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Sable the barn cat is trying to get our baby goat Pickles to rub his belly (the big goats know how this works!). Poor Pickles is just puzzled... #angoragoats #goatsofinstagram #catsofinstagram
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Time for another Pickles break. I think we're going to need quite a few Pickles breaks to get through this summer...
We have barn cats in all of our barns; this is Sable, who lives in the goat barn. Sable gets along extremely well with the goats. Look out the window, early in the morning, and you'll see him twining around his goat friends, who respond by rubbing his belly with their heads. (Our enormous draft horse Max does the same thing with the horse barn mouser, Vader, but I've never managed to get it filmed while they're at it.)
Well, here is Sable, trying to get Pickles to rub his belly. And Pickles is just plain confused.
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The cat tail is not very happy, kept waiting for more but Pickles was not to pushy!
Orienting new goats is hard work!
Lessons from history. Be alert and be careful, and particularly so over the next fourteen days...
"In the final months of the First World War, after the initial wave of the influenza pandemic had waned and as the United States and its allies were mounting the Hundred Days Offensive, the city of Philadelphia planned a parade...
"On September 28, 1918, two hundred thousand people watched and cheered as a miles-long procession of troops, Boy Scouts, and women’s auxiliaries made its way down Broad Street. Warplanes were displayed on floats, and John Philip Sousa led an impressive group of marching bands, while bond salesmen worked the crowd. The parade raised hundreds of millions of dollars. But, within seventy-two hours, not a single hospital bed in Philadelphia remained unoccupied. In the coming weeks, nearly fifty thousand residents would become infected with influenza; in the month after the parade, ten thousand died of it. In St. Louis, which had cancelled its parade, fewer than seven hundred people died of influenza during the same period."
www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-the-protests-have-changed-the-pandemic
What the Protests Mean for the Course of the Pandemic
www.newyorker.com
Mass demonstrations in all fifty states have upended reopening timetables and altered the meaning of the antiviral fight.1 day ago
Texas has been reopening steadily since the end of April. We have not had the dreaded spike everyone told us would come. I expect a small uptick in the metropolitan areas where most of the protests have taken place, but certainly nothing of Biblical proportions.
I live in Michigan and there have been a number of large, not socially distanced protests for over a month now. The Governor was warning we are going to see a large spike of cases in MI if people continue to protest her lockdown orders. There has not been an increase in cases and now she is encouraging peaceful protests for current matters. But it has been over 6 weeks since protests began and our numbers in MI are declining daily, I pray this is the norm everywhere and we don't repeat history!
Seeing a lot of selective outrage about the protests, while ignoring the effect of reopening of bars, restaurants, beaches, and the widespread lax public health demonstrated on Memorial Day...
I am so tired of such a limited social life. But, I am convinced to continue to take things very slowly and not make changes to what we have been doing until I see how this next month plays out. Perhaps all my more conspiracy (skeptical?) minded friends were right and this truly won't be "that bad". But if my worst fears about this thing were right....eeek!
I’ve been worrying about this also. I’m 100% supportive of the protests, and I do understand why people might decide that racism is a bigger problem in their lives than covid and protesting is worth the risk. But there are going to be public health consequences, and I think too many people are on some level thinking that having a righteous cause will some how protect them from getting or spreading the virus.
The numbers have spiked in AL in the last couple of weeks. Given the laxity of people who have become weary of taking precautions and the recent protests/looting/riots this was bound to happen. You cannot make a pandemic go away simply because you're bored with dealing with it.
I live in Arizona, we 'opened' too early and are now beginning to pay the price, with cases spiking and I don't think we have seen the worst yet. As you are so well aware, we could learn from history, but we seldom do!! This may well be Philadelphia all over again. Things become difficult when we are led by an idiot!!
I feel for these protesters. They just cannot win. Staying silent is not an option, but going out is so risky for them and all connected with them. What a time this is. 🙁
Susan, thank you so much! How odd it is that your post appeared as I'm writing my Capstone, while holding 'The History of the Ancient World' in front of me?? ; )
In the picture you posted, the protestor is wearing a mask, as are most protestors due to threats of tear gas, etc. Pretty sure that didn't happen in 1918. Also, most people below the age of 50 recover without needing to be in the hospital.
Public health departments have already come out and said Black Lives are more at risk because of systemic racism in police, prison and healthcare than Covid.
I've been worried about this. We had just gotten a good handle on things here, but now we will likely see a huge spike
I recently was reading about this. This is very worrisome.
There is no cure for bad choices.
It’s just crazy!
Thank you for sharing
It's like you read my mind...
Exactly.
It is so hopeful to see someone in the homeschool community not pushing their conspiracy theories and outright racism. I have distanced myself from most of them because I don’t want my children being indoctrinated with their tin foil hat theories that are inherently violent. So yay- I just sent my two oldest to public school for the first time ever. Just from listening to all of the SOTW audioCds they knew everything and more for Social Studies.
Erin Johnson Woodard, Donna Ryan, Philip Johnson, Ian Johnson
these numbers are from CDC: chances of any of person dying from covid .02% yearly flu: .4% including countries with no "measures" of your news source didn't tell you, perhaps it is time to find another one?
Alice Mary Smith
