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Quarantine by Jez Rider [Insta: Jezbags]

Predjama Castle, Slovenia by -soccerkid6

Apocalypse Green Grocer by Keith Reed

after the medical emergencies...would make a nice GWP

https://twitter.com/DomJMoore/status/1247863605795717120?s=20

I am done listening to your drivel and anti-US rhetoric. This is an American site and you are a guest here, so tread lightly. As for the Czech Republic, you should thank the USA. You would be speaking Russian without us.

Some personal responsibility to keep your own financial records and not be dependent on another entity comes into play here. I miss it, but understand it's not mine.

come on, it hasn't even been a day 🤯

Now is as good a time as any to go throw a keychain into your cart so you don’t forget next time.

Am I the only one who immediately think of Goldeneye on seeing that satellite dish ??

That is some stellar box art, for sure.

Assuming the insurance company does not go bankrupt due to that policy

Wow! Dr John Campbell drops a huge bomb on the WHO. This guy has no agenda and constantly puts humanity first (no politics). In fact, he seems to be the only one worrying about Africa. My link takes you to the WHO quote. 30 second clip.

Schindler's List by Patrick B.

The box art is great looking like one of those Comic-con exclusives. If there are stickers across the panels then whomever placed them for the photos did a heck of a job aligning each perfectly. I am fairly certain they are printed for this lack of variance. Anyway the build has some nice details plus an assortment of parts in 'earthy' tones with tan & nougat.

I've listened to the negativity and US bashing for weeks now. Enough.

Agreed, just read a good response to this from JD Vance: "There’s a way in which this claim is sort of interesting as an academic argument: effectively, how do we track deaths in an accelerating pandemic, where it isn’t possible to test everyone who’s dying? A lot of folks have picked up on CDC guidelines that don’t require a test to confirm a case of COVID. Others have focused on the “with/or” question—just because someone dies *with* COVID doesn’t mean that’s the cause of mortality. A few responses. First, people are right to say the situation is fluid and it’s tough to record every death accurately. But importantly, 1) this is true for every disease (do you think every flu death has a confirmed flu test? No, just check the CDC guidelines) and 2) miscounting goes both ways. There’s a lot of reason to think we’re undercounting deaths. First, it has happened in nearly every major European country. NYC public health officials have argued that where normally 20-25 people die per day at home, that number has been higher than 200 as the crisis has peaked. But the truth is that we won’t know until we can look at the all cause mortality numbers, and see how they’ve spiked or not in response to COVID. (To be clear, I have some qualms with how useful the all cause numbers will be here, but they’re probably the best we’ll have.) Many have argued that all cause mortality numbers are dropping lately (can’t find the tweets). This is wrong: CDC usually takes months to fully tabulate the data. There’s been a lot of misinformation here—a suggestion that pneumonia deaths are dropping because health officials are overstating COVID numbers, for instance, is widespread on twitter. All of this stems from the fact that our mortality numbers don’t fully come in for months. One exception here is NYC, which usually reports vital statistics rapidly (and has done so for many years). Finally, I think the “with/or” debate misunderstands something pretty fundamental about comorbidity. Most people who die of a respiratory illness (including, yes, the flu) aren’t totally healthy people. If a dude with a heart condition gets the flu and dies, but would have lived another 10 months absent influenza, did he die of the flu? This **** is complicated, but that doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy to inflate COVID deaths."

My Walmart doesn't even know which side of the Lego box is the front, so I'm not sure if this will help them or confuse them more.

That is some fuzzy math....hmmmm

Paper in Nature Medicine discounts the possibility of the disease originating in a lab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

For retail could be smart as well as it encourages people to pick up the box. Although that doesn't work well with my glass-cased walmarts.

I stopped by LEGOLAND and had them divert the boxes to the back of my car.

Amen for Boris, and everyone else who is sick. re: the USS TR. This has nothing to do with PR. First we would like to believe that someone doesn't become captain of a $10-12 Billion warship (including aircraft) + all the support and escorts without understanding strategy. When the issues with the ship became public the first question I asked my wife was, "How do we in the public know there is a problem with a fleet carrier?!" No fleet carrier operates alone. They are the focal point of a small Task Force of ships (escorts, support, and including an nuke attack submarine). It doesn't matter that we're currently at peace. The captain, in his effort to raise awareness, made his ship and support fleet vulnerable. It doesn't matter how much you're hurting, you never admit vulnerability because someone stupid will take advantage of it. For that reason alone he needs to be removed. Unless the captain was completely ignored by his superiors and THEY were the ones placing his command in jeopardy. If that is the case, then he isn't the one that needs to go, but them. He still should never have made the situation public. I don't know how he'll ever be trusted with secrets again. I caught Trump yesterday saying he hates for the captain to be removed from the navy because the guy has an otherwise stellar career. So who knows...

C'mon...he's gonna turn the car around and we'll never get any ice cream

We can meet up at TRU parking lot

I love kids.. my daughter was eating toast while I was watching GMA and she blurts out "Dad, look, it's the Lego Masters guy!" Hahaha, made my heart smile while my brain said errr not quite but I could see how she saw some resemblance. Jamie has certainly got some salt and pepper going on!

They'll just go home and live with mom and dad. Most parents I know that's what their kids did. Just based upon feedback I've heard from those managing Millennials, they'll probably be expecting a raise for surviving this.

They can't but its all relative. Someone on BBC News last night was deploring how kids are getting anxious because they might not see their friends before they break for summer (mid July here in the UK) - they've only been off school two (or is three?) weeks!! When I was my sons school age we had power cuts, strikes, waste amassing in the streets, riots, IRA bombings, etc. When my dad was at school he was running to a bomb shelter most nights during 1941 and has rationing through to his mid-teens. As I said it's all relative and people need to focus on the big picture. A prolonged life is generally worth waiting for, even if it does carry an inconvenience by todays standards.

BB is going mostly to FBM even if fBa is cheaper so I wouldn’t even bother sending those yet even if I could . Better off self fulfilling if it makes business sense to you .

Point understood. That said, we will figure out a way to get kids back in school safely. Believe me, it will be a dicey situation at first, but people cannot sit at home forever.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Study-investigates-if-COVID-19-came-to-Calif-in-15187085.php So there's suspicion CV hit SF Bay Area fall of 2019. As of Tuesday, the state had 374 reported COVID-19 fatalities in a state of 40 million people, compared to New York which has seen 14 times as many fatalities and has a population half that of California. Social distancing could be playing a role but New York's stay-at-order went into effect on March 22, three days after California implemented its order. "Something is going on that we haven't quite found out yet," said Victor Davis Hanson a senior fellow with Stanford's Hoover Institute.Hanson said he thinks it is possible COVID-19 has been spreading among Californians since the fall when doctors reported an early flu season in the state. During that same time, California was welcoming as many as 8,000 Chinese nationals daily into our airports. Some of those visitors even arriving on direct flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China. "When you add it all up it would be naïve to think that California did not have some exposure," said Hanson. For years California has been the No. 1 travel destination for Chinese tourists in the United States. Even after the U.S. halted flights from China this winter Chinese travelers were still able to come to California on flights from Europe and Canada. Hanson said through all of this the Chinese have been disingenuous about the timing of the initial outbreak of COVID-19. "They originally said it was in early January, then it got backdated to December and then early December and now they are saying as early as November 17," said Hanson. If Californians were exposed earlier than the rest of the country to COVID-19 we may have had a chance to build up some herd immunity to the disease. We won't know if that is the case until results from the Stanford Medicine study come back. Anectdotally; a really weird flu bug hit our school all at once this past January...about a 3rd of the school were sick within a single week...and within our social circle similar flu-like sickness from pretty much every household within a 2-week span in Jan...2 households I know had to take sick family members to ER and were immediately given Tami-flu anti-virus.

No one's mind has ever been changed on politics from an internet forum so let's give it a rest. Let's agree to disagree on the topic of Trump who is very polarizing. Similarly for the jingo-ism sentiment...(OK, you've all done it now...I haven't had to actually use that term since High School Social Science over 30 years ago) I wholly enjoy discussing CV developments from across the nation and across the pond, in this forum and would like to continue doing so.

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl by Patrick B.

Now it officially feels like Christmas season 2020

On that basis you should thank the French. You would be speaking proper English without them.

I am rather concerned. I ordered from LL CA, my credit card was charged and it was carried through, but no shipping notifications form eitehr FedEx or UPS... Oh dear.

Unless these were in store purchases at an off clearance time, you can probably find an email receipt with a price or a price in your order history. If they were clearance store purchases, then you can probably find the going rates here.

Terrible. Stay away. You’ll lose your shirt. No one will ever buy these.

which stock?

Modly has resigned over his comments about the Captain of the TR https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/thomas-modly-resign-navy-secretary-captain-coronavirus-ship-letter-trump-a9453896.html

This is an innovation by LEGO - of creating unique box art - is definitely one I can get behind.

Got a FedEx txt notification for 1 out of 2 orders from CA to Ohio. Weight is about half of the FL order (5.2lbs vs 11.3lbs). Still waiting for the second part to show up - ordered at 9:17pm (1 set) and 9:37pm (2 sets) EST on 4/2. No notifications from Legoland, just started appearing in my FedEx Delivery Manager screen.

I like the creativity. It feels like the cover a comic book or video game instead of a toy.

Im particularly intrigued by the position of LEGO TM in the middle .. far from the usual corner position. Could not find any other set that would have it like this.

The rules are the rules for a reason. If you leave rules open to individual interpretation based on an individual then they are no longer rules but merely suggestions. As far as difference between peace and war time, there very much is a difference. If this had happened during war time he could be headed to the brig or court martialed for treason. Instead he now gets a desk job and will get to keep his benefits and pension when he retires.

You know where this is going to go. Won't be long before the political bickering begins. And it will be the same people.

Not even close to how neat most of your modular buildings are, but my daughter and I built this out of multiple daily bugles that kept falling apart and are really proud of it

Ehhh... based on your anecdotal evidence. There is no industrialized schooling in our future. Putting a large number of like age peers in a room for eight hours with one adult is a very new human habit. And as far as I remember we didn’t have much trouble socializing in the thousands of years before the last 80. The most well spoken and creative thinking human beings I know in large part had a “nontraditional” In one way or another school experience. It does, however take more work and involvement on the parents part

Microcity: Meribia - 80% complete by Marco De Bon