Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Paul Richard Hain

You nailed it, Jack!  

Paul Richard Hain

Janis, I was not "universalizing" my Scouting experience.  That is your term, not mine.  That was never my intent. You read too much into what I said. I am happy for you that you do know others who benefited from Scouting and that you live the values it taught. 
No, Janis, I do not suffer from cabin fever suggesting it was perverse of you to take my comments the way you did. It's par for the course for you to attack or twist my words when I post. 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Paul, in your professional background you know how important it is to commuicate clearly, carefully, and accurately. The sentence in question was unnecessary in your original post. You did not use the word "universalizing" but you made what was understood to be a universal statement by me and parents in scouting today. I did not twist your words. Your statement was unnecessary (and careless) and was heard as a disparaging comment about Scouting today.

If you prefer, I could take great umbrage at the totality of your messages. You might have gracefully accepted "cabin fever" as an out (and stopped your "critical" demeaning messages to me); accepted Jack's post as the gift it is and moved on after a grateful response for the interesting info he shared.

*** Paul, I hope you reconsider one sentence and delete it from a beautiful memory and story you might well repeat in the future.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

It's OK to not be OK in this time.  
The days are running together.

Thank you to everyone working on the front lines and in essential services - they are carrying us through this crisis. 
Recent news is good but only compared to the terrible news we've been living with. As Dr Fauci says, "The virus will tell us" - the numbers are contingent on what we do.
Let's learn from this experience and build back smarter.

Alan A. Alop

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

We do not need protests to convince us we want "OUT!"  
We must be patient.
The question is to know when it's safe to be out and do no harm.  
We need tests, tests, tests,
and contact tracing.
We will see the results of our decisions.

Have a good day, we're in this together.

Marvin Irving Blusteln

     Janis,     Re:1688.   The problem is not with many of us.  We do not need to learn we know.   This brings to mind a post I saw on facebook.  Son asks his father "Dad, what is science." Dad replies, "son, we're republicans, we don't believe in science."

Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

👍

Let's get to this 📉

Get off the "tracks" 🚂to save the 🌎

  a train wreck in slow motion

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

"I became a mask maker
because your life is worth my time."

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

At least seven covid-19 cases have been traced back to in-person voting in Wisconsin's April 7th election. Milwaukee health officials confirmed seven cases which include six voters and one poll worker in Milwaukee where 180 voting locations were pared back to five, and there were hours-long lines to cast ballots.

The Wisconsin Democratic governor declared a state of emergency on March 12th and tried to delay the April 7th election or move all voting to mail-in ballots. Both Wisconsin and U.S. Supreme Courts upheld appeals by the Republican-controlled state legislature to hold in person voting.

The Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly dressed in full PPE garb April 7th to assure Wisconsinites it was safe to be at the polls.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

 
  in celebration of  Earth Day

"Time spent among trees is never wasted."

The number of Wisconsinites infected during in-person voting on April 7th and showing symptoms of or diagnosed with covid-19 is growing.  
The Republican-controlled state legislature will not consider healthy voting alternatives for the May 12th special election to fill a vacant Congressional seat in northern Wisconsin.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

   🥀  iF   YOU   THiNK  

   ARTiSTS  ARE  USELESS  

    TRY  TO  SPEND  YOUR   

     QUARANTiNE 😷

🥁 WiTHOUT  MUSiC,  BOOKS  

         POEMS,   MOViES  🎭

          PAiNTiNGS  AND  

                    GAMES   🧩

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

  WARNING:

  DO  NOT INJECT 

      DISINFECTANT 

Marvin Irving Blusteln

In trump world disenfectant is already in the punch.  And in math 45=0.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

"The crazy has now caught up to our public health institutions in the middle of a deadly pandemic. It's hard to think of a worse case scenario."  
-- Brett McGurk

Stewart Myrent

I thought it was time for another excerpt from Seymour Morris Jr.'s, "American History Revised:  200 Startling Facts that never made it into the textbooks" - from a sub-chapter titled "America in 1800", "It took six weeks to cross the Atlantic. Traveling from Boston to Washington by stagecoach took ten days, at fifteen to sixteen hours a day.  Shipping a ton of goods thirty miles inland cost as much as shipping it all the way to England.  America consisted of a lot of small towns.  Political argument and brawling was a major source of entertainment; language could become quite extreme.  In the election campaign (of 1800), Federalist newspapers predicted the election of Thomas Jefferson would cause the 'teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest.'  Recent presidents have it easy.  The federal government was tiny: 293 people, including members of Congress and the Supreme Court.  The president had a salary of $25,000, but 'no house, nor carriage, nor servants, nor, indeed a single secretary.'  All expenses for protocol, office, travel, and other 'business-related' expenses had to come out of the president's personal pocket."  One more thing from the same sub-chapter, "Tuition at Harvard College in 1800 was sixteen dollars a year - a bargain compared with the more glamorous Princeton (then called the College of New Jersey), where tuition was one hundred dollars a year." 

Marvin Irving Blusteln

For Paul and all those who choose not speak out against truth deniers.

Alan A. Alop

Bravo Marvin!

To inject or not to inject. That is the question. 

Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of coronavirus,

Or to take an arm, infuse the Clorox, and die.

To shuffle off this mortal coil. Away from the madness of this King.

Stewart Myrent

Marv, I was laughing my ass off viewing your interestingly & enticingly packaged Clorox Chewables - do you think it's too late to buy Clorox stock? And Alan, I applaud your efforts to raise the classiness of the Forum by injecting the words of the Bard into our Forum & discussion. Very nice!

Stewart Myrent

i just wanted to mention a very funny parody I just saw on Yahoo!  It's by comedian Randy Rainbow & it's a parody of "A Spoonful of Sugar" from "Mary Poppins" & it's called "A Spoonful of Clorox".  I could tell you how funny it is, but I think it's worth seeing once.  I do not know if it's available on YouTube.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

The coronavirus is a stress test.  
"Over the course of a lifetime, the effects of daily and hourly stressors accumulate.  
Ultimately, people who are unable to take time off of work when sick---or who don't have a comfortable and quiet home, or who lack access to good food and clean air---are likely to bear the burden of severe disease."

The coronavirus has turned the world upside down.  
It's not good to quarantine our feelings.  
In the midst of it all, laughter is good medicine.  
Thanks, guys.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

We know the DANGER signs of coronavirus spread.  
Remember there's a 2-week lag.

There are data points for re opening.  
We have to be smart about re opening. 
Testing still lags.

We must keep the infection rate down,
and be prepared to track and contact trace...

We must protect and respect frontline and essential workers.

We need to ramp up reliable testing and know where we can be tested.

We've changed reality, flattened the curve, saved lives by slowing the spread.
Let's be smart and stop the spread; we need to do better than plateau, we need infections to decline.

The coronavirus will dictate our timeline: our work's not done.

We're learning from the experience of coronavirus,
let's build better systems for the future.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

There are warning signs from around the world about re-opening too soon.

Testing is key to re-opening.

We must keep the infection rate down,
and be prepared to track and contact trace...

Why are we funding hotels, airlines, big corporations?

opening hair salons and barbershops, massage parlors and tattoo shops?

Frontline workers are surrendering the me for the we.

Let's extend the lockdown.

The crisis brings out the best and the worst in people.

If ever there was a moment to put partisan politics aside,

now is that moment.

Americans are good neighbors,

fund working Americans.