@bozo_erectus moved from NJ to Finland a decade ago and still lives there.
After the snowstorm we had here during the last day and a bit, it wouldn't surprise me if some people here went to work by ski. It's too dangerous to drive right now due to black ice, and when I looked out the window a few hours ago I could barely make out the telecommunications tower that's just across the street. Visibility was basically zero.
I had a professor in college who'd been a police officer in Minnesota (or Michigan - one of those places) in a previous life. She said she was once responding to a vehicle crash after an ice storm and, as she approached, found out the hard way what caused the crash. With the brakes fully applied, her car was just sliding and sliding and sliding. She stopped it by guiding it over to the side of the road and grinding the hubcaps against the curb. Needless to say, she wasn't especially fazed by New England winters.
My husband (ER nurse) loved his job before COVID. Even when COVID started, his hospital wasn't taking patients (they had a separate facility set up for COVID patients), but what's really killing him is the overtime. He used to work three 12-hour shifts per week, but now he's working 5 and sometimes 6. They're just overwhelmed and there isn't enough staff.
In that same radio program, a physician with a hospital in San Francisco said her ER is holding patients who are waiting for beds 'upstairs', which of course reduces the space the ER has for new patients, and it's mainly because they're so short-staffed. One wonders what her ER - or any other - will do if there's some kind of mass-casualty incident on top of covid. I'm thinking back to the Boston Marathon bombing, or the Grenfell Tower fire in London, which I think were handled expertly at the time. I think I also read that some hospital or other was calling back staff who'd tested positive for covid early, because they were so badly understaffed. Can't remember where I read that, or what hospital it was.
Jeez, 100000 generations ago homo erectus were cutting on animal bones.
Get your facts straight: the Anunnaki genetically engineered Homo erectus 400,000 years ago into Home sapiens to mine gold in Africa. Apparently the human brain has not evolved on its own.
