I guess it's official now :wink:

Barry (aka "Chertov")

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WaccoBB, west county’s longtime online bulletin board, calls...

OH no oh NOOOOO oh no dear Barry!!!!
What a tremendous LOSS. Your site was so intimate and so real and so critical to local community - my heart is breaking getting this news from. you. I feel...

When I moved to Sebastopol in the early 2000's my friend Gary Abreim turned me on to WACCO BB and I found home shares and rentals. sparred on line with differing points of views, and discussed the...

Hey, it is not only for West County!

Jan 4

629 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. There was very little reporting over the weekend and only 26 reported yesterday. If the last 4 days are averaged it's about 180 cases per day. Follow...

West County just won't be the same without WACCO. :( It has been a great enhancement of our lives. Thank you, Barry, for your gift as well as your patience, benevolence and sanity. I've mostly been...

Navaho Basket:
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I, for one, am very sorry to see Wacco closing. It's gotten much more contentious as the pandemic wears on and wears on us, which, I believe, affects Barry's decision to end it. The need for a...

Waccobb is closing; I'm sure you have all read Barry's post. I want to thank Barry for all the work he put into this site. It was a great contribution to the Sebastopol community.

For those who...

<br><br>We wish you and yours, the most relaxing, safest, peaceful journey...
I know your site allowed so many to speak their minds; fears, choices, confusions, concerns. You are always attentive...

I do tend to digress - I'll do better.

wow - amazing. thanks for going ahead down the rabbit hole and sharing the info. quite a twilight zone episode, i love it.
to distinguish between truth and deception, see patterns, discern intent;...

Barry, thank you for the service you have provided to the community! Bigly appreciated!!
heresbruce Bruce Schmidt in Jenner

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



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

ah yes- this BS again. Originating with good ole "Naturl News" 5+ years ago....and repeated ad nauseam with plenty of additions (Bill Gates!!!!!!! ) over the years.

Never mind that the basic...

Would this happen to be the same Donny Yance of "the Mediri Center" up in Ashland? Who loves to claim his education was from "Sequoia College" - rather then "The college of the redwoods" - a...

Thanks for this....long over due.

I Think That When I Die


I think that when I die,
I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
I can give back to the world all that I didn't do.
All that I might have been and couldn't...

What are you talking about? Barry is not censoring anything. Moving is not censoring. This discussion (or "thread") is about COVID-19 case statistics in Sonoma County and nothing else. It is not...

Thank you for all you’re doing to keep us updated.

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...

Mystery’s Language
by John Omaha
Copyright, 2020 by John Omaha All Rights Reserved

In an essay entitled “God’s Language” in her book The Source of Self-Regard Toni Morrison argues...

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David Pakman Show, Jan 1, 2021

Biden ALREADY More Popular Than Trump's Ever Been

Joe Biden is already has a higher approval rating than Donald Trump...

Our species suffers from a profound spiritual sickness. The religion of capitalism with its practice of greed and cruelty toward each other and the environment has displaced oneness, respect, and...

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A year of loss and chaos draws to a close.

Stories from a thousand cultures remind us that the cosmos is born - and reborn again and again - from chaos.

We have passed the darkest night of...

Bravo! Very well said.

<br><br>Yes. My family wears masks to keep well while my spouse awaits a ❤ transplant. We toss used masks, replace filters often as well as washing the cloth ones regularly. No, masks are not causing...

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I won't miss this year --
Perhaps its gifts will appear
A decade from now.

Jim Wilson -- December 2020

Mara, are you going to reveal your academic degrees and professional experience?

December 29

223 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_30/

2 Sonoma County...

Seven Seraphim
Sat at the top of the dune
To watch the sun set

James Moore - The Haiku Companion, 2012

James Moore writes in the 'Introduction' to this collection: "I first learned about...

Try to Praise the Mutilated World


Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You...

December 28

110 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_30/

Hospital...

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I've grown weary of reading this stuff close enough to determine what should be separated. :balance: The distinction, originally, was for content that implied some nefarious intent/conspiracy behind...

The Grounding of Stone



Precious earth

I feel your pulse, solid under my feet

Please list your post-high school degrees, professional certifications, and any other qualifications that you believe constitute the education and experience to evaluate Dr. Fauci's ability to...

2,000,000 vaccinated to date. Very few serious allergic reactions almost exclusively in people who are prone to allergic reactions, many of whom carry epipens with them. Infect those same 2,000,000...

We have a handful of participants who believe that recognized authorities persistently lie, that the truth must be the opposite of whatever experts say. These same individuals accept any nonsense by...

Denigrating widely recognized experts, all of whom have education and experience in their field, by calling them "so called experts," is merely your opinion. Unlike those you denigrate, however, you...

Unfortunately Wacco has really gone wacko with all kinds of conspiracy theory postings over the last several months. Fear creates irrational behavior and beliefs. It's good to know that there are...

Hi!

I was looking at M/M's post and noticed that a number of the sources were related to conspiracy theories.

Is this OK? If so, what is the point of this forum and why are we posting?

My...

I think you misread his words, and missed his point. I don't see him claiming the experts are to be trusted. He explicitly says motives are not particularly relevant, given that the data itself is...

your post describes perfectly the nature of the posts that draw my opposition. I often agree with the underlying skepticism about convention that they express. It's the centrality of the role of...

Zeno,

You could be right and the experts probably are to be trusted. You mention that second guessing motives is not a good idea. Are you saying that we should never question motives?

If so,...

Voyage


I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages
and found ourselves on a great ocean voyage:
sailing through December, around the horn of Christmas
and into the January Sea,...

I remember polio vividly. My mother kept me out of elementary school for 2 years so I would not be exposed to polio. She was a straight-A genius in high school and at UCLA, and she taught me to love...