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"Normally" this is the case around Times Square!

Practice medicine here.  Currently deployed to the ICU at my hospital.  It's a war zone.  Indescribable.  Please follow Eastern Virginia Medical School guidelines for prophylaxis.  Vitamin C 1000mg daily.  (Prefer Ester Vitamin C).  Vitamin D3 1k-4k IU daily.  Zinc 50 mg daily.  Plaquenil and Z-pack is not at all a panacea.  Will see if Remdesivir holds some promise.    We are trying not to put people on ventilators.  If patients end up on the ventilator, the mortality rate is 70 to 80%.  Our hospital numbers finally dropped from yesterday to today by 3 patients.  Hang on tight, it's gonna be a bumpy ride. 

Ok but what will those numbers look like if nothing was done?

bonjour gt rider !!!
 
great thx...glad if my pics can help for inspiration ....can give some ideas to take some !!!
all great pics.....i thought first one was not too far from clubhouse on the old tq 5......there was a lot of maple trees there...
like your pics , because there s a lot of '' horizon ''.......only  way for me to have horizon ...its to climb on top mountains....no big lakes around my camp ...hard to take pics where i can see far away ...
i wanted to go on logging road late this afternoon to take a few pics of mt logan... ....i won t take the risk ....too many clouds ...don t want to do 60-70 miles if light is not that nice !!!
thx for sharing your pics !!!
fyi , my neighbor was using his snowblower yesterday to clean his back yard.....still snow in my street for more than a week ....
 
mt logan....back in late december !!!
the antennas you see on top ...for cbc in french...and there s also  a shack for cross country skiers
 
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Longer version:
Captain Trump of the RMS Titanic:
There isn't any iceberg.
There was an iceberg but it's in a totally different ocean.
The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon.
There is an iceberg but we didn't hit the iceberg.
We hit the iceberg, but the damage will be repaired very shortly.
The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg.
We are taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get a lifeboat, and they are beautiful lifeboats. Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them.
We don't have any lifeboats, we're not lifeboat distributors.
Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats.
I really don't think we need that many lifeboats.
We have lifeboats and they're supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers' lifeboats.
The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship.
Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.

Oh the irony here.....yes Biden is not as sharp as he used to be, but he is way smarter than Trump.  Trump is really not a smart man (he's not stupid, just not as smart as he thinks he is), psychology proves this with hundred of examples, literally hundreds.  But here are just a few:
his constant use of the phrase "many people don't know this...." - because you're so smart - just state what you wanted to state, you don't have to say that people don't know what you are about to say
low emotional IQ by attacking the press - just freaking answer the question and stop saying "it's a nasty question" and "you'll never make it"
I literally could keep going for an hour, but I'm not here to list out all the traits that show Trump is not as smart as he thinks, just thought the irony with the funny Biden memes was worth mentioning.  And, yes, I get that they are funny, I laughed.  But way more Trump content to laugh at.

 

Thanks guys.  Since there isn't much else to do right now I will continue to share.  Maybe we can get @scorpionbowl to share his recent sunrise pic?
Here's one of Island Pond, VT from early March as a snow shower moved through.

From a Canadian point of view and as the state of this pandemic changes, I don’t see why rushing to opening the border to the general public is so important other than providing a false sense of normalcy. After all the commercial traffic is passing and has all through this. Most of the tourist attractions, festivals, Grand Prix, concerts, and the list goes on are cancelled in Canada and at the moment hotel and motels are closed. Further to this many parts of Quebec are off limits to people in other regions to limit the spread as some of the small communities have little to no cases. I live in one of those communities and can not travel far due to restrictions. 
So, I have two questions for you guys since you are mostly Americans, what you all going to do up here if they open the borders up anytime soon? And looking at the  covid 19 figures below of the US versus Canada would you be anxious if you we’re Canadian or a Canadian politician to open up too early? 

Fake News

For the most part its the people who want to put money above human lives who are bitching the most. Yes there's a lot of average people being hurt and would like to get back to work. I think most understand the situation. Lamb forgets that we are doing this so the rate is not spiking and significantly more numbers dying. Yes I don;t like this as much as anyone else but like a lot of things in life put your time in and you will get rewarded. Hold the line folks.
Trump lost about a billion i understand.   

For the most part its the people who want to put money above human lives who are bitching the most. Yes there's a lot of average people being hurt and would like to get back to work. I think most understand the situation. Lamb forgets that we are doing this so the rate is not spiking and significantly more numbers dying. Yes I don;t like this as much as anyone else but like a lot of things in life put your time in and you will get rewarded. Hold the line folks.
Trump lost about a billion i understand.   

Snowfarmer did not write the above op ed, Brad Lamb did. Lamb, a millionaire,  is obviously worried about losing his millions if businesses are not re opened. He thinks there is a chance most people have been infected and are now safe to go back to work. His main theme is to ask why the gov't hasn't tested everybody. Maybe he hasn't heard there isn't enough testing equipment. Maybe he needs to volunteer at a hospital and see how hard the doctors and nurses are working, and he needs to know that 20% of the C-19 cases are health care workers.

10-4 Mike! Got the context! No worries between honest countries. Totally smart to flatten the curve for now. And not give "extra" work to the front-line caregiver heroes. 
On a lighter note!...
It's finally flip-flop season!

I’m been trying to be optimistic but I’m been thinking about the economy and physical health of people of both countries and I don’t worry has much about the R word anymore as I do as the D word - Depression. I’m not talking watching news for sensationalism either. It’s just common sense. A lot of people are out of work .
It’s going to take testing , and tracing and self distancing and a vaccine to get this all under control and we don’t know how long this is going to take but it needs to be done!
The scary reality is none of us has ever lived through a time like this . We have never seen unemployment like this! We’ve never seen across the board businesses shut downs like this . Unfortunately our countries though both have manufacturing are big service related industry countries. We like our standard of living and in order to do that we have all become use to buying foreign made products. It’s going to take a while to get our economy up and going again (I really hope not) but people are going to be scared for a while to walk back in to restaurants, stores and such. Fly on an plane! (95% of all flights are grounded , unheard of) . I’m glad to see what the governments have done has far as aid ( loans , deferrals , grants , one time payments)is concerned . Still bills have to be paid ( I still had to pay my hydro and propane bill yesterday they didn’t stop coming) mortgages , car payments . We know people are going to be slow to pay in our business because the industry that pays them to pay us is shut down. I was hoping for that V recovery. Now they are talking a U shaped recovery .I just hope that all of us and our families are safe and sound and can come out of this in the best shape that we can.
 

Ya I couldn't care less about the magic but those chicks, I mean ladies soldiers are quite something!  I certainly couldn't shoot them, Interrogate absolutely.

Ya I couldn't care less about the magic but those chicks, I mean ladies soldiers are quite something!  I certainly couldn't shoot them, Interrogate absolutely.

Like Groomer, I've been taking pics when the conditions are good.
 

 

I bet the driver of that truck had a mud slide when he saw that in front of him.😰

I'n not sure I would call it compensation yet. It appears to be more of tax deferral and interest free loans for a period of time.
Changes daily so we'll see. I hope as many will need help. That being said our kids will e paying this forever.

I'n not sure I would call it compensation yet. It appears to be more of tax deferral and interest free loans for a period of time.
Changes daily so we'll see. I hope as many will need help. That being said our kids will e paying this forever.

YAMAHA  is an acronym for: You And Me Are Haulin Ass!

Been spending time teaching the kids to behave and get along.  Josie and Otis been doing pretty good. George not so much.

Not near as exciting here for sure. Self isolating at my cabin sipping beer, bbq'ing and watching the ice melt in the lake. 

Happy Birthday JG, enjoy it. It certainly will be a year you will remember!

This may sound crazy but last fall my youngest son came home from NC and was sick with the flu. Any way the stuff he had went through the family that he was around.  They deer hunted and I worked and was not around him. In the end of December my brother was sick with a fever and was weak for all of January.  End of January, just before I had plans to go to Quebec I came down with something.  I started on Saturday morning coughing so hard I couldn't breathe.  Went to urgent care on Sunday morning and was tested for the flu. It came back that I didn't have the flu. The doctor said no flu but maybe bronchitis.  He gave me meds for ten days and pills for the cough for 10 days. I get bronchitis and the cough stays with me for weeks always. I was over the cough in 4 or 5 days. A week later my wife came down with a fever and it lasted 3 or 4 days. After all this stuff we were both weak for 3 weeks.  There is several people in the area believe they were sick with something like they never had before.  What I would like is to see a test to see if a person has already had this shit and didn't even know it.  Again I may be crazy but I honestly think we were sick with this virus.  Be safe all and keep your spirits high.