Shermann
Shermann's JournalPutin's Bleak Covid-19 Admission: 'We Don't Have Much to Brag About'
Putin is humble and brutally honest here. I can't recall a time when Obama and Putin were faced with a similar situation and I thought to myself: "You know, I wish our American leader was being as honest as the Russian leader about this."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/europe/coronavirus-russia-putin.html
The Orange Council of 35
Cinnuman is assembling an Orange Council of 35 to decide the fate of Left and Right Earth. The Council will be comprised mostly of esteemed Elves and Wizards from government, industry, and academia. A few Gnomes from finance and mining will also be appointed. Rounding out the table are three relatives and Driuliani the Nazgûl. The Council will deliberate over the existential threat from the enemy Coronavirus from the East for an entire day and make an announcement as soon as tomorrow.
Dr. Birx on CV-19 R-Naught values
Dr. Birx discussed the virus models and R-Naught (R0) values at the 59:00 mark in Thursday's presser.
R-Naught without mitigation : 6 (up significantly from earlier estimates of 3)
R-Naught with social distancing mitigation : 1.3 to 1.5
This is being presented as a major victory for the American people. To a degree that is true, but this is also a bit of a bombshell to me. It suggests that the incidences of new cases are not going to go down with social distancing, but rather plateau or rise slightly for an extended time. As soon as the lock-down is removed, it will take off again. It does not appear you can bring the R-Naught value below the magic value of 1 without draconian measures similar to what China did. Any experts here? Am I missing something?
Post your survival renditions of breakfast and dinner dishes from The Before Time
I'll start. So I had some Spam and Eggs. This is actually a bit like ham and eggs. Spam is a pantry staple during hard times with a shelf life of a few years. Cut a few lengths approximately 1/4" thick. Brown those up in a little oil and serve with fried eggs. Fast, easy, and surprisingly good. This certainly beats making a sortie to the supermarket just for breakfast meat.
Spam is high in calories, fat, and sodium but also contains some protein, zinc, potassium, iron and copper.
Yard work and gardening are not essential activities!
Well I scoped out our local Lowes yesterday for pool supplies. I was shocked at the number of people there, there were cars circling around that huge parking lot looking for spots. Many customers seemed to be buying plants and shrubs. It occurred to me what was happening. With the nice spring weather and non-essential businesses closed in SC, everybody has the same idea : yard work and gardening.
I get it, I need to get caught up myself. However this seems to be illuminating an unintended consequence of the shutdown. With fewer activities possible, everybody is zeroing in on the remaining options. This crowd was larger than any restaurant crowd, larger than any church crowd, as large as a small concert audience.
This is a problem. Perhaps the parks need to be reopened?
In any event, I did not go inside. It's not worth it people.
C.O.V.I.D. alternate acronym
Conservatives Oblivious to Very Imminent Danger
Anyone else?
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