Recent content by DRandall90

Due to covid-19, a mess of weddings and showers and personal injury that will require surgery, I'm only going to get one weekend at one of my locations to address some plots. I'll be going up on the weekend of the 25th. I plan to address a 2 acre area that we've been working on the last couple...

I can definitely vouch for social media making everything worse right now. The amount of stuff I see posted daily right now (on all sides) that lacks any sort of informed opinion is, in some ways, terrifying. Anyone can make a youtube video now and make it look somewhat professional and people...

I'm not sure which one specifically, but they live in grand island, NE. I think it's beds as the primary concern. I don't know all the specifics since they aren't IC docs.

Very. I've been talking with family and friends about restaurants and the like lately. I just have to imagine there is a way to open restaurants in an a la carte type way so you don't have servers going to 20 tables and you just reduce the number of tables or something. I just don't know how...

It's the question we will never be able to answer regardless of what we do. Health care systems in some areas (some rural/some urban) have been over capacity and it has revealed what could happen, while other areas have had almost zero impact. I know Nebraska (we have some doctor friends down...

I did see this website has redone their modeling and at one point had deaths as low as 60k. Now back up to 135k. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america I think we all know this will spike, it's just when the right time to pull the band aid is what everyone seems to be...

Western Minnesota is extremely rural. The hospital I am referring to simply just doesn't have the money to afford a ventilator. It was in danger of going under before all this started. I don't disagree with you that we should have been way more prepared than this. It's not that we (MN) doesn't...

I agree, you also have to weigh the amount of expected cases with the amount of readily available healthcare in the area. Western Minnesota for example didn't have a ventilator within 80 miles until recently. The "hospital" that serves that region didn't own one. So there is some of that to...

Maybe I misunderstood your post. I'm not following exactly what you are trying to say. I read your post to read that you feel this is the first time we have told people in general that they should stay at home and quarantine which is not true on it's face. Some of the worst outbreaks in my neck...

That's not really the truth at all though. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/#close

Good to see for my home state that we are opening up office buildings for non customer facing locations next Monday. Social distancing still required, but that should help for office buildings that don't have work from home options. As said before, it's all tied to testing. MN previously has...

Man... this thread quickly turned into some extreme tin foil hat paranoia.

Pulled the trigger: 25 each of: American Hazelnut Ninebark Arrowwood Viburnum Serviceberry I know some of these require tubing to get started (each plant will be about 2.5 ft tall when received). What height tube are most people using for shrubs?

I really want to just run clover and drill soybeans into them each year in a 12 acre field, but your thread last year and the demolition really terrified me. I would just let the soybeans go to pods and brown for season, but that seems unlikely they would make it that far.

So based on the info here, I should just add grapes to my garden and stick with more ninebark and dogwood on my riparian areas...?