We're stuck with it until November if Biden wins.  Otherwise we're stuck with it until November 2024.  More testing means finding more asymptomatic cases.  But we never know how many of those go on to be serious.  There are NO standards for counting this virus.  They can't even count deaths properly.

I’m not a gentleman, but I’ll chime in. My husband went flying yesterday.

Enjoyed takeout barbecue today with our son, keeping distance. Sadly, our daughter has decided at least for now that she can’t stand to be with us because certain topics of conversation make her uncomfortable. This is very strange, because for several years now we’ve had a no politics rule at her request, and have done more than fine, having great times together, NEVER mentioning anything political.

She did go for a walk with only my husband today but it didn’t give us much hope.

Not sure what has changed, but it’s pretty painful. I was proud of all of us and so thankful that we’d done so well. I hope this banishment is temporary.

Becky, Im curious. Was the “keeping distance” your idea, or your son’s idea? 

I ask because at least here in Wisconsin we are so over the distancing thing.

We had our first live CAF meeting since February on Saturday, where we went through the history of and did a walk around of our SNJ-5. Out of a request by some, we agreed to do it online as well, which is logistically very difficult. We didn’t know what to expect, but when people kept showing up I was very pleased. We had 25 people in the hangar, and two 70+ guys wore masks, but that’s it. Interestingly, only 5 people chose the online option.

I though Joe's wife was a Vet.  He is as well?

My Dad was a Dentist.  Right up there with suicide rates.  Who likes to go to the Dentist?  (I do, but I am weird).  Why are Vet rates high?  Sadness having to put down Rover and Fluffy all the time???

Vet rates are high, I believe, because they deal with a lot of death, including euthanasia.  They are by their nature unbelievably compassionate and caring people who aren’t in it for the money, and when they fail, or if their clients can’t pay for services, the animals suffer or die or are put down. 

My daughter does small animal surgery one day a week, but otherwise she’s a large animal (mostly dairy) vet.  Some farmers can’t afford surgery to save the animal, so my daughter has to tell them to sell the cow, or if there is no medicines in its system, then kill it and butcher it. If they don’t want to shoot it, she has a tool called a captive bolt, which is basically a gun with a .22 blank round that shoots a rod about 4-6” out the front. She has to put it up to the skull of a bovine in a certain spot and it puts a hole in their skull which stuns it. Then she takes a long screw driver and scrambled to brain to humanly kill it. That is better than using what she calls “blue juice,” which is a euthanasia drug that she would inject straight into the heart. If they have to do that, then the farmer Is legally required to bury the cow a minimum of 6’ deep, because any animal like a coyote that digs it up and eats it will die.

95+% of her dairy clients are good and compassionate dairymen, who treat their cows well and take losses personally. The other minority who are not humane keep her up at night with worry when she leaves their farm after an emergency call.

Not all calvings go well. Sometimes the calf is dead inside the mother before she gets there. If it is not moving and for some reason she can’t do a C section (maybe the farmer doesn’t want to pay for a C section for a dead calf), she has a tool that she can insert so she can saw the calf apart inside the cow so she can get it out in pieces.

There are so many highs and lows for them. So when they have a high, like this successful C section, we celebrate with her. She has a good head on her shoulders, but we always worry.



Here’s that same heifer on her one year birthday. The lovely farm family was so appreciative that they named her after my daughter.


 

Definitely my opinion, but not strictly mine.  Many people have voiced the same opinion.  If I didn't agree with 90% of what the echo chamber here believes, I would leave too.  But on the few times I do disagree, I feel the same kind of heat a black person feels from the left when they leave the plantation.

I do remember when you were quite upset when I once said that Rush and Becky could stay, but the rest of you could fuck off. Everyone took it for the humor that it was except you.

Here, maybe this will help:

“Joe’s life matters”

^^^^^This!!!  /thread

 

Quoting your own quote? 

The other moderators have met and we are suspending you without pay for two days.  I hope you learn your lesson. 

NO!!!!!!!!!  God No!