D&D and the rising pandemic

[FitzTheRuke]

Amazing and amazingly terrifying at the same time. Yes, I know they say they cannot access the data, but, WOW, that's a LOT of data to put in anyone's hands.

I'm not someone who's worried about "big brother watching you"... but I would NOT be willing to be involved in THAT. That sounds waaaay too creepy and invasive. (And potentially corruptible, AND it wouldn't work for what it says it's for!)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Side note: Singer sewing machines last just about forever, as I broke out this same machine to sew masks for my wife and myself.

Mom owns a Singer and a Pfaff, the younger of which is from the mid 70s. Perfect working order.

My paternal grandmother’s treadle operated Singer lasted from wheneverthehell to Katrina.

 

[Eltab]

I could get behind a national testing program. If there is an eventual vaccine, that should be for everyone; so should be testing.

Agreed.
I've seen footage of all the school kids lining up for the Polio vaccine, and imagine something similar would be the best way to cover a lot of people quickly.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Mom owns a Singer and a Pfaff, the younger of which is from the mid 70s. Perfect working order.

My paternal grandmother’s treadle operated Singer lasted from wheneverthehell to Katrina.

My mom's got all of those, too - though the treadle Singer had the sewing machine taken out and replaced with a spinning wheel for awhile. I think it's mostly just an antique desk at this point. My mom makes clothes and my dad makes wine and beer, and their fruit and vegetable production in their garden is huge. Pretty good self-sufficiency for people who live right in the middle of the city (Vancouver, in this case.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Might bring a smile to someones day.

Stuff

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Orcas swimming right up the the shoreline.

 

[Zardnaar]

SPPS update day 18

18 new cases
5 in ICU
1 critical

Total deaths 4. More people recovering than getting sick.

 

[Umbran]

I have very strong opinions regarding testing in the US.

It is totally fair to take a break.

When you come back, not that anything you say about testing in the US probably needs to actually be about testing... everywhere outside Asia. The only folks really ready for testing were the ones who were really close to the original SARS, and then MERS. Nobody else bothered to be prepared.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well...no details yet, but it seems our state government is going to make Texas a lab for relaxing the pandemic orders.

Texas governor vows to issue an executive order to end state's lockdown and help residents 'get back into the workforce'

"One thing about Texans, they enjoy working and they want to get back into the workforce," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

www.yahoo.com

To be clear, I would rather be wrong than proven right, but I don’t this will go well.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Well...no details yet, but it seems our state government is going to make Texas a lab for relaxing the pandemic orders.

Texas governor vows to issue an executive order to end state's lockdown and help residents 'get back into the workforce'

"One thing about Texans, they enjoy working and they want to get back into the workforce," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

www.yahoo.com

To be clear, I would rather be wrong than proven right, but I don’t this will go well.

Silver lining (please dont hate me)

Although you could probably pick MORE isolated areas, there is a vast amount of completely empty land throughout texas so there is more geographic isolation than if some other states tried this. So if it goes well, YAY, if it goes poorly, well the explosion would probably be worse if other states had tried it. I guess what im saying is, if it goes horribly wrong it probably wont go AS horribky wrong as it couls go if a different part of the usa tried this. Hopefully it goes well?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Silver lining (please dont hate me)

Although you could probably pick MORE isolated areas, there is a vast amount of completely empty land throughout texas so there is more geographic isolation than if some other states tried this. So if it goes well, YAY, if it goes poorly, well the explosion would probably be worse if other states had tried it. I guess what im saying is, if it goes horribly wrong it probably wont go AS horribky wrong as it couls go if a different part of the usa tried this. Hopefully it goes well?

Texas has 3 of the USA’s 10 biggest cities*- Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio- which between them have at least 3 international airports and one of the biggest commercial ports in the USA.

The three are well connected to each other via rail and highway as well. And our state capitol is located between them.

We also have a lot of major military bases (mostly AF** & Army) here.

If it goes horribly wrong here, there really aren’t many worse places in the USA it could happen.





* and Austin & Ft. Worth are both in the top 15

**and a lot of those are SAC bases.