TauntonBlizzard2013

https://www.google.com/amp/s/whdh.com/news/gov-baker-massachusetts-indoor-mask-mandate-remains-in-place-for-now/amp/ he is who we thought he was

If you keep regularly testing people, you’ll find positives. Stop the testing of vaccinated people, it’s counterproductive.

Any of the science folks want to explain the Yankees situation? Having 9 breakthrough infections on the same team seems like lotto odds. Also, Torres had covid in December, got vaccine, now positive again?

I just took a pic of mine... they told me not to Laminate it in case of boosters etc etc

I ended up getting a few different Rhododendrons to put there. We kind of pivoted a bit on what the space behind the plants will be, so we got something that is a little bigger and will grow faster.

Crickets from Chuck baker so far. Beat to the punch by Janet mills

Mass is going to be very hesitant to move up that 8/1 date and ditch the masks. You can take that straight to the bank

Looks pretty seasonal for the next 10 days or more anyway. Summer in May FTL

Yeah... what’s up with the Yankees having like 7 breakthrough infections? Should they play the lotto?

Yessir, right in the middle. I’ll report back on anything I find or see

Interesting, thanks. Nothing behind my house other than thousands of acres of hockomock swamp, so if they are down here, I’ll eventual see them.

Do black bears venture this far south? My wife saw on Facebook that a large black bear was spotted in the holiday inn parking lot in taunton

My wife and I are about to finish up modern family. Sneaky funny show. We watch it while we eat dinner usually, a very millennial thing of us to do to watch tv at the dinner table. Boomers shaking in their boots, clutching their pearls.

Massachusetts will be last, you can take that to the bank. Baker will not budge on August first, even if he says he would reconsider with better data.

Actually yes. I pulled them out and returned them earlier this week. There was no sign of new growth or recovery on any of the plants. Strange to say the least. If there were any positive signs I was going to let them be. I figured after some warmth and rain they’d do something.

Bakers August 1st for full reopening seems laughably far away given with is going on elsewhere in New England

The days of dad working as a milkman for your local farm for 40 years are over. People stayed loyal to places because they were treated right. There isn’t much advancement anymore because one you advance, the employer cuts your ass in favor of a cheaper option. Job loyalty is the most laughable overrated sentiment in the American job market. The second a place can get rid of you or find a cheaper option, you’re out the door. Climbing the ladder at places is all good and well, except now, unlike 50 years ago, when you get to the top, they yank the feet of the ladder out and you come tumbling down on your neck.

Doesn’t it say a lot that $300 bucks a week is so good to some, they would rather stay home? That is an indictment on the wage a lot of places pay. I understand it’s a nuanced discussion, but I don’t really have all that much sympathy for businesses that don’t have people banging down their doors to work undesirable shifts for $10 an hour.

I have a few buddies in the trades field and I kick myself everyday that I didn’t go that route. They make money hand over fist. Now that I’m married and have a mortgage, a dog, etc etc... it woulD be incredibly difficult if not impossible to go back to learn a trade

I was in high school during the height of the “you need to go to college push” around 2010 ( my first year of college was 2012). Another factor was I was going to be a first generation college student in my family. It was unfathomable to my parents and people around me that I wouldn’t be going to college. A decade later, and it was the wrong choice, and I have no problem admitting it. My degree is worthless as far as I’m concerned, and I missed the boat on a trade when I could have actually done it. A decade later, my parents even admit, other options could have been explored. At that time though, like I said, it was unfathomable that someone with good grades and college prospects would do anything other than go to college.

Seems like you can’t really lose though.... talking fractions ultimately

Also, I’ll say this too, clamoring for everyone to get the vaccine to get back to normal, and then the best you can do as far as updated guidance is to tell people who can adequately distance outside that they don’t need masks, some of the time. That is a horrendous message to send to people on the fence about getting it.

I also love when people go... but there are tons of jobs out there!!!!! Yeah, garbage ones that pay nothing. Smoke and mirrors job market.

So as I’ve mentioned before, my heat and central air are all on one zone for our whole house (2700 square feet, 2 floors). We kicked the tires on adding another zone, and given the current layout, we are talking big big money. I bought a window unit to go in our bedroom so we don’t have to work the system to hard, it’ll give us a nice cool sleeping room. We can tolerate it a bit warmer elsewhere.

Further up and in?