Voluntarily........out of a job

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The death rate of the virus in Italy is much, much higher. Could it be a different strain?
 
As I watch the news I'm reminded of just how Stoopid they are.

They go on and on about the rising number of jobless claims. It doesn't take a genius to figure out if you shut down three quarters of the economy more people will be out of work. Jeez.

Reminds me of when Mike Seidel was acting like he couldn't stand up when two folks walking a dog go strolling by behind him. Lol.

Yeah the virus is bad, but they make it seem like it's a thousand times worse than it is. All for ratings...
 
I drive 60 hours per week as my part time retirement job.

The last few weeks I haven't been able to get four days in...it's our slow season for another few weeks. Our big customers are Miller Brewing and dozens of cheese plants.

We've had a few cases of this virus around home home. One death.

Most if our customers don't let us in their buildings anymore...we sign our bills at the back of the trailer.

I'm not afraid...been thru the tail end of the small pox deal and the years of polio quaranteens.

In '55 I came down with a 106F fever....my Mom called the Doc then put me in a cold bath. Rescue Squad took me to the hospital. A few days later I got a gamma gobulin shot to boost my immune system. The Salk polio vaccine was new and in short supply. Many of us got that shot to save our lives. Polio was viscous to kids.

Today I do sanitize and wash my hands. My allergies are starting again so I have the sniffles and a scratchy throat every spring and fall.

This crazyness will pass...
 
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pt70 said:
The death rate of the virus in Italy is much, much higher. Could it be a different strain?
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Supposedly the lack of medical facilities, like ICU beds and ventilators. I was reading 3 to 4 weeks ago about most of those in Italy who were in critical condition having to be set aside to perish due to the lack of these things. That is why we are trying to slow it down with stay-at-home measures, limiting shopping, and stopping entertainment types of activities: to keep the spread rate down and not overwhelm the medical facilities.

Those in more rural area in the USA are not seeing the levels of infections yet as are bring seen in the urban areas. But hang on... it will come in waves and spurts. Idaho is an example: Sun Valley, which is remote, is the worst place there by far; the disease was brought in by skiers and the spread was not checked. The rate of exporting critical cases from Sun Valley to Twin Falls and Boise have already strained those facilities, and the spread has not hit full stride in those 2 place yet.

So if you are far from the urban areas, don't be smug. If you get it and get in a critical condition, your options for treatment are far more limited. For this reason, folks in rural areas need to be even more vigilent.
 
CBS has admitted they used video footage of the packed Italian ICU's in a report about NYC.
 
Krooser said:
CBS has admitted they used video footage of the packed Italian ICU's in a report about NYC.
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you remember their flooding footage?

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67Dart273 said:
I remember I think it was Caty Currick in a canoe while someone waltzed behind her in ankle deep water LOLOL

Too bad that dick Anderson Cooper didn't get electrocuted
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did you watch the bottom one?
(its a video)

cracks me up every time
 
nm9stheham said:
Supposedly the lack of medical facilities, like ICU beds and ventilators. I was reading 3 to 4 weeks ago about most of those in Italy who were in critical condition having to be set aside to perish due to the lack of these things. That is why we are trying to slow it down with stay-at-home measures, limiting shopping, and stopping entertainment types of activities: to keep the spread rate down and not overwhelm the medical facilities.

Those in more rural area in the USA are not seeing the levels of infections yet as are bring seen in the urban areas. But hang on... it will come in waves and spurts. Idaho is an example: Sun Valley, which is remote, is the worst place there by far; the disease was brought in by skiers and the spread was not checked. The rate of exporting critical cases from Sun Valley to Twin Falls and Boise have already strained those facilities, and the spread has not hit full stride in those 2 place yet.

So if you are far from the urban areas, don't be smug. If you get it and get in a critical condition, your options for treatment are far more limited. For this reason, folks in rural areas need to be even more vigilent.
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The reason Sun Valley and Italy got hit hard was because they are tourist destinations. The Sun Valley outbreak was due to a wedding of a international skier and all the people that came to attend the wedding .
 
67Dart273 said:
Then why don't they play stupid **** that Occasional Cortez says, that Nancy Poopsloosely says, that Berning Man Sanders says and on and on?
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They never said it was a HOAX?????? They all said it was real. With people dying it must be real.
 
I self quarantined Friday, finished a job up Thursday, told the superintendent
I`m laying low until this blows over. Construction work on office buildings is BS non essential work as far as I`m concerned. Just like friggen landscapers mulching flower beds on rich peoples land perimeters is BS. Up to 10 in our county and 40 in the next county over, which is only 8 mi. to a seemingly future hot spot.
Besides I can now hunt full time for toilet paper:realcrazy:
 
I start back to work Monday. I run a 55 person cleaning contract at a large textile mill. The mill is starting back on reduced production so I'm only bringing in about two-thirds. Trouble is nobody wants to work since they make more on unemployment with the extra $600/week!

I've enjoyed 3 weeks off but now I'm ready to go back!
 
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66fyssh said:
I start back to work Monday. I run a 55 person cleaning contract at a large textile mill. The mill is starting back on reduced production so I'm only bringing in about two-thirds. Trouble is nobody wants to work since they make more on unemployment with the extra $600/week!

I've enjoyed 3 weeks off but now I'm ready to go back!
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Personally, even if I was 25, I think it's too soon to "turn loose." This son of a ***** could 'come back' with a vengeance
 
Since part of what we do is "sanitize" we are considered essential. :BangHead:

But I'm very grateful I have a job. I feel very bad for the restaurant and other service workers who are completely out of a job.

I put one person on either side of the the mill sanitizing high touch areas full time.
 
66fyssh said:
That's one reason Georgia has a high number of positive tests and deaths. Partly, I suppose, because they think they are tough Southerners, lol.

When I have been shopping here in Rome it's eerily quiet. People are looking at each other like everyone is infected. It's weird.

I agree, now is the time to pray for healing of our land.
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My dad grew up in Rome. Bought my 1st car there in 1985.
 
I had posted a new thread, maybe I should have posted it here:

Today I know I made the right decision

Found out yesterday "the company has had an infection." Well thanks a lot NOT for not phoning and warning me. Turns out my super and his girlfriend have "it." Seems it did not hit them that hard which is a miracle. He is close to my age and in worse health. So even here in the N end of Idaho, the county here has maybe, 50 cases, at least 3 of them are tied to the company I work for.
 
4spd340Swinger said:
My dad grew up in Rome. Bought my 1st car there in 1985.
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That's cool. Small world.

We just moved to Rome 3 years ago this month. The climate is just about right for me. And we bought a house in a small subdivision in the woods. I love it. Compared to living in Virginia Beach it's quiet, though. Sometimes too quiet!!!

Have you been back recently?
 
66fyssh said:
That's cool. Small world.

We just moved to Rome 3 years ago this month. The climate is just about right for me. And we bought a house in a small subdivision in the woods. I love it. Compared to living in Virginia Beach it's quiet, though. Sometimes too quiet!!!

Have you been back recently?
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Not in a about 15 years. My Dad still owns a house & vacant lot in the Sherwood Forest subdivision.
 
People here are putting up wee sneeze guards. At the bank. At the grocery store. At the convenience store.

If they understood fluid mechanics at all, they'd toss that junk in the trash where it belongs and take it in the face like a **** star.

Or they enclose the bank teller in it, don't put in a sound hole, so everybody leans down to talk through the money-changing hole, into that nice, enclosed space.
 
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