seedsbelize 

I just finished reading the Merida paper.The country entered phase two today, and things are locking down. Our president is apparently on an island, policy-wise. His approval rating has dropped ten points over this.

abshipp 

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I hear Excel Sports has good deals on closeouts lately.

ls01

not if you spread it out over 24 hours. Hardly anything...

rjones28 

Plenty of wine here, but no beer on premises.

abshipp 

I rode as well. Took the recently posted SLT for 20ish miles.

I've been trying to get a good picture of these guys for years, but they're a skittish bunch. I still didn't get a good one, but at least they weren't clear across their pen like usual.

datlas 

Hey MoAlpha did you see this? Only one specially lower than mine listed. Sad?

ls01

The co. Has started issuing us surgical masks today. I'm torn. I appreciate being able to work and make a living. But its freaking me out a little.

datlas 

Mrs datlas is starting to get paranoid. Said she wants me to change out of work clothes downstairs (where I come in) before coming upstairs. I tried to explain that I wear a white coat at work on the rare chance I see any patients IRL these days, and that I wash my hands carefully before leaving work.

But in the interest of marital bliss, the Dude abides.

Maybe I need to start drinking White Russians?

ls01

So heres a question. Serious one too.
The boss goes to hand out the masks. He sticks his hand in the box and grabs 2. And gives them to ? How should we do this? He is contaminating the box with his hands or everyone is creating a nice popuri of germs by sticking their hand in it.
What's protocol?

MoAlpha

No surprise and am very grateful for the privilege of doing what I do instead. i never thought I could ply the trade full time. Heathpack seems to have a cool job, despite it’s pressures and frustrations.

datlas 

I shoulda been zit-popper MD. They are happiest.

berner

I've just finished one and am reading another book about global warming, speaking about denial. I can see why some people would deny the corona virus or global warming. The effects don't seem to be clear and present. For global warming, doing something about it would require disastrous capital expenditures effecting bonuses and sort of abstract anyway. But the virus is not abstract and people in large numbers are dying. Maybe people have been lied to so consistantly by so called leaders (remember weapons of mass destruction) we no longer believe anything. Sort of the way chicken little kept saying the sky was falling and all the animals eventually stopped taking cover.

indyfabz

Heh. When I was getting my INR checked at HUP the head of the department told me that he had one patient who swore he only drank two beers per day. When he pressed the patient further he revealed it was two 40s per day.

Bah Humbug

We as a species are very bad at recognizing invisible dangers. It still seems surreal to me that I could almost walk outside and pretend everything is normal. It would be irresponsible, but it's much different from, say, bears roaming the streets.

Velo Vol 

I invited you to become my witch doctor.

P.S. Nice music.

Velo Vol 

Not great with visible ones, either. See convenience store "food" inventory and drivers with cellphones.

Velo Vol 

Reindeer?

Bah Humbug

AG is borderline there, wanting to order everything to avoid stores but then freaking out about possibly-infected items and we don't have enough alcohol or sanitizer to clean everything, and I'm on the edge of my mental energy. With weeks to go.

MoAlpha

Ask him politely to wash his hands before doing it?

Bah Humbug

Ah, but the risks there are invisible (diabetes, heart disease, etc) or mainly to others. We have very few visible threats in society because we're so good at eliminating them. Lots of invisible ones though, even though it only takes a tiny bit of thinking to realize they're there.

MoAlpha

I would burn out like a birthday candle.

bampilot06

Mine is the same datlas. When I get picked up from the airport she sprays my luggage down with lysol, makes me sanitize my hands before getting in the car, and upon entering the house I have to strip out of my uniform. I’m pretty sure the next time I come home there will be a oven in our mud room for my clothes.

MoAlpha

Your work environment is better controlled than a supermarket, for God’s sake!

Wife does intensive, “artisanal,” multi-day, cognitive testing with kids and has three interrupted evals pending. I find that pretty scary and may ask her to refund their money and bail, possibly forever. We’re not kids.

MoAlpha

I can’t say she’s wrong.

datlas 

It’s music student daughter’s. On the piano. Some famous sonata by Beethoven I believe.