^I agree. Visiting the Hopi mesas and Canyon de Chelly in Arizona (where you have to hire a Navajo guide to explore the canyon) was so eye-opening. Our Hopi guide was telling us how bad the drought had been. I asked her how long that was, expecting her to say a year or two. She said, “Oh, about 20 years, I think…” Yikes.
My grandfather worked with native Americans on reservations in North Dakota and Montana. He passed away when I was five so I never got to ask him about it.
Usually, but where a bike path meets or crosses a street, there’s no metal detector. There’s a beg button.
I’m not sure I’ve ever been to Nassau County. I live in a northern suburb of Boston. (No need for reverse snobbery - at this point, my first choice location to attend will be the school where I teach.)
Question about shopper fee/tip - what do you think is reasonable if you hire someone off app? I was thinking $30 plus 20% of order.
^Sounds generous to me. 
When it is mentioned in the Stanford study that the flu caused 10 times more deaths in the world war.
If we have students reading this thread. Important caveat.
They mean USA deaths in WW1. Not WW2. The USA had a much shorter engagement in that conflict. It was horrific for the Europeans.
Both the flu, covid and world war are terrible.
However, for student perspective on just a few countries in WW2.
Forget the opposing forces, other allies and obviously the atrocities- I can’t even bring myself to describe.
Country
Country Civilian and Military Deaths
Soviet Union 24,000,000 total
United Kingdom 450,700 total
United States 418,500 total
Yugoslavia 1,000,000 total
36 more rows
This doesn’t count serous life altering injuries.
i went into my local Kroger for the first time in many many weeks. (H has been doing the shopping). The shelves were still pretty bare in many areas. No TP or Paper towels. No Flour. Rice was almost non existent. But there was chicken. The guy in produce was saying that they were trying to get more produce, but there was an issue with the Florida border in terms of transport.
This is from today. I’m not sure how my fellow Illinoisans feel, but I like it at first glance. Notice the various regions on the map, since our state varies greatly when it comes to population density.
My observation from a western Chicago suburb is that most people are doing their best and complying with masks and social distancing. The ones who are flaunting their disobedience are aggravating (to me) but are relatively small in number. I live off a golf course and have been pleasantly surprised by the good behavior I’m seeing.
Just returned from my first trip to grocery store in about 10 or 12 days (they’re starting to blur together)
Everyone had n a mask. One of the teen baggers had his under his chin, so I moved to another aisle, but it reminded me of teen boys wearing their pants down under their buttocks.
Lots of meat, no restrictions on amounts. Lots of eggs, including some large packs that probably used to go to restaurants. House brand was on sale. Plenty of pasta,beans,rice. I wanted bread flour but they were out. Some all purpose but we’re good with that. Absolutely no disinfecting sprays or wipes of any kind but there was generic bleach in the laundry section. I guess I’ll make up some spray for the shower with just bleach and water.
Everyone was distancing and being polite but not friendly. Most of the time when I’m there I see someone I know (frequently former students) but with masks on I’m not sure I would recognize them…
The former. The diluted solution only holds its strength for 24 hours.
“According to Clorox, undiluted household bleach has a shelf life of six months to one year from the date of manufacture, after which bleach degrades at a rate of 20% each year until totally degraded to salt and water, and a 1:10 bleach solution has a shelf life of 24 hours.”
More detailed information:
https://www.clorox.com/how-to/laundry-basics/product-usage-guides/shelf-life-of-bleachwater-solutions/
@dragonmom lol re mask on chin like pants below tush
Illinois announces it’s re-opening plan. Five phases. State is divided into regions and re-opening will not be one-size-fits-all.
The announcement says Illinois is currently in Phase 2.
Interestingly, Phase 3 could kick in as soon as May 31 in some regions and it requires the numbers to be flat or declining.
We are anxious to hear more details about restaurants.
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The trench warfare in France in WWI was notorious for producing PTSD. They didn’t call it PTSD then, they called it shellshock, but it ruined a lot of lives.
I’m wondering about the mental health aftereffects for health care providers and other first responders in the hard-hit areas. Repeatedly being unable to save patients has got to take its toll.
Picked up my curbside grocery order today, in Maryland.
While I was there Waiting I noticed almost every cart that came out had a big thing of paper products.
I also noticed many masks and not many gloves.
We have been ordering more than we need each time, because we often don’t get everything. This time we got most everything and had a pretty high grocery bill. We even got a big pack of TP ourselves - the first in a couple of months. I got some name brands and some not, and some sizes different than what I ordered, but was happy to get things.
I wish VA were planning to reopen by region. There’s a big difference in population density, number of cases, etc. in different parts of the state. One size should not fit all. Maybe by the time things start re-opening (maybe at the end of next week), the governor will change his mind about how to do it.
Why are some people such…?
“Man who wiped nose on clerk’s shirt at Dollar Tree arrested”
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/05/man-who-wiped-nose-on-clerks-shirt-at-dollar-tree-arrested.html
Luckily they’ve arrested this guy. His neighbor says “he just has a strange sense of humor.”
Have a friend who worked as dietician and diabetes educator on several Pueblo Reservations and thru her met a couple who were life long employees of the PHS. He was a psychiatric nurse (named Fred Rogers) who mostly did drug & alcohol rehab; she was a maternity nurse. They spent 15 years on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and another 15 at Acoma-Laguna in New Mexico. They stories they told of the both the incredible kindness and the incredible poverty of Native peoples …
D2 did her rural medicine rotation at the Chinle IHS clinic. (Chinle is the town nearest to Canyon de Chelly.) She hiked the canyon several time during her month-long stay. Her guide was 70+ year old Navajo lady who could walk the feet off all the young folk. D2 did house calls with her preceptor and most of the homes away from the town lacked indoor plumbing and had to haul drinking water and water for their animals.
I started wearing a mask to the grocery store back when they were telling people that it won’t protect you from anything. I tried gloves on a couple of trips, but they didn’t work out. I ended up having to choose between sticking the dirty gloves in my purse to get out my credit card or taking the gloves off and exposing my hands anyway. Instead I put my travel size Germ-X in my cart and use it intermittantly during my shopping. Still wear the mask, though, and plan to for a long while as things are slowly opening.
Seems reasonable. Just having a plan in place is bound to lift some spirits. There were four or five counties in Illinois that never had a single case. No mention of how they are supposed to show a downward trend. Personally I don’t see a problem if restaurants or beauty salons in those counties want to open up with social distancing measures and /or protection in place - and maybe they open up to “regular”/previous clients only, or those who live within county lines - to discourage travel to those areas. Church services just might be the largest gatherings most of them would have to worry about.
Another observation: Six Flags is not giving refunds to members or seasons pass holders, and there is now a class action lawsuit in Cali. It seems they keep charging members the monthly fees, even though the parks are closed. Bet there’s going to be more of those kinds of lawsuits.
I worry about mental health. Period. Stop.
On our local, closed group, FB group a mother posted the very personal story of her teenage son battling mental health issues. They had found a successful treatment and he was improving greatly. Then the COVID shut down shut down treatment access.
In short…mom told how her sone was entertaining more and more suicidal thoughts. She called 911 but was told there were several high level calls ahead of hers and they were not sure when assistance would be available. However, within minutes, 5 policemen (all men) surrounded her son - in a protective and comforting way. A therapist in a bullet proof vest showed up and that team talked the distressed young man into a more calm state. A a go forward treatment plan was proposed.
As the police were leaving, one returned to the young man, pulled down his mask and looked the boy in the eyes. He said he’d also had debilitating anxiety and depression at that age, he told him it does get better and how brave he’d had been by admitting his suicidal thoughts.
This same officer then told mom that the number of suicide related calls for the teen cohort had skyrocketed.
This info from the front lines of a smallish town.
Had the beach to myself today, just miles and miles. It was cold enough to keep people from thinking of it and warm enough with the sun to make it pretty awesome. I walked for miles and saw very few people. Parking is closed and the police patrol so there are very few who have access to the sand. Makes me feel a little bit sad actually.
On social media people have been beating each other up over who is allowed access and who can’t come to whose neighborhood. It’s sad, frankly.