Life under martial law, sort of...

[balsum fractus]

gaaaa!    Hope you did touch anything they touched!

Being a world leader is nice except when it comes to the number of confirmed cases....

You guys stay safe, y'heah !

[jetmex]

Still no airplanes flying over the house.  Pat decided she had had enough of being cooped up, so we drove to Galveston yesterday to see what was going on.  The plan was to grab some vittles drive by and eat at Seawolf Park.  None of our usual favorite eateries were open for lunch, and the park (as well as the beaches) were closed.  Whataburger was open, so we snagged some burgers and parked the car along the road leading up to the park and watched pelicans and boats go by.  Seawolf park is home to the destroyer escort USS Stewart and submarine USS Cavalla, which sank a Japanese aircraft carrier in WWII.  Both ships are high and dry and not in the best of shape, but I couldn't really get up close to see.  After lunch, we drove through downtown Galveston, which was a ghost town.  The place makes its living through tourist hordes, so this is really rough on all the folks down there.  Then across Galveston Bay on the ferry to the Bolivar Peninsula and back home.  It was good to be out and some of the scenery along the way was worth the drive.

The masked heathen hordes are out and about though.  I ready somewhere that the masks will keep you from spreading the virus but won't stop you from getting it.  Gotta wonder how that is going to work out....

[Onepoint]

Waaaaay back when I was young, like 8 years old or something my uncle lived in Houston and we flew down to visit,   we drove to Galveston, I got to walk through the sub and destroyer and play on the AA guns, it was awsome!

[stetto]

STILL toilet paper. The ONLY tp on any store shelves is the gas station variety. Did the major producers switch to recycling the used stuff into facemasks? WTH?

I've called Costco twice, all they tell me is that the good stuff is gone before the trucks even dock. Now, around here anyway, a $26 30 roll pack of Charmin Ultra is getting scalped for almost $100...

I figured those that were going to fill their garages have done so by now. Apparently they're breeding...

[balsum fractus]

It's back on the shelves here......I could mail you some, but it probably wouldn't make it........

[stetto]

We're supposed to help our PuddinFace move this weekend, she's over in Fargo, in a state that hasn't turned East Germany just yet. But Timmy "Hoffa" Waltz, our eminent terror-monger-in-chief in Minnesotakstan, has a hotline now for reporting "violators" of his house arrest order, and I've heard (likely untrue, but... ) that the traffic cams are even being utilized to nab the guilty...AND his unConstitutional orders are now extended, as will all, into May. I'm wondering if checkpoints won't be going up along state lines soon.

I will, of course, cite Marbury v Madison if approached. They've gotten to where they're arresting people for playing with their own kids in the park now, it's beyond surreal. I have the hardest time imagining this police statism being entirely reversed anytime in the future. The ruling class relenquishes nothing, once inflicted.

Our accounting business has gone completely nukkin' futz. People are calling all times of day and night demanding free consultations and assistance with PPP and E-I-E-I-O applications. Suddenly we've become a public service...The paying clientele are all slowly going silent, shut down by the state or by mere constriction of trade by that same state into insolvency. A 12 hundred dollar check is going to help few...but they don't know that. Yet.

Dylan is our "vulnerable". He works for a local store that's considered "essential", and is actually one of our clients. Their receipts almost immediately dropped to less than a third of normal since this terrorist attack by our own government began...At least we're still getting the bills paid, if only...

[stetto]

Oh, and being as we have a lot more idle time here, what without calving or feeding or planting or cutting or flying or parking the flying things or....

I figured out the Roku tv we've had for a year and a half, and found out we don't need cable or satellite to get networks, especially news, fo' FREE...So I started watching Fox News, which I haven't seen in 11 years or more, if for no other reason than it's the only network airing the daily chinese flu pressers and obligatory ensuing snipe attacks on Trump. He's really gotten good at it. If for no other reason, I like Trump for that. I get the giggles when he performs these eviscerations, and almost makes this nightmare worth it....

OK, not, but.....

[Onepoint]

Here it's pretty much business as usual for those of who don't work in town anyway, we social distance as way of life normally.  That seems to have bunched the underwear for some, especially in neighboring states like CO who think they are California and should be able to dictate what all the adjacent states do "because it impacts them".  To his credit our governor has politely told them to fuck off so far.  And they conveniently forget how their legalizing weed has impacted all of us with zero consideration, but I digress.

Even so they are talking mid may for most of the lock downs and and limits here, not good news.

I am not worried they will rescind all these draconian orders, they will after all want wealth generated by people to tap into.  What worries me is they will think this is who all crisis will be handled now.  Assuming that this will not cause a cascade effect in the coming months and destroy the economy to start with.  For some reason govt seems top think you can snap your fingers and have money to start up again, all the low interest loans and "free" grants that will assuredly come with a tax increase price tag that add to debt and more monetary obligation to meet, which is an anchor around any businesses neck.

[stetto]

I envy you your isolation, Eric, even on a good day...

Get this, MN's fetal alcohol damaged governor just now recommended that out-of-state lake-home owners STAY AWAY this summer. He's already putting the few lake resorts left in the state out of business by closing them indefinitely, but the small towns in proximity of all these lakes depend on those out-of-state lake-home owners for their effin' livelihood!!

I swear they prove with every "order" and "edict" that they're taking us down on purpose...Nobody would be that stupid otherwise...

[jetmex]

Them what runs the third world airline I work for have now decided that in order to protect us from ourselves, we will have our temperatures taken each day before we report to work.  One hundred degrees or over is deemed the magic number which will get you sent home.  If you pass, you get a colored sticker on your ID badge that allows you to go to work.  It's yellow today.  There's a drive through tent at the hangars for the people that work there.  They apologized to me this morning, "We're sorry, Mr. Carreon, but you're going to live."

Of course, none of our vendors or subsidiaries are doing this.

I've been doing my damndest to get to 100 degrees, but I just can't seem to get there!  And please don't ask where the thermometer went...

[balsum fractus]

I envy you your isolation, Eric, even on a good day...

Get this, MN's fetal alcohol damaged governor just now recommended that out-of-state lake-home owners STAY AWAY this summer. He's already putting the few lake resorts left in the state out of business by closing them indefinitely, but the small towns in proximity of all these lakes depend on those out-of-state lake-home owners for their effin' livelihood!!

I swear they prove with every "order" and "edict" that they're taking us down on purpose...Nobody would be that stupid otherwise...

So sorry to hear that Stetto...... your founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves seeing the passion for freedom and liberty that they fought so hard for is crumbling under a tidal wave of stupidity........

[stetto]

I envy you your isolation, Eric, even on a good day...

Get this, MN's fetal alcohol damaged governor just now recommended that out-of-state lake-home owners STAY AWAY this summer. He's already putting the few lake resorts left in the state out of business by closing them indefinitely, but the small towns in proximity of all these lakes depend on those out-of-state lake-home owners for their effin' livelihood!!

I swear they prove with every "order" and "edict" that they're taking us down on purpose...Nobody would be that stupid otherwise...

So sorry to hear that Stetto...... your founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves seeing the passion for freedom and liberty that they fought so hard for is crumbling under a tidal wave of stupidity........

Hmm, what surprises me is that the stupidity comes with an insanely arrogant lack of fear of retribution. The guy is single-handedly ruining lives and careers. There's more and more talk, even as the day progresses, of "Fuck this hawn-yawk, let's get back to business and wait for him to come try and stop us." The word is defiance, I'm sure every society had some measure of it before the takeover by tyrants, but this is, afterall, the United States, and this won't pass like it did in some countries.

I hope you in Canadia are enjoying a more grounded governance, Nony...

[Onepoint]

We fought a war of rebellion during a small pox epidemic, now we are ordered to stay inside that by chance we are infected.  If this country should fail, we only have ourselves to blame.

[Frazz]

Not many changes for us here in Kansas, at least the western part.  Life goes on as normal except a few businesses want to bring stuff out to you instead of going inside.  Mother in law is in the rest home, and our clinic, rest home and hospital are all interconnected over a city block. One entrance with staff taking temps before you are even let in.  We cannot see my wife's mother, in fact on her 95th birthday last week we all (only 4 allowed) sang happy birthday to her through a glass window and held a sign that said happy birthday. 

I don't know who is handing out the grades, but the state of Kansas got a D for people staying at home, and our county, Greeley, got an F rating.  I have to say we have to be out and about doing our job.  We have ordered hamburgers once and rode around town looking at things once in the last month.  I do not intend to flat ass lock myself up for months. 

[Onepoint]

Hey Frazz, I was starting to wonder about you.   

Yeah the entire state of WY got an F too.  But for one, you have to travel to survive here, and two, by it's nature we 'social distance' more than any state back east anyway.  You can't make anything idiot proof, including trying to isolate a population, they always make better idiots.

My Mother in law is in a nursing home now too, no visits, same peek through the window deal.  The hospital is on lock down except for emergencies or life ending stuff.  They want you to screen through their walk in clinic if you are sick, and that's after you call in 1st.