[Leica] the new normal

[Peter Dzwig]

Over here in Britain, the government is starting to take economic
measures that seem appropriate, but it has taken a long time to act. For
example, mass gatherings should have been banned weeks ago.

Schools are still open, although a friend has just announced that she
will close the school that she runs after unsatisfactory government
guidance. There are arguments both ways, especially when it comes to
ares where kids get their one decent meal of the day at school and there
are also issues about carers and so on. Teachers and support staff and
for the general running of the schools are vulnerable too.but schools
are one example there are many others.

There does appear to be more action at a local level, though, my brother
who interacts with his local council, social workers and so on says that
from briefings he has received there is quite a lot of planning going on
and in some cases plans from WWII are being reviewed and built upon!

However Boris is starting to appear like a Prime Minister, finally.

My brother called from Poland to say that they are in virtual lock down,
most educational establishments closed about a week or two ago. At the
present he says, the only places that are open, apart from some shops
are the churches.

HOWEVER **WE** have the LUG and I think it is very important that we
keep in touch with one another and use the social side as much as
anything as the support it has always been for all of us. Let's use it!

As the photographer Jacques Revon wrote yesterday in L'Oeil de la
Photographie <https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/jacques-revon-pp/>
Now is the time to catch up - and post - the backlog!

I look forwrad to seeing your posts, and yes I will restore my old
systems and try to catch up and post, too!

Wishing you all, all the best,

Peter

On 18/03/2020 02:49, Mark Kronquist via LUG 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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Dr. Peter Dzwig