US Tariffs, Sigh!

[unclebun]

Sprawling compound with multiple buildings. A man with alzheimers and a woman in over her head taking care of him. I'm not saying that they were poor housekeepers in general. They very obviously didn't have people coming and checking on them regularly. I'm willing to bet their health and their home was in disarray.

The videos don't show that. The woman was not in over her head. They had people coming regularly to do various maintenance things (a landscape guy is the one who found them). Anybody so exposed can contract hanta, and go from feeling fine one day, sick the next and suddenly dead later that day or the next. It's like getting histoplasmosis except histo isn't as hard on you. All evidence shows she was taking care of things until she got sick, which likely was for 2 days. Then Gene suddenly had no caretaker.

 

[Stacey K]

interesting. I did not know that. But I'm assuming the mice and rats got in the house? I would imagine that everyone tries to get mice and rats out of the house and don't let them stay...?

I have had mice in every house I ever owned. Either I have a mouser cat or I put poison out. This Fall I found droppings in my kitchen drawers so I knew it was time for poison. That b*tch had babies in my living room tv cabinet. I found her dead when I came home from work in my living room and the babies started to smell and then I found them a couple days later. When I see droppings I empty everything out from my kitchen and use bleach to clean. So far no Hanta virus.

In a farm house I had years ago we moved in and watched the mice go from one heat register across the living room to the other heat register. Could hear them at night in the walls. We got a barn cat a couple days later, Norman, every couple days he left me a dead mouse next to the bed. Such a great guy...he got hit by a car and is dead now.

 

[unclebun]

Hantavirus is pretty much a Southwest thing. Bubonic plague too.

 

[FlyingSquirrelBrigade]

Back to the tariff thing, Trump said while he was campaigning that exporters would pay the tariff not Americans (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1832508262316699871), much like he said Mexico would pay for the wall. Yesterday the press sec doubled down on this (https://x.com/Acyn/status/1899518327258763372 ). As any of the business owners here know, the importer pays the tariff so I'm curious what you make of Trump and his Press Secretary blatantly lying about something so easily disprovable.