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marsh
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My pup of 17 years passed today. It has been a bad week so far. But all of the people clan are healthy, so I have much to be thankful for.
Where's the mind bleach? Somethings are not meant to be seen, and at the same time, cannot be forgotton... Geeeeez, and I gave up booze, w-a-a-y too soon...
Humanity is doomed...
OA
Coronavirus: GM Reopens Idled Michigan Plant to Produce Face Masks
General Motors is reopening the Warren, Michigan, plant it idled last year in order to begin producing about 1.5 million face masks a month.www.breitbart.com
Coronavirus: GM Reopens Idled Michigan Plant to Produce Face Masks
3,019Photo by John F. Martin for General MotorsJOHN BINDER31 Mar 2020566
General Motors (GM) is reopening its Warren, Michigan, transmission plant, which it idled last year, in order to begin producing about 1.5 million face masks a month to supplement the shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) to order GM to begin producing critical medical supplies and devices for American healthcare workers and patients. On Tuesday, GM executives announced their partnership with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union to reopen the idled Warren transmission plant to make face masks.
With the reopening and retooling of the Warren plant, GM hopes to produce 20,000 level one face masks by April 8, and, when operating at full-scale, to produce 1.5 million masks a month or about 50,000 masks a day.
Level one face masks are not as protective as the N95 masks worn by medical professionals that filter out 95 percent of particles. The masks GM is producing cannot be worn in surgery, but can be used by delivery workers and other non-medical support staff involved in the coronavirus response efforts.
GM spokesperson Monte Doran told the Detroit Free Press that the company is hoping to acquire the expertise to produce N95 masks once it masters level one production.
“We are exploring how to produce N95 masks, the highest level filtration mask produced. We just aren’t there yet. The team felt the level one masks are something we could immediately get into production and start producing as fast as possible,” Doran said.
Since March 20, GM has started retooling the Warren plant with custom machines created by JR Automation in Holland, Michigan, and Esys Automation in Auburn Hills, Michigan, two small to medium-sized American manufacturers.
GM will hire at least about 24 UAW union workers to help make the masks in addition to the workers who have already helped gut the facility to retool it as a mask assembly plant.
Last year, GM idled the Warren plant — laying off 335 American workers, as well as being responsible for the layoffs of about 16,000 in the state’s supporting industries. The closure of the plant was just one component of CEO Mary Barra’s plans to shutter four U.S.-based plants.
As Breitbart News has reported, American manufacturers have warned that materials for supplies like masks, ventilators, gloves, and circuit boards may continue to be sourced out of China without an executive order incentivizing the use of American-made materials.
With GM's manufacturing capabilities, why in the HELL aren't they producing N-95 or N-100 masks? What's in the picture doesn't protect anyone, vis-a-vis CV19... Feel good propaganda... Not impressed, and if I were a stockholder, I'd be pissed.
OA
I lost my last pup of 11 years, two months ago. I know what you're going through, and you and all others who've been separated from them, have my prayers, and best wishes... It's hard, but we've got to remember that like children, God only loans them to us... I do believe that one day, we'll be reunited with them. That's my hope, my prayer, that that will be so...
OA
Quiet Man
Nothing unreal exists
You're amazing jward. So prolific; so smart & knowledgeable; insightful; so giving, and humorous and, often, poetic, too.
Thank you for being who you are!
jward
passin' thru
...excerpt of latest briefing, from the Confirmed cases in America thread- DJT details how bad it is going to get... sniff sniff blink sniff...
Donald Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force held their daily COVID-19 press conference today, March 31. Trump warned of a “very, very painful two weeks” ahead for the United States as the virus spreads. The White House predicts that 100,000 to 240,000 will die of the virus. Read the full transcript of the briefing here.
Donald Trump: (01:36)
Thank you very much everyone. Our country is in the midst of a great national trial, unlike any we have ever faced before. You all see it. You see it probably better than most. We’re at war with a deadly virus. Success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love, and devotion. It’s very important. Each of us has the power through our own choices and actions to save American lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us. That’s why we really have to do what we all know is right. Every citizen is being called upon to make sacrifices. Every business is being asked to fulfill its patriotic duty. Every community is making fundamental changes to how we live, work and interact each and every day, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see this going on long into the future when this virus is gone and defeated.
Donald Trump: (02:44)
Some of the things we’re doing now will be very good practice for the future, including for not getting the flu, which is very devastating also. So some of what we’re learning now will live on into the future. I really believe that shaking hands or not shaking hands, washing hands all the time, staying a little apart. 15 days ago we published our nationwide guidelines to slow the spread of the virus. On Sunday, I announced that this campaign will be extended until April 30th. In a few moments, Dr. Birx will explain the data that formed the basis for our decision to extend the guidelines and Dr. Fauci will explain why it’s absolutely critical for the American people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days. It’s a matter of life and death, frankly. It’s a matter of life and death.
Donald Trump: (03:46)
I know our citizens will rise to the occasion and they already have sacrificed a lot. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We’re the greatest economy in the world. We had the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers that we’ve ever had by far, and in one instant we said we have no choice but to close it up. Just as Americans have always done, they will do a job like few have seen before and they’re proud to do it. And I see that there’s a great pride going on right now. Before we hear from our experts, we have a few other announcements.
Donald Trump: (04:28)
Today, the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration announced for the details on the paycheck protection program, which was made possible by the $2 trillion relief bill I signed into law last week. Nearly $350 billion in loans will soon be available through lending partners to help small businesses meet payroll and other expenses for up to two months. These loans will be forgiven as long as businesses keep paying their workers. This includes sole proprietors and independent contractors. Applications will be accepted starting this Friday, April 3rd. So on Friday, April 3rd, that’s when it begins.
Donald Trump: (05:13)
Earlier today, I spoke with leading internet and phone providers who are doing a tremendous job of keeping our internet and the lines of communication flowing under very strongly increase strain the businesses more than anybody has seen before because everyone’s inside. They’re all making calls. Among the leaders I spoke to were Hans Vestberg a Verizon Communications, Randall Stephenson of AT&T, Mike Sievert of T-Mobile, Thomas Rutledge of Charter Communications, Brian Roberts of Comcast, John Malone of Liberty Media, Dexter Goie of Altice, Michel Combes of Sprint, and Aryeh Bourkoff of LionTree. Also Pat Esser of Cox Communications and Jeffrey Storey of CenturyLink. They’re doing an incredible job. If you look at other continents, if you look at Europe, they went a different route than we did and a much different route. We were talking about that just a little while ago, and they are having tremendous problems.
Donald Trump: (06:32)
Other countries are having problems, other continents are having problems, but with business at a level that nobody’s seen it before on the internet, it’s holding up incredibly well. And they expect that to continue no matter what happened, and no matter how much more gains, which it can gain more than it already is, I don’t know because they’re setting records. Let me also update you on the distribution of urgency needed resources and supplies and we have a lot of numbers. I’m going to let Mike Pence speak to that in a little while, but we’re giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states. We also are holding back quite a bit. We have almost 10,000 ventilators that we have ready to go. We have to hold them back because the surge is coming, and it’s coming pretty strong, and we want to be able to immediately move it into place without going and taking it.
Donald Trump: (07:35)
So we’re ready to go. And we’ve also distributed, I just spoke with governor of Michigan, had a great conversation and we sent a large number of ventilators to Michigan. We’re sending them to Louisiana. We sent additional ventilators to New York, additional ventilators to New Jersey. And I will say in New York, FEMA is supplying 250 ambulances and 500 EMTs to help respond to the increasing case load. That’s a lot of ambulances. In California, the Army Corps of engineers is developing eight facilities to expand hospital capacity up to 50,000 beds, 50,000. And had a great conversation last night with Gavin Newsom, he’s doing a really good job. We’re in constant communications. The USNS Mercy hospital ship is now operational. It’s in Los Angeles and receiving patients. And in New York, as you know, the Comfort, everybody watched that. It’s in place and it will be in a very short while receiving large numbers of patients over a thousand rooms and 12 operating rooms.
Donald Trump: (08:56)
FEMA has also provided a hundred travel trailers to assist with housing needs and we’re ordering hundreds more. In Michigan, FEMA will soon deliver in addition to the ventilators, 250 bed, field, hospital, and Army Corps of engineers is evaluating locations to build alternate care facilities. So we’re doing a field hospital in Michigan of 250 beds and we may be doubling it up soon depending on the need. They’re doing a good job with beds in Michigan, but they may need more than the 250, so FEMA and the Army Corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly and get it done. In Louisiana, we’re delivering two field hospitals to provide 500 new hospital beds. I’ve been talking with the governor, John Bel Edwards and the Army Corps of engineers has been really doing incredible work establishing 3000 alternate care site at the New Orleans Convention Center, which will be operational, believe it or not this week.
Donald Trump: (10:06)
So we’re doing the 3000 bed alternate care site and we’re also doing a 500 bed new hospital, and that’s in Louisiana, which really got hit. It started off very late and it was looking good, and then all of a sudden it just reared up, came from nowhere. In addition to the supplies we’re delivering, we’re also giving hospitals the flexibility to use new facilities, including surgical care centers to care for hospital patients who are not infected. For example, I know that many expectant mothers are understandably concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus and they should be/ with our action yesterday, hospitals now have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a very safe and healthy environment. Totally separate.
Donald Trump: (11:03)
Over the past two months, the US State Department has organized one of the largest and most complex international evacuation operations in American history. Mike Pompeo is working around the clock along with Ambassador O’Brien. Since January 29th, we have successfully repatriated over 25,000 Americans from more than 50 countries where they were literally stuck. In some cases, locked in. And I salute the incredible public servants at the Department of State as well as their counterparts at DHS and HHS who have played such an important role in doing this. You probably read about the young people in Peru, and young people in Brazil, and they were absolutely stuck and we got them out. Almost everybody is out now back home with their parents, their wives, their husbands.
Donald Trump: (12:06)
I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. We’re going to go through a very tough two weeks. And then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting I after having studied it so hard, you’re going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel, but this is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks. When you look and see at night the kind of death that’s been caused by this invisible enemy, it’s incredible. I was watching last night, Governor Murphy of New Jersey say 29 people died today, meaning yesterday, and others talking about numbers far greater, but you get to know a state, I know New Jersey so well. And you hit 29 people and hundreds in other locations, hundreds in other states. And this is going to be a rough two week period.
Donald Trump: (13:05)
As a nation, we face a difficult few weeks as we approach that really important day when we’re going to see things get better all of a sudden. And it’s going to be like a burst of light. I really think and I hope that our strength will be tested and our endurance will be tried, but America will answer with love and courage and ironclad resolve. This is the time for all Americans to come together and do our part. I appreciate a lot of the media. We’ve had a lot of really good things said. I think only good things can be said when you look at the job that’s been done. I just spoke with Franklin Graham who is an extraordinary person and a Samaritan’s Purse has been like so many others just been amazing and so fast. They did it so fast. He’s been doing that for a long time, but I think people are really seeing what they have done. Franklin Graham, very special family.
Donald Trump: (14:13)
As we send plane loads of masks and gloves and supplies to the communities battling the plague, and that’s what it is. It’s a plague. We also send our prayers. We pray for the doctors and the nurses. For the paramedics and the truck drivers, and the police officers, and the sanitation workers. And above all, the people fighting for their lives in New York and all across our land. I watched as doctors and nurses one into a certain hospital in Elmhurst this morning. I know Elmhurst, Queens, I grew up right next to it. I know the hospital very well, been seeing it all my life, my young life.
Donald Trump: (14:57)
And I will tell you that to see the scenes of trailers out there and what they’re doing with those trailers, they’re freezers and nobody could even believe it. And I spoke to some of my friends, they can’t believe what they’re seeing. And I watched the doctors and the nurses walking into that hospital this morning. It’s like military people going into battle, going into war. The bravery is incredible, and I just have to take my hat. I would take my hat if I were wearing a hat, I’d rip that hat off so fast and I would say “You people are just incredible.” They really are. They’re very brave. They’re going in and they don’t know, you have lots of things flying around in the air, you don’t know what you’re touching. Is it safe?
Donald Trump: (15:56)
And you also see where your friends are going to the hospital and you say “How is he doing?” Two days later and they say, “Sir, he’s unconscious.” Or “He’s in a coma.” So things are happening that we’ve never seen before in this country. And with all of that being said, the country’s come together like I’ve never seen it before, and we will prevail, we will win, and hopefully it will be in a relatively short period of time. With that, I’d like to ask Dr. Birx to come up and show you some of the latest data that has been, I think brilliantly put together. And right after that I’m going to ask Dr. Fauci to speak, and Mike Pence is going to give you some of the recent events that have taken place and some of the statistics that we have that I think will be very interesting here. Thank you very much. Please.
MARCH 31 2020 Coronavirus Task Force briefing excerpt.
Donald Trump Coronavirus Task Force Briefing Transcript March 31: "Painful" Weeks Ahead - Rev Donald Trump & the Coronavirus Task Force held a COVID-19 briefing on March 31. Trump warned of a "painful two weeks" ahead. Full transcript here. 
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Donald Trump: (01:36)
Thank you very much everyone. Our country is in the midst of a great national trial, unlike any we have ever faced before. You all see it. You see it probably better than most. We’re at war with a deadly virus. Success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love, and devotion. It’s very important. Each of us has the power through our own choices and actions to save American lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us. That’s why we really have to do what we all know is right. Every citizen is being called upon to make sacrifices. Every business is being asked to fulfill its patriotic duty. Every community is making fundamental changes to how we live, work and interact each and every day, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see this going on long into the future when this virus is gone and defeated.
Donald Trump: (02:44)
Some of the things we’re doing now will be very good practice for the future, including for not getting the flu, which is very devastating also. So some of what we’re learning now will live on into the future. I really believe that shaking hands or not shaking hands, washing hands all the time, staying a little apart. 15 days ago we published our nationwide guidelines to slow the spread of the virus. On Sunday, I announced that this campaign will be extended until April 30th. In a few moments, Dr. Birx will explain the data that formed the basis for our decision to extend the guidelines and Dr. Fauci will explain why it’s absolutely critical for the American people to follow the guidelines for the next 30 days. It’s a matter of life and death, frankly. It’s a matter of life and death.
Donald Trump: (03:46)
I know our citizens will rise to the occasion and they already have sacrificed a lot. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We’re the greatest economy in the world. We had the best unemployment numbers and employment numbers that we’ve ever had by far, and in one instant we said we have no choice but to close it up. Just as Americans have always done, they will do a job like few have seen before and they’re proud to do it. And I see that there’s a great pride going on right now. Before we hear from our experts, we have a few other announcements.
Donald Trump: (04:28)
Today, the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration announced for the details on the paycheck protection program, which was made possible by the $2 trillion relief bill I signed into law last week. Nearly $350 billion in loans will soon be available through lending partners to help small businesses meet payroll and other expenses for up to two months. These loans will be forgiven as long as businesses keep paying their workers. This includes sole proprietors and independent contractors. Applications will be accepted starting this Friday, April 3rd. So on Friday, April 3rd, that’s when it begins.
Donald Trump: (05:13)
Earlier today, I spoke with leading internet and phone providers who are doing a tremendous job of keeping our internet and the lines of communication flowing under very strongly increase strain the businesses more than anybody has seen before because everyone’s inside. They’re all making calls. Among the leaders I spoke to were Hans Vestberg a Verizon Communications, Randall Stephenson of AT&T, Mike Sievert of T-Mobile, Thomas Rutledge of Charter Communications, Brian Roberts of Comcast, John Malone of Liberty Media, Dexter Goie of Altice, Michel Combes of Sprint, and Aryeh Bourkoff of LionTree. Also Pat Esser of Cox Communications and Jeffrey Storey of CenturyLink. They’re doing an incredible job. If you look at other continents, if you look at Europe, they went a different route than we did and a much different route. We were talking about that just a little while ago, and they are having tremendous problems.
Donald Trump: (06:32)
Other countries are having problems, other continents are having problems, but with business at a level that nobody’s seen it before on the internet, it’s holding up incredibly well. And they expect that to continue no matter what happened, and no matter how much more gains, which it can gain more than it already is, I don’t know because they’re setting records. Let me also update you on the distribution of urgency needed resources and supplies and we have a lot of numbers. I’m going to let Mike Pence speak to that in a little while, but we’re giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states. We also are holding back quite a bit. We have almost 10,000 ventilators that we have ready to go. We have to hold them back because the surge is coming, and it’s coming pretty strong, and we want to be able to immediately move it into place without going and taking it.
Donald Trump: (07:35)
So we’re ready to go. And we’ve also distributed, I just spoke with governor of Michigan, had a great conversation and we sent a large number of ventilators to Michigan. We’re sending them to Louisiana. We sent additional ventilators to New York, additional ventilators to New Jersey. And I will say in New York, FEMA is supplying 250 ambulances and 500 EMTs to help respond to the increasing case load. That’s a lot of ambulances. In California, the Army Corps of engineers is developing eight facilities to expand hospital capacity up to 50,000 beds, 50,000. And had a great conversation last night with Gavin Newsom, he’s doing a really good job. We’re in constant communications. The USNS Mercy hospital ship is now operational. It’s in Los Angeles and receiving patients. And in New York, as you know, the Comfort, everybody watched that. It’s in place and it will be in a very short while receiving large numbers of patients over a thousand rooms and 12 operating rooms.
Donald Trump: (08:56)
FEMA has also provided a hundred travel trailers to assist with housing needs and we’re ordering hundreds more. In Michigan, FEMA will soon deliver in addition to the ventilators, 250 bed, field, hospital, and Army Corps of engineers is evaluating locations to build alternate care facilities. So we’re doing a field hospital in Michigan of 250 beds and we may be doubling it up soon depending on the need. They’re doing a good job with beds in Michigan, but they may need more than the 250, so FEMA and the Army Corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly and get it done. In Louisiana, we’re delivering two field hospitals to provide 500 new hospital beds. I’ve been talking with the governor, John Bel Edwards and the Army Corps of engineers has been really doing incredible work establishing 3000 alternate care site at the New Orleans Convention Center, which will be operational, believe it or not this week.
Donald Trump: (10:06)
So we’re doing the 3000 bed alternate care site and we’re also doing a 500 bed new hospital, and that’s in Louisiana, which really got hit. It started off very late and it was looking good, and then all of a sudden it just reared up, came from nowhere. In addition to the supplies we’re delivering, we’re also giving hospitals the flexibility to use new facilities, including surgical care centers to care for hospital patients who are not infected. For example, I know that many expectant mothers are understandably concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus and they should be/ with our action yesterday, hospitals now have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a very safe and healthy environment. Totally separate.
Donald Trump: (11:03)
Over the past two months, the US State Department has organized one of the largest and most complex international evacuation operations in American history. Mike Pompeo is working around the clock along with Ambassador O’Brien. Since January 29th, we have successfully repatriated over 25,000 Americans from more than 50 countries where they were literally stuck. In some cases, locked in. And I salute the incredible public servants at the Department of State as well as their counterparts at DHS and HHS who have played such an important role in doing this. You probably read about the young people in Peru, and young people in Brazil, and they were absolutely stuck and we got them out. Almost everybody is out now back home with their parents, their wives, their husbands.
Donald Trump: (12:06)
I want every American to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. We’re going to go through a very tough two weeks. And then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as I think a lot of us are predicting I after having studied it so hard, you’re going to start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel, but this is going to be a very painful, very, very painful two weeks. When you look and see at night the kind of death that’s been caused by this invisible enemy, it’s incredible. I was watching last night, Governor Murphy of New Jersey say 29 people died today, meaning yesterday, and others talking about numbers far greater, but you get to know a state, I know New Jersey so well. And you hit 29 people and hundreds in other locations, hundreds in other states. And this is going to be a rough two week period.
Donald Trump: (13:05)
As a nation, we face a difficult few weeks as we approach that really important day when we’re going to see things get better all of a sudden. And it’s going to be like a burst of light. I really think and I hope that our strength will be tested and our endurance will be tried, but America will answer with love and courage and ironclad resolve. This is the time for all Americans to come together and do our part. I appreciate a lot of the media. We’ve had a lot of really good things said. I think only good things can be said when you look at the job that’s been done. I just spoke with Franklin Graham who is an extraordinary person and a Samaritan’s Purse has been like so many others just been amazing and so fast. They did it so fast. He’s been doing that for a long time, but I think people are really seeing what they have done. Franklin Graham, very special family.
Donald Trump: (14:13)
As we send plane loads of masks and gloves and supplies to the communities battling the plague, and that’s what it is. It’s a plague. We also send our prayers. We pray for the doctors and the nurses. For the paramedics and the truck drivers, and the police officers, and the sanitation workers. And above all, the people fighting for their lives in New York and all across our land. I watched as doctors and nurses one into a certain hospital in Elmhurst this morning. I know Elmhurst, Queens, I grew up right next to it. I know the hospital very well, been seeing it all my life, my young life.
Donald Trump: (14:57)
And I will tell you that to see the scenes of trailers out there and what they’re doing with those trailers, they’re freezers and nobody could even believe it. And I spoke to some of my friends, they can’t believe what they’re seeing. And I watched the doctors and the nurses walking into that hospital this morning. It’s like military people going into battle, going into war. The bravery is incredible, and I just have to take my hat. I would take my hat if I were wearing a hat, I’d rip that hat off so fast and I would say “You people are just incredible.” They really are. They’re very brave. They’re going in and they don’t know, you have lots of things flying around in the air, you don’t know what you’re touching. Is it safe?
Donald Trump: (15:56)
And you also see where your friends are going to the hospital and you say “How is he doing?” Two days later and they say, “Sir, he’s unconscious.” Or “He’s in a coma.” So things are happening that we’ve never seen before in this country. And with all of that being said, the country’s come together like I’ve never seen it before, and we will prevail, we will win, and hopefully it will be in a relatively short period of time. With that, I’d like to ask Dr. Birx to come up and show you some of the latest data that has been, I think brilliantly put together. And right after that I’m going to ask Dr. Fauci to speak, and Mike Pence is going to give you some of the recent events that have taken place and some of the statistics that we have that I think will be very interesting here. Thank you very much. Please.
jward
passin' thru
Aww :: passin' kleenex n hot tea :: So sorry you lost your baby, I know now is not the time for yet another heart ache- hugs!
bw
Fringe Ranger
Exactly. It's all about panic control. It's always been about panic control.
jward
passin' thru
oh my I'm still drying my tears from Marsha and Ron's sad losses only to look up and see this kind comment. Thank you, and Thanks to all of us who're helping one another figure these things out, and find our ways to the other side of these events. Like we said when DJT was elected, it's one Heck of a time in history. Say what you will of it, it's been an amazing show-
And y'all have made it fun, understandable, and bearable, by turns.
Quiet Man
Nothing unreal exists
PanBear
Veteran Member
During the global shortage of medical supplies, a team from Czech Technical University worked with volunteers to transform masks for medical professionals to use.
#snorkels #coronavirus #COVID-19
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PanBear
Veteran Member
Military plane carrying masks and other supplies needed to fight against #CoronaVirus departs #Russia for the #US.
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Russian #coronavirus response team disinfects care homes in #Lombardy #Italy
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View: https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1244956356588605440
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Russian #coronavirus response team disinfects care homes in #Lombardy #Italy
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PanBear
Veteran Member
Footage shows inside #IFEMA field #hospital for #COVIDー19 patients #coronavirus #Spain
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View: https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1245057803808583680
“This whole situation brings out the best in people.”
As Italy and Spain stand in silence to remember the thousands of lives lost to #coronavirus, communities are pulling together through small acts of kindness.
Video 2:38 min
View: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1245267155152584704
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“This whole situation brings out the best in people.”
As Italy and Spain stand in silence to remember the thousands of lives lost to #coronavirus, communities are pulling together through small acts of kindness.
Video 2:38 min
View: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1245267155152584704
PanBear
Veteran Member
#Ordu installs disinfection tunnel to fight #COVID19 pandemic #Turkey
View: https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1244976489268793345
Saudi Arabia has asked Muslims to wait until there is more clarity about the coronavirus pandemic before planning to attend the annual Hajj pilgrimage Saudi tells Muslims to wait on Hajj plans amid coronavirus crisis
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Saudi Arabia has asked Muslims to wait until there is more clarity about the coronavirus pandemic before planning to attend the annual Hajj pilgrimage Saudi tells Muslims to wait on Hajj plans amid coronavirus crisis
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bw
Fringe Ranger
Holy cow, what did they do, just throw boxes in until they thought it was enough? There is absolutely nothing to secure the load. I guess they wait for turbulence and it will all settle down like a box of cereal.
PanBear
Veteran Member
SCMP @
Export curbs and panic buying has put a strain on the global food supply chain, amid the #Covid19 pandemic that has swept the world. https://sc.mp/urb87
video 1:58 min
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Export curbs and panic buying has put a strain on the global food supply chain, amid the #Covid19 pandemic that has swept the world. https://sc.mp/urb87
video 1:58 min
View: https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1245244506649309184
PanBear
Veteran Member
Now it's down to 4 for gathering!
Coronavirus: Hong Kong to ban public gatherings of more than four people amid pandemic
Hong Kong will ban public gatherings of more than four people for 2 weeks starting from March 29, 2020. They will also require restaurants to operate at half their capacity and to set tables at least 1.5 metres apart. Some places of public entertainment, including gyms, cinemas, gaming centres, were also ordered to close for 14 days starting from March 28.The announcement came as Hong Kong reported 65 new cases on March 27, the biggest daily increase so far. It brings the total number of infections in the city to 518 and 4 deaths.
Full story: Hong Kong to limit public gatherings to four as cases jump by 65
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong to ban public gatherings of more than four people amid pandemic
Hong Kong will ban public gatherings of more than four people for 2 weeks starting from March 29, 2020. They will also require restaurants to operate at half their capacity and to set tables at least 1.5 metres apart. Some places of public entertainment, including gyms, cinemas, gaming centres, were also ordered to close for 14 days starting from March 28.The announcement came as Hong Kong reported 65 new cases on March 27, the biggest daily increase so far. It brings the total number of infections in the city to 518 and 4 deaths.
Full story: Hong Kong to limit public gatherings to four as cases jump by 65
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PanBear
Veteran Member
Pyramid lights up in #Giza with solidarity messages amid #coronavirus pandemic #Egypt
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PanBear
Veteran Member
These Algerians are making face mask alternatives amid a shortage as the #coronavirus pandemic continues to spread.
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PanBear
Veteran Member
Coronacop - Indian police don #coronavirus-shaped helmet to raise awareness #Chennai
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creative lol
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creative lol
PanBear
Veteran Member
Police dress up as coronaviruses in #LaPaz to warn of dangers of pandemic #COVID19 #Bolivia
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marsh
On TB every waking moment
This evening in my quiet residential area - a series of gun shots totaling about 30.
Found out later it was some man who fired shots with a rifle in front of the elementary school. He was taken down by LE (none hurt) and sent away in an ambulance. Have no idea if it was an attempted suicide by cop. Never happened here before in the 6 years I have lived here.
It is Carol Deppes The Resilient Gardener. One of the best books on the subject. I reread it a couple weeks ago. Solomons book talks a lot about growing without added irrigation which could be important if we lose power.
Of note I went to Agway yesterday and they were out of over half their seed. ALso I havent been able to find seed potato at a reasonable price anywhere. I usually grow Elbas or aother long storage type and online everyone is out. Agway is supposed to get theirs in the next couple of weeks but they will fly off the shelves. Buddyof mine goes by there everyday for work so he is going to keep an eye out and grab me 25 lbs if he can. I picked up 20 lbs of eating potatoes from a farm stand as a backup if I cant get seed pottaotes.
Melodi
Disaster Cat
The Post office issue - it is mandated in the Constitution and in the 1960s "After the Bomb" papers I filed away and read first in the 1990s, the Post Office is who collects the "Taxes" after the Bomb Falls.
It is also the designated meet-up area for all Federal Employees after a disaster - even though most of them don't know this, don't realize they can be "reassigned" to new duties during an emergency and a heck of a lot of postal employees no longer know it either.
What the constitution doesn't say is exactly how the post is to be provided for, who pays for it and if it has to be a public institution.
But this is why if you are a Federal Civil Service Personnel Clerk (like I was) you know that technically most Post Office employees are STILL Federal Employees (just in a different category) from other agencies.
Administrations can pretend all they like that the Post Office is a "Private Company" and on paper it is, but if goes "bankrupt" then Congress is mandated to set up something else in its place.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads".
It is also the designated meet-up area for all Federal Employees after a disaster - even though most of them don't know this, don't realize they can be "reassigned" to new duties during an emergency and a heck of a lot of postal employees no longer know it either.
What the constitution doesn't say is exactly how the post is to be provided for, who pays for it and if it has to be a public institution.
But this is why if you are a Federal Civil Service Personnel Clerk (like I was) you know that technically most Post Office employees are STILL Federal Employees (just in a different category) from other agencies.
Administrations can pretend all they like that the Post Office is a "Private Company" and on paper it is, but if goes "bankrupt" then Congress is mandated to set up something else in its place.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads".
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crossbowboy
Certifiable
Drudge is running a story about Alteon Health cutting pay & benefits to medical workers.
Somebody needs to be taken to the back parking lot and shot in the head for that.
With a bullet. From a gun. (I didn't want to leave that as an ambiguous statement in any way.)
Somebody needs to be taken to the back parking lot and shot in the head for that.
With a bullet. From a gun. (I didn't want to leave that as an ambiguous statement in any way.)
marsh
On TB every waking moment
Thanks OA. He was a good boy. His mama was a stray (looked to be part McNab.) She left him on my doorstep in the mountains and his sister at another house down below. I thought he was a Shitsu, but he grew to about knee high, 50 lbs. Long hair - looked like a small English sheepdog. Really smart, but stubborn. Always guarded the door, (by sleeping next to it,) but not a mean bone in his body. Loved kids and kitties.
I have seen that and others where they are demanding that staff take pay cuts. Seems to me it is time to take a really big hammer and start breaking up a lot of corporations, starting with those in the health care industry.
Melodi
Disaster Cat
I saw this and mentioned it to Nightwolf who said: "This is why I am not a total Libertarian anarchist because there are a few things like building roads or keeping health services going during a pandemic, that you may need the government or regulation for."
Sadly this is exactly the sort of thing that a "purely" for-profit health system is likely to do - the business can't afford to keep running so they slash ER doctor's pay 20 percent while they risk their lives during a pandemic?
Makes perfect "sense" from a profit-cost-ratio - public health and morality not so much...
Even in Germany, where private corporations are used to provide most of the health care via insurance companies they are REGULATED so they can't pull stunts like this.
And the same companies that say they "can't afford" to do that in the US are happy to do it in Germany because they still make money.
The problems come in when these companies can no longer make money and that is starting to happen on a massive scale in the US.
Single-payer systems are also up to their eyeballs in trouble, but they are not slashing doctor's pay, at least not in the industralized world.
marsh
On TB every waking moment
Organic Seed Potatoes Non-GMO Vegetable & Flower Seeds - USA Grown
Wood Prairie Family Farm offers a wide variety of certified organic seed potatoes and vegetable seeds that are safe, grow easy & taste great.
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Kim99
Veteran Member
I’m so sorry.
I checked them a couple days ago. THey are out of the Elbas unless I buy a pound at a time. Side note they are a good company to order from. I have ordered seed and potatoes in the past and like them a lot.Organic Seed Potatoes Non-GMO Vegetable & Flower Seeds - USA Grown
Wood Prairie Family Farm offers a wide variety of certified organic seed potatoes and vegetable seeds that are safe, grow easy & taste great.
Zagdid
Veteran Member
Thinking some former Air Force loadmasters might wince a bit seeing all that loose cargo stacked inside the aircraft.
Archaeologists are going to discover over 35 years worth of hobbies in my basement.
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Four more area Hobby Lobby stores were shut down Tuesday as a nonessential business
Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 3:52 p.m. CT March 31, 2020 | Updated 1:04 a.m. CT April 1, 2020
Five of six suburban Milwaukee Hobby Lobby stores are closed as nonessential businesses, but the Wauwatosa location remains open for now, as do some other large chain craft stores.
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers ordered all nonessential businesses to close under his safer-at-home order. The order stays in effect until 8 a.m. April 24 or until a superseding order is issued.
On Monday, West Allis police shut down the Hobby Lobby at 6900 W. Greenfield Ave.
"We made contact with the business around 11 a.m. and found that it was open," West Allis Deputy Police Chief Christopher Botsch said. "We took this as an opportunity to educate the business on the specifics of the governor’s order. The business was cooperative and closed without incident."
Hobby Lobby locations in Brookfield, Franklin, Menomonee Falls and Waukesha were resigned to the same fate Tuesday, despite being open Monday.
“We made contact with the business in town yesterday around 5:45 p.m. and let them know that, in our interpretation of the governor’s order, they were not an essential business,” said Menomonee Falls Police Capt. Jeff Knop on Tuesday. “There weren’t any issues; they were cooperative and shut down.”
Signs outside the Brookfield and Waukesha Hobby Lobby stores early Tuesday indicated they were “operating as an essential business” by “offering PPE mask supplies, educational supplies, office supplies and various components for home small businesses.”
Early Tuesday, employees at both the Waukesha and Wauwatosa locations said via phone those stores were open, but they could not guarantee for how long. Patrons were also seen walking into the Brookfield location before it closed Tuesday morning.
An employee at the Waukesha store indicated around 1:15 p.m. the store had been shut down a little after noon Tuesday.
The Waukesha Police Department had previously indicated it had been made aware of complaints about the craft store and other similar businesses remaining open and that the city was in discussions with Hobby Lobby about its ability to be open.
The Wauwatosa store remained open as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The City of Wauwatosa directed a call about Hobby Lobby's essential status to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Another news outlet reported the Wisconsin Economic Development Council does not consider Hobby Lobby an essential business. A message left for the WEDC regarding the status of other craft stores as nonessential businesses was not returned in time for this story's deadline.
Other hobby stores
Other craft stores in the area have continued business as usual, albeit with shortened hours.
The four suburban-Milwaukee Michaels stores — in Brookfield, Brown Deer, New Berlin and Germantown — were open Tuesday. An employee at one location said via phone they did not expect to be closed in the near future.
The company said on its website that “in addition to monitoring guidance from local, national and global health organizations, we are taking precautionary measures to ensure that our corporate office, stores, distribution centers and other facilities minimize risks.”
JOANN Fabrics and Crafts, another national craft store chain, had some locations still open Tuesday. Its Greenfield and Menomonee Falls stores had closed, while the Cudahy and Brookfield locations remained open.
The disparity between some craft stores being open and some being shut down can be attributed to how different jurisdictions interpret Evers’ order, said Brookfield Police Lt. Chris Garcia.
“A lot of what we have to do is interpret the gray area of the law, and it’s no different with this order,” Garcia said. “In general, we have to determine if what they are offering fits under the guidelines of what an essential business is, as defined by the state.”
Under Evers' order, grocery stores, hardware and supplies stores are considered essential, along with other "critical" trades and manufacturers.
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Four more area Hobby Lobby stores were shut down Tuesday as a nonessential business
Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 3:52 p.m. CT March 31, 2020 | Updated 1:04 a.m. CT April 1, 2020
Five of six suburban Milwaukee Hobby Lobby stores are closed as nonessential businesses, but the Wauwatosa location remains open for now, as do some other large chain craft stores.
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers ordered all nonessential businesses to close under his safer-at-home order. The order stays in effect until 8 a.m. April 24 or until a superseding order is issued.
On Monday, West Allis police shut down the Hobby Lobby at 6900 W. Greenfield Ave.
"We made contact with the business around 11 a.m. and found that it was open," West Allis Deputy Police Chief Christopher Botsch said. "We took this as an opportunity to educate the business on the specifics of the governor’s order. The business was cooperative and closed without incident."
Hobby Lobby locations in Brookfield, Franklin, Menomonee Falls and Waukesha were resigned to the same fate Tuesday, despite being open Monday.
“We made contact with the business in town yesterday around 5:45 p.m. and let them know that, in our interpretation of the governor’s order, they were not an essential business,” said Menomonee Falls Police Capt. Jeff Knop on Tuesday. “There weren’t any issues; they were cooperative and shut down.”
Signs outside the Brookfield and Waukesha Hobby Lobby stores early Tuesday indicated they were “operating as an essential business” by “offering PPE mask supplies, educational supplies, office supplies and various components for home small businesses.”
Early Tuesday, employees at both the Waukesha and Wauwatosa locations said via phone those stores were open, but they could not guarantee for how long. Patrons were also seen walking into the Brookfield location before it closed Tuesday morning.
An employee at the Waukesha store indicated around 1:15 p.m. the store had been shut down a little after noon Tuesday.
The Waukesha Police Department had previously indicated it had been made aware of complaints about the craft store and other similar businesses remaining open and that the city was in discussions with Hobby Lobby about its ability to be open.
The Wauwatosa store remained open as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The City of Wauwatosa directed a call about Hobby Lobby's essential status to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Another news outlet reported the Wisconsin Economic Development Council does not consider Hobby Lobby an essential business. A message left for the WEDC regarding the status of other craft stores as nonessential businesses was not returned in time for this story's deadline.
Other hobby stores
Other craft stores in the area have continued business as usual, albeit with shortened hours.
The four suburban-Milwaukee Michaels stores — in Brookfield, Brown Deer, New Berlin and Germantown — were open Tuesday. An employee at one location said via phone they did not expect to be closed in the near future.
The company said on its website that “in addition to monitoring guidance from local, national and global health organizations, we are taking precautionary measures to ensure that our corporate office, stores, distribution centers and other facilities minimize risks.”
JOANN Fabrics and Crafts, another national craft store chain, had some locations still open Tuesday. Its Greenfield and Menomonee Falls stores had closed, while the Cudahy and Brookfield locations remained open.
The disparity between some craft stores being open and some being shut down can be attributed to how different jurisdictions interpret Evers’ order, said Brookfield Police Lt. Chris Garcia.
“A lot of what we have to do is interpret the gray area of the law, and it’s no different with this order,” Garcia said. “In general, we have to determine if what they are offering fits under the guidelines of what an essential business is, as defined by the state.”
Under Evers' order, grocery stores, hardware and supplies stores are considered essential, along with other "critical" trades and manufacturers.
Area Hobby Lobby stores have been shut down as nonessential businesses
Hobby Lobby stores have been deemed nonessential businesses, but stores such as Michaels and JOANN Fabrics and Crafts remain open.
www.jsonline.com
mzkitty
I give up.
Not from China either:
Testing kits which were headed to the UK have been found to be contaminated with coronavirus.
The Government has said that it aims to boost the rate of tests to 25,000 every day by the end of April at the latest and has asked private companies to help drive up test production.
But one production firm, Luxembourg-based manufacturer Eurofins, told UK labs on Monday that deliveries would be delayed as core parts had been contaminated with coronavirus, the Telegraph reported.
This shouldn't significantly affect the UK's testing efforts, Government sources told the paper.
Coronavirus tests heading to UK contaminated with Covid-19
Read our live updates HERE Coronavirus: the symptoms
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questionable1
Contributing Member
Gardening is easy just dig a hole and plop a seed in it.
Heard it from a brilliant man that knows all.
That may be a New York thing. I've been doing it for a while and something keeps getting in between that hole and my table.
20Gauge
TB Fanatic
Always!!
questionable1
Contributing Member
I understand they wont breed true, but they still produce something dont they? There is a guy that grows apple trees from seed, which also isnt supposed to work, but it does.
Anyone have practical experience to share?
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