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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | So, OMA, you are not deemed "essential services" to conduct your public activities?! There ARE community mental health benefits to be derived from your entrepeneurial altruism, y'know! |
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Location: When?? | My condolences to you on the loss of your friend, Jonmark. A sad break for sure. Unpredictable times they are. Was it someone we all here may have known.. or known of? |
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Location: When?? | Thank you for the enjoyable video, Arthur. A nice rendition of an old favorite, and a great sounding/looking parlor. Stay safe, and the streets and ears of Portland will eventually see the return of their busking star. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Hi evreyone,
is anybody of the Family gets lost with the virus?
Times are getting harder here in Germany now! I and my family are still ok, but my Mom is 82.... and very activ!!!! And I'll hope she will survive.
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Location: NJ | things are scary here in jersey.
trying to fly under the radar
streets empty
but everyone seems to want to buy food at the same time I think it is because everyone needs to get out of the house
stay safe my friends
this too shall pass |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Just got back from almost 3 weeks in Seattle, where it all started in this country. Most are taking the stay in place order very seriously and it seems to be working. Lots of people out running and walking, but very careful about staying at least 6 feet away.
Our daughter has 2 foster kids under 2 and the day care shut down, so it was impossible to get any work done at home. We decided that grandparents were essential services. Didn't get over to see Damon or any of the others in the area. I did get our daughter's 87 Collector cleaned and set up nicely. Plays great, but it didn't impress the 2 year old. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well, glad y’all are hanging in.
We went to Vermont for a new grand baby. 3/16. I got there 3/10. Just got home today after 29 hours on
the road. The 5 weeks reminded me why I don’t live in New England anymore. Especially Verfknmont
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Location: When?? | @Beal - >>>We went to Vermont for a new grand baby. 3/16.<<<
Congratulations, Grandpa!
Consider also, with everyone being cooped up, along about 9 months from now we can expect a whole new baby boom.
Edited by Love O Fair 2020-04-19 4:20 PM
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My daughter rejects the baby boom theory, at least for parents who are staying at home with kids they already have. No one will want any more kids after this. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm with Mark ... I don't think you'll see a boom in births nine months from now.
I mean think about it ... you're shut in 7x24 in each others faces and all over each others nerves and "Oh honey, I've got a good idea, let's go have sex." Yeah let me know how that works out. Instead of seeing a boom in new births I think you're more likely to see a boom in divorces.
On a related note ... according to statista.com the internet traffic at pornhub and xvids is up 21% over the last 4 weeks. |
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Location: SoCal | Standingovation - 2020-04-19 8:31 PM
On a related note ... according to statista.com the internet traffic at pornhub and xvids is up 21% over the last 4 weeks.
Spoken like one who is familiar with the subject..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I was just checking for a friend ... |
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Location: When?? | @Standingovation - >>>"Oh honey, I've got a good idea, let's go have sex." Yeah let me know how that works out.<<<
Yep.. old guys like us think like that. For those shacking up in their 20's... hmmmm... not so much. Being bored only tends to heighten it, and if there's a boom it'll probably more from unguarded mistakes than planned ones. But I'm definitely in agreement on a correlation to porn and divorce for the oldsters. Murders, too. In fact, if just one more time today my furloughed wife comes in and plops down on the sofa in my home office while I'm trying to work.. well.. |
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Location: Italia, Zianigo di Mirano (Venezia) | Hi Bernie. Best wishes for your mom (mine went two years ago). The important thing is that you stay at home. What do they say around you? Here I am afraid that it will be difficult for the economy. We were in bad shape before, let alone now. I am afraid that we will lose the well-being of these past years. We do not see this Europe well. There are countries like Holland that have GDP which is half of Lombardy, live by Tax Heavens and come to make us moral ... well ... let's hope well ... 
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My dad's 93 and is having a really tough time with social distancing, but if the virus gets into his senior center it will wipe them all out. My wife's dad just died 3 weeks ago. The test for coronavirus was negative, but the tough thing was that no one could visit him at the hospital. He was a very social person, so that was really hard on him and his family. Only 10 people could be at the funeral, so most of the family couldn't go. |
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | Oh Mark, that is hard to read... condolences to your family! Just checked a mistake of me: My Mom is 92, not 82 as I wrote, years old and she is doing everything by herself. Only my sons girlfriend once a week is cleaning the windows or something she has to step up a ladder or something like that... She is washing , cooking, (for my son and her girlfriend), is still my Moms activities... and she love that...
@ Titti
Sorry for your Mom!! And thanks for your good wishes. Well, I'm also a lot of pissed on of the "united Europe". If they can be great, if they are....
But if something turns out not rihgt, the dont know how to do it...
I'm much more afraid about the poor little children, which were under terrible conditions in Greece..... and Covid 19 is the reason they don't do anything....
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Location: When?? | Mark.. what a horribly tragic thing. Sincere condolences to your wife and yourself on the loss of her dad. Next time I complain about any of this I will recall your scenario and will short circuit my complaint in honor of it. Best wishes on your dad's situation as well. It sounds like lots of phone time is about all you have to work with for now, and maybe some care packages of favorite goodies if he's allowed to receive them. This all makes me incredibly sad. |
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Location: NJ | a local bass player pal had a major stroke the weekend of the shutdown. his condition is not good.... no one can go to see him.. the nurses did call his fiance to come in to try to "motivate" him but he had a setback yesterday.
its sad that we can get in and say hello and ultimately goodbye
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | 62nd day of Stay-at-Home for me.
I hope that everyone is staying Healthy and Sane. 
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Location: Canada | My girlfriends mother passed away a few weeks ago and there was no funeral as we and many other family members are scattered. It was my mother's 85th birthday yesterday. She lives overseas and our flight was cancelled and she was alone. I am worried that her risk of exposure will get unacceptably high if people relax distancing. But I sure hope that I can travel soon to look after her. |
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Location: NJ | sane is not in my wheelhouse....but Im healthy
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Location: Germany, where delicious wine is growing (Rheinh) | So now the first one in our relations got it: My wifes uncle, living in Canada, Montreal area got it. But.... he is 91 years old. Everybody thought it's over now, but he had a mild fever for some days and is still up for the day, dressed and walking around. He was, indeed, positive tested.... All I heared, he will recover pretty soon. Well, he was in very good shape (physical) but he has Alzheimers for years now.
Bernie
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Location: Midland, MI | I traveled extensively last year for work. I don't think I was ever home for more than two weeks in a row...Latin America, Asia-Pac, Europe, Middle East, India, various North American locations. November through December I was back and forth to Germany more times than I care to count (I love Germany. If you haven't driven a manual transmission Audi "estate wagon" on the Autobahn you haven't lived! Worst high-speed accident I've ever seen was just north/northeast of Frankfurt. Fur was es wert ist, Ich spreche aus etwas Deutsche, aber nicht so gut...there's a whole bunch of other stories...involving biergarten). I had booked trips back to India, Japan and (gasp!) Germany (yay!) for February and early-March. None of which happened, as my employer immediately went in to "no travel" mode based on the experience we were having in China.
Anyway, I returned home from the last trip maybe three days before Christmas. From just about New Years through to about early February I had some sort of crud...coughing that wouldn't go away but was rarely productive, low-grade temp, general achiness. I put it down to jet lag and basic road-weariness. My doc now says "nah, you had the 'rona, brother. You're positive!". Thing is, other than the holidays when everyone was off, I was at work and living normal life the entire time. Nobody else in the house got whatever I had (now we know what it was)...though there were two co-workers who had the same symptoms...both of whom had been in Germany around the same time I was (but not with me). Very strange illness.
I am convinced I exposed my elderly parents to it, but they never had any issues (thank G-d). But, I am p*ssed at our Governor for sending COVID-positive patients to nursing homes and putting those folks at heightened risk. My ex-bro-in-law (I kept him in the divorce) was positive for it mid- to end-March; he was affected way worse than I was, but he's six months older and in (if you can believe it) worse physical condition than I am. He survived. He's the only person other than me that I know has had a positive diagnosis. And, no, I didn't visit him so I wasn't the infection vector.
Truly...strange times we live in.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Holy crap, somebody that actually traveled more than me !!! Actually I threw in the towel almost 3 years ago and am absolutely loving retirement. The size of my guitar and ukulele collection has reduced a bit, but so has my golf handicap ...
The great thing is that we live in a free society and are responsible for our own destiny (yeah that's my politically correct way of saying F the governors). Keep in mind that there were plenty of a-holes in this world prior to the virus, and unfortunately there will still be plenty of them around after the virus. Be safe, be smart, be prosperous and be happy.
And above all else ... GO PLAY YOUR GUITAR !!!
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