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  1. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    The dangers to all of us, including the rich, of such wide wealth inequality is certainly not lost on me.
  2. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    When the lovely missus was hospitalized for a few days last summer I noted that the nurses took a squirt of Purell from the wall-mounted dispenser near the door of her room. Some of my providers (I’ve become something of a wreck) do the same, and some don’t. I’m presuming it is mostly a matter...
  3. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^ But is it antiviral?
  4. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Is it of any value to wipe down surfaces with bleach solutions? I’ve read what seem to this layman to be contradictory information about how readily the virus might transmit from, say, a doorknob or an elevator button.
  5. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Yet it remains that the wealthiest 10 percent own 84 percent of the shares, while the bottom 80 percent own all of 6.7 percent of shares — largely in mutual funds and retirement accounts. The next wealthiest (or less unwealthy) 10 percent hold roughly 9 percent of shares. That’s according to a...
  7. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Scam artists must be positively giddy at all of this. People fearing for their lives — that those fears may be ill-founded matters little — will hand over their dough to just about anyone offering hope. Few things outage me quite like quackery. Snake-oil peddlers and worthless “alternative”...
  8. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Pity the poor stepped-on shareholders! You know, that wealthiest 10 percent of households that own 84 percent of all stocks.
  9. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^^ Right up there with war profiteers.
  10. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    That’s just precious. I’m gonna share it far and wide. “ ... and then he’ll send for his bug friends and all your earthly trouble ends ... ” Buy that gal a cigar!
  11. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I have worked in “service” jobs. I know that people can be more than a bit difficult. My having been on the receiving end of that difficulty, alas, hasn’t immunized me against dishing out some of that difficulty myself. And people can be strikingly generous and kind. Sometimes those are the...
  13. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I am not quite old enough to have lived in abject fear of polio (think you, Jonas Salk), but people just a few years older certainly are. Talk of the vaccine was common when I was a kid. It was regarded almost reverentially.
  14. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I hope I am capable of taking a detached enough view of my own experience not to conflate it with a more widely held perspective, nor to draw from it any conclusions about the overall state of the world. Hell, another person might witness the same things on a day-to-day basis and come to a...
  15. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^^ Controversy sells soap. Neighbors being neighborly doesn’t draw the ratings like neighbors shooting at each other.
  16. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I wouldn’t so quickly dismiss a roomful of kindergarteners’ capacity to find a cooperative way of addressing an emergency. I have no less faith in the little buzzards (and perhaps more) than I would invest in the so-called grownups.
  17. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I feel similarly toward stridency of all sorts. It becomes a religion, not subject to reason, immune to evidence. FWIW, I cringe when recalling some of the beliefs I once held dear.
  19. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    ^^^^^ How can you tell the difference?
  20. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    An old classmate now lives and works in Hong Kong. She posted photos yesterday showing an all-but-empty light-rail car (just one other person aboard); people wearing face masks and improvised protective (it is hoped) attire (think large plastic bags); plastic wrap over elevator buttons, which is...
  21. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    And now I see an ad here for a face mask called an N95 filter.
  22. tonyb

    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    I don’t know enough to have an opinion worth more than it cost you. Neither do most people. However, I do not believe, as one equally inexpert but much more prominent person said recently, that we will be at “zero or near zero” cases in this country “soon.” Events in the few days since that...
  23. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    While it might be darned nigh impossible to derive much job satisfaction on, say, the kill line at the meat packing plant (a job my grandfather held, btw), it remains that all except the most heavily subsidized of enterprises must eventually operate in the black, no matter how much or how little...

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