Governor Mike DeWine @GovMikeDeWine .@LtGovHusted As of today, there is still a growing need for those who can work in essential positions.
There are 40,000+ jobs on http://coronavirus.ohio.gov/jobsearch from 642 employers. These businesses all need employees to work during this difficult time that we're all trying to navigate
I know a lot of ppl in PA were relying on the Ohio border as a source for liquor
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
That is a old business here in the south. Moonshiners were running their product to customers since pre Prohibition.
It also created a demand for a faster car, so NASCAR mechanics and drivers were born. Once prohibition ended, they needed to do something with them, so why not race them?!
Ever since, millions of people have shown up to watch people racing "stock cars".
They aren't stock cars anymore except in the loosest of definitions. I think the engine blocks have to be stock as well as body form.
After that, you and I can't buy one, and if so, it wouldn't be street legal.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Yeah you could buy one. I know a guy who raced stock cars for 40 years or more. It helped that he has a lot of money, but if you want to buy one - and he is so known in racing circles down in the US south that he knew Earnhardt a little bit and has been to his garage - so make him an offer.
He has two, he’s in his 70s so stopped racing, but has a full-time driver.
That is a old business here in the south. Moonshiners were running their product to customers since pre Prohibition.
Freshman year of school, the dude in the dorm room next door was from WVA. Pitcher for the baseball team. Scholarship kid. Drove a brand new '74 Camaro. (Yeah, I know- cliche AH...) Dude's class load was so light, you could fill a down vest with it and stay warm all winter. Ricky would take off Thursday afternoon at about 3PM, and return either late Sun night or early Mon morning.
One Monday, my ragged, sleepy butt was dragging to an 8AM Music Theory class, when Ricky comes "rolling" in. I put rolling in quotes becase that car was more ass-draggin' than actually rollin'.
"Clem... come checkituot, son. You got a need? I got whatcha need..." Popped the trunk. 'Shine for days, Dawg. That trunk was packed.
Turns out, Ricky was the main supplier for about half the campus frat houses. Dude was living rent-free, going to about 6 classes/wk, and making PHAT bank on weekly runs back to the homestead.
Does anyone have a website that is reasonably well-updated for daily new CVD cases, but broken down AND charted by individual states?
I love worldometer, and it breaks down all the data, but only charts/trends for the whole US.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
That's similar to worldometers, and similarly, it gives you the data, but doesn't chart out past yesterday.
On the worldometers website they have the graph that shows The Curve, but only shows it for the US. I want to see OH's Curve.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
That's similar to worldometers, and similarly, it gives you the data, but doesn't chart out past yesterday.
On the worldometers website they have the graph that shows The Curve, but only shows it for the US. I want to see OH's Curve.
It updates as each state's Department of Health reports the data. If you want to see Ohio's curve I would probably suggest visiting the Ohio Department of Health's website. Might be your best bet.
Their model is based on new cases/day, and it is updated.
Add: just noticed it was last updated on the 5th. So not very frequently. Oh well.
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There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
We will get it wrong at least once, and that's ok... it's expected.
We've rocked it so far; we acted - to my surprise and contrary to my beliefs at the time - early enough and severely enough. At the time DeWine started it all, I said it was too little too late; I thought we were already past the pint where it mattered. I'm very happy to have been so wrong.
Opening back up IS a different game. We're deliberately letting people get back together; deliberately taking actions that will once again increase the rate of spread and will bring on a second wave.
The trick is to do it in such a way that we still don't flood the healthcare system.... we need to aim for a steady stream of patients moving through the system, but not so many as to endanger the system.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
Unfortunately today I lost my good friend and neighbor to the virus.
We moved into our house 20 years ago and he was the first person to introduce himself. He was always there with a helping hand and the neighbor that everyone needs.
He was a tough son of a gun and stubborn and as mule but had a kind soul and had a heart of gold. I am going to miss sitting in his driveway on warm summer days watching the world go by and him telling me stories from years ago and giving me fatherly advice.
Sorry to hear of your loss. May God bless and comfort those he has left behind.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
My cousin is working in the covid tents at the cleveland clinic. After listening to her descriptions of the test, I'm more afraid of the test than the virus.
States need Cobol programmers to update systems from the stimulus bill, if you know any looking for a job.
A sign things may be starting to return to normal, I got a call about my cars extended warranty today.
It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!
That is a old business here in the south. Moonshiners were running their product to customers since pre Prohibition.
Freshman year of school, the dude in the dorm room next door was from WVA. Pitcher for the baseball team. Scholarship kid. Drove a brand new '74 Camaro. (Yeah, I know- cliche AH...) Dude's class load was so light, you could fill a down vest with it and stay warm all winter. Ricky would take off Thursday afternoon at about 3PM, and return either late Sun night or early Mon morning.
One Monday, my ragged, sleepy butt was dragging to an 8AM Music Theory class, when Ricky comes "rolling" in. I put rolling in quotes becase that car was more ass-draggin' than actually rollin'.
"Clem... come checkituot, son. You got a need? I got whatcha need..." Popped the trunk. 'Shine for days, Dawg. That trunk was packed.
Turns out, Ricky was the main supplier for about half the campus frat houses. Dude was living rent-free, going to about 6 classes/wk, and making PHAT bank on weekly runs back to the homestead.
And here I thought he was just really homesick.
BMOC.....probably getting a lot of tail as well.
Those were our party days, Bubba. (Bubba just means a bit better than buddy....just so you know)
I had a 4 year pit stop in the education with Uncle Sam. Some of the girls in college just seemed too young and too maintenance needy.. I was more in to the swamp girls or divorcees. The swamp honkytonks were maybe 40- 60 miles west of Gainesville in Gilchrist or Dixie County. Those girls wanted to get out of there. Those were pretty much swamp back then.
I'd go to a party with a Daisey Duke and everybody wanted to know where I met her, and her, and, you get it. I told them don't worry about it, you don't like Country, Cajun, or Swamp music. Keep trying to play with you rocker girls. You would be board where I go. You don't want to hear fiddle's and squeeze boxes. If it's a fancy band, there will even be a steel guitar whining in the back. Sometimes the opening.
I did finally take them there, and yes, they were hooked. They even began to like country music
If you have ever seen the movie Porky's, maybe a late 70's movie, I have been to a few places that looked just like that. Out in the swamp land in the middle of nowhere. But hey, it was a good time.
I wouldn't go there today. Well, I would, but my wife would protest and make life miserable if we did. LOL
Bet hey, that is why I married her. She looks out for me.
As Johnny Cash said....I walk the line for that woman. You get the one and it isn't all that hard.
I am Married man, it is what it is.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
We will get it wrong at least once, and that's ok... it's expected.
We've rocked it so far; we acted - to my surprise and contrary to my beliefs at the time - early enough and severely enough. At the time DeWine started it all, I said it was too little too late; I thought we were already past the pint where it mattered. I'm very happy to have been so wrong.
Opening back up IS a different game. We're deliberately letting people get back together; deliberately taking actions that will once again increase the rate of spread and will bring on a second wave.
The trick is to do it in such a way that we still don't flood the healthcare system.... we need to aim for a steady stream of patients moving through the system, but not so many as to endanger the system.
Grocery stores are setting the minimum bar right now. Masks inside any public building should be mandatory. That will be tough on bars and restaurants. Plexiglass booths? Check everybodies temp? Lot's more testing.
I lost a cousin today that went to the hospital with underlying conditions and multiple symptoms of COVID-19 just a day ago. He was close to me in age and we were around each other growing up and later at family reunions but were never close. As a kid he was a thief, a liar, and a punk; I couldn't stand him. It was much later in life I learned what he and his siblings had gone through growing up and felt sorry, more understanding of why he was this way. The last several times I saw him we got along well.
He had a rough life as a kid, was abandoned by his mother just out of diapers. His dad (my uncle on my mom's side) had mental health issues and couldn't take care of him and 4 siblings by himself. He sent them to live with an old lady that had a big raggedy old farm house and farm where she took in kids in exchange for free farm labor and child support from the parents. I guess she was pretty kind to them, but it was basically an orphanage where the kids all had to work and pitch in. But when you turned 18 and the support ended she put you out.
He got himself in some kind of serious trouble at 15 and went to juvy until a month or two before his 18th birthday. She let him stay with her for three months then he was on his own and the rest of his family (Dad and Sibs) turned their backs on him. He joined the army as it was pretty much the only option he had at the time.
He spent eight years in the army and then got in some kind of trouble there that ended in a section 8 discharge. It must have been honorable though because he was in and out of the VA hospital and lived in VA housing for a while. And around this time he made amends with his Dad and siblings to the point they were at least talking to him again. After his time at the VA he moved to a small town in West Virginia where he got employment working the fields in a big farming outfit. I guess that led to some migrant farming years where he followed crops around the country.
Somewhere along the line he met a woman and got married and had a daughter. And he had went from laborer to foreman to running his own sharecropping outfit with employees... Mind you this work pays very little, but he managed scape together enough down payment to buy a small farm in West Virginia where he raised beans, tomatoes, melons, and a few other crops. When the economy crashed in 08, he couldn't afford his hired help and it looked like he would lose everything. His wife left him with their teen daughter and took off with another woman. He somehow worked that farm on his own for a few years and managed to hang on while raising his kid alone.
Fast forward to a few months ago when he called my mom (as he did every 3-4 months) and he was very happy that this was the year he would finally have his farm paid off. He and his daughter had a falling out so she hadn't spoken to him in over a year and wouldn't let him see his 4 grandkids. He was looking forward to spring and getting his crops in the ground. That is all I've known about him since he was a kid...
This morning a doctor or nurse held a phone to his face so his dad could say goodbye. The hospital had contacted his sister who called his dad because they wanted to know what his resuscitation wishes were. He came in with a blood pressure issue and problems breathing and the hospital linked them to a pre-existing heart problem. He was never tested for the virus. Over several hours he worsened showing low grade fever, more difficulty breathing and is O2 and blood pressure started dropping. By the time the phone reached his face, my uncle told my mom that he could hear him taking his last breath. He was not coded, no attempt made to resuscitate, and the doctor called his time of death as per his father's wishes. He died alone. He was 57 or 58, I'm not sure which. We don't know if anyone even knows how to contact his daughter, my mother is the only one in the family that ever laid eyes on her (years ago when she was a kid), and we assume she probably doesn't know how to contact any of us. None of his family has any money. His farm will probably go to the bank and I doubt anybody will claim his body. I thought he at least deserved to have his story told.
Please don't send me condolences as I barely knew him and don't feel a personal sense of loss, but you can send condolences, wishes or prayers his way if you would like. I just posted to tell his story.
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