Vicki – channeling my teenage self from the ‘80’s – what a surprise…. not!
So true. So sad
COVID 19 Impact on postponed baseball games this week.
Tweet from Scott Lauber
Phillies: 7 games
Marlins: 7 games
*Yankees: 4 games
*Orioles: 4 games
Blue Jays: 3 games
Nationals: 3 games
Cardinals: 1 game
Brewers: 1 game
(*Yankees and Orioles remained in action by playing two games vs. each other.)
It will be interesting what the NFL games will bring. Hopefully much more positive results.
Thanks Joshua for explaining the COVID-19 for Vicki and me. I also was open to the possibility that the “19” was perhaps chemical related (i.e., automic number, molecular structure etc.).
Good thoughts also.
Fauci’s succinct statement (you’ve heard it on this blog before):
“The coronavirus is rampant in the U.S. due to inadequate, patchwork shutdowns that effectively only imposed restrictions on about half of the country.”
And while the EU and Canada had a slightly deeper recession due to a more stringent lockdown, their recovery since May in terms of economic activity is much more robust. Canada and Germany, in particular, are showing a sustained V-shaped recovery. The U.S. is bumbling along at best, with a recovery marred by dips and lots of flat-lining on main street.
When technology companies that hire relatively few workers (Amazon is sort of an exception) are fueling the Wall Street gains, it’s obvious there’s a major disconnect between main street and Wall Street.
What surprises me at this point is that Congress and the President haven’t proposed a massive infrastructure plan. Our road and bridges are in terrible shape. And, I mean third world shape in some instances. Yet, nothing is done about it. Why not divert some funds from defense and the military and hire (and train) tens of thousands or more to do road and bridge work.
GREAT comment. As we know and surely congress and the president should, FDR did exactly that to help pull out of the depression. Pay the average American, who literally drives the economy, and he puts money back into the economy. And I know I have said this many times. It is difficult to understand why it has to be repeated.
The dems have repeatedly proposed infrastructure plans. One I believe as recently as June
Baker was as understandably frustrated as I’ve seen him. He was basically asked what more we have to do. I wanted him to say you do whatever The heck you have to do. He was borderline emotional as he talked about what our healthcare workers have had to do and how we can’t go back to that.
To me, he has given folks enough warning and the parties keep happening and there are a few more clusters every time he speaks. I wish he’d move backwards and let these irresponsible fools know it is solely due to them.
I heard that Newton is considering having school outdoors and inside tents on rainy days.
I’m getting the hint that districts are leaning in the direction of at home learning at least for the first half of the school year. Teachers don’t seem to have much confidence of typical classroom instruction. Just my observation at this time.
At some point, I would like to hear from the WHW teachers on this side of the blog. 🙂
That will work well with EEE
Good point Vicki. I never thought of that…and neither did Newton educators obviously.
Fortunately mosquitoes are usually not out during the day but not a chance I’d want to take
Vicki, Trump hinted at infrastructure early in his term, but that never got off the ground. I believe the tax cuts may have impeded a comprehensive infrastructure plan.
Obama did pursue a semi-coherent infrastructure plan, but it only lasted about 18 months. I never understood why that part of the stimulus didn’t extend until they got the job done. As a friend of mine in Vermont said, parts of I-89, including overpasses, were fixed and repaved well (not cheaply, which you have to redo in a couple of years). But then the money ran out, and the rest of the road and overpasses were ignored. Locally, I see this all the time. A section of Charles Street is fixed, the rest is left to continue to crumble and decay for years. I’ve never understood this policy. A street as short as Charles Street should be done in its entirety, and not piecemeal. I’m more than willing to pay higher taxes for this. I want good roads, schools, healthcare. They cost money. I’m fine with paying my share. Certainly prefer paying taxes for the latter than for more cruise missiles to add to an already overflowing stockpile. And no, I’m not a pacifist.
It’s a theme here in the U.S. We don’t do things thoroughly or systematically. It’s just not in our DNA, I guess. Hence, the slipshod, haphazard, and fragmented response to Covid-19. You have two populous states with VERY different outcomes. One, NY, dithered and messed up for several weeks in March before getting its act together. The end-result was catastrophic. The other, CT, didn’t dither or mess up with nursing homes for the most part, has a much lower death rate, and is now the envy of the nation with very low positivity (0.65% – compared to 2.1% in Massachusetts, 9.3% nationwide, and close to 20% in Arizona, Texas, and Florida)
Belmont is a wealthy town With really high taxes. I remember driving through and thinking it’s street are something you’d see in third world country. But it is now a liberal town and IMO has gone downhill. I am laughing because I understand I am seen as liberal. Not so much, folks.
Kennedy was smart enough to get the race for space going. It fed the economy. Intelligence and common sense in general seem to have flown out the window.
C-19 for 8-1 is up…
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Remarkably predictable.
Vicki – channeling my teenage self from the ‘80’s – what a surprise…. not!
So true. So sad
COVID 19 Impact on postponed baseball games this week.
Tweet from Scott Lauber
Phillies: 7 games
Marlins: 7 games
*Yankees: 4 games
*Orioles: 4 games
Blue Jays: 3 games
Nationals: 3 games
Cardinals: 1 game
Brewers: 1 game
(*Yankees and Orioles remained in action by playing two games vs. each other.)
It will be interesting what the NFL games will bring. Hopefully much more positive results.
Thanks Joshua for explaining the COVID-19 for Vicki and me. I also was open to the possibility that the “19” was perhaps chemical related (i.e., automic number, molecular structure etc.).
Good thoughts also.
Fauci’s succinct statement (you’ve heard it on this blog before):
“The coronavirus is rampant in the U.S. due to inadequate, patchwork shutdowns that effectively only imposed restrictions on about half of the country.”
And while the EU and Canada had a slightly deeper recession due to a more stringent lockdown, their recovery since May in terms of economic activity is much more robust. Canada and Germany, in particular, are showing a sustained V-shaped recovery. The U.S. is bumbling along at best, with a recovery marred by dips and lots of flat-lining on main street.
When technology companies that hire relatively few workers (Amazon is sort of an exception) are fueling the Wall Street gains, it’s obvious there’s a major disconnect between main street and Wall Street.
What surprises me at this point is that Congress and the President haven’t proposed a massive infrastructure plan. Our road and bridges are in terrible shape. And, I mean third world shape in some instances. Yet, nothing is done about it. Why not divert some funds from defense and the military and hire (and train) tens of thousands or more to do road and bridge work.
GREAT comment. As we know and surely congress and the president should, FDR did exactly that to help pull out of the depression. Pay the average American, who literally drives the economy, and he puts money back into the economy. And I know I have said this many times. It is difficult to understand why it has to be repeated.
The dems have repeatedly proposed infrastructure plans. One I believe as recently as June
Baker was as understandably frustrated as I’ve seen him. He was basically asked what more we have to do. I wanted him to say you do whatever The heck you have to do. He was borderline emotional as he talked about what our healthcare workers have had to do and how we can’t go back to that.
To me, he has given folks enough warning and the parties keep happening and there are a few more clusters every time he speaks. I wish he’d move backwards and let these irresponsible fools know it is solely due to them.
I heard that Newton is considering having school outdoors and inside tents on rainy days.
I’m getting the hint that districts are leaning in the direction of at home learning at least for the first half of the school year. Teachers don’t seem to have much confidence of typical classroom instruction. Just my observation at this time.
At some point, I would like to hear from the WHW teachers on this side of the blog. 🙂
That will work well with EEE
Good point Vicki. I never thought of that…and neither did Newton educators obviously.
Fortunately mosquitoes are usually not out during the day but not a chance I’d want to take
Vicki, Trump hinted at infrastructure early in his term, but that never got off the ground. I believe the tax cuts may have impeded a comprehensive infrastructure plan.
Obama did pursue a semi-coherent infrastructure plan, but it only lasted about 18 months. I never understood why that part of the stimulus didn’t extend until they got the job done. As a friend of mine in Vermont said, parts of I-89, including overpasses, were fixed and repaved well (not cheaply, which you have to redo in a couple of years). But then the money ran out, and the rest of the road and overpasses were ignored. Locally, I see this all the time. A section of Charles Street is fixed, the rest is left to continue to crumble and decay for years. I’ve never understood this policy. A street as short as Charles Street should be done in its entirety, and not piecemeal. I’m more than willing to pay higher taxes for this. I want good roads, schools, healthcare. They cost money. I’m fine with paying my share. Certainly prefer paying taxes for the latter than for more cruise missiles to add to an already overflowing stockpile. And no, I’m not a pacifist.
It’s a theme here in the U.S. We don’t do things thoroughly or systematically. It’s just not in our DNA, I guess. Hence, the slipshod, haphazard, and fragmented response to Covid-19. You have two populous states with VERY different outcomes. One, NY, dithered and messed up for several weeks in March before getting its act together. The end-result was catastrophic. The other, CT, didn’t dither or mess up with nursing homes for the most part, has a much lower death rate, and is now the envy of the nation with very low positivity (0.65% – compared to 2.1% in Massachusetts, 9.3% nationwide, and close to 20% in Arizona, Texas, and Florida)
Belmont is a wealthy town With really high taxes. I remember driving through and thinking it’s street are something you’d see in third world country. But it is now a liberal town and IMO has gone downhill. I am laughing because I understand I am seen as liberal. Not so much, folks.
Kennedy was smart enough to get the race for space going. It fed the economy. Intelligence and common sense in general seem to have flown out the window.
C-19 for 8-1 is up…