How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?
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yes, they are including my wife, just bought a new stove and over head microwave. guess what i am doing over the weekend.
I'm buying car parts online. . .$$
I'm buying a new TIG welder too...$$$
Also putting up a shed as soon as I can schedule one....$$$$
No checks yet from Trump; but it's all from my tax refund, as I seriously overpaid this year.
I'm buying a new TIG welder too...$$$
Also putting up a shed as soon as I can schedule one....$$$$
No checks yet from Trump; but it's all from my tax refund, as I seriously overpaid this year.
Today Govenor Inslee extended the Stat home Stay safe order thru the end of May. Posted a 4 phase system to open back up. We have moved into Phase one with construction going back to work with new distance guidelines. State parks are available again. And hospitals can do elective surgery. There is a minimum of 3 weeks between phases to make sure no outbreaks are breaking out.
Our governor also extended the lockdown until the end of May but I haven’t heard any of the restrictions or caveats yet.
It’s not a huge thing for me and so far no one in my family has got sick. No one in our neighborhood has gotten sick and no one that I know has gotten sick. We still have only had seven deaths in 1 million people and this has not risen for over a week.
But my wife has a condition that makes her nervous about catching this illness, and so she is totally sequestered while I am doing all of the shopping.
She is trying to act concerned and responsible and understanding about the situation but I know that with so few cases in our county she starting to realize the truth.
Some crowded areas like New York are going to have outbreaks because of the population density and in some low density areas like Clovis, we’re going to have it real easy.
I don’t think this has a whole lot to do with income and wealth because Fresno has a huge population of poor farm workers and unwed mothers and welfare recipients and people who come to live in the county, because it is huge rural and inexpensive.
And they are about half from Mexico, but we have lots of refugees from the Middle East and Asia who live here for the same reasons, and because they are attached to the farming industry.
About half of America’s food is being grown here, in a land where people don’t seem to be getting sick very quickly, and I believe that is an enormous blessing that we do not appreciate yet. Tulare county to the south is having a slightly rougher time of it, and that is even less crowded, but it’s mostly dairy country down there so that may have something to do with the situation.
One thing that we do not have is Chinese nationals flying in and out of the Fresno Yosemite international Airport. They hang out in Frisco, silicon Valley and Huntington Beach. We have an Ag college that’s big on winemaking but that’s not their thing.
I think that too was a factor in this business.
It’s not a huge thing for me and so far no one in my family has got sick. No one in our neighborhood has gotten sick and no one that I know has gotten sick. We still have only had seven deaths in 1 million people and this has not risen for over a week.
But my wife has a condition that makes her nervous about catching this illness, and so she is totally sequestered while I am doing all of the shopping.
She is trying to act concerned and responsible and understanding about the situation but I know that with so few cases in our county she starting to realize the truth.
Some crowded areas like New York are going to have outbreaks because of the population density and in some low density areas like Clovis, we’re going to have it real easy.
I don’t think this has a whole lot to do with income and wealth because Fresno has a huge population of poor farm workers and unwed mothers and welfare recipients and people who come to live in the county, because it is huge rural and inexpensive.
And they are about half from Mexico, but we have lots of refugees from the Middle East and Asia who live here for the same reasons, and because they are attached to the farming industry.
About half of America’s food is being grown here, in a land where people don’t seem to be getting sick very quickly, and I believe that is an enormous blessing that we do not appreciate yet. Tulare county to the south is having a slightly rougher time of it, and that is even less crowded, but it’s mostly dairy country down there so that may have something to do with the situation.
One thing that we do not have is Chinese nationals flying in and out of the Fresno Yosemite international Airport. They hang out in Frisco, silicon Valley and Huntington Beach. We have an Ag college that’s big on winemaking but that’s not their thing.
I think that too was a factor in this business.
My governor Brian Kemp has re opened movie theaters, gyms, barbershops, hair salons, and nail salons. I think he has made poor decisions.
I feel the same way my friend but I can not change his decision nor undo the damage that has potentially been done by now.
I was treated to a nice sunrise when I got up this morning to work on my articles. It was foggy so really created a nice effect of light coming over the mountains.
Beautiful part of the world is South Africa. A little story for you. My life could have been so so different. In 1980 a cousin of mine emigrated to Durban. He was a top UK footwear designer and an opportunity arose in South Africa. He started a thriving business, never looked back.
In 1982 my dad went out to visit him with a view to us moving out there. But my dad was just a builder, not a businessman. Apparently at the time white people did not work for black people, it was the other way round. So for my dad to succeed he would have had to start up his own building business and employ the locals. This scared him to death, he had no business skills whatsoever so that's as far as it went.
He just used the 3 weeks as an holiday and came back with masses of photographs. My dad passed a long long time ago but I still have all these beautiful photos from South Africa.
What could have been if working arrangements would have been different back then.
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