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Unread 03-14-2020, 12:52 PM   #21
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Had breakfast with a retired doctor this AM, whose daughter is an Epidemiologist. Bed shortage in Italy has resulted in a triage situation. Net result - If you are 75 and a 20 year old both have the virus - you're in trouble
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Unread 03-14-2020, 01:34 PM   #22
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My neighbor and his wife made their escape from Switzerland yesterday and arrived home in Fairbanks - right across the road from my house - late last night. I generally pick them up at the airport..... not this time! I staged their car in airport parking yesterday afternoon instead.
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Things could be worse!! We could all be stuck using this Russian TP I got in Russia and Mongolia that is as thin and abrasive as it looks.
You were lucky Richard. While on a hunt in Kamchatka we were at the International airport in Petropavlovsk (capital city) and our guide directed us to the "Men's Room". It was a bare concrete building, away from the terminal, kind of a large outdoor outhouse with side wall openings for ventilation. It had a few bare light bulbs, no heat and ambient temp was about 40 F. There was a trough for #1 and stalls for #2 but without doors and no TP. Travelers were left to your own devices so to speak.

Yes, things could be worse.
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Yeah, PPK is a bit of a dump, especially since the nuclear sub base shut down. Folks were cutting up grounded subs and making wood stoves from the metal when I was there. You may have been fortunate to have been sent to an outhouse. An inside facility would have looked like this one. It's old style and has a tank on the pipe behind and a chain pull for flushing. After I left the remote camp I was working in the big bears started coming out of hibernation and were hungry and the camp folks were shooting several per day for a while. There are some scary big bears over there from the pictures I saw.
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Man Richard, looks like you could re-veneer your table with that Russian paper if you needed to.
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It's pretty nasty stuff, especially after a long night on the loo due to camp-wide food poisoning from our squid stew dinner... Been there! It was great stew too, but the after effects on the 125 folks in camp was epic to say the least. That trip made for a great set of short stories that I wrote up. I love it when you don't have to exaggerate even one little bit to come up with a story that sounds way too far out to be even remotely believable. Mongolia was the same.
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Have you seen the "March Madness Illness" bracket. West Virginia is finally #1 for something positive, the only state in the union without a reported Corona virus outbreak. But it wont last long, 7 miles East in Washington County, Pa, there are reported cases, and 7 miles to the WEST in Belmont County are cases.
My wife and I play on a USTA mixed doubles tennis team, and the USTA cancelled all league play, we were currently #1 in the region( the team).
Was supposed to be in Columbus, Ohio for a continuing ed meeting this morning, but it was cancelled also.
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Richard, I love the "Luna Moth Green" toilet seat cover! Don't ever recall seeing that motif from American Standard or Kohler at my local Home Depot or Lowe's!!
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Widespread use of Skoal and moonshine has been credited with preventing the Corona virus here in West Virginia
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Widespread use of Skoal and moonshine has been credited with preventing the Corona virus here in West Virginia
Because that results in social distancing ?
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