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My town is the centerpoint for first in the nation study of community spread of COVID-19.

In a cooperative effort led by @OregonState, about 4,000 non-symptomatic* people (or ~1 in 12 in town) will be tested for the virus in a door-to-door survey.

kgw.com/article/news/l…
Specific information about how the TRACE COVID-19 study in Corvallis, OR will be conducted can be found here:

Testing is the key to moving forward. Studying the prevalence of the virus in the community, esp. amongst those without symptoms, is crucial.
trace.oregonstate.edu
The university *vet* school made this possible.

The @OregonState university vet school realized they had all the ingredients needed for the reagent for COVID-19 testing. So in cooperation with the local hospital (yes, the one which has had the pleasure of my company) they banged out enough fluid for 1,000 tests. In 1 hour.
If the vet school in one state university in one fairly small town in Oregon can do that in ONE HOUR...imagine what ALL the vet schools in ALL the much bigger states could accomplish if they worked for...say...10 hours? Or ten days?

Coordination Required.
today.oregonstate.edu/news/osu-veter…
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There are ~320 million people in the US.

Every day, we consume ~320 million X 3 meals.

Many meals USED be at restaurants, schools, sporting events, food carts, etc.

Even if these venues are closed, people STILL NEED THOSE MEALS.

How can farmers have "EXCESS" food? #DemCast ImageImageImage
Farmers have been dumping tons and tons of food and milk, plowing crops under, even as America goes hungry. Even while thousands line up for hours--and even overnight--for a box of groceries at one of the nation's thousands of food banks.

Why not donate?
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The main reason? It's not worth their while, financially, to do so. Sure, there're questions of storage and logistics, but it basically comes down to the fact that the food being plowed under--ordinarily destined for restaurants and cafeterias, etc., who would've paid for it--
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UPDATE on children separated from their parents at the border who were in custody on June 26, 2018:

ALL 2797 eligible children have been discharged from ORR. Over 2000 were reunited with parents, another 600 into "other appropriate circumstance."



BUT.
As @jomareewade points out, not only did this process take NINETEEN MONTHS longer than Judge Sabraw originally gave the govt to do it, but there are STILL 18 CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND.

These kids have been IN federal government CUSTODY SINCE JUNE 2018.

According to the rules governing their lives, that means no one has touched these children in over a year and a half.

No one has hugged them, even when they cried.

They've likely barely been in touch with any family.

It's likely they've been moved at least 3-5 times.
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I decided, a week ago, not to tell my husband this most dire part of the heart transplant visit. I told him about *needing* a heart, but not being able to *get* a heart until I took care of those 2 main problems: BMI & Support Network.

But I didn't want to unduly worry him.
He has MS, as most long-time readers will already know, but he's also on the spectrum--Asperger's--and his way of dealing with the world isn't the same as everyone else's. But for twenty years, I've been his whisperer. I *grok* him, like no one, he says, ever has before.
My being able to help him in social situations, and "interpret" for him--when I know what he meant to say, or what he actually wants--with doctors, friends, family, store clerks, etc., has been like a lifeline to him, he tells me.

He's terrified of losing me.
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