Q about Corona PSA

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Saturday March 28, 2020 · 12:51 AM PDT

2020/03/28 · 00:51

There are several (?) items going around dK and teh TV-machine about how to keep a low-grade case of 19 AT HOME.

The gist is to assign a bedroom or other separable space to the ill person where they can stay away from other family members, assign one of the other family members to assist the sick member, and dedicate a bathroom to the sick person so other family members are not exposed to their corona germs.

There’s a problem with these PSA’s!!!

I have yet to see one that isn’t narrated by a (presumably very well-paid) medical doctor or media reporter, and ALL of the ones I’ve seen appear to assume a giant new house! One with multiple spare rooms and multiple bathrooms !!!!

My 3-person family lives in a ONE-BATH, TWO BEDROOM 1950’s mini-ranch. We have a living room, a kitchen/dinette, ONE bathroom and 2 bedrooms.

Short of clearing out part of the garage I cannot conceive of where all these extra, private spaces are supposed to come from! Let alone pulling a whole 2d bathroom out of my ear!

I’d really like to know if the giant brains at PSA-central have any suggestions for this problem. I’m sure we are not the only middle class family with a shortage of space.

Thanks!

Civic Stadium, Eugene, burns this afternoon

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Monday June 29, 2015 · 6:57 PM PDT

2015/06/29 · 18:57

For anyone who's ever lived Eugene, or attended the UofO in the last 60+ years, sad news today.

After years of activism to save our WPA-constructed wooden grandstand, Civic Stadium, fire was reported at 5.26pm Monday afternoon. All 3 local TV stations are carrying live feed, social media are also "ablaze"! It's about 6.30 now and the structure is completely gone.

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Wednesday October 22, 2014 · 11:09 PM PDT

2014/10/22 · 23:09

Rachel mentioned this as we were watching around 10pm PDT, but I haven't seen anything else here... around 7.15 pm Washington time, 23yo Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, jumped the fence at the White House, North Lawn. According to various reports, he only made about 20 yards progress before he was intercepted by two Secret Service guard dogs. He is reported to have been unarmed (AP), but the President was at home, in the White House at the time.

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Wednesday August 13, 2014 · 2:15 PM PDT

2014/08/13 · 14:15

I guess the site's advertising income can come from anywhere???

I don't usually see the ads, but had to log out/in for a fix just now, and saw that awful "tell JM to pay attention to Oregon families" thing! I saw it a couple of days ago over at HuffPo or someplace, but wouldn't have expected it here!

... well, it's in the rotating-Google-ads space at the upper right, so you may or may not see it, and I guess from that source it's less control-able what content will show up...

Mojo Friday - Robbing Infrastructure Budgets to Pay for Ooh-Shinys - Edition

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Friday July 26, 2013 · 7:30 AM PDT

2013/07/26 · 07:30

Streets in my town are beginning to recover from a period of neglect in recent decades, when various local pols artfully manipulated budgets in order to fund projects they couldn't con the voters into paying for. To a large degree by "re-arranging" funds from street maintenance coffers.

Granted, "street money" is complicated. It comes from many different sources; it may or may not be specifically designated for individual projects, or for general application; it may have originated in budgets many years previous. This level of complication makes it very hard for the average citizen to follow. You get a lot of "why the heck are they re-paving that brand new giant boulevard that they only put in 5 years ago, when the street in front of my house, or business, or my kid's school, is almost impassable and has been for as long as anyone can remember?!?!"

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Wednesday March 06, 2013 · 4:06 AM PST

2013/03/06 · 04:06

Has anyone else noticed, in the last couple of weeks, some of the charts Rachel uses are being set up "backwards"?? It's bugging us A LOT.

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Friday February 22, 2013 · 2:26 PM PST

2013/02/22 · 14:26

and therefore ineligible to ever be President...

That may not be such a big stumbling-block to possible Presidential ambitions as some think... including on Lawrence O'Donnell's show last night.

President Obama's mother was an American citizen, even if his father wasn't.

Senator John McCain wasn't born in the territorial U.S., but his parents were citizens.

Maybe I've missed something since "Sen. McCarthy-Mini-Me" showed up and started accruing media attention, but his Congressional bio page says his mother is a nice Irish-Italian girl from Delaware! Yes, his father was a Cuban refugee and I have yet to find details of when he gained his citizenship, and yes, Ted was born in Calgary. But I haven't seen anything about his mother's having discarded her American-born citizenship for that trip to Canada, which is about the only thing that occurs to me as possibly being able to invalidate HER status as an American citizen, and therefore Ted's.

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Thursday February 21, 2013 · 4:46 PM PST

2013/02/21 · 16:46

Several times in the last few years I have mentioned a housekeeping project involving finishing hardwood floors with a home-made, organic, natural beeswax floor wax, and someone always does ask for the recipe. Rather than keep writing it out from scratch, 8-), and since we just made new batch in January (2013), everything about the process is fresh in my mind, I thought I'd write it up one last time! We researched this substance as an alternative to petrochemical plastic floor treatments, it's extremely simple, inexpensive and non-toxic, all desirable attributes; and effectively hypo-allergenic, AFAIK. I hope this will be considered a community contribution in aid of more sustainable living.

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Thursday October 18, 2012 · 12:31 AM PDT

2012/10/18 · 00:31

Oh where, oh where, is our little dog Itzl?

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

No IAN by 12.30 Thurs middle-o'-teh-night, so I thought I'd see if I could figure out the template, 8-) Read More

Poor Gov't Computers, so easily confusled

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Monday March 05, 2012 · 8:12 PM PST

2012/03/05 · 20:12

Friday's mail brought something highly unexpected. A big official envelope from the Selective Service. Fat because it had multiple pages and a return envelope.

Seems Selective Service had decided that my (now) 19.5yo son had NEVER REGISTERED for the draft, doom-de-doom-doom. Threatening wording, official-ese, let's see how scary we can be! Only problem was, we were VERY careful to make sure he DID do all the "turning-18" paperwork. To wit:

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Friday August 19, 2011 · 3:00 AM PDT

2011/08/19 · 03:00

One of my favorite diarists has been out of sight for, officially tonight, 31 days.

I don't want to be paranoid, but....

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 2:05 PM PDT

2007/10/14 · 14:05

Just to make a reporting thread for this weekend. I've been AWOL from my corner for a couple-three weeks, but made it back today.

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Civic Stadium, Eugene, burns this afternoon

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TRMS charts going cock-eyed?

Umm, about Ted Cruz being born in Canada?

Just a little [sustainable] housekeeping...

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Poor Gov't Computers, so easily confusled

Where's Noddy? anybody?

ENOUGH! Eugene OR, Oct 14