Panic!

[bob turner]

I note that the censors over there have their hands full deleting references to Corona Virus. They must be asking for it - no other forum I visit has even mentioned it - until now . . .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[robert.]

their panic is not about catching a virus. It's about not receiving their toys from China.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

their panic is not about catching a virus. It's about not receiving their toys from China.

Stupid is as stupid does...although I think that they are far more worried about York being cancelled and the enormous vacuum that will leave in their otherwise empty lives

[ScaleCraft]

I could tell you stories. The "epicenter" is LifeCare Kirkland. The Starbucks I go to is 1/2 mile away. The hospital is less than three.
Really looking like delivery/service person....how else can it jump from one care facility to another when employees don't work both places?
Italy is locked down. Israel is locked down (got an e-mail from a group touring Israel who are trying to get OUT).
China doesn't care. Phony numbers reported that it's all under control? Animal House..."All Is Well....All Is Well".

PRC. Maybe this will get us over the hump to quit relying on them for everything.

Oh, NO! Gotta have our China Drives!

[rogruth]

Bob,
It has been mentioned on other parts of MTJ but no one seems to be in a panic here.

[bob turner]

I am in a moderate state of panic! My spouse loves to shop, and is on her way to Wallymart as I type. Trying to learn to keep my fingers out of my nose . . .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Trying to learn to keep my fingers out of my nose . . .

Good information there, Bob.

[Chris Webster]

Over on twitter, Dan McMutrie showed why the age groups most at risk are also the age groups least likely to believe in its severity:
The Tragedy Of 2020, in three pictures. One of the most powerful case studies in psychological bias I have ever seen.

[rogruth]

More virus determined by party? Really?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......the age groups most at risk are also the age groups least likely to believe in its severity.....

Strangely enough, it seems almost too obvious,

But then we have no idea how the survey was conducted and no information how the responders to the survey were chosen; always a little leery of these things - lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.......

[ScaleCraft]

Sort of. By state that leans one way or the other.

I could post all sorts of stuff. Our "governor" has announced no gatherings over 250 folks, including churches, for 21 days in three counties, schools must be prepared to close, and if it goes on past 21 days, he's gonna close the state. Nobody in. Nobody out.

You give visas to folks who work in elder care facilities and don't scrupulously check on health...well, you want those folks to vote for you, right?

It still looks like delivery or service folks are transporting this from facility to facility.

And the local gummint is unwilling to address it until it gets out of hand.

https://patch.com/washington/kirklan...deaths-tuesday

According to Seattle and King County Public Health, residents or employees at 10 King County long-term care facilities have now tested positive for the virus:


Life Care Center of Kirkland
Issaquah Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Emerald Heights
Aegis Living at Marymoor
Redmond Care & Rehabilitation Center
Ida Culver House Ravenna
Boulevard Park Place Active Retirement Community
Madison House Independent & Assisted Living Community
The Gardens at Juanita Bay
Columbia Lutheran Home



Not one of those residents traveled anywhere.
Started in Kirkland, then Issaquah, Redmond, Seattle....spreading outwards.
Chances of employees moonlighting in various places are slim.
No news, government, anybody has said anything about how this is spread. Just look, the real only common denominator is someone who has access to all these facilities.
Unless somebody is driving through the parking lots with a spray truck....like the old DDT trucks of old.

LifeCare is less than 1/2 mile east of my local St. Arbucks....The Gardens is right where I turn into St. Arbucks. I know folks at Emerald Heights.

[E7]

LifeCare is less than 1/2 mile east of my local St. Arbucks....The Gardens is right where I turn into St. Arbucks. I know folks at Emerald Heights.

If you have survived drinking that swill, you probably will survive the "Big C" no sweat!

I remember the name Issaquah well! I corrected errors in telephone company (Sprint) cable records for that area, way back when.

[ScaleCraft]

Grande Pike in a Venti cup. Then they ask if I want "room".
Some of that dark stuff can be used the day before a colonoscopy.

Issa scratch. Puyallip. Snoqualmie. Snohomish. Funny to hear a California visitor trying to pronounce them.

But then, the Big Quake in the Tehachapis almost 70 years ago...radio announcer got so flustered he called it the "tay-ah-chop-eye"

[E7]

To be fair, I have not drank much in the way of Sawbucks coffee, but what I had, did not leave me longing for more. To be even more fair, some of the stuff I brew up at home would probably be a good substitute for paint remover. My dear old grandmother who lived on the Eastern shore of MD made coffee in an old percolator, and if it tasted as good as it smelled, she could have put Sawbuck's out of business in a week. I'd give a grand if I could spend 5 more minutes with her.

As for the old Indian names, they are a treat. We have a few in this neck of the woods too: Conococheague, Conodouguinet, Kittatinny, Tuscarora to start a short list....