Coronavirus
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I'm really bummed about this extension. I get it, and I understand. My wife has been at home with our 3 kids (3.5yo, almost 2yo, and 5mo) and it's wearing on them. I know I know there are people much worse off and I am by no means downplaying that. It's taking a toll on our oldest. There's some days where she just straight up says she feels sad for no reason. She's always asking to go walk downtown and walk in the shops and go to the restaurants. I was hoping that there would be a little more flexibility with it. You can go to the golf course now but can't have a group of ten in someone's back yard?
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I'm really bummed about this extension. I get it, and I understand. My wife has been at home with our 3 kids (3.5yo, almost 2yo, and 5mo) and it's wearing on them. I know I know there are people much worse off and I am by no means downplaying that. It's taking a toll on our oldest. There's some days where she just straight up says she feels sad for no reason. She's always asking to go walk downtown and walk in the shops and go to the restaurants. I was hoping that there would be a little more flexibility with it. You can go to the golf course now but can't have a group of ten in someone's back yard?
You can do whatever you want
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some after work reading material
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You can do whatever you want
We’ll continue to lay low. My wife has a friend who is a counselor of some type for children and their families in the ER and she had a conference call with other nurses today and they are finding in New York that the majority of kids coming into the hospital for non covid related issues are testing positive for covid and are asymptomatic.
It’s our job to keep our kids safe and we won’t do anything that jeopardizes theirs health.
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the majority of kids coming into the hospital for non covid related issues are testing positive for covid and are asymptomatic.
if you look up 'kid' in the dictionary, you'll find one of the alternate definitions is 'germ warehouse and distribution facility'
closing schools back in march has probably saved thousands of lives already.
Dan
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I heard a good one recently that my wife's not fond of, Womb Gremlins
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Anyone who doesn't think that kids are carriers are purposely being dense. I've seen coaches try to have soccer and baseball practices. They are stupid, but the parents are even more stupid for taking their kids. In today's world of 'my kid wont play if they aren't there 100% of the time' is driving a lot of it, but sometimes you have to put on your big boy pants and do the right thing.
I think shutting everything down to the 26th is asinine. WI is not NYC. most of the state is not Milwaukee. Lets use our brains and consider population density. Sadly the requirement of ;use our brains' basically negates anything I said.
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I think shutting everything down to the 26th is asinine. WI is not NYC. most of the state is not Milwaukee. Lets use our brains and consider population density. Sadly the requirement of ;use our brains' basically negates anything I said.
I agree. I think there were other approaches they could have taken - limit number of people inside stores to small numbers, cut restaurant occupancy numbers in half, require masks (hard to do in a restaurant though), allow restaurants with outdoor patios the option to open with tables spaced 6' apart. I bet most people in Wisconsin would bundle up and sit outside at a restaurant right now just to get out of the house and do something. I understand golf courses are outdoor, open spaces where the number of people can be controlled, but I think it's dumb that there is a small group of people will get to go do a social activity with their friends.
I hope people schedule tee times to not play golf and just walk the course with their friends to get drunk and take dumps in the holes.
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I hope people schedule tee times to not play golf and just walk the course with their friends to get drunk and take dumps in the holes.
hey, what did golf ever do to you?
anyone who attempts what you've said near me will be shelled with 120mph golf balls whizzing past their head.i agree that guidelines that cover EVERYONE in the state dont necessarily make sense for all cities/areas. the other side to the argument, though, is people are stupid and will push the boundaries too far if you leave the boundaries loose.
Dan
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hey, what did golf ever do to you?
Made me bad at it.
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I mean, did you really ever have any rights to begin with? Local governments control your life already - where you put your shed, how tall your fences are, your zoning which controls how big you can make your garage, your own house. I mean, technically they don't even allow you to install a light switch without asking for permission, charging you a fee, and then having someone come out to take a look at it.
We're working on a breathing permit right now to make sure people are only breathing through their noses so we can get rid of all the mouth-breathers.
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I mean, did you really ever have any rights to begin with? Local governments control your life already - where you put your shed, how tall your fences are, your zoning which controls how big you can make your garage, your own house. I mean, technically they don't even allow you to install a light switch without asking for permission, charging you a fee, and then having someone come out to take a look at it.
We're working on a breathing permit right now to make sure people are only breathing through their noses so we can get rid of all the mouth-breathers.
while i agree that some rules are cash grabs (such as light switch permits), every rule exists because some mouthbreather did something stupid, which goes back to my previous point that people are dumb. if local govts didnt control these things, you'd have a neighbor with a rube golberg house behind a great wall of china fence that looked like it might fall and crush you kids when they play in your yard. he'd blast his nazi music so loud you couldnt think and have tigers in his back yard that would murder your dogs, on occasion.
Dan
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have tigers in his back yard
I know what you watched recently!
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while i agree that some rules are cash grabs (such as light switch permits), every rule exists because some mouthbreather did something stupid, which goes back to my previous point that people are dumb. if local govts didnt control these things, you'd have a neighbor with a rube golberg house behind a great wall of china fence that looked like it might fall and crush you kids when they play in your yard. he'd blast his nazi music so loud you couldnt think and have tigers in his back yard that would murder your dogs, on occasion.
I joke about it because I work in the Planning/Zoning office and at the same time I rarely pull permits.
But you're exactly right. The rules, regulations, permits, zoning, etc. is not there to protect you, they're there to protect your neighbor or the next person who buys your house and the light switch that you wired in wrong because you didn't pull a permit doesn't short out and burn the house down.
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@wally509 that's great news! I'm happy to hear! I have an eerily similar story. I have a customer that I have gotten to know very well between him and his family. Well, I called last week to check in on them and his son told me his dad (80 something Korean war vet) had been in the hospital for 2 weeks and was stable but not getting out soon. They seemed optimistic about his recovery.
Found out today that my customer passed away this week from COVID-19.
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Found out today that my customer passed away this week from COVID-19.
Sorry for your loss Pat, I can say this is the first death I've personally heard about.
someone said:
A study of pregnant women admitted at New York City hospitals, all of whom were tested for COVID-19, found that 88 percent of those who tested positive had no symptoms. The study looked at 215 women who were admitted to deliver babies between March 22 and April 4. Four of the women had COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive, but so did 29 women with no symptoms at all. Only three developed one or more symptoms before they left the hospital. The findings provide clues to unanswered questions about how widespread the virus truly is in New York City, and what percentage of people who have the virus are asymptomatic. They imply that infection rates in “hot spots” might be much higher than previously believed. The study group was too small to draw huge conclusions, but a similar trend has emerged in another microcosm: About 60 percent of the more than 600 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been asymptomatic.
Interesting statistics from these two studies, though we'll need wide spread testing to find out if these statistics scale out else where.
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