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03/18/20 07:59 AM #17699    

 

Lowell Tuttle

David, he was 97

Tested, but results came back after he passed.

Good luck and blessings to his healthcare attendants, as well as the janitorial staff, laundry workers, and others who came into close proximity.

I would assume he had the virus unbenownst to those

This is a corrected edited post.


03/18/20 08:29 AM #17700    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Lowell, David,

Was this man in Texas? 

I am deeply concerned about Texas.  They are slow to test and report the results of the tests.  Right now Johns Hopkins reports 131 confirmed cases in Texas (click on the Texas Map to get specifics.  Texas reports 64 cases per Texas Health and Human Services.

Texas has not tested enough, not near enough.  We have no idea where the worst cases are.  Texas does not have uniform guildelines to mitigate spread.  There were spring break idiots all over Padre Island, with no regard to disease and spread.  What is Texas doing to stop this??? 


03/18/20 10:51 AM #17701    

 

Steve Keene

Sandra,

I saw a report that Covid-19 virus lasts for days on or in facial hair like beards.  Probably in pony tails, too.  Royce is safe, but Tommy is high risk.  Looks like a case that we need to be both fit and trimmed.


03/18/20 10:55 AM #17702    

 

David Cordell

Steve, based on your post, I will continue to shave. If my hairline is considered, I am less and less infectious as the days go by.

Sandra, it was Matagorda County, Texas. Martha is from Bay City, the county seat.


03/18/20 07:28 PM #17703    

 

Ron Knight

Coronavirus Hoarding And It's Effects;

I don't know if any of you are experiencing this or not, but we are having major runs on basic essentials; ie bread, toilet paper, etc...  here in Asheville, NC. My son has taken pictures of several grocery store's shelves that are EMPTY of much of everything. He is VERY alarmed. I have not been so much, BUT I think that the US Government MUST step in and implement a plan such as we had to do with gas rationing in our lifetime. There is no bread on the shelves out here and that SHOULD be alarming to State and US Officials. ANY company or individual that is caught hoarding and/or price munipulating should be punished to the maximum extent of the law!

There needs to be calmness related to our nation's people and NOT panic. There needs to be consideration of others and NOT selfeshness to help us make it through these next few months. I understand that this pandemic is wreaking havoc on our personal lives and the Nation's economy. Companies are temporarily shutting down. Smaller companies are laying off employees. There is going to be an avalanche of crushing financial hardships to those that can least afford it.

Will our Government step up and offer to OUR own country financial help as we have given so generously to other third world countries for our own people in need?

Perhaps the Coronavirus pandemic will shape our future election and tell who our REAL politicans are who care for our people and our country!!

I pray for guidance, how about you?

 


03/18/20 11:06 PM #17704    

 

David Cordell

Ron,

Don't worry about bread.

 

 


03/19/20 08:23 AM #17705    

 

Ron Knight

David

Thanks for putting my mind at ease, I'll pass on the picture to my son. I'm sure he'll find comfort in the bread on the shelves, too!


03/19/20 10:52 AM #17706    

 

Steve Keene

Ron

Try the shell station.  You can put the bread on your shell card.  Looks like melons are also available.

 


03/19/20 11:47 AM #17707    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Lunch time.or

PB&J  

My Galveston friend, Randy, instructs.  Peanut butter smooth on the two sides of bread and Plum jelly spread inbetween.  Cut... (edit)  my bread is what I hae Honey Wheatburry.

Need a PBJ side...

thinks slice of Vermont white cheddar...

And, a red zero gatorade...

I am good.

Grocery shopping tomoorow...7-8   Food town seniors only at that time...

Only problem is the slow isle traffic.


03/19/20 12:44 PM #17708    

 

David Cordell

Lowell,

The key to a great peanut butter sandwich is a healthy layer of real butter.

Your bread choice sounds good. I used to think it heresy to use any bread that wasn't white, but I have adapted to various brown breads. I prefer crunchy peanut butter. Honey or any jelly rounds out the delicacy.

Of course, peanut butter apples are great (better than peanut butter bananas, as discussed here earlier), and I commonly dip a tablespoon in a peanut butter jar, extract a large blob, and treat like a popcicle.


03/19/20 04:53 PM #17709    

 

Ron Knight

Steve, David, Lowell and Lance

It's great when we can all come together on an issue such as COVID19.

And thanks Lowell for the PBJ sandwich advice. I went to a  Wal Mart today and found bread - a sea of white bread- and bought a loaf. I nomally buy wheat, but hey! I haven't had white bread since I was a kid. It'll make me want to have an old fashioned PBJ like I had at Heights!! The manager at that Walmart had big signs all down the bread isle to limit your bread purchase to one loaf per person. I wish he had done the same on TP and paper towels! The racks were empty!

I'm kinda with you David on the peanut butter lollipop spoon of peanut butter.

Steve I've not thought about the Shell Station. Next time I fill up I'll check it out.

And Lance, that is some very encouraging words about the virus. I too, think everyone is maybe overreacting by their hoarding efforts. I think all should just take a deep breath and CHILL!! We'll get through this.

Did everyone see that an exec with Valero Energy (VOL stock symbol) just bought $2.1 M worth of stock? The stock is just under $50 a share. I'm ready to jump in on a little more and ride with it. I'll follow Lance's lead on this one. It's always a comfortable feeling when a major insider steps up and believes in his company. The stock was trading a little over $100 per share not long ago, so I think it is a value at under $50. AND I will add my disclaimer; everyone do their own research on Valero. There are stronger financials on other similar stocks, but I just have a long family history with this company and trust and believe in them.

A down (Bear) market is a great time to find values in the market. Blue chips are great for our age with minimum risk and excellent rebound potential. Who says there is not legalized gambling in the entire US - just look at Wall Street??? !!!


03/19/20 04:58 PM #17710    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

The big blob of peanut butter on a large serving spoon is a delicacy I've enjoyed for decades!  The only thing that is a downer is that after I polish off the first blob, I want to go get another.  Of course I try not to be a "double-dipper," so I retrieve a clean spoon from the kitchen drawer. 

Aren't I considerate?  (Ha!)

I'll have to admit that in my younger days I wasn't always that way....... Thank goodness we didn't have Covid-19 back then.

I'll have to answer for that, I'm sure, at the "Pearly Gates!" 


03/19/20 10:08 PM #17711    

 

David Cordell

Janalu,

I can double-dip in my crunchy Peter Pan at will. My wife isn't a fan of peanut butter, and the dog prefers creamy.


03/20/20 01:11 AM #17712    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Man!  You've got the perfect life!

 

 

Do you remember those big peanut butter cookies we used to get sometimes on the Heights school lunch tray?

They were pretty tasty, and they usually had about three peanuts in them, as a special treat for us crumb-crunchers!  Those lunchroom ladies knew how to make us grin snaggle-toothed grins of delight!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


03/20/20 08:56 AM #17713    

 

Steve Keene

Janalu

The oil companies came back big time yesterday, but I expect some more volatility.  Some great investment advice is to invest in natural gas pipelines.  They have been beaten down as if they are oil companies, but they are not affected by price because they get paid on a spread for a profit.  These companies are essentially utilities that pay 9 to 15% dividends at these prices.  Even the environmental wacko crowd likes natural gas.

My favorites are as follows:

Oneok

Enterprise Products Partners

Enbridge

Kinder Morgan

Williams Companies Inc.

Hershey and Travelers Insurance are also very good buy at the current price.  My great grandfather reached into his waistcoat and gave me a Hershey bar when I was five and I have been buying them ever since.  Travelers always makes a profit after stealing mineral rights for a hundred years and recouping any losses in next years' actuary tables.  

P.S.:  I don't have Covid-19, but I do have a bad case of lethologica.  In fact, I can't believe I remembered this word.

 


03/20/20 11:32 AM #17714    

 

David Cordell

Clever, Steve. I didn't remember that word, or maybe I am suffering from neverknewititis.


03/20/20 03:25 PM #17715    

 

David Cordell

I've seen this in several sources. (Sandra, I couldn't find anything on Snopes!)

 

The 16th-century theologian Martin Luther had this to say during the bubonic plague, offering his thoughts in a letter titled "Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague" on how best to practically and spiritually overcome:

You ought to think this way: "Very well, by God's decree, the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore, I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person, but will go freely."


03/21/20 01:18 AM #17716    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Steve,

Those offerings look good!   Thanks for telling us about them.

I'll have to run those by Charles, to see if he will look into them.

 

On another note, I don't see why the US can't use those drugs that have been seen to have good outcomes in other countries battling Covid-19.  I understand that our Food and Drug Admin. usually puts new drug discoveries through extensive, controlled testing processes, but at a time like we now have, seems like we should waive those usual processes and just "go with it," to save lives, especially for the older folks.  I would think a hospital could have a patient or a patient's family members sign waivers, indicating that "we want to have our family member given any drug that can help save his life, and we waive our right to sue at a later date."  

In other words, "Give us the opportunity to save our victim, even if our loved one develops some side effect that we can possibly tackle at a later date!"


03/21/20 01:43 AM #17717    

 

Steve Keene

Yes 

Janalu,

I agree that all health issues should be a family decision except where needed to protect the innocent.

 

Did you hear how Joe Biden is planning to pick a woman running mate?

Scratch and sniff.

 


03/21/20 10:19 AM #17718    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Predictions and scenarios and most important, questions. Can your county in Texas, (or any other state you live in) handle it if we don't take extreme measures to control this virus? Does your local hospital have enough beds to handle 17% of the infected who will likely become critical? Read the article. Look at the graphs. Be informed. Toilet paper is the LEAST of our issues. 

What Overwhelming Our Health Care System Really Looks Like.  Predictions and Scenarios


03/21/20 11:50 AM #17719    

 

David Cordell

 

 

On my walk this morning....

 


03/21/20 12:28 PM #17720    

 

Ron Knight

Kenny Rogers' Passing

He started out in rock with his band The 1st Edition and had a hit with "Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In" in the late 1960's before making the later changeover to Country in the 1970's. One of my favorites was the duo with Dolly Parton;" Islands In The Stream" written by The Bee Gees.

For a good ole boy from Crockett, Tx, he did pretty good for himself. He was 81.


03/21/20 11:30 PM #17721    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Tip!

To avoid using so much toilet tissue, spray Pam between the cheeks and the poop won't stick!

Don't ask how I know that!


03/22/20 12:06 AM #17722    

 

Steve Keene

Janalu,

Takeout from Taco Bell has the same effect.  If you eat it with fire sauce, it warms your bottom at the same time.


03/22/20 08:23 AM #17723    

 

Lowell Tuttle

I have a friend whose second electric razor accomplishes the same thing.


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