I do the revserse and try to put a dozen 2x4s and a couple small sheets of wood into a regular cart causing it to be difficult to maneuver through the aisles.
Also helps if you’re in one of those stores where the toilets are out in the open like it’s another regular aisle. Stack up some boxes and you can position it to give yourself some privacy. Bring along some bottles of water too since sometimes the faucets don’t work.
I was terminally online during that time, and some reports of a truly awful pneumonia in China were going around as early as mid-November. It was definitely known to be a major outbreak by early December. A lot of the early reports were taken down; just CCCP CCP doing CCCP CCP things.
Edit: whoops thought it had that extra C in there. Should probably use CPC anyway.
Considering there were quarantines in December, I’m pretty sure health officials were in the know. Though official international reporting may not have happened until Dec 31.
Well yeah. If people all over the world knew weeks earlier, obviously the health officials knew. But if they didn’t report it before, that doesn’t disagree with the textbook.
I was living in Oklahoma and I remember some of the local media mentioning this “coronavirus” thing that was spreading in China. I also remember people joking about Corona (the beer) being suddenly less popular.
Then in February, March, and April it getting more and more serious, and this is about the time that people started claiming it wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t that bad, and if it was, then it was from a chinese lab bent on taking down the US…
April-May had me re-adjusting my previous opinions of people around me that I thought were rational.
I was working in the hospital at the time from a big-picture perspective and it seemed pneumonia cases were already spiking in the US during December 2019. My sister and my coworker both came down with a nasty “pneumonia” during then as well.
Yeah, I remember seeing TikToks about it way before December. Lots of “there are a LOT of people sick in China right now with pneumonia, and it has actually started to hurt their economy. It’ll eventually make its way over here” types of things. The warning signs were there, for those who cared to look.
I mostly saw it on the finance side of tiktok, since lots of financial analysts were like “uhh this shit could crash the economy if it spreads.”
The last time I used one of these was buying drywall because it only comes in two sizes with no in-between, too damn big and patch kits that are good for nothing.
I’ve had this ErgoDox for, like, 6 years. It has underlights, but no backlights, but also no home row keys. The entire time I’ve owned it, in the dark I’ve struggled to find the home row, often taking seconds to find my finger placement by feeling the edges of the keyspace. It’s been a constant source of irritation, but it never occurred to me to just buy some home row caps.
Anyway, I was tidying up to office the other day, and found a little packet that came with the keyboard containing home row caps. FML, but with a silver lining, right?
In the process of swapping out those two caps, I completely broke the J switch. So now I’m (temporarily) using a Kinesis Gaming keyboard and learning an object lesson about how utterly miserable row stagger is.
My point is that backlighting would probably have saved me a lot of grief; not as much as home row keys, but still better than nothing.
I don’t need to look at the most common keys or the letters; but some of the weirder ones I don’t use often, I might have to actually look at the board for. Having them backlit helps see when it’s dark. 🤷🏻♂️
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