As a Californian I AM VERY PROUD of my Governor. I TRUST HIM to do what's right. Do you trust yours or are you part of GAG's gaggle?

I know you do L. I TRUST him implicity. He is being PRESIDENTIAL with his daily TRUTHFESTS. An excellent leader on every level. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday! Wonder what Gag and the gaggle plan to do/say today?

There are a lot of people who are putting their trust in their governors rather than the administration.  They are more truthful.  I have no idea what they'll do today, but I'm sure I won't like it. :)  Happy Monday:)

The guvnors who roll over for GAG and the gaggle are not trustworthy nor do they do right by their people. However some of "the people" are protesting social distancing lock downs and attempts to keep them ALIVE. Go figger. So I say the people who want to resume their lives should. The people they infect and murder by their selfish childish actions will be on their heads and if a direct line can be proven they will charged tried and convicted of murder and die in prison. There are always casualties in wars. Pity that. I just thought of another question L. Thank you for your reply and Happy Tuesday to you! :).

Excellent and very informative reply L for which I thank you bigly. I figger thems that's gotta go out no matter what will and then more infections and more deaths will occur and I will look at them as willful MURDERERS. Despite the risks their own hotcha hotcha hotcha NEEDS trumped everything and so people died because of them. Hey if that's the legacy they want to leave behind..being a MURDERER...what can you do but let them? They disgust me personally but well it takes all kinds including the selfish and greedy or so we are told. Thank you for your nifty reply! :)

I can only imagine how difficult it must be to not have any income at all and have to take care of yourself and your family.  Some worry about not having food, some about not being able to pay rent, etc.  Too many people in America live paycheck to paycheck with nothing put away for a rainy day.  I read somewhere that Americans have the least amount in savings than most any other western country.  However, when you're talking about people's lives, including your own and your family's, which is worse:  not having an income or losing your life or a loved one's life to the virus?  Hard choice.

You know m'dear Jim and I are very lucky to be old. Retired, only each other to be concerned with. Kid grown and off on their own and doing well. We can meet our needs and some of our wants still even now. Timing is excellent for us for such catatrophe to hit but not so good for billions of others. We have no complaints that worth complaining about. We give thanks daily and will continue do so as we mourn the loss of lives and the inbility of being able to say goodbye to those who die alone..holding the hand of a medical care provider, a stranger. SIGH. Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday! :)

I'm happy to hear that you and Jim are well-positioned.  I have been very fortunate to have earned sufficient money to have enough left over to invest.  I've been even more fortunate to have found a financial advisor who has pointed me in the right directions.  So far, all my needs and wants are within reach.  I'm not a materialistic person, so I don't spend a lot on worthless stuff.  I'm more likely to be spending my disposable income on others both in my family and via charities.  I understand that it must be very difficult not to be able to say goodbye to family members now.  I imagine it's equally difficult for those who are dying not to have family with them at the end, but thank the gods that there are nurses and doctors who have so much compassion for their patients that they will be there to hold their hands at the end.  Both my parents were in nursing homes when they left this mortal coil.  I am thankful that they passed long before this virus because I can't imagine the hell we would be going through not being able to see them.  Happy Wednesday. :) 

We agree we're blessed L...all things considered. Others are in such dire situations. I am so sorry for all of them. They did not deserve this. I cannot think of anyone who does. HOWEVER the GAG and his duped gaggle exacerbated all of this by the purposeful ignoring and "hoaxing" that took place FOR TWO MONTHS. What we could have done in that time to prepare for what happened and didn't is unconscionable. The non-doers/provokers/instigators/prevaricators DESERVE some kind of punishment for the part they played in it. The sean of finnity the laura of outgram the rush of baugh. All the usual suspects made everything worse by mocking and ridiculing. It is they who should pay something. What I don't know but something. Blood and deaths are on their hands. The bloodiest of all is GAG. An injustice that I hope will be rectified one day somehow some way. Thank you for your thoughtful reply L! :) ((hugs)) What are the hugs for? I just felt like it and you know me. I go with what I feel like doing/saying. Hugging is good don't you think as long as we don't get ill from actually doing it! :) This post was edited by RosieG at April 22, 2020 6:16 AM MDT

We will never know how many lives could/would have been saved had Trump acted sooner, but there is o doubt in my mind that lives would have been saved.  Trump will go on blaming everyone but himself as is his wont.  I expect nothing else.  

What surprises me even more is how low our supply of PPE and other medical necessities we had on hand.  To have to go begging to China, the country that started all of this and is probably more to blame than anything, for ventilators is something for which I will never forgive this administration.  For the states to have to be bidding against their own government for supplies is beyond my comprehension.  Every American company that uses sewing machines should be required to be making masks and gowns and it shouldn't be voluntary - it should be mandated.  If nothing else, the government would be paying them to do it and paying for the supplies and they wouldn't need a bailout.  

I will never say no to hugs from you, Rosie and I'm happy to return them.  ((hugs))

I read that the gubment has swooped in to confiscate such things ordered by the individual state governors and that it got so bad the governors had people there armed to protect what they had ordered? Can you imagine GAG CONFISCATING orders by governors to do whatever would put money in his pocikt? I don't know that for a fact but why else would he STEAL what was not his and take it? To dole out to the a**-kissing red states who roll over whimper beg lie down and play dead? Who knows? I put no evil aside as too evil for GAG to dabble in. I hope we're at least halfway through this for New York's sake. It is a fact that New York is always front and center for terrible. New York has enemies that other states don't have because well it is what people think of most...Time's Square New Year's Eve with the crystal ball dropping down to signify a brand new year! It will always be that to the world. And so it is always going to be a target of hate. Do you think homo saps will ever evolve to a place where hate and envy and jealousy no longer exists L? Seriously. Is it possible one day to reach that place? :) Gonna ask. This post was edited by RosieG at April 22, 2020 6:38 AM MDT

I don't know if it's true or not that the administration was confiscating what governors purchased, but I wouldn't put it past him.  I hope we're halfway through this, too.  It is a tremendous strain on all of us in one way or another.  We long to get back to business as usual, but I fear that nothing will be as it was.  Companies that have laid off employees or who have employees who managed with employees working from home may adopt that as their new business practice.  

New York is a very cosmopolitan city which offers almost anything and everything any other city can provide.  Yes, it is an expensive place to live, but it's where all the action is.  Whether it will continue to be so once this pandemic has passed is anyone's guess.  

You New Yorkers are very Tough in the best meaning of the word. No matter what knocks you down you always get back up again and become STRONGER for it L. There is no other place in the world that can compare with New York and there never will be ever. It will rise again as it always has and always will. Why GAG left New York for Florida makes zero sense to me logically but then GAG was never a New Yorker. He is a Mar a Lago urr through and through and simply doesn't have the RIGHT STUFF to be a New Yorker. He is a weak sister..a girly man coward. Any New Yorker you pass on the street can take him down. He knows that so he split! My vote of confidence my friend. UNSHAKABLE! Thank you for your reply ! :)

Thank you for the kind words.  New Yorkers have the reputation of being cold and unwelcoming.  Quite the opposite is true.  If you come to visit and get into trouble, you will always find a helping hand here.  

Trump left New York because Florida doesn't have a resident income tax.  Plain and simple. :)

I shouldda known it had nothing to do with anything but keep more MONEY! Thank you for the straight skinny L! Going to the source is always best! :)

LOL ...  Like you, I read a lot.

To quote Jimmy Cagney in one of my favorite movies of all time...Yankee Doodle Dandy

"My father thanks you my mother thanks you my sister thanks you and I thank you". Since I had a dad and mom and have a sister I always loved that line! ((hugs)) :):):)

It IS a great line.  :)

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How does that work m2c? Whose power is greater? Are they all autonomous or do some of them have to buckle under another's decision? As soon as you  open you will be free to do anything you want to do. Good for you. I want to do what my Governors says I should do. I'm very good at following orders. We are still shut down so I shall honor that to the best of my ability. I know I don't know as much as my Governor. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday to thee and thine.

I believe the Mayor shut us down so the Mayor has to open us up.  I checked city website and it says nothing about lifting the "non-essential business order". Our state goes into 1st stage of reopening today.  But as far as I know that does not apply to me. Or the neighboring cities also shutdown by local Mayors.

It is very aggravating when Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc can sell the same products that I am not allowed to sell for my living. It is a form of government enforced Monopoly for the big box stores. 

No, there are still restrictions under the different phases. Social distancing still applies etc.  So cannot do "whatever I want" but given that I have always followed this type of rules naturally I will be generally free.  I may have to post no more than X number of people inside the store at a time. But that is not normally an issue.  I rarely have more than 10 at a time anyway.  Most of my product is displayed outside.