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Subject: [Leica] the new normal
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:03:37 +0100
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Similar processes here, somewhat late, yet.

For instance, we have a lady coming twice a week to help with the cleaning. 
She won?t come tomorrow for everyone is confined.  But we?ll pay her all the 
same, and get a refund from the state. 

What is currently more problematic, is those people who really need help (we 
don?t, and I could do cleaning if I were not so lazy). We have organized a ? 
food-chain ? for those in the village who need medicine, or groceries, and 
are either ? too old ? to run the risk, or suffer from other aggravating 
conditions. Alice will thus deliver some soup on the window sill of a very 
old couple tonight. Both have very likely contracted the disease, but the 
hospitals won?t take them due to overcrowding and the resulting priority 
rules. 

Amities

Philippe



> Le 18 mars 2020 ? 10:45, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> a ?crit :
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> The government is coming out with an assistance package for small 
> businesses. And people who are laid off will get unemployment benefits and 
> will continue to have health insurance of course, in contrast with my 
> low-wage workers in the US. 
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 18 Mar 2020, at 09:35, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Spoken as a true employed civil servant ;-)   All those 'restaurants, 
>> caf?s, bars' still have overheads and probably staff to pay.  In the UK 
>> Johnson has said that we should not travel or go to bars / eateries, this 
>> means that only those with 'pandemic insurance' are covered, he has to 
>> force the bars etc to close to let them get their business continuity 
>> insurance payouts.   Around here many businesses are small and seasonal, 
>> we are all coming out after living for months on money made during the 
>> season and need Easter traffic to boost the bank accounts - that is not 
>> going to happen....
>> 
>> john
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
>> Sent: 18 March 2020 07:30
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] the new normal
>> 
>> Here in Spain we are effectively in house arrest. The situation is 
>> serious but I am glad that strong action is being taken. I am worried 
>> that US is too disorganised to take such action in time, and also the 
>> public health system has too many holes to be truly effective, and the 
>> lack of protection for workers means that many people will go to work 
>> even if they are not well, and?
>> 
>> I am working from home, as is everyone else who can. Supermarkets, 
>> pharmacies, post offices, SOME bank branches are open and there are no 
>> shortages. All basic services function normally. But no restaurants, 
>> caf?s, bars, museums, concerts etc. No going for a walk or a bike ride 
>> unless going to buy food, medicines and for a few other permitted 
>> reasons. I have ordered an exercise bike online, should be here next week.
>> 
>> My wife went to the supermarket and got us some Guinness yesterday, I 
>> made an Irish stew and my daughter baked a loaf of soda bread, and we had 
>> a nice St Patrick?s Day dinner. 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> 
>> Alicante, Spain
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>>> On 18 Mar 2020, at 03:49, Mark Kronquist via LUG <lug at 
>>> leica-users.org> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Happy St Patrick?s Day! There is no corned beef or cabbage to be found 
>>> in the bare markets and the one Guinness came from my fridge. 
>>> 
>>> How long before it makes economic sense to import beer from Ireland 
>>> again? Did it ever?
>>> 
>>> Portland and the suburbs, including Stayton, were built on 
>>> Flavortainment. What flavor is in people?s mouths now?
>>> 
>>> I spent many years working as a City Councilor, Planning Commissioner, 
>>> Parks Board Member, Vice Chair of the Parks Board and School Board 
>>> Liaison doing what I could to serve brilliant, determined business 
>>> people who wanted to pursue their now shuttered and perhaps shattered 
>>> dreams. Tonight, I look out my door. Mick and Mom's is having a last 
>>> call party. Snow Peak Brewery right next door is closed. The new high 
>>> end pub that was scheduled to open today probably never will. The food 
>>> carts are gone. The cafes and coffee shops shut, many for good. The 
>>> curtain has come down on the promising little theater that opened to 
>>> rave reviews in December. There are no stars on the silver screen of the 
>>> Star theater. The Moose and Elk lodges are empty perhaps to return to 
>>> pasture. As Alice Cooper said, School?s Out for the Summer?in mid 
>>> March?the library, pool and city offices are closed. 
>>> 
>>> The street lights light empty streets and highlight the possible death 
>>> of a downtown renascence.
>>> 
>>> How long will the lights stay on if there are, as the Imperial College 
>>> study predicts, two million deaths in the US before August?
>>> 
>>> How many downtowns across America and the world are experiencing the 
>>> same thing? Is this the new normal?
>>> 
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