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Unbelievable!

Total Scum Bag.

If she had knocked on our door, she would have been talking to Mr. Colt; Mr. Glock or Mr. Winchester!

You forget Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson

My .460 might scare the scum away 

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That would scare me! it would be Mr. kimber at my farm.
As for the virus, I feel for all the people effected in so many ways, both physical and economical. My wife and I feel very fortunate, as I am self employed and rarely see more than 1 customer a day in person any more. We have moved the bulk of business to online sales. We rarely went out to eat, never went to bars, and a movie maybe once a year, so not giving up much to stay home! our nearest neighbor is a mile away, and the local town is 500 people at most. The most people i am ever around is at church, and they have even canceled that. One of our renters raises all every sort of beast and foul, so we may let them start paying the rent in food if things get bad. our local Dollar General is still pretty well stocked except for toilet paper, but there are corn cobs and duck feathers!
 There are certainly disadvantages to living in the country, but at the moment i can't think of any. There is not much else my wife and i can do but "hole up" and keep the rest of our country in our prayers.
crazydoug

I can’t think of any disadvantages now.

Hi Guys,

The French president sad "nous sommes en guerre". (we are at war)
And that's true, we are now globally at war with an enemy who won't consider any peace treaty.

Here in Belgium we have a total lockdown and that is the most sensible thing to do.
I'm glad our government made the choice to to protect it's people above economics.
But on the other hand my thoughts also go out to the people who are, or will get in financial trouble by losing their work our a business that has to close.
I hope we are social enough to be mild on those people.

A lockdown here, means that only the essential business are open, food stores, pet sore who sell animal food, pharmacies, and doctors.
But all with displanary safety measures.
As for work only people who are active in necessary public roles like medical personal, food shop workers, transport (like I with goods trains) etc…
For the rest stay indoors is the message, and if you need to get out, safety distance and hygiene measurements , above all be aware and sensible.
You are also allowed to go out and take in some fresh air as long as you respect safety distances, and that is a healthy thing to do do.

But I also want to give a big THANK YOU to all medical staff world wide for there afford to safe lives.
But also all people that help out with our food and social help, these are the heroes of our biggest moment in need.

Personally I have so many projects in and around the house that I can stay in quarantine for the next 3 years.
Luckily I had all materials in the house to paint and redo a couple of rooms in the house.
The main corridor through the house is the space where all my display cabinets are.
And now it get a fresh coat of paint and some new display cases will be added.
Room that is desperately needed for my collection.

I also just red that some of our members and/or their relatives perhaps got the disease.
Please do know that we care for you and that our thoughts and prepares are with you.
To all I say be sensible and safe and my God protect you…

Cheers,
Danny

It's no BS. I'm with Danny--better be safe than sorry. At my work we are also required to work from home now. Drastic measures are required to slow the epidemic to give our medical system some time to prepare for the worst.

May I proffer some personal observations? ‘“Attitude” can be the first and strongest thing to be dealt with. Move forward, keep a good sense of humor.

Part of that attitude is not offending many people by not addressing it as either Covid-19 or Corona Virus as that is what it is, despite what certain leaders would have you believe.

Bloody horrific and getting worse by the day

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Today is Day 2 of my exile/quarantine at my Ranch near Vernon, Texas.

Thankfully, my daughter and fiancé arrived back in Dallas yesterday morning from Columbia. And Columbia Announced that they had closed their borders and were stopping all international flights yesterday too. So, they were very fortunate. There are 300 Peace Corp. workers trapped in Peru.

I left the house when she left for the airport. I spent most of Friday getting organized and unpacking. While unpacking, I realized I left the bin at home in which I had packed the three steam engines to bring with me. 🤬🤬🤬

My flooring crew made good progress on installing the engineered wood floors at the farm house yesterday and then told me they won’t be back until Monday. So, no work inside. We also got 4” of rain this week; so, I need to wait for it to dry out to work outside. I will probably spend the day cleaning the Barn.

Until yesterday, there were no reported COVID-19 cases in West Texas. A guy who lived in NYC flew to Dallas and then to Witchita Falls on Tuesday.  When he arrived in Witchita Falls  he checked into a hotel. Early Wednesday morning, he went to the Hospital and tested positive for the virus. Now, there are 5 cases in Witchita Falls (about 60 miles East of my Ranch).  This is not the first instance I have heard of people leaving NYC because they didn’t think they could get prompt treatment.

Take care everyone!

Charlie

just received news from Italie, 793 death in one day, and to think they got the infection already a few weeks before it started here.
they even don't have any space anymore to bury their death…
Man we only at the start of a very big disaster…
I hope most country start to wake up and impose lockdowns everywhere, this is serious folks.
And to dose who think their liberty is taken away, it's for your own protection and that of your loved ones.
So if your government hasn't imposed a lockdown yet, do your self a favor, and take the measurements yourself, if you can, it's for your own good.
And please don't think you don't have it, you can carry it for weeks before it breaks out.

Cheers,
Danny