1.) I went to Kroger the other day. No one was wearing masks. Today, a short 20 hours after Gov. Justice made mask wearing mandatory, every single person there was wearing a mask. In the parking lot, at the fuel pumps, in the store. No one was bitching. No one was complaining. They were just doing it.
The American people are not the problem. Our shitty leaders who can’t act, are.
2.) I shaved my head again today. It feels amazing.
3.) After a brief seasonal closure for maintenance and cleaning, John Cole’s “Air” BNB is back open for business:
I went to water today and was attacked by a very pissed and slightly damp mom or dad. I have lost count how many nests that is this year but it is a record.
zhena gogolia
Leadership is important.
Baud
Yeah, most people will just go with the flow. That’s why the lack of leadership has been so devastating.
You should consider shaving all over.
Congrats on the new arrivals.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
This is what I’ve been saying for some time. Most people go along to get along. Making masks mandatory in public will make most people sit up and take it seriously
Also congratulations on the new birdies setting up residence
raven
When I shave my head my t-shirts stick on the back of my head when I take it off!
Gvg
If they all had masks that quick, they already had them. Leadership.
Roger Moore
I wonder how many people before thought masks were probably a good idea but were worried they’d look stupid wearing one when others weren’t. I bet it was a lot. One of the things that mask orders do is to give people like that the confidence they won’t be the dumb looking one.
Nicole
I’m glad people are complying.
I went to the salon today for the first time since January- they sprayed my shoes, made me hand sanitize, sign a release saying I held them blameless should I get Covid-19, and wiped down everything before I sat anywhere. Everyone was masked the whole time.
I’m still a bit anxious about it, although I felt the salon was taking plenty of precautions, but I think it’s part of the new normal. Fortunately, my stylist does such a good cut I can wait another six months if I have to. ;) It also cost slightly less as she didn’t give me the full blow-out (no point, since I roller bladed to and from the salon so my helmet head was sweaty by the time I got home anyway).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I bought a $20 electric clipper from Amazon in March, and I may never return to the Hair Barn
Brachiator
My local preferred eatery set up more tables outside. Taking a break from work, I am in heaven. Little things count these days.
Most people around here are good about masks. I saw some yoots, twenties maybe, standing outside near their car, talking. They all wore masks.
On the other hand, some summer school kids playing basketball outside, no masks at all. Nor their friends sitting and watching.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I have done my hair once so far, and I’m kind of feeling the same. It’s good enough.
Sasha
People aren’t bitching and complaining because Justice is a Republican. Troopers in Oregon won’t wear masks because of “freedom”. There is no where near 100% compliance here in Virginia where the mandatory mask order is understood to be another form of overreach by our Democratic governor.
Roger Moore
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
There’s one more important feature: the people who are most aggressively anti-mask are getting validation from higher up. Trump has been the worst, but plenty of Republican governors have contributed, too. If/when those important people change their tune, it should have a powerful effect on the most recalcitrant few.
Barbara
One day is not a trend but the death rate today as reported in Wa Po is the highest since June 11. It cold be one of those days where a state adjusted its reports to reclassify and add deaths that had not been reported as COVID. Either way I am so fed up with people expressing certainty that so long as the reported number of deaths and the death rate are going down, nothing else matters. That’s part and parcel of Trump’s “just learn to live with it” strategy.
raven
The city council with vote on mandatory masks tonite here in Athens.
Roger Moore
@Nicole:
One thing I’ve been thinking about is nail salons. I seem to remember that most of the workers there were already wearing masks to protect themselves from chemicals before COVID. It makes me wonder if they had an easier time adapting than some other personal care jobs and if they might actually have been low risk to open because of that.
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m finally way ahead of the game on something. I’ve been cutting my own hair since I was in college.
joel hanes
@Brachiator:
I’m looking at the data from my county, and the recent papers on how far airborne coronavirus can drift, and there’s no way I’m eating at an outdoors restaurant.
Some of my kids are getting tired of being cautious. If I live through the next twelve months without getting infected, I’ll call that a win.
I’m frightened in a way I haven’t been since April
joel hanes
@Barbara:
The test positivity rate reported today for Florida is 30%.
opiejeanne
Washington’s mandatory mask-wearing order is in force as of today and I’m relieved because now the employees of various stores are allowed to tell people to wear the damned masks, and wear them correctly. I was dismayed by a Costco employee telling me that management wouldn’t let them say anything to the idiots, but now they can.
Also, our wonderful garden center’s employees will be masked and the idiot owner can’t do a damned thing about it.
Nicole
@Roger Moore: Yeah, nail salons just reopened here in NYC, and I’m curious to see what things look like in 2 weeks. I’m hopeful all will be well and the face shields/masks will keep estheticians safe. Personal care things that don’t require taking a mask off are allowed now- so no facials yet, but nails and toes are okay, along with massages.
Chief Oshkosh
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Details, please. Make and model? And a photo of you after a self-cut hairdo (just put one of those creepy black bars over your eyes so you think we won’t be able to ID you).
Thanks! Much appreciated!
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: I don’t remember where you live. Can you tell us which state?
Oh, I’m guessing Florida from your later post.
trollhattan
Protobirbs! The ferns, bird magic.
geg6
@Sasha:
Same here in PA. The awful things they say about Governor Wolf are just over the top. Thankfully, the majority of Pennsylvanians approve of and trust him. And don’t even ask what they say about Dr. Levine, who is the Secretary of Health and also transgender. It is as vile as you can possibly imagine and more. My county is full of these idiots and I just want to scream my head off some days.
jonas
@Barbara: We may not get back up to a NYC-in-April death rate, but it’s *going* to go back up — there’s no way it can’t with the rate infections are growing and the fact that most of these states, aside from CA, are not testing anywhere near enough people to catch all the cases. Plus, hospitals in TX and AZ are already reporting that they’re hitting ICU bed capacity. Even if you’re 20 and, all things being equal, your chances of dying of Covid were pretty slim to begin with, if there are no hospital beds, it just got a whole lot worse.
I’m sure those busy beavers at Fox and NRO are already working on a new explanation for why the rising death rate coming in the next week or two “is actually a positive sign” or something.
joel hanes
@opiejeanne:
I’m in Santa Clara, in Santa Clara County, in California.
73% seven-day increase in rate of new cases.
https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2020/coronavirus-map/
JPL
Do we know if trump’s son and grandchildren are going back to school in the fall? Might be worth an ask, but trump might ask what son.. just sayin
Hoodie
@Sasha: Leadership isn’t the problem per se, it’s the active disinformation from Trump and other GOP leaders. People would comply if they’d quit making this a partisan issue. The problem is that a lot of the GOP has basically nothing to run on except Trump, and they’ve let him paint the whole party into a corner.
bluefoot
@Barbara: Death from COVID-19 usually lags a positive test by about a month. So we may not be seeing an increase in deaths yet due to the 4th of July or whatever, but we may by the end of the month. Some decrease in death rates are also probably attributable to actually “flattening the curve” so that people could get good care. But now that cases are rising again and we’re facing shortages of hospital beds, PPE and other resources, at some point critical cases will outpace our ability to care for them, and deaths will again increase.
At what point do health care workers, hospital staff, grocery store workers, EMS, and other essential workers just say “fuck it” and quit because people can’t be bothered to do the minimum to stop the spread? Burnout is a thing. So is despair.
opiejeanne
Dear Mr Cole, thank you for the nest photo.
We don’t have any birds foolhardy enough to build a nest in one of our tall planters this year, so we have to satisfy ourselves with the antics of the newly fledged baby birbs and their distracted parents. We’re building a trellis for the pumpkins to grow on so that they don’t take over the entire yard, and there are lots of tiny birds that use the birdbath right next to us while we’re working. It’s like we’re too huge for them to notice us, unless we move. One landed on the top rail of the trellis right beside mr opiejeanne and just did not see him at all. It was too busy checking out the birdbath.
joel hanes
@Chief Oshkosh:
The Wahl Elite Pro clipper set is what I’ve got.
Corded, because every cordless drill I’ve ever owned is dead, but my corded electric drill from 1980 still works perfectly.
Brachiator
@joel hanes:
I am listening to a discussion about the airborne issue. One of the guests is a signatory to that recent paper. She noted the importance of ventilation. Outdoors actually sounds safer than indoors in some situations.
There are also not a lot of other customers being served. All in all, I feel good about my choice.
And I totally relate to your fear. There are not many places I would go out to.
Patricia Kayden
Jinchi
All Trump had to do was hand out a collection of Trump 2020/MAGA face masks at his rally and this problem would be over. None of them would complain, because they’d be sticking it to the libs and getting free advertising for Trump at the same time.
trollhattan
@joel hanes:
Statewide CA is recording 23 new cases per 100k tests. Kind of midpack, with Connecticut at a mere 2.9 and Arizona at an astonishing 62. If only we could swap in CT for AZ at our eastern border.
JustRuss
My county’s been doing well, one or two new cases per day. Today we have 12 new cases. Crap.
MattF
Went to the supermarket today in my very blue neighborhood. Everyone in the store was wearing a mask (as usual), and nearly everyone I saw on the street was also masked, which is a noticeable increase over past mask usage.
joel hanes
I was out watering the flowers by the front entrance this morning, and was visited by the smallest hummingbird I’ve ever seen. Much smaller than the ruby-throated, which is the only hummingbird species in much of the US — but in California, we have 14 species.
Guessing black-chinned hummingbird, but I didn’t get a close enough look to tell for sure.
Kay
Any other administration he would get fired or have to step down for such a malicious, stupid lie, but the Trump people are all such low quality employees it barely makes the news.
500 dead caring for others. The Trump morons erase them.
raven
@Brachiator: Is there ANY question that outside is better?
trollhattan
@Patricia Kayden:
He’s not wrong. Trump is George Wallace without the nuance. If he only wins Wallace’s five states, I’m good.
John S.
You’re in way better shape there in West Virginia than we are here in Florida.
Trump wannabe Ron DeSantis wouldn’t know leadership if it infected him.
bluefoot
Here in MA, there’s a noticeable drop in mask compliance over the last couple of weeks. It very much depends on what neighborhood/town you’re in, but it’s scary. On the 4th of July, I saw a lot of house parties and bbqs with 20- and 30-somethings hanging out in big groups, no masks. And then the college students will be back in August and it’s going to get ugly.
Several of my siblings are immune compromised. I have quite a few friends also in very high risk groups. (At least two, on advice from their doctors, haven’t left their homes since the beginning of March. They’ll be stuck at home until we get a handle on this disease/have a vaccine. One was joking at least it forces him to finish writing his thesis.) If none of my family or friends die from this, I will actually be amazed.
trollhattan
@joel hanes:
Black chinned are tiny and I get them here in Sac, but only in spring-summer while Anna’s are year-round. Black chinned males make an eerie whirring sound when flying, if you hear that then it’s probably a good I.D.
schrodingers_cat
ICE is giving universities and international students two options
Have in-person classes and die
Or be deported and close shop
Jinchi
Hmmm? I think you’re mixing up numbers. California has a test positivity rate of 6% right now. Arizona is at 25% and Connecticutt is 0.8%.
schrodingers_cat
Orange Menace wants to increase the death toll to unimaginable levels.
opiejeanne
@joel hanes: Holy cow! I forgot about Santa Clara. I posted about the 40+ school administrators who tested positive after an in-person meeting to discuss how to reopen safely.
My state just keeps setting new records. Yesterday the new cases were either 1087 or 1177, depending on which source you look at. Three weeks ago we were in the 200s, but it has crept up quickly since then. May 25 we had only 107-116 new cases, and we were driving it down but look at us now. Most people aren’t as scared as they need to be.
NotMax
Been quietly tracking the numbers, which in both cases are not good –
Saudi Arabia (population 33½ million) has been running just about equal with Mexico (population 126 million) insofar as total number of cases and daily cases reported go.
Don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see the dire disproportionality.
satby
Well, around here the people are the problem, because we’ve had a mandatory mask order in this county since reopening and compliance has been dropping. And it was only about 50% to begin with. I finally called the county health department and told them to just forget even having a mandatory mask requirement if they weren’t going to enforce it. They feel it’s better to send sternly worded letters to “educate” non-compliers. I told the HD they were being dared to enforce their rule, because they are.
Yeah, the county officials are Republicans, why do you ask?
opiejeanne
@bluefoot: We’re about 6 weeks after Memorial Day so we should have seen a big spike in deaths from that idiocy. We saw the big spike in new cases so I’m going to guess that the treatment for COVID-19 has improved and more people are surviving being terribly sick, when before this people just died.
WaterGirl
@joel hanes: Holy fuck.
Tom Levenson
@bluefoot: I know. I’ve been seeing a mask decline in Brookline/Boston. On one of my usual bike routes, many fewer masked walkers/joggers/bicyclists than a couple of weeks ago. Sidewalk pedestrians are not as bad. But still–there’s an erosion.
WaterGirl
@joel hanes: Close encounter of the best kind!
dmsilev
@Kay: I read that story earlier today. How could he say that with a straight face? More importantly, how could the reporters listen and not just start throwing rotten fruit at him.
I think the worst part is not the lie itself, but that he clearly has so much contempt for the audience that he can’t be bothered to tell even vaguely plausible lies.
trollhattan
@Jinchi:
The CA positive test percentage is 7.5 and the per 100k positives are 23.
Source: https://projects.propublica.org/reopening-america/
dmsilev
@Tom Levenson: My mom, also in Brookline, has been experimenting with a variety of passive-aggressive ‘wear your mask’ social cues. Her current approach is to loudly comment to my dad that ‘that person isn’t wearing a mask; walk in the road to avoid them’ or similar. No idea if it helps, but at least she’s trying.
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Going out on a limb, would also say it’s a function of the pie slice of those infected who fall into the brackets deemed less likely to die having expanded.
joel hanes
@opiejeanne:
the 40+ school administrators who tested positive
I think this is still garbled.
Forty-five principles/administrators met, and when one turned up positive shortly later, they were told to quarantine. That was reported five or six days ago.
I have seen nothing, and can find nothing, that indicates how many of those forty-five later tested positive, if any. Nor can I find an explicit statement, but it sounds as if they met indoors and weren’t masked. Elites tend to assume an impunity that the virus does not recognize.
Roger Moore
@joel hanes:
I would be cautious about reading too much into one day positivity rates. They can get heavily skewed by things like testing outfits reporting only positive tests when they get really busy. You’re much better off looking at things like 7 day averages. Of course Florida is looking pretty awful no matter which measure you use; their average positive rate for the past week is 18.9% (using data from covidtracking.com).
Jinchi
@trollhattan: Ah that’s per 100K people, not per 100K tests.
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: Also, the last few days in particular are scrambled because of the holiday weekend.
trollhattan
@Jinchi:
Yup, while other sources track cases per million making me shuffle decimal points in my head. Not fair!
JMG
In the Cape Cod town where I’m at now, not wearing a mask in the downtown (downvillage) area draws a $300 fine. Compliance is close to universal. That’s all it takes, cops writing tickets.
Patricia Kayden
Suzanne
@opiejeanne: The average age of infected patients is also dropping, which means that the rate of hospitalizations and deaths per capita would be expected to go down. That’s what we’re seeing so far, though of course this may change. Fingers crossed.
I’ve also seen supposition—nothing more—that the virus is getting simultaneously easier to transmit and less deadly. If that is true, that would be somewhat expected. That’s actually optimal evolution for a virus.
Patricia Kayden
@satby: And this is why Europe and Canada have banned American visitors. I’m not going to be able to visit my Canadian family and friends for a long time because of these dang mask-averse idiots.
joel hanes
@schrodingers_cat:
Without international students paying full freight, many of our colleges are not financially viable.
Cameron
@John S.: From what I can see, DeSantis bases what he does on what Trump wants, and if he doesn’t know what Trump wants, he doesn’t do anything at all. I feel lucky that my fellow Olds who I live around have mostly gotten the mask message. It would appear that in other parts of Manatee County, not so much.
lamh36
At my lab, we are finding the majority of our newly positive COVID specimens coming from young people. We’re talking born ’90s or later. In the city (Orleans Parish) where the majority of the pop (NOLA) is still predominanly AA has been mandatory mask up since about May. Mayor Cantrell (a AA woman) has been forceful and firm since day one. Out in the whiter suburbs, like the one I live in (Jefferson Parish), the council actually did that bullshit phase opening, where 25- 50% occupancy shit and did not make mask mandatory. Then the surge in new positives started and last week, finally the Jefferson Parish President (an Asian woman) made masks mandatory in Jefferson Parish. But I suspect that month or so of dumb azz phase once in Jefferson parish is what has lead to the increase in young folks coming up positive now. Especially since it take some times for symptoms to occur in many asymptomatic people if at all.
Before Jefferson Parish mandatory mask up, you’d see young people of Black ane White, and middle age white folks who were not wearing masks. The older folks Black and white were mask upped mostly. And now we are seeing the consequence of those actions.
piratedan
@Suzanne: or it could be a case of all of the olds hunkering down, so that those that are getting infected are those “essential” workers forced to be back at work and the younger cohort who believe themselves to be immune/invincible…..
just patiently waiting for sanity to take hold but alas, this tribal/generational multiple threaded idiocy is daunting to go against.
Mike in NC
Washington Post article today notes that a case of bubonic plague has been reported in China. Fat Bastard to call it another hoax in 3… 2…1
Percysowner
DeWine totally blew it in Ohio. He was doing all the right things, closing things down, being on top of the virus, and then, when it came to masks, he blinked. He was required masks to be worn in all retail establishments for 3.5 seconds, then backed down and only required the employees to be masked. He babbled some nonsense about the mother of an autistic boy saying that wearing masks would scare him and his great love of the disabled made him change the order. Now cases are going up and he’s ordering masks on a county by county basis, but the far right wing has the bit in their teeth and are fighting him tooth and nail. I’m expecting my Ohio to get really bad really soon. We are already hitting way to many cases.
japa21
AZ hit triple digits deaths today for the first time. MO hit 1,100 new cases for the first time ever.
Florida’s death are starting to go up. We’re at highest death toll since June 23 with a lot of time to go.
Trends are definitely not good.
pluky
@Baud: “You should consider shaving all over”. Boy is this ever the setup for an epic Cole post down the road. Just stock up an bandages and styptic first!
Kay
What about that idea? Bad?
It’s technically “bipartisan” since conservatives don’t believe the federal government exists, so they should support it.
Someone has to run this thing….and obviously the current occupants can’t.
Fair Economist
@Suzanne: It’s also thought that protection measures like masking and distancing may reduce the severity of disease in addition to frequency. With many diseases the amount of pathogen you’re infected with influences severity. With masking and distancing even if some gets through it’s probably less, so the disease may be less severe on average.
piratedan
@lamh36: for the hospitals I support, Western WA was in the initial COVID crosshairs and while that was scary, the state level pols kept it from getting into people dying in corridors mode, but now our Eastern hospitals are starting to see dramatic increases because of the types of industry that exist out there and a penchant strain of GOP idiocy that boils down to “you’re not the boss of me”. One of the hardest concepts to grasp about this virus is the length of time it can wreak havoc… longer incubation times, longer infectious capability and longer recovery times and people just DO NOT GET IT, everyone is used to “I feel bad, I get sick, I recover, a week to 10 days tops” and this shit just does not play that way.
Suzanne
@piratedan:
I think it’s likely that younger people are going out and doing stuff like going to bars and having fun. My BIL is an essential worker and he contracted COVID at work. But since COVID is less deadly to younger people, and the rate of cases are going up among that cohort, it would make some sense if the hospitalizations and deaths didn’t go up as much as when it was more concentrated in long term care facilities.
The idea that it’s potentially weakening is interesting to me. Again, I heard this supposition from a client so no links. Apparently that is common with RNA viruses and is probably an evolutionary advantage, since the virus can spread further longer if it doesn’t kill its host.
Brachiator
@raven:
Context and situation are important. But I have heard people who want to emphasize staying in and being locked down.
joel hanes
@Mike in NC:
Not significant.
The plague is endemic in some rodent species in western North America, including the prairie dog. I believe that we have several cases almost every year, and a domestic case of the bubonic form every few years. Treatable.
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
Eunicecycle
@Percysowner: I’m with you. The day he backed down on the masks was the last time I watched his press conferences. Then he only weakly backed Dr. Acton when she was being harassed. He should have sent the National Guard to her house and told the jackasses to Back. The. Fuck. Off. Make masks mandatory everywhere, and people will comply or we can rightly shame them.
joel hanes
@JMG:
Now think about how existing cops will enforce mask orders in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Brachiator
@japa21:
It’s funny. I usually associate AZ with triple digit temperatures, not triple digit deaths.
It’s sad to think that their problems were likely unnecessary.
And there’s more to come.
joel hanes
@Suzanne:
The facts that SARS-CoV-2 is very infectious before symptoms, and that it’s often two weeks from diagnosis to hospitalization, may mean that it will not evolve as quickly away from mortality as do pathogens with more immediate onset and faster criticality.
May.
japa21
@Brachiator: Totally avoidable. Plus TX just set a new death record. And I doubt we can trust their figures any more than we can trust FL’s.
joel hanes
@Kay:
Many of the GOP governors will still be too afraid to cross Trump, so either they’ll attend and no strong measures will be adopted, or they won’t attend.
Kay
@joel hanes:
Hold it anyway. SOME of the GOP governors will go- the governors of Maryland and Massachusetts. Maybe a couple others. Who’s the most popular governor among the governors :)
Matt McIrvin
@joel hanes: I’ve got a Wahl corded clipper too, though I think it’s a different model. Second all of this. I was using cordless clippers to trim my beard before that, and besides having a short working lifetime, they’re just frustratingly weak. Corded is best, and also cheapest.
Suzanne
@joel hanes: This is not my area of expertise, so I will totally defer to others.
If it’s true, that would be good. Fingers crossed again.
Honus
For the last 18 years or so I’ve been going to a salon near office. For the 50 years or so before that I went to a “Barber Shop” and sat up straight in the chair like daddy’s little man and read Sgt Rock or the Field & Stream and then one day my office mate said “this girl that did my hair just moved here from Atlanta and she has this little baby and a custody hearing next month and I know you hate family law but I told her you would do it” long story short I did and another year or so of work to get her divorced and full custody. At one point a few weeks afterI had started my office mate said “she doesn’t have any money but she wants to do something for you so go in and let her cut your hair” so I did. I sat straight up in the chair like daddy’s little man And she said, “no come back here first” and I was in a massage chair with my head in a shampoo sink. I got a shampoo and scalp massage With aromatics and then a haircut and thought “this is how to get a haircut what have i been doing for fifty years?”
And its been that way ever since Needless to say, other hairdressers there had some legal issues and I helped them out to point that I now joke that I am a specialist in hairdresser law. I take care of them (divorced, restraining orders, name changes) and they take care of me. The salon is couple blocks from my office and I’d stop by mostly every day just to pass time and every week or so they drag me into the chair and clean me up.
Until now. I’ve been working from home since march and the salon was closed and I miss those girls.
Suzanne
@Brachiator: What’s really, REALLY sad about the AZ situation is that Gov. Douchey was initially not doing too bad. He had announced a stay-at-home order, then extended it….. and then the Sentient Corpse Flower announced that he was coming to PHX to tour the mask factory and then Douchey basically let things open before his own stay-at-home order was supposed to expire.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Suzanne:
That’s extremely unlikely. Coronaviruses don’t evolve very quickly and every time they reproduce, there’s a checker protein that checks the RNA and fixes many mistakes in replications
Kay
ha ha No one wants to go to the Trump’s crappy disease-ridden convention.
Leto
@geg6: The absolutely vile shit people have been saying about Dr Levine is just… Avalune and I have read a lot of those comments and it’s always the same transphobic shit. Disgusting.
NotMax
@Kay
Aw, poor Sergey Kislyak will have to scramble to find alternate ways to pad his expense account.
//
Suzanne
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Again, not a lot of data on this…. but here is some research from my alma mater (you can click through the Journal of Virology) identifying a mutation that mirrors a deletion found in SARS that attenuated the virus.
Kelly
Another vote for Wahl clippers. I got around 20 years out of my last corded Wahl clipper. It unfortunately died just after the entire world decided to cut their own hair since they were locked down at home. The only clipper in stock was a Wahl battery clipper for $22. It is more convenient since I like to cut my hair and beard out on the porch.
E.
@Honus: Great story. Funny how you find yourself in a new community and suddenly meaningful work comes your way, maybe for many many years. Happened to me when I practiced law.
bluefoot
@Tom Levenson:
I’m in Somerville/Cambridge. Right now Somerville is better than Cambridge. And I’ve been thankful that the stores in the area have all been pretty strict about mask wearing. I was in Boston over the weekend running an errand, and it was noticeably more lax than this side of the river. I’ve seen a LOT of people only covering their mouths with their masks the last week i.e. with their noses uncovered. Not good.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Baud! 2020! – Consider Shaving All Over!
Nelle
Someone who rents a small office within the small group where my son works tested positive this afternoon. And he came to work (in a mask) in between testing and results without telling anyone. He’s had minimal contact with the others, but there has been some and there is a shared toilet. My son argued as hard as he could without losing his job about going back in person (he could see his coworkers out at bars via their postings on social media).
My son’s AC went out on Sunday (it is stifling hot and humid) so they’ve been staying with us and we’ve been watching the girls while they were at work. They have to drive two hours tomorrow for a test. The regular babysitter won’t be coming until they get the all clear, so I guess we’re it for the near future. I’m 69, my husband is 76. The girls are one and three. I’m exhausted, but needs must. I figured that we’ll probably get the disease sooner or later, but had hoped for later.
Marcopolo
MO hit a new high of 773 cases today. Previous high was 550 on July 1. Probably some of that was carryover from the holiday weekend. Still, our numbers are starting to look pretty bad and with an R Gov who has refused to order mandatory masking statewide I don’t see it getting better.
Right now, masking is mandatory here in StL County, in StCity, in KC, and a few other more urban areas but if you actually looked at a county level map of the state by infections/thousand residents (as opposed to sheer numbers), the rural areas are as bad or worse than the urban areas.
laura
@Honus: Honus! I love lawyers who take their skills to the people. Older brother lives in Van Nuys just a rocks throw from the now long closed law dogs. You could get a hot dog AND legal advice on the day to day issues of landlord/tenant, family law, immigration and short pay/ labor law. Just a real decent way to provide access to the legal system and hot dogs – so good on ya and your good looking head a hair.
I work for a Union and represent blue collar public sector workers. My assignment includes 2 state prisons, a state hospital, a veterans home, 2 small water districts and a very large county. CV is now rampant in the CA prison system because the CDCR Leadershit moved inmates all over the place. Today I had members in total meltdown/freakout due to both inmate work crew and employee positive tests. Two members were exposed to positives along with their supervisors. A haphazard quarantine was ordered for some and among those ordered into a 2 week quarantine were directed to instead return to duty while the supervisors are still under the 2 week quarantine. So instead of home safe, you will report to the laundry to intake dirty and issue clean. All intend to call in sick. I’ll be filing a grievance and request that supervisors report and rank & file quarantine, but I am sympathetic to the health of the Supervisors and the inmates too – everyone is just shitting themselves over the risk and I am at a loss as it becomes more difficult to reassure Members that the workplace is safe for them and their families. And still calls complaining about on site testing and face covering…..
Skepticat
@Nicole:
My stylist in Maine takes many of the same precautions, and she has a lovely, big porch on which she and her staff work. She doesn’t use blow dryers. However, here on a desert island in the Bahamas, I’m chopping off my hair with my kitchen shears. I sent her a photo. She cried. Or maybe that was retched or laughed hysterically.
andy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Back when Ventura was governor here in Minnesoter the people I ran with at the time all got clippers so we could all buzz our heads like the big guy. So of course, in the fullness of time they all ended up just sitting on the back of a shelf somewhere until they were needed. A buzzed dome does feel pretty good in the summer!
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I did this years ago, and I’ve saved a heck of a lot of money.
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
I have a chargeable clipper with a detachable cord. Best of both worlds.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Lying muthaphucka ??
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
Phucking Demon ??
rikyrah
@Nelle: ??????
J R in WV
I’ve been bald as a dome since back about 1975. I got one hell of a sunburn in a boat off Key West in about 1971 0r ’72, was losing it then. Quit getting haircuts when I was discharged, well the next spring, it was cold when I was discharged in Key West.
I did get trims when looking for a new job in 1991, but after I landed that job, no more hair cuts for me. We have a high end set of clippers we got a while ago for the dog, but never really used them for him. He was just too hairy for us to cope with.
I did get a haircut back just before we went to Italy some 6 or 7 years ago… haven’t had the urge again, at all. Tho with temps in the triple digits here, could happen that wife may be asked to buzz it really short.
Brian
@joel hanes: That’s been my experience too. Unless you’re a tradesperson who uses the drill every day, cordless is not the way to go. I also use the Wahl since 2010.