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Topic: COVID-19
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: COVID-19
Date Posted: 15 March 2020 at 6:33pm
So...

How y'all doing?

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Posted By: spydercam
Date Posted: 16 March 2020 at 7:29am
I´m doing fine, thanks for asking !!!

The Virus is Feeling fine here in Germany, cause of compact living here with 80.000.000 on less sqaure Yards than Texas got, for example.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 17 March 2020 at 4:48pm
I'm doing fine.

All "non-essential" businesses in PA are shut down and NJ (where I work in construction management) has various curfews and such.

I am very concerned about the economy. I will be able to survive unless the nation shuts down but I fear many people that I care about will not be so fortunate. I feel like we are in uncharted territory.

I truly don't know what the virus will cause. Will everyone get infected, have the sniffles, and get back to normal? Will it have a 10% mortality rate? Will everyone go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this whole thing to blow over? I dont know.

I do have enough toilet paper.

Edit: I have a long commute which has been light since Friday of last week. It now feels like a zombie movie. I think that is making me panic more than anything

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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 17 March 2020 at 7:22pm
Heading down the Winchester.


Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 17 March 2020 at 11:11pm
The economy is done. They shot their last bullet in their defense way too early by lowering interest rates to zero. (not including the 1.5 trillion) So instead of a painful withdrawal, they did one more good dose to keep the high going of cheap debt. But the withdrawals after will be fatal. Good knowing all of you, see you in the bread lines.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 18 March 2020 at 2:42pm
Classes are cancelled for the next two weeks. Going online only for the next five after that to close out the semester. 



Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 19 March 2020 at 7:52pm
My school has gone to distance learning. I'm considered "essential" so I have email daily and teleconferences every few days.

New calculations put mortality rate at 1.4% which is much better than previously expected. Of course, this also takes into account Chines "official" numbers, so who knows where it really sits.

Either a vaccine comes out way faster than the 18mo it normally takes, or we all get infected by 2021.

BIL is an ER doctor, he's of the mind to just let it run its course and be done with it. Mind you, he's a contrarian and his favorite saying is that a person is smart, but people are dumb.

I'm not currently worried. Now, if they close school through the end of the traditional school year, then I'll be worried as it throws a bunch of wrenches in my industry.

On the bright side of things, MD is now allowing any restaurant with a liquor license and their own delivery drivers to deliver booze to homes.

Also, I'll likely go down to the LGS tomorrow or Saturday and consign my Maverick 88 for $500 and get every penny of it. People are going nuts here buying shotguns and MSRs.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 19 March 2020 at 8:58pm
I swung by the LGS on Wed to buy a WML. They were wiped out...


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 March 2020 at 9:13pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I swung by the LGS on Wed to buy a WML. They were wiped out...


Yep. The LGS near me usually has about 8 or so Pietta and Uberti black powder revolvers in their case. All gone. I asked the guy who the hell bought them. He said that it was folks who came in desperate for a gun but found that they had sold out.

"What about those?"

"Uh, they're black powder arms, y'know, like civil-war era? Cap, powder and ball?"

"I mean, do they work?"

"Yeah"

"Okay, I'll buy it."

SMH. Wish I could be there to see their faces when they chain-fire the suckers,

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 22 March 2020 at 10:15pm
Wow, that's astonishing.



Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 March 2020 at 9:05am
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Wow, that's astonishing.



It's the same people who voted in the anti-2A folks in MD that made it impossible for them to get a handgun without a qualification license, 7 day waiting period, and massive background check. They're the ones panicking and thinking they need a gun because it's the end of civilization. If it were me, I wouldn't sell them anything more powerful than a super-soaker and tell them that their votes carry weight and they need to think about it next time.



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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 23 March 2020 at 5:55pm
I was laid off because of "essential business", I don't know if or when I will be returning to work.  NY is locked down.  Any business that is essential is closed at 8 pm, I am expecting to see a curfew soon with the NG enforcing it. Other than a few items, the family and I have been prepared for disasters for sometime.  My concern is about those who aren't so prepared coming looking for "hand outs".  It seems there are some groups of individuals posing as NYS health officials pulling home invasions.

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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 26 March 2020 at 1:54am
Crikey!

My town is still open for business as usual, even as the surrounding towns and counties have closed everything non-essential.  Luckily, Savannah considers liquor stores to be essential.  It seems the Pentagon finally stepped in to stop the madness in the military.  The Army finally released an order that outlines who is considered essential and that everyone not considered essential is to telework.  A full-bird colonel somewhere allegedly told his troops that "the military runs towards gunfire while everyone else runs away" when explaining how they were going to deal with the pandemic.  


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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 March 2020 at 7:01pm
Originally posted by evillepaintball evillepaintball wrote:

A full-bird colonel somewhere allegedly told his troops that "the military runs towards gunfire while everyone else runs away" when explaining how they were going to deal with the pandemic.  


Perhaps he'd do better to consider it running towards a biological weapon in this case....

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 March 2020 at 7:05pm
Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

I was laid off because of "essential business", I don't know if or when I will be returning to work.  NY is locked down.  Any business that is essential is closed at 8 pm, I am expecting to see a curfew soon with the NG enforcing it. Other than a few items, the family and I have been prepared for disasters for sometime.  My concern is about those who aren't so prepared coming looking for "hand outs".  It seems there are some groups of individuals posing as NYS health officials pulling home invasions.


Sorry to hear you were laid off. Hopefully things get back to normal sooner than later. Looks like schools will likely reopen here in MD around April 27th, so I should be able to get all my people back on regular pay at that time.

Most everyone I know has taken several semi-auto rifles out of their main safes at this point. We're nowhere near the level of NY in terms of sheer disaster right now, but people are starting to get edgy. I've yet to go that far, but mags are loaded and all my ammo is is cans for easy grab-and-go should we need to get the hell out of Dodge and head for those WV hills to wait out any unrest in the DC metro.

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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 28 March 2020 at 11:41pm
Thanks Tallen.  My area has been calm.  Sadly, NYC residents fleeing the virus are the ones bringing further east to my area.  The Hamptons have had a big spike in the infected.  

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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 29 March 2020 at 7:33am
Here in darkest Africa we went into lockdown on Friday. 21 days.

I also have my MSR and a LBV loaded up ready to grab, if needed but as I'm essential services I get to drive to work. Such fun being here for the 3 planes a day, but I'm not moaning it gets me out the house, I get pay during the lockdown and it lets me see whats happening in the world at large.

Nothing much yet. It is still early days. There was panic buying done (we only got 3 days notice of the lockdown) but I'd seen it coming so put in a couple of purchases of non-perishable and semiperishables earlier in the month. Well stocked on TP (I still dont know why that's a thing but got mine on special even before people went mad), cold and flu meds, you know. Stuff. The day after lockdown the shops were all fully stocked. We got another week's perishables

The looting started thr first day of the lockdown. One point ofbthe lockdown was no alcohol to be sold, so guess what was looted Day 1.

While it isn't as bad as those videos from India the cops and mkre importantly the military aren't taking and nonsense. Gather on the streets get klapped.

But on the whole it's going well. As many of our citizens are immuno compromised due to AIDS and TB if it gets a foothold it'll be bad.

Stay safe, wash your hands and keep the powder dry.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 02 April 2020 at 11:04pm
Glad to hear you and your family are good for now. Sorry this crap had to happen around your birthday.

Things have been quiet, but people are definitely on edge none the less. I've had 6 different formerly anti-gun friends call me for recommendations on shotguns while **edited**ing about how they didn't know they needed a license (which is now impossible to get) to buy a handgun.

WV is hoping to keep the spread to a minimum. While we don't have the Aids and TB issues you do in the RSA, we've got more than enough diabetics, asthmatics, and black-lung cases in the state that it'll all go very, very sideways if it makes its way to the more rural communities. Luckily, it all seems to be centered around the major population centers which are well equipped to handle the cases that do come their way.

MD is just surreal right now. People are either staying at home all day, every day, or continuing with their lives like nothing is happening. While the number of confirmed cases continues to rise, our death rate so far is pretty low. I'm hoping we start to see things level off over the next two weeks since it's been 3 since we started distancing measures, but we'll see.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 03 April 2020 at 7:34pm
I was laid off.


Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 04 April 2020 at 2:57pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I was laid off.


Man that sucks. Hope you come through ok

Start of the 2nd week and the morons are being moronic. Nothing too hectic but plenty of idiots pushing for things like public transport to run at 100% capacity so long as everyone has an N95 mask (impossible to get hold of) but private cars are still restricted to 50% capacity. Fortunately that idea got shot down.

Mostly things are stil ticking along. Nothing too exciting happening. Around 1.5k cases, 8 deaths.

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Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 04 April 2020 at 3:47pm
I'm patrolling with one N95 mask and a set of safety glasses. Proactive is not in my vocabulary right now.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 April 2020 at 5:47pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I was laid off.


Sucks dude, you doing okay?

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 11 April 2020 at 6:26pm
Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I was laid off.


Sucks dude, you doing okay?

Yeah I'll be fine, it wasn't my forever job. Embarrassingly enough I'm making enough on unemployment right now, compared to my normal hourly rate of that job... At least until July when the extra $600 from the feds run out.

I am going back to school and getting my medic cert I'm pretty sure.


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 13 April 2020 at 11:44pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:


Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I was laid off.


Sucks dude, you doing okay?


Yeah I'll be fine, it wasn't my forever job. Embarrassingly enough I'm making enough on unemployment right now, compared to my normal hourly rate of that job... At least until July when the extra $600 from the feds run out.

I am going back to school and getting my medic cert I'm pretty sure.


We actually have a lot of folks in the same weird situation where UE is actually paying more until the fed coverage goes away. All of my hourlies are making more, and as soon as the lower-paid managers in my district figured out the numbers, they were all "volunteering" to take layoff until Wk1 July.... you know.... for the client's sake....

Me, I'd be fuuuuuuuudged. We wouldn't lose the house or the car or anything, but it'd screw our plans up big time and push off some debt clearing that I've been hoping to do for at least another year. I did well enough staying ahead of it that the client didn't lose any money on my end, and I'm saving them some by laying off our lowest-paid manager (who will make more on layoff than her current salary), so we'll hopefully be good. Regardless I'd hope the company would pick up my salary if worse came to worse given all the work I'm doing right now. I'm actually busier than when I'm at my real office.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 14 April 2020 at 12:24pm
Yeah, I was reading the guidelines for the application. In Arizona at least, you don't even have to be laid off. If you're afraid your job will get you sick, and can quit and collect. You don't have to look for work while on UI right now. If the poorly paid CNA's or janitorial staff figure that out, our nursing homes and hospitals are screwed.

Ever thought about working for FEMA or something similar?



Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 15 April 2020 at 10:09am
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I was laid off.

Sorry to hear that friend.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 15 April 2020 at 10:22am
Things are OK enough here. 

We've moved all our classes online for the remainder of the Spring (Technically Summer too, but my Summer 2020 class was already online only so it doesn't change anything). Some of that has gone really well. Like in my Media Ethics course, where students were doing group presentations, I now have them doing individual vlog presentations. I encouraged them to get weird with it, and some of them have done little white board animations, some have used sock puppets, etc. It makes me smile. 

Two of my other classes have been more of a challenge. Sports Journalism had to get heavily modified because of the lack of sports. I have them writing recaps on pre-recorded games. It has worked OK, but I keep having to remind them that it's way less challenging than real-world coverage, as you cannot pause a live sporting event. PhotoJournalism had to change because I cannot really ask students to risk getting themselves or their families sick just for a college class, so I've had them documenting their own lives under COVID-19. The results have been darn good. The ones with a natural eye for visual storytelling are telling interesting stories, even if those stories are "making breakfast" and "making a bonfire in the back yard." 

Financially, the university works on a two-year delayed budget. Everything is allocated two years in advance, so the shock-waves of this hopefully won't be as bad, assuming things get up and running for in-person classes for Fall 2020. If things don't get back open by August, then in 2022 the university might be at risk for layoffs because of declining enrollment. Enrollment is the lifeblood of everything. If students decide not to enroll Fall 2020 because they don't want to take online classes, then things really start to get pinched. The two things I keep focusing on, as not to let my anxiety get out of control, is that public universities are getting bailout money that is supposed to be specifically earmarked for avoiding layoffs, and that layoffs in other sectors might mean more people deciding to enroll in college to get a degree for the post-COVID-19 world, which might level the pinch off slightly. The university has waived application fees and lowered tuition and student fees. It's essentially free to apply to Georgia Southern now, so maybe people who might have otherwise not thought about applying will give it a shot. 

I always had a tendency to be a bit of a homebody, but now I want nothing more than to go to the bar. 


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 April 2020 at 2:54pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Yeah, I was reading the guidelines for the application. In Arizona at least, you don't even have to be laid off. If you're afraid your job will get you sick, and can quit and collect. You don't have to look for work while on UI right now. If the poorly paid CNA's or janitorial staff figure that out, our nursing homes and hospitals are screwed.

Ever thought about working for FEMA or something similar?

I've considered disaster management/relief at times, but I'm too far along in life to reasonably shift sectors without some serious deep-digging.

Married, young kid, two cars, house payment, etc. Makes getting another degree and switching careers a tough one to do these days.

It used to be my goal was to create work back home in WV that could support us AND inject money into the local economy there. While that's still possible, I don't know if I have the energy to pursue it anymore. Now my minimal goal is to make enough here to buy some property there so I can get back to the mountains at least a little and support the local businesses on a weekly-to-monthly basis.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 15 April 2020 at 7:08pm
I might be out of work come 5/1. I have four weeks PTO saved up, but I kind of want to ask my HR people if I can be furloughed and collect instead. I feel like a bum doing so, but I don't want to be on PTO and work from home anyway.

I don't even know if I'm eligible. I haven't been unemployed since I was 17.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 April 2020 at 7:58pm
Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

I might be out of work come 5/1. I have four weeks PTO saved up, but I kind of want to ask my HR people if I can be furloughed and collect instead. I feel like a bum doing so, but I don't want to be on PTO and work from home anyway.

I don't even know if I'm eligible. I haven't been unemployed since I was 17.


If furloughed/laid off, you will have to use up VACATION PTO prior to collecting unemployment. Sick days can be carried over.

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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 18 April 2020 at 10:04pm
What's the deal with the spam filter? Do we have a list of stuff it blocks in it's drunken, power-crazed, stuper?


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 April 2020 at 11:37am
Originally posted by scotchyscotch scotchyscotch wrote:

What's the deal with the spam filter? Do we have a list of stuff it blocks in it's drunken, power-crazed, stuper?



It's an odd issue. Certain words that were commonly used in spam emails back when the forum switched over, but that are now fairly common in regular speech will trip it up. It's weird.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 29 April 2020 at 4:47pm
I let my EMT cert lapse, so first step is to get that back. Enrolled for a class to start in late May, then when that wraps up I'll enroll in the Medic program.


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 03 May 2020 at 11:34pm
Cool!

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 04 May 2020 at 9:26pm
Taking my ham radio license next week. Being on the welfare I've had a lot of time to study and explore things I've always wanted to. Next is learn Morse code.


Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 07 May 2020 at 4:56pm
Been working from home for... 2 months? Time isn't real.
Training instructors to go online mid-stream sucked. Fall online will suck more.

Fragility of capitalist structures and no social safety nets is why things suck more here, but fascists are just gonna double down and people are stupid (see cuomo's approval ratings).


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 May 2020 at 11:10pm
Been busy restoring bubba'd firearms.

Shorty's SMLE No.1 Mk.III that I took out of the sporterized stock set and placed in a restored Drill-Parade set. Replaced all the missing parts (he had purchased them) and did the extra inletting work on the wood to get everything to fit and fire properly.


I currently have his No.4 Mk.2 stripped down and am working on the wood for it as well.

Meanwhile, I have a Yugo captured K98k that was sportered somewhere during communist rule that I got from Gibbs Rifle Co. up in WV. Barrel was uncut and it was only the stock that was butchered. Missing nose band, bayo lug, etc. but got it all sorted. I got a Yugo stock for it (full length K98k action and barrel type) and set about getting it in shape. I think 2-3 more coats of BLO and it'll be ready to re-stock.

Ordered a CMP Service Grade Garand earlier in the week and given that the AL store re-opens on Thursday, I should be nicely in line for one to ship shortly.

On top of all of that, I threw a "Screw it, here's a low bid" on a Savage-made 1943 Enfield No.4 Mk.1* (with Lend-Lease US property mark) that had the stock cut, but that was it. I won. Now I get to re-stock that sucker as well. In short, I've got 3 countries of WWII covered in less than 2 months. US Garand, Lend-Lease Enfield for the UK, and a legit K98k that only underwent banner scrubbing for Germany as well as Tito's partisans because it was a legit capture and doesn't have any post-48 markings.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 May 2020 at 10:43am
Got another one finished. My M98 (captured K89k) all done and dusted:



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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 12 May 2020 at 2:16pm
Oh I likey Tallen!

Stumbled across a new Youtube channel called Mark Felton Productions. He is what the History channel used to be years ago. Been binging on his obscure WW2 subjects.

And I passed my 1st HAM radio license test! Will prob start studying for the higher level, and continue practice with Morse.


Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 13 May 2020 at 5:45pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Oh I likey Tallen!

Stumbled across a new Youtube channel called Mark Felton Productions. He is what the History channel used to be years ago. Been binging on his obscure WW2 subjects.

And I passed my 1st HAM radio license test! Will prob start studying for the higher level, and continue practice with Morse.


Cool! I've always hated Morse and have great respect for anyone who can use it. I never got the hang and always had to check a notebook.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 14 May 2020 at 9:06pm
Finished up Shorty's No.4 Mk.2 re-furb over the weekend:



And stumbled into another personal project for myself. 1942 Savage No.4 Mk.1* Lend-Lease rifle with intact US Property and "flaming bomb" marks and no importation marks. It was sportered and missing the mag, but repro mags will get me through until I find a Savage marked one. Have all the correct Savage marked parts coming to restore it along with new-old-stock forearm and hand guards. Butt stock was unmolested under the shellac and varnish, so I just cleaned it up with stripper and Formby's and have been rubbing a thin coat of BLO on it every day and letting it dry. Parts are ordered and will be coming in over the next week. Shouldn't take long to have it back in order and a grand total of $400 spent will net me a $700 rifle thanks to the lack of an import mark.





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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 18 May 2020 at 7:11pm
Nice job Tallen.   

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 May 2020 at 9:28pm
And here's my Savage No.4 Mk.1* all purdied up. Before and after pics:

Before:


After:






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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 22 May 2020 at 11:21pm
Good Job Tallen, 

I miss shooting. Used to do quite a bit when I was young. Shot at a decent level back then at .22 & .762 on L81 in the interservice meets at Bisley. Our squadron pretty much carved the National level trophies in half with Cardiff (sheep shaggers). Did a lot of messing about with SA80/L98 as well at .556 in between which was decent fun as well for a firearm starved youth in Glasgow.  Probably couldn't hit a cow in the arse with a banjo now. A bit strange for this to make me feel so old at 30.

Not much opportunity for legitimate shooting here in Manchester. Always heard the place had a reputation for shooting(s) but seems it's more the car to car sort. 




Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 24 May 2020 at 5:16pm
Got diagnosed with Shingles at the old age of 31. Guess the stress brought it out.


Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 24 May 2020 at 10:21pm
My wife and I were in quarantine last month when she either had COVID, or an atypical pneumonia. The doctor decided it would be too dangerous to test her and likely expose her, and so we just stayed home and had groceries delivered for two weeks.

I got a good deal on a Tikka T3x CTR right before that happened, and I started a new job as an internal auditor for the biggest bank in my state - owned by the “Walmart family“. I am also supposed to be co-managing a campaign for one of my counties local Justice of the Peace elections, but social distancing added a unique challenge to that.

Our IT dept. has closed down additional remote working requests and so I’m still going to the office each day. There’s only a small handful of people working there, but it still makes me nervous with all of this going on. More than anything I’ve been horrified by my state’s (Governor) absolute refusal to acknowledge and deal with reality, or understand middle school science. Unfortunately, I suppose that’s part of life in Arkansas right now. We past our previous peak on Friday, and we’re continuing to show signs of outbreaks. He is taking the weekend off and already clearly stated that we’re not closing anything down from this point forward, kids sports and summer camps are on, and we have viral pictures from the Lake of the Ozarks which shows hundreds of people all within inches of one another.

This is fine.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 01 June 2020 at 6:45am
Anyone attend any good riots lately?

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 02 June 2020 at 2:05am
Nah, lost my health insurance, can't risk that ER bill.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 June 2020 at 3:14pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Got diagnosed with Shingles at the old age of 31.

Sorry my dude. Been there. They run in my family, I ended up getting them two years ago when I was just 30. They hurt like the dickens. 




Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 June 2020 at 3:16pm
Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Anyone attend any good riots lately?

I went and protested downtown for a hot minute, but I'm still too leery of the virus to go hang out in too big of a crowd for too long. 


Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 02 June 2020 at 10:18pm
Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:


Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Anyone attend any good riots lately?


I went and protested downtown for a hot minute, but I'm still too leery of the virus to go hang out in too big of a crowd for too long. 


My original sarcastic comment aside, I am very curious to see how COVID-19 statistics will be affected.

The internet is awash with looney theories about how the Rona is nothing more than a flu to it has mutated into something less lethal. By all accounts hospitals should be swarmed in a week or this virus isn't (currently) that bad..

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 03 June 2020 at 3:39pm
Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:


Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Anyone attend any good riots lately?


I went and protested downtown for a hot minute, but I'm still too leery of the virus to go hang out in too big of a crowd for too long. 


My original sarcastic comment aside, I am very curious to see how COVID-19 statistics will be affected.

The internet is awash with looney theories about how the Rona is nothing more than a flu to it has mutated into something less lethal. By all accounts hospitals should be swarmed in a week or this virus isn't (currently) that bad..

I don't think people will care, they say 54 million Americans will go hungry in 3 months due to this pandemic.


Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 08 June 2020 at 5:53pm
If/when there is a spike in the next week or two I'd look for the forced business re-openings (see maskless vegas casinos) as a more likely culprit than outdoor gatherings. Protesters have been largely pretty good about masking at least.


Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 09 June 2020 at 8:27am
We're looking at the possibility of going back into lockdown. Yay. I forsee people ignoring it completely.

We were in level 5, IE full lockdown for 6 weeks (no travel, only essential services open, limited items in shops, curfew, military/police roadblocks) , level 4 lockdown for 4 weeks (more shops open, travel restricted but exercise allowed during certain hours, online trading allowed) and have been in level 3 for 2 weeks (no restrictions on businesses, mandatory masks and sanitizing, exercise and excursions allowed any time, social distancing, required to stay at home when not shopping/exercising).

They've now noticed a spike in cases and there is a rumour we're going back to level 4 tonight/tomorrow. Let's see. As part of their plans to prevent hospital transmissions and keep beds open cigarettes and alcohol aren't allowed to be sold during level 4&5, so everyone was stocking up on wine and spirits today.



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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 10 June 2020 at 12:32am
Hey Kayback! Watched a video on TheFirearmBlog, abd they covered SA's gun laws. Most parts seem like a pain, but buying a suppressor like buying a Coca Cola; and able to get a brand new machine gun shipped in seemed petty sweet!


Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 10 June 2020 at 2:41pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

Hey Kayback! Watched a video on TheFirearmBlog, abd they covered SA's gun laws. Most parts seem like a pain, but buying a suppressor like buying a Coca Cola;

It is. Our gunlaws are very similar to what I understand the ATF&E Form1 /Form 4 applications are. Someone needs to decide if you've provided enough reason to own something and OK it.

This has quite hilariously bit them right in the ass. In 2006 they changed the system from "will issue" to "shall issue" and put on hard limits to number of guns you can own as a "normal" person. 4 total, no more than 2 pistols. What they were expecting was 1 SD gun, 1 sport pistol, 1 hunting rifle and 1 hunting/sporting shotgun. That's everything right? They then introduced 2 new classes of citizens, Dedicate Hunters and Dedicated Sports Shooters. Both of these can bypass that 4 gun restriction, as well as the ammunition restrictions (200 at a time,no more than 2400/year). This is where the fun and games started. So many people had more than 2 pistols or 2 rifles that almost everyone signed up as "Dedicated". There is a documented process to be "dedicated" and once you've got it they are pretty much back to "will issue". They have tried to fight this in court but basically everyone got dedicated, and now because we have this status "restricted" guns like Semi auto rifles and shotguns become easily available. So everyone in creation bought one. For having 14 of us sharing a beat up M1 Carbine and maybe an LM5, everyone has at least one centerfire rifle, a rimfire rifle and possibly a PCC. Many have multiples :p :p So silly.

And you know what? The legal citizens still don't commit crimes with their restricted guns, the criminals still use "stolen" police R5's and struggle era AK-47's.


As for suppressors, yup. I have a bunch of them in my garage. I bought a mono-core .22 suppressor fairly recently on a whim to see if it works better than my home made one. It does not. (mine has more internal volume I suspect). You can't go hunting on many game farms if you don't have a suppressor on your rifle.

Quote and able to get a brand new machine gun shipped in seemed petty sweet!
? I don't know what you mean about this?

Legit machineguns are super heavily restricted here. You have to be a collector to swing a license for one. And that's not an easy thing to do. It is gate-keepered by the other collectors and they have a sequence you have to follow. Personally I can't give to tosses about manual rifles but to become a collector I have to build up a collection (and testable knowledge) of first old pistols, then old rifles, then semi auto rifles and then full auto's. So you're looking at spending thousands just to get into the door. Collections also need to be "themed" so I can't say "machineguns", but something like the "US paratrooper loadout 1943-1945, European theater" would mean I can build a whole theme from pistols-rifles-semi auto rifles-full auto.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 11 June 2020 at 12:46am
I didn't know the dedicated class wss a newer thing, and sounds like a no brainer.

Yep he covered what it took to get an MG, collector, theme etc. And here in the states it costs thousands to acquire just a single MG. But with the Hughes amendment we're stuck with anything 1986 and older. Unless you hold a FFL license.


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 June 2020 at 9:38pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I didn't know the dedicated class wss a newer thing, and sounds like a no brainer.

Yep he covered what it took to get an MG, collector, theme etc. And here in the states it costs thousands to acquire just a single MG. But with the Hughes amendment we're stuck with anything 1986 and older. Unless you hold a FFL license.


*cough* with a special occupation tax stamp *cough*

01s and 07s can get post 86 dealer samples, but they have to have the correct SOT for them (i.e. become a licensed Class 3 dealer) and even then they're still expensive and a biatch to deal with since the BATFE requires you to notify them every time you move it across state lines, or out of the safe for more than 24 hours.

Mind you, that might all be moot in the not too distant future given a recent case where the DOJ let a guy walk free because the NFA is flawed in its "tax" role: https://reason.com/2020/04/22/doj-dismisses-indictment-of-machine-prosecution-while-cert-petition-was-pending/

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 18 June 2020 at 12:28pm
Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

I didn't know the dedicated class wss a newer thing, and sounds like a no brainer.

Yep he covered what it took to get an MG, collector, theme etc. And here in the states it costs thousands to acquire just a single MG. But with the Hughes amendment we're stuck with anything 1986 and older. Unless you hold a FFL license.


Mind you, that might all be moot in the not too distant future given a recent case where the DOJ let a guy walk free because the NFA is flawed in its "tax" role: https://reason.com/2020/04/22/doj-dismisses-indictment-of-machine-prosecution-while-cert-petition-was-pending/

Good news, but I'm not holding my breath.

Ordered a Trijicon RMR to replace my Holosun on my pistol. Will transfer the Holosun to my rifle with a off axis mount.


Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 20 June 2020 at 9:35am
Oh I'd love an RMR but they retail for STUUUUUUUPID prices here.

It's so annoying. I was pushing for red dot pistol classes in local semi autonomous IDPA matches and got shouted down every time. "no one carries a red dot!" "unrealistic competition gear!.

Now every Tom and Harry has one and the prices are sky high. Everyone is shooting in the Carry Optics division.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 20 June 2020 at 1:21pm
Originally posted by Kayback Kayback wrote:

Oh I'd love an RMR but they retail for STUUUUUUUPID prices here.

It's so annoying. I was pushing for red dot pistol classes in local semi autonomous IDPA matches and got shouted down every time. "no one carries a red dot!" "unrealistic competition gear!.

Now every Tom and Harry has one and the prices are sky high. Everyone is shooting in the Carry Optics division.

How much are Holosuns there?

I shot one IDPA match when I was heavy in the competitive scene. They were a lot more uptight than USPSA (IPSC).

They are amazing, focusing on the front site was never natural for me, being able to focus on the target was a game change. My speed and accuracy dramatically increased the first time I used a RDS.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 21 June 2020 at 4:46pm
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-numbers/coronavirus-cases-record-increase-june-20-2020/85-ecec4f10-6af8-4fd7-a14f-bf33e438dac4" rel="nofollow - I'm ready to ride the roller coaster back up.


Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 21 June 2020 at 5:49pm
So proud of my state also :(


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 June 2020 at 11:25pm
Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-numbers/coronavirus-cases-record-increase-june-20-2020/85-ecec4f10-6af8-4fd7-a14f-bf33e438dac4" rel="nofollow - I'm ready to ride the roller coaster back up.


Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the states getting hit hard now never got a "real" first wave compared to many others?

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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 28 June 2020 at 12:30pm
Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-numbers/coronavirus-cases-record-increase-june-20-2020/85-ecec4f10-6af8-4fd7-a14f-bf33e438dac4" rel="nofollow - I'm ready to ride the roller coaster back up.


Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the states getting hit hard now never got a "real" first wave compared to many others?

Some did, some didn't. Florida, for example, got hit really hard the first time (The Miami and Jacksonville areas being little epicenters) and is worse now in terms of numbers than they were at the end of April. Florida is up 259% in the last 14 days. Georgia got a huge first wave both in the Atlanta area and in the more rural Albany, and now has one of the fastest upticks in the country, adding nearly 100% more cases every 14 days. 

On the other side of things, there are places like Arizona, Idaho and parts of Texas where the virus never really had a first wave and are now getting slammed. 

I read a good write-up about it in the newspaper the other day that said that this upwards swing we're seeing now doesn't have any good single variable that explains it. It's not really the protests, because New York City cases are going down, Minnesota, the origin of the protests, is breaking even, and the state with the biggest 14-day increase is Idaho, not exactly a hotbed of anti-racist protesting. It's also not Memorial Day, as that came and went without moving the numbers much. It's not increased testing, because testing has increased in places like Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland but the rates there are going down. Not even reopening plans can be purely blamed, as Georgia reopened nearly two months ago and is only now seeing the increases. 

About the only thing that explains it is people just not taking precautions as seriously as they should in their regular, everyday life. People are not following the guidelines to the same stringency they were in March and April -- people are not wearing masks, not washing/sanitizing hands, not avoiding unneeded contact, and not social distancing. 


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 29 June 2020 at 9:33am
As a follow-up to that, something I saw in the paper this morning: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/26/coronavirus-restaurant-spending-could-predict-spread-says-economist/3263832001/" rel="nofollow - One of the statistically significant variables among places seeing an upward trend in COVID-19 cases is restaurant spending.  Places where grocery store spending is staying above-average and restaurant spending below-average are not seeing as much of an increase as places where grocery spending has leveled off and restaurant spending creeps back toward normalcy. 

 


Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 29 June 2020 at 11:04am
Nowhere Nebraska, we are fine. Momma working at home since City of Lincoln mayor sent non-essentials home a few months ago. She is Federal Housing Urban Development but County City Building is closed, since Federal still paid but had office set up in living room for what she does. All three kids here in Lincoln still working, one a UNL as Head Groundskeeper (gotta keep the grass mowed), one from home customer service rep for Target, last IT at Lincoln public schools doing the in house teach from home programming. So no near contact jobs.
Restaurants are every other table 1/3 capacity seating now, no more in store customer limits, WalMart and Super Saver 08-midnight, we have drive in concerts on your FM dial, Garth Brooks just did his, Big Screen at Lancaster Events Center. Lincoln is the states 'hot spot' though. Momma is up over 1500 hand made masks donated to health care, I got some GI issue covid 'manly looking' vented disc masks for me, momma wear here own 'patterned' masks (coffee filter filters).

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 30 June 2020 at 7:23am
COVID 19 is screwing up my plans for buying a house.

It seems like fewer houses are hitting the market. Those that do, get swarmed with people and sell right away. Prices are going up and supply is dwindling.

This is also being compounded with people moving out of urban areas. My neck of the woods is getting crowded and moving further is really impossible.

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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 30 June 2020 at 12:51pm
Out here on 'the farm' still quiet. Maybe 3 cars out on County RD B a day and 3 cars in. Still see roof of closest neighbor.....isolated you bet.

There is a cookie cutter home development going up on 14th south heading to Lincoln, looks like construction stopped. About 7 miles south of me. They are putting 'cable' in, can't see city folks out here without cable TV and internet. My bet they still won't get out to me with cable.

Momma has not even got a guess as to when she is back in her office. She is actually betting that her 'work at home' doing what she does will be perminant as now heating and air is on her, not the city. Feds did give her big check for office in house, cleaning out one of the storage upstairs bedrooms. Reason she thinks she is here at house till retirement.

This 24/7 so far 127days is killing us...we have not talked divorce...murder twice....no divorce.


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Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 30 June 2020 at 9:59pm
Luckily I worked 100% remote before this all started, so my day to day hasnt actually been impacted. 

Getting perspectives through my work from the behind the scenes yet on the front line personelle has been both eye opening and awe inspiring.  

Stay safe ya'll, and for the love of science wear your masks. 

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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 08 July 2020 at 11:29am
The University System of Georgia, after two months of stubbornly telling universities they couldn't mandate masks on campus and professors they couldn't mandate masks in their classrooms, https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/university-system-georgia-require-masks-classrooms-after-all/VyTlGue4hfyynzl2snRHqK/" rel="nofollow - finally got shamed into making masks mandatory in campus buildings. 

I'm happy they finally came to their senses. If Georgia is going to be the test case for bringing universities back to face-to-face instruction, then at the very least we need to be able to set our own rules for safety. Let us mandate masks and stagger class times for cleanings and mix hybrid instruction and show the rest of the country how to do it. 




Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 09 July 2020 at 3:57pm
AZ is still debating whether to have in person classes for K-12, they have lost their minds. We are terminally **edited**ed


Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 10 July 2020 at 3:40pm
They just requested refrigerated trucks, the morgues have ran out of room.


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 10 July 2020 at 3:50pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

They just requested refrigerated trucks, the morgues have ran out of room.


Much like FL, this is expected if you ask me. AZ/NM/FL are all big retirement areas. You're gonna get hit HARD with that. In MD, our biggest sector of hospitalizations and deaths were nursing homes and retirement communities.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 12 July 2020 at 7:44pm
Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:

They just requested refrigerated trucks, the morgues have ran out of room.


Much like FL, this is expected if you ask me. AZ/NM/FL are all big retirement areas. You're gonna get hit HARD with that. In MD, our biggest sector of hospitalizations and deaths were nursing homes and retirement communities.


NJ and NY were using refrigerated trucks regularly.

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Posted By: Ocasta
Date Posted: 13 July 2020 at 1:36am
Here in Florida, we had a record 15k+ new cases Today We are mandated to wear masks at my job, but our customers arent, and being in the south, we have a lot of the rabid Trump supporters who refuse to wear a mask because this is a deep state plot to overthrow Trump, or something like that. 

I am legit terrified. My Mother is a breast cancer survivor, she had a double mastectomy on Thanksgiving 2018. I haven't seen my family since this began. Her medicine keeps her immune system suppressed. One of the fun new things my brain has done in my advancing age is develop major anxiety. 

I know a lot of you guys aren't religious, but I will keep all of you and your families in my prayers. 


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 13 July 2020 at 11:20am
We just crossed the 3,000 deaths mark in Georgia. 

I looked it up for kicks and giggles, and Georgia had 81 deaths from H1N1 back during that pandemic in 2009. The 2017-2018 flu season hit particularly hard here, and even that was only 175 deaths. 




Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 13 July 2020 at 1:20pm
So far, we've been very lucky in my household. Either we had it early and it was mild, or we haven't been exposed. Unfortunately for me, work has required a lot of travel in the Mid-Atlantic and interaction with others. It's also meant a lot of time in grocery stores and big box stores, but so far, so good. It seems that taking reasonable precautions (mask, wash hands frequently, don't lick doorknobs and shopping carts) has been enough.

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Posted By: spydercam
Date Posted: 13 July 2020 at 2:52pm
I´m still fine !!!

Incredible to see what you have Numbers behind Antlantic Ocean. We have a bit over 9.000 dead People by the Virus.

Hard to see too !!!
What trash this leader is talking, each time he lift his upper lips he´s talking trash. The other a..divers just repeat the trash. I know what i´m talking about i´m german and it´s not a Long time ago since alot german brainwashed People followed an Austrian bastard and his gang. Use your brain right and don´t be lazzy and choose the first plausible answer you get by ... just sounds good but ...

@All stay healthy !!!

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 16 September 2020 at 2:59pm
Listened to the NYT's podcast The Daily. They covered what was happening at the University of Alabama. It is ridiculous these colleges went ahead with in person classes. Just a straight up cash grab to get that dorm and dining hall money. 


Posted By: spydercam
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 10:52am
Today my dad told me, that my aunt and also my uncle have Coronavirus !

They live in Huron SD, both have breath Problems. They are at home cause they don´t Need to stay at Hospital, cause of bad Problems.
I hope it doesn´t get worser !



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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 24 November 2020 at 1:17pm
Sorry to hear that Spyder, I believe SD has the highest per capita cases in the country.


Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 21 December 2020 at 3:06pm
At work we've been told that all employees are now part of the phase 1B of vaccine distribution, and we should plan to schedule our shots sometime around late January or early February. 

They still don't know which vaccine we're going to get, and there might always be delays, so we've been told nothing is set in stone yet, but they're confident they can get all campus employees vaccinated by spring break. 

I'm ready to get poked and get back to living. 


Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 December 2020 at 9:04am
Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

At work we've been told that all employees are now part of the phase 1B of vaccine distribution, and we should plan to schedule our shots sometime around late January or early February. 

They still don't know which vaccine we're going to get, and there might always be delays, so we've been told nothing is set in stone yet, but they're confident they can get all campus employees vaccinated by spring break. 

I'm ready to get poked and get back to living. 


My understanding is that I'm in a similar boat as to when the vaccine will be available to me. I'm stoked, just wish the J&J one had finished up trials at the same time and had the same efficacy rate since it's a single-dose "get it and forget it" solution.

I really hope that everyone who has been able to successfully work from home is allowed to continue to do so even after this is all finished. The ramifications for traffic in the DC region alone has been extremely positive.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 December 2020 at 6:58pm
Originally posted by tallen702 tallen702 wrote:

Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

At work we've been told that all employees are now part of the phase 1B of vaccine distribution, and we should plan to schedule our shots sometime around late January or early February. 

They still don't know which vaccine we're going to get, and there might always be delays, so we've been told nothing is set in stone yet, but they're confident they can get all campus employees vaccinated by spring break. 

I'm ready to get poked and get back to living. 


My understanding is that I'm in a similar boat as to when the vaccine will be available to me. I'm stoked, just wish the J&J one had finished up trials at the same time and had the same efficacy rate since it's a single-dose "get it and forget it" solution.

I really hope that everyone who has been able to successfully work from home is allowed to continue to do so even after this is all finished. The ramifications for traffic in the DC region alone has been extremely positive.


Did either of you expect to receive the vaccine in short order?

I ask because I know of two individuals who aren't in the "front of the line" categories and they either received it or were told to expect it.

Perhaps availability is better than expected.

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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 25 December 2020 at 1:03pm
Originally, I was slated to be in Phase 2A (before the general population, but after health care, and severely at-risk populations). MD pushed for school employees to be brought into Phase 1C which would jump us up one category and get us vaccinated sooner. No set date yet. But presumed to be by early Feb at the latest.

It comes down to what each state sets as "priority."

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