I compromise and use baby wipes. I prefer them. Spray splashes.

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She doesn't want to carry one, just to use it from time to time.

Yep. Been there, done that.

When she got into the habit of using my knife and flashlight regularly, I bought her a knife and light of her own. Which she promptly lost.

Back to borrowing mine.

We actually found the flashlight a few months ago, when she was cleaning out her closet and bagging up some stuff for donation to Goodwill. It had been missing for almost a decade.

The knife is still nowhere to be found.

Man, sorry to hear that. Mine picked out a knife she liked and I bought it for. She liked a flashlight I bought her one in the color she liked. If she gets caught without her purse, she might ask my to cut something for her, but she doesn’t ask to borrow the knife. I like it that way. Now if I could just convince her to carry all the time...

Yep, now the media claims there are two diagnosed cases here in Florida.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/n...tive-for-coronavirus

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Yep, now the media claims there are two diagnosed cases here in Florida.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/n...tive-for-coronavirus

Just in time for Spring Break.....................

Top adviser to Iranian supreme leader Khamenei dies of coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/03/02/...dies-of-coronavirus/

A close adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died Monday of the coronavirus at the age of 71.

Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died at a Tehran hospital, becoming the first top official to succumb to the illness in the Islamic Republic, which has the highest death toll outside China.

As of Monday, 66 people have died of COVID-19 in Iran, where there are more than 1,500 confirmed cases.

Other key officials who have come down with the illness are Masoumeh Ebtekar, a vice president better known as “Sister Mary,” who served as spokeswoman for the students who seized the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Also ailing is Iraj Harirchi, the head of a government task force on the coronavirus who initially tried to downplay the virus.

Second person died at Evergreen Hospital just south of me. My Costco has sold over $5mil over the last 5 days. It has been MUCH busier than any holiday season. Toilet paper and water is trucked in each day, and sells in hours. Several schools in the area are closed. Things are getting pretty panicky around here.

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Expediency Council ...

Does the Supreme Ayatollah claim Allah wants x but the Expediency Council says "Too hard. Screw that. Do y instead."?

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A close adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died Monday of the coronavirus at the age of 71

Lets hope he was SUPER close over the last couple of weeks

Update from my brother who’s a doctor if anyone is interested. The deaths may be outdated but the salient points are valid.

SARS-COVID-19 Update

As the Covid-19 outbreak increases, we're seeing more countries drop on the travel advisory list. An outbreak ocurred in Washington state this weekend and the first novel virus-associated death in the US was recorded.

The CDC reports 87,000 cases worldwide, 80,000 of which are in China. Briefly, this virus shares similarities to the SARS-COV and MERS-COV viruses, All of which are coronaviruses. This is a very large and common virus family, species are seeing both humans and other animals. Rarely is there a spread from an animal to humans but this has occurred in the previous two coronavirus infections above. Interestingly, all three viruses have origins in bats.

This new virus was initially identified in the Hubei province of China in WuHan city. Originally connected to a seafood and live animal market in the city of WuHan, the virus is thought to have changed from animal to human transmission to person to person transmission.
On January 30 of 2020 the WHO declared a “public health emergency of international concern.” And on January 31 the US health and human services declared a public health emergency.

The complete clinical picture of covert 19, it’s timeline and severely are not fully known, however reported cases have been from mild to severe, with most deaths occurring in those individuals with extremes of age, extremely young or elderly, or those individuals with multiple comorbidities, chronic illnesses or decreased immune function. In the United States, the current risk of exposure to US citizens is still considered low.

Symptoms usually occur 2 to 14 days after exposure, and major symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath. in other words, like almost every other viral infection.
To put things into perspective, there were 8098 cases of SARS and 774 deaths. That was a 9.6% chance of death. Influenza occurs throughout the world in yearly outbreaks and affects between three and 5 million individuals with a severe illness each year, resulting in about 300,000 to 650,000 deaths per year.

Although this new virus is considered more contagious and more deadly than the influenza virus, I want to emphasize that that does appear to be only in patients who are severely ill, With underlying comorbidities, chronic illnesses, and extremes of age.

The virus is thought to spread in similar patterns to other coronaviruses and the recommended method for decreasing risk of transmission is frequent handwashing, wearing a surgical mask is also useful. Staying approximately 6 feet away from infected individuals, covering your mouth and nose from nasal and respiratory secretions, and washing surfaces will also decrease risk of spread.

At this time there’s no vaccine or cure. However staying in good health, sleeping appropriately, exercising well, staying hydrated will help not only with this particular coronavirus but any viral infection. At this point we still don’t know everything about the disease, but I would go about my daily life and not be deeply concerned. Treat this like any other virus or viral infection. This is just the media’s new zombie apocalypse story which causes a frenzy across all walks of life.

KIRO radio is saying that public health officials in Washington believe the virus has been here for at least six weeks.

My son’s bus driver was wearing a hospital mask this morning. The other parents at the stop were saying there was a line down the street to get into Costco yesterday morning. One lady said it looked like the whole town was there. The panic is real here, and having a school in our tiny town shut down “for sterilization” has got people extra freaked out.

So fed up with this hysteria. Every new case now in the U.S. is breaking news. It's nuts. I pray to God when it's time for me to fly home at the end of the week that things somewhat normalize. And hopefully I'll still be able to buy toilet paper. If all else fails, I'll just use the New York Times.

Hopefully the stock Market continues to rebound all week.

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So fed up with this hysteria. Every new case now in the U.S. is breaking news. It's nuts. I pray to God when it's time for me to fly home at the end of the week that things somewhat normalize. And hopefully I'll still be able to buy toilet paper. If all else fails, I'll just use the New York Times.

Hopefully the stock Market continues to rebound all week.

Have you started panic buying whiskey yet?

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Have you started panic buying whiskey yet?

I have not. But that's only because I haven't been home in weeks. Glad you brought this up. Going to send the wife out to buy out the local liquor store of Knob Creek.

Whiskey and TP. I'll be all set.

Stock up on Wet Wipes. Unscented for me and mine, scented for trade or barter. That way me or the dogs can smell them coming.

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Yep, now the media claims there are two diagnosed cases here in Florida.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/n...tive-for-coronavirus

Bike Week starts this weekend, wonder how it will affect attendance...

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Top adviser to Iranian supreme leader Khamenei dies of coronavirus.

Hmmm, so by simple extrapolation....

- Advisor dies of coronavirus
- Dem's blame Trump for coronavirus
- Trump killed advisor

More WINNING!

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Yep, now the media claims there are two diagnosed cases here in Florida.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/n...tive-for-coronavirus

Bike Week starts this weekend, wonder how it will affect attendance...

The dudes that go to Bike Week? Ya kiddin' right? The virus is likely terrified of these dudes.

6 dead in Washington now. Likely from the same nursing home.

The local news here in Bellingham is reporting 4 more deaths today in King county, bringing the total up to 6.

It should kick the media into another frenzy this evening when it hits the national media.

They seem pretty concerned about how this may hit Seattles homeless population.

While I’m always an advocate of taking reasonable precautions against disaster, do people really believe that this is a lights out/water supply failure-level event? Of course it’s good to have some water stashed but does anybody really believe the tap is going to run dry because of this???