ExiledInIllinois

Happy Freakin' Birthday Mike!!!

They gotta get through along with the fuel for your car. ?

Sent the over 60 crowd... LoL... Only one guy out of us 13, home. Free leave to May 11. Other over 60 was deployed in Afghanistan. He's sent back and in quarantine. Will get redeployed? So...we were playing with short bench to begin with 9/10 operators. 10 of the 13 staff 24/7/365...Sent the two management people home. Mechanic home. Picking up an extra 30 hours time in coming weeks. Business as usual operating.

I ain't a teetotaler but growing up with alcoholism and watching a society filled with functional alcoholics has turned me off. Is it really that great? I guess some need to self-medicate which I got no problem with as long as it doesn't go off the rails and they are able to go dry with no physical cravings. I drink, but it's not necessary....My last drink was a month ago. LoL... You forgot @Augie and me! That was rough, wasn't it!

@Hapless Bills Fan is it okay to post this? Please delete if it doesn't meet thread criteria. Please delete if source is not good enough: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/25/coronavirus-survives-on-metal-plastic-cardboard-common-objects/2866340001/ "Aerosols are different," says Dr. Stanley Deresinski, clinical professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Stanford University. "Very small particles may be suspended in the air for a long time, sometimes for hours. They're suspended by air currents." Airborne droplets can stay suspended long enough for someone to walk through and inhale the virus. Outdoors, wind disperses the virus. A virus that doesn't reach the ground or floor can fall on shared surfaces – or be transferred there by those with the pathogen on their hands. Whatever the case, unsuspecting people can pick it up. How long a virus lives depends on the surface it's on..." [Good article, Exiled. It summarizes the findings of the NE Journal of Medicine article linked in one of the OPs, but in a nice, readable way with pictures. One comment is that they kind of imply that when someone coughs, or even breathes forcefully, they produce droplets that don't stay suspended. That's largely true. But it's my understanding that coughing has been studied to produce some aerosols as well, which is why there is still some risk for obsessive handwashers, going out and staying 6 feet away from everyone - especially in an enclosed space with relatively poor air exchange. Outside much less issue. It's for this reason that public health experts in several Asian countries push the wearing of masks in public - if you're sick, stuff should stay inside the mask (in theory, if you do things right)]

There will be a spike... But not boom The Millennials also called: Echo Boomers because they are children of Boomers are starting to reach middle age. Boomers are reaching elderly. It's the post-Millennials that will start having the kids... And they don't want to bring children (or really can't, shouldn't) into such a messed country and world.

Call me crazy... But yes! YOLO!

Because people get DTs without their daily booze.

Can I take a peek and see where Mama hides the cookies!

Every see the ducks at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis? Quite a spectacle every day and night!

Been there, done that. By the time he got to fabricating rubber band machine guns, it became really dicey! JC son... Do you have to leave your loaded weapons all over the floor! How many times have I told you... Unchamber the ***** -ers!

Not what I was looking for but interesting. Same year the Pandemic Response Team was fired: Epidemics Going Viral: Innovation vs. Nature In April 2018, a group of renowned researchers, clinicians, public health officials, and others with first-hand experience dealing with epidemics explored the complex challenges of global health emergencies, as well as potential solutions. Watch the video: https://interactives.nejm.org/iv/playlist/index.html?media_id=siCcYW3U&pcs=sidebar

Not sure if this was posted. Town of Cheektowaga declares it too... Within Erie County.. https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/erie-county/cheektowaga/town-of-cheektowaga-declares-state-of-emergency/ I read April 2018... But.11/17 is close. EDIT: 11/17/19... Ooops... Gonna try and find link where I read similar sickness in 2018...

Juggernaut? It's like miles long and almost flat! At Steamboat, I took my snowplowing daughter all the down from summit... On the snowmobile switchbacks... But she already had lessons at Squaw Valley the year prior. There is always an easy way down. And it ain't in the "ride of shame" sled... EDIT: Oh wow... Killington killed, closed off Juggernaut in 2018. Just looked it up.

Gee... Great... Now we are pinned for spreading Wuhan Fever. LoL... Boy, can't catch a break. I go anywhere, I am lying... Saying I am from Toledo.

Well there's the problem... Not supposed to be drinking a can of Sprite and biking. That's Sprite abuse! Skiing, just stick to the gentle groomers, cruise a little... Go in, then cruise a little more, then go in for a little longer. .

"Let's keep the kids guessing and getting dressed every morning." Was... The sadistic superintendent's snow closing policy at W.Seneca Schools in the 1970s. Old Erie County culture is hard to die. Beer Goggles!!!!

They had filters back then too. And photographers who knew how to e ork advantageous angles and fical lengths. I look like David Hasslehoff from beyond 70mm and my head turned 120°. LoL... YOU still don't want to wake up next to me! Look at the eyes on the football team... War Horse alright!

What a warhorse!

The Wuhan is NOT for the children! (Only old are dropping... Well sort of. A 19 year old tested positive here, first outside Cook county AND no COVID-19 connection thru people. So... It's out in the wild?) What happens in summer?

Good luck... Do the best you can. Illinois will shut down completely... All schools by governor proclamation.

Illinois shut down: https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-shuts-down-all-schools-in-the-state-because-of-coronavirus

Good... Put this season out of its misery!

Jesus Christ... I was eating lunch... Give me a hint? Answer: "Does she like orange guys?"