Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 : > > 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. > > 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" > > > > > > > > > > > > >> 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 >> >> -----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 >> >> >>> 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? >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information