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Post by pellius on Nov 17, 2020 1:44:42 GMT
Oh, man.
That is outright bad. Just horrible.
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Post by Lord Newport on Nov 17, 2020 2:12:17 GMT
The short of it is with no jobs there is no money to rebuild. Ya, a crap situation with the goal to survive, so everyone runs to a safe spot. And with so many in one spot COVID-19 will have a field day of it. In one shelter it was established that 50% were infected and the other 50 will have it if they remain. Just saw on the news the slides and floods in our country, theirs is going to be worse. We have 78 highways blocked. I’ve forgotten the dead here. I remember an American and his wife got buried. Please stay safe. Is there anything the SBG community can do to help you? |
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Post by pgandy on Nov 17, 2020 13:32:43 GMT
The short of it is with no jobs there is no money to rebuild. Ya, a crap situation with the goal to survive, so everyone runs to a safe spot. And with so many in one spot COVID-19 will have a field day of it. In one shelter it was established that 50% were infected and the other 50 will have it if they remain. Just saw on the news the slides and floods in our country, theirs is going to be worse. We have 78 highways blocked. I’ve forgotten the dead here. I remember an American and his wife got buried. Please stay safe. Is there anything the SBG community can do to help you? Thanks for the thought. |
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Post by Lord Newport on Nov 17, 2020 14:42:38 GMT
Please stay safe. Is there anything the SBG community can do to help you? Thanks for the thought. If there is anything that you need that you cant get where you are at, let us know... |
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Post by pgandy on Nov 17, 2020 14:56:03 GMT
If there is anything that you need that you cant get where you are at, let us know... Thanks again. I'm secure for the moment. I have notice after 15 years my dog is crapping in the patio not going completely outside. I have an idea the weather and condition of the garden has something to do with that. Strange behavior on his part. The front garden is saturated. The ground so soft I have not cut the grass as I'll do more damage. The rear is in better shape. I did a little pruning and cut the grass there, finally, last week but the rains caught me before I did any edging. At least the mosquitos will have to look elsewhere. Today is just cold and wet as the rains continue. No doubt the people up north are going through hell. I was late this morning putting out the bird food. Now they are flocking in and much activity out there. Food for them must be hard to find at the moment. There are some species I haven't seen in a while. Good to see again. |
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Post by treeslicer on Nov 17, 2020 16:51:59 GMT
IMHO, your dog is reacting to the soaked ground. In my part of Florida, we've has an extremely wet couple of years, and one of my beasties resists stepping down off the porch stairs to take a walk with me, when the ground is squishy (while the others never give a darn). When coaxing doesn't work, I just leash him and drag him a few feet until his starter kicks over or something, and he starts trotting along.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 17, 2020 18:08:45 GMT
IMHO, your dog is reacting to the soaked ground. That's what I figured. Just put more food out for the birds. They consumed everything in rapid order this morning including picking the bananas bare. There’s one banana left for the morning, tomorrow is market day. Plenty of seed left, hopefully until early next year. The rains continue, sometimes quite hard as the various bands move across and will probably be doing so for the next day or so. |
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Post by edelweiss on Nov 17, 2020 22:06:10 GMT
I would again point to the political section at Blade Forums to vent at. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. You failed to mention that that is available only to paid members...  One must register but the forum is open to free participation after registering. Paid subscriptions allow more perks (attachments and stuff). There are plenty of nonpaying members posting in the Political Arena (subforum of Current Events). You may not be able to read certain sections until you register. www.bladeforums.com/forums/current-events.702/www.bladeforums.com/forums/bladeforums-com-political-arena.685/ |
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Nov 19, 2020 13:39:49 GMT
Wyoming has the highest test positivity in the world and North Dakota has the highest numbers of case per population in the world. Murica #1 X2 Are we tired of winning yet?
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Post by edelweiss on Nov 19, 2020 14:28:15 GMT
On the dark side, El Paso is up to ten mobile morgues. Florida mortality numbers are catching up with California, who is following Texas in #2. Hospitals nationwide are stressed and some states are in tough shape. There are some cases in RI with transporting individuals to Boston. The RI gov speaks today but the opening of the field hospital is imminent. Overall morale has been good here but the hoarding is beginning again. The overall US mortality has been at levels they were last spring, just not in other major NE cities. NJ just reported a serious bump up again but remains calm compared to what is going on in Iowa and other corn belt states. My own RI has doubled hospitalizations in the past week or so and icu beds are getting full with several more on ventilators. I find out today if RI has a more serious lockdown but the restrictions here have targeted groups and too many in a given indoor space. A rough estimate of 90% retail here are working and some are super busy. Local take out and delivery booming. Unemployment is a national issue, with another Texas video showing the thousands in cars waiting for supplement food.
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Post by treeslicer on Nov 25, 2020 22:44:15 GMT
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Post by nerdthenord on Dec 7, 2020 20:11:17 GMT
I’m under quarantine at home with my mother presumed positive. She has atypical pneumonia and is very ill. I feel fine for now though.
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Post by paulmuaddib on Dec 7, 2020 20:23:39 GMT
I’m under quarantine at home with my mother presumed positive. She has atypical pneumonia and is very ill. I feel fine for now though. Hope she gets better and you stay healthy and safe. |
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Dec 7, 2020 22:20:06 GMT
Stay safe!
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Post by edelweiss on Dec 9, 2020 16:05:17 GMT
We're #1 www.golocalprov.com/news/ris-the-worst-in-the-world-and-likely-to-get-worse-cnn-broadcasts-live-fromri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com/Life is getting a little eerie but a lot of businesses and schools are open. An entire group of my local family tested positive last week. A niece, her boyfriend, son (great nephew), his wife and three year old. A duplex house situation where granny tends the child while his mum works. It is unknown how the virus got home to them all but they were (and have been) together right through the year. Two retail workers, a bicycle mechanic, a construction worker and a three year old that had been going to a kids gym program. So, as a local patriarch to four generations of the clan, I am fine and just generally old. I begin my annual medical appts that always seem to land this time of year. A primary doctor visit the other day and then a new saga ushers forth tomorrow. Hibernation may see quite a few interruptions. Familial visits will be online. The primary hospitals here overflowed to both field hospitals. We have really just begun. Cheers GC |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Dec 9, 2020 16:19:16 GMT
Here in Germany our "lockdown light" had stopped the exponential rising of the cases but they remain on a relative high level now with the number of daily deaths still rising.
Probably we'll have a strong lockdown before X-mas.
Bavaria started additional restrictions already.
I've read somewhere that only three weeks of a real strict worldwide quarantine would erase the virus but I also know that that's impossible to do.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Dec 9, 2020 18:26:33 GMT
This is possibly an stats issue since your population is so low.
I dunno if you can beat North Dakotas numbers...
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Post by edelweiss on Dec 9, 2020 18:57:25 GMT
This is possibly an stats issue since your population is so low. I dunno if you can beat North Dakotas numbers... That's the "funny" thing about numbers but they are out there. The RI percent of positive test results went from 2% in October to 9% this week and that's 2% more than last week (that is also not due to more tests, if anything we are stalling at testing capacity). Hospital admissions were at little more than 100 in early Oct and are now more than 400 and climbing. Folk in the ICU units and those on ventilators has increased drastically. RI is listed as 6th in the per capita mortality lists (presumably US numbers only) with Texas @ #2 for total dead and California with Florida in the top 4. The RI dead are way down the overall US totals. That there have only been 1,484 dead so far in RI but that is in a population of 1,000,000. The mortality in RI vs ND is skewed by more cases in ND, while incurring fewer deaths. Again, the numbers are out there. Borders, of course, don't mean much and local measures are best regarded as guidelines but these numbers in RI are also during what is the midst of a two week pull back of returning to many restrictions. The emphasis from Drs such as Fauci&Birx emphasis that we are headed to a pretty busy season. The gov here has been very straightforward and been clear it will be early summer before the vaccines will be widespread in the state and truly open commerce and entertainment will return. RI is the armpit on New England but a lot of the seasonal trade depends on the tourism. So it is GC |
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Post by bebut on Dec 9, 2020 20:56:36 GMT
It's all very simple--the virus is smarter and faster than the peepul, much less the governments!
If a country can't do smart limited shutdowns quickly it can do dumb shutdowns forever, or so it seems. Amazing how a few countries like Taiwan keep their house in order month after month with no whining, no sabre-rattling, and no recession.
Projections I have seen say that if the vaccines pan out the pandemic will wind down by mid-2021 in the rich countries and drag out for another year or 2 in the poor countries. No guarantee of this, just a reasonable projection. Good news is that worldwide there are 10 vaccines in the pipeline.
So far me and mine in 2 countries are doing well but people are getting bored and careless. I was hoping to fly to the US in November but it just didn't pan out. Maybe by February the Christmas plague will settle down.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Dec 9, 2020 21:25:15 GMT
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Btw: This said Talbot in Schiller's Maid of Orleans, Talbot died in the Battle of Castillon. So a sword thing too!
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Btw: This said Talbot in Schiller's Maid of Orleans, Talbot died in the Battle of Castillon. So a sword thing too!
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