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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2020 / Open Thread: I’m With Him

Open Thread: I’m With Him

by TaMara|  April 15, 202011:34 pm| 73 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Open Threads, no trolling

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New Biden ad. Keep them coming.

We are building the movement that will beat Donald Trump.

Join us: https://t.co/gnaFCACYrW pic.twitter.com/pHIXCHZ0cm

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 15, 2020

Also, I walked into the living room to find this:

Open Thread: I'm With Him

No idea why Gabe has fixated on Scout these days, but he’s all in. Wherever she is, he’s not far away.

We are expecting between 6-12 inches of snow tonight. I’m not happy about it. The ducks will hate it, but the dogs will be overjoyed.

Open Thread: I'm With Him 1

This was them during our Easter snowstorm. Happy, happy puppies. Also, here’s their annual Easter Dane photo.

ETA: Facebook reminded me that exactly one year ago today, Bixby met me at the door, standing, and then insisted on going outside for the first time, on wobbly legs. After that his recovery was unstoppable.

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  1. 1.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 15, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    I don’t doubt the Mercers and Adelson and who knows who else will come through with cash, but…

    Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh 1h

    Susan Collins, call your office. Her Dem challenger Sara Gideon raises a whopping $7.1M in the first quarter. Collins? Just $2.4M as a vulnerable senator.

    and in other news:

    PublicPolicyPolling @ppppolls 15h
    Our new *Kansas* poll finds that if Republicans nominate Kris Kobach for Senate, he would trail Democrat Barbara Bollier 44-42. Another potential Senate opportunity for Dems if things break the right way

    Bollier is also doing quite well in fund-raising

  2. 2.

    CaseyL

    April 15, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    Joe’s ads have been consistently excellent.  Love the all-Democratic candidate montage!

    And I love that Gabe is crushing so hard on Scout, the same way I got such a kick out of the ducks’ crush on Jake.  Animals forming interspecies relationships – on their own initiative and decision – just delights me.

    When I was a kid, I was mad about race horses – and one of the quirks I found so relatable* was how so many of them had non-horse companions they couldn’t bear to be without.  Chickens, goats, all kinds of little friends who traveled and stabled with them.

    *Possibly because I was terribly shy back then, and it was easier for me to be friends with animals than with other humans.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    April 15, 2020 at 11:47 pm

    Six, hell, two months ago I saw no path to taking the senate. I’m vastly more hopeful now. Too bad it’s costing [checks] 136,938 unnecessary deaths.

    Joe will be fine. The math to compare Joe versus Donny has not been invented.

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 15, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    @CaseyL: I know you typed Bixby originally. And it wasn’t really wrong, because when Gabe first arrived, he was all Bixby, all the time. Someone said it was because he decided to make friends with the biggest guy on the block first.

    This is one of my favorites of him sleeping on Bixby.

  5. 5.

    StringOnAStick

    April 15, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    I live in the same area as TaMara, and I measured 10″ of snow on Monday. I fooled mother nature though by protecting the daffodils and species tulips, let everyone out yesterday and just covered them all back up again 40 minutes before the first flakes started.

  6. 6.

    Ohio Mom

    April 15, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    Trollhattan: Shush! Don’t jinx us!

    Seriously, I remember when I though Trump was a nonstarter. I split my sides laughing at his debate performances. I wince at that memory.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    April 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    Do you recall Cole’s “Tweet like Trump” threads? Hilarious. (Seriously, I was an enthusiastic participant.)

    I gave him 0.001% chance. Duh….

    Lesson learned. Fight like fuck; beat the bastards.

  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    April 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

    Good videos.  (I’m always distracted by webcams that focus behind the subject, but that’s me.)

    Just sent Joe my first donation to him.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    April 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

    @TaMara (HFG):  Oh, good, I wasn’t totally wrong :). Had to do a lot of editing on that comment, though!

    That’s definitely a new-kid kind of thing:  find the biggest, toughest guy and be his friend.  (New inmate thing, too, now that I think about it.)

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    April 16, 2020 at 12:05 am

    So, everything is going Just Fine.

    Trump’s attempt to enlist businesses in reopening push gets off to rocky start

    President Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives in a push to reopen parts of society amid the coronavirus pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday, with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard and warning that more testing needs to be in place before restrictions are lifted. The president spent much of his day hosting conference calls with company executives, industry groups and others that he announced Tuesday as part of a hastily formed outside advisory council devoted to the issue.
    […]

    Many of the chief executives urged the White House to focus more on mass testing, according to several participants on the calls. Public health experts have argued that widespread testing is a key prerequisite to reopening the economy because it would determine who is infected and needs to be isolated, giving Americans greater confidence that they can safely return to work and public life. Trump seemed to downplay the issue while speaking Wednesday in the Rose Garden.
    […]

    Some of the groups involved in the calls were notified in advance of Trump’s announcement, while others heard their names for the first time during the Rose Garden event Tuesday night. “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist for a leading global corporation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. “My company is furious. How do you go from ‘Join us on a call’ to, ‘Well, you’re on our team?’”
    […]

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 16, 2020 at 12:07 am

    @dmsilev: Well, that’s going swimmingly!  Ugh.

  12. 12.

    Fair Economist

    April 16, 2020 at 12:08 am

    Some good news on the family front. My sister-in-law-in-law, who was diagnosed with COVID a while back, is recovering (never hospitalized, “just” really sick at home) and seems not to have given it to my brother-in-law, who has some chronic lung diseases. So, disaster avoided for us it seems.

  13. 13.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 16, 2020 at 12:08 am

    @dmsilev:

    sense of what the American people want

    Let me help Trump out here…WE DON’T WANT TO DIE YOU CLUELESS MOTHERFUCKER!

  14. 14.

    Barbara

    April 16, 2020 at 12:09 am

    @dmsilev: The average CEO has to be at least a bit of a cold fish to get to where they are but they are rarely stupid. Anyone fairly assessing the facts has known since February that widespread testing is imperative and that it is still not happening.

    Second day in a row with 2500 deaths.

    ETA: I had a dream last night that I suddenly felt ill and was having a hard time breathing. And then I woke up.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    April 16, 2020 at 12:10 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: What, you’re not willing to lay down your life in the greater service of hedge-fund profits and a marginally higher rate of return on the Dow? You unpatriotic monster you.

  16. 16.

    Barbara

    April 16, 2020 at 12:12 am

    @Fair Economist: What a relief. I hope things return to normal for them.

  17. 17.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 16, 2020 at 12:12 am

    @dmsilev:

    You unpatriotic monster you.

    I guess I’ll just have to LIVE with that.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    April 16, 2020 at 12:12 am

    @Barbara: That showed up, several times, in the parts of the article I didn’t quote. Basically, you get the sense that CEOs of actual companies are doing their best to tell Trump no no no, and it’s the right-wing “economists” and the finance types that are egging him on (though, for the latter, the CEO of Goldman went on the record as saying go slow and test thoroughly).

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    April 16, 2020 at 12:13 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, guess so.

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 16, 2020 at 12:16 am

    @dmsilev: not just CEOs

    Jim Acosta @Acosta · 12h

    AFL-CIO says its president Richard Trumka was not notified that his name was being added to a WH list of people advising admin on reopening US. “We were not asked, just announced,” spokeswoman says.

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    April 16, 2020 at 12:16 am

    @Fair Economist:

    Please accept a hearty “Phewwww!” for all.

    Nobody needs this mess.

  22. 22.

    laura

    April 16, 2020 at 12:17 am

    @dmsilev: the billionaire class just cant seem to catch a break with BillInGlendaleCa – that dude’s been holding a grudge since the great bankster getaway of ’08, possibly earlier.

  23. 23.

    Sirkowski

    April 16, 2020 at 12:26 am

    I was scrolling and I thought I saw a burned dog… That dog is charcoal.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    April 16, 2020 at 12:36 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The CEOs and others named to Trump’s imaginary council of advisors will probably never be asked for advice, or hear about the panel again once he finds some other distraction.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 16, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Vincent Price double feature

    The Last Man on Earth and The Masque of the Red Death

    ETA – don’t be afraid of massive amounts of garlic. :)

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 16, 2020 at 12:43 am

    @laura: Earlier, much earlier…I blame my Money and Banking prof.

  27. 27.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 12:47 am

    I wrote about America’s habit of calling people “heroes” and leaving them to die unprotected. https://t.co/ugxrn3BOpd— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) April 15, 2020

    We are at 85% VOC, today. 15 days into the month and despite trying to limit the store to 50 customers, cutting 4 hours off the day, we are 2 days away from setting record sales for April, any April ever. Despite having 50% fewer staff, ( shelter at home, self quarantine, generous sick days, over 65 and immune compromised on partially paid furlough).

    My Department hit 122%, and yesterday I pulled a 16 hour day, ( no staff), no breaks, no lunch and 342 contracts along with 461 phone calls (in).

    We have “customers” deciding that their “essential need” is an ornamental cactus.

    Stay home, shelter in place, don’t touch your face, stay 6 feet apart, wash your hands you dirty filthy animals.

    We have “customers” deciding that their “essential need” is to recreationally shop for appliances that they have no intention of buying.

    Stay home, shelter in place, don’t touch your face, stay 6 feet apart, wash your hands you dirty, filthy animals.

    Today, I saw clusters of “socially dressed” teens, not socially distancing, blocking the isles, on their phones, pretending that hanging out in flooring was like being at the mall.

    Just because we are open, doesn’t mean you are supposed to go there.

  28. 28.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    April 16, 2020 at 12:48 am

    I was reading the post on South Dakota—for some perspective, Sioux Falls/Minnehaha County has about a quarter of the population of Nashville itself (not counting the rest of the metropolitan area). However, they have about 3/4 of the confirmed cases Nashville does.

    That is some truly bad management, from a public health perspective.

    I always love seeing your pups & their cohabitees, TaMara. I don’t know that I’d want to live with a couple of Great Danes, but yours are magnificent.

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 16, 2020 at 12:53 am

    @Jay: Ornamental oven ranges.

  30. 30.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 12:54 am

    Rarely are there coincidences in politics. April 9: @GovRonDeSantis signs EO deeming @WWE "essential" and allowing operations. Same day Linda McMahon announced pro-Trump SuperPAC would spend $18.5M in Florida. L. McMahon is former SBA Administrator and wife of WWE Chair. https://t.co/PIP23SwU2z pic.twitter.com/aKg0iDWhwF— Greg Angel (@NewsGuyGreg) April 14, 2020

  31. 31.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 12:56 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    2 of our coworkers have already died.

  32. 32.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 12:57 am

    An anonymous tip led to the discovery of 17 bodies stored at nursing home in New Jersey, where 68 people associated with the facility have died: https://t.co/lLVb8wOaFJ— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) April 16, 2020

  33. 33.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 12:59 am

    Tomorrow 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall, on average, thanks to a provision buried in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.The rest of us will get $1,200 https://t.co/XlJvi3XAiz— Randi Rhodes (@RandiRhodes) April 15, 2020

  34. 34.

    CaseyL

    April 16, 2020 at 1:01 am

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:

    I’m a sucker for YouTube videos about animals, any animals.  I’ve seen posts from people who have entire dog teams of Huskies living in their homes, folks with six or more Goldens, Danes .. and households with multiple (big) dogs and cats!

    I honestly don’t know how they do it.  On the one hand: so many furkids to cuddle and love, and be loved by.  On the other: so much dogfood, so much poop to pick up and dispose of, so much doggie bathing, walking (though they probably, hopefully, have huge yards), vet bills…!

    I would love to have a menagerie…. if I lived in a massive house with a massive yard and more money than I knew what to do with.  Without those things, I just don’t know how people manage.  I salute them.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    April 16, 2020 at 1:07 am

    A repost from the semi-respite thread:

    China Global Television Network spotlights three doctors who have become unlikely media stars in the pandemic: Anthony Fauci, New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield, and Malaysia’s own Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Fauci you guys already know; Dr Bloomfield and Dr Noor Hisham are the directors-general of their countries’ respective health ministries.

  36. 36.

    Mai naem mobile

    April 16, 2020 at 1:12 am

    My fantasy Nov 5th is to see AZ, CO, NC, ME, MT,  KY, IA, SC, TX and GA and keep AL in the Senate. I didn’t even have Kansas in the mix. I would love to see another shocker. The Dakotas or Nebraska. It’s a pity Ron Johnson isn’t running this year. I think his ass would be grass.

  37. 37.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 1:13 am

    MORE MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S RE-OPENING TASK FORCE:Richard Fain, chair & CEO of @RoyalCaribbean.* ROYAL CARIBBEAN is incorporated in Liberia.** It asserts on its SEC filings that it is "currently exempt from US corporate income tax on US source income." https://t.co/YFgKVZ9jyY pic.twitter.com/w6C3OqpJEX— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) April 15, 2020

  38. 38.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 1:17 am

    nature is healing https://t.co/9jB5DfSd7z— hannah gais (@hannahgais) April 15, 2020

  39. 39.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 1:19 am

    THREAD: This is the true human cost of #COVID that you don't see on TV very often. CNN obtained photos from ER staff at a Detroit hospital, showing bodies pilled up in vacant spaces because the morgue was full. Nearly 1,500 people have died in Michigan, and 23,000 nationwide. pic.twitter.com/zqzkv1sZAB— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 13, 2020

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 16, 2020 at 1:26 am

    @Jay: Well thanks for initially mentioning that.

  41. 41.

    Duane

    April 16, 2020 at 1:42 am

    @Jay: Smash and grab robbery is so much easier than it used to be. It’s like getting away with murder.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    April 16, 2020 at 1:43 am

    My mask wardrobe is nearly complete — I now have 6 cloth masks and only need 1 more so I don’t have to wash them more than once a week. I got a couple for G as well so he doesn’t have to walk around in a bright orange bandana, which is the only one I have that he was willing to wear.

    Oh, and I’m being furloughed, so that’s fun. At least they’re keeping my job in place and are paying my entire health insurance premium. God only knows when we’ll be able to re-open. 

  43. 43.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 1:56 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    tons of minimum wage “essential” workers have died, are dying and will die.

    Doesn’t matter if “the economy reopens” or not. They are deemed “essential” and completely disposable.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    April 16, 2020 at 1:57 am

    The scene on Grand Ave. in downtown Lansing about 15 minutes ago where conservatives have jammed streets around the Capitol to protest Gov. Whitmer's stay-at-home order. It took about 10 minutes for this ambulance to evade traffic by turning the wrong way down a one-way street. https://t.co/xxoGnfg3EK— Gongwer Michigan (@GongwerMichigan) April 15, 2020

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    April 16, 2020 at 2:01 am

    @Fair Economist:

    That’s good???

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    April 16, 2020 at 2:07 am

    So, I have my first tele-medical  appointment tomorrow.

    I have eczema. Usually, it’s under control until it turns very hot or very cold.

     

    But, with all the hand washing and using hand sanitizer, I had a breakout. But, since  I have been home and using all natural oatmeal soap, it has gotten under control. But, I will be going back to work soon, and I need a renewal of the prescription.

    My hands look ok now, but in two weeks, they will be a disaster.?

    I need that prescription?

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    April 16, 2020 at 2:10 am

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:

    they don’t have the healthcare infrastructure to handle this??

  48. 48.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    April 16, 2020 at 2:24 am

    @dmsilev: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

    Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on Fox today making a really strong case for our Glorious Supreme Leader President Trump, long may he reign, that his greatest and most important skill is that he listens carefully to a wide range of viewpoints, can grasp complex information, and use it to make the wisest possible decisions on behalf of the American people.

    President Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives in a push to reopen parts of society amid the coronavirus pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday, with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard … Many of the chief executives urged the White House to focus more on mass testing…Trump seemed to downplay the issue while speaking Wednesday in the Rose Garden.

    Oh, never mind.

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    April 16, 2020 at 2:32 am

    @rope, the Formerly Dope

    “I’ve overseen more testing for Covid-19 than all previous presidents combined.”

    //

  50. 50.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    April 16, 2020 at 2:37 am

    @NotMax: “I’ve overseen more testing for Covid-19 than all previous presidents combined.”

    If he actually said this, I know logically it must be true and yet…

  51. 51.

    Sab

    April 16, 2020 at 2:41 am

    @Jay: What is VOC?

  52. 52.

    frosty

    April 16, 2020 at 2:50 am

    @Sab: Volatile Organic Compounds? I’m stumped. Thanks for hijacking the “I’m with him” post, Jay.

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 16, 2020 at 2:54 am

    Start hitting Fuckface von Clownstick with chairs.  Lots of them.  Never stop.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    April 16, 2020 at 2:56 am

    @Sab

    Venusians of Color?

    Very Odoriferous Cabbages?

  55. 55.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 16, 2020 at 2:58 am

    @dmsilev: Newt’s head should have been on a pike a quarter of a century ago.

  56. 56.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    April 16, 2020 at 2:59 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:Start hitting Fuckface von Clownstick with chairs.  Lots of them.  Never stop.

    So DeSantis did us a favor allowing the WWE to open?

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    April 16, 2020 at 3:03 am

    Move over, pizza rat. ? A Philadelphia woman found a groundhog outside of her home munching on a piece of pizza for over an hour, completely unfazed by her two dogs. https://t.co/gEmBJydTQ4 pic.twitter.com/T0730yXPbt— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 15, 2020

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    April 16, 2020 at 3:06 am

    @Mary G

    munching on a piece of pizza for over an hour

    Yeah, I’ve had pizza like that.

    :)

  59. 59.

    Sab

    April 16, 2020 at 3:23 am

    @frosty: It says right there in the title that it’s an open thread.

  60. 60.

    WereBear

    April 16, 2020 at 3:57 am

    @Mnemosyne: Oh, and I’m being furloughed, so that’s fun. At least they’re keeping my job in place and are paying my entire health insurance premium. God only knows when we’ll be able to re-open.

     
    I am in that boat, and I’m not complaining about that boat, but it is a lonely boat :)

  61. 61.

    WereBear

    April 16, 2020 at 3:59 am

    @dmsilev:

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

     
    Did the truth just slip? His “instincts and his sense of what the American people want” is in opposition to the infectious disease experts?

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    April 16, 2020 at 4:17 am

    @WereBear:

    Somehow, I don’t think the American people are all that keen right now on being out and about, going to work and school and the grocery store etc., during a pandemic that might kill them.

  63. 63.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    April 16, 2020 at 4:21 am

    @Amir Khalid: Somehow, I don’t think the American people are all that keen right now on being out and about, going to work and school and the grocery store etc., during a pandemic that might kill them.

    His authority is absolute. He’ll make us.

  64. 64.

    TS (the original)

    April 16, 2020 at 4:46 am

    @rikyrah:

    But, with all the hand washing and using hand sanitizer, I had a breakout.

    I had to stop with the sanitizer and go back to the bar soap with minimal additives. I also got some hand balm from the pharmacy. So far, so good.

    As an added advantage – the soap is seriously cheaper than the hand wash in a bottle I used to use.

  65. 65.

    Baud

    April 16, 2020 at 5:16 am

    @Krope, the Formerly Dope:

    His authority is absolute. He’ll make delegate the authority to us.

    Fixed.

  66. 66.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 16, 2020 at 6:33 am

    I believe in coincidences, I just don’t trust coincidences- Garak from DS9

  67. 67.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 16, 2020 at 6:36 am

    @Just One More Canuck: meant to be a reply to Jay @30

  68. 68.

    rikyrah

    April 16, 2020 at 7:17 am

    @Mary G:

    ????

  69. 69.

    Uncle Cosmo

    April 16, 2020 at 7:46 am

    @frosty: Thanks for hijacking the “I’m with him” post, Jay.

    Par for the course for our resident Knucklehead Of The Frozen North. Did he manage to misspell any common English words in the process?

    And yeah, WTF is VOC? Vermin Of Canada??

  70. 70.

    Jager

    April 16, 2020 at 10:58 am

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:

    My niece is a doc in Sioux Falls. She is a neo-natal specialist, with this she’s been pressed into service in the ER. Jodie has Chrons disease, never the less she persists.  We are so damn proud of her.

    BTW, She’s 38 and looks like a 9th grader.

  71. 71.

    James E Powell

    April 16, 2020 at 1:42 pm

    Are we ever going to learn what VOC is? And is 85% VOC good or bad? would 100% VOC be the best or the worst?

  72. 72.

    Scuffletuffle

    April 16, 2020 at 2:29 pm

    @rikyrah: go to healingearthvt.com and order the Eczema Salve for your hands. It works like a dream and smells awesome.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    April 16, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    @Scuffletuffle: would that work for someone who doesn’t have eczema, but current has rough, red hands from all the hand washing?

    Also, wondering what it smells like because I am allergic to a lot of scents.

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