Four days ago I think it hit 90 degrees, yesterday it got all the way up 60 degrees with rain. The rain kept things cool. Today it is back up to 77 degrees so it is warming up again. And the rain clouds, well the blew away or perhaps the rise in temperature sent them off. I am not a weather man, I just gotta suffer from it like the rest of you.
I am ready for the Coronavirus to slow down and for the temperatures to stay warm. I want the spring weather to stabilize. If I have to stay home, I want to be able to work in the yard comfortably. I guess I am greedy about it.
I had to charge into the edge of Fort Worth to have my car inspected for its annual renewal of the license tag. Well, we don't actually have license tags but we do have a sticker in the lower left side of the windshield with a date the next inspection is due. The inspection is not much, sort of basic but the dealer gets $25 and change to do it.
Then you take your renewal paper work, a copy of your current insurance coverage documentation and a check and send it to the county for renewal. They in turn send you the new sticker to put on the windschield. Of course, you gotta scrape the old tag off first. Not hard to do and we keep one of those razor blade scrapers in the utility room to do the job.
It is a nuisance job but it means spring is sprung cause that is when ours are due. I guess we buy cars in the spring.
The other thing is income taxes and now they have been pushed back. Even the Louisiana income taxes have been pushed back. Of course, Louisiana taxes are dependent on your federal tax data. So if Uncle Sam pushes back, so must the state. I am not forgiven paying federal quarterly taxes and I will get that out soon. It is due April 15. Nobody forgave that.
So far we are healthy and no where near any Coronavirus. But it is in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) and a lot of the folks work there or send their workmen here to do jobs. You never know where it will come from but for sure if it is in Fort Worth, it will be here en-mass soon. We have at this time four cases in Parker County and given the history of it spreading, we should see a big jump soon.
No shaking hands, instead pass the disinfectant wipe or a squirt of hand sanitizer. Life is changing before our eyes.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Coronavirus . . .
The nation, indeed the whole world, is going crazy over the Coronavirus. It is serious but made more serious by a media heighten sense of fear. Roosevelt said, "We only have to fear itself." Famous words with the declaration of war against Japan December 7, 1941. Yes, we are in a war but is it more serious than the common Flu? Apparently not and we have a vaccine for Flu (and altogether to many people do not get their annual Flu shot) but no vaccine for Coronavirus. This time next year we will have that vaccine and I bet lots of people will not get the shot.
We are killing in the USA more people due to Flu by many thousands than we are from Coronavirus. Yes, the elderly are more at risk die Coronavirus. Italy with an unusual amount of elderly folks and as a nation has been hit hard with many deaths. Iran has been hit hard because they are doing little to prevent the social contact vis-à-vis person to person. They are being hard headed. Who knows what is going on in Spain or for that matter in Great Britain or Germany. The Russians have said little but are up to their noses in it. And India has put 1.3 billion people on sequester.
We do know now that about 80% of the people infected have little or no symptoms. They may feel ill but it seems to soon pass. Youngsters, and I mean really young children, do not seem to be badly impacted by the virus.
Young adults do get the disease just as much as the elderly but have strong bodies and are generally more healthy than us oldsters. We oldsters all seem to have other secondary issues that make the disease much worse. So yes, we have a greater risk for more compromising disease and even death. But we have that risk any way as elderly people, we are nearer to the end of life than to the beginning of life. That is just plain facts.
Do I like those facts, no, I am one of those elderly that have other issues. Personally I am impacted by Agent Orange and have Diabetes Type II. I am 80 years of age so I fit into the wrong category of risk, I am high risk!
My wife has other compromising issues and severe heart disease to go with it all. And while she is not yet 80 she will be 79 years of age shortly. She is probably higher risk than I am.
But we can not live a life of fear. We must live life as we are, we have no choice. We will soldier on regardless of what transpires for us.
Take care folks, give us space and you take your space too.
We are killing in the USA more people due to Flu by many thousands than we are from Coronavirus. Yes, the elderly are more at risk die Coronavirus. Italy with an unusual amount of elderly folks and as a nation has been hit hard with many deaths. Iran has been hit hard because they are doing little to prevent the social contact vis-à-vis person to person. They are being hard headed. Who knows what is going on in Spain or for that matter in Great Britain or Germany. The Russians have said little but are up to their noses in it. And India has put 1.3 billion people on sequester.
We do know now that about 80% of the people infected have little or no symptoms. They may feel ill but it seems to soon pass. Youngsters, and I mean really young children, do not seem to be badly impacted by the virus.
Young adults do get the disease just as much as the elderly but have strong bodies and are generally more healthy than us oldsters. We oldsters all seem to have other secondary issues that make the disease much worse. So yes, we have a greater risk for more compromising disease and even death. But we have that risk any way as elderly people, we are nearer to the end of life than to the beginning of life. That is just plain facts.
Do I like those facts, no, I am one of those elderly that have other issues. Personally I am impacted by Agent Orange and have Diabetes Type II. I am 80 years of age so I fit into the wrong category of risk, I am high risk!
My wife has other compromising issues and severe heart disease to go with it all. And while she is not yet 80 she will be 79 years of age shortly. She is probably higher risk than I am.
But we can not live a life of fear. We must live life as we are, we have no choice. We will soldier on regardless of what transpires for us.
Take care folks, give us space and you take your space too.
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