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Yesterday, after walking the dog, I returned home to find my parrot, Molly, has learned to ask Echo to play Britney Spears.

I'm not sure I'm gonna make it.

After finally getting a package of masks sent to Sugar, I've been sewing masks for friends, neighbors and family members. Just when I think I can get back to the workers who can use the homemade masks, I get another request. Glad to do it. I was wondering if/when we reach the lock-down stage where v...

Florida and other states doing little will wait until they have a lot of deaths. Then act after many people are already infected. Lee County (FL) commissioners met again this morning to consider a formal shutdown/shelter-in-place order. It didn't pass therefore we continue with without a legal orde...

Only 97,500 to go.

We drove past our small, satellite hospital a few days ago and, yes, the ER is around the corner from the main entrance. And there's three large white tents right at the entrance. I don't know if they have any covid patients there, but if they do, we'll probably never know.

And David Lat ended up in ICU on a respirator. There's no justice.

These polls are all over the place.

Mrs. V. is back from the HEB. She says it wasn't busy at all. Plenty of produce and eggs. No toilet paper at all. (I think drug dealers are using it as an alternative currency.) Bakery, deli and cheese shop closed. (Probably those employees are helping restocking efforts.) No hand sanitizer but did...

There was a time we were considering Belize or Costa Rica. If trump does get reelected, I guarantee you it will be back on the table.

Did the other countries just form their own non-US WTO subsidiary? Or did they tell trump, "Fuck off, wanker. We're doing it live."

:cussing: This undermines the everyone stay at home efforts intended to slow the spread of the virus!! "Follow the directions of your state and local authorities" should be in large bolded letters at the top not in fine print at the bottom. By the time PRESIDENT TRUMP'S "guidelines" were received h...

I'm walking around the house singing this now.

Fuck that fucking bastard.

Sadly, Florida was purple, now turning red. Isn't Florida behind in terms of lockdown? If COVID hits them hard that might not reflect well in the polls for Republicans. Thankfully our (red) county seems to be taking it seriously. If you've seen Neon's posts, Lee County has been posting cell phone a...

They really really are begging. Lee County, don't mess this up. It's kinda like them saying your 'Rents are coming home Monday... don't have that weekend party and trash the house or there will be hell to pay. :smoking: Screenshot_20200328-100107-151.jpg Just got back from JoAnn's. It went like thi...

Our county kicked out one of those cellphone alert emergency popup messages to everyone. Screenshot_20200327-165848-147.jpg This is basically the resident's LAST chance. The county commissioners delayed closing (ORDERING shelter-in-place) the county earlier this week. If these kids don't heed the r...

It's taken a couple of days for me to feel like posting this. My mother passed away on Wednesday (apparently not virus related) and my wife has symptoms that very well might be coronavirus. At 62 with asthma, lung scarring from histoplasmosis, and a family member that lives with us and works in a h...

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Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:39 pm

My niece, 22, Katy TX is very ill and tested positive for Covid 19. Worked until three days ago at a Buckys Truckstop. Bro (the LEO) now sent home for self quarantine.

Trump seeks to force General Motors to produce ventilators https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/trump-seeks-to-force-general-motors-to-produce-ventilators/ – President Donald Trump issued an order Friday that seeks to force General Motors to produce ventilators for coronavirus patients under the Def...

I just tried the folded bandana mask and it does work, but test your ponytail holders. The super thick ones aren't as good. They don't have as much stretch and are bulky behind your ears. Thinner and stretchier is better. Also, the mask felt kind of thick to me. I could breathe through it but it was...

Our beaches are (finally) closed. We have the webcam up on the tv from the Lani Kai in Ft. Myers Beach. It's so strange to see not a single soul on the sand. It almost looks like a still photo until you notice the water moving (it's the gulf, we don't have waves, not big ones anyway).

A Coronavirus take on Poe by me: Once upon an evening dreary, as I pondered bored and weary Over many a quaint and curious offer from an online store; While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of something gently rapping, rapping at my poor brain’s door. I recall the weather...

Coronavirus Heroes Are Getting Tossed From Their Homes by Scared Landlords https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-nurses-face-eviction-housing-discrimination-from-scared-landlords?via=twitter_page Anna Jones* had just finished her shift at St. Rose Hospital in Las Vegas, where she works as an em...

Did anyone decide if ponytail holders would work? I have millions of those. I can wash them to see if they'll hold up. Not the fluffy ones, of course, but the ones that look like wrapped elastic cord. Combined? Have the (possible shorter) strings knotted into the ponytail holder at each side. Makes...