Vernal Pond
Vernal Pond along the trail I was hiking at Partridge Run.
Saturday April 4, 2020 — Partridge Run Game Management Area — Partridge Run WMA 🗺
The biggest problem with not fully understanding something is it leads to bigotry
The biggest problem with not fully understanding something is it leads to bigotry.
Spotlight News – 40 Bethlehem businesses at risk of closing, Chamber survey reports
According to a press release on Thursday, April 9, around 86 businesses (95 percent) reported a negative economic impact, 40 businesses (44 percent) reported they’ve laid off employees and 31 businesses (34 percent) reported supply chain problems. Such supply chain problems included increased prices on supplies and shipping delays.
The survey also found that all the surveyed businesses have operated for 21 years on average. The press release did not name the businesses that took the survey though.
May Save Lives
… It MAY save lives!
I’ve long thought the “Stay Home, It May Save Lives” campaign is bad messaging. Not because of substance – physical distancing might reduce the spread of Coronavirus especially in dense urban environments where the virus is established but the “may” part of it.
It sounds very uncertain. It might or it might not. Maybe that’s what’s the science suggests – there is a lot of uncertainty around it – but it’s hard to upend people’s lives on an uncertain basis. I guess it’s trying to appeal to the do gooders in the public.
Maybe it would be a more effective if not more dishonest campaign to say, “Stay Home, Save Lives.”