@journeywithme2, my husband and I wanted to adopt another dog this spring, and then Covid hit. We lost our sweet Gracie two years ago, and decided to wait to adopt until we had some repairs done to our home.
I'm wondering how difficult it would be to adopt now? It looks like our local rescue groups are offering virtual adoptions, but we don't feel comfortable doing that. We'd really want to meet and spend time with the dog.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244514157.html#storylink=cp y" target="true">The Miami Herald just posted a story that 18 anesthesiologists have tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a party on July 10. Anesthesiologists have been front line doctors who intubate Covid-19 sufferers in ICU. These doctors did not get covid from front line work, but from attending a party together, allegedly with not enough protection from each other.
I hope more information will reveal that they were more careful than the way it looks. It is hard to believe that medical professionals, especially those who know firsthand the consequences of this disease, would expose themselves carelessly at a party.
After a party, 18 anesthesiologist at UF hospital system diagnosed with Covid
@deetoo that is wonderful! I suppose it all depends on where you live and what the shelters individual requirements are. I am in Georgia... our county's shelter is currently open.. and people make appointments to come in by appointment only and comply with mask and social distancing requirements and adoptions are proceeding. Rescue groups set their own requirements and a call to them would let you know what is required. We have a lot of adoptions occurring these past few months as more people were home to be with new adoptees to help them acclimate them. I agree with you an in person visit to meet is the best course. The energy feel and exchange between yourselves and your future new family member are important contributions to deciding if you are a fit for each other. I feel the virtual ones are more difficult to see if you are a fit. I can see where in some cases tho.. this would be the choice to be made due to infection rates and risks and its a fine line between insuring a good "fit" and saving a life by adoption with limitations on interaction. I wish you the very best in finding a new companion and family member! I know you will find the very one meant for you in Divine right timing. ❤️
@deetoo I'm wondering how difficult it would be to adopt now?
it's never difficult. Says the guy with 9 cats.
I’m not at all surprised. You would be shocked at how many of the highly educated docs and nurses down here are die hard Trumpsters. Add that to the “I am invincible” factor and you have a recipe for disaster.
@unk-p LOL I have never had a problem getting a new family member... they just show up at my door in need. Currently 6 furkids share my space...several are "special needs" babies. I have fostered and placed many over the years and kept more than my share LOL "Cheaper by the dozen"???
I have often said they leave a mark for others to "see" and know.... like the hobos of the Great Depression marked which farms and places were safe and which weren't... which would feed them and which would sic the dog on them.
Often...when I have been sure of what animal I would like to join our "family" I just put the thought out there and POOF before I know it? They appear!!!
@journeywithme2 Yep, ours were all strays. Four of them are my housemates, two are outdoors only, and three are "mine". I watched my three be born, all i knew to do was boil some water and tear up some sheets, lol
Key points From The Guardian. [need link to article]:
- Hong Kong outbreak ‘overwhelming’ medical system says Carrie Lam.
- The city recorded its seventh consecutive day with case numbers in the triple figures.
- China reported 101 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for 28 July, the highest in over three and a half months
- The WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is “one big wave”, not seasonal.
- Air travel is not expected to recover until 2024.
- Italy extended its state of emergency until October.
- Over half people living in Mumbai slums have had Covid-19,according to a city-commissioned study.
Got Kids? Trying too figure out what you are going to do regarding school this year?
This video made me laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg2YvURCysk
Got Kids? Trying too figure out what you are going to do regarding school this year?
This video made me laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg2YvURCysk
yep, this is pretty much where I'm at.
My district's *current* plan is online only through the end of September; at that point, students will either continue 100% virtual or will attend 2 days a week. (Half of attending students will attend Monday and Tuesday and the other half Thursday and Friday, while the schools are closed Wednesday for deep cleaning.)
My intuition tells me that by the time the end of September lumbers around, it will be deemed too unsafe to return to schools for even two days a week, and everyone will be 100% virtual whether they like it or not.
US Representative from Texas Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus. Gohmert is among the most conservative members of Congress and has refused to wear a mask on Capitol Hill.
He was around Bob Barr yesterday and was supposed to fly to Texas with Trump this am.
Things are getting interesting.
Well, it appears there is a positive thing about Trump right now. (If we look deeply, we can find at least one good thing right?)
He has anyone who will be around him tested ahead of time for the virus. People who don't know they are sick find out sooner than they would have otherwise found out, thus limiting the further spread of Covid. In some cases, the person is completely asymptomatic so it will halt the super spreading from that individual. I don't know if that is the case in this situation, but it has happened to others who have tested positive before they were supposed to meet up with Trump. It doesn't change the results of all the other Covid spreading cases his actions have caused however.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist expressed his views on how Trump's handling of the pandemic is further crippling our economy. The U.S., controlling for population size, has 15 times the amount of Covid as other countries . https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/us-republicans-coronavirus.html
A young lady who works as a bagger in a Houston grocery store has contracted Covid-45 from unmasked customers she was forced to interact with. She has autism, and has worked at Randall's Groceries for 20 years, the only job she has ever had. She wore a mask, and was always careful. The customers, not so much, as Randall's didn't even require them to wear masks until late June(!).
I have friends that live near that same store, and I have actually shopped there a few times in the past. I quit going there though, because, for one thing it was way more expensive than other stores. But the thing that really bugged me about the place was the way the employees and security guards would follow me around, frowning, and acting like i was there to shoplift. I guess my hair was too nappy or my clothes were too happy to be able to shop there in peace.
Well, it turns out Randall's is owned by republican right-wingers (surprise, surprise!), and as such, are more concerned with having the "right kind" of customers, than with the health and safety of their employees and the public at large.
By the time the lady who got Covid-45 while working there realized she was ill, she had already passed it to her elderly parents, whom she lives with. The Mom and the Dad are both in the hospital, with the Dad on a ventilator. They are not sure if he will survive.
Here is a link to the story in the Baltimore Sun: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-covid-19-face-masks-20200726-ynyfhmvn2nhdjeqg2xp4cdsuju-story.html
@lovendures I'm glad that carriers are tested and stopped from spreading, but thinking about the fact that Donald Trump has people tested before meeting with him infuriates me. As if protecting his health is for the good of the country.
@unk-p Here in Houston, Randalls is the most expensive non organic, then Kroger, then HEB, then Walmart. Some people still don't wear masks at HEB, went to Walmart and people actually wore masks. There is a Wholefoods and Target near me on Westheimer and it has always had people with masks which makes me happy. Now the suburbs, Katy, Sugarland are pretty much awful when it comes to masks in my experience.