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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.

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 .

Agree with his point on the importance of Vit D up to a point. But vit D is just a factor to help increase your immunity. The more important aspect is modifying diets to increase overall health. This means exercise, good night sleep, and consuming less sugar and carbs overall.

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.

Wow, feels like the good ole' days around here...

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?

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 couldn't find the article but it was about the sensitivity of Russian tests vs USA tests. I don't recall the specific term but it basically said this: Russian test would flag as positive for covid-19 if it found 100,000 replications within the given sample size. The USA test, using the same sample size, flags as positive for covid-19 with only 6250 replications. Russia's numbers are WAY lower than the USA and yet, they're shut down just like we are. Why is the USA experiencing an out-of-proportion number of positive cases? Well, this might explain it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html Here is some info from wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing) Accuracy In March 2020 China[68] reported problems with accuracy in their test kits. In the United States, the test kits developed by the CDC had "flaws;" the government then removed the bureaucratic barriers that had prevented private testing.[69] Spain purchased test kits from China that were supposed to detect at least 80% of those infected and tested, but it was found that only 30% were detected.[75] 80% of test kits the Czech Republic purchased from China gave wrong results.[76][77] Slovakia purchased 1.2 million test kits from China which were found to be inaccurate. Prime Minister Matovič suggested these be dumped into the Danube[78]. The UK purchased 3.5 million test kits from China but in early April 2020 announced these were not usable.[79][80] The short of it is, we need to be praying for one another. No one has a handle on this sucker and it'll be the death of us all unless we stop fighting and work together the best we can. Every country is focusing on itself and competing with one another for much needed products and everyone is on edge. We all need to take a deep breath and let it out slowly. This too shall pass...

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.

First discount that I've seen on the 21319 (w/coupon).... https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-6283895-Ideas-2019-4/dp/B07PX3X5WL/ref=sxts_b2b_sx_reorder?cv_ct_cx=lego+friends&dchild=1&keywords=lego+friends&pd_rd_i=B07PX3X5WL&pd_rd_r=327652e2-4a31-4320-9602-6635c610c43f&pd_rd_w=KiqoZ&pd_rd_wg=AUBqq&pf_rd_p=c8578112-5367-4af9-b0d7-8ea3833d7167&pf_rd_r=K1GPDJG4WD74V36W6PHB&qid=1586300228&sr=1-1-f5ebfd8e-82c1-4b4e-97d5-2aa47aa18b69

Modly was a fool for relieving him of command when a quiet reprimand would have sufficed and has now resigned in disgrace. This is a global pandemic that compromised the TR and clearly impacts the broader safety of ports where they are docked. Not saying something could have cost lives. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/07/829107952/modly-reportedly-submits-resignation-as-acting-navy-chief-over-warship-skipper-f

Lol... I get your point. Sometimes it is necessary to disobey a direct order if thar order is unlawful. But as far as I know there is nothing unlawful about an order to follow the chain of command with all concerns or complaints, or the order not to divulge classified information. I think there is a clear difference between Heat of Battle and Peace time in terms of how the rules should be interpreted. The captain made it clear he thought this too when he closed his letter by suggesting something similar. I think the captain knew what he was doing and basically sacrificed his command to put the world's attention to the situation on his ship...and he succeeded. I agree that there NEEDS TO BE CONSEQUENCES in the military for any action that directly defies orders, so I support the removal.

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

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