Pretty obvious topic for today: no sports to distract us from life, so how are you coping/staying sane/surviving? Any tricks you can share? Distractions that work best?
Have at it in the comments.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Going to work as normal. Life hasn’t changed a whole lot down here in PCB, FL.
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Not even an influx of students for Spring Break?
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We don’t really get the mass influx of Spring Breakers any longer since our local government decided to change directions and not promote college spring break. Now they go to Miami which is fine with us!
We do get some of them but nothing like the hundreds of thousands we used to get 5+ years ago before the tougher drinking laws were enacted.
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I saw where Seaside closed their beaches. 🤦♂️
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I hope they are open by the end of May.
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Your in PCB? I’m on the other side of the Hathaway. Live close the the college
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Well I finally got some TP. I felt bad knocking that little old lady aside but you know sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do.
Stay safe peeps.
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I understand,sir. Anything to keep from breaking into the bunkered C-rat cartons for those little squares you can’t spare.
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1) Reading and commenting on GTP – thanks, Senator!
2) Trying to be productive in the home office – #1 is affecting that
3) Trying to stay off social media – getting tired of people preaching at me about what I should be doing … it’s making me challenge who & what I have on my timeline
4) Not tuning into local or cable news and the radio
5) We’re cooking more as a family especially at night
6) After everyone is finished with their commitments for the day, we’re sitting down to watch a movie on Disney+ or Netflix and still keeping our nightly appointment with Alex Trebek
7) Reading a real book – for you Disney Parks’ fans, I would definitely suggest picking up Disney’s Land about the construction of Disneyland
8) If we don’t watch a movie, we’re playing a board/card games
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good list, wish we all would not watch the news (24/7)….especially these 24 hour ones.
One time a day for me….not continuously.
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Deactivated my social media accounts for Advent this year. I never reactivated them. The ratio of useful information vs utter, time- and energy-wasting garbage just doesn’t justify ever going back. I’d recommend to anyone who asks to at least give a 30-day deactivation a try.
We’re using Facebook live for stuff from our church and for our kids to keep up their Spanish (they’re in an immersion school), but fortunately you don’t need an account for that stuff.
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I’m probably going to reduce the number of non-friend type of accounts I follow. I started using social media as a way to keep up with people’s lives.
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I discovered long ago, that unless I’m super interested, I don’t follow any pages. Too much junk.
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I hear you man. I managed to stay off twitter for a year then got back on for some reason… facebook has been gone for ages. I never left Insta, but I find I’m using it less anyway. I need to delete twitter, too. At this point, it’s just rage inducing without the daily sports upkeep.
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I removed all friends from my Facebook after hurricane Michael. What few real connections I have will text or call. It turned into a good decision. I dont use Twitter.
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working out like a mofo (from home), it helps.
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Brown Likker.
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Been helping folks cope for a few hundred years…
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The Senator approves.
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I feel much better after getting this news https://www.facebook.com/explorecalco/posts/194922465183725
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Doing the great purge of unneeded stuff.
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Having nine people over tomorrow for happy hour. Going to stay six feet away from each other and drink corona light on my front porch.
Media (as usual) is focused on gloom, despair, and misery. Unless your older or high risk, this is being blown out of proportion.
My biggest problem is that my company “retired” me last September. So I’ve already binge watched most everything!
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“Unless your older or high risk, this is being blown out of proportion.”
I hope so – better safe than sorry – but just because you aren’t high risk doesn’t mean you can’t get it and transmit it and not even know you did it. The social distancing/closures/quarantines is all about stalling the spread and giving the hospitals, etc. time to get ready. If everybody got sick at one time, there would be a lot of deaths, and that would probably include some young, low-risk folks.
But thanks for your concern for us older folks. 😉
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I’m “older” as well……just not that old 🙂
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I’m 59, so I’m safe until birthday in November.
If I didn’t own a TV, I would be thinking this was a beautiful spring after that wet winter.
Cautious, but living life (on a prayer).
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It is the younger ‘healthy’ folks with minimal symptoms that often spread the virus without even realizing it. That’s the danger of not taking social isolation seriously.
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They don’t give a fuck.
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Really? My college age daughter is home and very concerned about others. She’s devastated about missing her last 2 months of her 2nd year at Georgia. My recent graduate is crushed about losing her job at Walt Disney World and having to leave a ton of friends she made in Orlando.
They have an appreciation for why some of this is necessary.
There are times to extend a little grace to people … this is probably one of them.
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Oh I’m sure. There are lots of young folks who are with the program. A drive down Milledge this morning also had nice big trashed frat yard from last night.
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I saw last night 86% of people dont know they have it. I thought a month ago this thing was spread much further than we realize. Still do. Been following this thing since January.
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Learning new ways to workout and stay fit at home. Using delivery services for beer.
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watching old Dead shows on youtube on my 3rd screen while I “work”.
4/17/72
Me And Bobby McGee
Chinatown Shuffle
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Jack Straw
He’s Gone
Next Time You See Me
One More Saturday Night
It Hurts Me Too
Ramble On Rose
El Paso
Big Railroad Blues
Truckin’
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
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I’ve been listening to Dead shows on archive.org. Working my way through ’73 now. Saving ’70, ’71, and ’77 for last.
Some folks trust to reason
Others trust to might
I don’t trust to nothing
But I know it come out right.
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I can tell your future
Just look what’s in your hand. . .
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Hot as a pistol
But cool inside …
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Love the Dead’s cover of “Okie from Muskogee.” A genuinely good cover that’s also good for a laugh.
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Huh … I’ve never heard that number. That was probably in the “Mama Tried” – Live era?
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You got it. “Mama Tried” and “Sing Me Back Home.” They played “Okie” at three shows in ’71.
Bob Weir: “When [Merle] came out with ‘Okie from Muskogee,’ I had a pretty strong suspicion that he was laughing all the way to the bank. I had a pretty strong suspicion that he was smoking pot on the back of his tour bus and he came up with a character, and as a writer, as a storyteller — and a singer is storyteller, any artist is a storyteller, first and foremost — he is painting a picture of a character and it resonated with a lot of folks. But that was not a statement of who he was, and I did not suspect it was. And I read in later interviews with him that, like I said, they were laughing all the way to the bank with that one. As a writer you don’t know why this character presents himself to you and lets you color him in, and you don’t even ask why, you just go with it.
I was in my early 20s when the song came out, but I knew instinctively that was what he was doing, and so when I was listening to it on the radio, I was living with that character as he was letting the character express himself on the recording. I wasn’t being judgmental about why is he writing this kind of stuff. I don’t judge other writers by what they write about, what stories they choose to tell, because a writer often doesn’t have that choice. What comes IS what comes.”
(https://www.jambase.com/article/grateful-dead-cover-3-merle-haggard-songs-show-1971)
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Dirty old hippies.
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Yeah, I’m 99% Okie, 1% hippie (got some tie-dye running shorts)–but man, I love the Dead.
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You rang?
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sheriff he cant catch me, but his little girl sure wish she could
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What a great song, minus the Donna wail.
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Those early 77 shows are smokin hot.
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I like Labor Day – Englishtown, NJ ’77.
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Got a favorite? Recommendations welcome. I’ve listened to the Dead since college (graduated in ’04) but only recently started paying attention to the ways they changed over the years. Used to just pick shows at random.
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5/8/77 is frequently mentioned as a fan favorite; Scarlet>Fire and Morning Dew are top notch versions.
I actually prefer the next night’s show from Buffalo, especially Comes a Time. Do yourself a favor: put on some headphones in a dimly lit room, close your eyes, & check it out. That’s twelve minutes of pure bliss to me.
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Will do. Appreciate it. Love “Comes a Time.”
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5/8/77 is frequently picked as a fan favorite; Scarlet>Fire and Morning Dew are top notch versions.
I actually prefer the following night’s show from Buffalo, especially Comes a Time. Do yourself a favor: put on headphones in a dimly lit room, close your eyes, & check it out. That’s nearly twelve minutes of pure bliss to me.
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I like it so much I had to post twice.
Also, I’ve been up since 4:30…
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“Citizens of Boise, submit or perish for you are a conquered people” > Wangdang Doodle > Jack Straw
if you want an underrated ’80 show.
https://archive.org/details/gd83-09-02.sbd.unk.2174.sbeok.shnf
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Get some rest!
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https://archive.org/details/gd1977-02-26.sbd.cantor.deibert.83283.flac16
First terrapin station and estimated prophet.
Show from the Fox in Atlanta
https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-18.sbd.murphy.5596.sbeok.shnf
and what many consider to be the best dead show
https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.ecm33p.moore.berger.miller.117026.flac16
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The Grateful Dead Movie is fun.
“Filmed during the Grateful Dead’s 1974 tour, Leon Gast’s iconic documentary features Gary Gutierrez’s hallucinatory animation interspersed with concert footage of the band performing classics such as “Truckin’,” “Stella Blue,” “Casey Jones,” and “Sugar Magnolia.” Filmmaker Gast–who went on to lens the acclaimed HELL’S ANGELS FOREVER (1983) and the Oscar-winning WHEN WE WERE KINGS (1996)–also goes behind the scenes with the band and interviews many fans in an ambitious effort to capture the complete Dead experience.”
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Mostly normal but keeping an eye on the markets…hang on….ohhh, that’s a big drop…as I was saying…wait…whew! Back up some now….oh crap…there it goes…ok,ok, stabilizing…so anyway, I’m….Ahhhgggggggg!!!!!!!!!!
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Really happy that we broke the contract on a house purchase last week and have a nice down payment sitting in a savings account.
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According to Curbed.com, Atlanta this week is starting to resemble ____ ____________ _______ .
A – a ghost town.
B – a zombie apocalypse. or
C – a functional city.
Of course, their answer is C.
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Like most, trying to stick to a routine of work, working out, spending time with family, and whittling down that bottomless honey-do list. Have read two books already- one for pleasure, and the other for professional development. Oh- and brown likker. 😉
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Working from “home”… which is actually the in-laws three houses down the street. I have four kids under 8-years old at home, so can’t get much done there!
We go for walks/bike rides a lot. Doing yard work, house work.
In the evenings we’ve watched some TV, but not much.
Kids are rarely allowed any screen time. But during this time when we’re not leaving the house we’re allowing some. We watched a Mahalia Jackson DVD the other night. We’re practically Mennonites (to tell by the reaction by our friends and family), so games with the kids is always popular. UNO, Stratego, Trouble, Blokus, Jenga, and Skip-Bo are favorites with the older two boys (5yo and 7yo). The 3yo son plays UNO only. Other than that he just destroys stuff or “reads” books (looks at pictures) and the baby girl slobbers over everything and grunts.
Right now, for games, my wife and I enjoy Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, Blokus, Cribbage, Monopoly Deal.
Wife reads around 60-80 books a year. I was already trying to read more this year to try to match her total — through February I’d read seven books — but now I’m reading even more. Almost finished with Spiritual Depression by Martyn Lloyd-Jones and The Pilgrim’s Progress (part 1 and 2) by John Bunyan. About to start Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. She says it’s GREAT! I read his Deep Work last month. Ha. Wish I could adopt more of his deep work methods….
The only sports I watch are March Madness and college football, so I’m disappointed the bball tourney is cancelled. Oh well.
I’m about to drop $10k on a roof replacement that’s about two years over-due. Beginning to wonder if I shouldn’t hold on to the cash…. just in case…..
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Insurance paid for my roof replacement in December, even though we didn’t have any leaks. I was floored the insurer would pay for everything – Actually overpaid since the check I received covered the new roof cost and my deductible. I suggest you get the roof checked by your insurer and a few pros before shelling out from your pocket. Assuming you have insurance.
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My problem is my insurance almost wouldn’t even insure my home because they knew the roof was in such poor shape three years ago when I bought the house. The issue was they sent someone out to check out the house, and they noted the shingles were curling…. and then neither I nor the seller could guarantee the roof was under 20-years old. (The seller couldn’t remember when it was done and had no record…. due to my own sleuthing I determined early-to-mid-90s, meaning it was 22-25 years old).
All that to say, they’re not paying for my new roof. lol
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Work in IT, so as long as I have a laptop and wifi at the homestead, it’s work as usual.
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I tackled another two chapters of “Blood Meridian”. I figured to make it interesting by turning it into a drinking game: Have a drink every time McCarthy used a different adjective to describe desert flora. At least I think it was two chapters. When I came to, my wife had written what turned out to be the number for a rehab center on my forearm with a sharpie.
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Yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of McCarthy but love westerns. You’ve probably read Elmore Leonard (all his western stories in one Library of America volume, and the Raylan Givens series) but if not–he’s my candidate for GOAT.
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E.L. is the bomb.
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Turkey hunting my ass off if I can make it to Saturday…
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Finally reorganizing and cleaning out all the corners of the house we’ve been meaning to do forever, since it’s now our workplace and classroom in addition to home.
Daily calling my mother in law and some older church friends just to keep them company.
Exploring grocery delivery apps finally. Not afraid to go to the store, but went on a 4 store hunt for instant yeast the other day. Might as well hunt online. We’re all sold out of yeast in Asheville, y’all. I would guess that means everyone is now going to become a bread baker.
Coming up with a bucket list of meals to tackle in the kitchen and on the smoker.
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You can make passable wine with it, too…
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I keep yeast around all the time, different kinds for different purposes. Maybe I’m weird but there are a few things I always grab when I go to the grocery.: A couple of packs of or a jar of yeast, a bag of dried beans, a bag of rice, and some sort of canned meat. It adds maybe 10 bucks to the total bill but I’ve ended up with a very well stocked food pantry. When all this came down I just shopped like normal.
Speaking of bread I did a sourdough starter over the holidays. It takes some practice, but you can make some seriously kick ass bread once you get it figured out. No yeast required, just a little time and patience.
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Let mine go last year and been meaning to restart it. Good time for that.
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I wonder if using something like a true sourdough starter somehow helps with immunity.
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King Arthur Flour (online) has yeast and at decent prices.
I ordered some online the other day. Had it in 3 days.
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My wife swears by King Arthur Flour and their recipes. I eat well (too well) at my apartment with her.
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I’ve worked remote from a home office my entire career, so no changes professionally for me; though my onsite client meetings now are mostly Zoom/virtual ones. As for the virus, I’m still fairly young and in great health, so I’m not concerned much at all given the mortality rates for those under the age of 70. However, I’ve strongly suggested that my parents – both in their 70’s – to self-isolate for the time being.
Let’s not forget that the Swine Fle (H1N1) infected 65m Americans and killed 16.5K back in ’09-10, yet literally nobody remembers this whatsoever. A typical flu season? 30-70K deaths in the U.S.. I predict Covid will ultimately kill less than 16K; perhaps substantially less. Let’s also not forget that heart disease kills 1800+ Americans EVERY DAY; Cancer roughly 1600+ daily, so the cynical side of me continues to me amazed just how much we are prioritizing this. People are afraid to leave their homes except to get takeout American garbage food, which literally is a deadly, silent killer.
From a financial standpoint, this is a huge buying opportunity, and I’m personally loading up on Marriott and Boeing stock, along with a few funds. Marriott and Boeing were at 147 and 347 last month; both currently are trading at 52 and 101 respectively. Even if both drop even further, at some point they will bounce back, and down the road I expect to reap the benefits accordingly.
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That is a truism of capitalist market fundamentals. But why specifically Marriott?
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Marriott is the largest hotel chain in the world with plenty of cash on hand. They are well run and, without going into specifics, I’ve done some work with them and know them well. Remember, this isn’t a fundamental setback for Marriott but rather an event none of us saw coming. And when the virus subsides, Marriott will roar back again.
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I would say the same for Disney in particular. Sure, there’s going to be short-term pain (my daughter’s program abruptly ended this weekend), but their businesses have solid fundamentals and still a brand-loyal following.
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Correct. Along those same lines, Live Nation (Ticketmaster, etc.) is another stock I absolutely love at $24 that just 3 weeks ago was trading at $76. Perhaps this stock sinks further down to the teens, but at some point a massive rebound will happen once we get back on track.
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Good one, 3&G. Given my job, it’s really hard for me to invest in individual companies due to restrictions, but it’s definitely a time to be getting in rather jump off.
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For someone who takes such an evident interest in numbers and good investments I’m shocked that you predict the total death toll in US from Covid-19 will be LESS thank 16k.
I’m taking all of this very seriously because of how certain foreign governments have responded….specifically, the response of world leaders not given to over-reaction and/or taking their cues from Western alarmists. China and Iran, for instance, aren’t given to tanking their economies and stoking already growing crises of confidence in their totalitarian leaderships all because some Americans are “over-reacting”.
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To be clear, I’m an optimist at heart and strongly believe in American exceptionalism. So feel free to take my prediction with a huge grain of salt. However, I’m utterly fascinated by this and have noticed how new cases in places like China and S. Korea are on the decline, and I think we too can experience the same in the coming weeks. Dr. Fauci also said he hopes we reach our peak around May 1st, followed by a decline in new cases.
If…IF these come into play, then yes perhaps 16K or less is on the table. After all, China, with 3-4X our population and being the epicenter, currently is sitting at 3200 deaths, with just a few new deaths in the past week. Sure, maybe this goes on to kill 500K+ Americans…but my chips are on those numbers being far less.
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The last week has been a huge turn around. The better we do on the front end, the faster we get back to near-normal.
But we lost 4 weeks getting there, and in that time this thing probably grew 4x to 5x.
I hope you are right. Or wrong, but in the right direction 🙂
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New moon is Tuesday. Crappie are biting. I’m looking forward to a Zatarain’s blackened crappie filet sammich with lettuce and Duke’s mayo.
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Now we are talking. Jealous
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I’m settling. Would rather drive down to the Emerald Coast for a long weekend catching reds and trout. I simply can’t do it as I don’t recover well enough to perform the easiest job I ever had.
Call the waaahmbulance.
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My SO was losely looking for a boat. Now with work changes for the country post poned UFN. Now she just texted “might have to go look [at a boat]” I just need a house to paint. Lol.
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Trying to home school 2 elementary school aged kids while working remotely. I couldn’t watch sports even if they were on.
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anyone else a little concerned about China cutting off our drug supply?
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Maybe the pharmaceutical behemoths will be forced into doing some good humanitarian acts now.
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Yeah because one thing the Chinese govt is known for is humanitarian acts
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Talking about US pharma Cos. bro.
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I’ve been concerned about China making our drugs or active agents for several years. Marco Rubio been on it but no support or interest. It’s a national security issue.
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Till up your lawn and plant an organic garden while making sure to place a fence around it to keep the animals out. Recommend an all-organic one using mushroom compost. Dig the lawn up, have mushroom compost delivered and till it in. Get peanut or other hay bales/rolls and cover the mixed earth. Grow your sets up to 4-5 inches, spread a place in the hay and plant them suckers. The hay prevents weed growth and retains water to slowly get to plant without plant erosion occurring due to the new and soft soil. Get a cooler of beer, a deck chair, lay back and watch your garden grow with a good book.
Using 4′ x 8′ lattice as fencing can make it beautiful and we place two gates on ours (garden planted after Michael took our trees); one for our entry from the house and one to let neighbors and friends visit. The chicken pen is handy to keep our garden on a Miracle Grow footing by mixing a few inches of chicken manure in a 5-gal bucket to get a slurry of N-rich goodies that is mixed initially into soil prep and used periodically as a fine spray on the top of the hay so as to permit small fertilizer additions after each watering.
Plant plenty and when you harvest, greet your new Bulldog friends. We fly a “G” flag in ours.
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Nice
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My district closed school to the kids, but is allowing teachers to come in and work, they are allowed to bring their children. Food service is distributing breakfast and lunch along the bus routes to those who need it, and that subject deserves it’s own post. I am shocked at how many kids in the year 2020 get their only decent meals from a school cafeteria. Administrative staff is still required to work. We on the facilities side are using the break to make necessary repairs and improvements, while custodial does a full on disinfecting and deep clean. I’m working just like normal. My wife, OTOH, is working from home. Thank goodness we stocked up on Chardonnay or I would have to hide the steak knives.
Socially? My Mother and Mother in law have the same birthday and we had a big to-do planned to celebrate their 70th, which we postponed until further notice. I still go to my gym, there’s a half dozen of us old guys that lift together and I’m not willing to give it up. Before anyone freaks out I shower and sanitize immediately after. We gave up dinners out and trips to the local watering hole.
i caught a dry day and got a spot plowed for a sizable garden this year. I’m looking forward to that. Between what we have in the freezer and what I’ve canned and cured we could make it easily until the next harvest/ hunting season. Thanks to the “Old People” (Grands and Great Grands) who taught me how to do that.
All my hobbies (other than the gym) are outside and don’t require me to be around people, which is good. Got Sr. and I practice social distancing by not reaching into the cooler at the same time.
The Spaniel found a covey of the quail I’ve been putting out Saturday while we were doing a walkabout. She pointed, I said “Get in there” , she flushed t and then looked at me with genuine hurt in her eyes when I didn’t shoot one for her to fetch. Note to self: Don’t confuse the dog….
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I too have still been going to the gym and I have to say that it is invaluable for my sanity despite having to listen to everyone and their mother tell me that it’s not a good idea. I have always been super clean at the gym so it’s not a change for me.
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Getting ready to teach high-school English from home. “Distance learning,” they call it. They’ve got the distance part right; we’ll see about the learning.
Just for fun reading a great maritime adventure story–“In Hazard,” by Richard Hughes. Next up: “The Siege of Krishnapur.”
Watching old UGA games on Youtube, as always.
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On a positive note, the bees and bumblebees are all over our orange and tangerine trees as well as lemon, pomelo and calamondin (the wife grows them all). Her papaya tree with the most fruit (about 50 that are over a foot long) was a holdover from last year that didn’t see enough cold to affect it. Global warming has changed So Ga/ No Fl from a temperate zone to semi-tropical such that we may experiment this year with a few more fruit trees that don’t usually make it through winter.
Plant more trees, period! It will help in the CO2 reduction needed more and more each day to make up for the vast amounts of CO2 and methane released near the poles and the loss of tree in the Amazon.
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I like this because regardless of global warming arguments, there are things we can all do to help and agree upon. My SO and I have wanted to plant a few fruit trees. Bay county, FL here
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You may take a look at native fruiting trees down there. Agriculture extension services can help as well as plant research extensions from UF. They both have Master Gardeners that a friend of mine told me about before he passed away. In his yard, he had plum, pawpaw and other native Florida fruiting plants plus blueberry and other grafted plants. My friend lived on L. Talquin below Quincy and had a yard that was visited by many gardening professionals and that included 3 types of tangerines, several differing orange trees, lemon (Myers) and many varieties that grew well down in your area.
Bay Co almost qualifies as a tropical zone now. Haven’t looked in a while, but his professional site was Floridata.com and he discusses many plants as a site visited by professionals in your and the central Fl area. Good luck.
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Bees are all over my blueberry bushes. I can’t grow veggies too much shade.
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If it weren’t for you Senator and this blog I’d be driving through Athens in Mudcat’s car looking for Penn Wager’s. Unfortunately that 88 Chevrolet is as dead as Wager’s career.
I can’t seem to find the heart to turn on the TV till after dinner so other than a golf round or two ( when it’s not raining ) I’am trying to care for my Mom who’ll turn 90 in October. She instills knowledge in me long forgotten as she turned a teenager during WW2. We forgot about gas rationing where you could only buy 3-4 gallons on days that you had a alphabet sent to you. If you had “C” you could only buy gas on a Thursday. That is if you had a car. Most times the gas was needed for the tractor. She said they were lucky if grandma and grandpaw went to town on Saturday. They’d get a orange or peppermint candy. She had to go milk the cows instead of going to the grocery and grandmother made the best rolls and cornbread ever on a wood cook stove. Sometimes they had rice and home made jelly biscuits for breakfast. Lunch was biscuits and tomatoes or fatback. Dinner was beans and onions, taters and sometimes a slab of ham from the smokehouse. Grandpaw raised 6 children on a tobacco crop. Every spring he’d go to the bank and get a loan on a handshake with no paper. When school started in late September after the crop came in he’d pay the loan off and all 6 kids would get to go to town and get new shoes. How many pairs of shoes you got in your closet ? Somehow in this world we have made a living but forgot how to have a life.
My grandfather passed away at 99 having served in WW1. He had a lung condition from mustard gas while in France. ( while in his early ninety’s he’d sneak out to the barn where he kept a pack of unfiltered Camels and draw one down )Tuesday St. Patrick’s day which marked my grandma’s passing 30 years ago. She never did care for the electric stove and kept the wood burning stove on the back porch were she used it regularly till the last days she could stand.
“ Endeavor to persevere” Chief Dan George
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Lot of that food still sounds good
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Buff, I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with my great grandparents (born around 1900) and my Grandparents (1925-29) I remember my GGF salting hams and the smokehouse he hung them in. I also remember how good they were to eat. I’m a foodie of sorts, and the way they handled preserving what they grew I’ve always found fascinating.
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If you go to CVS and buy a Snickers, they will print out a 4 foot receipt. TP problem solved.
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I am a primary care physician and also emergency room physician. I am at work as usual these days. Busy. Mostly, trying to speak good advice and settle down fears of patients. It’s walking a fine line between trying to speak truth to those that think this is all a big overreaction vs. trying to speak truth to those that are in a near-panic. We will all get through this, though. Truly, what we, as a society, do today, will dictate how well this whole thing goes for the next several months for all of us. If you read only one thing, make it this:
View at Medium.com
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Pffft, fancy gubbiment school book learning. “I can skin a buck, and run a trot line. . .”
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Yes! That’s the chart I preach to friends about and what we are trying to accomplish – to get that sucker leveled off and then go to work making it last only to the last victim this year. Climate is being thrown out there as a possible remedy when hotter weather gets here, but with this organism, it’s “iffy”.
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Oh one other tidbit mom said they were quarantined for about 4 months with a small thing called “small pox”. I guess there is reason they are called the Greatest Generation.”
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Consistency ftw!!
https://www.politico.com/story/2009/02/senate-passes-787-billion-stimulus-bill-018837
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/white-house-senate-republicans-coronavirus-aid-133732
If they don’t get the government to solve this now, they won’t be in power to say the government can’t solve things later!
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Funny how you neglect the role a large govt (China) played in creating this situation- released by a govt lab, punished drs and reporters that tried to warn us. And using your Trump standard, you’re a traitor if you back Biden and his ties to China
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Biden is denying that China is helping his election and contradicting intel community assessments on that issue?
You have a link for that?
Stop pretending you have standards.
Focus on the issue here. When obama was president not one GOP rep was for government intervention to prop the economy and the gop senate filibustered the stimulus package.
Now that they have the WH they want to hand out checks.
They are evil scum and you are one of their dumbass know-nothings conspiracy nut jobs who support them.
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It’s an easy google search but probably too difficult for you to figure out. How did that stimulus work out under Obama? Remember recovery summer? Find out who said that
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It was the start of an 11 year bull market. Unemployment went from near 10% to under 5%.
By all means call your senator and tell them to vote against any stimulus since it don’t work.
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Unemployment didn’t get back to normal till Obama was a lame duck and lost the Senate in 2013-14. The stock market was driven by the fed not him. And explain how giving people money helps the situation when you can’t spend it due to quarantines and empty shelves. No. This won’t wotk.
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Tell Il Douche his treasury secretary and the gop senate not me. They adopting the librul agender!
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So you don’t think this socialist manuever by Trump will help us get back into the ballgame? Send me your check and we will see that people who have to spend money to get commodities will get full benefit.
And if you don’t see the economic charting that’s been going on since 2008, you are into your cognitive dissonance world again. Perhaps you don’t remember W’s problem at the end of his second term when he asked President-Elect Obama, to take over early (in Dec) in order to prevent the economy going off a cliff before he could be sworn into office. Their work together helped the economy catch a breath and turn inside the first 6 months of Obama’s administration and the curve remained on an upward trend into recovery before the current IMPOTUS took office.
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Keep your eye on the ball here. At issue are respective US government responses to the crises.
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Give this a read. Blame the bats:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/03/17/covid-19-coronavirus-did-not-come-from-a-lab-study-shows-natural-origins/#117b63083728
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I blame the wild bat-shit crazies.
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I’m homeschooling kids. Who are currently in “PE” which is just them being outside doing whatever they want. AFTER 1 minute of burpees. I did manage to get them to think of shoveling mulch earlier which was pretty nifty.
It’s making it damn near impossible to work from home — I’m managing to stay on top of email but the proactive piece is trying.
Beyond that, I’m watching F1: Drive to Survive and playing a fresh dynasty of NCAA ’13. As a family we’re watching a movie at night after dinner. We just wrapped up the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Our favorites were Black Panther, all the Thor, and Spiderman: Homecoming.
I’ve finished reading “Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth” and have begun “Roadside Picnic” a classic of Soviet sci-fi.
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Stoop, you gotta pick up NCAA ’14… I consider it a substantial improvement. (Though, since it is the hallowed last-in-series it is hard to find for less than its original retail price)
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I still find the very 1st one, Ironman, to be the best. It felt very genuine
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I work from home already but doing the following. Try to do some type of home project, staying in touch with friends, teaching my 4 year old different things, as a family taking a walk after work, and spending quality time with the wife.
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I play with my cars, I have an ‘89 BMW 325i and a’03 325i, both well over 200,000 miles and I keep them as perfect as I am able. Right now the ‘03 is on the lift as I change fluids, put new rubber bits on the driveline, and am fighting a fuel injection problem.
I also work from home and I’m in the Medical Imaging industry. As long as product land on our shores from Japan and we are free to travel across state lines, its business as usual. So far, only one children’s hospital has closed their doors to any outside vendors that I know of. Shands sent out a form we had to sign, basically a statement that you haven’t been exposed or in the company of someone exposed, seems to be an “honor system” based way to enforce control of the people that require entrance to their facilities.
I also spend a lot of time streaming t v shows. Prior to the internet I hardly ever watched any tv outside of football, now that I can stream at will I have watched many good series.
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I’m rebuilding the bed in my 66 Chevy Fleetside with treated 3/4 plywood but I have to wait a couple of weeks (?) to let it dry enough to seal. That and rearranging my “shop” and trying to eradicate kudzu from the house next door. The husband died in December and I’ve never his wife in the yard so I’m going to try to keep it mowed.
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In between these activities, are you not placing a line in the surf?
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I wish, we had the place on 30a for 2 weeks in May but I’m afraid that ship sailed. . .so to speak.
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Contrary to people who are saying this crisis is overblown, there is a good chance we are still not taking it seriously enough. The study from Imperial College that appears to have finally woken up UK and US policymakers this week is available here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
It is worth reading at least the summary and discussion. The headline conclusion is that, without intervention, the epidemic could kill 2.2 million people in the US alone, and that doesn’t account for increased mortality from other causes after the healthcare system is overwhelmed. But the really shocking thing to me is the conclusion that avoiding that outcome may require keeping extreme intervention measures in place (at least most of the time) until a vaccine is available, which could be 12-18 months or longer. Less intense intervention (what they call mitigation rather than suppression) is predicted to reduce the need for critical care to “only” 800% of existing capacity, with likely still more than a million deaths in the US.
I hope their numbers are off. Barring that, I think the best hope is that the initial suppression efforts are effective (or that this pathogen is seasonal) and that the resulting drop in infections makes it plausible to then pursue an approach similar to what S. Korea is doing now, with extensive testing and aggressive tracking of every confirmed infection to identify new cases. We probably don’t have the capacity to do that in the US right now, but we need to build it in the next few months. And, in the meantime, we need to get serious about suppression, which likely requires more intense interventions than are currently in place.
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I’ve lived through hurricanes, tornadoes, Bird Flu, N1H1 ,etc. and never has there been a toilet paper shortage. God help us if the is ever an outbreak of one of the diseases that cause diarrhea.
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In some instances, diarrhea has accompanied this disease, but not to the level of hoarding toilet paper. I think that some people believe that we will be wiping our butts with spotted owls before this is over.
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It s going to decimate the travel and tourism industry for a while..sad…
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I already work from home, so, it’s not been much different. About the same amount of day drinking, ignoring meetings, and dodging actual work as usual. Just a little harder to sneak out for lunch now, since everything is closed…
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Had to call in a script today and better half had a dental appointment. The dentist is closing for two weeks and will take emergency calls only.
My druggist said that they expect things to get really tight. If I have scripts I really need they got the ok to refill early 15 days since they can see multiple med shortages in two weeks. The dentist pretty much explained the same.
Drug store said they would be there but drive through only. This isn’t a corporate drug store but a family owned one.
Think before this gets better most stores except grocery and druggist will be closed. Most of those excluding WalMart are will be on a 11AM-4PM type schedule to reduce exposure. Basically your options are gonna be limited to just stay at home except for basic necessities if they can keep them in stock.
I can remember the Sears and Roebuck catalog in the outhouse. To bad they don’t send those out anymore. Those political flyers are awful slick to use just like the people that sends them out.
What about ya’ll, thoughts ?
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The silence is deafening this week from all of you who were denying reality and all scientific expertise last week as overblown media hype. I take that silence as shame. Trump stuck his fingers in his ears and started yelling about Democrats, Media Hype, and another plot to get him. Many of you followed in lockstep. The same ones of you who deride others as being followers. Then, magically, fox and Trump made a quick 180 (less than a week ago no less) and now its a big deal and Trump saved everyones’ lives. This incompetence and denial of reality will cost lives. Trump is a demagogue and you Trumpers are zealots. Money isn’t more important than people. Profit has no interest in helping people.
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