Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Social distancing is a privilege.  
It means you live in a house large enough to practice it.

Hand washing is a privilege.  
It means you have running water.

Hand sanitizers are a privilege...
  you have money to buy them.

Lockdowns are a privilege...
  you can afford to be at home.

Coronavirus, like glitter, is (almost) impossible to remove.

Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Stewart Myrent

Jack, I don't have to Google "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose", as I took (regrettably, until now) 4 yrs of H.S. French & know that it's, "the more things change, the more they stay the same".  The only other time I remember using it (French) was in 1977, when I took a trip into Montreal & New England, before my wedding.  Espanol would have been a much wiser choice, but who could have guessed that by 2050, over 1/2 the U.S. population will be of Hispanic heritage?  Also, I was not aware that people in SF pay $4,000/mo. for a studio apt.  Yikes! 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

What did Bill Gates tell us 5 years ago?

What do we do with knowledge?

Bill Gates embodies success without flaunting it.

Today we are chasing Coronavirus.  
Coronavirus, like glitter, is (almost) impossible to remove.  
We must be vigilant to stop the spread.  
Take care.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

How is it that the United States of America is unable to flatten the coronavirus curve?

Americans have and are minimizing the risk.

We are in a public health crisis.

We need truthtellers and leaders who are prepared to ask and answer questions about covid-19 at the White House's daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings. 

Coronavirus, like glitter, is (almost) impossible to remove.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

We are being begged by the medical community to isolate ourselves as our sole weapon against coronavirus, but alas! in our digital culture one can undoubtedly find an expert who disagrees with licensed physicians and scientists - after all, one person's gut matches another person's expertise.

The Dept of Justice has confirmed that federal officials are ramping up security for Dr Anthony Fauci after threats were made against him.

Coronavirus, like glitter, is (almost) impossible to remove.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Six Steps to Crush Coronavirus.  
Harvey Fineberg   - GOOGLE for MORE -

1. Establish a unified command.  

2. Make millions of tests available.

3. Provide PPE to health workers and
    equip hospitals for a sudden increase
    in seriously ill patients.

4. Differentiate the population into 5 groups
    and treat accordingly.  
        a) people who are infected
        b) people with signs & symptoms
        c) people who have been exposed
        d) people who do not know if they're infected
        e) people who have recovered & are
            adequately immune.  

5. Inspire & mobilize the public.

6. Decisions must be guided by science.  
    Determine if it's safe for those who are immune
    to return to work & school & normal activities.

By putting cash in people's pockets, protecting small businesses, and releasing credit restrictions, the economy will be positioned to grow once again when the virus is not present.

"If we persist with halftones against coronavirus, we risk damaging the economy for a long time with a heavy burden of anxious consumers, disease, higher medical costs, and restricted business activity."

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

"Love your neighbor as yourself."

Thank you to all who are doing their part, staying at home and social distancing, during this challenging time.

We are united with nations around the world in a common endeavor.

This year holy seasons for the three Abrahamic faith traditions fall in April.

                 We stay apart today

      so we can be together on a better day.

It is compassion that compels the pandemic to pass over our homes.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of covid-19 yesterday, ten days after testing positive for coronavirus; today he was moved to intensive care.  
The PM has asked his Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputize for him "where" necessary.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Today's election in Wisconsin is both a primary and a general election.  
The very worst of partisan politics is on full view - partisanship trumping concern for safety.

The surgeon general knows people have died for the right to vote.  
With "stay at home" orders still in place,
he is encouraging Wisconsinites who go out to vote today to stay safe. He had declared this a critical week to stay at home; Dr Birx suggested we make do and skip grocery shopping this week. We are encouraged to exercise inside to avoid the risk/ temptation to congregate outside.
There are way more polling places closed than open today. (Of Milwaukee's 180 polling places, only 5 are open today.)

Not everyone was as fortunate as I was, to receive a mail-in ballot in time to return it.

To reward voters, the GOP promises no pen sharing -
Every voter receives their very own pen to keep.

*** To add insult to injury: There were thunderstorms and hail this afternoon.

**** The Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly was dressed in full PPE garb telling Wisconsinites it's "incredibly safe" to vote at the polls today.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

We're in an "infodemic." 
We must listen to public health officials,
listen to facts, listen to Dr Fauci.  
Are we staying at home?

A sense of isolation is growing...
social distancing is not natural...
music brings me encouragement.

We must remain vigilant.  
Stay at home to save a life.  
Prevention is the best remedy.

It is compassion that compels the pandemic to pass over our homes.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

In this moment staying at home is an act of love.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

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Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

"We are controlling the beast, the rate of spread is down in NYC. Who determines the rate of spread? We do."

NY, L.A., D.C. extend Stay-at-Home orders 'til at least May 15th. (states are coordinating their plans)

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

A calm brain is a learning brain.

All interactions provide teachable moments.

Resilience, joy, confidence are all important for students to learn.

Learning is important for seniors too.

Stewart Myrent

The library has been closed for over a month now (have no idea when it will re-open - if ever) & I finished my last book rental several weeks ago & I was looking for something to read at home & came upon "American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts that never made it into the textbooks", by Seymour Morris, Jr.  I finished the book & then started at the beginning a 2nd time & found this gem.  It is about a man who is selected to deliver an urgent message to Gen. Garcia (a real person) during the Spanish-American War.  The book, "A Message to Garcia", is the 5th "most widely distributed book of all time (after 'The Bible', Mao's 'Quotations', Noah Webster's 'American Spelling Book' and Jehovah's Witnesses 'The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life')." The book is forgotten because it takes place during the Spanish-American War.  "My heart goes out", 'A Message to Garcia' concludes, "to the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it... Civilization is one long, anxious search for such individuals."

Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Words kill!

Beware the bombast.

The country is frustrated and angry.

This is no time for politics.

Paul Richard Hain

Hello everyone,

I remember learning about "Message to Garcia" in the Boy Scouts. That must be because Jack and I were in the same Boy Scout Troop #26 at Sharp Corner School and then we moved to troop #226 at Jane Stenson School. I vaguely remember the story, but the take away lesson was dedication to a task (getting the message through) and overcoming personal fear. 
 

Scouting was real important shaping character and doing fun activities. I remember learning Morse Code, practicing sending messages in code a short distance to other scouts who decoded the message. We even learned semaphore (flag) signaling. These were skills we probably did not use as adults, but they helped us to grasp how difficult it was to get that message through to Garcia. 
The scouts were about being helpful, brave, clean and reverent. It was true to the first scout, Baden-Powell.  There was none of the abuse and nonsense that plague today's scouting. 
Thanks for bringing this back to memory. I'm sure it is remembered differently by others. But, to this day, my scout training comes in handy, lighting a fire, putting up a tent for my grand daughter or sharpening a knife. I think David (Steinberg) Noel, Tom Hansen and George Goldberg were in scoutes with us. 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

"There was none of the abuse and nonsense that plague today's scouting."

What are you saying, Paul?
What's the nonsense?
Pedophilia is as old as time.  
It is not helpful to be naive about this,
and to take a whack at Scouting today.

Marvin Irving Blusteln

All that we are exposed to and subjected to at the present exists largely because of one person and one group.

My lament, "shame on them they are not patriots."

Paul Richard Hain

Yes, Janis, pedophelia exists and has always existed.  But, don't judge my scouting experience based on your perverse view that it is endemic in all scouting and naiveness to know otherwise.  Let's face it: you simply don't know what your talking about and seem to get joy in putting down those of us who had good Boy Scout training.  Perhaps, you could benefit from personally keeping the Boy Scout oath.  "On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.  Scout Law is: to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent.

Tell me, if you will, what is objectionable to boys learning that to guide their lives?  If you desire it, pedophelia would ruin scouting and religion?  Are you willing to let that happen?  There are good, safe Boy Scout troops just as there are churches.  I hope you will agree with that?

Scouting and religion forms life-long character.  We need both, and we have to help make them both free from the stain of pedophelia by being "wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove" as we watch closely at what our children and grandchildren involve themselves. 
 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Paul, I'm glad you had a good Scouting experience; I know many who have, and hope Scouting continues into the future.
My objection was to you universalizing your Scouting experience to that of all Scouts in your day, and suggesting that Scouting today isn't what it used to be.

I have lived by the values in the Boy Scout oath,
and instilled those values in my children and grandchildren.

Have you seen "The Two Popes"?

Paul Richard Hain

Yes. 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Are you suffering cabin fever, Paul?
I was taken aback by your suggestion that I have a perverse view of Scouting.  
The confusion was over your statement "There was none of the abuse and nonsense that plague today's scouting."

Would that Americans could have the depth of dialogue portrayed in "The Two Popes."

Be well.  
Stay safe.
Wisconsin is on a stay at home order 'til May 26th. I am not aware of churches or synagogues or mosques in Wisconsin defying the stay at home order, though again May 12th Wisconsin will have an in-person election for an open Congressional seat in northern Wisconsin.