Thursday, March 19, 2020

First Day of Spring!

Okay, well really not until 11:50pm. 
But it’s coming!

Buh Bye, Winter!!


Getting there!

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  1. Supermarket line in Fresno. [Click] Most stores are not this busy, but some are.

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  2. The Quiet Reformation of Biden’s Foreign Policy [Click] “For the ‘2021 [centrist’] Democrats,’ Biden represents the so-called establishment’s last chance to reform U.S. foreign policy so it is better aligned with how Americans see the world and how they live their lives.” Worth a read, but I reserve judgement.

    Light rain this morning at least; afternoon prediction is for partial clouds.

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  3. I am definitely recovered from whatever minor virus afflicted me 2-3 days ago.

    The screen printing supplies I ordered from Amazon hours before they announced they would be limiting deliveries to "essential" categories have shipped. So today I must make progress on clearing off the workbench in the garage. I continue to hope that our printing class will be able to continue, one way or another; it is simply impossible to do it by teleconference or online video.

    Not sure if we will go for a walk today; the wind is cold.

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    1. Among difficulties with moving the printing class online is the presses. I am sure the smallest one must weigh more than a ton, the medium sized ones (used for the first two and the last projects) several tons, and the biggest one (designed for lithography, which we will not be doing) a few tons. Can't exactly check them out overnight...

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    2. So glad you're feeling better, Alan!

      I myself have had muscle aches and intermittent sniffles ever since getting my flu shot...over a month ago. Also have long had a chronic dry cough and have been pretty much always tired most of my life. That last has never been diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Instead, I'm fairly sure it is a lingering result of the long ago brain damage. But, what with one thing and another, it isn't easy to determine whether I have caught any given virus. In my case, fever and shortness of breath would be the telltales if, God forbid, I contract the wretched thing. Doing my best not to!

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  4. Ohio now has 119 COVID cases and 1 death presumed to be because of COVID.

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  5. Headlines from politicalwire.com [Click] Oldest first.

    Coronavirus Shelves Trump’s Barrage on Biden
    Pandemic Exposed U.S. Vulnerability to Biowarfare
    Trump Pushes Forward with Trade War
    Stock Futures Falter Despite Central Banks’ Action
    All Georgia Lawmakers Asked to Self-Quarantine
    The GOP Is a Danger to America [So what else is news?]
    [Short Term] Treasury Bill Yields Turn Negative
    A Coronavirus Recession Could Doom Trump’s Reelection
    What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful [Click]
    GOP Senator [Barr] Warned Audience Three Weeks Ago
    Trump Already Undermining His New Strategy on Virus
    Sanders Snaps at Reporter Over Dropping Out of Race [Click]
    White House Sidelines Top Public Health Agency [CDC]
    Government Exercise Warned of Pandemic Last Year
    State Department to Warn Against All [international] Travel
    Coronavirus Hits at Worst Possible Time for Trump
    Lawmakers Press Leaders for Remote Voting
    Trump Changed Notes to Refer to ‘Chinese Virus’
    Montana’s Senate Race Has Third Party Candidate
    Top Counterterrorism Official Fired
    Clyburn Urges Biden to Adopt Proposals from Sanders
    GOP Senator [Barr] Dumped Stock Before Coronavirus Crisis

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    1. Clyburn Urges Biden to Adopt Proposals from Sanders

      Any wagers on which will happen first, Biden adopting Bernie's proposals or pigs flying?

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    2. My mental response was "Thanks a lot, Jim."

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  6. Sign on to support Be A Hero's six core demands. - Click

    EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS MUST: INCLUDE:

    Free healthcare for everyone affected
    Direct cash payments, expanded Social Security and paid sick leave for everyone
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  7. From a listserv of which I am a member:

    My wife and I just watched a video news report from a critical care hospital in Bergamo, Italy, that was filmed earlier today. The hospital is run and staffed by ~100 anesthesiologists, as well as other specialties, but I don't know how many other docs are there. The hospital granted video access to Skynews, which is a live-feed 24 hour news program from the UK. WE like to watch it because it gives the UK perspective on many things, and watching their reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic is very interesting.

    The Italian hospital granted access to Skynews because, as one of the head docs said, "they wanted to let the world see what was coming to them." It was astonishing. The rooms, halls, and other open spaces are almost crammed with very ill patients, about half on ventilators, with only about 1 to 1/2 feet between beds, much of it filled with medicaql equipment. The mortality of the patients there is about 50%, they related to the reporter (who was clad in a full body Tyvek suit with a hood and goggles. I was stunned. Nothing like this has made it to any American "news" show that we have seen and I suspect that our media wouldn't show it anyway, because it is horrible a glimpse into Hell. This is not from a third-world country---Bergamo is a very wealthy province, in a country with excellent medical care. They also said that 8% of the doctors and nurses are under quarantine because they contracted the virus. Watch the American "nightly news" and you will get tips on how to occupy your bored children who aren't going to school now (and we are only in day 4 of the 15 day "trial period"), or what sort of exercises I can do at home since I can't go to the gym and do my regular workout. Sheer tripe.

    I would strongly urge everyone to find this and watch it. I am sure that they will show the clip repeatedly. For all I know, it may be found somewhere else, for that matter. We access Skynews through an app that is listed onscreen as an app within a Roku that we have attached to our tv. It probably can be accessed other ways, as well, but we use our Roku to get it, as well as other internet-streaming things.

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    1. I guess I will be better behaved...

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    2. It does suggest there is some rationale to the current attempt to spread the epidemic out over months instead of having it all hit the health care system at once.

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  8. Based on a study of verifiable cases, the average incubation period of covid-19 (from exposure to symptoms) is five days; in about one percent of cases it exceeds 14 days.

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