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Neither is a lady, that is the basis of their fame; if they were ladies we would never have heard of them. Not enough talent between the pair to get more than a glance.

Y'all need to talk those spots up as being great game fish and top notch eating- encourage targeting them and killing. them. Organize mean mouth only tournaments. Or spot only. No restocking. Club fish fries, all spots supplied by tourney.

What will become of all those empty office buildings when this is over and the distance working has become the norm? Turn them into housing?

I don't disagree with that notion, but it would still require added enforcement resources. Have to set up a special agency just to determine who gets a pass. We the taxpayers don't like funding added resources.

If they have as much winter kill as RRSP and only stocked for one month after C&R, I can't imagine there are any easy fish left. Always a few that hug the bottom and eat at night that survive.

Closures are pretty simple, no gathering place = no crowd, policing an entry point is easier than policing miles of beach shores lake park whatever and by not policing the crowds you don't expose your police to as many carriers. It's not much fun for those who like to be in a crowd or those who seek to be alone in a place that has crowd potential, but I can see the economic and police safety considerations, think of two or three shifts of two police at each boat ramp and car park dedicated to enforcing a suggestion (not a code) of social distance; how many additional personnel would be needed and what amount of over time pay could they rack up over the next 3-6 months? Since 6' is just a suggestion what punishment to those that don't comply? what about the ones that are 5'8" apart, who measures? Nightmare to enforce any kind of social distancing, but real simple to enfoce "Don't be Here". I'm really surprised state borders weren't closed universally to nonessential traffic, and weeks ago. I guess the Feds could have curtailed Interstate Highway traffic at the same time they did the air travel and probably have reduced or slowed the spread of disease. Didn't Mardi Gras draw people from all over to get the virus and take it home with them? I guess they knew that and chose to allow the spread of the virus, perhaps to sooner hit peak and/or to inoculate by infection greater numbers. The people in charge may not have good plan but it is a sure thing they have some kind of plan and we are not apt to ever see it.

For the guy with gun maybe, for antlered critters not so much.

I walked a bit this evening, should have gotten out a few days ago some were past good, these came home

Nothing yet then? It just seems strange that with WalMart's world headquarters 15 miles from me and all the travel they generate that this area should have been hit in Dec or so, sorta an epicenter and given that such a high percentage have mild cases or no symptoms, I wonder if we all didn't get and get over the dreaded virus back whenever.

Can't act rationally and honor the OP's request can you, water? Any test to let me know if what i had in February was or was not SARS-CoV-2, antibodies etc.?

Did the tourneys get cancelled or just the permits for them?

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. When we rely on the World Health Organization for early information and they (lead by a politician from a third world nation) lie to us (whole world) saying in late January the virus isn't serious, how can anyone blame our leaders?

Gone on a golfing vacation.

not yet, history isn't over yet so he still has a chance, but, he has to beat Dick, Jimmy and GW out and he ain't got close yet. You want to see mismanaged crisis read up on Lyndon and his ships. I guess that's not an easy job and hindsight may not be 20-20 but it is clearer than prophecy. If we are to lay blame, honestly anyone engaging in Chinese/global trade or using import goods is responsible for the traffic that spread this virus. People building selling and using international aircraft are just as responsible as anyone- with out those aircraft it would take weeks longer for the carriers of the virus to circumnavigate the world, no pandemics in isolationism. Where is Mr Monroe when we need him?

D'ya think?

I don't think it's the number that have actually died from the virus that has our leaders in a panic, it's more likely the number that require extra intensive care and tie up beds and qualified personnel. The speed of transmission and the percentage that require extraordinary care are so far out of the norm that the preparedness plans can't cope. Hospitals are built with turnover in mind (treat, release and bill) and sized according to the normal needs of the community. You don't maximize profits (and thereby reduce care costs) by maintaining a thousand empty beds/rooms and you don't maximize profits by warehousing on premises tons of expendable supplies. If we want hospitals to do this in the future, the expense will have to be paid through doubling or tripling the cost of our ordinary treatments, unless we want to nationalize medicine and go to fully socialized single provider medicine and then the cost and the cost of the ballooning management bureaucracy will be paid for by increased taxes. I don't want to go that road.

Yes chloramines are harder to get rid of, why I said "try". I only mentioned it because the bottled water is scarce in this area, and it has worked for me. I've never really been aware that there were sourdough circles and such discussions.

I managed to live 40+ years with apnea before sleep tests were popular, those folks can wait til fall. I don't believe the tests are in any way "essential", when balanced against the pandemic. I wouldn't do it, cite your duty to your patients to keep them from being potentially exposed during the testing.

I think it possible they planned it that way, it's leading toward a "need for martial law". As in " we suggested, then we asked, then we told y'all to stay home and yer still gathering in crowds; so we must force you to comply for your own good'' Never let a disaster go to waste.

Every thing that they close just makes the crowds bigger some place else. Best put those people back to work.

I guess that's the part big brother tracks? micro transmitter? I was an USN electronics expert once but but the gear was all tubes and analog, stuff that we could see; computer the size of a car type stuff. I believe they can now compress all that circuitry into tiny chips. Didn't they catch some gun thieves a while ago in Springfield by investigating all the phones that had been at that location over the day of the theft?

I kept a sourdough going for 8-10 years once, never made loaves, but flapjacks almost every day and biscuits every so often. I never found it any harder to get good results than with any other baking. I did insist on hard wheat flour rather than the common all purpose stuff. Kept two cultures going always, one of starter and one working for next use. I've started several since then but haven't kept any going more than a couple months, I always used wild yeast as a start and they vary some as to outcome. ness, try a second batch of starter (so you don't kill the existing one) using your tap water after boiling it 10 minutes and cooling, we had terribly strong chlorine in the water where we were back then and I don't recall ever even seeing bottled water at that time. I kept my sourdough going with the city water boiled and cooled.

I was thinking it was Homeland, but the way I recall the article said we can turn off the location feature that we see but that the 911 location is always on per Federal regulation starting with phones made after some designated date. That doesn't necessarily mean GPS but is more likely tower triangulation, I think. The gist was that taking the battery out was the only way to stop the reporting. Been a while since I read that and I don't recall where I read it. Maybe I read that newer phones don't let you take the battery out for that reason.

I thought I read some years ago that the GPS could no longer be turned off?

It is remarkable how uncommon that 'common sense' actually is.