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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 25-Mar-2020 04:02 <=-   
      
    NB>> I trust you are well, and not affected much by the coronavirus...?   
      
    MK> The entire world here has seriously impacted, especially Vancouver   
    MK> where there have been 13 deaths last I heard.  Nobody that I know has   
    MK> got it thank goodness   
      
   We've had some deaths in our county, but NYC has been hardest hit... my   
   youngest brother lives and works in NYC, but last I talked to him he was   
   still fine...  I know of a couple people locally that got it but so far   
   only mild cases...     
      
    MK> and where I am has been practicing social distancing as a matter   
    MK> of course for the last 20 years I have been living in this location.   
    MK> We're not exactly hermits as such but we tend to keep to ourselves   
    MK> along with being neighbourly and friendly.  So far so good.    
      
   I had to chuckle when I read that... from what you've said all along, I   
   did get that impression of your neighborhood... :)  Our neigborhood used   
   to be more gregarious in the past but now tends to be more socially   
   distanced as well... :)   
      
    NB>> We are fine here, but there are lots of restrictions and closings   
    NB>> to try to stem the spread of the virus....   
      
    MK> That sounds very familiar.  I do wonder aloud whether it might be a   
    MK> bit of overkill but then again even without any viruses the hospital   
    MK> system has been under strain for decades so something like this is a   
    MK> potential nightmare if and (probably) when more cases start showing up   
    MK> in emergency rooms.    
      
   Pretty much my take on it too... I'm hoping that perhaps the   
   pencil-pushers that keep telling the hospitals that they had too many   
   beds will have a wake-up call with this.... Every flu season a doctor   
   friend of mine complains that they have to airlift severely ill patients   
   to other hospitals because there are no beds left here.....   
      
    NB>> $90...?  They run about $60 or so here....   
      
    MK> Definetly your brand is in the $90 range.  Glenlivet is around the   
    MK> $60-$70 range.    
      
   Here Glenlivet's at the lower end of that and Macallan at the higher   
   end, not that much difference between them, usually....   
      
    NB>> I remember when one could get a good single malt for $30   
      
    MK> Them were the days ... as long as I only reflect on the   
    MK> good times that is.  The reality is that $30 back then is probably   
    MK> worth more than $90 is today for day to day items.    
      
   I suppose so, for at least some things....   
      
    MK> The *only* thing I can think of that is cheaper are computers and   
    MK> associated parts, and in most cases the more modern equipment is   
    MK> vastly better.    
      
   The same obtains with other electronic stuff, by and large...    
      
    NB>> Prices don't get rounded here...   
      
    MK> Here they are rounded down to the nearest nickle.   
      
   Probably if there was rounding, they'd round up... except that that   
   loses the psychological advantage of staying below that next dollar....   
   so maybe it would be rounded down here, too...   
      
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