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this afternoon i was mowing and trimming, fiddling around in the wood shop, pressure washing and generally making a lot of noise.. 

between the weed eater and leaf blower, i thought i heard a voice crying for help.  turns out i did. 

the lady across the street is 85 years old, and was dragging herself across her back/side yard.  i sprinted over there to lend a hand.  she had 'fallen and couldn't get up'.... not really a joking matter, but... well... i joke about everything. 

after determining she didn't break anything by asking a series of questions and poking at her hip which she said took the brunt (that and her head), i went to scoop her up... carried her to her sofa and set her down, and went to retrieve her other neighbors who are some younger than her and have known her a lot longer than i have. 

so.. anyway.. i was a little short of breath after carrying her, and after she realized she was actually going to see the inside of her house tonight (she is a slow crawler) as opposed to tomorrow, it dawned on her i was breathing somewhat hard.. (i'd sprinted over to her when i saw her, and then carried her a considerable distance- all in the last three or so minutes)- she asked me "do you think you may have been exposed to that covid?" and said "if you have, i'm a goner"... I thought she was making a joke (she was embarrassed and it would have made sense)..... she wasn't... she was serious.. i think... 

i hope she didn't get the 'covid' from me... she promised to make me a pie in appreciation.  she's made a few for me in the past for various things i've helped her with... she does a fine job of it. 

Technically Richfield, which is just north, but same difference

Some nice country there if it hasn't been developed already.Tore down the Coliseum - one of the finest BBall/Hockey Arenas I've ever been in.Made sense when they built it though

Hope > snarky remarks

I hadn't seen this.  It's not snarky to be realistic about this, man.  Living in some sort of optimistic fantasyland about it is how even more people get infected/die.

So.. football.

Calling it now. It's not happening this year guys.

Baseball is done too, and there will be no playoffs for NHL and NBA.

Discuss.

I am of the opinion the deaths are coming in waves, and that the timing of such waves will vary with geography, and that will stretch out the chronology.

I cannot see MLB resuming before August, and I would guess the odds of MLB in 2020 are probably about 30%. Right now COVID-19 is raging in New York, Washington, and perhaps California. But not as much in other areas. Those other areas will get it later in the natural course of events, and you just cannot play MLB only in NYC in August when COVID-19 calms down there but is raging in Chicago and Detroit.

I would guess there is a 40% chance of college football starting in October. But, I am probably overly optimistic. Do they start practice the 2nd or 3rd week of September to resume football in Mid-October? My guess is that there still could be hotspots in September. 

My further guess is this will play out a bit like the 1918 flu where there were three waves, or humps in the chronological graph. We tamp it down, relax restrictions, and it takes off again, and there will be restrictions back in place, and the pattern will repeat. I now see the talking news heads and their experts estimating about as many as 80% of the population becoming infected. That is very bad news for people in my parents' age category, and perhaps for me, even though I am still somewhat robust.

I hadn't seen this.  It's not snarky to be realistic about this, man.  Living in some sort of optimistic fantasyland about it is how even more people get infected/die.

Hope isn't fantasy land it's a thing and nobody said ignore precautions - where did you get that fantasy land?You don't have to respond really

There is no doubt China and Russia are lying about their numbers. The only question is by how much.

#2 is over the worst of it, two days were pretty bad apparently (Tue/Wed).  #1 has been clear thus far, working from home, has a computer based job anyway.  She was just offered another job with a large raise and turned it down fearing that company situation was potentially unstable.  She likes her current job and has money to spare.  She was just asking me about refinancing her home loan in a month or three.

That child has always been very "tight" with money to the extent that at times I've had to encourage her to spend something on herself.  She lived in NYC for four years and hardly spent anything, part of that was working as an unpaid intern, so I was paying her bills.