Did a mod to my grill too.

I have this exact same problem that I am working on with the help of my wife. She says:
That I no longer have a job and that causes a loss of self respect which means I no longer take myself seriously.
That I need to make a plan for what I want to accomplish each day.
That I need to FOCUS on the tasks in my plan. Not to say you can't do some other things in the process, but put a priority on not losing FOCUS on what task is being done to execute your plan.
She says this is also about taking yourself seriously and self discipline.

I know well that this isn't easy to do, and I'm not there yet - but I'm making progress.

Excellent!!!
It is really unfortunate that there are so many ignorant and extremely selfish people in our society.

That source is Al Jazzerra

These are very well made pistols, among the best. I have one that I bought used. Great acquisition.

First of all, in is unnecessarily emotional to say the government has taken away your job. In the states where we live, the government has suspended certain types of accumulations of people for specified time limits. These groupings of people, in businesses, in common areas, will ramp up slowly to test whether infection spikes occur, also at specified future times. All jobs have to be involved in this, because all jobs involve public discourse. Disease organisms are simply going about surviving, moving from host to host. The more proximate the hosts are, the better for the organism. The more disease, the more overwhelm to healthcare and public protection entities.

As we have seen in recent days, going to work puts alarmingly large amount of meat packing plant workers at risk. Because meat packers did not take steps to protect workers, now we are facing meat supply chain disruption and meat shortages, beginning perhaps as early as May. Those workers could not keep themselves safe, they are becoming sick and we are going to face a serious diminution in the supply of animal protein.

You want an easy solution to this problem, in the typical "us versus the government" simplistic style of the last 30 years, and you want to ignore the realities of a zoonotic disease that has no preventive measures in place, as yet, against it.

Neither of us can be "safe" if we don't have enough food. Having enough money to buy food by going to work is not the problem if there's nothing on shelves and in the freezers at stores to buy. Just-on-time food delivery systems that absolutely depended on each link in the chain operating in sequential harmony is the problem. The only solution we have right now, is to slow down raw numbers of infected people, in order to preserve society's ability to function--make and deliver food, keep infrastructure functioning to supply water and power to cities, have the profoundly sick and dying cared for in healthcare facilities, keep anarchy at bay. You want this problem to be kind of simple--give me my job and all will be well. this isn't just about you and your mortgage, it is about survival. It's a lot more dire right now than finding money for life's ordinary bills.

I go to Al Jazeera, DW news, Reuters, AP wire and BBC. I know what you mean, most all the U.S. news networks are heavily influenced by advertisers and politics - - and big pharma strictly controls any reporting on drug issues - They cannot be trusted. "Real News" is in my opinion, focuses on interviewing fringy "experts" and crackpots. I do enjoy and trust information in interviews with COL Larry Wilkerson (he always stays within his lane).

One issue seems to be missing in most of these posts: When someone makes a decision to return to normal, that decision doesn't just affect them, it affects everyone they come in contact with. The vast majority of people don't even know for sure that they are NOT infected. Maybe it will be a week or so until they exhibit symptoms. Some will never have symptoms but still can infect people they come in contact with. Anyone who doesn't understand that this is absolutely true of this disease isn't keeping current or isn't monitoring CREDIBLE news sources. Until widespread testing is available everywhere, on demand, it is, in my opinion, completely irresponsible to make a "risk" decision that clearly doesn't just affect you and your family.

Roe v Wade has been the law of the land in this country for over 50 years - that is a fact. Why do you folks continue to allow politicians to manipulate you over this NON-ISSUE? Military psychological operations doctrine stipulates that target audience's weaknesses, fears and vulnerabilities be identified and used to affect change. Politicians and merchandisers also use this strategy very effectively to influence people to v**e for them or to buy some item. Politicians will pander to a vulnerability such as an emotional response to "a******n" to get people to v**e for them even when their position on the true issues is not in the person's best interest. AND IT WORKS!!

Not just k**led by the v***s, but by stupidity and ignorance. I have no problem with conservatives until their stupidity and ignorance endangers my life as well as their own.

I balance it the same way you v**e to send your sons and daughters off to die in a war to enrich the wealthy.

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The only positive aspect of this situation is that the right-wing conservative sector of our society is very likely to be significantly reduced. The unfortunate part of this issue being that they will cause the deaths of those not a part of their ideology.

[quote=John_F]My wife has been making masks. She found an evaluative article. It named batik cloth as very good. The main thing was to look for high thread count and larger diameter cotton thread. If I can find the article I will post, but I am having a terrible email box problem on my iPad. Pffft.[/quote

Batik cloth would be a craft cloth for applying wax resist and dye. This fabric is available, if you want it, from Dharma Trading company. Choose the high thread count or the cotton sheeting. I would ask Dharma customer service if there is a surface treatment that would have to be washed out.

A better alternative to batik cloth is to go to Sailrite.com and purchase their mask production products. The folks at Sailrite stock a true N95 filter material, a lightweight mask material that holds up to several washings, and toggles and ribbon to make ties that tighten and stay tight. They have devised an excellent mask pattern that allows you to slip a new filter in every day if you need to, as the filter is slipped in and out of a slot in the bottom of the mask. Sailrite has stocked a truly superior pattern and materials, and they are an excellent, highly professional team to deal with. I bought 5 yds of the filter material along with the mask material and they sent it 2nd day air for the price of regular shipping.

Another thing that I would imagine there is no way to address is: What would the infection and death rate have been had there been no lockdowns or other measures most of the country has taken?