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You and Sarah can race! This is almost exactly the chair that my son's friend, "Speedy" used. He earned the nickname.

We use a lift at home because Karen cannot walk or stand and hasn't been able to even stand for about eight years. It's a motorized lift built into the bedroom ceiling and we use a sling.

You have to be trained to operate it properly, it has a lot of torque, the kind that can cause injury if you mess up.

Gosh, we've never had to replace a battery pack. The scooter (or now, the power chair) always wears out before that happens, about every four years. Thankfully the VA gives Karen a new one and we start all over again. She'll be up for another new one in about another year.

So you are predicting only about 15 million people get infected? I think it may be more like 80% of the population or 264 million. I don't think our quarantines are that good, because people keep on going food shopping, getting take-out food, and immediately opening mail. When the mailman has an asymptomatic case, he can infect everybody on his route. And then there's all the people still working at those essential liquor stores, Home Depots, etc. in a lot of states with Republican Governors. I think there is at least one state that has deemed every business "essential". If a lot of people break quarantine to go to Easter services like Trump wants, essentially all of them could be infected right there.

I think that there might be 20% who are being so careful, or so OCD, they won't catch it.

We self-quarantined at the cabin again today, just 1/4 mile from the Gila Wilderness to the north. Nothing but roadless National Forest for 20 miles to the south. Very low human density. Got some more tung oil on the floor and started hooking up the wood stove. So far I’m not suffering from the pandemic.

I was pleased to see a dip in both the new cases and fatalities today.

Loggy: That's good. I hope you can stay there for the next month and you didn't bring it in with you. Things are going to get VERY bad. Did you bring enough beans & rice? Enough canned food? Flour and yeast so you can bake bread? That's the thing we forgot, and it sucks. Ran out of bread a week ago. And of course we have a perfectly good bread machine, just nothing to put in it. Still have lots of crackers and corn tortillas. Lots of canned chile, corned beef hash, and soup. I'm already losing weight. I will probably wind up in better shape than I have been in for years.

The Party of Trump is insisting that a fetus is a person. Therefore, every expectant mother in the country should be applying for an extra 500 bucks for their fetus. If the administration refuses to pay the extra 500 bucks, I believe that sets a legal precedent for the Federal Government admitting that a fetus is NOT a person, thus setting up an upset in any pending case to overturn Roe v. Wade, yes?

“The analysis also found that Insurers, employers and individuals are expected to pay anywhere from $34 billion to $251 billion in additional costs for testing and treating COVID-19. A liberal estimation would boost the about $1.2 trillion costs per year by 20 percent or more, potentially leading to a 40 percent increase in premiums.

Covered California's analysis applies to the commercial insurance market that represents coverage offered to 170 million workers and individuals through private health plans but not to Medicare and Medicaid.”

Health insurance premiums could skyrocket: analysis

I see another bail out coming...

I'll just put this out there: Trump administration sent protective medical gear to China while he minimized the virus threat to US (CNN).