Kagliostro / Franco and the actual situation here

[kagliostro]

As you know in Italy, because of the covid-19, we are all locked up at home the more time as we can, so, please, I apologize if sometimes I'll maybe do some too much intervention in the threads or maybe I'll open someone just to ask a few questions not too much. ... smart


You know how it is, after a while you want to communicate with the outside world and you tend to take advantage, perhaps a little too much, of the availability of others


Sorry and thank you all


Franco

[shooter]

Franco, you have along way to go to beat me on  comments 

Grab your Italian flag, walk down the street waving it proudly, when the mask men with guns ask, tell them "I'm cleaning the air "
old folk can do that and get away with it!!

[kagliostro]

Ciao Shooter


Franco

[Ritchie200]

Franco,


Are you kidding?!?!  Your experience and comments are always welcome and much appreciated.  I always enjoy your input. 


What you do is pretty much opposite of......what I do! 


Please do what you can to take care of yourself and family.


essere al sicuro e prendersi cura!


Jim

[kagliostro]

Ciao Ritchie

Franco

[EL34]

As you know in Italy, because of the covid-19, we are all locked up at home the more time as we can, so, please, I apologize if sometimes I'll maybe do some too much intervention in the threads or maybe I'll open someone just to ask a few questions not too much. ... smart
You know how it is, after a while you want to communicate with the outside world and you tend to take advantage, perhaps a little too much, of the availability of others
Sorry and thank you all
Franco

Keep us posted of how things are going there in Italy

[kagliostro]

Ciao Doug

At the moment we are all invited to stay the house as much as possible, starting from yesterday the non-essential activities have closed, such as hairdressers, beauticians, clothing stores, restaurants, pastry shops etc.

Grocery stores, pharmacies, hardware stores, electronics stores and other stores remain open

My city, Treviso, is one of those that report a fairly high number of victims

In a few days was expected a peak in the increase in cases of infection and for this reason they chose to close (for now for a couple of weeks) the non-essential activities, in order to avoid contact with the infected

Unfortunately, not everyone understands that this is a provision for the public good and that, after all, our grandparents and fathers were asked to go into the trenches to fight, to us was asked only to stay at home on the sofa .....

At my house, luckily, at least until now, we are fine

Franco

[DummyLoad]

Franco, good to read that you and your family are ok. So sad to read about the sheer number casualties in your country, and that those are older persons and those with immune deficiencies.


Love reading your posts. More please!   


Regards,


--Pete

[shooter]

pastry shops

for the past 10yrs I go to a book-store that serves coffee n pastries.  The Baristas ALL know me, and how I like my coffee, 2 Espresso shots in a proper ceramic Espresso cup that has been heated up.  From headquarters, they quarantined MY CUP   Not cash.  So I still go every morning to make sure my cup is safe, say hello to the regulars and go home to make my own.  Saved ~$50 US so far

[kagliostro]

Ciao Pete

Unfortunately not only old persons with other pathologies, 20-22% was sane people

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shooter  Also I like ceramic cup for espresso coffe

to be precise a long espresso (this estract a more caffeine from seeds) in a large cup (the cup that here we use predominantly for cappuccino)

Espresso Cup


Cappuccino Cup


Franco

[shooter]

Also I like ceramic cup for espresso coffe

My 1st experience was in Your country, Napoli, small 10 seat cafe'.  I was hooked, American coffee is 
 

[kagliostro]

I was born and live in the north but I spent a few months in the military in naples

at the time, at the bar, if you asked for a coffee they brought it already sweetened

then you asked for it bitter and you found the same 1 cm of sugar on the bottom

if you told to the waiter you asked for it bitter

he replied that he hadn't turned it around (meaning he hadn't mixed it with a spoon)

everywere was so

Naples is a nice place but with its habits 


Franco

[shooter]

 
my waitress was the daughter, about 13ish, I ordered "double' espresso, no sucrose, no leache(sp - milk)" (I was piecing words together from my translation book  )
her eye's got real big n she's yelling to her mom.  I didn't understand much but I think the jest was "the man's crazy mom, he doesn't want sugar!" 
I got it hot, and bitter 

[kagliostro]

 

[Ritchie200]

My fun experience in Italy was a business trip in the north. We stayed at a family owned hotel. The food was made by “mom” and was out of this world good!!!  The guy I was traveling with and the owner of the hotel insisted that we have grappa after our meal “to settle your stomach”. The bottle got left on the table. I don’t remember anything else that night....


Jim

[Ritchie200]

Franco, I remember now, the hotel was in Cisano Bergamasco.  We were visiting a company in Carvico. 

To add on to the story... 

The hotel owner had a daughter who was mid to late 20's and she worked in the restaurant.  She looked like a 25 year old Sophia Loren - just absolutely stunning.  The guy I was traveling with said that if she showed the least bit of interest in him he was not going home and to tell his wife she could have everything - and this was BEFORE the grappa.  I told him the same goes for me.  She ignored us both.... 


Jim

[kagliostro]

Ciao Jim     

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Today's update

unfortunately, on my town, this last 24 hours there were 9 death more

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I had a very little walk with the dog, only few people around

near my house there is a detergent shop which in theory (according to the prescriptions) should be open but is actually closed

in front of the pharmacy a couple of people waiting to enter (they let them in one at a time)

Franco

[shooter]

here in my world, there are 2 worlds, the country folk are going about it with humor, the beerbait n gas is having a run on Corona beer   
the city is in full meltdown.
I ventured to the grocery to get a flower n cake for my wife, she turned 65 and is pulling her 3rd 12 at the hospital, where gallows humor rains supreme (you gotta work there to understand:)
the grocery ppl were 20 deep, everybody had toilet paper, nobody had bullets  (yes, you can by bullets AND guns at the grocery  )
I was giddy from the beerbaitngas so I started laughing at the toilet paper thing so hard I coughed, EVERYBODY within 50 feet scattered 
back home kids were playing in the march Sun, folks out working on yards n trucks.  Neighbors sighting in the guns for Turkey hunting, geese calls could be heard, normal life in the country 

[kagliostro]

Hi Shooter

I knew you were a painter but not a poet, you always pleasantly surprise me

...... back home kids were playing in the march Sun, folks out working on yards n trucks.  Neighbors sighting in the guns for Turkey hunting, geese calls could be heard, normal life in the countr

 

Franco

[shooter]

not a poet

thanks friend
I really never understood poetry, my English is poor for a native 
I do like words though and the "pictures" they paint, my problem, I only have 3 colors and 10 words

enjoy life with all the curves it throws
dave

[PRR]

I guess I need more ammo. Tuesday we came back from shopping, and had to stop for turkeys in the road. First about 9. One by one. Then another chain of about 6. We crept ahead, but saw another dozen birds in the yard that the first 15 came out of.


We killed ALL the wild turkey by 1900, for better farming. Then farming went bad, someone thought hunting could be good business, and a small imported flock was let loose. Even with pretty liberal limits on hunting, they are really getting to be a nuisance. I'm allowed to take 2 starting May; 3 more (bearded) in Fall. It doesn't seem sporting to pot birds crossing the road, and the gun and permit cost is more than a few pre-plucked birds in the store.


Tuesday we had NO -19 in Maine. Thursday the first confirmed case (came from outside Maine, self-quarantined). The numbers in NYC and Boston assure we will get cases. It may be slow to come up from Portland; Maine gets very thin where I-95 shrinks from 13 full lanes to 2 empty lanes. However the gas and beer trucks come north every day.

Today, the universities and colleges are ending most on-campus activities, students must leave the dorms, teaching on-line. All organized sports games are or will be cancelled. I expect supermarkets and pharmacies to be open. We will see what restaurants do. On Tuesday one boasted they had sanitizer on every table. I expect some will close for a while. Pharmacies have long had a mark to keep the queue back from the counter (for customer privacy), I suspect now they will ask the queue to stay spaced-out, maybe take-a-number and wait to be called.

[DummyLoad]

today we were sent home. the president of the university had to self quarantine since a family member tested positive for COVID-19. most of us are now all on 2-weeks leave, however, we are expected to work from home if our workload can be performed remote. today i helped dial in the last of a new DWDM fiber transport system in another city. now i will be bored to tears for two weeks unless i start tormenting folks electronically.

 


regards and may you and yours skirt around this nightmare.


--pete

[kagliostro]

Ciao PRR & Peter

As I read restrictions to contain the infection are becoming similar to what we have here

however better at home on the sofa than in a hospital bed, right ?

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On my town we have a bad record, on other places there is a 3.4% of death, here we have a 7.5%

that is because the infection starten on the local hospital at the geriatric ward

where many elderly people with serious pathologies where hospitalized

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on 2019, due to subsequent health problems, I have been in bed or at home for about 4 months

maybe this had been a training to get used to being indoors 

Franco

[tubenit]

Franco,

It is always great to have you on the forum!  And you bring excellent contributions to the amp building discussions, so please continue.

THANKS for sharing that you and your family are well AND the current situation there in Italy. We benefit from hearing that information & it allows us to express our respect and best wishes to you and your family.

Best regards and prayers,  Jeff

[kagliostro]

Ciao Jeff


Thanks for prayers, we will reciprocate


Franco

[shooter]

I expect supermarkets and pharmacies to be open.

Here I was at both and it was a melt-down at both.
I've spent 32 years inside Hospitals so I take a different view from the masses, I went to my LEAGEL weed store for the 1st time!, have an amp build and yard sticks, a garage roof repair, NO tv, NO social %&^(&)*_)+)+*^*#, and the radio is set for old country 

ah, the Turkey population has exploded here in the last 10 years, the young kids are only taking it up about 10% from the 'ol folks.  I quit in my teens, no problems with hunting if I need to, just don't need to, yet 

[jjasilli]

Franco,


We expect you to publish a complete inventory on your stash of tubes trannies! Maybe some unique build ideas.

[kagliostro]

Ciao Shooter & Jjasilli

My father is now 96 years old, I told him about your Turkey "problem" you have

his eyes lit up, he was a real hunting passionate 

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Yes, it will be a good idea to make order on my laboratory, on 2018/2019 it was full of things used to restore my appartment and it is still cluttered

when it is agibile if I'm there the hours go by without my noticing

it may be that if I rearrange the space and eliminate what is not needed

I can move more easily in there and I'll be able to make the list of the tubes that I have 

Franco

[jjasilli]

Am looking forward to turkey season in NY & PA.  Somehow, it's not as easy to spot birds once the hunting season begins!

[chocopower]

Hi there.


We are going into home quarentine too, here in Spain.
The whole country.


Finally i gonna have time to finish a lot of tube amp projects.....

[kagliostro]

Jjasilli I belive you 

Ciao Chocopower 

Finally i gonna have time to finish a lot of tube amp projects.....

That is a good idea

Franco

[shooter]

Somehow, it's not as easy

I like tracking n stalking.  Turkey IS a dumb animal, til it competes with a human, then the roles are reversed 

[kagliostro]

 

Franco

[DummyLoad]

Somehow, it's not as easy

I like tracking n stalking.  Turkey IS a dumb animal, til it competes with a human, then the roles are reversed 

reference to an old adage "you are what you eat".

seems like a lot folks here like turkey...     

--pete

[jjasilli]

That's why I like to eat jerky!

[shooter]

That's why I like to eat jerky!

to many years playing with leather bound books? 

The BBG buys from a local jerky maker, we put the strips in and old gallon pickle jar.

 nearly every day some 20yr old would recount the 1st time gramps bought a chew for 'em.  Hell I paid about $20 a month n gave it to the young'ins that didn't have cool old folk in there life! one 5ish kid would ONLY take it if it still had the hole from hanging it to cure 

[kagliostro]

Today's update

Yesterday, in my city, for the Covid-19, three other people were missing (two of which without health problems) which makes a total of 32 (only in Treviso)

To date, the number of infections in the city amounts to 392 (54 more only on the last day)

In the province there are 94 people hospitalized, of these 70 in Treviso, of these 70, 14 are in intensive care (five more than the day before)

Good news, the use of the drug Tocilizumab (an antirheumatic that does NOT cure Covid-19 but helps to reverse the problems that the virus causes to the lungs and therefore to avoid intensive care) seems to give good results in just 24 hours on 50 % of patients on whom it is used

The company that produces it will provide it free of charge for the eventual therapy of people with severe symptoms

Franco

[PRR]

In other news from Italy--- people go on their balcony to sing and play.

"As Italy entered its fourth day of a nationwide lockdown, Italy residents took to their balconies on Friday evening to sing the national anthem in a 'flash mob' to raise morale amid the coronavirus outbreak.
"The national anthem 'Fratelli d'Italia' was blared out of speakers from Turin to Naples and families sang along cheering from their balconies, clanging together saucepans, for a moment of respite from a tough week under strict COVID-19 measures."

[Williamblake]

Stay healthy don't run out of solder!

[kagliostro]

Ciao PRR

That is true

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Ciao Williamblake

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Franco

[tubenit]

Franco,

Thanks for the continued updates and information!  It is appreciated. 

Glad you remain well.

With respect and prayers, Jeff

[TIMBO]

Hey Franco, Keep safe mate

[kagliostro]

Ciao Jeff & Tim 

I hope also you are fine

Franco

[PRR]

{quote}Two budding cellists serenade an elderly neighbor — and a locked-down world
Meagan Flynn
MSN link


The operatic voices and accordions played from the balconies of quarantined Italians into the otherwise silent neighborhoods reverberated this week in Columbus, Ohio, where Rebecca Tien and her two young children were among the millions listening.

In a family of musicians, both kids were cello players. They didn’t have a balcony but they and their neighbors had a porch. And Tien, inspired by the Italian serenades, had an idea.

She called her next-door neighbor, Helena Schlam. The 78-year-old lived alone. She was self-quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic and had not left her home in five days. “I said, ‘Would you like the kids to come play [a concert] on your porch?’ ” Tien recalled in an interview with The Washington Post. “ ‘You can listen through your living-room window.’ ”

Schlam came out on the porch instead.

On Monday afternoon, Tien’s children, 9-year-old Taran and 6-year-old Calliope, became the latest musicians to bring a little joy to those who might be needing some in this troubled time.

They set up their music stands on the far end of the porch, playing songs from Suzuki Book One for cello in unison. The pair bowed after each song, Taran in a suit and Calliope in a pink party dress, as Schlam applauded from the other end of the porch, at least a safe six feet away. She looped in her grandchildren in Israel, who were self-quarantining, too, and told Taran and Calliope they just gave “their first international concert," Schlam said.

Later, Tien said, Schlam told her: “Music is how we’re going to get through this.”

That much has proved true for everyone from professional musicians to casual listeners — even as the coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we consume music.

In Italy over the weekend, tenor Maurizio Marchini roared Giacomo Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” from his balcony to his quarantined town. Countless others have taken to their rooftops and windows to belt out the Italian national anthem at 6 p.m. every evening.

Elsewhere, dozens of performers and thousands of fans have turned to the live stream — the pandemic’s living-room-friendly alternative to packed, sweaty venues.

Orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and those at the Royal Opera of Versailles and Metropolitan Opera have delivered masterful performances to eerily empty concert halls, as audiences watched online. Artists including Neil Young, John Legend, Coldplay and Yo-Yo Ma have turned to the live stream or social media videos to offer consolation and entertainment.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma — whose die-hard fans include Taran and Calliope — called his social media performances the “#SongsOfComfort” series.

“In these days of anxiety, I wanted to find a way to continue to share some of the music that gives me comfort,” he wrote Friday on Twitter, posting his first performance of Dvořák’s “Going Home." He dedicated his second performance to “the healthcare workers on the frontlines.”

Michelle Heckert, who is quarantined, said “Music is one of those things we turn to in times of crisis and times of uncertainty, and so it’s been really cool to see that manifest across the globe.”

[kagliostro]

Ciao PRR

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Yesterday 475 deaths in one day in Italy

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A Veneto entrepreneur (the first person on the right, the second is Luca Zaia, our governor) who normally prints books has converted his production into masks (that are build using a special fabric), these are not masks of high protective degree but level one, in any case effective to limit the spread of the droplets from breathing and therefore can limit the spread of the infection

Two million have been donated to the Veneto region and the next will be put on sale at low cost

Franco

[shooter]

last ballparks here;
~17,000 from the non-toilet paper flu
~ 6,000 from cars
~1,100 from gun-shots

[kagliostro]

This are the data they give us (half an hour ago)

Infected


Deceased


Healed


Franco

[Cree]

Ciao PRR & Peter

As I read restrictions to contain the infection are becoming similar to what we have here

however better at home on the sofa than in a hospital bed, right ?

--

On my town we have a bad record, on other places there is a 3.4% of death, here we have a 7.5%

that is because the infection starten on the local hospital at the geriatric ward

where many elderly people with serious pathologies where hospitalized

--

on 2019, due to subsequent health problems, I have been in bed or at home for about 4 months

maybe this had been a training to get used to being indoors 

Franco

My heart and prayers go out to you, also to any friends and loved ones of yours effected. It is a real eye opener to read from a first hand account of things going on, that I am yet to see. Prayers for you, Franco. Stay safe. 

[kagliostro]

Ciao Cree

Many Thanks, I'll do the same for you

Franco

[PRR]

Drive-through virus testing is starting-up. (Actually drive-IN: you call ahead, get interviewed on the phone, if appropriate you get a time to come to a parking lot to be swabbed.)

Medical rules have been relaxed so most "tele-medicine" is legal (and can be billed). Normally a doctor must see you in person to write a prescription, that rule is relaxed. "Previously, there was a blanket prohibition on telehealth prescribing."
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/03/19/news/state/3-new-ways-mainers-can-access-health-care-remotely/

"Summer residents are flocking to Maine from out of state months earlier than expected, hoping to distance themselves physically and psychologically from national and global coronavirus concerns, but some Mainers are worried what sort of impact they might have."
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/03/19/news/hancock/viral-outbreak-brings-summer-residents-to-maine-months-earlier-than-usual/

Corona is in my *county* (population 55k) today.

Image: "Chris Bryant with his children and wife Emily take time to get out for a stroll through the City Forest with their dogs Otto and Lola on Thursday afternoon. After writing letters to their grandparents and doing school work in the morning, Emily said they needed to get out for a bit."