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Subject: [Leica] the new normal
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:43:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Those who are out of work due to business closures should go to the nearest 
grocery store.  The stores are desperate for people to re-stock the shelves.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-----Original Message-----
>From: Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>Sent: Mar 18, 2020 2:57 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Cc: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] the new normal
>
>In Louisiana, the churches and bars are closed as well, but you still can
>go to the drive thru daiquiri shop.
>
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:55 PM Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>wrote:
>
>> Here in Oklahoma City the bars and the churches alike are all closed,
>> something I would not have thought possible.
>>
>> On 3/18/2020 2:30 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> > 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
>> > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
>> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
>> >
>> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
>> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
>> >
>> > YNWA
>> >
>> > "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"
>> >
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>> >> On 18 Mar 2020, at 03:49, Mark Kronquist via LUG <lug at 
>> >> leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 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?
>> >>
>> >>> On Mar 17, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Marty Deveney via LUG <
>> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> PS-I am very serious about you assembling these into a book
>> >>> Seconded!  Out-stan-ding!
>> >>>
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>-- 
>Regards,
>
>Sonny
>http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/>
>Natchitoches, Louisiana
>1714
>Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>
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