Coronavirus

[archimedes]

.... I know we will come out of this with less "liberty" and fewer "freedoms"... much like we did with 9/11. But for whatever reason (honestly, I don't know!), I'm not really bothered by it at the moment. Maybe I will be later... we'll see....

I'm certain that the "frog-boiling" is being calibrated and recalibrated as we speak (or as we sleep) ....

Real sorry about the loss of your doggie :mecry:

 

[RedLED]

Sorry to hear of the loss of your dog they are wonderful friends, the best kind.

At the beginning of the lockdown I lost two cats in as many days so I know the pain.

 

[StarHalo]

Today was the first day they did temperature checks at the door, if you're over 99.4 then you're out for 72 hours: no healthy = no worky.

Gizmodo wrote an article about our temperature check, this is what coming in to work in the morning looks like for me now:

 

[bykfixer]

When my 97 year old great great grandmother died in about 1972 her death certificate said "old age". Seriously. I was pretty young so don't know exact year because everybody who'd remember is also dead. But I remember the grown ups chuckling about it.
Grandpa on my moms side died from "smoking" (heart attack), aunt Jane from "nerves" (major nervous breakdown), grandma on my dads's side "old age" (heart just stopped one day), grandpa on my dads side "heart failure" where his quit one night in his sleep, my mom from complications of a surgery but was listed as heart attack. My pop, it was a race to see which part failed on him but his heart crossed the finish line first while he napped one Sunday. Listed as heart failure. The Irish clan died of liver disease (go figure there), the English clan all died of heart failure related to smoking and poor diet. My uncle died of AIDS but his certificate said resporatory failure, when in reality his lungs were fine. He had a stroke. So did my moms mom. My uncle Stanley, they weren't sure why he died so they put "natural causes" on his.

This whole corona virus is a mess. Society was a mess before. It will be a mess after. It'll just be a bunch of messed up people wearing masks now. Many were already wearing disguises every day, most just didn't notice. On a good note Mrs. Fixers 8 week furlough ended after 5 days. Seems all the youngsters in her store need someone to run Romper Room so they called her back. My de-bleeted goat dog who was walking around like a flamingo is now back to all four feet touching the ground 95% of the time and so far nobody we know has the covid-19 (knock on wood)
Sorry to hear about Sasha "Miss formerly known as Sasha" Greta.

 

[archimedes]

.... My de-bleeted goat dog who was walking around like a flamingo is now back to all four feet touching the ground 95% of the time and so far nobody we know has the covid-19 (knock on wood)....

I really enjoy your writing style, Byk, but I do not understand these words in this order :thinking:

 

[knucklegary]

48 (update to 51) tested pos at a Safeway (sister stores: Vons, Albertsons) distribution center in Tracy, CA..
One worker dead ~ 100 working at time of contamination

^^ Frog Boiling are in trials at Amz.. as we speak Arch

LOL.. I want to see what a de-bleeted goat dog looks like! :huh:

 

[Poppy]

Gizmodo wrote an article about our temperature check, this is what coming in to work in the morning looks like for me now:

WOW!!!
That's awesome, and extremely frightening at the same time!

Next we'll all be wearing EZPass ID chips on our wrists.

 

[bigburly912]

I want some frog legs. Yum.

Sorry about your dog Greta. McKinley “roo” died yesterday. We’d had him for 12 years. He had a stroke and congestive heart failure. My wife is devastated, that was her best buddy. We bought him when we bought our house

 

[RedLED]

Sorry, BB.

 

[5S8Zh5]

Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? 4-17-20 [ nytimes ]

We asked the experts to answer questions about all the places coronavirus lurks (or doesn’t). You’ll feel better after reading this.

When we asked readers to send their questions about coronavirus, a common theme emerged: Many people are fearful about tracking the virus into their homes on their clothes, their shoes, the mail and even the newspaper.

We reached out to infectious disease experts, aerosol scientists and microbiologists to answer reader questions about the risks of coming into contact with the virus during essential trips outside and from deliveries. While we still need to take precautions, their answers were reassuring.

 

[Tejasandre]

Sorry about your pets folks. Sasha, roo & the kitties. My boxer whiskey just had an eye ulcer fixed Monday.
Corona (to be on topic)

 

[RedLED]

Thanks, man. Hope your dog will be OK

 

[Greta]

I want some frog legs. Yum.

Sorry about your dog Greta. McKinley “roo” died yesterday. We’d had him for 12 years. He had a stroke and congestive heart failure. My wife is devastated, that was her best buddy. We bought him when we bought our house

I get it. Sasha was "Girlfriend" to me. She passed in her sleep laying against my side... as always. Give your wife a hug for me... I totally get it.

 

[bykfixer]

Onyx-the debleeted goat dog.
Mrs Fixer was a dog owner trainer at a pet supply chain when a frantic lady came in with a dog saying "somebody please help me with this crazy dog, my husband is going to shoot it". He is part long leg beagle, part gray hound, part black lab and part stranger in the night. His bark is part wounded seal yelp, part long leg beagle. Sometimes he purrs like a cat, sometimes he moos like a cow. No kidding.

We kept finding stuff missing from the kitchen counter, from bedside tables and other parts of the house. Bag of Hersheys miniatures, gone. (must be the kids.) Loaf of bread, dish cloth, plastic container, just odd stuff missing. Turd check revealed bits of poptart box, cloth, hunks of a frisbee. But which dog? We had 3 at the time. We set up a camera and sure enough it was our newest member Onyx. He put his front feet on the counter, looked at the camera (and we believe he winked) and snagged the dish rag which was never seen again.

The day he reached up and started eating the flowers off a magnolia tree we called him our de-bleeted goat dog. He is an awesome trick dog for Mrs Fixer. In the first week we had him he came into the den, laid down next to where I was sitting and commenced to opening up a package of little Debbie cakes…. "whut-thuh?" I grabbed it, threw it in a trash can and he went and grabbed it out and laid back next to me making a "moo" sound. Now by this time we were getting calls from neighbors asking whut-the-heck is that awful sound coming from your back yard. His wounded seal yelp was not a hit in the community at all. By now I'm thinking "no wonder the former owner wanted to shoot him, heck I want to shoot him. He'd see a squirrel 3 doors down and leap fences like hurdles in an Olympic race to go hang out with the squirrel. He'd leap the fence to chase the mailman. Not snarling or nothing but just "hey dude can we play fetch?" type thing.

I had a rose bush vine that needed cutting back and used the cuttings like barbed wire swirls on the top of the chain link fence surrounding our yard. That worked. No more escaping. Oh he'd come right back, but the neighbors were not digging some strange goofy looking dog in their yard. One day he went flying through the house to bark at the mailman and his knee gave out. It was ok after a few days. It gave out again, then again so we took him to get it checked. The vet said his grayhound knees could not support his retriever body. We had the one fixed with a fake tendon. Doc said don't let him use it for a month. Yeah right. I kept him calm and on a leash to go out and do his business. One day he put his bionic leg down and raised his other one to pee. "You can't do that yet dog"……he moo'd at me. At two weeks he was using it like normal. I rehabbed him by walking him up n down his doggy ramp I built 10 laps 3 times a day. He was svelt like a grayhound soon. After 4 weeks I let him loose from his leash and he just acted normal.

The vet said his other leg would fail too. I left the handicap ramp up. Now thinking it was only for a few months I used regular cheap plywood for a deck. Treated lumber left from my pops ramp was used for the girders and trusses. But the deck rotted. I was literally going to take it down when the corona thing broke out. I came home from work and ole Onyx was limping. When standing still he would hold his rear leg off the floor. The guy across the street said "now your crazy dog thinks he's a flamingo?"

On Saturday he started walking on all 4 again but still held his leg up when standing. Yesterday he stood on all four again. In the meantime our governor had issued a stay at home order but I went to HD to get treated plywood for the deck of the ramp. That was the day I did the nose pick "step away from the booger" trick. I had an 8' long sheet of plywood on a cart. Me at the front should have meant 8' to the next customer. But a stranger wanted to chat. Corona was new, toilet paper was gone from store shelves and everybody including me were pretty nervous. But this character was not. So being as nice as I knew how I asked the guy to step away. Then he wanted to show me something on his phone and moves back in. I stuck my finger up my nose, pulled it, straightened my arm out in his direction and said "step away from the booger" "step……away……from the booger!!!"

So there ya have it Archi. You asked what time it was and I explained how to build a clock. But that's the story of Onyx the de-bleeted goat dog/flamingo and a trick to get folks in the grocery store to social distance.

 

[aginthelaw]

I’m waiting for our vet to reopen. Bengal was supposed to be fixed before all this. Now his behavior is so aggressive, he growls at me when I’m at the table eating my dinner. The good thing about the quarantine is I’ve learned how to do a vasectomy. He has 1 chance left to stop biting me like I’m gonna carry his children

 

[scout24]

Let me know if you need a vet, mine's still working by appointment...

 

[bykfixer]

Thermometers. Good luck finding one of those right now.

My son who works for a major drug store chain said his company is shipping theirs to hotspots. Nice idea.

Mine is stuck on metric but it's an easy conversion. My sons stopped working and he could not source one through his company. We found some from the competition. It arrives next week. The big A laughed….. Want toilet paper? Ok eventually. Want thermometer? Ba ha ha ha, yeah right. Wal Mart? Target? Nada. Replacement batteries? Gone too.

 

[knucklegary]

Byk, there's always the good ol' mercury glass rectal style?

 

[bykfixer]

Weber meat thermometer is a bit more user friendly and available at Lowes, Home Depot etc for around $12.
Stuck it under my tongue……98.6.
Sold

Uses an easy to find 2032 3v coin cells so replacing the battery is easy too.
Sensor is 1" from the tip so it makes a good burger/steak checker too. I bought a spare in case we actually need one for food too.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

On the plus side, oil is below $-30 a barrel right now. Great for those still working as gas should be dirt cheap. I wonder if our president has to get Congress' approval to fill the strategic oil reserve if he can get the fuel for free and they pay him for taking it? We'll probably pay for this later as it bankrupts oil companies, but for now I think we should make the best of the situation. Good time to plan for a road trip once we're through these corona virus lockdowns.