Posted on 04/25/2020 4:04:53 AM PDT by RaceBannon
New Thrtead, starting 4/25/2020
Not too many small businesses were still out there competing with Walmart. Those were all closed many years ago. But small party stores without gas pumps certainly are getting wacked now. And Amazon actually used to be the distributor for many small businesses. Dont know the situation now.
I think bambi will be an issue with the garden this summer.
Next summer, however, I don’t expect bambi to be a problem at all.
We have a cpl local meat markets that slaughter small scale farm raised animals. We ‘jointly’ owned a cpl cows with a neighbor a few years back and had that in the freezer for about a year or more. We will probably do the same thing next year. They don’t do chickens though but that’s OK, hubby can manage those.
” speed demons in hot cars and motorcycles racing around the empty streets “
That’s happening everywhere, even small towns and rural areas. We had a 140 mph bust the other day and the faster ones sometimes get away. Acting out YouTube fantasies. What the police are mostly busy with around here are domestic violence calls — WAY UP with so many people home and unemployed.
“Result? Walmart will have a stellar quarter. The little mom/pop shops that were closed”
Yep.
But the masks will change that. We already are avoiding going there because of the hideous masks, and will do other things, like riding. From 4 to 2, 2 to 1 per month.
You’re afraid of masks?
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Hobby Lobby, several 100 yards from Walmart here has MANY competitive items.
Nope, they’re ugly. Humans were made in the Image, not masks.
Good to know. Never been in one. Will check it out sometime, hopefully.
Metro China Virus, gutted Metro Zones. Curve Flatlined.
New York’s extreme fatality rate of 7.5% has dragged the national CFR higher. Going forward, new cases will likely suffer a more typical CFR of 3% or less. More testing detects more infections, so hopefully these new higher numbers are reflecting more of the mild cases, further pushing down the CFR. At least that’s my hope. From what I’ve seen online, our testing hasn’t increased much since reaching 150K/day a week or two ago. With every state doing their own testing and reporting, it’s hard to say if we are seeing accurate numbers.
Do you wear clothing?
You realize in much of the world, especially early christian world in the middle east, face covering was de rigeur?
Is your surgeon a heathen atheist if they wear a facemask during surgery to prevent germ transmission (to you?). Would you prefer they not bother since that’s not ‘made in the image’?
Worst case? People who had mild cases and small internal damage from the virus the first round - will have their bodies treated as 'with underlying health problems' the second round....
Thanks!
No idea. Sorry.
I write this from New York, so it’s an argument against my personal interest. But I don’t see why people living in a Nashville suburb should not be allowed to return to their jobs because people like me choose to live, travel and work in urban sardine cans.Gina Raimondo, the Rhode Island governor, was on to something when, a few weeks ago, she wanted to quarantine drivers arriving from New York. The rest of America needs to get back to life. We New Yorkers prefer our own company, anyway.
If the lock down had been done for just NYC and its surrounding areas, then that would not have happened.
None of the material I could find written about the isolation of the 1918 influenza virus indicates whether it was first or second wave virus. I highly suspect that it was a second wave virus, given the lethality the virus caused in subsequent mouse and chick embryo experiments after the virus was recreated.
There was quite a bit of controversy over publishing its sequence. Influenza research can be a very sensitive topic, since many researchers (and policy makers) believed that the next pandemic would be another influenza virus. The 1917-1919 H1N1 was particularly lethal (but not as much as Covid-19). We still have circulating H1N1—the 2009 pandemic was distantly related to the 1917-1919 pandemic virus—but it is much attenuated from that time.
Lots of out-of-state cars. Nothing to do, let’s take a drive to New York City, get to see everything without the crowds. If you get a ticket, who cares.
Empty buses keep going by. Over 84 MTA have died, 82 of them from the buses and subways.
My sister reports lots of New York license plates where she lives, people going down there to walk on the beaches.
Nobody knows what to do with themselves.
Sad about the domestic violence.
Saw one person going totally crazy on the street. There’s a mental health number you can call.
Lots of cops, firemen, health workers come in from other counties to work. It was too late to do an ID card kind of thing, so no way to sort them out.
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