Holy cow Tazer - 1,000 a month???? I pay more in taxes every 2 weeks than that and I'm a bot. You must not live in Cali - btw your older than dirt to -






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On Mar 3, 2020, 9:03 AM, Razer < g2s@riseup.net> wrote:



On 3/2/20 11:03 PM, jim bell wrote:
The bad news is that I live in the state, Washington, that so far has had 6 COVID-19 deaths.  The ONLY COVID-19 deaths in the entire US!!!

The good news is that I live in Vancouver, Washington, kinda-sorta the 'ass end' of Washington, about 160 miles south of where the main COVID action is.

The bad news is that a few days ago, I visited a friend temporarily in a care home very near Seattle (NOT the one that made the news over the last 2-3 days, connected to 5 of the 6 deaths.)  This friend has numerous ailments, but generally dating from long before COVID existed.  

More bad news is that 5 days after I left, he got very ill with vomiting, and had to go to a hospital.  He thinks it's conceivable he got this COVID-19, although I don't think he has been tested for that.   Yet.  He is also fairly close to the Chinese community in Seattle, which is about 4.5% of the population there.  

More bad news is that I hear that especially hard-hit are old men.   In little more than 1 month, I turn 62.

More bad news is that people with diabetes are hit harder.  I have diabetes.

So, anyone want to take bets on whether I fall ill in the next 2-3 weeks?

               Jim Bell



I'm older than you by half-a-decade. Had the flu for Xmas (Just like the CSN&Y song). Smoke. Live houseless, on a thousand dollars a month, therefore not getting the best nutrition or a place to bed down and rest/recuperate all day, and yet after four days of mid-grade fever and chills, and a few more with a phlemy cough, I'm very much alive.

Don't let your own fears snuff you.

Rr