Cool and clear. [65F]
Yesterday ended up beautiful and clear with a nice breeze to dry everything out and cool everything off.
I ended up not getting as much done as I wanted to. I was hoping to get at least one load of stuff for the hamfest to my house for loading. I’ll have to go get all of it today, and load up. Something will be slipping and I’m pretty sure it will be watching the news develop.
The hamfest is in Ft Bend county at the Rosenberg fairgrounds. I was very glad to hear that the cases there were travel related. UNhappy to think about all the people I’m going to interact with tomorrow. It’s outside which will help, I’ll keep my distance, and I’m not going to be shaking hands much. Since ebay killed my listing, I’ll probably bring at least a box or two of masks. I’ll ask less than my ebay price.
Another thing that will slip is putting a piece of test gear back together for sale. I’m the king of taking stuff apart, not so much putting it back together. It will sell well on ebay, so I’ll do that.
Tried to drop off 17 3m Breathe easy turbo PAPR forced air respirator units, only slightly moldy, at my local auction. Spent over 2 hours trying to do so, only to discover they won’t take anything that someone might breathe through. Sucks. I really wanted to quickly sell the lot and not ship anything. Maybe one of the other local auctions will take it. They are NOT ready to use, needing cleaning, batteries, and filters.
Between my unscheduled shopping trip, my unsuccessful auction trip, and checking on my truck, I am behind where I hoped to be getting ready for my swapmeet.
So, I’m gonna be off line most of today, once I get out of the house.
KEEP STACKING.
nick
I dunno, Your Majesty, you’ve got a lot of competition. A service shop near me has a sign listing hourly rates, with a much higher rate if you’ve taken the thing apart and need them to put it back together. According to the owner, the sign was put up mostly as a joke but they do occasionally charge the higher rate.
Because I refuse to buy a new car, keep cars past the point that most would get rid of them, and do most of my own work, I’d be happy to pay someone to use their pro shop tools to get something apart and then put everything back together with the new parts. That’s generally not an option, so I’ll often go up to my dad’s place and we’ll use the air hammer and torch and hydraulic press and angle grinder to get the blasted pieces apart. Assuming my time is worth something, a questionable proposition, it might be cheaper to just pay a shop to replace the struts or whatever, but this way I know it’s done right.
+1
I also actually enjoy doing car work…usually. I do have my limits – both in knowledge and in frustration effort level. The only work I’ve ever had a mechanic do (besides warranty work) is front wheel bearings. No thanks.
Oh, I also had someone rebuild the 4 speed muncie transmission in my Corvette. It was actually a guy in an online Corvette club, who lives in TX. I sent the trans to him via FedEx. Yes, you really can ship almost anything. He got it back to me looking and working like new.
Visited two rural Walmarts yesterday plus a big American Indian grocery today. No shortage of paper products or anything else I noticed aside from the small bottles of hand sanitizer. I already have a few gallons in the bunker to refill my small bottles so no problem. I did get another 20 lbs of potatoes and more onions for the cellar. I visited the local fire department last Friday and made sure they had the location of my bunker marked in case rescue is needed. Later they sent over a couple of guys to verify the location. Discovered one is a neighbor. Working on meatspace. Later that evening we ran into them again at the local steak house. Very friendly folks. Now that my wife is doing a little better I can get out a bit more.
Working the ATM business is easy and not stressful. But managing the storage facility is a headache. I am actively trying to sell it. We had a buyer lined up in January but he literally disappeared before closing. Not even his bank could find him. But we did sell one of my rentals yesterday. I made twice what I paid for it and will put that cash in a safe dark place. In uncertain times, having a good cash stash could make a big difference.
No need for masks unless you are sick or a health professional. Apparently the initial reports of aerosol transmission are incorrect.
Driving to Memphis today to pickup great granddaughter for spring break. It’s just a bit over 300 miles but I’m not as young as I was 50 years ago so it takes a lot out of me. Even when younger I never enjoyed driving, except on my motorcycle. Dealing with a 7 yr old for the next week will be fun but tiring. Our handyman has a little girl her age so she will have someone to play with besides a dodering old fool. I always play Ken as a vain idiot when we play Barbie’s. Imagination is fun at any age. But getting up from the floor isn’t as easy as it once was.
Wife is able to get out of bed now without help and toddle around the house, so she doesn’t need my constant attention. She is even cooking again. Very interesting dishes now after binge watching cooking shows while bedridden. Next step is to get her off oxygen. We see a pulmonary guy next week.
@ech, they’re catching it without any intimate contact…. so what’s the transmission mode for a guy walking thru italy or spain? Or being on a plane?
n
–“school children”
— you don’t have enough ammo
–oh, right, no one there does.
–I guess ‘bangers gonna ‘bang so why worry?
n
@harold, that’s good news about your wife, I’m glad to hear she’s recovering. Eat the meals and be happy!
n
More stunning innumeracy….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8082799/Math-HARD-MSNBCs-Brian-Williams-NYT-editor-guest-mocked-marveling-false-tweet.html
“‘Math is HARD!’: MSNBC’s Brian Williams and his NYT journalist guest are mocked for marveling at tweet that said Mike Bloomberg could have given Americans $1m each with the $500m he spent on his campaign”
n
Follow up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8076297/Man-gets-jail-video-licking-ice-cream-tub.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8080337/American-Airlines-mechanic-jailed-three-years-tampering-packed-plane.html
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De Blasio is a jacka$$. But he’s got this right.
Of course MY question is what the hell did he think was going to happen? 9 million people constantly coming and going and untold millions passing thru? And 2nd world sanitation at best?
How many voices lately have said that ‘everyone will/should get it?’ That mixed with “80% are fine” which really means 20% are NOT FINE, is very worrying to me. Which 20% of your friends and relatives are you willing to have die or suffer? Possibly with life long bad effects? and what happens to everyone ELSE while that 20% wipes out medical care in the US for the next 6-12 weeks?
Anyone want to do a heart procedure under those conditions? Cosmetic surgery? How about ordinary Dr visits?
n
About that 15 YO girl beaten by gang members, I hate to say this but the only thing those people understand is violence. I have seen this work, but admit the only success was getting them to go somewhere else to prey on weaker people.
Just some Black school kids having some fun. Imagine when De BungHole closes the schools to stop the virus. Wild in the streets.
De Blasio is a jacka$$. But he’s got this right.
The Dems now believe that the virus may well be the key to getting Trump voted out.
It might well be, if Trump doesn’t stop going to every possible outlet, including his own Twitter feeds, and blabbering about how everything is fine, don’t worry, be happy, we’ve got this under “almost” airtight control.” (That last was Kudlow, just yesterday).
Just three hours ago he tweeted that Azar was “doing a fantastic job, as the numbers would indicate.”
Which numbers? The ones that show spread over much of the country, with totals doubling every three days? Those numbers? (Numbers at end of 3/2 were 100 cases. Currently (3/6) – 254.
If it gets as bad as I think it will, the Dems will take all those remarks and Katrina him to death with them.
Testing is apparently not as widespread as is currently being presumed:
“I said ‘Who does testing? And they said, ‘No idea.”
If it gets as bad as I think it will, the Dems will take all those remarks and Katrina him to death with them.
It is a two way street as Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin and Kathleen Blanco found out.
Seattle’s Prog city/county governments are already getting blowback from the politicization of the virus, with neighborhoods around SeaTac objecting to the repurposing of a closed Econolodge in Kent as a quarantine facility.
Eight months is a long time in politics. Wasn’t the assassination of the Iranian General supposed to be the spark for WWIII?
Roofer and adjuster will ok the new roof. Only concern on my part is the $7200 deductible. on top of preps and the truck repair, that sucks. Still, I can shift that expense somewhat, assuming we don’t get locked down.
n
“15th US death reported in WA.
CDC has tested fewer than 2,000 Americans, Atlantic reports
15 more patients from Kirkland nursing home hospitalized”
–um, the death toll from the old folks home is going to be “all of them” + some percentage of the caregivers and fire/rescue.
CDC still covering themselves in glory I see.
n
um, yeah…. MS, apple, and FB so far….
n
Hey, my Dad seemed to always be “you son of a bitches are out of my house when you graduate high school”. And then he wondered why I never visited….
I have an acquaintance whose father, on the kids’ 18th birthdays, took them out the back door and broke the plate that they’d just eaten supper on, saying, “You’ve eaten your last free meal here.” If my parents had done that I’d have told them they’d never see their grandchildren and walked out the door. (Which would be a poor second to a better retribution, which wouldn’t have occurred to me in the moment: waiting a couple decades and putting the doddering father into the worst nursing home available.)
Of course, there is the father is who gets blasted every night and beats everyone in sight. Nobody makes it to 18 in that toxic environment.
My wife’s grandfather left home (in Arkansas) the first time when he was 12 (1912). They found him in the next County trying to get work at farm. The Sheriff brought him back. The next time he ran away, he was 14. He actually joined a traveling circus and became a carney selling games. He did that for several years and then joined a group of men traveling town to town in west Texas putting on wrestling shows. They would rent the local theater on an afternoon and put on a three hour wrestling show. All fake. The crowds loved them.
I had to arm wrestle him when I married my wife. He was 82, I was 21. He beat me 3 out of 3. He showed me the trick and then beat me again. I could bench press 330 lbs back then and he beat me ! A year later, me and five other grandsons carried him to a grave. He never drank a day in his life and never beat his children (other than normal discipline) like his father did.
Oh, I also had someone rebuild the 4 speed muncie transmission in my Corvette. It was actually a guy in an online Corvette club, who lives in TX. I sent the trans to him via FedEx. Yes, you really can ship almost anything. He got it back to me looking and working like new.
What year model ? I drove a 1969 t-top with the 4 speed and 454 once. Even though the clutch was mildly slipping, the four speed was smooth.
I’ve given up working on cars other than batteries and air filters. My lower back has a degenerative condition and bending over kills me after 30 XX 20 XX 5 minutes.
Contact with contaminated surfaces then contact with the face. Eating contaminated food. Using contaminated eating utensils.
Good news if true, but literally everyone is saying it’s droplet borne.
nn
Nice. Tyler Durden byline. No attribution. Coward.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/costco-runs-out-toilet-paper-wont-have-more-centuries
Tell your daughters that one of them is a spare and ask which one wants to get married first. You figure that either one is worth two cows and six goats and that you can sell the livestock to pay for the roof. Suggestion: prop up your camera so you can get video of their reactions.
I’ve told my
precious darling daughtermiserable little brat of a preteen daughter that if she doesn’t knock off the self-pitying bullshit and the disobedience that I’m going to marry her off and make her someone else’s problem. She was unimpressed with the threat, alas.This article has a list of covid-19 mortality rates:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/884d35/er-doctor-healthcare-workers-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR2TqLoDoMnIlV5X1OP4wQT4nDXzb91xTz3r8DBwrCIFO01nuFV1qvTRTJU
Age and mortality Rate of COVID-19
0-9: 0%
10-19: 0.2%
20-29: 0.2%
30-39: 0.2%
40-49: 0.4%
50-59: 1.3%
60-69: 3.6%
70-80: 8%
80+: 14.8%
Comorbid disease: Mortality rate of COVID-19
Hypertension: 6%
Diabetes: 7.3%
Cardiovascular disease: 10.5%
Chronic Respiratory disease 6.3%
Cancer (any): 5.6%
Well, in the midst of coronaV, I’m driving a one-way Penske truck to San Antone around Wed next week. To the new/old house. MrsAtoz is remaining in Vegas until the Twins get their degrees around Dec. I’ll go back and forth, but will become a Tejas resident once again. I’m also taking all MrsAtoz books we sell to continue that in SA. Time to line up an exterminator to get the possum in the back yard and potential meeses in the attic.
Oh, yeah, our local Smith’s is out of hand sanitizer. Plenty of anti-bacterial soap. That will go next.
1971 convertible. It was originally a 350 small block car, but came with a 400 small block. I knew it wasn’t original – don’t care. That motor dropped a valve, so i replaced the engine with a 350 – around 400Hp. It’s by no means a show car – it’s a good 10 footer – but I only really care about having fun driving it.
One of these days I’m going to put fuel injection on it. Real soon now…
SXSW cancelled. Sniff.
Well, in the midst of coronaV, I’m driving a one-way Penske truck to San Antone around Wed next week. To the new/old house.
If you drive down using the Albuquerque-Lubbock route, keep an eye out for gypsies working the roads SE of Lubbock. I encountered them driving down from Portland, and I’ve heard similar stories from other people driving that route since.
This article has a list of covid-19 mortality rates:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/884d35/er-doctor-healthcare-workers-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR2TqLoDoMnIlV5X1OP4wQT4nDXzb91xTz3r8DBwrCIFO01nuFV1qvTRTJU
Age and mortality Rate of COVID-19
0-9: 0%
10-19: 0.2%
20-29: 0.2%
30-39: 0.2%
40-49: 0.4%
50-59: 1.3%
60-69: 3.6%
70-80: 8%
80+: 14.8%
Comorbid disease: Mortality rate of COVID-19
Hypertension: 6%
Diabetes: 7.3%
Cardiovascular disease: 10.5%
Chronic Respiratory disease 6.3%
Cancer (any): 5.6%
Awesome ! I wonder how the flu compares to this.
Figuring in gas prices and a plane ticket back to LV, maybe a round trip Penske would be less? You might get a Chevrolet… and see the USA.
And OMG !!!! Austin has declared its first emergency in THIRTY FOUR YEARS and canceled SxSW. Because of KungFlu.
I didn’t hear what the last emergency was…. Shoal Creek flooding maybe.
Whatever. Ya *uckers canceled AuqaFest years ago. Which was actually fun compared to bar hopping on 6th St and listening to not so great bands that should go practice in a garage for a few years before showing their faces anywhere past a High School Prom.
Yeah, I still have a few Skipper Pins. 🙂
Great story. Snarkiness makes me say, imagine how much longer he would have lived if he’d had an occasional drink. Please don’t take offense. I am no SteveF 🙂
And, SteveF,
Might you be losing your touch? I ask with great respect, because I have experienced the charms XXXXXX orneriness of a preteen. 🙁
My management had a meeting yesterday about having me travel the last week in March just to give the customer face time. Of course, I wasn’t present and found out after the fact.
I’m not into the hysteria, but I don’t want to head to DC right now just so a customer can have a warm and fuzzy moment. As an asthmatic, I am in a high risk group for exposure, and I can’t help but believe the secrecy didn’t have as much to do with the virus as it does managment’s continuing crack smoking fantasy that the Music Ed major in our support group can do my job.
@Greg, you are Dilbert and the Music Ed major is the PHB.
And I ain’t getting on no plane right now. That might be the only worse situation than a cruise ship.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/2-new-yorkers-who-attended-an-aipac-conference-in-dc-test-positive-for-coronavirus
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
Same here. With the added bonus of recalling how much of a jerk I was way back then.
You are in luck. FWBs are now sealed bearings: no service possible. When they get noisy, pop new ones in. Questionable design, but popular.
I also enjoy doing my own work. I started out doing it to save money, but quickly transitioned to saving headaches. I can go at my own pace, and make sure everything is right. If not, I know who to blame. I haven’t made the same mistakes too many times. Having a few cars, so as not to need the one being worked on, relieves pressure.
I would draw the line at manual transmissions, although the issue won’t likely come up any more. Some of them require some extensive special tooling. By comparison, automatics are simple to rebuild, although some of the mass rebuilders do a great job.
I would also draw the line at setting up differential gear sets. These require a lot of care. Better to raid the junk yard and pick one from a nice car, as I have done. Setting up new gears is hard enough. NEVER adjust the parameters of a set that has run even a few thousand miles. Maybe some can do that, but I would not try.
@MrAtoz
Why would you want to get rid of a possum? Worst case scenario, you could always make stew… In the meantime they’ll eat slugs and snails and god-knows what else.
Funny story. Back in my salad days I threw a big party for a friend at our beach house. Perhaps 60 people and only two bathrooms so people would go into the backyard to take a leak. Unbeknownst to the guests, we had a resident possum living in the cypress bushes. Picture it: a friend slips out the back door and shortly thereafter he came tearing back in with a blood-curdling scream, “Jim, Jim! There’s a giant rat in the back yard!”
Still makes me laugh. City-slicker.
Why would you want to get rid of a possum? Worst case scenario, you could always make stew… In the meantime they’ll eat slugs and snails and god-knows what else.
Ticks. One possum can eat up to 1,000 ticks a day.
Yes, deer ticks. Yes, deer ticks have Lyme disease. Ask me how I know.
Funny story. Back in my salad days I threw a big party for a friend at our beach house. Perhaps 60 people and only two bathrooms so people would go into the backyard to take a leak. Unbeknownst to the guests, we had a resident possum living in the cypress bushes. Picture it: a friend slips out the back door and shortly thereafter he came tearing back in with a blood-curdling scream, “Jim, Jim! There’s a giant rat in the back yard!”
A pissed-on and pissed-off possum.
You do not want to mess with a pissed-off possum. I have seen a 45 lb possum gut a dog with their claws. My neighbor saved the dog with $4,000 of emergency surgery.
Here’s a fun fact: The building I work in near Toronto has one presumptive case of the virus. Everyone working on that floor was sent home to self-quarantine, at full pay. Since they are a different part of the business we can’t access that floor and they can’t access ours, so contact of any sort would be minimal. Lots of extra cleaning of that floor and all building common areas and lots of briefings from senior management including the company’s chief medical officer. He is saying, yes there is aerosol spread but masks are not much use in avoiding it, maybe of some use to avoid spreading what you have. Wash your hands, don’t touch your face, report to your manager if you feel ill and go home, and let’s see what happens.
I am waiting to see if I will be told to stay home for a week or two – I expect that depends if there are other cases in the building. Everyone in my department is being told to take the laptop home every night since we might be told not to come in, and we all have remote access (IT department).
I probably have enough food for a month or more, though it may get boring.
Oh, and the mortality chart agrees with what I have heard. Bad over 80 or with a pre-existing condition. Not much of a concern if you are under 60. I sure am darn lucky to be 59!!!
Final fun fact: the person that is the presumptive case did travel in the last 10 days — to the USA. They did not say where. No idea where the virus might have been picked-up.
Overall flu averages 0.14%. The H1N1 was 1%. Spanish Flu was 2-3%.
Those rates above (from China) will drop as they get a handle on how many sub-clinical cases there are.
https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/coronavirus-mortality-rate-lower-than-we-think.html
Problem with that number is that when a person is over 80 there are generally other health problems. If a person *might* have the KungFlu, has a heart attack, dies, the person is counted as dying from KungFlu. There is no attempt to actually determine the cause of death because dying from KungFlu is more dramatic.
It also allows states to declare a state of emergency so the state can get federal funds. Kentucky had one death, state of emergency. Most of those federal funds going for uses other than KungFlu. There is a lot of money to made in this KungFlu event. Good scammers will not fail to take advantage, including state governments.
And OMG !!!! Austin has declared its first emergency in THIRTY FOUR YEARS and canceled SxSW. Because of KungFlu.
KungFlu, but also the homeless have legally sanctioned rights to more territory this year, and the city has been awfully slow cleaning up the sh*t, sometimes literally, ahead of the event dates. They weren’t ready for that kind of attention.
The Coronavirus is a great excuse for everybody.
Never ascribe to illness that which can be explained by grossly incompetent Prog city government.
Our two doxies are coming with me. Barking all night won’t ingratiate me with the neighbors. The possum looks pretty small, but I don’t want a vet bill for two beat up dogs.
@Greg, you are Dilbert and the Music Ed major is the PHB.
I don’t recall the PHB wearing $200 (guessing) dresses, but Ok. Who knows what he does off the clock.
I aspire to be Mr. Garbage Man from the animated series.
Dilbert: “Why are you a garbage man?”
Mr. Garbage Man: “Why are you an engineer?”
It also allows states to declare a state of emergency so the state can get federal funds. Kentucky had one death, state of emergency. Most of those federal funds going for uses other than KungFlu. There is a lot of money to made in this KungFlu event. Good scammers will not fail to take advantage, including state governments.
God only knows what was in the $8 billion package which was passed today.
God only knows what was in the $8 billion package which was passed today.
It sure was not about the Covid-19. A lot of beaks got dipped today.
And OMG !!!! Austin has declared its first emergency in THIRTY FOUR YEARS and canceled SxSW. Because of KungFlu.
KungFlu, but also the homeless have legally sanctioned rights to more territory this year, and the city has been awfully slow cleaning up the sh*t, sometimes literally, ahead of the event dates. They weren’t ready for that kind of attention.
The Coronavirus is a great excuse for everybody.
Never ascribe to illness that which can be explained by grossly incompetent Prog city government.
I thought SXSW made a lot of money for Austin ?
Wait, wait, wait, I’ll bet that the city applies to the Feddies for a grant to make up their losses.
“80+: 14.8%”
Adios, Amigos!
The Spanish flu was awful because it took out people in the 20-50 age group, which is completely different than what you expect with any other flu, which takes out those both younger and older than that age bracket. The age bracket might be 15-60 (too lazy to Google this) , but the point was it preferentially killed those in the healthy prime of life, probably by turning their own healthy immune response against them, rather than the young or old.
Slim, no worries. PBR and Tito’s will pull you through. Hic.
Heh.
From the web page of my county supervisor:
Supervisor Kathryn Barger : I declared a Local Emergency this week, not rooted in panic, but to ensure additional federal and state funding to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in L.A. County. As of today, there are 11 total cases countywide.
I thought SXSW made a lot of money for Austin ?
SXSW *costs* the city a lot of money as well.
Driving down 71 (main road from airport to downtown) yesterday with my wife while heading to lunch, we speculated when the city was going to move the homeless camps ahead of the festival start a week from today. Except for the road immediately in front of Planned Parenthood, the urban outdoorsmen were firmly ensconced.
The cancellation was carefully calculated by Mayor Adler. Of course, it is better that we don’t have the whole world flying into town with the current hysteria, but I have no doubt that the city was looking for an excuse.
Slim, no worries. PBR and Tito’s will pull you through. Hic.
Tito’s. I can’t believe they had to issue a press release telling people not to make hand sanitizer out of their product.
Vodka, water, and essential oils mixed in a spray bottle is an old theater trick for freshening costumes too fragile for laundering or dry cleaning, but the alcohol content of most vodka brands isn’t nearly sufficient for that purpose much less as hand sanitizer.
“80+: 14.8%”
Adios, Amigos!
Still an 85% survival rate if you get it.
@ray, the opposite works too, and there is LOTS of evidence from China that they were writing down anything BUT kungflu.
If the real denominator was increased to reflect higher death rate in China (like all those people locked in their homes to starve) the lethality would look higher. If the death number is accurate, but the cases are under-counted the opposite happens.
IN ANY CASE, any number based on China’s numbers is nothing but speculation and BS.
The only numbers that matter are from western countries and we don’t have enough data yet to make any definitive statements.
n
OK, the divorce of the former employee has generated another subpoena. Turns out the former employee and the soon to be former husband #3, #4, or #5 (who the crap knows ?) got married in a secret wedding a year and a half earlier than they told us. So we are doing another document dump of internal written communications back to the new date. At least my lawyer managed to quash all “trade secrets” and any mention of a customer or prospect by name.
This is wrong. And crazy. My lawyer told me that the former employee is suing the soon to be former husband for a piece of his business. They were only married for three years !
I hate managing people. I may fire everyone and run this thing from home.
“80+: 14.8%”
Adios, Amigos!
Still an 85% survival rate if you get it.
My money’s on CowboySlim in any event!
Finished loading the truck. Front to back as high as the cab roof and didn’t get everything in. Weight is starting to be an issue, but not like last year 🙂 I was motorboating….
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Interesting conversation with my insurance adjuster. His neighbor runs a business that manufactures in China, outside of Shanghai. They (Chinese) told them that they will not be able to produce any new product as all their engineers are dead. Also the husband and child of the owner. And the staff. They told them that when whatever is on the boat gets here, that’s all they’re getting, forever. They’ve had a 20 year run and are personally close as the business was the sole customer of the manufacturer for years as the manf. bootstrapped up.
So my adjuster says, “it’s way worse than anything you’ve heard.” I told him some of the things I’ve seen online and he reiterated, “It’s worse.” Also, he knows that children have died but aren’t being reflected in the stats due to the family connection.
He wouldn’t get within 6 ft of me, and moved away when I approached, and he sure wouldn’t touch me.
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My iranian car repair place owner and his cronies were sitting around gloating about the current plague on the iranian leadership. They see it as ‘the hand of God.’ Took 40 years but they’re getting what they have been praying for. His crew was surprised I knew anything about the history of modern Iran, the infiltrators in the Clinton and obammaa governments, and all the other stuff we talked about. I told him it was nothing special, but people know and pay attention. Iranian people are not forgotten by everyone.
n
My wife came home tonight, talking about how an active duty military guy pulled strings, worked connections, and bullied his way into being seen at the Austin VA Outpatient Clinic, having just flown back from Korea exhibiting all of the classic KungFlu symptoms.
The good/bad is that my wife was on the other end of the building so she doesn’t know more about what happened.
I didn’t think active duty could be seen at the VA. What will kill us in this country is everyone with the right connections being able to bypass all the normal precautions … like not letting a potential KungFlu patient into a building full of immuno-compromised vets, mostly in the age groups with the highest mortality rates.
Oh hell, that is so wrong.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/13th-death-confirmed-us-virus-spreads-every-country-europe-except-1-live-updates
And another plague ship…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-nightmare-sea-california-scrambles-test-passengers-aboard-grand-princess
n
Oh hell, that is so wrong.
The military hospitals at Fort Hood and San Antonio never would have let him past the lobby, especially the San Antonio facility with all the burn patients.
“At the gas station across the street, a steady stream of customers gave Rupali Handa, 35, and her coworkers an earful about the plan, some saying that a quarantine site wouldn’t have been proposed for a wealthier part of the region.”
Well, no sh*t. You wanted something done …
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/coronavirus-motel-ignites-clash-at-epicenter-of-seattle-outbreak
For the uninitiated, Kent isn’t a great neighborhood, but it is gentrifying. When I worked in Downtown Seattle, my manager and a couple of the other team members lived in Kent or Auburn. Not everyone can afford Medina, home of BillG himself.
MrsAtoz *fired* all her employees (except us family leeches) years ago. “You want to work for me, become an independent contractor.” They did. No more making huge payrolls, health care, etc. They get paid when we get paid. It is stressful making payroll in a small company.