Monday, April 20, 2020

Goldfinch getting into Summer plumage...almost done molting


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  1. Biden Up Big Among Those Who Don’t Like Either [Click] “The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that voters who have a negative opinion of both President Trump and Joe Biden overwhelmingly prefer Biden, 60% to 10%.” I am at a loss for words. . .

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    1. Why are you lost for words? I've written here before that my son repeatedly says he'd vote for three stacked lizards in a raincoat if they were running against trump. Well, Biden is my three stacked lizards. I can't stand him, but trump is homicidal.

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    2. WaPo: [Click] “A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll this weekend showed fully 65 percent of Americans say Trump did not take the coronavirus ‘seriously enough at the beginning. . .’ a hefty portion of that 65 percent say that despite his early failure, Trump is now handling the crisis well. This slice accounts for a whopping 20 percent of all registered voters. In total, 50 percent of registered voters in the poll said that however they felt about his initial response, Trump is now handling the situation well.”

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    3. I envision Biden campaigning with the slogan "Winning with those who hate my guts!" Or some such.

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    4. He wouldn't, but that's what it will come down to. And damn the Democratic Party for bringing us to this a SECOND time!

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  2. I just saw a post by James Barragan in Texas stating, regarding the COVID-19 protests there:
    “Lots of protest speakers saying Trump should fire Fauci who they say “made up” the coronavirus. They call him Fascist Fauci.”

    As the new saying goes:
    ‘They say you can’t fix stupid.
    Apparently you can’t quarantine it either.’


    “RESPONSE FROM A MICHIGAN NURSE TO PEOPLE PROTESTING ABOUT "STAY AT HOME"
    I have seen 4 patients die, 5 intubated, 2 re-intubated, witnessed family consent to make 2 more patients DNR, sweat my butt off during COPT, titrated so many drips to no avail, watched vent settings increase to no avail. We are exhausted and at a total loss. Some of you people have never done everything you can to save someone and watched them die, and it shows….
    You wanna complain because the Garden Aisle is closed? Your garden doesn’t matter. If killing your plants would bring back my patients, I would pillage the shit out of your “essential” garden beds..
    Upset because you can’t go boating, in Michigan? You wanna tell my patient’s daughter (who was sobbing as she said goodbye to her father over the PHONE) about your FIRST-WORLD problems.
    Upset because you can’t go to your cottage up north? Your cottage…your second property… used for leisure. My coworkers can’t even stay in their regular homes. Most have been staying in hotels and dorms not able to see their spouses or babies.
    All of these posts, petitions online to evade “TYRANNY” it’s all such bullshit. I’m sorry you’re bored and have nothing to do but bitch and moan. You wanna pick up a couple of hours for me?
    Yeah, didn’t think so.
    I wouldn’t trust most of you with patient care anyway. Not just because of the selfish lack of humanity your posts exude, but because most of those posts and petitions are so riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, that it makes me question your cognitive capacity.
    Shout out to my coworkers, the real MVPs.”

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    1. I've been thinking that there's probably plenty of room for them in the drunk tank these days. I've walked past a drunk tank, and it was decidedly malodorous.

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  3. Antibody test, seen as key to reopening country, does not yet deliver. Top-line summary: Most of the tests that purport to give results in minutes are not good enough to be useful. Maybe none can be.

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  4. I am so frustrated that I cannot make a decent mask! I have searched the internet and have probably eight patterns, but I can't get any of them right. It's especially frustrating because *normally* I can sew anything, and do. Quilts, clothes, dolls, bears, etc. But the mask has defeated me.

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    1. My sympathies. The one time I've gone out since the lockdown started I wore a winter scarf around my face. That would be less than ideal if you needed to wear it for a long period, but for a short time it serves the purpose.

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  5. Susan, Nurse Teri sent me this link to a mask making tutorial today. Maybe check it out?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c5eo_3-y0

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    1. Oh my gosh!! Susan!!! You have to watch the video!!! It’s hysterical!!!

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    2. Funny and horrifying all at the same time! The multiple bandages on fingers! Whoa!

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  6. Martin Luther on whether it is permissible to flee a plague; excerpt here, The entire letter here—it is long. [Click]

    “God has created medicines and provided us with intelligence to guard and take good care of the body so that we can live in good health.

    If one makes no use of intelligence or medicine when he could do so without detriment to his neighbor, such a person injures his body and must beware lest he become a suicide in God’s eyes. By the same reasoning a person might forego eating and drinking, clothing and shelter, and boldly proclaim his faith that if God wanted to preserve him from starvation and cold, he could do so without food and clothing. Actually that would be suicide. It is even more shameful for a person to pay no heed to his own body and to fail to protect it against the plague the best he is able, and then to infect and poison others who might have remained alive if he had taken care of his body as he should have. He is thus responsible before God for his neighbor’s death and is a murderer many times over. Indeed, such people behave as though a house were burning in the city and nobody were trying to put the fire out. Instead they give leeway to the flames so that the whole city is consumed, saying that if God so willed, he could save the city without water to quench the fire.

    No, my dear friends, that is no good. Use medicine; take potions which can help you; fumigate house, yard, and street; shun persons and places wherever your neighbor does not need your presence or has recovered, and act like a man who wants to help put out the burning city. What else is the epidemic but a fire which instead of consuming wood and straw devours life and body? You ought to think this way: “Very well, by God’s decree the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely, as stated above. See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.

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    1. Moreover, he who has contracted the disease and recovered should keep away from others and not admit them into his presence unless it be necessary. Though one should aid him in his time of need, as previously pointed out, he in turn should, after his recovery, so act toward others that no one becomes unnecessarily endangered on his account and so cause another’s death. “Whoever loves danger,” says the wise man, “will perish by it” [Ecclus. 3:26]. If the people in a city were to show themselves bold in their faith when a neighbor’s need so demands, and cautious when no emergency exists, and if everyone would help ward off contagion as best he can, then the death toll would indeed be moderate. But if some are too panicky and desert their neighbors in their plight, and if some are so foolish as not to take precautions but aggravate the contagion, then the devil has a heyday and many will die. On both counts this is a grievous offense to God and to man—here it is tempting God; there it is bringing man into despair. Then the one who flees, the devil will pursue; the one who stays behind, the devil will hold captive so that no one escapes him.

      No, my dear friends, that is no good. Use medicine; take potions which can help you; fumigate house, yard, and street; shun persons and places wherever your neighbor does not need your presence or has recovered, and act like a man who wants to help put out the burning city. What else is the epidemic but a fire which instead of consuming wood and straw devours life and body? You ought to think this way: “Very well, by God’s decree the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely, as stated above. See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.

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    2. Moreover, he who has contracted the disease and recovered should keep away from others and not admit them into his presence unless it be necessary. Though one should aid him in his time of need, as previously pointed out, he in turn should, after his recovery, so act toward others that no one becomes unnecessarily endangered on his account and so cause another’s death. “Whoever loves danger,” says the wise man, “will perish by it” [Ecclus. 3:26]. If the people in a city were to show themselves bold in their faith when a neighbor’s need so demands, and cautious when no emergency exists, and if everyone would help ward off contagion as best he can, then the death toll would indeed be moderate. But if some are too panicky and desert their neighbors in their plight, and if some are so foolish as not to take precautions but aggravate the contagion, then the devil has a heyday and many will die. On both counts this is a grievous offense to God and to man—here it is tempting God; there it is bringing man into despair. Then the one who flees, the devil will pursue; the one who stays behind, the devil will hold captive so that no one escapes him.”

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    3. Oh, darn--I seem to have miscopied it, duplicated parts and got them out of order. But you get the idea; some of it seems very up to date indeed. And the whole thing is at the link.

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  7. THANK YOU, ALAN!! I am going to share that! Excellent find!!

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