Taste Like Chicken Fri-YAY 4/3

Becky, the mega church where they bussed in the crowds was in Tampa, FL, and Kathy's governor, like yours, has characterized religious gatherings as "essential services". How was PT today? I hope you had good weather for another walk outdoors. You seem to be making great progress.

The flowers in my avatar are tulips, Kathy. It's kind of hard to tell because they were all so pretty that I wanted to get a group shot. That's a really handy tool you have that can show confirmed cases by zip code. The hotspots sound like where you think they might be. That's probably good that you can see the spread on the map. That might wake some people up.

Linda, did you get all your cleaning done? How's the hand doing? Are you cooking or doing takeout this evening?

Sending good thoughts, Liz. It's FRIDAY!! Hope you'll have a quiet weekend and they will leave you alone.

I heard from Chele this morning and her head is better but she threw out her back again and will be resolving it without going to the doc or chiropractor for obvious reasons. But she is pretty much flat on her back and will check in when she can be upright again.

I have to tell you about the comment that a politics and history professor from Vanderbilt made on a morning news show. One of the hosts asked him how things were going in TN, since our governor had just put the statewide stay at home order in place. I am still chuckling over his response which was, "All I can say is thank God for Dolly Parton. She donated a million dollars to Vanderbilt for virus research. She's the REAL governor of Tennessee!" BTW, with those of you with young great nieces and nephews, you may want to let their parents know that Dolly is reading to them every night at 7 pm on her Imagination Library Facebook page. Our actual governor is doing a news conference right now and I can tell you that he's no Andrew Cuomo. With the CDC now recommending face covers, I've been online trying to find elastic and it must all be coming from China because what I can find on Amazon and Joann websites are either out of stock or won't ship til mid May. So I'm looking for options that use something other than elastic. I guess that will be my afternoon project. I had a pack of XL elastic hair ties but apparently I have used them all. When you see things on the news from Europe or Asia, they are all wearing face masks, so I guess it's no big surprise they are finally being recommended here. I would like to have something made up so we can start wearing them next week. Dale will do a grocery run at some point and I really want to go to the liquor store for my herb supplies.

Linda, I found one rubber band and it broke as soon as I stretched it a little. I will end up making my own seam binding, which a lot of the YouTube videos are recommending because apparently notbody can get elastic right now. Must be made in China. I did find a handful of the XL elastic hair ties, but I'm not sure they will be as long as I need them. Good that you had the cloth mask already. I did find a partial box of dust masks in the garage that I wear when I use the weed eater, and that will have to do for now. I did find some old quilted placemats that I am going to try to repurpose. Sorry your state is so far behind on testing, but you aren't alone, even if your are in last place. TN is now over 3K positives but the amount of testing being done is abysmal because of the hoops you have to jump through to get tested. They should be testing everyone so they know where the virus is. The county where Dale prefers to do grocery shopping only has 1 positive but they have only tested 57 people. Our home county has 6 positives but they have only tested 99. Even as large as Knox County is they still haven't even done 1K tests there. Everybody (except the president anyway) keeps saying the key is testing, testing, testing. Getting the robots involved is a great idea because they don't need PPE. I've seen about the antibody immunity and have also heard that they are looking at taking blood from those people with immunity and spin out cells to inject them into other people to build their immunity to the virus. You're absolutely right about the mutation, and I hope it will mutate to a less contagious version, but it could mutate in less positive ways as well. Thanks for the chart. Very helpful. Good luck with Micki's bath. I used to love quiche before I went vegan. Enjoy yours.

Kathy, I did hear about the executive order after the stay at home order. Apparently someone is pulling his strings. Pathetic! Yes, you have to be careful where ever you go, even if it's not a high density coronavirus area. I wonder if you could use a fabric scarf as a barrier. The buff idea is a good one and I have a couple of those already, so I might try that route. I'm trying to determine whether I should wear one into the liquor store, however. Could get myself arrested for attempted robbery. You're right about an actual mask being uncomfortable in your hot and humid environment, so going for something made of cotton would be much more comfortable and washable. I would see what Etsy has available. I have been having difficulty pulling up links in the threads and couldn't open the TP one. But I may have read it already because I've read several on the subject.

Moisture wicking will be helpful there, Kathy. I hope you get the masks soon. That wasn't one of the TP articles I read, but what you said makes sense, not just from a supply chain perspective but also the size of the rolls. My TP holder won't even hold the new mega rolls that some manufacturers are now making. So there's no way one of those huge commercial rolls would be workable.