Last night we told you how Dr. Jared Burks has been living apart from his wife Alyssa and their son Zeke in Northeast Arkansas while he treats patients with #COVID19.
Today, the Burks’ home was destroyed by a tornado. They’re all safe.
I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning, thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
Comfort, peace, love & strength to all our families who are grieving but cannot be with their deceased loved ones during #COVID19nz. We know this is painful. As we say in Samoan ‘Manuia le malaga’ – blessings to your loved one for their journey. https://t.co/Sc4DtpJE3A
— Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo (@KaraninaSumeo) March 30, 2020
Naomi Replansky, a 101-year-old poet and labor activist, and her wife Eva Kollisch, a 95-year-old former professor at Sarah Lawrence, lived through the worst of the 20th century. They have some advice for you.https://t.co/qMXkRL1Fna
As more than 25 million people are placed on a two-week lockdown in parts of Nigeria in a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus, poor people in congested neighbourhoods are worried about how they will cope, writes the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo from the commercial capital Lagos.
"From where do we get the extra water to wash the hands you are talking about," asked Debby Ogunsola, 36, as she led me down a dark corridor towards her room in the Alapere area of Lagos state [....]
A magnitude 6.5 #earthquake just shook Idaho with the epicenter being located northeast of Boise, according to the USGS. Did you feel it? pic.twitter.com/KDjMNKHaaM
The mayor of Holyoke in Massachusetts confronted the superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home after hearing rumors that infections were spreading.
By Ellen Barry @ NYTimes.com, March 31
NEWTON, Mass. — The mayor of Holyoke, Mass., got an unsigned letter over the weekend that deeply disturbed him.
“Are you aware of the horrific circumstances at the Soldiers’ Home?” the letter read, and went on to describe serious breaches, like a resident suspected of having the coronavirus, awaiting the results of a test, being sent back to a dementia ward with 20 other veterans.
“Where is the state in addressing what is truly happening in this building?” the letter concluded.
The mayor, Alex Morse, reached out to Bennett Walsh, the superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, a 247-bed, state-managed nursing home for veterans, to figure out what was going on.
But by then, Mr. Morse said, the damage was far more than he had imagined: In a matter of five days, eight veterans had died, apparently without being reported to either state or local officials. Others were sick with the coronavirus; staff members were too.
Mr. Walsh’s explanations left the mayor “incredibly disappointed,” and so did a conversation with Mr. Walsh’s superior, Francisco Urena, Massachusetts’ Secretary of Veterans’ Services. Frustrated and “with a sense of disappointment at the lack of urgency,” Mr. Morse contacted Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito.
By Monday, state officials had announced a series of major moves.
Mr. Walsh was placed on administrative leave. A new command structure was put in place. The National Guard was brought in to speed up testing of staff and patients [....]
Gees when he talks like that I can't even think that much about what he is saying because it is like being tortured by your Joey Buttafucco-type uncle trying to break in a serious conversation with the college-educated group at a family wedding. Here he's doing the "on the one hand, on the other hand" thing that's part of that whole shtick. Drives me nuts , you were having an interesting convo and he breaks in and you gotta be polite instead of saying: puhleez go away. It reminds me of my greatest gen. dad saying in like 2000: you know, they say this Madonna girl is really popular because he just read about her in Time Magazine for the first time and wants to display his new knowledge.
"On the one hand I can see sending all the Jews to Treblinka, on the other hand I can see leaving them where they are - I'd rather see them in Poland, but I left the guys with the authority to make that decision. There are trains ready if they choose." - lost conversation with Adolf Eichmann, The Banality of Executive Decision Making
“I’m always thinking how worse it was when we were under the German occupation, where every minute, our lives were at risk; literally, being in the ghetto and being in hiding. So if I was able to live through that, what the heck is coronavirus?” https://t.co/ADYOI7r6E2
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Snger John Prine is intubated and critical:
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/29/2020 - 10:58pm
Unlikely to get his wish.
https://youtu.be/L5sM4xDJ5iA
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/29/2020 - 11:51pm
Prine just lost against coronavirus @ 73 (after beating cancer):
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 3:17am
Lyrics always stuck with me.
https://youtu.be/lrn61oGSEg4lrn61oGSEg4
I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning, thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 3:46am
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/29/2020 - 11:29pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/30/2020 - 1:03am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 4:42am
Lagos lockdown over coronavirus: 'How will my children survive?"
@ BBCNews.com, March 31
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 7:21pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 8:15pm
Coronavirus Spreads in Veterans’ Home, Leaving ‘Shuddering Loss for Us All’
The mayor of Holyoke in Massachusetts confronted the superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home after hearing rumors that infections were spreading.
By Ellen Barry @ NYTimes.com, March 31
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/01/2020 - 8:28am
To paraphrase Stalin ("It doesn't matter who votes what matters is who counts the votes")
It doesn't matter who dies, what matters is who counts the bodies.
When the first round of this subsides, I guarantee that Trump will be tap dancing over the death toll just as he made sure not to test th living.
by jollyroger on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 6:11am
Gees when he talks like that I can't even think that much about what he is saying because it is like being tortured by your Joey Buttafucco-type uncle trying to break in a serious conversation with the college-educated group at a family wedding. Here he's doing the "on the one hand, on the other hand" thing that's part of that whole shtick. Drives me nuts , you were having an interesting convo and he breaks in and you gotta be polite instead of saying: puhleez go away. It reminds me of my greatest gen. dad saying in like 2000: you know, they say this Madonna girl is really popular because he just read about her in Time Magazine for the first time and wants to display his new knowledge.
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 6:27am
"On the one hand I can see sending all the Jews to Treblinka, on the other hand I can see leaving them where they are - I'd rather see them in Poland, but I left the guys with the authority to make that decision. There are trains ready if they choose." - lost conversation with Adolf Eichmann, The Banality of Executive Decision Making
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 8:51am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/13/2020 - 1:01am