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I was just talking to a friend I grew up with who now teaches school in China. He flew back a couple weeks ago. He was met at the airport by Chinese authorities who escorted him to his apartment (they were friendly but firm). He went inside and they put an electronic lock on his door. He had a few designated hours a week to buy groceries. At the end of 14 days, his lock was removed. That is a quarantine.
 
Wellsonian said:
I was just talking to a friend I grew up with who now teaches school in China. He flew back a couple weeks ago. He was met at the airport by Chinese authorities who escorted him to his apartment (they were friendly but firm). He went inside and they put an electronic lock on his door. He had a few designated hours a week to buy groceries. At the end of 14 days, his lock was removed. That is a quarantine.
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My wife's niece married a Chinese man, and they teach English in Beijing. If you don't have your apartment door welded shut in China, consider yourself free.

Let's not let our freedom slip away by tiny dictators here in the U.S.A.
 
Just read an article where Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) has ordered all people to wear masks in public.
They are not to be the ones that medical staff use, just the ones that are useless as protection.
If you aren't wearing one stores have the right to refuse service.
Can you imagine any store allowing you in w/o one now?
This is starting to move from being responsible to getting a little scary. :shockaroona:
 
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mTk said:
Just read an article where Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) has ordered all people to wear masks in public.
They are not to be the ones that medical staff use, just the ones that are useless as protection.
If you aren't wearing one stores have the right to refuse service.
Can you imagine any store allowing you in?
This is starting to move from being responsible to getting a little scary. :shockaroona:
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That is overreach. Like I said, Tiny Dictators. Don't fall victim to this.
 
They are talking about extending the lockdown 3 more weeks in the Kansas City metro. No big secret, the mayor of KCMO has been saying that's gonna happen for the last ten days. In today's newspaper, there was a reference to 2 locally well-known restaurants being closed "for good".

Then there is the Kansas Department of Labor Unemployment website and phone service fiasco. I guess when you have 5% to 10% of the state workforce filing for unemployment in the same week and your mainframe is 43 years old, the wheels are going to fall off.
 
mTk said:
Just read an article where Sonoma County (north of San Francisco) has ordered all people to wear masks in public.
They are not to be the ones that medical staff use, just the ones that are useless as protection.
If you aren't wearing one stores have the right to refuse service.
Can you imagine any store allowing you in w/o one now?
This is starting to move from being responsible to getting a little scary. :shockaroona:
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Don’t worry. Us Southern Oregonians and you Northern Californians are just starting to creep into fire season, where we all wear masks anyways.
 
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We've had several confirmed positive COVID patients at the health system I work for here in NE Tennessee. Some deaths, but it's hard to say if they were directly related to COVID or not, as there are comorbidity issues. Management doesn't like to share statistics with front line workers, as they themselves probably don't really know what is actually going on, and are just trying to follow CDC recommendations and appear "in charge", and "concerned".

Layoffs have already happened (I wasn't affected, yet). Elective surgeries/imaging are severely impacted.

At some point, soon, we, as a state and as a nation are going to have to get back to work.
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Those front line workers you mention are waaaay to busy. Making tik tok videos that is.

 
Wellsonian said:
I was just talking to a friend I grew up with who now teaches school in China. He flew back a couple weeks ago. He was met at the airport by Chinese authorities who escorted him to his apartment (they were friendly but firm). He went inside and they put an electronic lock on his door. He had a few designated hours a week to buy groceries. At the end of 14 days, his lock was removed. That is a quarantine.
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Very strict, I would call it house arrest.:rolleyes:
 
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So they were saying on the radio the other day that because traffic is lighter than normal the people that are driving are speeding. In Kansas City MO on Monday the police pulled over a driver doin 137 mph in a 70 zone, someone doing 123 in a 65 zone and someone doing 86 in a 45. I am not sure what they do in Missouri but in Kansas if they catch you doing 100 or over the police take your license, you lose it for 1 year and they impound your vehicle.
 
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To quote my good friend Meat Grinder from several posts ago.....

Back on subject.......

I’m encouraged with what I am seeing on the West Coast (USA). Curve is flattened, states are aligned. Motivation is to test for antibodies when an adequate test is available and get the enconomy open. California had a huge budget surplus in late 2019 that will help, Anywhere from 17-21 Billion. Oregon also ran a big surplus, but by Oregon law (the kicker law); any surplus bigger than 2% over projections goes back to the tax payers, I wonder if that will happen given the circumstances. Washington looks like they also ran a surplus, but there are political fights between Dems and Repubs about that.....the Repubs say they do, the Dems say they do not (as of late 2019). Just so everyone knows, you can actually get the real numbers in our country by simply looking, especially federal. Just look at the actual government sites.
If the largest economy in the USA can get moving early summer, I believe we can get cranking!
 
I see this morning that a tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the Coronavirus. Oh boy, what does that mean for Fido?
 
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