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Cellar Scribblings
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 22, 2020, 04:33:51 pm ---The main branch was open today. Hours are restricted, and if you want to see a banker you need an appointment, but I was able to enter and use an indoor ATM.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 23, 2020, 11:51:48 am ---Pressed the buttons with your elbows and/or gloves, i hope! :-\
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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2020, 12:26:07 pm ---No, but when I got home I washed my hands with hand soap and hot water while I sang "Happy Birthday" twice. ;D Then I used hand sanitizer.
I thought about it, though.
I'm getting pretty good at pushing elevator buttons with my elbow.
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I do that too, Jeff. If I have to go out and into a store, when I get home I wash my hands for 20 seconds, and then rinse off, and then suds up again and wash my face just for good measure. Then, I use rubbing alcohol on my hands and face.
Regarding the bank, the bank my dad uses had the lobby closed, but their drive-up was accepting transactions.
serious crayons:
Yesterday I covered a protest by people who want the governor to end the shutdown and open up the economy totally. They were all clustered in front of the governor's office, waving signs and flags, yelling into bullhorns, driving past honking, calling the governor a communist, a coward, a dictator.
Hardly any were wearing masks. Many stood within inches of each other.
For the most part I was able to talk to people from what seemed a healthy distance, although a couple had a way of edging forward while I backed up. But at one point I suddenly found myself surrounded by people, some just a foot or two away. I held my notebook over my face and escaped.
The photographer was wearing a mask -- one of the fancy effective kinds. All the photographers wear them because they can't do their job by phone, so they have to go out and interact with people.
I have a flimsy uncomfortable DIY scarf mask and had it in my bag but didn't wear it. It was hard enough getting people to talk to me as it was -- I've never had so many people at an event like that refuse to talk to me. Several said "I don't want my words twisted."
Almost everybody had hand-made signs. A woman who stood across the street from me for a while held one saying "Practice Media distancing." I kept a busy two-lane street between us. :laugh:
Your Lent project is really nice!
brianr:
I admire you for covering the protest. I would have lost my temper.
However in NZ they would have been arrested although probably only the leaders would have been charged, the rest just warned. There is a video on our news of the police waiting in Tauranga for a surfer to come ashore. It does not show what happened, probably just warned. From tomorrow surfing is allowed but only at your local beach.
Surveys show over 80% are in favour of the lockdown. Two men took the Prime Minister to court about unlawful detention but they lost. At least they did it in a legal way. The judge said it was not detention as they could still go to the supermarket, exercise outdoors, and use the internet. However even if they could be considered detained, the government has the right to do so.
Penthesilea:
I also like the idea of doing/giving something extra at lent instead of giving something up. :)
serious crayons:
--- Quote ---I admire you for covering the protest. I would have lost my temper.
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Reporters, though nobody believes this, actually are trained to approach stories with as much neutrality as possible, and write accordingly. If there's anything reporters do wrong, it's working so hard to be neutral they report Trump's ravings as if he were a regular president.
--- Quote ---However in NZ they would have been arrested although probably only the leaders would have been charged, the rest just warned.
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Come to think of it, that's a good question about here. People gathering too closely under more normal conditions -- in a city park, for example -- have been issued tickets. And at the protest there were police officers at the corner of the block, wearing masks and watching over the proceedings. They could have ticketed probably dozens of people (people on the edges of the crowd did appear to be practicing some social distancing).
But they probably figured if people are idiotic enough to do that, it's not worth the risk of turning a mildly rowdy protest into a dangerous melee. Especially when some of the protesters are carrying guns around.
So they let be, let be.
However, I stopped to chat with the cops for a few minutes and really wish now that I'd thought to ask about that.
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