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ladyreva78 wrote: »e folks bring food for the family, but with the stay at home orders, I'm not sure if she'll be able to do that.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the BBC has a basic welsch grammar document, downloadable for free:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/learnwelsh/pdf/welshgrammar_allrules.pdf
It won't teach you much vocabulary or how to speak it, but it'll teach you how it's build up
Reminds me that now would be the time to get back to Japanese. Although I still have quite the workload coming up for my studies. Worse than my work workload...[/quote]
I have been looking for something like that! Thank you!1 -
Florida begins a safe-at-home order Friday at 12:01 am. It doesn't shut down non-essentials directly, but by requiring people to stay at home unless for essential trips, I guess they shouldn't be getting business?
People can still go fishing, walking, biking, hunting as long as you maintain social distancing.... but there's already people not obeying those guidelines.
I see people on social media who clearly don't understand what it means to stay home and social distance. I interpret it as you and immediate household are the only ones to interact together (unless caring for someone). I'm not going to my parents' or grandparents' house. I'm not going to hang out with friends but keep 6 feet apart.
My mom is a nurse at the local hospital - works in the heart lab (pacemakers, stents, etc). 3 floors of one wing of the hospital is already filled with symptomatic patients. They are already down 3 ICU doctors and 4 nurses for exposure/close contact with a patient who eventually tested positive. My mom is now being prepped to be a nurse for coronavirus patients and I'm terrified for her.
My dad is just a stubborn b-hole sometimes. He can work from home 50/50 (only goes in to office when GIS is needed), but he decides he needs to go to the store 3 times a day for tobacco & alcohol. I understand he's an addict in denial - but he is the exact person to be at risk. Overweight diabetic w/ high blood pressure. I tried to reason with him and remind him what his experience with Whooping Cough (Pertussis) was like years ago. Here's hoping he listens and just stays home.13 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »The last paragraph is very true. There are people who either don't care, don't believe it's a problem, or think it would never happen to them (optimism bias). These people make things worse, no matter how well a country or a state is handling things.amusedmonkey wrote: »
Sadly, that's not the case here. Although many are acting responsibly, there is a good percentage of people who look at the numbers and think "this isn't bad compared to other places" and don't take things seriously. For example, we have no confirmed cases in our city and that's giving people a false sense of security. Just because we don't have any official numbers doesn't mean there aren't people who are not showing symptoms or people who are showing mild symptoms and not reporting.
I agree completely. I hear a lot of folks (older, not so coincidentally), that chalk the selfishness and defiance up to it being the "me generation". Except its not just the young college kids who are bucking it; its people from every generation. They want to blame it on a sense of entitlement; I think its one of the dark aspects of humanity - inherent selfishness, self-centeredness, and a "you aren't telling me what to do" attitude.
WV is a classic example of the second quote. When it was really starting to spread across the country 2 weeks ago, but WV still had no confirmed cases, people here were not taking it seriously at all and were mocking our governor for taking action before the first case even got here. And even when it was finally confirmed, the people in southern WV still didn't take it seriously because it was up north and far away. Now that it's shown up in our county, people are being much more serious about the social distancing.
Though I would like to point out to those who still think this isn't any worse than the flu, that worldwide, COVID-19 has infected almost 1 million people and killed over 48,000 (as of April 2, 8 am). So it has now killed more people than the flu and did so in a fraction of the time the flu does.
My best friend is still against the social distancing aspects as she thinks shutting down the economy is doing way more damage than the virus is, and thinks that an economic recession or heaven forbid, a full blown depression is going to result in more deaths in the long run. She says "And what are the hospitals going to do when they get flooded with people trying to commit suicide due to losing everything?"
I still disagree with her - economic recession is of course not a good thing, but if we had not done the lock downs, I firmly think the economy still would have tanked because the rate of those being infected would have sky-rocketed out of control - and businesses still would have tanked because of panic and the fact that their workers were sick and all their customer base was sick. And I can't imagine that the deaths that would be caused by the recession (from suicides to folks unable to pay for medical care) would still out number what would have been caused by the virus with no restrictions in place.
Because we've seen that people left to their own don't abide by common sense rules. The governments are having to do this because people won't distance otherwise. Just like how our state parks had to be shut down this weekend because people were congregation en masse in them. *shakes head*13 -
Some good, and not so good news.
Scary statistic, gun/ammo sales up 41% in the US in March.
The US will no longer ship medical devices/supplies for fighting Covid 19 to other countries, while the need here is so great (duh).
China sends 1,000,000 medical masks to US.
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I see attitudes changing in AZ rapidly. Many thought it was a joke at first and media hype (and some still do, unfortunately), but that nursing home that has 20 plus cases changed minds. We also have some friends nearby that the wife has parents down South of the city in the oldest demographic 55 and over active community. They seem to be seeing the first cases there. That particular community, 3000 homes, has an average age of around 75. Some of these AZ communities will be just devastated if this picks up any more steam.
Our governor, in his infinite wisdom, has us allegedly on "lockdown" but nail salons and golf courses are open. Giving something to the old men and older women to keep votes. Just sickening. Nail salons. I kid you not. We will find out soon if the heat slows it here as next week it will hit 90 already here.7 -
[quote="AnnPT77;c-44879600"
I can't give you cites because my source was listening to NPR and BBC on radio, but I believe there's a new study out in just the last few days showing potentially-infecting particles from coughs/sneezes traveling much farther than previously thought (like twice as far), plus some fairly new information about the nature of virus shedding by people who are still asymptomatic. [/quote]
You are referring to this, I believe https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852?appId=scweb
and this https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/31/824155179/cdc-director-on-models-for-the-months-to-come-this-virus-is-going-to-be-with-us
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rheddmobile wrote: »Adam Schlesinger, the guy who wrote all the music for “Crazy ex-girlfriend,” just died of Coronavirus at the age of 52.
I'd heard he was seriously ill with this. That's sad, as are all the deaths.
He's also from Fountains of Wayne, for those who know that band.2 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »
Hon, I can't trill my "rr's" after 36 years in Italy. They still understand me. I still have an "American" accent. Don't let that hold you back from learning a language. If people can understand you, you're doing great. It's difficult to speak like a native, unless you've learned the language as a child. One thing we've noticed here is that Slavic language speakers, such as Polish, Russian, etc, learn to speak Italian even as adults with no accent. My husband is constantly amazed.
I had Spanish in high school, but it was a video class and we never actually had conversation time or someone to listen to correct our pronunciations. Coming out of those classes, I could read Spanish fairly well, write in it ok, but still couldn't really speak it or follow a conversation in it. And now that its been over 20 years ago, I can't even do those things any more lol
What is it about the Russian language that allows them to learn other languages flawlessly? I know, that's just my perception, but it does seem to me that they can learn how to sound like a native in a lot of other languages. It's like Germans who can speak American English just like a native, though I can at least get how Germans learn to do that - both languages are from the same root language, at least - but Russian and the other Slavic languages split from the Romance languages a very, very long time ago and are radically different, so I'm amazed at their ability, too alongside your husband!
I think it's just really specific to the person. I know Russians and other Eastern Europeans who speak English with barely an accent and others who have a strong accent, and similarly Germans in both categories (think of someone like Henry Kissinger who came here at 15, but had something of an accent always). I'd hoped German would be easier for me accent-wise than French, but so far not.1 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »
I play the piano, but can't play by ear to save my life - I need the sheet music in front of me, so using YouTube doesn't work in this case. Not that I need more sheet music now, anyway
The technological jump may not work for everyone, but you can get sheet music for tablets.1 -
playing piano from a book is bad enough having to turn pages trying not to fumble in doing so, and at least in books you get 2 pages before you have to turn; there's no way I'd ever be able to play using a tablet and trying to swipe to turn pages. Besides which, I have enough trouble seeing the music on a 8x10 page; no way I want to try on a tablet screen, especially my 7" kindle screen.
I've used sheetmusic.com in the past and will again for individual pieces, but the problem I have is that it prints smaller than a typical book is and not as sharp and crisp, either, and it gives me a little more trouble. I'm nearsighted, so need that music nice and clear to be sure what to play.1 -
This is a great map of how much people are staying home, or not: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
I have a case in MS, and the map reflects what we are hearing so far from the court (like not shutting down hearings, requiring they be in person if on something significant). Luckily opposing counsel are also in areas that are shut down, so we are being a united front.2 -
This is a great map of how much people are staying home, or not: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
I have a case in MS, and the map reflects what we are hearing so far from the court (like not shutting down hearings, requiring they be in person if on something significant). Luckily opposing counsel are also in areas that are shut down, so we are being a united front.
Cool map. I'm kind of in my own little bubble here in my village and haven't really seen what is going on in New Mexico outside of my little bubble. The large gray area of no travel is encouraging...that is mostly the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho metro area, Santa Fe, and Taos and the gray area in the southern part of the state is the Las Cruces area. These are all of the largest population centers in my 2 million people state.
The areas to the east and southeast of the state is a lot of oil and natural gas drilling, etc....so not too surprised to see more of a business as usual in that area. The bright red to the west/southwest of the state is the Gila Mountain area...the biggest town is Silver City and it is very small...wouldn't surprise me if they just don't feel as though what is happening in the more populous areas of the state really apply to them...that would be my guess anyway.4 -
bmeadows380 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »
Hon, I can't trill my "rr's" after 36 years in Italy. They still understand me. I still have an "American" accent. Don't let that hold you back from learning a language. If people can understand you, you're doing great. It's difficult to speak like a native, unless you've learned the language as a child. One thing we've noticed here is that Slavic language speakers, such as Polish, Russian, etc, learn to speak Italian even as adults with no accent. My husband is constantly amazed.
I had Spanish in high school, but it was a video class and we never actually had conversation time or someone to listen to correct our pronunciations. Coming out of those classes, I could read Spanish fairly well, write in it ok, but still couldn't really speak it or follow a conversation in it. And now that its been over 20 years ago, I can't even do those things any more lol
What is it about the Russian language that allows them to learn other languages flawlessly? I know, that's just my perception, but it does seem to me that they can learn how to sound like a native in a lot of other languages. It's like Germans who can speak American English just like a native, though I can at least get how Germans learn to do that - both languages are from the same root language, at least - but Russian and the other Slavic languages split from the Romance languages a very, very long time ago and are radically different, so I'm amazed at their ability, too alongside your husband!
I think it's just really specific to the person. I know Russians and other Eastern Europeans who speak English with barely an accent and others who have a strong accent, and similarly Germans in both categories (think of someone like Henry Kissinger who came here at 15, but had something of an accent always). I'd hoped German would be easier for me accent-wise than French, but so far not.
I grew in a bilingual family, Italian/ English. Sadly, we were not encouraged to become fluent in Italian as the generation before ours had immigrated and experienced discrimination. So, they viewed speaking Italian as something that identified you as an immigrant. But you couldn't help but pick up some by being around the older family members who spoke it amongst themselves or to my grandparents.
When I first moved to Mexico, I was told several times that my Spanish sounded like it had an Italian accent and not an English one. I guess because I was used to the similar pronunciations, that is just how it came out.
Over time I have been able to learn to speak Spanish with less of any accent and haven't gotten the Italian accent comment in a long while. Back in February, I performed a Jazz concert with accompanying musicians and a couple of the pieces were Spanish language pieces, 2 boleros, Un Poco Mas by Alvaro Carillo and Dos Gardenias, of Buena Vista Social Club fame, by Isolina Carillo (Odd that they had the same last name as they were not related. One being Mexican and the other Cuban.)
One of my Mexican friends came up to me after the concert and said, "The Spanish pieces were fabulous! You sang them without almost any accent!"
I think if you are musical and auditory and used to listening for the nuances of sounds and accents, it helps you to learn a language with a minimum of an accent. It takes practice and time but, if it is important to you, it can be done. It's just not that important to some people. For example, my wife is not musical or very auditory. She is more knowledgeable and fluent in Spanish than I am, but speaks with far more of an American English accent.
All that to say, I agree that it is specific to the person.4 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »This is a great map of how much people are staying home, or not: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
I have a case in MS, and the map reflects what we are hearing so far from the court (like not shutting down hearings, requiring they be in person if on something significant). Luckily opposing counsel are also in areas that are shut down, so we are being a united front.
Cool map. I'm kind of in my own little bubble here in my village and haven't really seen what is going on in New Mexico outside of my little bubble. The large gray area of no travel is encouraging...that is mostly the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho metro area, Santa Fe, and Taos and the gray area in the southern part of the state is the Las Cruces area. These are all of the largest population centers in my 2 million people state.
The areas to the east and southeast of the state is a lot of oil and natural gas drilling, etc....so not too surprised to see more of a business as usual in that area. The bright red to the west/southwest of the state is the Gila Mountain area...the biggest town is Silver City and it is very small...wouldn't surprise me if they just don't feel as though what is happening in the more populous areas of the state really apply to them...that would be my guess anyway.
Yeah, that map, though very enlightening, can also be deceiving for some areas. We have been leaving home maybe twice a week, but everything we go to is like 5 to 20 miles away. Lot of land and wide open spaces out here. What's more disturbing is that many of the states with more business as usual activity have the unhealthiest populations on top of it when you consider poverty and obesity. Not a great combination for the next two to three months.5 -
News from near DC: There is still no TP in the stores... However, if you want to buy gag TP, Amazon sells it by the (expensive) roll...
Anyway, on a more... positive (?) note: https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-may-have-caused-earth-stop-vibrating-so-much-1495492
All the lock downs are having an effect on seismic activity. I just thought that was interesting and wanted to share.6 -
We got tp but it’s a 4pack .
We have a 1 per type of Item limit here so yup their stuff but we have to go out searching more so more exposure.1 -
missysippy930 wrote: »Some good, and not so good news.
Scary statistic, gun/ammo sales up 41% in the US in March.
The US will no longer ship medical devices/supplies for fighting Covid 19 to other countries, while the need here is so great (duh).
China sends 1,000,000 medical masks to US.
It only makes sense. I don’t know about other places, but police here are only responding to calls with injuries. Every day I get NextDoor alerts about cars being broken into, basement windows damaged, Ring photos, it’s crazy. What I’ve realized is that I’m completely alone for the duration of this mess. No one to hear me if I scream No one to back me up. No one to call for help if I can’t.
Damn straight I’m stocking self defense supplies every bit as mindfully as I am cleaning supplies and food.
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This is a great map of how much people are staying home, or not: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
I have a case in MS, and the map reflects what we are hearing so far from the court (like not shutting down hearings, requiring they be in person if on something significant). Luckily opposing counsel are also in areas that are shut down, so we are being a united front.
Ha. I'm in King County, where the first case was recorded. It says we have a 100% decrease. How is that even possible? I still see lots of cars out and about.
To be fair though - I'm leaving my phone at home when I go out...I just don't want or need to contaminate it.3 -
missysippy930 wrote: »Some good, and not so good news.
Scary statistic, gun/ammo sales up 41% in the US in March.
The US will no longer ship medical devices/supplies for fighting Covid 19 to other countries, while the need here is so great (duh).
China sends 1,000,000 medical masks to US.
It only makes sense. I don’t know about other places, but police here are only responding to calls with injuries. Every day I get NextDoor alerts about cars being broken into, basement windows damaged, Ring photos, it’s crazy. What I’ve realized is that I’m completely alone for the duration of this mess. No one to hear me if I scream No one to back me up. No one to call for help if I can’t.
Damn straight I’m stocking self defense supplies every bit as mindfully as I am cleaning supplies and food.
I'm licensed to carry a pistol and never used to around home. Now I do (although I don't need a license to carryat home anyway). The only time not in reach is in the shower. And since I am WFH, I don't honestly shower daily. Don't see a need... anyway, I am taking no chances because it is only going to get worse. I have to take care of myself.4 -
cmriverside wrote: »This is a great map of how much people are staying home, or not: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
I have a case in MS, and the map reflects what we are hearing so far from the court (like not shutting down hearings, requiring they be in person if on something significant). Luckily opposing counsel are also in areas that are shut down, so we are being a united front.
Ha. I'm in King County, where the first case was recorded. It says we have a 100% decrease. How is that even possible? I still see lots of cars out and about.
To be fair though - I'm leaving my phone at home when I go out...I just don't want or need to contaminate it.
I actually think WA is in good shape since you had that outbreak and adjusted early. My dad is in Cowlitz and they have few cases so far. I'm in Chicago and they are showing us reducing dramatically and comparatively that's largely true but in nice weather in my nabe you still need to dodge kids.2
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