This restaurant in Amsterdam is training their servers to work from a safe distance...pic.twitter.com/ooU55WRKLm— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 1, 2020
Earthshaker, How come your llama doesn’t look like this? This sheep escaped a farm and spent 6 years in the mountains, during which time he grew 60 pounds of wool. Wolves tried to eat him, but their teeth could not penetrate the floof. You don't have to turn hard to survive the wolves, just be really, really soft and fluffy. pic.twitter.com/VYdxujSU8l— Sami Abdul Aziz (@FarmerAziz) May 2, 2020
I think 50 years ago, they used to tag sheep and cattle with little metal tags on their ears. I don’t know if they still do this. BTW, after I read the thread of that tweet, it turns out the story is 6 years old and is fake news because there are no wolves in New Zealand. But I think the photo is so adorable.
375 positive tests 23 deaths 5,695 total tests. So we’re a little over one percent of the county population tested now (assuming that many of those test are not repeats on the same person or persons). We have about 474,000 people in the county so we do appear to be testing a lot more people, which is really good. And our death numbers have not been climbing, which is a little surprising actually, because we have a bunch of retirement homes in this city. That’s some good news right there. I’ll take it, though I want ten to twenty times as many tests in the near future. Go Humans!! - Mark
Just as a reminder. Mark is referring to Clark County, WA. (And Vancouver, across the Columbia River from Portland)
Yes, sorry. I am referring to Clark County Washington. The county publishes a map that shows the infection rate per capita by zip code. I live the liberal lefty far west end of town (not an accident), where we have very few cases per capita. In the more politically conservative and more rural areas of the county the infection rate per capita is higher, which I find odd, and I’m in the more densely populated part of town. I’m not sure what that says about my county. And the data probably aren’t super accurate. Both because we still aren’t doing enough testing and because there’s a lag between testing and getting the results. But, it does look like we’re testing more than we had been, which is really good, and the number of known cases is not exploding. So, I’m very pleased with that. This is a popular place to retire, so there are lots of retirement homes here. We don’t have state income tax, so retiring in Washington is good. But we do have a ton of user taxes, which can be really high, but that’s another argument altogether. So we could be in really bad shape here, but we aren’t! Go humans!! - Mark
You forget the added attraction of no sales tax across the river in Oregon! My wife was born and raised in Vancouver, so I have visited there many times over the years to visit her family.
We don’t normally go across the river just to avoid sales tax, and if you buy a big item across the river, they make you pay WA sales tax. Similarly, Oregon residents can ask to not pay WA sales tax when they are here. Also, college students are supposed to get in state tuition in both states as long as they live in one of the border counties and go to school in one of the border counties. Go Quakesfans!! - Mark
If they keep their grades up, CA residents also get WA state tuition... (At least that's the case in Pullman)