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1 hour ago, gurn said:

If I'm De Santis I agree to let the ship dock- right after Drumpf admits on all the major networks that he was wrong when he earlier refused people from a ship- because it would be bad for his numbers.

First De Santis would have to exit his bosses rectum to get some fresh air.

I think his boss would rather lick every toilet seat on that ship before uttering words like “I was wrong”

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4 minutes ago, CBH1926 said:

 

I would imagine that parents helped these kids to charter the plane in the first place.

 

 

1 hour ago, aGENT said:

Raising kids has always been and will always be, hard.

 

It's a shame more people don't realize just how big of a commitment it is before popping them out without thinking of the CONSTANT, exhausting work, responsibility and love (in the face of constant push back both from the outside world and the kids) required to raise even moderately intelligent, self reliant, socially responsible, well adjusted, eventual adults.

 

I don't blame the kids at all. They're the obvious and unfortunate result of poor parenting.

 

2 minutes ago, Me_ said:

Trump had an actual genius idea not long ago:

 

If a company were to require bailout money, that company should become a Federal company.

Sounds like socialism...:ph34r:

 

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Just now, aGENT said:

Did the same for my parents returning from wintering in Arizona. My sister went to Costco for them, I went to grocery store. They're in isolation for two weeks.

And its little things like that.  I have friends that have a tendancy to get sick more often that I have messaged and offered help and just check in with them often if they need something, none have taken me up yet but rather be safe than sorry and help out if I can.

 

2 minutes ago, Me_ said:

Trump had an actual genius idea not long ago:

 

If a company were to require bailout money, that company should become a Federal company.

Pretty much, these massive companies that need tax payers bailouts are absoultely stupid. I know a lot of times money is tied up in products and manufacturing, etc. but comeon its dumb.  Just like when Harper bailed out GM, I understand why they did it to save thousands of jobs but GM got off with only paying back a fraction of the cost.  And it happens constantly. Such a waste of tax payers dollars, Canada should have gotten a shareholders stake in GM or something atleast until everything was paid back in full. 

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35 minutes ago, coho8888 said:

I actually bought Rocksmith but never had a chance to open the box!  My PS3 is gathering dust somewhere.  Now that I live in a condo, I have to be careful how loud I crank things up.  

 

Daughter plays piano and has no interest in any of my Music (Classic Rock, 80's) unless its tied to some movie.  She likes the immigrant song by Led Zep.

 

I may self isolate out on the River in Chilliwack in the next day or so.

i gave you an upvote, but it's really for your kid....

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A feel good moment that I want to share....  

 

As we talk of children, I have to say I was blessed with two of the very best.  Not my doing, theirs.  They just got it, from early on, and were both so mature, kind...."good".  I'm just happy to know these two individuals (and their people), let alone have them call me Mom.

 

Ours wasn't an easy life...single Mom, but my Dad has been our rock all along.  Papa was always there, no matter what.  I'm talking no rules in this - call at 3 am, he'd jump up, get dressed and come to wherever he was needed.   The kids never went without.  He is selfless, tireless and also "good"...which is where the kids really saw it in action early on and had it embedded by way of him.

 

He and my daughter LOVE to kid one another...have some ongoing jokes.  Kilroy is part of that, as Dad started drawing him in birthday cards early on.  They have a HUGE card that they've sent back and forth to each other over the years..just keep adding to it.  

 

April Fools also started way back with them...that first phone call, Papa pranked them by saying "go stand and look out the living room window..there's a parade going by."  So they stood there, waiting.  Not too long afterward, Papa drove by, honking and waving out the window.  And so it began...

 

This year is tough...we can't see Dad as he's holed up at home, isolated but safe.  He and his senior cat, struggling to manage on their own.  I sneak in briefly - only to tend to the cat box, take in groceries, etc.  In and out, fully masked/disinfected.

 

My daughter called the other day and asked if I could go set this up for her for her April Fools call to Papa this morning (they always try to be "first" as the calls get earlier each year).  She made it all, lovingly by hand (using a boxcutter and wrapping each letter in plastic, then meticulously knotting each letter to hang right).  

When I went last night to set it up, it was a hang and run deal...his bedroom window was open and I could hear him so knew it wouldn't be long before he'd hear me out there too!   He's had a family of raccoons in the yard, so is tuned in.   It was windy, so the letters were banging up against the fence and I didn't do it justice in how it was hung, but I got the job done!  Snuck away without Dad knowing I'd been there...

This morning, it was on like Donkey Kong.  It was good timing for the "set up/call", as there was a police incident a few houses away the other night.  My daughter called Papa before 7 am to say "better check your back yard...I hear the vandals were at it in the neighbourhood again last night".  

 

Tears.  My kids are the best and Papa will carry this timely boost of love when it's needed the very most.  As life is disrupted and so far removed from normal that it's almost surreal, we have to grab and savour these special moments for they are huge.

 

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It isn't just the people who have the virus who have it tough. Here is an example of a real world consequence:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/its-definitely-emotional-saskatoon-nurse-sends-4-year-old-to-live-with-grandmother-during-covid-19/ar-BB11YEuS?li=AAggXBV
 

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It was a hard decision, but one Melissa Bartzen doesn't regret.

he emergency room nurse at Royal University Hospital sent her four-year-old daughter to their lakeside cottage to live with the child's grandmother a little more than a week ago.

Bartzen said the risk of infection is too great to ignore.

"I think, like most people, I wasn't taking it too seriously at first," she said.

"Then everything changed a bit. Everybody was on edge and we started all of this planning for, you know, mass incoming of patients. And I realized that it was quite serious actually."

Bartzen, a single mom, is working full-time during the pandemic. She worried that keeping her daughter in her normal private day home was too risky.

"I just felt that the risk of possibly transmitting to the children there, and then also the day home family, it was just too high for me," she said.

So far, she's communicating with her daughter through video chat and hopes to eventually see her from a safe distance.

Still, being separated from her daughter is very difficult.

"It's definitely emotional," she said. "She's starting to ask when she gets to come home and I really don't have a clear answer for her right now. That's really hard with a four-year-old."

On March 20, the provincial government announced it would repurpose some school-based daycare facilities to watch over the children of health care workers and other emergency personnel.

Daycare spaces in schools were closed earlier this month.

 

Absolutely the right decision, but man, that must be hard to take.....

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5 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

 

 

Never thought the deep south agreed with Darwin-ism.....

So the guy cancels order for social distancing because of concerns about government intervention on public interests... yet hires 150 additional police officers, despite the twon only having 18 to begin with. 

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