Derbybud
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It's time. Just put signs up on the social distancing and let people use their own brain and police themselves.
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I no its all part of the game shit happens to mine rite here in my backyard lol yours are fending for themselves its all by chance but im still not happy about losing a few so when you go back to check on those will you take a few starts to go in those spots.
Wayne National Forest is close by yes.
And all 7 left on their own? No help
We have reservations for next weekend down there. Doesn't look like that's going to happen. Virus bs
were starting to lift restrictions, were aloud outside gatherings up to 50 people, and at home, we’re aloud 15 people. Still can’t share food though. Is it too early? We will soon find out!
I sent Sara a PM about it. I hope I can get it fixed or replaced
get your revenge at hunting season...
They started an archery only hunt within the city limits in an effort to cull the population some, about 5 years ago.
my sister's stand is only 10 minutes from her house...kinda funny for me to have to go to town to hunt, but it's been very productive...some beauty bucks, and my sister has taken most of them.
pulled some cheddar/jalapeno smokies out just a while ago.
Not the brains I've seen Derby. But yes some folks can be trusted to have been smartly keeping safe. As an old timer I guess I have to beware of them and protect myself from them. Trust isn't my strong suit I guess. Every local is different so it's time to find out what happens next. Hoping for the best!It's time. Just put signs up on the social distancing and let people use their own brain and police themselves.
Yeah, I feel you Otter , I am in the same boat with all my aliments it would NOT be good if I got it.Not the brains I've seen Derby. But yes some folks can be trusted to have been smartly keeping safe. As an old timer I guess I have to beware of them and protect myself from them. Trust isn't my strong suit I guess. Every local is different so it's time to find out what happens next. Hoping for the best!
I may have to use a seam ripper on it and get a new zipper that will match the zipper on the tent. Finding one the right size may be a bit of a chore right now. Hobby and Craft stuff is not in stock anywhere near us. I am going to try what Sara recommended and try closing it up a little tighter. There are two zipper latches on the from side so the other zipper that I never used before was fine and it zipped the tent up like it should but the zipper I was using will not shut the tent up at all. I guess it has just spread out too much but that makes me wonder about how long it will last until this zipper is doing the same thing.It has been so long since I even looked at a grow tent that I don't remember how their zippers are even attached. If it's stitched on normally, you could probably use a seam ripper (sewing tool) to remove it without damaging the tent. Then you could either order one of those "stick-on" zippers that are marketed to people who build their own "soft-sided" grow spaces or go to a fabric/sewing supply store and purchase a traditional zipper that's made with some sort of fabric on each side. I don't know if you'd easily find one of the appropriate length, though.
That really sucks about Mars Hydro grow tents not having any warranty! I like the company and all... But we need to start making potential grow tent customers aware of the fact that it's an "as-is" purchase with them, methinks. Sort of a public service. I monitor the company thread from time to time, and used to read every post. I have seen lots of people ask about their grow tents - and I do not ever recall having seem the company's forum representative post that purchasers would be on their own, so to speak. I also occasionally see "What is a good grow tent to buy?" threads. I feel bad now for occasionally having suggested this company to the people who created those threads (and everyone who later read them for suggestions).
I wish HOMEbox was a sponsor/advertiser here. They have a 24-month warranty on all of their HOMEbox products (Ambient, Evolution, Vista, and add-ons), and a 12-month warranty on their Homelab ones. Plus, at least some of their grow tents are white inside, for higher light reflectivity.
I wish I would have gotten a Gorilla grow tent. I know they are top of the line and when I have to replace this one if I buy another tent it will be a Gorilla Grow tent. Thanks for the suggestion Krip.Sorry to hear about your troubles with the Mars Hydro tent, have you tried our other sponsors who make the best tent on the market?
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That all makes sense! Absolutely agree to what “should have been done”.I don't know if it's a question of "too early," or whether that kind of thing did any real long-term good at all (other than give the healthcare industry a chance to ramp up production of protective supplies and the healthcare workers to "prepare for a busy time ahead." Which is not, in and of itself, inconsequential, I suppose.).
Seems to me that the correct thing to do would have been, back in late February when the information had reached both the federal and state elected officials that this thing was (a) turning out to be an actual pandemic and (b) absolutely, positively, here in North America, that we should have shut the place down, (country) border to border. Not a patchwork of one state declaring a "shelter in place" emergency situation, another state not but announcing that staying home for a while would "probably be a good idea," and the governor of another state or two merely sticking their head up their own ass to look for inspiration (I'm thinking specifically of South Dakota, but there have been others who made bad decisions, if only by not making any at all). AND, after so declaring a border-to-border shutdown, enforcing it as harshly as they do in riot situations when looters come out. F*ck, during those times, it's just property that they're so concerned about, while now... It hasn't made sense to me why people who defy stay-at-home orders most often only receive... a lecture. Anyway, instead of spending literal trillions of dollars to get some f*cktard reelected and pass out "free" money (which, of course, isn't) to everyone whether they needed it or not, whether it happened to be enough or not... Instead, use some fraction of that to make bulk purchases of food from farmers - who largely ended up having to dispose of their crops, FFS! - and distribute it to those who needed the stuff to survive. Use some fraction of that money to cover basic utilities (IOW, water, electric, etc. - f*ck cable television, Internet access, etc., this isn't just a rainy day situation), to cover the minimum necessary for those who are still paying on their houses or paying rent (again, for those who need it). And so on. If a business was/is in danger of going under (due to the pandemic, not in general), see about covering the bare minimum expenses to keep it in existence. Not give them a big loan and require them to use a high percentage of it to cover the salaries of workers who can't actually go to work and do anything, anyway, that seems kind of stupid. If you're already ensuring that people are getting at least the bare minimum food/nutrition, that they're not in danger of becoming homeless, won't have to fetch water from the nearest river/creek... Then you don't need to worry about paychecks so much, yeah? Every (adult) person in this country - and every other country - should have been thinking in terms of "war mentality." Times are tough, get with the f*cking program, already. And what's up with this "add $600/week to everyone's unemployment check" garbage?!? They don't do that any other time - and people, right now, ought to be a whole lot less worried about buying the latest iCrap or even whether they can afford to trade their 20-year old car for a 10-year old one. FFS, I haven't even been able to afford to own an automobile since 2008, and guess what? I... am... still... here!!!!!!!!!! Like Pop used to say, "It aint crowded, walking." It's not always pleasant, either, lol. Lumping a 25-pound heavy paper sack of generic cat litter home from the store on your shoulder in a pounding thunderstorm, hoping you make it through your doorway before the sack lets go and you lose it. Trying to make it home in August with your (once-)frozen food whilst dragging your bum leg. Et cetera. <SHRUGS> But, surprise, it's doable! You do what you can, what you must - and get by. That attitude once made my country great, even one that got referred to as a "superpower." In recent years, in many ways, the lack of same has made it a laughingstock.
I'm guessing that, down in Mississippi, folks are looking at that extra $600/week added to their unemployment checks as money magically falling from heaven . After all, the NORMAL maximum a person there can receive each week is a whopping... $235. Y'all think all this "free" money isn't going to screw up both local economies and the country's economy in general in many more ways than just saddling us AND our progeny with an extreme tax burden? Just watch... FFS, some (of the relative few) businesses whose owners have been told they can reopen (or that they will be able to soon) are discovering that their laid-off employees don't WANT to return to work, because in many cases (perhaps most cases?), the normal half-salary, with $600/week added to it... ends up being more than they were earning when they were working 40 hours per week! And if THAT doesn't tell folks that this sh!t is all screwed up, IDFK what would.
But what do I know? I'm not an economist - and I am, for sure, not a f*cking politician. Who knows, maybe, if I was King Stupid, I would have encouraged the same foolishness. I might have even demanded that my name appear on each and every one of those $1,200 checks - and got it - just like he did, so that a far few of the mouth-breathing, late-night AM radio-listening, FOX news-watching, "Gee, can someone do my thinking for me, because it's hard" population would end up believing that he had a lot to do with it... and reelect the douche bag.
No... No, I wouldn't have. [/RANT]
Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, yeah, the patchwork shutdowns. I don't know that it has really been all that beneficial. Sure, more people are alive - right now - than would otherwise have been the case (but fewer than if we had done things "my way"). But that has merely slowed the progress of this virus. It hasn't stopped it. It's killing people... But some people, it just sickens. Others, have gotten / have got it and don't even know it! But they sure are contagious. Right now, that particular issue is somewhat minimized, because so much is shut down, so many people are "in seclusion," to one degree or other. However, as business reopen, lots of people return to work, go back to dining in restaurants, go back to parks and beaches, go back to... wherever it is that people end up going when they can stand the company of other people, lol... Well, what exactly do you think is going to happen when some of those asymptomatic, but contagious, people... are your coworkers? The guy seated at the table several feet away (but in the same enclosed space)? That hot chick in the bikini who, after accidentally bumping you as she walked across the sand on her way to jump into the ocean, stopped, turned back, looked you in the eye, smiled, and said, "I'm sorry. It's such a nice day, and we've been stuck at home. I was in a hurry to go for a swim. You take care, now." Et cetera.
This virus needs a host. Its longevity, lacking a host organism, appears to be relatively short. Had we forced nearly everyone to confine themselves as late as March 1, looked to our armed forces to help collect and distribute food, allowed only those whose jobs are (a) absolutely critical and (b) impossible for a layman to do, to leave their home... Then NOW, 75+ days later, the viability of this virus would be far less than is currently the case. We might have lost some of our military. Probably would have, if they ended up having to do something "unprotected." But - and this might seem somewhat harsh of an attitude to some, but... - people join the military service out of a desire and duty to help protect the country and the citizenry. And, I suppose, a paycheck if they're disadvantaged, live in Bumf*ck, USA and don't have sense enough to move to where the jobs are, or are particularly slow upstairs. But you'll have that, I guess. Mostly, it's out of a sense of duty. Well, duty calls, from time to time. This time... Well, it must have been felt that this strategy wouldn't have been as likely to get votes, I guess. IDK. Also, by - severely - limiting the number of people who ended up being potentially exposed, we'd probably have gone through significantly less gloves/masks/etc.
I have no doubt that some percentage of the "FREEDOM!!! FREEDOM AT ANY COST!!!" sect would have gone apesh!t over my ideas. <SHRUGS YET AGAIN> So what, lofl? I happen to be with them, in a lot of ways. But I do have a (semi-)functioning brain. And my brain just told methat it's up there and waiting to be usedthat, with freedom comes responsibility. This country was founded on, among other things, the concept of personal freedom. Nonetheless, that brain of mine thinks that our founding fathers would have gone after those nuts with a f*cking axe. What really p!sses me off about them is that, whenever something happens to jostle the bubble that each one of them appears to exist in, they are always the first, the loudest, and the most obnoxious when it comes to complaining and bellyaching that "the gubment shoulda done sumthin!!!" Whereas, the people who actually live by the ideals that the whack-jobs claim to support just end up doing what needs to be done, quietly and with little fanfare, with as little friction as is possible.
Oh, to have my own army, air force, marines, and an unlimited supply of ammo/munitions... (Sorry, Navy, but the army rivercraft would serve all my needs in the "water" area - but you'd be welcome to crew the spaceships that I'd have out there within the next 25 years, to transport the marines who'd be the front line soldiers in space, supply medical corpsmen to same, to transport the army units who'd be expected to hold whatever lands/planets/moons/asteroids/etc. that the marines took, to transport the air force to any heavenly bodies that had an atmosphere, to handle the ship-to-ship combat in space, and so on - so you wouldn't be ignored/forgotten! And there'd be funds to finance that, because I wouldn't have encouraged the disorganized distribution of trillions to help people a little bit while buying their votes.)
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I totally agree, BLS. The world should hang its head with how poorly this was handled. I can only hope the worst has past and we learn from this.
I fear another wave of cases is only days away with people having a false sense of security with warmer weather and all. It is far too early to begin “life as normal” in my opinion.
I think they are opening back up due to the economy more then because its safe now but who knows what the powers that be are thinking
I may be considered an ar$ehole for saying this (I am in some respects)
Ole Mother Nature ain’t as stupid as most of us and will cull the idiots eventually.
Many may denounce me for this, but from a scientific standpoint, we are trying to out think/bypass the natural selection process and in doing so, unless we can find a “cure all “ solution, we are diluting the genome and will be the cause of our own demise.