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vxbush
4/17/2020 6:02:16 AM
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Lucius, I saw your post at the end of the day just this morning about your mother's broken hip. How long do they expect her to be in the hospital? Is she otherwise well, despite her stubbornness?
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lucius septimius
4/17/2020 6:23:21 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 1: She's almost 93 and not in great shape. They can't operate on her -- I don't know how they'll deal with this.
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vxbush
4/17/2020 6:48:13 AM
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In #2 lucius septimius said: She's almost 93 and not in great shape. They can't operate on her -- I don't know how they'll deal with this. I'm so sorry. I wish there were an easy way forward.
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JCM
4/17/2020 7:55:26 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 2: Many, many prayers for you and your mom.
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 8:42:52 AM
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So a friend/colleague send the following little inspirational-type meme yesterday via WhatsApp to me and a bunch of other folks; translated from the original Spanish (he's Ecuadoran): "We were all human, but religion separated us, politics divided us, and money split us into classes; until a virus made us all equal." Where to begin? First off: When and where was this idyllic state of perfect human solidarity/equality that came before religion, political systems and money? Second: The pandemic has, if anything, intensified class differences. He and I (he's a lawyer, too) and others like us can telework from our comfortable homes, getting paid just as we were before, and carefully avoiding exposure to the virus. Meanwhile, millions of people are unemployed, countless small businesses (and not-so-small ones) are threatened with ruin; and grocery store/pharmacy/etc. checkout clerks are suddenly living with the reality that their jobs are now hazardous. In short: Harrumph.
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lucius septimius
4/17/2020 8:49:03 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 5: If I were king of the world I would solve the high cost of higher ed by taking all those kinds of folks and sending them to the high arctic to teach tolerance and multiculturalism to the polar bears.
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lucius septimius
4/17/2020 8:50:47 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6: We've got to get back to the garden, man.
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 8:52:16 AM
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Just ordered from Amazon a hardcover reprint of the original, illustrated 1894 edition of The Jungle Book, for me to read to Little OR at bedtime. I'm very happy about that.
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 8:54:45 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:
Can we also examine NPR's Covid-19 rhetoric against factual evidence? Like the part when, in early February, they were railing against Trump's travel restrictions, saying that they 'don't work and are counterproductive" in slowing the spread of contagion?
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 8:58:59 AM
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In #8 lucius septimius said: and sending them to the high arctic to teach tolerance and multiculturalism to the polar bears. ... or to the Antarctic, to teach tolerance and multiculturalism to the shoggoths.
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buzzsawmonkey
4/17/2020 9:03:04 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10: Cool. The Second Jungle Book is also good. The story "The White Seal" in the First Jungle Book is surprisingly "ecological," in that it details the search of a young white seal for a haven for the other seals, where they will be safe from the massacres of the seal-hunters (sealing was a major industry back then, not only for coats, but for seal fur to use as fur-felt for hats). The poem that follows the story, "Lukannon," is quite moving.
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doppelganglander
4/17/2020 9:10:32 AM
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In #5 Occasional Reader said: vice president for minority affairs and diversity..." Where all our best and brightest spend their careers.
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doppelganglander
4/17/2020 9:15:35 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 8: They are a luxury most colleges will be unable to afford in a post-Covid19 world. I expect a lot of schools will shut down permanently, and the survivors will cut Grievance Studies and other worthless programs. The other day I read about a young woman with a newly minted degree in social media marketing. Seriously? I have a very low opinion of marketing but that takes the cake.
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Kosh's Shadow
4/17/2020 9:21:30 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6: Sure, and primitive tribes all live peacefully. Headhunters are all nice people, Aztec and Mayan sacrifices were glad to have their hearts torn out... Historical revisionist bs
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 10:36:43 AM
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Epistemology moment:
Little OR to me, earlier this morning: Daddy, why did the chicken cross the road?
Me: I give up. Why?
Little OR: We can’t really know why.
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vxbush
4/17/2020 10:54:27 AM
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In #17 Occasional Reader said: Little OR to me, earlier this morning: Daddy, why did the chicken cross the road?
Me: I give up. Why?
Little OR: We can’t really know why. He is wise already!
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vxbush
4/17/2020 10:56:42 AM
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I think I finally figured out when the media went insane with this COVID situation. It was when they started treating folks testing positive but having no symptoms as if they are Typhoid Marys, about to take down the entire western society. Case in point: BOSTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now “actively looking into” results from universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter. Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms. “It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking,” said Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which provides medical care at the city’s shelters. O’Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston’s homeless shelters. “All the screening we were doing before this was based on whether you had a fever above 100.4 and whether you had symptoms,” said O’Connell. “How much of the COVID virus is being passed by people who don’t even know they have it?” The 146 people who tested positive were immediately moved to two different temporary isolation facilities in Boston. According to O’Connell, only one of those patients needed hospital care, and many continue to show no symptoms.
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Occasional Reader
4/17/2020 11:33:22 AM
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In #18 vxbush said: He is wise already!
We were taking a walk during this conversation;; I nearly fell over laughing.
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