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RE: What is your job

A Legal Assistant is a step above a Legal Secretary. More responsibilities.

RE: I Think I Will ____

I think I will think about buying makeup. When I moved to North Carolina I stopped painting my face because in the summer the humidity is so high that makeup just melted off my face. But I might still think about buying it now that we are in winter

RE: I Wish ______

I wish I didn't have so much pain in my body

RE: I Am Waiting ____

I am waiting for another stimulus check

RE: I Miss ______

I miss getting up in the morning and going to work.

RE: What is your job

I am a retired Legal Assistant to an attorney that handled cases for Legal Malpractice, Product Liability and Personal Injury. Most of the cases were Legal Malpractice which is a specialized form of our client suing their former attorney for malpractice.

RE: Post your favorite Christmas song

RE: Post your favorite Christmas song

RE: The USA is considering a second and 2 Trillion Plus USD stimulus bill because of Covid-19

"While the news on coronavirus is grim, you might be happy to know that you won’t owe taxes on your stimulus check, also known as an Economic Impact Payment. Under the Cares Act, the stimulus checks are treated as a fully refundable tax credit for 2020, which means it isn’t included in gross income and thereby isn’t subject to taxes.

The stimulus checks are an advance on your 2020 tax credit, and you’ll need to report it when you file your 2020 taxes. However, “the stimulus check does not necessarily impact your 2020 tax refund or payment due,” says Dan Schindler, tax senior manager at Anders, an accounting and tax firm in St. Louis."

RE: A woman scorned..

I was burned by someone about seven months ago, someone who I thought was sincere when we spoke. There was no warning......no mention that he was unhappy. It was a shock when one night he wrote......"Goodbye and God Bless".

I thought he will cool down and then we can talk about what's bothering him but that didn't happen. I never heard from him again.

All this time since he left me I felt hurt but never angry at what he did.

I never had the thought to get revenge on him. If he didn't want me it would be stupid to fight for him.

Once in awhile I think about the fun times we had talking all night long.

I have learned my lesson. I am done with hoping a man to love will come into my life.

RE: Fun stuff you are participating in now

Tara, you don't know how close she or anyone else is to "breaking the bank". I have a roof over my head, food in the fridge, the heat is on but if you saw my bank balance you would think I am destitute and in need of financial help from the community. I am not in need of food or money from anyone else. A Christmas gift would be nice but I'd rather something be given to a child who hasn't had a gift in a long time.

My gift to you

RE: Music game

Exile - Kiss You All Over

RE: Where do young women ages 8 to 12 like to shop?

My suggestion is to get Mastercard or Visa gift cards. When you give someone a gift card from a specific store the person is limited to that store.

RE: OK. This is religiousness...

If someone is in a coma they don't need to know that you prayed for them. It's the same thing as when you do a nice thing for someone and they never know it was you who did it.

Part of doing good things for someone else is that YOU know you did it. If it's important to you that the person knows you did a good deed for them then I think it's bragging that you did this or that.

If I'm in a restaurant and I tell the cashier that I want to pay for the person at table #------ covertly but I don't want the cashier to tell them it was I who paid their tab it's about the good deed not about bragging that I paid their tab.

RE: Post your favorite Christmas song

Good one Karl

I love this song and the movie Love Actually

RE: Post your favorite Christmas song

RE: All Creatures Great And Small

Pet Project stories about how animals fulfill our lives.

I hope you enjoy it Cat.

RE: What is France famous for....?

Croissants

RE: What is your view on the term...LADIES FIRST?

Woman is at the checkout counter paying for a cup of coffee
She gives cashier money and cashier gives her change
The woman says thank you
Man is standing next in line
He sees her walking towards the door and rushes to open it for her saying "ladies first"

Woman is at the checkout counter to pay for a cup of coffee but there are three people in front of her and the cashier is slow
It is finally her turn to pay for the coffee and she also reprimands the cashier for being slow
The cashier apologizes and says today is her first day
The woman says that's know excuse. You should know how to do your effin job

Do you think any man in the line will rush to open the door for her?

If they don't open the door for her is it because she used the F word or because she was rude to the cashier?

I would imagine each man has his own standard for what a lady is to him.

RE: Can True love happen at any age?

Doubtful that honest love will start to happen later in life for most people. You can be fond of someone and enjoy being close to them but it's not a love that grew in the relationship.

The feelings that come with truly loving someone are born from the ups and downs in a longterm relationship.

If you think you fell in love with someone later in life it isn't love. It's happiness.

RE: Eddie Van Halen dead at 65 from cancer

Fair?? She wasn't thinking about being fair to her employer when she booked the tickets. The only way I would have let it slide is if a family member had a longterm illness and was on their last breath on the day of the show. Other than that, I would fire her if she didn't quit.

"People have other things to do with their lives besides work". That's a callous comment Ro. When I worked that job had top priority. And because I was there 10-12 hours a day when a family member was very sick my boss always gave me the time off with pay.

Quitting shows her immaturity.

Ever Wonder How You Will Know The Pandemic Is Over ........

Exactly. for you blathin.

Each one of us can be the SOLUTION to ending Covid.

If you aren't the solution then you (the public) is the problem.

Covid needs a host to live on just like any other bug.

When that bug can't find a host it will die.

BE THE SOLUTION.......NOT THE PROBLEM

Ever Wonder How You Will Know The Pandemic Is Over ........

Tara..........The point of the article is to explain what happens when people wear masks and respect social distancing. It also explains that when the virus can't find a host to live off of it will die a little more each day. It's not about preaching masks and keeping your distance. The article tells you WHY it's important to follow guidelines. We see that people don't want to be told to wear a mask. I'm hoping that if they understand why it's important to wear a mask they will be a part of the solution to killing off COVID-19.

Ever Wonder How You Will Know The Pandemic Is Over ........

Public health officials took all of these measures despite not knowing for sure whether they were dealing with a virus or a bacterial infection; the research that proved influenza comes from a virus and not a bacterium didn’t come out until the 1930s. It wasn’t until 2005 that articles in Science and Nature capped off a nearly decade-long process of mapping the genome of the flu strain that caused the 1918 pandemic.

A century later, the world is facing another pandemic caused by a virus, though of a different sort. COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus, not influenza, so scientists are still learning how it behaves. While flu is more active in the winter—and, as Markel points out, the 1918 flu died out in a way “we would expect now” of seasonal flu—COVID-19 was active in the U.S. over the summer. Doctors expect the COVID-19 pandemic won’t really end until there’s both a vaccine and a certain level of exposure in the global population. “We’re not certain,” Markel says, “but we’re pretty darn sure.”

And yet, in the meantime, people can help the effort to limit the impact of the pandemic. A century ago, being proactive about public health saved lives—and it can do so again today.

Ever Wonder How You Will Know The Pandemic Is Over ........

More than six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, as scientific understanding of the novel coronavirus continues to evolve, one question remains decidedly unanswered. How will this pandemic come to an end?

Current scientific understanding is that only a vaccine will put an end to this pandemic, but how we get there remains to be seen. It seems safe to say, however, that some day, somehow, it will end. After all, other viral pandemics have. Take, for example, the flu pandemic of 1918-1919.

That pandemic was the deadliest in the 20th century; it infected about 500 million people and killed at least 50 million, including 675,000 in the United States. And, while scientific knowledge of viruses and vaccine development has advanced significantly since then, the uncertainty felt around the world today would have been familiar a century ago.

Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still remains. Here’s what we do know: in order for a pandemic to end, the disease in question has to reach a point at which it is unable to successfully find enough hosts to catch it and then spread it.

In the case of the 1918 pandemic, the world at first believed that the spread had been stopped by the spring of 1919, but it spiked again in early 1920. As with other flu strains, this flu may have become more active in the winter months because people were spending more time indoors in closer proximity to one another, and because artificial heat and fires dry out skin, and the cracks in the skin in the nose and mouth provide “great entry points for the virus,” explains Howard Markel, physician and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Flu “does tend to go quiet when the cold weather regresses, but no one knows why,” Markel says.

But, by the middle of 1920, that deadly strain of flu had in fact faded enough that the pandemic was over in many places, even though there was no dramatic or memorable declaration that the end had come.

“The end of the pandemic occurred because the virus circulated around the globe, infecting enough people that the world population no longer had enough susceptible people in order for the strain to become a pandemic once again,” says medical historian J. Alexander Navarro, Markel’s colleague and the Assistant Director of Center for the History of Medicine. “When you get enough people who get immunity, the infection will slowly die out because it’s harder for the virus to find new susceptible hosts.”

Eventually, with “fewer susceptible people out and about and mingling,” Navarro says, there was nowhere for the virus to go —the “herd immunity” being talked about today. By the end of the pandemic, a whopping third of the world’s population had caught the virus. (At the moment, about half a percent of the global population is known to have been infected with the coronavirus.)

The end of the 1918 pandemic wasn’t, however, just the result of so many people catching it that immunity became widespread. Social distancing was also key. Public health advice on curbing the spread of the virus was eerily similar to that of today: citizens were encouraged to stay healthy through campaigns promoting mask-wearing, frequent hand-washing, quarantining and isolating of patients, and the closure of schools, public spaces and non-essential businesses—all steps designed to cut off routes for the virus’ spread.

In fact, a study that Markel and Navarro co-authored, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2007, found that U.S. cities that implemented more than one of these aforementioned control measures earlier and kept them in place longer had better, less deadly outcomes than cities that implemented fewer of these control measures and did not do so until later.

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RE: I was so Super Dumb

I think that would be an interesting thread as long as people didn't fight over 1% or 2% milk

RE: With Halloween coming...

Hi Dino............That's another thing I hate fireworks. We don't have them on Halloween. Just little monsters running around the yards.

I would prefer if there were Halloween parties for children whether at school or someone's house. They would be safe and they would get healthier treats and all that sugar which is so bad for their little bodies.

Master escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween of 1926 from a ruptured appendix, but many of the circumstances surrounding his demise remain mysterious to this day. Scary

RE: I was so Super Dumb

Yeah, but he knew how to play the game and used the love word on me. It will never happen again so I feel pretty safe. If I had the choice of getting him back or the money.........I want the money

RE: I was so Super Dumb

Thanks Nules. It was a hard lesson because I liked being in love and loving.

I'm done with love so I'll keep my pennies in my own piggy bank.

RE: With Halloween coming...

I hate Halloween. Not safe for children to be going door to door for candy which isn't good for them anyway.