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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Cosmiclawnmower Cosmiclawnmower wrote:

My daughter and one of my grandsons are confirmed as having the virusCry and are in isolation in Bristol. More worryingly she is about 6 months pregnant. When it becomes personal, it really hits home.

That is rough and not something I think anyone can prepare for.
At least though they aren’t stranded on some cruise ship in the mediterrenean.
Here’s hoping for a quick recovery
All the best from Denmark my dear Cosmic lawnmower
 

Big thanks to everyone who sent kind messages after I wrote that my daughter and grandson had contracted the virus; both are fine, no hospital treatment needed just isolation and convalescence at home... the young'un had a worryingly high temperature but has recovered quickly and both have had, we are told, relatively mild symptoms overall. 

Thanks again kind people, you made an over-anxious old bloke feel much better  xxxx

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Back to reality. My cousin's son is believed to have it. He is 6 and has asthma too so it's tricky. Will know after the tests.
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I spent yesterday listening to music I haven't visited in years, along with some Jameson's! it was nice to get away form the C-19 noise for a day. Smile
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)

I wouldn't touch Bourbon with a ten-foot pole. I gave it several tries, but it never convinced me. Whisky has to be made from malted barley, not corn. It has to be Scotch or Irish for me.


JD is not Bourbon... and not convincing. Some Bourbon is excellent (the Four Roses Single Barrel tastes like some sort of cranked up Metaxa and I love it). Whisky (not whiskey unless it is Irish) should be made from malted barley indeed. Never tasted that 21yo Springbank (the 10yo is top 3 for me), but I am happy to have some Lagavulin in store to help me through these days .

21 years old Springbank was voted to be the third best whisky in the world by whisky experts. I don't know which ones are number one and two. I bought a bottle of it from the first money I earned in 1987. The price was DM 78 back then. These days the bottle is around € 300. It is by far the best whisky I ever tasted.


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Today I will go and buy myself a little bell to stand on my desk, and whenever a politician gets tested positive, I will give it a ding.

Your finger must be numb by now!   LOL
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sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words about the curative powers of JD... he will outlive us all...




Whenever Keef does kick off he will not have to be embalmed.
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Just heard the latest Trump briefing in which he advocates reusing protective hospital gear, and I ask myself: Are there no limits to what this man doesn't know!?
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)

I wouldn't touch Bourbon with a ten-foot pole. I gave it several tries, but it never convinced me. Whisky has to be made from malted barley, not corn. It has to be Scotch or Irish for me.


JD is not Bourbon... and not convincing. Some Bourbon is excellent (the Four Roses Single Barrel tastes like some sort of cranked up Metaxa and I love it). Whisky (not whiskey unless it is Irish) should be made from malted barley indeed. Never tasted that 21yo Springbank (the 10yo is top 3 for me), but I am happy to have some Lagavulin in store to help me through these days .
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Today I will go and buy myself a little bell to stand on my desk, and whenever a politician gets tested positive, I will give it a ding.
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Exclusive: U.S. axed CDC expert job in China months before virus outbreak

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-u-axed-cdc-expert-202454983.html


As people you may know become ill or die of COVID-19, please be aware that President Trump ignored intelligence reports in January and February about the disease: "a majority of the intelligence reporting included in daily briefing papers was about COVID-19 (As president, Trump has scheduled far fewer intelligence briefings than his predecessors and tends to avoid reading lengthy reports.)."

To make matters worse: "Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China...Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases."

And there are other damning and inexplicable actions by the Trump administration that have led to our country's current unpreparedness for this pandemic:

1. In 2018 the Trump administration shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Because...Obama.
2. In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.
3. In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness, left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.
4. In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.
5. In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.

I would suggest congressional and federal investigations are necessary, but since Attorney General Barr and Senator McConnell are Trump lickspittle lackeys, the truth will be buried. Per usual.


P.S. In news of a happier note:

Senator Rand Paul, Who Opposed Coronavirus Relief Bill, Tests Positive For COVID-19

To paraphrase Voltaire, If there was no such thing as "Karma", it would have to be invented for this particular individual. Thoughts and prayers, Rand, thoughts and prayers!
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)

heh therre,
I'm staying in for now but I'm hoping this gets better soon. I do go by the office to redirect emergencies i can't handle....then head back home.
I have always preferred bourbon....I'm older than most here and have tried both good scotch and bourbon before many here were even born. I go back so far there was no craft beer when I started drinking...
strange beer for us in college was Newcastle, Bass, or Guinness.
I actually had some Lagavulin 16 yr about a month ago...way too smoky for me...tasted like someone had dropped a cigarette butt in the bottle.  Wink
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great article just put up on Poltico.. the timing is interesting..  just as the children leave the stage and the adults take over crafting the Stimulus bill...

I did note the Cruise ship stock shot up Friday after spending most of the week in free fall.. lobbiest did their part and got them a piece of the pie... guess they crash Monday knowing their bailout is likely.. sh*t.. it is not happening. That is industry #1 that is dead man walking in the post Convid world...  floating germ factories and about to left in the cold and on its own after gaming the system to avoid US taxes. 



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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)

I wouldn't touch Bourbon with a ten-foot pole. I gave it several tries, but it never convinced me. Whisky has to be made from malted barley, not corn. It has to be Scotch or Irish for me.

Beer yeah no arguing tastes...LOL  though I wasn't exactly celebrating the quality or tastes of said choice of poisons.. only its medicinal and curative qualities. Also very good when taken to excess for erasing bad memories.. and occasionally ending up with previously unknown bed mates...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)

I wouldn't touch Bourbon with a ten-foot pole. I gave it several tries, but it never convinced me. Whisky has to be made from malted barley, not corn. It has to be Scotch or Irish for me.


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sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words about the curative powers of JD... he will outlive us all...
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^ fancy stuff... ehhh...you all ain't listening to the good Doctor.. nor his apprecentice..  Mr. Mick.

Bourbon (JD for me).. will kill anything it touches.. and tastier that Draino....the key to surviving Corno-19(20)
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Image result for lagavulin scotch images


-- and thank god the pot shops in S.F. are staying open . . . necessities y'know.

I think only this will help:

http://springbank.scot/static/img/springbank/21-years.jpg


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amen to that..heard they are doing KILLA business ...  if you gotta go.. go with a smile on your face.  Been my life's motto since I started eating up my nine lives as a teen (that electrical explosion a couple of years ago ate up#6 so I have a few left)

anyhow..  another case in point that Darth McConnell may have once had 'it' but has long since lost it.  Yet another poltical stunt backfired.. tried to ram that bill thorugh the Senate with no Democratic input... thinking no way the Democrats could say no to it..  well leave it to him and them to create such a horrendous bill that rejecting it and suffering the backlash is preperable to actually passing a bill which allows all that money to not to go to who really needs it.. and allowed it to go right where that tax cut did..  inflating the stock market and making the very rich.. all the more richer..

bet you the Stimulus bill that will be coming out of the House will much more in tune with realitity.. and helping those that need it.. not those that do not...and oh yeah..  there went the Republican majority in the Senate. 

Mitch made his power play.. power politics McConnell style...and is going to be f**ked..along with his miillionaire corporate buddies and their legions of lobbiests..there will be little real PR damage pissing on Corporate welfare..though Trump and FAUX will try to whip their supporters into a frenzy and cry foul... but there will no way they can not pass what comes from the House. 


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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

The madness of crowds is being handled harder now in Italy, at least in Lombardy. The army is now patrolling the streets of Milan, and violators of the rules (only go out for groceries, medicines or work) is now fined with 5000 euros.
If it helps nobody knows, but the fascist Lega governor believes in fear as a means to contorl the people.

Sometimes a little typo offers great new insights. I think the term "contorl" perfectly describes how the situation is currently being handled.

And here the new entry in "BaldFriede's Dictionary of Badly Needed Words":

contorl (vb trans): To attempt to solve a crisis by using excessive force and thereby worsening it.


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-- and thank god the pot shops in S.F. are staying open . . . necessities y'know.
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