Posted on 03/22/2020 10:17:36 AM PDT by Mariner
Daily thread #23 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826809/posts?page=1
I lose my sense of taste and smell all the time due to allergies!!!
A cruise ship is still trying to get passengers to port. Now 42 people onboard are sick.
...It was not known what made the 13 passengers and 29 crew members sick on Zaandam, a Holland America Line ship. There are no tests onboard...
...Holland America says said the intention is for Zaandam to make it to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., by March 30, though the company is still working to lock down a reservation to travel through the Panama Canal.
Either I’m up too late, or...
If you want the curves to trend down, shouldn’t that be new fatalities divided by total fatalities, with the y-axis in percent? (Ie., new fatalities / total fatalities, or Fn / Ft.)
Trump outlines national guard activations for New York, California and Washington
...Trump described the federal government as a “backup” to the state leaders, underscoring the importance of keeping governors “in command.”
“We’ll be following them and we hope they can do the job and I think they will. I spoke with all three of the governors today, just a little while ago and they’re very happy with what we’re going to be doing.” Trump said.
... After some discussion, the USNS Mercy will be sent to Los Angeles and not Washington state.
scuttlebutt is the Mercy will dock in Long Beach
FEMA to provide:
Four large medical stations with 1,000 beds to New York
Eight large federal medical stations with 2,000 beds for California
Three small medical stations with 1,000 beds for Washington
The supplies should be in New York and California within the next 48 hours.
Brazilians protest over Bolsonaro’s muddled coronavirus response
Bolsonaro has continued to downplay the pandemic, despite more than 20 members of a delegation he recently led to the US becoming infected with Covid-19.
In an interview on Saturday, he criticised efforts to contain the virus through large-scale quarantines or shutdowns and described the governors of states including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo as “irresponsible”, saying they were creating a “climate of terror” by doing so...
...A growing number of Brazil’s 209 million citizens appear to disagree.
Since last Tuesday, cities across the country have witnessed nightly panelaço (pan-banging) protests where dissenters express their dissatisfaction with Bolsonaro by pummelling saucepans from windows and balconies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/brazilians-protest-bolsonaro-coronavirus-panelaco
Spanish coronavirus cases surge by 5,000 overnight
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spanish-coronavirus-cases-surge-5-121653232.html
I have a large box for the mail. First we let it sit for a while, then I put a portable ozone generator/cleaner in the box and close the lid. It works for 20 minutes. Then you let it sit till the ozone is gone.
I also have a small UV light that I could use instead.
I just checked and the ship left Argentina on March 7th.
Oh, I also checked my givvashitometer. It was on zero.
At some point the herd has to jettison the stupid.
2 cases on the furthest of SW VA....
Thirteen of [Riverside] county’s patients are in the Coachella Valley, four in western Riverside County and three in the southwestern county.
The final two are Riverside County residents who contracted the virus on the Diamond Princess cruise. Kaiser had earlier said the pair were being treated in Northern California; it’s unclear whether they’ve since returned.
CALIFORNIA -
Big Bear Lake’s mayor is city’s 1st confirmed coronavirus case
‘A complete zoo’: Santa Monica closes beach parking lots, Malibu issues reminder to deter crowds
5th coronavirus death reported in L.A. County as number of cases tops 400; officials strengthen bans
https://ktla.com/news/coronavirus/another-coronavirus-death-reported-in-l-a-county-as-number-of-cases-top-400/
O.C. to use juvenile correctional facility to shelter homeless amid coronavirus pandemic as cases climb to 95
List of grocery stores that will have special hours for seniors:
https://ktla.com/news/heres-a-list-of-grocery-stores-in-socal-opening-early-for-seniors-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
that’s pretty funny :)
“doctor who gave her pneumococcus vaccine shot on Friday as tested positive for Covid-19”
Too bad they had to shoot the doctor! And on a Friday, yet!
Take all assets out of her name, and put into yours?
Have been working on that for the house w/ local legal assistance for elders program from local university, but right now all is in limbo as the University is mostly shut down. Also can't find deed, and it's an old one - have to do manual search at County Clerk's office, and, you guessed it... Have not given up on this in long run. Mom's dementia has accelerated recently too, so competence to sign docs in front of a notary could be an issue. I DO have good records of all the loans. SHOULD be further along with this, but, preps for virus / shutdowns / etc. took up substantial time, plus the Mom care is really "wearing" on me, even with help from wife and her cousin (who doesn't drive).
Maybe refinance, with lower rates?
Talked to 2 banks about a HELOC loan some time back. Can't do w/o good source of income. Was dicey even then due to doing mostly 1099 work. Housing market in Mom's town is crap (long story), banks REALLY don't want to chance ending up with the house, and that was B4 all this.
Is there not any room for her, at your home? A den?
NYET. What little is left of my business occupies any spare space. Plan was to build new small house on other end of our 1 acre property, for Mom, then sell hers - that's all shot to hell now.
Do you have siblings?
Aarrgghh! Me = Eldest Son duty.
We love him, but next brother despite once being a top IBM global troubleshooter is useless (alcoholic), goes "incommunicado" for months at a time, lives in tiny crammed full upstairs apt. w/ no disabled access - Mom is 95% wheelchair bound. Other brother is sober but single and no $$ -- 6 (!!!) divorces will do that to ya'. Also is 2100 miles away. My wife and her cousin can only offer some time as assistance. That's IT for family help.
The one "good" thing is that my quarterly Fed estimated tax payment has probably gone to near zero. but... I'd much rather be in a position to owe them a lot!
Thanks for the ideas, tho'! Some new sideways alternative may pop out. ;-) Anyway - I'm outta here (FR - tonight). Gotta get some sleep and hit everything again in the morning!
speaking of tone-deaf ijits:
SHANGHAI - As the novel coronavirus epidemic has started to wane, Chinese are longing for tours across the country, with the plurality of the respondents choosing to travel in May, a survey has found.
The survey with nearly 15,000 responds from over 100 cities in China found 16 percent of the respondents want to travel in May,
https://www.nationthailand.com/ann/30384620
Need sleep. When I fist read this, I thought it said "Four large marijuana stations with 1,000 beds to New York".
back to Panda Propaganda and a huge barf alert:
CNBC
China is now the one ‘reliable source of supply left in the world’: Strategist
China reported its first domestic coronavirus case after a gap of three days as the country saw a surge in imported infections with 45 new cases......including one domestic infection transmitted by imported cases in Guangzhou.
Six deaths were reported from China, including five from Hubei Province, taking the death toll in the country to 3,261.
.[CCP speak: imported = Chinese nationals returning to China (since they’re not letting anyone else in) But the imported thing is to intentionally raise fear towards ‘foreigners’ of the non-national type. Non-nationals who chose to ride out the storm in China are being scrutinized very heavily as an air of distrust is cultivated]
—Japan urges no nonessential travel to the United States.
—Singapore to fully shut its borders after recording its first two deaths.
—Colombia reports its first death from the coronavirus.
—Sri Lanka police detain nearly 300 for breaching curfew.
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Japan has issued a travel warning for its nationals, urging not to make unessential trips to the United States because of the rapidly expanding coronavirus outbreak in that country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
https://www.chron.com/news/medical/article/The-Latest-Wolf-Over-220-000-screened-at-U-S-15147964.php
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