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New Hampshire gets an asterisk...no income tax!

I feel you. I am a country boy living in the big apple zone, but I keep one foot up north all winter. Unfortunately for you a record winter up north is incoming while we get hit with 33 and rain down here. It’s just how it is. It’s the only circumstance where weather prognostication is 100% accurate. Buying a new snowmobile or snowblower are good predictors of a bad winter.

Welp...decided to go get the antibody test for the family Sunday. Took 1 hr to get an appointment at a local urgent care which surprised me. I thought tests were in short supply. Nope. Place was empty. No questions asked either. No copay. Results come back ...my 14 YO came up with the anti body. My wife and I did not. Weird. So we went back and got the swab test to see if we an active infection. No red alert symptoms or anything, maybe tired and allergy type stuff if anything. Will report back. My son lost taste for a few weeks but no other symptoms. If you get the nose swab..it sucks. I do know 2 other families where 1 person positive with the infection, and NO one else tested positive for the infection or anti bodies. Jives with what’s happening in my house, but doesn’t jive with what I hear from news and what I should expect. Weird.

Right except for the part where it cuts.

Through all of this cold, my lawn looks great. Noted some leaves in a nearby woods have slightly curled up because of the cold and snow last week, but no other signs on the greenery, at least here in mid Westchester.

I was thinking about big temp swings. I know we have had some in the few years, but mainly in winter., but like 60 degree swings in a couple of days.

DC lost their autonomy I think during Marion Berry’s reign. Congress took away their ability to govern themselves, iirc.

I read California has a rainy day fund. Or had one anyway... which would be amazing if true.

I figured CT and Illinois are actually close to defaulting.

I am sitting on the fence about how I feel about the lockdown. It’s extreme but I don’t k now what else to do. This patient hasn’t generated expected income for many years. Somehow it got worse in the last 4.

Cuomo can’t figure out how to fund the state in normal times, and doesn’t know why we keep missing revenue targets. He said it plainly. He is doing great on the virus response. His budget skills are atrocious. One of the worst in the US. Maybe CT and IL are worse?

Remember we had a white thanksgiving in many areas. Iirc a couple recent November’s have been cold.

Winter of ‘78 was a good one...just saying...

Dudes. This is nuts

Confirm SN+ here in Westchester.

So true. Watch the season and playoffs get shortened, but the bills win the Super Bowl...with an asterisk...

China is the number one consumer of all that science you speak of. They steal it. We haven’t done anything in 20 years to stop it either. Until huewai.

Not going to go too far into this...yes farmers took a hit. No bueno. The point of the tariffs was in part to send the message to China we can stop feeding them anytime. Australia was recently threatened economically by China, and they may come to the same conclusion that the US did, and stop feeding China as well. Neither country wants to be bullied by China China cannot feed itself. Of all the threats to China, this is near the top. They need food imports. If China is perceived and understood to be materially reckless with the virus by the western world, and they decide to sanction and choke China, they can. The implications are huge.

I can get one at my local walk in clinic with a questionnaire. I check a lot of boxes due to my travel. I may go and see.

. we saw this a couple of years ago. February had warmer highs than much of May (up to mid month anyway - cant recall dates) at my station. i think it was 2017 we hit like 78 or something in the February blow torch and then spring was awful.

absolutely possible. The Italians got it from Chinese expats coming to Italy to their second homes in Lombardi. there's thousands of them.

Yeah we are all going to get it until the point where the virus runs out of vectors, or we get a vaccine. Herd immunity might obviate that I suppose. Whichever comes first. Same difference though, but a faster vaccine esp. for those at risk is the better outcome. and unless you are high risk, you won’t get vaccinated in the first instance. Healthy low risk will get the illness before they get a vaccine if i had to bet. PS I am pretty sure I had this already. I was in China a day before lockdown and live near and work in NYC. No symptoms but my kid did, lost taste.

Good reasons to think about this. The cdc instructed that anyone who tests positive with corona virus and then dies, the cause of death is corona virus. Which is odd. An asymptomatic person can “die of covid” even though they had a heart attack? I read an article which I cannot now find where a number of doctors wondered where the heart attack and stroke victims they normally see in ERs went. They said they thought these victims must have stayed home and died there instead because they didn’t want the virus to infect them at the hospital. I need to find the article because maybe the doctors were looking at statistics and noticed causes of death from the normal, more common factors were down. The numbers are messy I’m sorry. It’s a lethal illness no doubt, but there seem to be questions abound.