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Spanish Inquisition as a theme ......... sounds so cool. A mash-up of a Renaissance faire, revival meeting and witch burning.
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Tips and considerations during this time of National Emergency
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Spanish Inquisition as a theme ......... sounds so cool. A mash-up of a Renaissance faire, revival meeting and witch burning.
36654
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For a time it was popular with the Goth crowd...
I could see that.
That last time I was in Port Townsend, WA, they had some form of Steam Punk festival. Silly me, I assumed that was something younger folks did. But, there I was, drinking my beer, while surrounded by 20~25 folks my age or older dressed as either Steve Nicks and Mick Fleetwood on the Rumors Album cover...........
gregfeeler
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akbeemer
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Steve Nicks, eh? I wonder what Stevie Nicks would think about that?
Especially if she knew the impersonator’s name was Bruno, although he is known as Blade by the other Hell’s Angels.
gregfeeler
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36654
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Steve Nicks, eh? I wonder what Stevie Nicks would think about that?
It seemed to be a tolerant and accepting community. But, some definitely did a better job of dressing for their roles. There were good Micks and good Stevies...............then there were the Sticks and Mievies.
gregfeeler
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Did you get any photos?
bigjohnsd
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A new and easy test for the horror of Covid-19 is doing the rounds and it's simple, quick and positive (or negative if you see what I mean.).
Take a glass and pour a decent dram of your favourite whisky into it; then see if you can smell it. If you can, then you are halfway there.
Then drink it. If you can taste it then it is reasonable to assume you are currently free of the virus because the loss of the sense of smell and the sense taste is a common symptom..
I tested myself 7 times last night and was virus free every time, thank goodness.
I will have to test myself again today because I have developed a throbbing headache which can also be one of the symptoms..
I'll report my results later..
Take a glass and pour a decent dram of your favourite whisky into it; then see if you can smell it. If you can, then you are halfway there.
Then drink it. If you can taste it then it is reasonable to assume you are currently free of the virus because the loss of the sense of smell and the sense taste is a common symptom..
I tested myself 7 times last night and was virus free every time, thank goodness.
I will have to test myself again today because I have developed a throbbing headache which can also be one of the symptoms..
I'll report my results later..
gregfeeler
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Excellent idea! I'm so impressed at the lengths some will go to help out during these times.
pglaves
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Excellent idea! I'm so impressed at the lengths some will go to help out during these times.
Y'all be careful now, y'hear. The inability to smell is also a fairly common symptom of Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia: Especially the inability to smell peanut butter.
gregfeeler
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36654
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Sorry, no.
36654
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Peanut Butter? Don't you mean Poligrip?
akbeemer
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Excellent idea! I'm so impressed at the lengths some will go to help out during these times.
Careful if you try John’s testing regimen. He is a highly trained and experienced taste tester.
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Getting back to our national emergency... Time to reinforce the southern border?
Of our northern neighbor, that is. Seems some folks are toying with an international incident at the still-closed border with our friendly neighbors to the north.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/02/8981...-track-u-s-boaters-sneaking-across-the-border
Is there somehow a lack of nice boating destinations on our side of the border? Or is it the allure of higher-priced Canadian booze and gasoline? Is it desperation for a Tim Hortons fix (hard to imagine, I know). Or is the fishing in Canada worth the risk? Are desperate American GS riders boat-smuggling their bikes into Canada? Or black-market PPE into the US? If caught, will they all blame their border transgression on the recent Garmin outage?
DeVern
Of our northern neighbor, that is. Seems some folks are toying with an international incident at the still-closed border with our friendly neighbors to the north.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/02/8981...-track-u-s-boaters-sneaking-across-the-border
Is there somehow a lack of nice boating destinations on our side of the border? Or is it the allure of higher-priced Canadian booze and gasoline? Is it desperation for a Tim Hortons fix (hard to imagine, I know). Or is the fishing in Canada worth the risk? Are desperate American GS riders boat-smuggling their bikes into Canada? Or black-market PPE into the US? If caught, will they all blame their border transgression on the recent Garmin outage?
DeVern
Of our northern neighbor, that is. Seems some folks are toying with an international incident at the still-closed border with our friendly neighbors to the north.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/02/8981...-track-u-s-boaters-sneaking-across-the-border
Is there somehow a lack of nice boating destinations on our side of the border? Or is it the allure of higher-priced Canadian booze and gasoline? Is it desperation for a Tim Hortons fix (hard to imagine, I know). Or is the fishing in Canada worth the risk? Are desperate American GS riders boat-smuggling their bikes into Canada? Or black-market PPE into the US? If caught, will they all blame their border transgression on the recent Garmin outage?
DeVern
We're gonna build a wall - and America is going to pay for it!
But seriously, the article illustrates one of the reasons why America is still suffering with increasing infection rates. The boaters who turn off their transponders believe the rules don't apply to them.
This border closure is a major pain in the a$$ for my riding plans. I have friends who want to come north and I thoroughly enjoy riding eastern Washington/Oregon and northern California. On the other hand, my province is virtually 100% open thanks to early, and continued, adoption of simple solutions - hand washing, social distancing, wearing a mask. I look forward to the day we can all get together again.
And no dissing Tim Horton's!
exgman
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Sturgis Happening Now!
Looks like it's underway:
'We cannot stop people': 250,000 are expected at a South Dakota motorcycle rally
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Published 8:43 pm CDT, Thursday, August 6, 2020
Health officials are still warning against even small gatherings, and states with relatively low spread are ordering visitors from hot spots to self-quarantine.
But come Friday, about 250,000 people from across the country are still expected to start descending on a roughly 7,000-person community in South Dakota for one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world, a 10-day extravaganza so deeply rooted that Sturgis calls itself the City of Riders.
The mayor of Sturgis says there's not much to do but encourage "personal responsibility," set up sanitation stations and give out masks - though face coverings won't be required.
"We cannot stop people from coming," Mayor Mark Carstensen said Thursday on CNN.
Worried residents, however, say officials should have canceled the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in a state where Republican Gov. Kristi Noem resisted stay-at-home orders and mask rules - and last month welcomed another mass event, President Donald Trump's Fourth of July weekend speech at the foot of Mount Rushmore. A city survey found that more than 60 percent of Sturgis residents wanted the event postponed, the Associated Press reported.
"This is a huge, foolish mistake to make to host the rally this year," Sturgis resident Linda Chaplin warned city counselors earlier this summer, as a debate raged, according to the AP. "The government of Sturgis needs to care most for its citizens."
"My grandma is absolutely terrified because she has diabetes and is in her 80s and has lupus," another resident told CNN. "If she gets it, it's a death sentence."
But the spectacle in South Dakota's Black Hills is hugely important to the local economy, bringing in $1.3 million in city and state tax revenue last year, according to the Argus Leader. A mayor's letter overviewing Sturgis describes how the city "comes alive" with half a million visitors during a typical August rally, suddenly transformed into "the largest community in the state" with concerts and races.
On June 15, city council members voted 8 to 1 to forge ahead with the 80-year tradition, local news outlet NewsCenter 1 reported, albeit without the usual seating in a plaza.
Speaking Thursday to CNN, Carstensen said that keeping the rally has been "a difficult decision."
He noted that the city will be expanding a program to deliver supplies to the homes of those worried about the virus. But there are no quarantine recommendations for bikers from hot spot states, the mayor said, and leaders are just "hoping people make the right choices." Visitors have already been flocking to the Black Hills amid the pandemic, he said.
Backing up local leaders' decision is the governor, who has been disdainful of coronavirus restrictions throughout the pandemic. Noem said on Fox News on Wednesday that her state has successfully held other large gatherings, including Trump's event at Mount Rushmore.
"We hope people come," Noem said of the motorcycle rally. "Our economy benefits when people come and visit us."
As governor after governor - Democrat and Republican - turned to stay-at-home orders earlier this year, Noem denounced "herd mentality" and said such a move was not right for her rural state: "South Dakota is not New York City," she said. A South Dakota pork-processing plant soon became one of the country's biggest coronavirus clusters in the spring - but cases eventually dipped and the sparsely populated state did not shatter daily records this summer like many Southern and Western states.
Average new daily cases reported in South Dakota have risen in recent weeks but remain under 100, and the state records an average of one or two covid-19 deaths a day.
The concern: What happens when tourists pour in from around a country where the virus is still spreading out of control?
Benjamin Aaker, the president of the South Dakota State Medical Association, told CNN on Thursday that he's worried but insisted the rally can be held safely if people follow recommendations such as social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks.
Aaker stopped short of calling for those precautions to be mandated, though.
"We're the physicians to the state of South Dakota," he said of his organization, "much like the physician is to the person that comes in to see him or her, and we make recommendations."
"It's already here," he said of the coronavirus, "but is it going to get worse with an event such as this? . . . If we don't take those proper precautions, it will."
Looks like it's underway:
'We cannot stop people': 250,000 are expected at a South Dakota motorcycle rally
Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post Published 8:43 pm CDT, Thursday, August 6, 2020
Health officials are still warning against even small gatherings, and states with relatively low spread are ordering visitors from hot spots to self-quarantine.
But come Friday, about 250,000 people from across the country are still expected to start descending on a roughly 7,000-person community in South Dakota for one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world, a 10-day extravaganza so deeply rooted that Sturgis calls itself the City of Riders.
The mayor of Sturgis says there's not much to do but encourage "personal responsibility," set up sanitation stations and give out masks - though face coverings won't be required.
"We cannot stop people from coming," Mayor Mark Carstensen said Thursday on CNN.
Worried residents, however, say officials should have canceled the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in a state where Republican Gov. Kristi Noem resisted stay-at-home orders and mask rules - and last month welcomed another mass event, President Donald Trump's Fourth of July weekend speech at the foot of Mount Rushmore. A city survey found that more than 60 percent of Sturgis residents wanted the event postponed, the Associated Press reported.
"This is a huge, foolish mistake to make to host the rally this year," Sturgis resident Linda Chaplin warned city counselors earlier this summer, as a debate raged, according to the AP. "The government of Sturgis needs to care most for its citizens."
"My grandma is absolutely terrified because she has diabetes and is in her 80s and has lupus," another resident told CNN. "If she gets it, it's a death sentence."
But the spectacle in South Dakota's Black Hills is hugely important to the local economy, bringing in $1.3 million in city and state tax revenue last year, according to the Argus Leader. A mayor's letter overviewing Sturgis describes how the city "comes alive" with half a million visitors during a typical August rally, suddenly transformed into "the largest community in the state" with concerts and races.
On June 15, city council members voted 8 to 1 to forge ahead with the 80-year tradition, local news outlet NewsCenter 1 reported, albeit without the usual seating in a plaza.
Speaking Thursday to CNN, Carstensen said that keeping the rally has been "a difficult decision."
He noted that the city will be expanding a program to deliver supplies to the homes of those worried about the virus. But there are no quarantine recommendations for bikers from hot spot states, the mayor said, and leaders are just "hoping people make the right choices." Visitors have already been flocking to the Black Hills amid the pandemic, he said.
Backing up local leaders' decision is the governor, who has been disdainful of coronavirus restrictions throughout the pandemic. Noem said on Fox News on Wednesday that her state has successfully held other large gatherings, including Trump's event at Mount Rushmore.
"We hope people come," Noem said of the motorcycle rally. "Our economy benefits when people come and visit us."
As governor after governor - Democrat and Republican - turned to stay-at-home orders earlier this year, Noem denounced "herd mentality" and said such a move was not right for her rural state: "South Dakota is not New York City," she said. A South Dakota pork-processing plant soon became one of the country's biggest coronavirus clusters in the spring - but cases eventually dipped and the sparsely populated state did not shatter daily records this summer like many Southern and Western states.
Average new daily cases reported in South Dakota have risen in recent weeks but remain under 100, and the state records an average of one or two covid-19 deaths a day.
The concern: What happens when tourists pour in from around a country where the virus is still spreading out of control?
Benjamin Aaker, the president of the South Dakota State Medical Association, told CNN on Thursday that he's worried but insisted the rally can be held safely if people follow recommendations such as social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks.
Aaker stopped short of calling for those precautions to be mandated, though.
"We're the physicians to the state of South Dakota," he said of his organization, "much like the physician is to the person that comes in to see him or her, and we make recommendations."
"It's already here," he said of the coronavirus, "but is it going to get worse with an event such as this? . . . If we don't take those proper precautions, it will."
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