Posted on 03/06/2020 9:37:20 AM PST by weston
Gallup: Trump's approval back to 49%, up from 44% earlier this month and matching the highest rating of his presidency; 60% approve of his handling of coronavirus, 38% disapprove. https://t.co/fVBDVx5wqU— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 24, 2020
well I dug up more..
Talked to Lysis’s hubby. She is fine.. couldn’t talk now as phones/hearing issues.
Let him know to tell her we were worried about her..
whew.. I was worried too...
Thank you so much. Did he say why she was AWOL, like computer problems?
Hey, exit!
I_be_tc saw a poster very much like this today and said that it made her think of you!
:-)
Right now, for 24 hours a day:
Kids are stuck at home with abusive parents
People are stuck with abusive partners
Tensions are rising every hour that passes
AA groups are not meeting
Therapy sessions aren’t happening in person
Stay at home now so we can #ReopenAmerica ASAP— ELLY MAYE BLANCO➕➕➕ (@Ellysa_Maye) March 24, 2020
Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of Complications Due To Coronavirus
21 Million Chinese Cellphone Users Disappear in Three Months
The number of cellphone users decreased from 1.600957 billion to 1.579927 billion, a drop of 21.03 million. The number of landline users decreased from 190.83 million to 189.99 million, a drop of 840,000.
In the previous February, the number increased. According to MIIT, the number of cellphone users increased in February 2019 from 1.5591 billion to 1.5835 billion, which is 24.37 million more. The number of landline users increased from 183.477 million to 190.118 million, which is 6.641 million more.
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s population at the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger than in 2018, reaching 1.40005 billion.
The article went on to postulate that some of the landlines might have been shut down as a consequence of the coronavirus quarantines, particularly lines used by shuttered business operations, but the sheer magnitude of the cell phone user decline makes it more difficult to explain. China Mobile, the nation’s largest carrier, reported gaining 3.7 million new accounts in December but then losing over 8 million in January and February, months in which it posted gains of 3.5 million users the previous year
On the other hand, the government is currently requiring citizens to use their cell phones to generate “health codes” so their movements can be tracked and permission to travel can be restricted to healthy individuals, so as U.S.-based commentator Tang Jiangyuan put it, it is effectively “impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone.”
“Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets, shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cell phones,” Tang noted.
A correspondent writing for Bloomberg News on March 18 reported using the system and said it was in the process of being “rolled out nationwide at railway stations, restaurants, pharmacies, and more.” Other reports in China have noted how cell phones are ubiquitous there and are employed for everything from accessing public and commercial resources to telecommuting to school during the coronavirus lockdown.
With this in mind, it might not be completely impossible to get by in Chinese cities without a cell phone at the moment, but it seems unlikely that a huge number of citizens would choose this moment to get rid of their phones.
“Lacking data, the real death toll in China is a mystery. The cancellation of 21 million cellphones provides a data point that suggests the real number may be far higher than the official number,” the Epoch Times concluded.
McNally died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, according to representative Matt Polk. McNally was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
His plays and musicals explored how people connect — or fail to. With wit and thoughtfulness, he tackled the strains in families, war, and relationships and probed the spark and costs of creativity. He was an openly gay writer who wrote about homophobia, love and AIDS.
The U.S. Postal Service in response says it needs to hire as many as 1,000 workers in the Bay Area in order to keep up with the increase in package volume. The agency says the hiring will focus mostly in the San Francisco and San Jose areas.
Great news!!
Thank you Dolly.
How is Jen doing?
Is she still sick?
And I hope you haven’t caught what she has.
no I didn’t ask him.. she’ll let us know, if she wishes to
(now one of the people here didn’t PO our breakfast hostess, did they?)
Tell her, for crying out loud- we are starving!!!
Jen went back to work the next day. She hasn’t any symptoms to speak of.. it is cold/flu season and allergy time of year. She has really been putting in long hours and here two days off she has been working.. part of a day. She gets overtime and they are throwing in an extra 1/hr but she is pretty exhausted and as to be expected there are a lot of shoppers who are rude and abusive verbally
Now, I'm not sure I want to touch that but could have had something to do with BACON, maybe?
This is what I like most about President Tromp.
President Donald Trump did something difficult and remarkable during the White House press briefing on Sunday: he stood up for the free market in a moment of crisis, when at least half the country is pushing him to abandon it.
A reporter asked the president why he was not using the Defense Production Act to nationalize industries to take control of companies and force them to produce needed health care equipment for treating coronavirus patients.
Trump’s answer was that the United States does not believe in nationalization, and does not need it, either:
Q: Mr. President, when it comes to the Defense Production Act. We know that governments across the country all day today were pleading with you to utilize. the DPA, to us it —
Trump: Well, it depends which governments you’re talking about.
Q: — specifically for that allocation piece that you mentioned, Mr. [Peter] Navarro. Why not use it now, if that would answer their pleas for help?
Trump: Well, we are using it now. The fact that I signed it, it’s in effect. But you know, we’re a country not based on nationalizing our business. Call a person over in Venezuela. Ask them: how did nationalization of their businesses work out? Not too well. The concept of nationalizing our business is not a good concept.
The president continued by explaining that the private sector knew better than the government how to produce needed commodities — and which companies should produce them:
Trump: Here’s the beauty of it. If we go out and we want, let’s say, masks, we don’t know who to call. But Hanes, who makes things of cotton, various elements, lots of things, it’s a great company. They called us, and they said, “We’re going to make millions of masks.” We got a call today from 3M…
The president went on to explain that sometimes a company that government might think was best to produce a needed commodity might not actually be able to do it:
Trump: If you go the national route, nationalization route. We’re gonna tell a company to make a ventilator? They don’t even know what a ventilator is! In the case of one company, they used to make them, years ago, and they know how to make them. You know, it’s a very complex piece of equipment, frankly.
The president added that while nationalization was useful as a threat, it could also be damaging as a threat, because of negative signals it sent about the economy — and he reiterated that companies were stepping forward without the threat even being necessary:
Trump: We have the threat of doing it if we need it. We may have to use of somewhere along the supply chain in a minor way. But we have millions of masks being done. We have respirators, we have ventilators…
When this was announced, it sent tremors through our business community, and through our country, because basically what are you doing? You’re talking about — you’re going to nationalize an industry, or you’re going to nationalize? You’re going to take away companies? You’re going to tell companies what to do? The truth is most people — nobody would know where to start. There are companies out there that you wouldn’t think of that have called us …
It is impossible to overstate the courage of this stance.
Glad to know she is feeling better and it didn’t last long.
I know about rude and abusive shoppers, son comes home and has a tale to tell most every day.
And with this virus scare people are really on edge and can be very nasty.
This was a superb answer by our President.
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