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  4. Coronavirus.

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    3 hours ago, rethug said:

    Well May is my gut guess but I hope it doesn't go into the summer months or we'll have alot of bad experiences and those poor outfitters affected like everyone else.

    I think from a social distancing perspective going fishing is great ;)

    I had been informed that the end of June was the expected ending of this madness but today I read August.

    I hope this is wrong.

  5. Coronavirus.

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    On 3/20/2020 at 4:10 PM, Old Ironmaker said:

    My wife has 2 weeks vacation booked to visit family south. They didn't encourage her to take it they actually did the opposite and asked her to cancel which she did. They have several employees of her Shoppers store that are off with illness so they are short handed. I'm sure no one wants to be anywhere near someone hacking and coughing. Very surprised they haven't closed her cosmetics department but she told me 3 things  as to why, 2 are logical. She is the 1st person a customer sees. If she thinks they have a cold etc. she is to ask them to stay there until a Pharmacist talks to them, especially if they are elderly. 2nd she is to ask what they are shopping for, tell them exactly where that is and ask them not to shop or linger, just get what is needed and leave. A few have not taken that advise well, very irate especially Sr's. The 3rd is security. There are small items worth more than a 100 bucks on the shelves. I told her it's easy to MT those shelves and store them. She says it isn't easy and it would take 2 employees 2 days to do it. Difficult isn't a reason not to do something these days. I really wish she wasn't dealing with the public. 

    edit: I just talked to my wife. A few changes at Shoppers. No fliers in the store. A yellow tape is placed at all registers 6 feet from the register, stay behind the yellow line until the person in front is gone. They are planning on putting plastic shields at the registers. They don't know exactly when or how.  

    Are they supplying the employees with masks and gloves?

    They should be.

  7. Coronavirus.

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    3 hours ago, Big Cliff said:

    Ok, perhaps I need to rephrase the question: if you do get tested and it comes back positive they can't cure it so you either get better or you don't.  If you get better no problem, if you don't well.... So is there any advantage to getting tested which could expose you and others to potential contact?

    If you tested positive and you start getting worse health wise they are treating with Chloroquine as it has shown to kill the virus.

    It's a Malaria medication.

  9. Coronavirus.

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    1 hour ago, misfish said:

    I have a side question here,,,,,,,,,,,

     

     We are all using hand sanitizer and cleaning solutions everyday and all day . How much of this stuff can the body take ? I am washing and sanitizing probly 20-30 times in 8 hours at work . Not to add wiping down the machines with MR.Clean . I have to do this due to , I am the maintenance guy working on all the machines that are operating . I wipe the machine before t I start to fix,change over, what ever to protect me . Then I repeat when I am done to protect the operator .Then I get home,wipe all touching areas with Lysol wipes . I am starting to taste this stuff .   This cant be really that good  .  All that hand sanitizer will have some after effect soon enough I am sure by all this repeating applications . The fumes from cleaners cannot be helping my respiratory .

     

    Your thoughts ?

    Hand sanitizer at least the Gel kind is 1/3 aloevera gel, 2/3 99% Isopropyl alcohol and most manufacturers add a few drops of an antibacterial essential oil for scent.

  10. Coronavirus.

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    1 hour ago, Old Ironmaker said:

    My brother and sis in law own a very nice place in The D.R. they were going to stay down there indefinitely to wait out the storm but now even the island has 2 cases of Coronavirus.

    D.R. as in Dominican Republic?

    They have 34 confirmed cases and 2 deaths to this point.

  12. Coronavirus.

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    10 minutes ago, crappieperchhunter said:

    Good point HH. And besides if we run out of people food people with pets will be able to make some serious cash. Anybody ever tried dog or cat🤪

    That's what started this whole thing!!!!! :blink:                              ;)

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  13. Coronavirus.

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    1 hour ago, Headhunter said:

    Forget the kids going back to school this spring, that's all but done. They will be lucky to get back in September. We are in this for the long haul.

    At the college we have cancelled all in person classes for the rest of the semester(school year).

    All staff except essential staff are at home. There are a few like myself still working on setting up the network so all can work from home and deliver classes online so the students don't lose the rest of the school year.

    Hopefully next week I'll be locked down at my house until this crap is done with. I've had 2 really bad bouts of the flu this winter and if I come into contact with this thing I can pretty much guarantee I won't make it out alive. I wish my cabin was fully insulated because if I had a big sack of rice and gas I could live out there until the fall.

  15. Coronavirus.

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    Well as of Thursday myself and all other NWT Govt. employees will be working from home until at least April 14th. 

    Longer if the situation is still dangerous.

    They also ordered all rec facilities, the museum, all schools and the college all closed.

    We are still COVID free North of 60 which is good.

    Hope it stays that way.

    Since I'm working from home I can also work from my cabin if I can get it warm enough as most of the ceiling insulation has yet to be installed.

     

    Went shopping for weekly food today and it's stupid!!!

    No bread, chicken, pork, soup, TP, rice, soya sauce, pancake mix, tinned pasta, baked beans, tinned veggies, boxed pasta, pasta sauce, and a bunch of other empty shelves. There was some ground beef and 3 roasts so I got some burger and a roast to make into beef stew in the slow cooker. 

    Got a buffalo roast in the freezer along with a bunch of fish. Need to head back to the store and get some fresh fruit and veggies.

    The Dene National Chief says screw it I'm heading out onto the land to get away from this shizz!

     

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  16. Propeller change 3 blade or 4 blade?

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    12 minutes ago, misfish said:

    I was going to say a high 5, but unsure the motor Lex has . Had that on my 115 Mariner, 18 ft ranger . It was quick up and planed real nice . RPM at 58 mph was 5000-5300. Motor was humming just nice. Ask Terry, he was on it .LOL

    Yeah I have a High 5 on my rig. 

    Nice piece of metal. I got it at an even better price. ;)

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  17. Propeller change 3 blade or 4 blade?

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    A four blade gives better holeshot, much better in cornering and the top end loss is negligible. 

    At least on my 115 4 stroke. Also I can run my motor higher in the water column with a 4 or 5 blade prop which actually gives me more top end as I don't get slippage and cavitation like I do with my 3 blade props.

    I currently have my 4 blade on as my 5 blade needed some tuning work done on it. I shipped it to Citywide in November and picked it up when I was down in December.

    There is a big difference between my 4 blade and my 5 blade when it is tuned right. 

  21. Coronavirus.

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    On 3/14/2020 at 12:34 PM, Big Cliff said:

    I am a little concerned about it too, my travel insurance runs out March 28th, if for any reason I can't cross back into Canada on the 26th I could be in a tight spot, no place to stay state side and no health insurance. I guess we'll just have to stay on top of it and react accordingly 

    Just go and cross with the illegals in Quebec.

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  22. Coronavirus.

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    On 3/13/2020 at 4:59 AM, ckewley said:

    With all due seriousness it's hard to tell exactly whats what. We need to be given hard numbers & that is something that isn't available right now. 1 in 6 people who contract Covid develop more serious conditions (at least those were the numbers I got a while ago) but we have no hard number on that 1 that turns fatal! Is it 10%....90% what??? Not to mention the list of symptoms changes almost hourly, dry cough non runny nose, now a runny nose is a symptom, fever but no headache, now a headache & no fever might be a symptom. The anxiety people feel can manifest some of those symptoms so are you sick or not?? 

    I'm not pointing fingers or turning this political but after the chips fall on this one, we the people of planet earth better come to some kind of agreement to prevent the next one because the viruses have had a few good kicks at the can lately  

    Hard numbers.

    Updated daily.

    https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

     

  25. Show us a pic of your fishing boat

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    13 hours ago, Dutch01 said:

    For sure. I've got the Hobie paddle the boat came with and it's always with me. In the video I posted in the kayak thread you can see it sticking out by my fish finder.

    You'll notice in the video I posted that they have theirs too.

    Although I don't think I'd want to have to paddle back after a marlin towed me 10 or 15 miles out to sea. ;)

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