Will There Be Pandemic Related Food Shortages? Remember the panic buying as the stay home orders began to shut down our cities and towns? It’s been almost exactly 3 months (as of the time of writing) since the first verified case here in Washington state and you still can’t beg, barrow, or steal some of …
Is Your Cell Phone Tracking Your “Stay at Home” Compliance? We live in the information age and many of us wouldn’t want to be without our cell phone for even a single day! Even I am pretty attached to my phone and it is an oldie without all the new fangled apps. It’s those new …
A California County Fining Residents $1,000 For Not Wearing Face Masks in Public Updated Across the globe, there have been several governments that have instituted a “wear a mask” in public policy in response to this pandemic. Some as premediate as the country’s leadership and some as small as your local mayor. What was a …
Violating a Quarantine Order Consequences Merriam-Webster’s non-maritime definition of quarantine is : : a restraint upon the activities or communication of persons or the transport of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests : a place in which those under quarantine are kept : a state of enforced isolation Quarantine is not …
What is and What Can You do About Price Gouging During a Crisis One of the most frustrating things about any crisis is that there are always those that will take advantage of the weakness, grief, troubles, and needs of others during a crisis. During a crisis we should all be coming together to assist …
COVID-19 Consumer Warnings Sadly in every crisis whether it be a devastating natural disaster or as we are experiencing today a global pandemic, there are always those nasty folks who will take advantage of the situation. The scammers are out in force due to the covid-19 outbreak. Selling bogus cures, selling fake tests, asking for …
Pandemic Domestic Violence Rates of domestic violence from child abuse to spousal abuse always raise during times of crisis. This crisis will probably see it raise higher than usual because most of the country is under stay at home orders. Children are out of school and at home, younger children often in day care …
Using Plastic Bottles to Create Boats Plastic has become a major issue to our environment. One way of avoiding some of the damage our trash causes is to recycle and reuse it. Which is what Ismaël Essome Ebone of Cameroon is doing with his country’s plastic bottles and trash. He’s creating eco-boats for his countrymen. Not …
The Creepy Fish The Dept. of Natural Resources is Telling Anglers to Kill Immediately I think I might just have another heart attack if I found this critter on the other end of my fishing rod. I call it a “critter” because this creepy fish can breath air and survive on land. This is an …
Protect yourself from coronavirus I know it seems to me that every year or two there is a new deadly virus to worry about. It might be easy to begin to blow off the doom and gloom of these viruses. After all we aren’t all dead of Ebola right? Now that is one terrifying virus! …
