Dear Barry - Thank you for creating such a beautiful space for community all these years. You've cultivated a great thing for this community. Your kind and caring way with people has always moved...

WaccoBB is now CLOSED!

Thanks for willing to create community with me!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! :wink:

With Love and Gratitude,
Barry
:waccosun:

"Incivility" generally wasn't a big problem, in my opinion. There wasn't much rudeness. And while people often did use handles, their real names were generally available on their public profiles.
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One persons nutball is another's free thinker. Everyone on this or any other forum needs to use their own BS filter and keep it well tuned. The internet often is not a place of truth. It's a place...

The only side effect I have noticed is spikes growing out of my head (could be hair I guess) and getting text messages from Bill Gates strait to my prefrontal lobes. Not to worry, Bill is sending...

A really interesting conversation is taking shape on Townsy Cafe about what will be allowed on the discussion boards and what won't be. Please add your comments ... they are important to me and I am...

I presume your are referring to this aspect of the Townsy Community Guidelines:



If you, or anybody else, has thoughts/comments about that guideline, you comments are welcome on this thread on...

Mark,

Elizabeth Warren has questioned Fauci and concluded he does not hold direct financial investments in any of the companies developing COVID-19 vaccines.
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Worth every dime!

I have bad news ... and good news...

Given that the end is near for WaccoBB, I am going to end this thread. Thanks for all your gratitude and comments (both public and private).

Trump wasn't...

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And if you can't get enough...


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Here's the article that Jacob posted a link to :waccosun:

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Underselling the Vaccine
And what else you need to know today.

By David...

The Hill We Climb
by Amanda Gorman


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam Vice President, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world, when day comes, we ask...

I'll miss your posts of the statistics here in Sonoma County, GRU. And thank you . Lilith

Thank you so much for your service to our community, Michael! I so appreciate how how you took up this task on your own, and consistently posted, day in and day out, to keep us informed! :waccosun:

January 14

309 New Cases in Sonoma County. Follow Cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experi...page/page_30/w

7 Sonoma County Residents Deaths were attributed to Covid-19...

Many thanks to you, GRU. I have appreciated and will miss the content and the constancy of your posts.
In addition to your safety and sanity, I wish you continued good health, good friends,...

Whereas those specifics are not all available from Sonoma County, you could go to the CDC website and likely find that information. Every county will be different depending on who is getting infected...

What nerve you have! Michael has volunteered his time and energy reporting daily case statistics for Sonoma County since April 1. He has earned our thanks for providing this valuable service, and he...

Trying to Be Thoughtful in the First Brights of Dawn

I am thinking, or trying to think, about all the
imponderables for which we have
no answers, yet endless interest all the
range of our...

Through Barry and wacco, I too made my first viable connections with west county while still living in L.A., planning a relocation. Oh dear! I am just finding out! Barry, thank you immensely for...

Sigh.

I wish you all the best, my friend.

I have derived much pleasure from and even got my feathers in a ruffle sometimes with the lively and controversial discussions I found here.

I am...

Well, here we have it. All things change!
Barry, I recall the beginning when you helped me figure out how to use this site!
And all the ways you so beautifully brought so much heart to this ongoing...

The LA Times has the best coverage I have seen so far and does so by county as well. Thank you all for posting this important info. As this site is closing, you might want to get your info there. LA...

Hi Barry! I have not been on Wacco for a long while but I popped in assuming it would always be here! Now I find I caught the last moments of this setting sun. When I moved to W.County in 2002 a...

Thank You Barry for all the work you have put into this community.

All the Best,

Michael Smith

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The time has come to close the WaccoBB.net website.



Lots of factors have converged to make this the appropriate...

So you're talking about the deaths per total population. I think a couple things factor into our overall fairly low death rate in Sonoma County and the Bay Area in general. Firstly we have done a...

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I just read through all the posts in this thread and while I found some --opinions balanced there were a lot of screeds and conspiracy theories shared and gathering momentum. I am sad for this. I...

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December 16

606 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here.https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35
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Sayer Ji, the founder of the "news" site GreenMedInfo has an anti-vaccine agenda. He is a conspiracy theorist with a BA in philosophy. Note that the article "is not intended to provide medical...

Foolishly, I followed that link. It's full of a bunch of insider acronyms and esoteric (to people not in the field) terms.

So, your point is, only experts can comment here on the interwebs? I...

It would be great if we could study all of these vaccines for a decade but millions more will die if we take that course. The corona virus uses near identical technology as the BioNtech and Moderna...

I've got one for you:

Prior to 1955, the incidence of polio was 13.9 cases per 100,000. This decreased to 0.8 cases per 100,000 in 1961 after the U.S. adopted the widespread use of the polio...

About half the countries in this world have had and still have vaccination requirements for entry from certain areas. Mostly for yellow fever. Most schools in most states require certain...

Sonoma County lists a total of 82 ICU Beds with 79 occupied. They list a surge capacity at the hospitals of 264 and an alternative care site of 474. The problem when hospitals get overrun is not...

All I have been doing is passing on the information Sonoma County posts on their website in a form that's a bit easier to quickly evaluate. Graphs and charts interest me, especially when it directly...

ah, that finally clarified your point of view for me. I hadn't quite found the theme in your posts before.

To paraphrase, then, I hope accurately: Covid is being over-hyped and over-politicized....

Masks also work as an inconsiderate fool detector. No mask in public you are one and can hopefully avoided.

Overly long, but very good, look at Sonoma County's Covid-19 situation: (There are some very helpful graphics in the Chronicle story but I couldn't reproduce them for WACCO. See original article on...

October 4

62 New Cases in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_11/?views=view_35

Available ICU...

You post almost suggests Cal Fire which is in charge takes less an effort in stopping fires that head in our direction? Not to squabble but that is just a ludicrous notion. There is a lot of steep...

Here is the letter that I have been sending out. I ask you take a quick read and see if you can join in our effort yourself and share this letter with those in your network.

Please feel free to...

This poem made me realize something that had slipped my mind. Now that I think about it, I see more clearly what has been missing these past 4 years.


GONE

There is
No music.
No...

It would be nice if we could make things right from here in California, but we can't. The deck is stacked due to the way the Senate is set up with small population states having the same power as our...

Fact check: California wildfires were not caused by “powerful lasers”