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  1. To each their own. We lived in 4 different states before settling in FL to raise our kids, and it has been amazing. No regrets.
  2. I recently flew through the first three books in the Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman. They are mostly clean, kind of a cozy English mystery vibe but way more fun and modern, less formulaic. The characters are well-drawn, a bit over the top at times, but also dealing with issues that many people can relate to (family, aging, illness, dating, etc). Highly recommend!
  3. We’ve had the Kitchenaid with three racks for a few years, and it is fabulous. I believe it is the Freeflex 404. The top rack is bigger and more practical than on any other we looked at. It’s made for cups/glasses, which is great because we tend to go through a lot. It also opens up so much space in the rest of the washer. Everyone who helps load/unload is pretty amazed by how much it can fit. I typically use the Prowash cycle and it gets the dishes clean every time. Our old dishwasher didn’t have a heating element for drying, just used a fan and the residual heat of the water. I never realized how much I disliked that until we got the new one that has a heating element. Now 99% of the dishes come out dry vs like 50% at most for the old one. Other nice features: stainless steel tub, the middle rack can be adjusted up to make room for taller items on bottom, very quiet, has delay cycle, sanitizing option, silverware holder designed well to keep pieces separate for better cleaning.
  4. We bought an Epson Ecotank printer about 6 months ago to replace my dying color laser printer. I love it! Our model can copy, scan, and my favorite of all—duplex printing! It also has a feeder tray, so it can handle bulk copies/scans. One of the huge selling points was that we only need to replace the inks that are running low, rather than expensive and wasteful cartridges. Ink refills are around $15 and last a long time. If I remember correctly, Canon also makes a similar tank printer. We went with the Epson after reading reviews online and getting a deal at Costco. The print quality for regular documents is very good; not sure about photos since we never do that.
  5. There's always something going on in Florida 😂 Miami Herald reported this morning that Daymond John from Shark Tank had attempted to secure and sell N95 masks to the state at an inflated price: "The price would have been one of the highest the state would agree to pay for the highly coveted N95 protective mask: $7 a piece for 1 million masks. The source of the offer had cachet and seemed legit. He was Daymond John, CEO of the Shark Group and one of the stars of the popular TV show “Shark Tank.” He said he could get them for Florida but the cost would be more than three times the market price for the masks, which normally sell for under $2 each." John issued a statement on Twitter that calls the Herald article a "gross distortion of the truth" in order to "create splashy headlines to mislead readers." The state waived normal contracting rules and procedures including competitive bidding in order to secure supplies quickly, so who knows what really went on behind the scenes. Maybe they should have tried to get a better deal from Mark Cuban or Mr. Wonderful? 😂
  6. Is this amount of testing by the dates they propose plausible? I know there is a lot of research and development being done regarding testing, but I haven't read much about what is currently being made and ultimately will be put to available use in the near future. I'm not saying this information doesn't exist, just that I am personally unaware and would love to know more.
  7. I have no valuable input; I just really like that you compared playing the ukulele to petting a cat. It's a surprisingly accurate comparison 😂
  8. I think my teenagers using my computer must be skewing the results I get. My first page of Yahoo results was mostly about Celeb news, which I don't follow or read about. I normally just read my local newspaper online and supplement with some of the larger national news outlets here and there. Now I think I need to check my history to see what they've been reading that Yahoo thinks that I've been reading 😂
  9. Interesting, that article doesn't show up on the first page of Yahoo or Yahoo News for me. I did see that poll data linked from another news site. But it doesn't show up on Yahoo/Yahoo News. Maybe if I clicked around more. That's part of the confusion of online news. What you see as top billing may not even show up for me until several clicks deep due to target-based placement. Editing to add: I was checking my local news before I went to bed and realized that the Quinnipiac poll for my state was the link that I had seen earlier. As some soothing before bed reading, I went to the Quinnipiac poll site and read the poll methodology which also included all of the exact questions the surveyors asked respondents. It was really interesting seeing both questions and responses, and then seeing the responses also broken down by various categories (demographic, party affiliation, and others). The question regarding continuing the stay at home order is asked as such: "Do you think [state's name] should loosen social distancing by the end of April, or don't you think so?" Total result: Yes/should loosen, 22%; No, 72%. There are questions on the Q-poll regarding being concerned that someone you know/yourself will be infected and regarding being concerned if someone you know/yourself will need to be hospitalized, choices being Very, Somewhat, Not So, Not. I also read the NBC/WSJ poll. There is a question about worries but it as posed as a choice question (do you choose this or that): "Which worries you more about responding to the coronavirus and restrictions that require most Americans to shelter in place and only leave their homes for essential needs: That the US will move too quickly in loosening restrictions and the virus will continue to spread with more lives being lost OR That the US will take too long in loosening restrictions and the economic impact will be even worse with more jobs being lost" Total result: Choice 1, 58%; Choice 2, 32%. The Quinnipiac poll did not mention fear or worry at all. The NBC/WSJ asked about fear but only posed as a which do you fear more question. If asked that question I would choose the first option (regarding lost lives), as I do think there's more harm today in loosening too quickly and slim chance right now that we are going too slowly. But if you asked me differently my answer would come across much differently. For example, if asked if I felt my state or the local group of cooperating states was moving too quickly in loosening guidelines I would say No. I feel like they are taking a measured approach at this point and moving at an appropriate pace. Those are two similar questions asked two different ways with very different potential answers. I feel like the way this NBC/WSJ question was asked leads to a false dichotomy that assumes worry one way or another. So having read the specifics of three different polls, I think the Yahoo headline ("As some areas of the U.S. begin relaxing social distancing restrictions, a new poll showed a majority of Americans fear easing those guidelines could result in more deaths.") must have been referring to the NBC/WSJ poll. If you read how the question was asked in the poll, though, it wasn't saying people feared easing the guidelines but rather that given a choice between worrying about preceding too quickly + lives lost or worrying about moving too slowly + jobs lost, they worried more about the former than the latter. Ah, semantics.
  10. I'm hoping that because of such cases, people will take these measures more seriously than they might have a month ago. Of course, unfortunately, some people won't follow rules or sense, so I'm hoping that enforcement will be thorough. Our county sheriff seems very cautious and sounds like he will take enforcement seriously once the beaches are open. Parks have done well with patrolling and enforcement so I think that there is a chance beaches could be the same.
  11. Panic inducement is maybe not the right term, but the best substitute I could come up with for the other term being used in this thread. Whatever you call it, I'm addressing the headline that says "As some areas of the U. S. begin relaxing social distancing restrictions, a new poll showed a majority of Americans fear easing those guidelines could result in more deaths." But no such poll is linked or explained. I think it might be the poll that I referenced in my earlier post but really can't tell. If it is indeed that poll, then is it really representative of the majority of Americans? If it is the majority of Americans, then why are so few people I'm in IRL contact with expressing that fear? Why not couple the first part of that headline about states lifting restrictions with something that will assist people in understanding that this is a part of the Hammer and Dance that has been referenced in this thread? Why couple it with a mention of fear and then not even explain anywhere in the article what this fear is about, how to address it, what states are doing to mitigate those things that lead to fear, etc. Why address fear and not work to alleviate it if possible through thorough reporting? Highlighting people's fears in such a manner, especially if it is so widespread, seems to only work to stir up even more fears. If nothing else, it leads to confusion.
  12. I'm so thankful that our local parks have stayed open for exercise and fresh air. In the next county over, they have been closed for a few weeks. Some areas of my state reopened public beaches for limited hours with law/park enforcement supervision. There were pictures circulated of people going there, and Twitter shamed them and gave them their own disparaging trending hashtag. Reports from the mayors of that beach area said the reality is that people were actually following guidelines well and no arrests or citations were needed. I'm hoping that it will go well so that our beaches may open back up as well.
  13. The example I gave was right from Yahoo News. Not what I would consider a source for hard-hitting journalism, but also not a blog post or social media. I would consider it relatively reputable. I wouldn't elevate what I posted about to the level of panic-inducing (sorry I won't use that other term), but I think there is a narrative there in the headlines suggesting fear but then not explaining or fully justifying it.
  14. I know that it is possible statistically. But it was really difficult for me, an average person with one college stats class under my belt, to figure out how random their sample was. I know from your other posts that you have much more knowledge about math and statistics than I do, so if I knew you IRL and I actually cared about the stats of the poll used in this piece, I would try to find out if it was indeed a good sample. There are so many statistics thrown out in the news and media, though, to back up big over-arching claims, that it's hard to know what is accurate and what is potentially a stretch for the average reader. I'm not saying their poll sample is bad or not bad; just that it's hard for most people to even figure that out. So they just read the headline and don't dig much past that.
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