OK, looking back at our COVID section, I agree we went overboard. There is obviously a way to responsibly discuss each one of these bulleted topics. What I was trying to get at was ‘Don’t be a...

Was it this one from an article in Townsy?
https://townsyapp.com/news/feeling-the-bernie-meme-in-sebastopol/

Now that Barry is closing this platform where should I be heading to post our beloved conspiracy theories?? Who has a suggestion?

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



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

50774A story about Sebastopol folks working to improve opportunities for others living far outside our bubble: Sebastopol-based WomenServe opens an e-commerce store to help impoverished women in...

If my face is on it, it's mine. I look a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

OK, so then what's up with all the dead people?

I live in the west county. We need more and better cell phone coverage. Not less. worry about real things like Covid. don't worry about fake things. Or not, do what you like, what do I care what...

I don't understand why you say you were "scammed." You were offered a full refund. It sounds to me like the shoes were "returns" and who ever put them out for sale failed to noticed the wear It was a...

Here is a YouTube Video that may help explain why America is in such a nightmarish political situation of sharply contrasted bipolar and virtually unsolvable differences in politics and the apparent...

The NYT covered this two days ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/asia/india-farmers-protest-pollution-coronavirus.html

'After the election, citing “people familiar with the matter,” Axios reported that “Republicans’ likely hold on the Senate is forcing Joe Biden’s transition team to consider limiting its prospective...

Death rates rise dramatically when hospitals become over burdened. There are plenty of machines but when intensivists get in short supply death rates can double and greater. You can't just plug any...

This is long but worthy of the time, IMO.


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The Blue Wave That Wasn’t
How the Right Got Right and
the...

When I first started researching this story about political signage, I thought ‘This is kind of a dumb little story.’ (One of my sources thought the same and said so, lol.) But it turned out to be...

Things got hot at the Sebastopol City Council meeting when Michael Carnacchi introduced a broad platform of election reforms. Read about it on the new Sebastopol web app Townsy:...

SOS to Barry
with all due respect to the opinions shared here, wasn't this thread intended to simply be a daily bulletin of, COVID The Numbers?
How about re directing the cross talk and opinions...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7_Q0rHgac
<ytd-video-owner-renderer><ytd-channel-name id="channel-name" wrap-text=""><yt-formatted-string id="text" title="" has-link-only_="">People's Daily,...

You can find interesting interviews with the candidates on the new Townsy Sebastopol web app at https://townsyapp.com/sebastopol-news/ (scroll down 'til you see their individual interviews). Evert's...

I am supporting Evert Fernandez and Diana Rich for Sebastopol City Council. As a former council member, I find the notion that any members feel “threatened” by another member or opinion to be...

That's true, but she also published, apparently unsolicited, endorsements on her website, including


Sonoma County Democratic Party
Lynda Hopkins
Jared Huffman
Mike McGuire
Mark Levine
...

Re: Neysa Hinton endorsements (As stated on website, https://www.electneysa.com/):

For transparency and impartiality in my decision-making capacity, I have chosen to not seek or endorse any...

Well, this is coming from right winger who posted another thread that CA employees making more then 10Ok are “killing CA”.

So let’s see- someone in CA making mininum wage earns about 27k w/o...

...and? I'm pretty certain you're simply another bot designed to troll the board and spam (normally a tactic of the waste of DNA who currently occupies the "WHITE" house) in order to incite hate and...

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...

Good question, where are the alternative sites?

There's always lots of opposition to whatever site is suggested.

Housing in the Azure and Sebastopol Inn is a good solution... for a few of the...

where exactly are these alternative sites?

Essick is not my favorite person or someone I particularly respect or agree with. However,calling him "scumbag" and "fascist" not only plays into your opposition,s" hands, but erodes the civil...

49938Sebastopol's Main Street merchants are facing a unique challenge that we are told only Governor Gavin Newsom can remedy. Sebastopol is located at the crossroads of two state highways-- 116 and...

Hello,

Due to COVID-19 we will not have any drop off locations for our annual schools supply drive for the children of farm workers and instead will be asking for on-line donations to buy...

Here's a good article about the Overton Window. The current social justice movement is a good example of shifting the window plus Bernie's Medicare for All campaign. Both have shift formerly not...

true that. But I think the real social justice crowd has gotten bigger. I do love the concept of the Overton Window. This year, I think it's sinking in, more than any time in US history, that those...

Last year in the 4AM fire evacuation we lucked out, finding friends in Santa Rosa in a non-evac area who would let us use their spare room. This year, not an option, because of the virus. I heard...

49659June 19

13 New Cases in Sonoma County. None were in West County residents.

2 percent of tests taken are positive. This is a low number. Our hospitalization rate is 6% of positives. Also a...

49652June 18

19 New Cases. None were in West County.

Here are the links for some other CA counties dashboards. We have a less than 1% death rate. Other counties are not so lucky with 6 to over...

49642June 17

29 New Cases in Sonoma County. 1 was a West County Resident.

Sonoma County is doing well in terms of deaths. Marin has fewer cases and 4 times as many deaths. Napa has one quarter...

Here you go-

From the California Peace Officers' Association:

The Health & Safety Code authorizes health officers to take necessary steps to prevent the spread of...

Here is the text of an email I sent today to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, County Administrator and County District Attorney, as well as local media:

Dear Chairperson Gorin,
...

If there are any efforts to recall Essick I would like to help. He made an enemy out of me by the violent evacuation order last fall, a 2AM extremely loud siren and amplified voice from a sheriff's...

I am in agreement that Essick is a jerk with delusions of grandeur, but lets be sure while we are keeping watch on deputies actions, to show them respect and remember that their "leader's" decisions...

ICU beds is where the rubber meets the road! Numbers of new cases is not that informative because as testing increases "new" cases will increase.

Remember the key reason for the lock down was the...

Since I posted the link above, the Sheriff has had yet another change of heart, and now says "“I’m not following this f--king health order, and my original statement that we’re done on June 1 stands...

As you can see from the chart. They must have made an error on the number of recovered. Most likely a keyboard error. These folks are working long hours.

A real bummer.

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Why your N95 mask could endanger others

A feature that makes breathing easier increases...

I've also been tracking our progress in Sonoma County. For personal reasons I've also been tracking the progress in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which has more or less the same population, as well...

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, it gives numbers for regions.

https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/

One of the largest disinformation campaigns ever conducted.

Trump just showed one of these videos on his latest press briefings

Facebook takes no stance

...

All viruses are insidious in one way or another, hijacking normal body functions. One thing that is unique about COVID-19 is that we know now it binds in the blood stream to hemoglobin and displaces...

While I think this is a bit of political drama... the US Postal Service said this week they may have to shut down in June after getting no aid in the $2.2 trillion stimulus while seeing massive...

49127I am going to try to post the latest Sonoma County Chart in this thread and perhaps comment on trends etc.

One interesting thing is the age of those who are sick. The majority is the 18-49...