Taking a cue from Avenue 5

The Common Gray Squirrel 

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Rant of the day - We can send a god damn a man to the moon but STILL cannot get a split screen on the TV.

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The big difference between H1N1 The Spanish Flu and Covid19 is that H1N1 when infected you got sick VERY fast and died in a week.  You infected maybe 2 people.

Covide19 there is a 7 to 14 day incubation period where you feel great and infect many many people in those 7-14 days and then it's a slow sickness where it takes 10 days to pass away if you get it really bad.

Covid19 is a FAST spreader that does not kill but it does overwhelm health care facilities.

Want to get back to normal?  Not going to happen until a vaccine is created which is still 8 to 18 months away.   OH!  you will hear it's been created sooner but the long part is clinical tests which are 4-6 months.  You really can't start injecting millions and millions of people with an untested vaccine until you know you will not kill millions and millions of people .

There is a very very good space comedy on HBO called Avenue 5.  A space cruise that goes horribly wrong and instead of a 2 month cruise it accidentally turns in to a 8 year cruise instead.

However what they did was tell everybody it was going to be 8 years when it will REALLY be only 4 years and everybody was so happy.  Sort of like Trumps Art of the Deal.  Tell America 200,000 will die and then when it's only 100,000 because of his incompetence everybody is happy.

One of the leading vaccine people in the world was being interviewed and he believes the world is about 18 months away from a vaccine.  He was told of one company that said they were 6 months and he said 6 months to create a vaccine and another 4 months to test it.

The GOOD news is that the entire world is working on this problem so who knows what will transpire.  Just DO NOT listen to politicians that talk about miracle drugs coming out soon. Not goign to happen and it's just telling you want you want to hear.

This virus was a complete surprise and there is NOTHING like it in the world which is why it is in control of the entire world.  Different then all other viruses.  It's sticky and attaches itself to water molecules.

This is THE BIG ONE and people really need to take it seriously - not like the morons who want to gather at the capitol to force Evers to open up the State.  Evers can only have SStay in Place until May 21.  The the GOP take over. . . . and we all know how they are completely inept an just about everything that has "health" in it's name.     
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Remember how Wisconsin forced people to risk their lives to vote and became the laughing stock of the Nation? It's happening again in northern Wisconsin with a special election - however this time no mail in voting.  The GOP is forcing a vote in person on May 12.   WHO CARES ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH when a judge seat is up for grabs.   Better to have a low turnout and risk lives.

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Watch out for your meat supply.  The main meat packing industries are all in GOP run states that do not believe in a stay at home and many processing plants are closing because to many workers are infected.  One place has over 475 infected workers.  YET - the South Dakota GOP governor refuses to put in a Stay Put order, it's just the flu and they have large quantities of that malaria drug that they feel will be the cure.  The President (who owns stock in the company that produces it)  said it was good to go so they are going with it. 

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The one industry that is thriving in these trying times?  cannabis and I assume liqueur stores.  `

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39,000 pubs were shut down in the UK.   That means that since ale lasts about 6 -9 weeks and lagers 3-4 months, there are 50 million pints of beer are at risk.         

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Tequilas Grill in Columbus has a new sign.  I'll have to get some photos when ever it warms up LOL

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Watched RUN on HBO last night - a bit . . . . odd but interesting.  A couple that broke up 15 years earlier and have not been in touch made a pact.  In the future if one texted RUN and the other texted RUN back. They would drop everything immediately and meet up in NY for a cross country train adventure.

half hour interesting  rom-com-adventure that looks odd but has our interested peaked for at least 1 more show.

https://youtu.be/x9gnW8TAP2U