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Thanks StarHalo. Yeah we got a cut sheet for a competing product but this is a better photo. I'd still like to see a real world installation if they'll allow. If so, you can PM a picture.
 
StarHalo said:
Instacart has really gone downhill since the pandemic, it was way better before; I don't know what happened to the seasoned shoppers who were good at it, but it's all new people who frequently make mistakes now. It was always my second choice to the much better Amazon Fresh, but Fresh only serves certain limited areas near their warehouses.

My elder kid had a fever last week and is at this moment in the other room with my wife on the phone Facetiming with the doctor - that's a service I could get used to..
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Yeah no Amazon Fresh in our area and Instacart is hit & miss. We’ll see how a scheduled Walmart delivery works out tomorrow.

Coincidentally I had a FaceTime interview from my physician this morning since I was overdue for a checkup. Nice option. Looks like they’re taking appointments starting mid-June.
 
My supervisor walked into my little slice of heaven 15x20 remote office with a mask on mumbling like Pa Bear from that old hillbilly bears cartoon from when I was a kid. "wutch you say boss?" He rips it off his ears "dam corona virus don't make no dam sense, a man can't even get a good haircut". Then he looked at me with a fresh haircut and beard all trimmed. "howthehell you get a haircut?!?" I said I cut the part I can see and the wife cut the rest". "Awehellnaw my wife aint gettin' within 10 feet with no scissors, no siree". I said "boss, it grows back". He pulled off his ball cap and showed me a scar from the last time she'd cut his hair. "Good gosh was she trying to kill you". He chuckled and said "naw but I made the mistake of asking her for a haircut the same day I sold her 57 VW beetle".

I asked if he wanted me to cut his hair and pulled out some paper scissors. He declined. lol.
 
SCEMan said:
Yeah no Amazon Fresh in our area and Instacart is hit & miss. We’ll see how a scheduled Walmart delivery works out tomorrow.

Coincidentally I had a FaceTime interview from my physician this morning since I was overdue for a checkup. Nice option. Looks like they’re taking appointments starting mid-June.
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And from the lighter side of things:

If he wanted to check your prostate that would have made for a quite interesting 'facetime' call.

I once sent my doc some pics of a thrombosed hemorrhoid. He said he fell to the floor laughing.
 
“The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on the planet is the virus.”
Joshua Lederberger

Ecological instabilities arise from the ways we alter the physical and biological environment, the microbial and animal tenants (humans included) of these environments, and our interactions (including hygienic and therapeutic interventions) with the parasites. The future of humanity and microbes likely will unfold as episodes of a suspense thriller that could be titled Our Wits Versus Their Genes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45705/
 
I just thought of one benefit from all this...if it is conclusive that all this social distancing and mask wearing and frequent hand washing significantly reduces such an insidious virus, imagine what this could do for all the run-of-the-mill communicable diseases out there!

Also, I wonder if we’ll ever see Howie Mandel in public ever again?
 
Context BB. Yeah the guy said it. But what he spoke of was the timing. It seems influenza cases were on the way down when the corona ignited. If you have a peak season of both at the same time in large urban areas it could be overwhelming to the medical care facilities in places like Chicago, Pittsburgh and Newark. But………

If folks wash there hands, stay 6' apart and all that stuff perhaps the flu season will be greatly reduced as well. Perhaps subways being packed so tight a lady has to leave the train because her and her purse won't fit is going to be a thing of the past. At least for the next few years.

As ugly as things are now maybe humans won't do such a helluva good job at spreading disease for a while.

Good read kitro. Over my head in ways but I enjoyed what I understood anyway.

Earth Day? Hmmm. I'll bet the earth has a little less congestion in her lungs lately.
 
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Poppy said:
Tomorrow is Earth Day.
https://www.epa.gov/earthday
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A good time to reflect on that fact that more investment in green energy would have greatly reduced the market impact of oil's tumble, and that this reliance on an energy source in structural decline is a significant chink in the US' economic armor.

bykfixer said:
As ugly as things are now maybe humans won't do such a helluva good job at spreading disease for a while.
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Watch Georgia.
 
Johnnyh said:
I just thought of one benefit from all this...if it is conclusive that all this social distancing and mask wearing and frequent hand washing significantly reduces such an insidious virus, imagine what this could do for all the run-of-the-mill communicable diseases out there!

Also, I wonder if we’ll ever see Howie Mandel in public ever again?
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If nothing else, it's been drilling the hygiene message into the public consciousness. I agree that this could have long lasting benefits. As for Howie, well we're all germophobes for awhile.
 
Johnnyh said:
I just thought of one benefit from all this...if it is conclusive that all this social distancing and mask wearing and frequent hand washing significantly reduces such an insidious virus, imagine what this could do for all the run-of-the-mill communicable diseases out there!

Also, I wonder if we’ll ever see Howie Mandel in public ever again?
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I was thinking that with all the cleaning going on the NYC subway system will be clean. That's good.
 
Media and 'experts': "Masks don't work..."
Translation: You're safer wearing a mask.

Media and 'experts': "Stay home, stay inside, save someone's life!"
Translation: It's safer outside (UV, breeze, and in some places, heat).

Media and 'experts': "Don't take Hydroxychloroquine!"
Translation: Little to lose, much to gain. Why not try?

Media and 'experts': "What!#$%& Opening the state back up??? That's criminal!"
Translation: ..............
 
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Media and 'experts': "Don't take Hydroxychloroquine!"
Translation: Little to lose, much to gain. Why not try?
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This bit of presidential wisdom fascinates me - Under what circumstances would you be in possession of an amount of an obscure Lupus drug, and find yourself thinking "Well I wonder if I should take this or not?" If your doctor prescribes it to you, then you obviously take what your doctor prescribes. Or if you're in a clinical trial, that would make sense. But who is it that has chloroquine just laying around and is struggling with the decision to ingest it? Even if you were some sort of hardcore drug dealer and you had some sample boxes of it, how would you arrive at a situation where you would need to make such a decision? "I might have Covid so I'll just go ahead and start taking this because of the president's advice." Who is supposed to benefit from this suggestion?
 
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