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Carol Baskin’s response to what was in the documentary: https://bigcatrescue.org/refuting-netflix-tiger-king/?amp Ive only read a few paragraphs so far. came across it in this article: https://www.looper.com/196856/everything-tiger-king-didnt-tell-you-about-the-true-story/

This all still feels like a bad dream or something.

One thing I’ve found with the constant hand washing - bar soap is a lot more gentle on my hands vs liquid soap. They don’t get as chapped when I use bar soap.

https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/news/sabres-eichel-is-in-buffalo-self-quarantining article from a conference call Eichel did with the media. I’ll post the full interview as soon as it’s up. He is a smart young man!

Funny video! ? Quick story somewhat related to this video: I have a friend who tells me how safe he’s being. He thinks he’s being extremely cautious (his wife is in the high risk group). But then he’s inviting me over for a card party. He says they are keeping it to 10 people as recommended. And he says everyone will wear gloves to be extra safe. Before he went to this card party, he had just picked up his sister from the airport the day before. She was flying back from their mother’s house in Florida, where she was taking their mother to many different doctors appointments after her recent hospital stay (where she was also visiting) and doing all the shopping/running. He himself has also been out at different local stores + places in the area basically every day since this started. That’s not mentioning all the things the other 8 people at that card party may have done to put themselves at risk that I don’t know about (they seem to be taking it about as “serious” as he is) I tried to explain to him why I wouldn’t be coming and why this card party was risky but he didn’t seem to get it (or didn’t believe me). He still doesn’t understand why I won’t stop by and play.... ??‍♂️

This is a good reminder why we have to keep social distancing. End on a a positive note tonight! (click tweet to see thread). Goodnight all. Hope everyone’s healthy and safe.

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https://anest.ufl.edu/clinical-divisions/alternative-n95-mask-production/ Alternative N95 Mask Production The University of Florida Health’s department of anesthesiology has developed 2 prototypes for respirator masks that can be produced in large quantities using materials already found in hospitals and medical facilities.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-2000-doubles-2-days-2020-3 The US coronavirus death toll has surpassed 2,000, doubling in just 2 days talk about exponential growth.

Powerful article and twitter thread.

Wow.

Xbox has this deal going where you can convert an Xbox gold membership to Xbox ultimate for free (or $1). https://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/gold/upgrade You can convert up to 3 years worth of Xbox gold. You can only buy a 1 year subscription from the game store, so if you want to do all 3 years you have to buy 2 more 1yr subscriptions from amazon (you get an instant code, then just add both to your Xbox account). 1 year of Xbox gold is about 1/3 the price of 1 year of Xbox ultimate so it’s a good deal. Game pass has a bunch of games (at least 100-200 at any given time, with some big name titles (NBA 2020, Witcher 3, Grand Theft Auto 5 (best game ever!), they even have some of the PlayStation yakuza series up right now). I’m definitely enjoying it, and for what averages out to $4.99 a month it’s worth it for me, especially right now. You can only do that $1 deal once though. So if you want to do it and get the most for your money just make sure you add your Xbox gold subscription first.

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And he had a severe knee injury that caused him to miss almost all of 2018. I’m not surprised he had a bit of a down year last season. Hopefully he can get back to his 2017 form. Very nice depth addition at worst.

Yeah I'm in upstate NY too. My work has been crushed by this, so I feel your pain. But the experts are saying that we don’t determine the timeline, the virus does. IMO if we lift restrictions now, infection rates are only going to skyrocket and the economy could end up being shut down worse and probably for longer. The way I see it - the economy actually requires that we suppress this virus. We can’t just go on with daily life and ignore everything happening (hospitals being overwhelmed, tons of people getting severely ill, dying, etc). People aren’t going to go back to shopping/spending like normal while everyone around them is getting sick. From what I’m reading, the experts say we need to have a national stay at home order to get the virus under control, and during that time we need to play catch up - produce tons of hospital equipment and safety gear (masks, gowns, gloves, etc) for our healthcare workers and massively expand testing and tracing programs (see places like South Korea and what they’ve done). Right now, we simply don’t have anywhere close to the requirements in place to be discussing re-opening. In the coming weeks, people that don’t even know they are sick yet are going to be getting sick. We won’t even start to see the effects of our social distancing measures for a bit yet, let alone be ready to open back up. Look at the countries that went into full, true lockdown. Their cases continued to spike for weeks afterwards. Anyway... just my opinion from what I’ve read and discussions I’ve had with people much more knowledgeable than me. But I am no expert, so I don’t want to pretend to have any definitive answers.

Yeah I’m playing a few games that I’ve been wanting to play for a while now but just didn’t have the time. Had a couple I bought a while ago, and plan to get a couple more off the Xbox store. Do you have an Xbox one? Or is it the older 360? Let me know if you want any game recommendations (and what type of games you like best).

@Hapless Bills Fan is much more qualified to answer this than me (though I already know what his answer will be), but going by what all the experts are saying, no. It would only make things worse (and potentially much worse). Here, give this a read: https://www.livescience.com/social-distancing-coronavirus-end.html

He did a Q&A on some of the most common questions he received after posting this. For anyone interested: (click on tweet)