SteveFord
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Someone is stopping you?
I'm sure you could buy some as part of a take out order.
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As I understand it, the Mennonites are an offshoot, they've embraced the modern world and are the ones running the "Amish" markets and restaurants. That could be Amish running the markets, though.
I had a female Mennonite boss and took this one really wild Mennonite girl for a long motorcycle ride; like everyone else, there's a wide variety of behaviors in people.
The Amish are the horse and buggy brigade but even they use telephones as long as they are a certain distance from the house and they hire people to drive them around.
I'm told that the reason the Amish stuck to their lifestyle had to do with rejecting anything that would cause them to be dependent on the British hundreds of years ago. Something to do with paying taxes on something or other and they said screw it and the rest is history.
I'm not from this area but I've been told that the Amish are good to deal with, the Mennonites not so much.
With those sailors, either it never fully left and they were getting false negatives or it circled back. If it circled back not good is quite the understatement.
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Yes, my supplier got it and said anything more than walking now leaves him winded.
I wonder about the damage it does if it doesn't kill you off.
People in their 30s and 40s are showing up with COVID-19 and the symptom is blood clots, one had to have his leg amputated. This is a weird thing that's floating around.
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A friend of mine in Lancaster says that out of staters brought it in which could be part of it. It's kind of a tourist trap for people to see the Amish (they're actually seeing the Mennonites but close enough). They come in from NY and NJ and away it goes.
My dopey little town had no cases last time I checked, today we have 7. My better half says expect 25 by next week, I think we're about to get hammered here.
They made this a political thing instead of a public health issue so we're pretty much screwed.
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Australia really kept it under control.
Good job!
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In my spare time I've been keeping a spread sheet of the cases going on around me. Yes, we're still dropping dead in these here parts. Guys in their 30s and 40s are getting blood clots (one had his leg amputated), kids are showing up with Toxic Shock Sydrome-like symptoms, and the elderly and infirm are going toes up.
Next Friday my county goes into Code Yellow which means stay at home orders will be lifted. Childcare centers and some retail shops can reopen and gatherings of up to 25 are allowed. Telework should continue at business where it is possible.
Restaurants and bars will still be limited to takeout and delivery. School buildings will remain closed, along with gyms, salons and theaters. Visits to nursing homes and prisons will still be prohibited.
We'll see how this goes. My guess is the locals will act like everything is back to normal and this area will see a monster spike in cases which will lead to another lock down which the locals will ignore until we have numbers like NJ.
All I can say is that I am so glad that I'm married, own a house and can telework. I really feel the people in the cities, the service industry workers and the blue collar workers. I can't imagine being a truck driver or a postal worker or a restaurant owner. What do you do?
You can forget concerts this year, motorcycle rallies are out, the annual Central PA Beer Bash and Group Grope has been put on hold, it's just crazy.
You can see here how it's kind of oozed it's way across NY and NJ and then goes dead where it's just farmers and cornfields:
https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-counties-reopening-coronavirus/32343176#
The red areas are also where the college kids returned from Spring Break in Florida.
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Another 137 dead since yesterday here in the wilds of Pennsyltucky.
Locals milling around with no masks and clumping together at the old fishing hole. No bike stop for me on my after work ride.
Here's a disturbing one: two people in York County today tested positive with NO fever at present or in the recent past. One just had body aches and chest pain, the other one had chest pain and diarrhea recently.
So much for testing people for a fever as a quick and dirty check.
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I went to the grocery store in York today and it is just so weird to see everyone (myself included) wearing gloves and masks and looking at each other funny. I never imagined things would be like this but here we are.
Up 21 more cases in Dauphin Country since yesterday, 9 in York, up 817 state wide with another 75 dead from it.
February 6th we had our first confirmed death from it, we're now at 1,400,000 (give or take) with 82,925 dead.
That's less than 14 weeks.
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We're still happily croaking as time goes past. Only 24 new deaths state wide since yesterday, hardly worth thinking about. 57,154 positive cases in the state, I'm thinking we'll top 100,000 well before the 4th of July.
If I'm lucky I won't be in that count.
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We're up since yesterday, of course.
I took a motorcycle ride out to meet a fellow to pick up around 50 pounds of frozen rodents for my snakes. The guy with the feeders is a big mountain man type in his early 40s and he said he had it a while back , His comment was "I'll tell you what, that was a rough couple of weeks". Just looking at him and the way he spoke you could tell it took a toll on him.
We're all so curious here to see if that's what ripped through this area around Christmas.
I wrote to the guy I got the rats from and he was ill from late March until early April and he says that anything more than walking currently leaves him winded. He's one of those giant Harley guys but it's muscle, not flab, non smoker.
He's gone a month without testing positive so that's a good sign.
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That really is an iconic idea.
Smell the leather, relish the tone.
I like it.
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RIP, Little Richard.
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I'm kind of cheap, maybe I'll find an old couch and use naugahyde on my Guild.
I'm in love, I'm all shook up!
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WOW!
That's a sold out Madison Square Garden.
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J-200s are really handsome guitars (except for that weird double pick guard Bob Dylan one). It's possible to have too much of a good thing!
I think what I would like most, other than material possessions, is to be able to retire and see the country on a motorcycle like I've been planning. I don't know if it will happen or not but I sure hope it does.
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Let us hope that herd immunity is such a thing with this virus. It's already mutated once so who knows. A hell of an experiment to risk with your population, I'll say that much.
Pennsyltucky is up 1070 cases since yesterday, my little county is up another 18, Dauphin County is up 24. Our beautiful State Capital will probably overtake us in numbers by tomorrow. The county to the east of me, which is Lancaster, is getting creamed, they're at over 2000. There's one city, Lancaster, and the rest is mostly farm land with Amish and corn fields.
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Right now things in the world are kind of gloomy.
One thing you have to do is look ahead.
For a while it was collecting vintage Stetson, Knox and Dobbs dress hats but I now have enough for maybe every week of the year. There comes a point where enough is just about enough. Just about. Maybe one or two more...
Looking ahead, it's purchase another street bike and then a Gibson Firebird VII to replace the one I sold years ago to help finance some giant stereo speakers. A Martin D-18 or J-40 would be awfully nice, too. I've also never had a white SG Custom with 3 gold plated pick ups and an ebony fret board.
I can do it if I work hard, eat all of my vegetables and don't blow it all on cocaine and hookers.
So, what do you gentlemen have that you're looking forward to doing or getting?
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You know, Senor Pepper, it might be time for me to do some guitar shopping.
I still have to wait for this wretched virus to get done bumping us off and then I can pick up that Triumph I'm buying (why do I have 7 Triumphs, who knows) and then I'm thinking a red Firebird VII.
I just checked eBay and Reverb and currently the prices are stupidly high. One will come along, though. It's not like they only made one of them.
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Pennsyltucky is up to 50,957 (865 new cases) with 554 new deaths since yesterday.
My little county is up 14 people since yesterday to 716 cases, the place where they had that astroturf movement Liberate PA shindig is up 43 since yesterday to 695.
Slackers!
Along with blood clots and strokes for the middle aged it also seems to be triggering all sorts of problems in children although all that appears to be preliminary findings. They first noticed the kids in England and now same deal in NYC.
That bat on a Ritz cracker sure looks good, but no, I really should watch my girlish figure. Motorcycle season is coming up, after all.
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Dauphin County is up 18 cases, York County is up 23 cases, total state is up 825 since yesterday.
I would think that is a bad thing but I'm told that it's actually quite good because we now know that more people are infected which somehow means it's better than it was.
At first glance one would think it is simply spreading like the plague.
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They should be afraid of getting it, the hospital where I was taken following my heart attack last year has been converted to cardiac/COVID-19, everything else has moved to another facility and that's a big hospital.
The CDC has a feature where you can see cases by zip code, my little town has 0, the town over had 11 last time I checked it. That doesn't sound like very many but it can spread like crazy.
Count your blessings if you're in a rural area and it hasn't hit yet.
The wife works for the local hospital system, it's a mistake to downplay the seriousness of this.
Almost time to go to work so enough pretending to be Marcus Welby, MD on some guitar forum.
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Declining daily deaths from the plague are always a welcome thing!
Those are positive tests - 50,000 is a lot of people. I suppose the numbers could be much higher, I've only got the official statistics.
Really a strange thing as you can get it and not know it all the way to get it and croak with a tube down your throat.
I'm doing my best to keep from getting it but these local bozos act like it's not even around.
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It's amazing how fast this spreads.
York County
4/3/2020 - 121
5/3/2020 - 679
PA total
4/3/2020 - 8420
5/3/2020 - 49,267
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We're still rising, of course. Up 13 cases in my county since yesterday, up 16 in the county where I work, up 2418 for the state.
It was a nice afternoon so after work I took all of the bikes out for a short spin to keep the juices flowing. I figure as long as I don't crash and wear a full face helmet with an Apple Warmer attached it should be okay. That's a piece which attaches to the base of the helmet and tucks into the jacket.
Like the rest of the planet I'll be so glad to put this behind me but it's going to be a while.
Covid19 How many in your state or country?
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