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I just read this on one of the Facebook groups I'm on:
Amol Kumawat *Informative*
I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality. The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.
If you are in Europe or the US you are weeks away from where we are today in Italy.
I can hear you now. “It’s just a flu. It only affects old people with preconditions”
There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it’s knees. First it is a flu is devastating when people get really sick they need weeks of ICU – and, second, because of how fast and effectively it spreads. There is 2 week incubation period and many who have it never show symptoms.
When Prime Minister Conte announced last night that the entire country, 60 million people, would go on lock down, the line that struck me most was “there is no more time.” Because to be clear, this national lock down, is a hail mary. What he means is that if the numbers of contagion do not start to go down, the system, Italy, will collapse.
Why? Today the ICUs in Lombardy are at capacity – more than capacity. They have begun to put ICU units in the hallways. If the numbers do not go down, the growth rate of contagion tells us that there will be thousands of people who in a matter of a week? two weeks? who will need care. What will happen when there are 100, or a 1000 people who need the hospital and only a few ICU places left?
On Monday a doctor wrote in the paper that they have begun to have to decide who lives and who dies when the patients show up in the emergency room, like what is done in war. This will only get worse.
There are a finite number of drs, nurses, medical staff and they are getting the virus. They have also been working non-stop, non-stop for days and days. What happens when the drs, nurses and medical staff are simply not able to care for the patients, when they are not there?
And finally for those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals are reporting that younger and younger patients – 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment.
You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities – there is a two week incubation period – and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time.
And for those who say it is not possible to close the schools, and do all these other things, locking down Italy was beyond anyone’s imagination a week ago.
Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now.
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Littlesister, I received your check also. I'll deposit into our account when I do Homey's.
Thank you so much ((((LS))))
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Homey, I received your check and will put it into our account this week.
Thank you so much for your help. They just took this months charge out on Friday so it was a huge blessing to have the money in our account to pay it.
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Yes I did Jeepers. Thank you so much...we now have 3 months taken care of:
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Lol@jeepers. It’s ok
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Yayyyyy!
I was just able to put $100 into our account balance because of a generous donation from a beloved member.
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Thanks everyone
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I emailed our hosting company and asked them if they have 6mos or yearly payments. This was their response:
Andy Millne (Invision Community)
Mar 3, 5:51 AM EST
Hello Darlene,
We don't have any 6 month or yearly payment plans but it is possible to add credit to your account if you do not wish to be billed monthly. Monthly renewal fees will then be taken from this account credit automatically when renewals fall due.
You can add account credit from the client area at https://invisioncommunity.com/clientarea/ under "My Details" > Account Credit.
I hope that helps but please let us know if we can be any further assistance.
Kind Regards
Andy Millne
Darlene Kelley
Mar 2, 6:01 PM EST
We currently have our site hosted with you and wanted to know if, instead of monthly payments, you offer a 6 month or yearly payment option?
I find it interesting that they don't have at least yearly payment options. I've never hosted a site with a company that didn't. Anyway, whatever we can put together, I'll put in the account credit area for our account.
Ya'll can either paypal it to me *Friends and Family* or mail it to me. Feel free to send me a PM and I'll give you the information.
Thanks for your help.
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I wanted to ask if anyone would be interested in helping me pay for the monthly hosting fee for MrsSurvival. Annarchy paid for it for a while, and I've been paying for it for a while but it's getting difficult to afford the $45/month hosting fee.
So, I wanted to ask if anyone is able to help, feel free to contact me. I talked to Annarchy the other day and she said that she thought they offer monthly and bi-annual payments. If we were able to collect enough, I'd like to pay 6 months at a time, instead of the monthly overhead.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask. If anyone has any questions let me know.
Thanks.
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The corona virus is very susceptible to cleaning products, so antibacterial cleaners is a plus. Optivida's Silver Sol, when sprayed on hard surfaces, lasts indefinitely. Their gel, when used on the hands, will last 4 hours. These facts have been proven through testing around the world.
As you said, a fine mist spray of the Silver Sol is what I plan to do on the masks. I would re-use the masks under certain conditions, but that's just me.
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((((mt rider))))
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Silver...colloidal silver to be exact. Fine mist spray them.
I like Optivida's silver the best.
Their silver gel lasts for 4 hours on the hand. Their silver liquid sprayed on hard surfaces lasts indefinitely.
I plan on using a fine mist spray over the mask and perhaps even on the inside, haven't figured it out yet. BTW, 3M's N95 masks that people use for woodworking, etc are no different than the surgical masks: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1798135O/possible-alternatives-to-surgical-n95-respirators-in-the-us-healthcare-technical-bulletin.pdf
For now though, I'm focusing on doing the colloidal silver as much as I can.
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Thankfully, it appears that this may be a non-event for our area and thank God Flowy reduced from a Cat 4 to Cat 1. That's still catastrophic for many on the east coast but I'm grateful it wasn't even worse.
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Yeah, it's been shocking at how expensive the actual beans are. I've used them to make homemade vanilla for years, which even with the bean price hike, is far cheaper than buying vanilla at the store.
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Kewl Kappy! I'm up in north Georgia in the Blue Ridge mountains
Flowy has slowed down and downgraded its intensity. We're still in the cone for rains and I'm sure lower winds, which is fine. Not worried about flooding so I'm feeling optimistic.
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Thanks everyone...I just looked at the news and Flowy is down to 110mph which is a good thing!
Kappy, where in GA are you? It's exciting to know that there's another MrsS here in GA!
Trim trees MtRider? Which ones? lol j/k...my son trimmed some around the house a few weeks ago but they are a very brittle variety that needs to be totally taken out.
As I write this I just realized that water will be my concern...not for me, as much as for all the animals. Sheesh, need to figure out how to hook generator up to well pump that keeps all the automatic waterers going. Hopefully the downgrade in Flowy will be a good sign to all.
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11 years ago I moved from Miami to a little farm in the Blue Ridge mountains. I was happiest about leaving hurricane season behind me, far far away.
While I'm no longer on the coast, it appears that Hurricane Florence wants to visit, albeit a much downgraded hurricane by that point. I no longer live in concrete block housing and I have a ton of trees that could mess alot of things up so if you think about it, keep us in your prayers.
Sheesh, it's aggravating to think about losing electricity, but there's no better way to prep than living through things like that in the past lol. And maybe, the Lord will place His hand to direct it in another direction (not that I want anyone to go through that kind of thing). THAT would be awesome
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I use the antibiotics alot with the animals here, as well as the family if needed. They've been a life and money saver many times.
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Well, I'm a diehard and did the traditional Thanksgiving dinner I've cooked for the past 30 years or more :). Turkey, stuffing, gravy, potato salad, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, buttered corn, desserts, etc. It's alot of work but as we ate dinner yesterday, each bite I took reminded me of how the holiday cooking is worth it because of how good it tastes. It took 2 days to get everything prepared but thankfully my girls were awesome sous chefs and made it all come together smoothly.
It was actually the nicest Thanksgiving dinner I've done in a while. I pulled out my city girl china and set the table really pretty. We had some friends over so it was a wonderful time with family and friends.
Today, however, I'm sitting on the couch trying to get a fire going in the wood stove (nothing new there lol...I'm fire challenged). Leftovers will rule the day and I'll decompress over the weekend.
I hope everyone, regardless of the meals they prepared, had a very blessed Thanksgiving
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Too sweet
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Sheesh Wormie, I'm so sorry. I'll be praying for both of you.
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17 hours ago, Cat said:
Now to try to figure out how to do this all again... things are different.
Out of curiosity, what's different? I wouldn't think that just changing servers would have changed the message board, but then again, what do I know? That's why we have our little Miss Annarchy who knows all things techy lolol
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If I remember correctly Vic, Annarchy and I discussed doing that but it would have been an incredibly laborious job...and then the question arose, "Which ones do we archive or not?" so we decided to just move the whole kit and caboodle!
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Yeah, never a dull moment around here. We had used GoDaddy to host our site for many, many years. Yesterday, I got an email saying that we were over our quota so they had turned off our site. There was no warning, no notice, they just turned it off. I got ahold of Annarchy and she called them but they were unwilling to work with us at all. They wouldn't let us upgrade our package or anything except spent $1500/month on a dedicated server that would have had nobody else but us on it.
Forget that.
Thankfully, the people that designed our message board program also have hosting packages so we decided to move MrsS to a new server with a new company. The good news is that instead of only having 1gb allowance, we now have 5gb allowance so we have plenty of room to grow.
Sorry about the site interruption, but as I said, we had no fore warning and no time to let anyone know before they shut the site down.
A very special and heartfelt thank you to Annarchy for always getting us through these rough spots. Hopefully, all the hassels we've had with GoDaddy in the past are over for her.
It feels so good to have MrsS back online
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Soap vs Coronavirus
in Nature's Pharmacy
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For those that may be stressing about not being able to find hand sanitizer, don't worry. Soap actually 'disinfects' better than the hand sanitizer:
Outside the Box
Deadly viruses are no match for plain, old soap — here’s the science behind it
Palli Thordarson
Soap works better than alcohol and disinfectants at destroying the structure of viruses