I need Libraries and histrical collections to work..yes I also need booze ..but I need to work..even small town libraies are closed does any one know if a hostrical sociery will lety me in?
Libraries are almost perfection for viral spread: a million surfaces that might be randomly touched by the infected, with checkout in a line face-to-face with talking. Then who knows where the returned books might have been?
Don't expect to see them back until after... perhaps long after... the whole humoral-immunity thing has been implemented.
Gee, with neither libraries nor starbucks for the homeless to wi-fi their way onto the internet, this lockdown must be especially rough?
The liquor also might be useful as a disinfectant.
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If you think I'm going to clean stuff with Jack Daniels, you are insane!
54light15 If you think I'm going to clean stuff with Jack Daniels, you are insane!
Damn right! J-D's for disinfecting your innards! Anything else is nonsense!
It's a mortal sin to waste good liquor!
Paul of Covington The liquor also might be useful as a disinfectant.
Only good for that if it's 70% alcohol and above, anything else won't work as a disinfectant.
Those of us who do research as part of the job (and railroad surveying and mapping in my case) are getting handicapped by this which is in turn harming real world survey & engineering projects. The millennial engineers and surveyors (ie-buttonpushers) don't get it - not everything is on-line)....I've got 9 projects on hold because of lack of access/shutdown issues. National Archives-2 shut down on St Patricks Day and the others within 3 days of that. (By the way, most courthouses do not have their deeds/ subdivision plats/land survey plats online either. Anyone stupid enough to rely on GIS to determine railroad boundaries had better have good professional errors and omissions insurance.)
Liquor stores and pot shops are open in Colorado - Gotta keep people witless and stupid as an essential right?
I can't speak for the pot shops, but on another thread I mentioned New Jersey (and I'm assuming other states) have kept liquor stores open for one reason, and a very good one.
Unlike narcotics withdrawal alcohol withdrawal can be deadly unless done under medical supervision. Hospitals have enough to deal with now without withdrawing alcoholics piling up in the emergency rooms.
No-one's going to wind up in the emergency room if he can't light up a doobie.
If states are keeping the pot shops open it's because they want that tax revenue to keep coming. Of course, I'd assume the same for liquor stores, but there is that other reason I mentioned.
And by the same token, it's the same reason they won't ban tobacco products, for all the howling anti-smoking activists do. We're talking money here.
But I certainly won't dispute the other part of your post. Everything isn't on-line, not by a damn sight.
mudchickenLiquor stores and pot shops are open in Colorado - Gotta keep people witless and stupid as an essential right?
Contented sheep are easier to shepherd
Pennsylvania government still controls hard liquor sales and all state stores closed weeks ago. Not to mention the storefronts are covered in plywood to prevent looting. Border states are overrun by PA folks driving across the state line. So much so that Ohio has outlawed sales to non-state residents in the PA border counties. You can get beer and wine from grocery stores and Beer Distributors. But, you all be warned, there is a CO2 shortage so pop (soda) and beer are heading into shortage territory. Just try to buy a case of Coke from the big box store web sites or Amazon. Truly, with no beer, we are living in the end times.
I agree and in heaven there is no beer.
mudchicken Those of us who do research as part of the job (and railroad surveying and mapping in my case) are getting handicapped by this which is in turn harming real world survey & engineering projects. The millennial engineers and surveyors (ie-buttonpushers) don't get it - not everything is on-line)....I've got 9 projects on hold because of lack of access/shutdown issues. National Archives-2 shut down on St Patricks Day and the others within 3 days of that. (By the way, most courthouses do not have their deeds/ subdivision plats/land survey plats online either. Anyone stupid enough to rely on GIS to determine railroad boundaries had better have good professional errors and omissions insurance.) Liquor stores and pot shops are open in Colorado - Gotta keep people witless and stupid as an essential right?
Just a quick one on alcohol sales.
Lady Firestorm was making a turkey breast Thursday, so I went to my local favorite wine shop for some white wine. For myself, Lady F doesn't drink, she just doesn't like it.
The shop was damn near sold out! I did manage to find a Virginia produced riesling, and a nice red from Idaho for Saturday's London broil, but I was amazed by all the empty shelves.
I guess a lot of people can't stand the lockdown without staying half-crocked!
Convicted One mudchicken Liquor stores and pot shops are open in Colorado - Gotta keep people witless and stupid as an essential right? Contented sheep are easier to shepherd
mudchicken Liquor stores and pot shops are open in Colorado - Gotta keep people witless and stupid as an essential right?
That is a very important point........
Sheldon
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