Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Boston: school closings, contracts, worker)

[Williepaws]

Originally Posted by Taffee72

Dogs parks are now closed and cats are advised to stay inside in my city. My elderly cat does go outside to our backyard. A friend of mine suggested I make a mask for my cat so I don't get fined. I really cannot believe I am living this life.

I think your friend needs to get a life. A mask for a cat? And what happens when the cat gets caught on something? This just gets more and more ridiculous.

[Bridge781]

There’s no way my dog would be keeping a mask on. My 4 and 5 year old don’t even want to wear them.

[NewfieMama]

Bridge, how is the WFH/remote learning (if you are participating--I know your kids are young) going for you? I know you were struggling, but have you found any solution that might help?

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by porterhouse

Yes, there are a lot of people from MA shopping at stores in Salem, NH as it is right over the border. However, are you saying that shoppers from MA are more inclined to discarding gloves in the parking lot and the shoppers from NH aren't doing this?? That is what the other poster stated. Seems ridiculous to me.

I grew up in the Massachusetts suburbs north of Boston and seeing trash strewn parking lots of strip malls was a common site. In fact my first paying job was working at a DeMoulas store. Each day one of the clerks assigned a morning/opening shift would have to go out into the parking lot with an old walk behind outdoor vaccum and go over the entire parking lot each day. I did it myself when I was assinged an opening shift on a weekend. Massachusetts people litter far more than people in New Hampshire or Maine. I've lived in all three states. People in New Hampshire and Maine have closer economic and historic ties to the land and treat it with more respect. I am comfortable believing that those discarded gloves are from people who live in Methuen, Lawrence, Haverhill, etc.

[jayrandom]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

No one seems surprised. Saying people have been "taught to fear" seems to say that people are just stupid sheeple, as many people like to think, as opposed to knowing that there is genuine good reason to cancel the events.

That wasn’t my take. You have to be taught to fear danger that isn’t immediately obvious. It took uncounted generations to understand the germ theory of disease. It is not something that people fear innately like, say, bears.

We’ve been told a lot of things in the past few months surrounding what to fear and I suspect some of it was likely excessive. That’s a natural byproduct of even experts not having a solid handle on transmission probability. I remember a similar set of mixed messages (albeit on a longer timescale) surrounding HIV.

I think the readable response is to take what is being said with a grain of salt. It is NOT readable, as some have done, to interpret excessive caution as malicious or borne out of a desire to “control” the population.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

I don’t go out much, but only wear the mask when I’m around (within 20 feet or so) of people. Haven’t gotten gas in six weeks, might wear one there if other stalls are occupied.

Is this paragraph about flatulence or gasoline?

[brightdoglover]

Originally Posted by jayrandom

That wasn’t my take. ...

I think the readable response is to take what is being said with a grain of salt. It is NOT readable, as some have done, to interpret excessive caution as malicious or borne out of a desire to “control” the population.

Appreciate your input. Where I live (SW CO) there is an abundance of talk of sheeple and control people and taking orders from the governor as being taught to obey and so forth. I guess I'm a little edgy.

[mdovell]

Comic stores are getting hit hard. Places like new England comics and Newbury comics. 90%+ of comics are distributed by one company and that stopped. The majority of sakes are still paper based. Hollywood has been fueled by superhero movies for awhile now.

https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/...c-distributors

[massnative71]

Interesting story on New Zealand. An example of what "TO do".


https://www.bccourier.com/how-new-ze...-corona-virus/


"How New Zealand managed to defeat the corona virus"

Anybody still questioning the effectiveness of social distancing, seriously needs their head examined.

[brightdoglover]

Originally Posted by massnative71

Interesting story on New Zealand. An example of what "TO do".

https://www.bccourier.com/how-new-ze...-corona-virus/

"How New Zealand managed to defeat the corona virus"

Anybody still questioning the effectiveness of social distancing, seriously needs their head examined.

I gather they did very well with absolutely refusing any incoming travelers and having mandatory 14-day quarantine for arrivals.