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Think of the hunting opportunities. I appreciate what you’re saying. I just want better death/infection numbers and immediate accurate testing, which may make me feel better about standing beside someone on a subway. This is escalating our get out of NYC plan. Going to try and have my place renovated in June and hope the real estate market doesn’t take too much of a hit for a sale. Still could move and rent it out for a few years I guess.

Will you take the train in or drive? Buy something for lunch or brown bag it? Clean your own office or have the cleaning people continue. Handle your office mail without gloves? Maintain six feet of space on an NYC street? I’m going to do whatever I can to protect my wife but I come in contact with a hell of a lot of people in the city so I need things as button down as they can be. I have less control than I think over the situation and no control over other people. If that means another month of the suck, so it goes. That affects my paycheck one way and my life another. I’ll take the latter. Good luck.

Different experiences. My cousin who is an MD is at home in a FiDi apt for the past three weeks. She was essential and was one of the last in her office but they finally sent her home. She doesn’t seem to have a food issue. I’m sure there are more cars on the road as my guess is that everyone who can is driving. My wife and I had this exact.conversation. No way she’s taking the subway from Harlem to Tribeca everyday. She will drive. I just heard that the day guy at our garage which is in our building is positive and at home, so there’s no way I’m putting the car back in the garage. I see a lot of tickets coming my way. Also great news on the ventilators. I guess Cuomo lived up to his promise. As I understand it, dialysis machines are now becoming an issue as they’re seeing organ failure. If Europe is doing great, then that bodes well for us. Honestly, who is going to go to a show or dinner in the next two months? Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

Can you expand on this? I haven’t been in the city in a month. All my friends who work in finance, advertising, law, etc are at home with no offices open. Still getting food delivered. In fact, I just received a call from my building that there was a Whole Foods delivery for me. Wrong apartment. Trumps Wall Street call the other day was an apparent “shit show” but the upshot was that “they” told him they need more testing before they’ll open back up. Where is Europe booming? The stories coming out of city hospitals are horrifying and while the death toll seems to have stabilized it’s still a pretty shitty number. Not trying to argue. Maybe you know something I don’t stuck here in my cabin. I’m desperate to get back to my apt.

Not sure if I’m reminded more of those people who refuse to leave their homes as a wildfire sweeps down toward them or the pastors who laughed at the Coronavirus hysteria and refused to social distance and are now dead. Tough call.

Gloves aren’t some kind of magical force field. I’d much rather use a wipe for doors, etc and wash, wash, wash my hands. I think the mask is a necessary order. The idea that “liberal progressives” are evaluating the reaction to a mask mandate seems silly. My guess is that they (like everyone) are hunkered at home figuring out how to protect their families and stave off financial ruin as this pandemic upends life as they know it. That would be my guess but I’m naive in these things.

Hard to argue with the logic. I had to make a run to Tractor Supply the other day. Half the people were without masks including a family of four in one aisle touching everything. I steered well clear.

Brushing up on a few things. Bad-ass author.

I would pop those like little frosty treats. It seems that everyone picks the bulbs. I just use the leaves and only pick one leaf of each plant so the plant lives. Am I missing something?

It was 14 days symptom free but that may have changed.in the last few weeks. If positive, he could spread the virus. Why was he tested if he has no symptoms? From what I understand, they aren’t testing people with symptoms unless they’re admitted?

Damn, dude. You literally made the mountain come to Mohammed and now this entire thread - where there was some good info - has been moved to assuage your hurt feelings and become your personal little political shit show. You have out papisted Papist. Congratulations, I guess. Enjoy your echo.

So everyone who jumped on him: the senators, congressmen, constitutional scholars; are all wrong? How about this guy who’s twisting himself in a knot to say something nice? POTUS claims of absolute power in Covid 19 emergency are constitutional nonsense, another of his serial exaggerations. The reaction to them are another case of media’s insistent focus on the stuff he says, as if that is more important than what he actually does. I mean, heaven forbid anyone should listen to, or put any stock in, what a President actually says. Don’t people know he has the best words? I think it’s cool you want to take up the mantle of Papist. But here’s a little known secret ... he didn’t believe his own bullshit. There’s a lesson there.

Why bats are virus carriers. https://healthcareinamerica.us/what-makes-bats-the-perfect-hosts-for-so-many-viruses-3274c019bb4d

Just checked my three patches. A few days away from harvest. My wife makes a great ramp pesto that I eat with a spoon.

That’s more than a little petty on your part. But if we’re using exact wording, here’s the first hit: While discussing whether he or the nation's governors have the power to lift restrictions states put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump declared at a news briefing Monday, "When somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total." The president's unprecedented claim of total power met with immediate pushback from Democrats and Republicans, many of them arguing the U.S. Constitution explicitly refutes his claim to absolute authority. "The federal government does not have absolute power," said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who went on to quote the text of the 10th Amendment in a tweet that went viral. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said changes to the social-distancing orders should be made by the governors. Federal guidelines "will be very influential. But the Constitution & common sense dictates these decisions be made at the state level," he tweeted. Jonathan Turley – a law professor at George Washington University who argued against Trump's impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee and a USA TODAY contributor – said the framers wrote the Constitution precisely to bar presidents from claiming the type of authority asserted by Trump. "Our constitutional system was forged during a period of grave unease over executive authority. After all, the nation had just broken away from the control of a tyrant," Turley said. And if there is "one overriding principle" in the Constitution, it is to avoid the concentration of power, and it does so "in myriad ways," he said. The 10th Amendment was one instrument written to help ensure that the federal government would not be able to impose the kind of absolute authority the framers feared. Oh, and then there’s this: "The federal government has absolute power," Trump added. "As to whether I'll use that power, we'll see." No need to apologize.

Fingers crossed, Red. I see that a Trump has just walked back his absolute authority statement. Well, that was a worthwhile way to spend 24 hours.

Damn, Rattler, how long have you been keeping all this bottled up? I guess it’s healthy for you to let it out as you seem to be raving a little. No one here has said they hate Trump. I think the most I said was buffoon. I’ll throw in venal, weak, cowardly asshole. His performances lately should be proof of that. And no one has to counter every fringe article you post. Sorry.

You’re asking a lot.

Rattler, you seem really burned about this. If it means that much to you, post here. All Trump had one thing to do was one simple thing as the early warnings were coming in, “We are monitoring the situation in Wuhan closely. I have put together a task force to coordinate across various departments to determine our best response should the virus show up here, as well as inventory and bolster our necessary medical reserves in case they need to be deployed throughout the country. As I get more information, you will get more information.” Instead he and his lickspittles denied and lied. And now we can all be reassured because his daughter and SiL are on the committee to reopen America. Only the best people. You think the hospitals are overrun now? Wait until everyone goes back to work but with a hyper sensitivity to every sniffle and cough. As to Biden, well I’m reminded of something Trump loved saying while running ... “what the hell do you have to lose?”

Sorry to hear that, Elmo.

24 hours may be excessive. Still ...

Just did the same but white gloves not fancy purple ones. Had the oil changed in my car and stayed in it the entire time riding the lift up. Fun. Haven’t been to a grocery store in a few weeks. They now have directional arrows on the aisles - one way only. Still no paper products, cleaning supplies, pasta, flour, yeast, etc. Plenty of everything else. Amazed that there were a good 30% of shoppers without masks including many older people. Has anyone come up with a decent grocery disinfectant protocol? I’m spraying and wiping with a bleach disinfectant then letting things sit for 24 hours. Discarding extra packaging. Then I shower and change. This will get tiring if we have to keep it up for months.