Buffalo_Gal

Sunday? Unprecedented

Dash's has suspended deliveries We are now in instacart with Tops. We started the order with a late evening Monday delivery, and as we've filled up the cart it is now into a Tuesday morning delivery. I wanted Whole Foods, Hubby told me to suck it up and stick with Tops. ? Good thing this is only for fresh stuff and tortilla chips. We will not starve, but not being able to go out for fresh groceries kinda sucks. It is amazing how spoiled as a population we are... I want fresh foods, and I want 'em now!

Agree with all of that (except the temperatures which I explained above)... smushing a thousand people in like sardines isn’t exactly maintaining any “social distance.” We were never offered hand sanitizer, masks, or gloves, although many passengers had masks (that they’d flip down whenever they felt like it ). We had our own hand sanitizer, I declined the mask (hubby brought a bunch with him).

When the rumblings came in Friday that Spain was going to lockdown Saturday, I had Hubby book us tickets home. We were off this morning before the sun came up, getting a flight home through Lisbon. Arriving at Newark, we sat on the tarmac for over an hour since they were “clearing planes.” We pull up to the gate, all the passengers queued up to deplane when someone from the CDC comes onto the plane with forms. (In all the traveling we have done since the Wuhan flu was unleashed on an unsuspecting world, only one place has had forms before this ... Morroco.) We are all told to fill out the form, and have a seat (on the plane) until our plane was called. The prior plane waited 90 minutes to be called, not counting tarmac time. We were fortunate as under 45 minutes later, we were called. Someone SCREAMED at us to get in a single file (honestly though, with the complete cluster***** this was, that was the only #######... all the rest of the officers, cdc, and customs agents were super nice in a trying situation), and then people did the forehead temperature thing to every passenger, and recorded it on those sheets we filled out. After that, the CDC forms were collected, and it was on to passport control... where global entry was not working. As we were waiting in line, one of the line mushers struck up a conversation with us that “in seven years I have never seen anything like this.” He mentioned he’d go to lunch, and the procedure would change afterwards. The next day, different procedures again. After our passports were checked, they were taken away for a secondary (we all guessed (no one told us) that it was because we had been in either France or Spain, and they were checking against temperatures). 3.5 hours after we landed, we were all let out into the wild! Just kidding. As I suspected days ago, we need to self quarantine for two weeks. My son and his fiancée flew home via Toronto last night. He said it was a form and 45 minutes later they were done. He’s working from home during his self quarantine, his fiancée is a nurse so she is off the next two weeks. Oh, there was a warning for the African West Nile Virus on one of the screens at customs, so the guy next to me asked if “that is the next panic virus we are all going to die from.” I gave him the stink eye and he went into hysterics. If you don’t laugh...

We are tracking stuff but most of the stocks I wanted to buy years ago are still double their 2008 prices. Good for the folks that bought them, bad for me that missed out.

People said that after norovirus, too.

Don't laugh, there is a water bottle attachment.

I expect they will.

I fully expect Trump to hammer this home (even more so) after this “crisis “ abates. Bring the pharma back, anything with national security emphasis (steel, precious metals, foods, etc), even electronics coming home to have less dependency abroad.

Well, why not? Less witnesses to the back room dealings, no floor vote, never let a crisis go to waste... win-win-win for the DNC, lose-lose-lose for America. Probably gonna happen.

Gold is down, so maybe so.

Yeah, but that was just batshit crazy.

What the actual *****?

Nope. Just one ***** up human being.

Of course! What was I thinking?

What exactly do you think these leaders, specifically President Trump, should be doing?

Thanks, but the ban does not apply to American citizens (yet). I expect we will be self-quarantined when we head back home in a few weeks. </snip> The countries affected include: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. The restrictions do not apply to American residents or to travel from the UK. Most immediate family members of US citizens are exempt. </snip>

No idea why this is "controversial." US Supreme Court lets 'Remain in Mexico' asylum policy stay in place The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that the controversial Trump administration "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy can stay in effect while legal challenges play out. </snip>

Hunter Biden Reaches Settlement in Child Support Case After Court Denies Latest Delay Attempt Lawyers for Hunter Biden reached a final child support settlement with the Arkansas mother of his child late Tuesday night after a judge blasted the former vice president's son for his repeated attempts to delay the case, likely avoiding the release of financial documents that could expose his business dealings abroad. </snip>