In the daily UK press conferences the Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance wears a good button down shirt and usually a knitted tie. 
I know now isn't the time but the Ivy style radar doens't just stop.

Best wishes everyone here!

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I have some booze too but I'll save that for when I next have some company.

From Currier and Ives country:

Item: The state legislature isn't doing much of anything. Considering the sort of things they do in normal times, this must be viewed as a silver lining. At least for a little while.

Item: Our governor, a rich guy named Ned Lamont, who prior to his election had only a failed U.S. Senate campaign on his political resume, is doing a pretty good job staying on top of this thing. Connecticut is almost completely decentralized. We don't have county government at all. What we do have are 169 municipalities, and most of the smaller ones operate on the town meeting form of government, which requires meetings. Lots of meetings. The gov's recent spate of executive orders allows towns to skip most of the process and gives first selectmen and mayors extraordinary authority to keep things running. This in turn means that what meetings do occur happen on Zoom. I reported on my first Zoom meeting last night. It was much quicker than the usual in person meeting, and I could smoke a cigar during it. This is also a silver lining.

Item: Many of our towns have a large number of summer residents, usually well-heeled and from New York City (almost always Manhattan). For the most part they arrive around Memorial Day, leave around Labor Day and pay plenty in taxes without asking for much in return from town government (ie. they don't have their children in the schools). Most year-rounders recognize this. Peace and tranquility reigns.

But in these tense times the summer people are fleeing NYC for their country estates, and the locals resent it. The weekenders in turn resent the resentment, and the whole thing plays out on social media. Social media brings out the worst in people and since the governor is throwing his weight around, I suggest he either ban social media (impossible) or give town officials the authority to set up stocks on the town Green and put the most obnoxious people in them. Of course this solution would run afoul of the guidelines about social distancing but hey -- necessity is the mother of invention.

Item: The gov has opened the inland fishing season early (supposed to open April 11). The stated reason was to avoid the usual Opening Day crowds, but I suspect the real reason was to help relieve the stir-craziness that is bubbling up from the population at large. Since I live minutes from several streams, rivers, ponds and lakes, I am all for this. Even "Ancient Aliens" loses its allure after a while, and when the most exciting part of the day is going to bed, something has to give.

Derby always makes me think of a certain former prolific poster on here. Always regret not making contact with him in the real world.

(Apologies to more recent recruits to the forum for whom the above will be somewhat cryptic.)

Today in the grocery store a woman walked into me and started yelling that I should keep my distance. I'm an amiable guy, but the way she behaved made me lose my temper. So I told her that if she's that afraid she'd be better off staying indoors.

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Love Gildan... Comfort Colors too...

Currently wearing a Hanes Beefy-T (with chest pocket, natch) from a shipbuilder in East Boothbay ME, uni stripe oxford cloth boxers from Maine, Wigam socks, and a San Francisco Seals cap from Ebbets Field (a new Albuquerque Dukes cap is on the way, it was on sale so I couldn't resist)... Just worked out, that's been my main activity other than going insane while my colleagues take 20 minutes on Zoom to discuss whether or not Colleague A did, in fact, receive an email from Colleague B...

Tuned my drums, put a "Red Or Green?" chile peppers bumper sticker on the bass drum head... Sun is out and I'm feeling good... Haven't gone farther than my driveway in days...

Just curious- how many of us here work in healthcare?

I'm an RN in Los Angeles at a safety-net hospital. I'm nursing administration so I'm not officially considered "direct patient care" but my office is smack in the middle of a locked psych unit and shares a wall with a seclusion room, so I get plenty of patient contact if I want it or not. I also do drum circles/group drumming with the patients and with the staff.

Friday morning:

Have you ever walked into a bank with a bandana over your face like a Wild West bankrobber?  I have.

Cotton made-in-USA bandana from North Carolina
cotton t-shirt Gildan (tags removed by me) from fave hot dog joint (made in Mexico)
navy cotton drawstring board shorts (south of the border)
black rubber/ribbon flips

today's sunglasses: round black plastic from the Cheap Sunglasses bucket

we're supposed to stay put, I've been going out to jump into a large body of water with a mask and snorkel though

we're trying hard to get something fixed on a boat, water's very clear at the moment, want to get out there

did a lot of gardening, am now scratched up enough for the week

got a little stack of mysteries as well as interesting Updike and Roth, Aldous Huxley ....

I might look into this thing called Netflix

Friday afternoon:

didn't manage to arrange the mechanic appointment
went back out for some gardening
waiting for a football to arrive, thinking of ordering a basketball and a net, the existing ball is lethargic and I find no net on the premises, but I'm on it
went back outside to do some gardening and rescued some little mangroves

confession, I had to go to the grocery store this morning, even worse, I forgot to pick up a few things, but I tried to practice safe shopping ... not 100% pleased with it though

like a tropical jungle outside but across the street the medics came in two trucks to take some people to the hospital last night but it wasn't coronavirus I just this second learned ... feeling better about that I guess

Ivy coronavirus etiquette: don't show up to play tennis at someone's house this month even if it's always been cool to use their court for years without asking permission

what's up with you?  ain't buying anything except an outboard engine repair, a basketball, a net, and some more limes