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1. John Scalzi on yesterday's post - asked what people have been splurging on during the pandemic, assuming people can splurge on anything. Most can't.
I've been buying chocolate. Not sure that's splurging though - since I was doing that before.
Anyhow I read the comments, and had to look stuff up. Because honestly, I had no idea what a lathe or a crinkonle board is...it also made me wonder about people - although I've been wondering about people for a while now, it's my new favorite hobby.
One guy bought a LATHE that was small enough to cart up the flight of stairs to his apartment.
Another person bought a Crokinole Board.
John just bought duck fat gourmet carmels and Salt and Vinegar caramels.
Someone else bought gourmet fudge chocolates from a place in Oklahoma.
Most people bought books. And chocolate - like myself.
On Amazon? People are buying Tiny Houses for their backyards. (Uhm, okay.)
I just want to find disinfectant spray.
2. The COVID MAP of DOOM indicates that Russia is trying to catch up with the US in Covid cases. It's already jumped ahead of Brazil, all of Europe, and the UK. Also it's not providing accurate data on the number of deaths - the death count is no longer available on the map of doom.
Meanwhile the US is trying to reach 100,000 more fatalities before June. It's not quite there yet. Averaging a thousand deaths a day, give or take.
It has made 1.5 million cases - it's trying to reach 2 million by June.
We'll see if it accomplishes it's task.
California is rapidly catching up to New York in testing capacity, except we don't know yet how accurate California's tests actually are - or for that matter Texas and Florida and Illinois.
The idiot Doofeets (Trumpites - who deserve Doofeets or dingbat or Darwin Award Candidates) think the numbers have been inflated. Eh. No. The opposite. They are also under the delusion that Trump will save the economy and life will return to normal, and this was an exaggeration. Eh no.
But okay. There's a reason we're calling you Darwin Award Candidates.
Montgomery, Alabama apparently has had a serious uptick in cases since reopening. Let's see how quickly the rest follow. New York is being cautious and following the dictates of science as closely as possible. Ohio is throwing science to the winds, and pretending it never happened and going back to business as usual.
I'm kind of glad I live in NYC. It's weird, but I think I'm safer here than in Florida, Chicago, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio or elsewhere.
3. Meanwhile, mother nature is doing just fine... Everest visible from Kathmandu Nepal for the First Time in Ages - and most likely thinks she should have come up with the virus idea a lot earlier.
4. Weird as Hell - COVID Patients with Symptoms for Months
Okay this makes me wonder if the damn thing went through my work place in November. Because we had weird symptoms that lasted a while then disappeared. Then came back. I remember googling my symptoms in November - and finding nothing. I put it down to allergic reactions. And I had issues all the way up to March. I even got a chest X-ray. It came and went.
It's not until March/April that I'm fine. Then again I could have allergies.
And...it fits my Aunt - who has been sick with something since Feb that has weird ass symptoms. Also my sister-in-law who said she thought she was dying and had never had anything that weird before.
I feel like the virus is gaslighting us.
5. Hee, Penquins at the Nelsen-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City - apparently the Kansas City Zoo and the Museum caretakers got bored and decided to share?
I've been buying chocolate. Not sure that's splurging though - since I was doing that before.
Anyhow I read the comments, and had to look stuff up. Because honestly, I had no idea what a lathe or a crinkonle board is...it also made me wonder about people - although I've been wondering about people for a while now, it's my new favorite hobby.
One guy bought a LATHE that was small enough to cart up the flight of stairs to his apartment.
Another person bought a Crokinole Board.
John just bought duck fat gourmet carmels and Salt and Vinegar caramels.
Someone else bought gourmet fudge chocolates from a place in Oklahoma.
Most people bought books. And chocolate - like myself.
On Amazon? People are buying Tiny Houses for their backyards. (Uhm, okay.)
I just want to find disinfectant spray.
2. The COVID MAP of DOOM indicates that Russia is trying to catch up with the US in Covid cases. It's already jumped ahead of Brazil, all of Europe, and the UK. Also it's not providing accurate data on the number of deaths - the death count is no longer available on the map of doom.
Meanwhile the US is trying to reach 100,000 more fatalities before June. It's not quite there yet. Averaging a thousand deaths a day, give or take.
It has made 1.5 million cases - it's trying to reach 2 million by June.
We'll see if it accomplishes it's task.
California is rapidly catching up to New York in testing capacity, except we don't know yet how accurate California's tests actually are - or for that matter Texas and Florida and Illinois.
The idiot Doofeets (Trumpites - who deserve Doofeets or dingbat or Darwin Award Candidates) think the numbers have been inflated. Eh. No. The opposite. They are also under the delusion that Trump will save the economy and life will return to normal, and this was an exaggeration. Eh no.
But okay. There's a reason we're calling you Darwin Award Candidates.
Montgomery, Alabama apparently has had a serious uptick in cases since reopening. Let's see how quickly the rest follow. New York is being cautious and following the dictates of science as closely as possible. Ohio is throwing science to the winds, and pretending it never happened and going back to business as usual.
I'm kind of glad I live in NYC. It's weird, but I think I'm safer here than in Florida, Chicago, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio or elsewhere.
3. Meanwhile, mother nature is doing just fine... Everest visible from Kathmandu Nepal for the First Time in Ages - and most likely thinks she should have come up with the virus idea a lot earlier.
4. Weird as Hell - COVID Patients with Symptoms for Months
Okay this makes me wonder if the damn thing went through my work place in November. Because we had weird symptoms that lasted a while then disappeared. Then came back. I remember googling my symptoms in November - and finding nothing. I put it down to allergic reactions. And I had issues all the way up to March. I even got a chest X-ray. It came and went.
It's not until March/April that I'm fine. Then again I could have allergies.
And...it fits my Aunt - who has been sick with something since Feb that has weird ass symptoms. Also my sister-in-law who said she thought she was dying and had never had anything that weird before.
I feel like the virus is gaslighting us.
5. Hee, Penquins at the Nelsen-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City - apparently the Kansas City Zoo and the Museum caretakers got bored and decided to share?
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