Iuz the Evil

Human beings are reliable in a number of ways. They're so relentlessly social that they will bond with complete strangers around the shared experience of having nobody to bond with. I'm not concerned my response will be atypical.

I hate tele-commuting. With the fire of a thousand suns. Some ass said on a conference call today "I wonder if people will change their behavior and this will be the new normal". Nearly bit their head off. "I will not be accepting your damn Zoom meeting invite after this incident. I'm not available for that, but I can be in the conference room at the same time. Let me know if you can make it." Grrrr. New normal indeed

Still zero cases in Napa. We've got crowd abatement in place, no gatherings over 50. Most of the wineries and hotels are heavily impacted. Restaurants are empty but for door dash or pickup. This is crazy stuff. Going to telecommuting at local offices. Appointment and essential services only. I'd say this is the biggest crisis I've responded to in my career, even worse than the Murrah Building in OKC, the Moore tornado, 2015 earthquake, Lake County fire, or Napa Fire Complex. This will devastate the nation. Already is doing so. If we can mitigate and prevent overwhelming the state's ER/ICU capacity that'll be good. The economic impact is catastrophic either way.

That's what we're doing here as well. Coordination will improve over the next few weeks.

<--- Napa. Yeah, ouch.

Heh, I live in Napa actually. The local Department of Public Health is one of the Divisions I'm over in our Agency. We had no resident cases last I looked (8pm Friday), through local government testing or private sector including local hospitals and folks with local zip codes tested in adjoining Counties, that have been tested positive. Could change for sure, but current rate is zero.

At a local level, the emotional response is absolutely off the hook. I have zero (0) local cases, community transmission or otherwise. Schools just closed to April 14. Events closed through April, which will be absolutely devastating to the tourist based economy. Nonprofits closing to March 29. Okay, fine. Shut it all down. Whatever makes people happy.

This was a pretty intense flu season (although not as bad as 2017-18) influenza "B" was heavily culpable. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year%3famp=true

Came to post this. Such a great actor.

Or maybe wildly ridiculous governmental overreach. Tomato, "tomahto" And that's coming from a Bay Area, Northern California, local government progressive. This is a mechanism to fine business for display arrangements on children's clothing that don't conform to gender neutral content. I can't even begin to point out the innumerable ways this is a waste of time and effort. I'm as friendly a constituent as you are likely to find in North America and I find this pretty close to offensive.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2826 AB2826. California really tracking the important issues here. Dammit people, this is why we cannot have nice things.

Well I work as an administrator working with Public Health in California, so yeah... pretty much is the big ticket item for our community response these days.

Huh. Well, it's a hard world out there these days.

And Chris Matthews is gone. That was sudden, anyone know what that's about? Edit: Nevermind. Found it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wthr.com/article/chris-matthews-retires-msnbc-cites-comments-women%3famp

The Glaive. For years I wondered why it was categorized as a polearm because of this. Fantastic movie.

In response to the Incredible Hulk television reference in the other thread (as noted in 1977), I give you 1982's finest:

1987

I loved the 80s. That movie is going to be full of nostalgia for me.

I could actually see them do the spin-instant-change in this one. They've even got the armor from Kingdom Come. And the 80s version of the outfit looks great.

The trailer's use of Blue Monday is fantastic. And the 1980s as a "new age of Wonder", plus shiny boots. Really seems fun, and I'm looking forward to it.