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I sincerely hope your cousin will pull through this quickly and fully recovers. I hate hearing about folks I know and care about having to deal with this.

If I can find a local trucking job, I'd take it if the conditions were right (I'm not desperate), but as for being scared, I am of one thing. Being a long haul driver far from home and coming down with the virus. I wouldn't want to be stuck in, say, Omaha, NE for 2-4 weeks while I "hopefully" recover.

This site here breaks it down into percentage and ratio, which is what I, myself, have been paying attention to. Sure, the big numbers are impressive, but the rate of infection is a better indicator of how good, or bad, a particular county is. To get the ratio and percent, for those who haven't seen it yet, zoom the map and click on the specific county. https://infection2020.com/

Ugh...

13 new here in Schuylkill for a total of 90 now...

Considering how long it's taking Italy and the rest of Europe to turn the corner, I'm about ready to write off most of the summer.

Edited. Wrong forum.

Pennsylvania tops 10,000 positive cases on Saturday, jumping nearly 1,600 since Friday... https://www.mcall.com/coronavirus/mc-nws-coronavirus-saturday-update-20200404-epomznrqjze3tckcb4top3gin4-story.html

We have more here in the Skook than Cumberland County. I wonder if it's that we are sandwiched between Allentown and Hazleton. Two fast growing hot spots.

Well, the wind sure is/was crazy today. I recorded my highest gust of 2020 today, and we've had some pretty windy days prior to this one. As a side note, we almost had an apartment building go up in flames around the corner from me this afternoon. Lady was smoking on the back porch and the when she went to put the cigarette out, the tip fell off, got into and under the wood slats, and started up. A quick thinking neighbor and a hell of a fire department kept it contained to about 1/4 of the porch. If the whole building would have went, all that old timber and the high winds would have created an inferno...

Are you sure we're not brothers...lol Nope. In fact, yesterday was the first full day our county was included, and it seemed like there was more traffic. Our mayor closed all the borough parks and playgrounds a week and a half ago so we can't even do that...

I see. I can respect that.

Why? Don't you like severe weather?

Great news!

The sky looks pitiful here. It's 54 here now and cannot see any mountains due to the fog and mist. What an UGLY day today here...

Hearing what sounds like distant thunder here at the house. Radar and Lightning Strike says it might be possible. Of course it could be the trucks hitting the 237 potholes on the main road behind me...

Watch the radar trajectory. I will have none of that...

For their employees, but what if the employee is the one with the virus? Now they just passed it on to the customer by returning the bag they had their hand in.

I can tell that story and I'm a grandparent, so...

You aren't kidding...

What's scary is how fast the numbers are rising. Berks, to my south rose 81% today, and Luzerne, to my north rose 53%. In one news article I saw, a physician's assistant recommended staying out of Hazleton. Some think that Hazleton is a community that is going to explode in the near future.

More counties in PA under stay at home orders starting tonight. Outside of Carbon and Schuylkill, almost the entire eastern third of the state is under "lockdown".

See? This is bullshit... Harvey Weinstein can get a damned test, and so can British Royalty, sports stars, Hollywood actors, etc, but someone extremely ill and exhibiting all the symptoms can't. There is something IMMENSELY wrong with this picture, and it pisses me off...

Wishing you and your family member the best Canderson...