I saw that on Maddow tonight since my last post and it made me smile.

My bet is on Pelosi. She's tough as nails, she's on the side of the people, and she's angry. Never count her out.

You make a good point.

The human body is an amazing machine, and we humans are good at toodling along while ignoring the little health annoyances until they become big ones that really slow us down.

I had a clammy low grade fever, what seemed like allergy^2: stingy eyes, stuffy sinuses and a very runny nose, minor localized aches, headache and fatigue. The word malaise was being used a lot at the time and it fit what I was going through for about three or four days. No idea what my fever was as the battery in my electronic thermometer was dead and fever was gone by the time I got an old fashioned analog replacement by mail. Shortness of breath showed up at about the same time and has not been overwhelming, but hasn't gone away. Former smoker, so my wind isn't the best anyway but...



Small yard but I am starting a garden also - I should look for a DU garden forum for advice, because I am going to need it! Good luck on your planting.

That's what is so scary about this virus.

Healthy people are fine one moment, and then they aren't. It's devastating. I have been home two weeks solid and I'm starting to go stir crazy, but there is no way I want to get this thing if I have managed to avoid it so far.

I had a mild 'something' about the time I decided to stay home for good, and because I don't know what it was I am terrified of potentially passing it on to someone else. Trying to convince the rest of my family (not living with me) to stay home has been nuts.

I feel so sorry for Buchanan's family, and for all of the others who have lost loved ones or who have loved ones working in the medical field.

The man has no shame at all. None. Good link, stillcool.

This is what happens when leadership has a plan to address the needs of the people,

then gathers competent resources to enact the plan. Instead of denial and whining, pointing fingers, self aggrandizing, undercutting, hoarding, withholding, outbidding, and sowing general chaos for lulz, here's a responsible government leader getting the job done.

What a concept.

Agreed. It's precisely because they're white that they are not called terrorists.

I am white also, btw. My point is, the racism doesn't stop with the terrorists; it's so endemic and systemic in US society that it usually does not occur to news media to call them what they really are. Government, Republican admins in particular, simply do not want to do so for obvious reasons.

Recycling *and* finding a way around the tangerine tyrant's supply bottleneck: win/win! nt

No, I think she should pay for all of it.

"You break it, you bought it."

There should be as many charges as possible leveled at people who do this: public nuisance, public health danger, vandalism, and on and on. She's not the first to intentionally contaminate food this way. Heavy consequences might make the next sociopath in line think twice about it.

Thanks for posting this. It's all too easy to focus on the scary bits and miss the good news.

It's going to get worse in the US before it gets better, but it will get better. People are working on the problem and making headway in spite of the tangerine toddler. It's a balancing act keeping up with the news without getting overwhelmed, and it's important to look for the little patches of blue sky from time to time.

Should anyone really be thinking in terms of divide and conquer right now?

What's the difference between red state governments letting their constituents down and people from other states thinking that the federal government should let them down? ...because red states just deserve it, ya know.

Just in case it matters, and morally it really doesn't: there are thousands and even hundreds of thousands of Democrats living in those states. People are people. Right now, making up little dividing lines of who is on the good team and who is on the bad team only applies to those running the game. There's plenty of justified anger and frustration we can be aiming at trump* and his cronies without turning on our fellow citizens.

When we are all going down in the Titanic together, is labeling the deck chairs 'Us' and 'Them' such a useful way to pass time?