid...just in case. All for a single free roll...of TP.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Apr 4, 2020 4:29:15 GMT -8
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Post by BigLoad on Apr 4, 2020 12:23:13 GMT -8
NJ is still doubling every 4 days on average, although according to the governor's press conference, two counties are doubling in 24 hours. It's getting harder to determine what's really happening because the delay on test results is up to 6-9 days. That also means we're on the brink of disaster, because they're triaging based on positive tests, so some people won't get treatment until they've been sick for 6-9 days or more.
On a more personal note, my facility has been closed for 10 days I've been working around the clock to establish requirements, modified seating and lab occupancy plans, schedules and cleaning protocols to allow limited reopening to do the parts of our work that can't be done from home. It's been exhausting and the objective and constraints have been changing faster than we can update the plan, but we're on the home stretch. Hopefully it will preserve a bunch of jobs, but only time will tell.
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