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theprunetang said:
A virus jumping between species takes random mutations. It is rare. It does happen, and did happen with this virus. It would have to mutate again to go from human to a random small bird species I work with. The chances of that are so ridiculously small, that is not even worth considering. The same reason people aren't giving it to their pet fish.
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So far a dog, and now a cat has been confirmed as having it.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/cat-in-belgium-first-to-test-positive-for-coronavirus-report

As with humans, the actual rate of infection is likely astronomical compared to the small number of cats and dogs (2) who have been tested so far.

Entire fragile species could face extinction from scientist's egotistical failure to heed their own advice. OPB published a story about a nurse who is deliberately and illegally re-using dirty face masks and gowns, spreading disease to patients and taking it home to her 90 year old grandmother, because she thinks she is above it all. The Washington nursing home where dozens have died, was infected by a healthcare worker came back from overseas and ignored all the rules.

Cuomo, Newsom and Inslee were in denial for 2 months, now their states are drowning in death and disease while they blame Trump for their own inaction. Both still refuse to lock down their borders to prevent their diseased citizens from fleeing into neighboring states spreading the disease across America. Death merchants, nothing more.
 
THE HCP said:
We had to get out of the house today. Took the wife and kids for a drive out to the gorge. Much needed escape.....
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That's illegal where I come from. You have to stop at the grocery store, then you divert to your secret sidetrip. Best to sneak around in the dark. Yesterday on a wide highway here in Bellingham, a couple of deer sauntered across. Stopped in the middle. They're taking over the town. I darted off the road before the police drone could plug me full of lead.
 
MARIS61 said:
So far a dog, and now a cat has been confirmed as having it.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/cat-in-belgium-first-to-test-positive-for-coronavirus-report

As with humans, the actual rate of infection is likely astronomical compared to the small number of cats and dogs (2) who have been tested so far.

Entire fragile species could face extinction from scientist's egotistical failure to heed their own advice. OPB published a story about a nurse who is deliberately and illegally re-using dirty face masks and gowns, spreading disease to patients and taking it home to her 90 year old grandmother, because she thinks she is above it all. The Washington nursing home where dozens have died, was infected by a healthcare worker came back from overseas and ignored all the rules.

Cuomo, Newsom and Inslee were in denial for 2 months, now their states are drowning in death and disease while they blame Trump for their own inaction. Both still refuse to lock down their borders to prevent their diseased citizens from fleeing into neighboring states spreading the disease across America. Death merchants, nothing more.
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Look, how many times does it have to be explained that isolating an entire state is unConstitutional. A city, yes, a state no.
 
Chris Craig said:
Playing Red Dead Redemption 2
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I’ve been sick all week so I self isolated, feeling better now so back to work tomorrow.

Every day I’ve been playing Red Dead Online all morning (level 144, maxed all the roles, just doing daily’s and free roams now), then bingeing three seasons of Ozark every afternoon, and watching one Bond film every night.

A TV station is showing them all, watching A View To A Kill right now.
 
I happened across this piece. Nice little story. Ahhh. the good ol' days. I began reminiscing about similar life growing up in our quaint little home. You just found things to do....

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/opinions/coronavirus-grandparents-glock/index.html

Now I finally understand what my grandparents knew

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." -- Theodore Roethke

"I feel like there is nothing left to look forward to." My 19-year-old daughter is sitting across the table from me, her eyes heavy with dread. She's been struggling, like all of us, with the existential purgatory we find ourselves wading through. The not knowing of when this will end, or how, or what we as a culture, a country, a community will be when it does.

Along with her sister, who is 18, she's moved back home from school, school that is now over in a practical sense for the foreseeable future.
My girls, like countless of the world's children, have been wrenched from routines and friends, the architecture of their lives dismantled and replaced with a return to the orbit of parents who themselves can't say what's coming, our ability to comfort muted and undermined by the speeding train of the virus and the whirlwind of devastating news.

My kids read the papers, the breaking alerts that flash across their phones. They personally know people who are nurses and doctors in the most perilous wards. They know people who are sick. They feel the dismay in the air. Their suffering is not unique (nor does it compare to the horrors unfolding for so many), but it is the suffering in front of me, and so I do what I can to ease it, the only job that feels worth doing at the moment.

I tell my 19-year-old that I understand her feeling lost, empty. I remind her how lucky we are. To be together. To have dogs. To love each other. To be able to hug.

I tell her I've been thinking a lot about my grandparents. How when I was her age, I'd watch them play cards, do crosswords, dance together in their cramped living room, taking care not to topple the miniature, boxy television set that was only ever turned on for baseball games........(CONT.).....

 
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Sage tidbits from Adam....

 
Starting my yearly vegetable garden today...put out some lime and chicken shit about a month ago. So I'll turn the soil today with the harrows, let it dry till tomorrow, then harrow again tomorrow, fluff the soil up one more time with the cultivator next weekend, then plant, Italian green beans, okra, kale, Japanese cukes, and Heinz Roma tomatoes
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
Just the ticket! Drive-in movie theaters are rebooting for a new generation as people can enjoy films from a distance after indoor theaters are closed amid coronavirus pandemic
  • There are just over 300 drive-ins left in the U.S. - they constitute a small, oft-forgotten flicker in today's movie ecosystem
  • The Showboat Drive-In Theater in Hockley, Texas, saw a 40 percent increase in attendance last weekend
  • The Blue Moon Drive-in in Guin, Alabama, is now allowing outside food and drink in amid the pandemic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8136435/The-drive-relic-yesterday-finds-suited-now.html
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I remember those days. We always put the small guy in the trunk along with the beer. The speakers were metal cases that hung on your window and the sound was always "tinny".
 
DUB said:
I’ve been sick all week so I self isolated, feeling better now so back to work tomorrow.

Every day I’ve been playing Red Dead Online all morning (level 144, maxed all the roles, just doing daily’s and free roams now), then bingeing three seasons of Ozark every afternoon, and watching one Bond film every night.

A TV station is showing them all, watching A View To A Kill right now.
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You can't go back to work right away because you are still a carrier for some period of time. I'm not sure what that period of time is but I suggest you look it up before exposing yourself to others.
 
Lanny said:
You can't go back to work right away because you are still a carrier for some period of time. I'm not sure what that period of time is but I suggest you look it up before exposing yourself to others.
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The letters we have from the government at work say, two weeks after experiencing symptoms.
 
stampedehero said:
I remember those days. We always put the small guy in the trunk along with the beer. The speakers were metal cases that hung on your window and the sound was always "tinny".
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I must have gone to the drive-in with you 'cause that really says what it was like with me. Was there a guy in your group who was always trying to get together with the car full of girls parked near you? Well, that was me. I think I remember you, you were the heathen who always wanted to drink his beer out of the bottle. Oh wait, that was me, too.
 
Lanny said:
I must have gone to the drive-in with you 'cause that really says what it was like with me. Was there a guy in your group who was always trying to get together with the car full of girls parked near you? Well, that was me. I think I remember you, you were the heathen who always wanted to drink his beer out of the bottle. Oh wait, that was me, too.
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I was fortunate. The girls sought me. I had some money and other assorted party goods. True, I was a heathen but that was 1970. We liked to do shots of this shitty whiskey called Fleishmann's. There was always some cheap skate that brought Boone's Farm or MD 2020.- Horrible gut wrenching wine which resulted in a vomit session for the fools who drank it.
 
stampedehero said:
I was fortunate. The girls sought me. I had some money and other assorted party goods. True, I was a heathen but that was 1970. We liked to do shots of this shitty whiskey called Fleishmann's. There was always some cheap skate that brought Boone's Farm or MD 2020.- Horrible gut wrenching wine which resulted in a vomit session for the fools who drank it.
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MD 2020 never made me puke. My father in law likes to drink that so I drink it with him. Use to drink it every now and then when I was a teenager.
 
Chris Craig said:
MD 2020 never made me puke. My father in law likes to drink that so I drink it with him. Use to drink it every now and then when I was a teenager.
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In those days it was drunk warm, or if by fortune with a cube of ice. We did more than drink only this.
 
stampedehero said:
In those days it was drunk warm, or if by fortune with a cube of ice. We did more than drink only this.
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I suppose it is not as smooth warm. Oh, I drank more than that alone. Often followed it with wild turkey 101 or some other whiskey. Often proceeded it with 40's of steel reserve.
 
stampedehero said:
I was fortunate. The girls sought me. I had some money and other assorted party goods. True, I was a heathen but that was 1970. We liked to do shots of this shitty whiskey called Fleishmann's. There was always some cheap skate that brought Boone's Farm or MD 2020.- Horrible gut wrenching wine which resulted in a vomit session for the fools who drank it.
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Funny story about MD 2020.
One year, my wife and I were hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for our family. My brother-in-law said he would like to bring a close friend. My wife and I said sure. Now, I had picked out this really good and quite expensive German white wine to go with dinner. I chilled it, as I always did with sweet or semisweet wines. My brother-in-law shows up with his friend carrying a brown paper bag. He showed me this wine that he had brought for our dinner and festivities. I placed my delectable German white wine back in the refrigerator and as a good host pronounced that we would all partake in this wine that this guy had brought so graciously for us all to drink. I had never seen or heard of this, what must surely be excellent, wine before, MD 2020. As I took my first sip I tried extremely hard not to show my disgust on my face but I'll bet some of the feeling leaked out.
Son of a bitch, I will never ever ever ever make that mistake again.
 
Chris Craig said:
I suppose it is not as smooth warm. Oh, I drank more than that alone. Often followed it with wild turkey 101 or some other whiskey. Often proceeded it with 40's of steel reserve.
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I like your style. I remember Wild Turkey too. My stomach cold never take what I had put into it from the old days.
 
stampedehero said:
I was fortunate. The girls sought me. I had some money and other assorted party goods. True, I was a heathen but that was 1970. We liked to do shots of this shitty whiskey called Fleishmann's. There was always some cheap skate that brought Boone's Farm or MD 2020.- Horrible gut wrenching wine which resulted in a vomit session for the fools who drank it.
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Fleishmann’s is the well liquor at one of my favorite dive bars. Lol.
 
stampedehero said:
I like your style. I remember Wild Turkey too. My stomach cold never take what I had put into it from the old days.
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Hey, I once bought a bottle of Wild Turkey. I'm pretty sure that's a bourbon and I prefer scotch over bourbon.
 
Lanny said:
Hey, I once bought a bottle of Wild Turkey. I'm pretty sure that's a bourbon and I prefer scotch over bourbon.
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Yes, it's bourbon. I like a stiff scotch too
 
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