as  for posting..I am sorta  logjammed  until some one posts...its like that  old  game 'bobbytrap'..  i can't  move  until some one else does  and that looses up alot more pieces!

Yeah...I get to wait until the next day pretty much lol! Currently working on a post for Ironmound.

if  worse comes to worse, i move stuff  forward and set up flexes..but i hate when the  game is locked up.

It unfortunately happens, Well Lizzy is snuggling in for the night.

About work on a post for Melia, Hawkeye is letting Harry have a chance to respond to Will being awake. As for Sarah I'll be working on hers around the same time as Melia

well.. 7 PC is  the meeting ( counting Shadow )

 3  sleeping

 1  getting her BF from Med Tech

 2 about to go howm 2 on a Burain  Cap ship

 1 in Med  tech working

3 more  on rec dec (  if you count Shade)

2-5 on the shelf, because of RL tot he players

 not often i have everyone locked   down like that, it's just aprt of  the process.. I can  fix it with a shove, but i like  PCs  to  make the first move... we'll see what happens  by tomorrow morning..until then, I'll check in.

Correction posts will have to wait since our curbside pick up order for groceries got dropped from the list due to too many orders or some other bs meaning I now have the dubious honor of waking up at 6:30am to get to the store.... this while my sleep schedule is optimized for working late evenings and not mornings...

RL coems  first..do what you have to do!

Should find out Monday if things are going to continue as-is in Utah or if they're going to adopt more stringent measures.  We've either had or have just over 400 cases in the state, only one of which has been fatal...and they've tested just over 7700 people...so I feel like we're doing pretty well, but I haven't really been tracking the Utah developments specifically, and the state doesn't list how many of those 400 cases were actually serious enough to require hospitalization.

That said, work is, thus far, going on as normal, at least from my end of things...but my boss is privately convinced that we've got a state-wide shelter-in-place order coming soon, which would be both a curse and a blessing.  I just got a monster-long list of things to get done in order to prepare for rehearsals (whenever those end up happening) and getting told to stay home right away would really screw things up for me, on that end...but I have a LOT of projects at home that would really benefit from me basically being told I have to stay put for a couple of weeks.  From the sound of things, the movie theater has made the decision to stay in operation until such time as they are actually told they have to shut down...found out that we do, actually, have a policy in place to limit ticket sales in order to avoid over-crowding, but we have never had to use it since everyone went onto high alert...just haven't had that many people come in.  But a lot of people assume that we are closed, since all the other theaters are closed.  And it's a little amazing just how much walk-in business we do selling popcorn.  Pretty sure we had more people come in to buy popcorn tonight than we did to see movies, and our large popcorn is actually more expensive than the movie ticket (which is only $3).  So, we're selling lots of popcorn, and showing movies to a house of 2-5 people, most of the time (last night, we actually shut down all the projectors early because nobody came to see any of the late shows.)

At some point, this is going to catch up with me, I'm sure...but for now, I'm trying to do what I can to help out a lot of my friends who are performers or gig-workers and have had all their events cancelled.  It's usually them picking up the tab for me, because they get paid way more than I do for events...but without events, suddenly, I'm the one who's looking flush and not worried about money.  That, as much as anything, has me a little weirded out by this whole situation...I'm not used to being the most financially stable person in the group, and suddenly, I am, through no doing of my own.

  i have these youtube  updates about Movies..i watch them , mostly, for  Marvel, but they show   DC  and  westworld too ( never watcehed Westworld yet)

anyway..  they talk about  pushed back films, easter  eggs.. and stuuf ( you can also get a  chance to  winn tickets, boxsets,  and PS4..)

 well?.. they have been saying about the movies opening again around august... the  Chinese  are doing it  now  , using Harry potter  and   Avengers  to wet the public's appitite again... I commented ( cause you ned to to get a chance to win!)...that BLAck Widow  and   Wonder Woman 84 won't be  VOD..because they will make  tons of money , being  strong  female characters ..some lesser   Marvel  folks are going to Disney + .

 at anyrate  when ( if?)  the peak of this  virus  comes,  there will be mor e plannign ahead .

found this  for any one it might help.

https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...ke-sure-you-n1169576

Oh, the peak WILL come, at some point.  The thing I wonder about is whether the federal response will be a 'one size fits all' approach, or if they'll tailor it to specific regions.  Most western states, for instance, will not need any thing like what they're going to need in New York.  We are, inherently, already somewhat distanced.  Utah has taken a pretty relaxed stance on isolation, comparatively speaking, and our actual infection rate is pretty stable.  But there are more people in Manhattan itself than in all of Utah, which makes for a totally different approach to try and reach the same end.

The thing that concerns me is that we don't really have a clear definition of where the crisis ends...how do we know when it's okay to relax our guard again?

i saw one thing pop up that  says this is seasonal..but those  who had it last time, will have higher tolerance?... but..if that is the truth, there should be a Vaccine in the works.

In the last two days it has gotten nuts here in Mass, 25 deaths, now 2400 confirmed cases, 200 hospitalized, out of the 25 all but three where 60 or older, the other three where in their 50's with health problems one just got done with cancer treatment in the past 6 months.  (that is where I fall) but out of the 25, 18 where men. Trying to get the gender breakdown of the people who are confirmed cases.
I am just a little scared now, but hanging on the best I can. We are now under a order to stay at home unless ABSOLUTELY required to go out.

 Mass General is working on a vaccine, and better counter drugs but they are saying it is still months away.

A friend of mine is working on the team at Houston Methodist to create a vaccine. She has a blog that addresses some of the myths and rumors about COVID19 as well as discussing some of the other details as well.

Her webpage is here if you'd like to check it out. She's filled out her bio now so I feel more comfortable sharing it.

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 1006):

Not sure how anyone can authoritatively state that, considering we've only known about it since December.  I will grant that it's possible that it's seasonal, as some other common Corona strains are.  But we have barely had enough time to observe in from winter into spring, we don't know what it's going to do to us a year after infection, if it can come back or if it's a one-and-done sickness.  They can speculate...but the best they can give us at this point is educated guesses.  You can't even take for granted how it behaved in animals, because it changed enough to become communicable to humans, and we don't know how much it may have changed other factors in the process.

And there are probably tens of thousands of organizations around the world developing a vaccine.  This will not always be the threat it is right now.

I heard that they are saying we had the virus sooner than that...like October.

I've heard that, too...but given that we lacked a sudden spike in old people with treatment-resistant respiratory problems, I'm skeptical of the claim.

Agreed, none of the health professionals I know support this claim, and none of the independent searching I've done as well verify it. The virus seems to come in 10 day waves, and if it was here in October, we'd have already seen massive numbers "inexplicable" sudden jump in deaths attributed to respiratory failure, that we are currently starting to experience.

On a non-Corona front, I’m kind of surprised that the fleet doesn’t have a dedicated ground attack wing. A flight of Sci-fi A-10’s would come in around about now.

I might be wrong, but that's basically what the Morningstar's are. We just happen to have only one.

Wow that is an amazing idea.

  CAp ships  don't have  room..  Fighters  are needed  for intercept ,  and  for the  ground protection.

 Maces  and Morningstars  were our  , ground attack... there are a few  maces in the fleet.. we only have  one morningstar  left.

Oh I get that sacrifices would need to be made, it would probably mean that Fitz’s flight and the torpedo bombers would be replaced with a dedicated flight of ground attack planes. It pretty much boils down to whether the fleet prefers versatility over specialisation both of which have pro’s and con’s.

 there are  'torpedo attack' aircaft in the works..as  well as the next gen fighters..but..we have to see  when they pop up.

 there would be the scuttlebutt  with them