RE: The Dracula Parrot Is Not Your Normal Parrot!
Sometimes moving things around isn't quite that simple and can get quite complex...unless of course they are placing them in zoos under some protection breeding program. When it comes to wildlife species one usually depends a multitude of others to make the whole ecosystem work, take out one then another gets unbalanced, obviously the tribal members don't understand those processes and may one day find killing off the bird for it's feathers had detrimental effect(s) on their environment. Same thing could result by adding them into a new environment, it could throw that environment off as chances are whatever functions the bird serves to it's environment there is a high probability that there is already one function in the same manner as the new environment they want to introduce it to.
I must admit I've seen quite a number of stories of cats being rescued by fire departments out of a host of trees, even a black bear cub, but haven't ever seen a dog rescue from a tree. I think it was either last summer or the summer before that a black bear cub somehow managed his way into our city, it was actually only a few short blocks from here that someone called and reported a bear in a tree outside their house. The dispatcher probably thought the person was drunk as that's never been heard of around here. When the news did the story they made mention of people having seen the bear but that was the first time they caught up to him. That one ended up being a bit much for the fire department to want to handle so they called in a wildlife experts. The only way to get him out of the tree was to tranquilize him and hope he didn't hurt himself to bad from the fall, which he did end up being fine. The DNR scooped him up and took him back north into the woods where he belonged.
Howdy sunlit7! That story of the bear cub is so funny! wow, a bear in the city just doesn't fit.
I'd be fine with those birds being transferred to zoos so we'll at least have them in protective custody. lol.
Any coronavirus cases showing up in your area yet?
None that they know actively have the virus just those who've either been to China recently and/or were on the cruise ship. They announced the other day there were 325 people in Michigan currently under home quarantine and being monitored by their health departments. Last week after several people on a local neighborhood social media site mentioned seeing military helicopters in the area....which is unusual, they announced within a couple days there were, if I remember right three people under house quarantine by our health department. That was before the evacuation of the ship but after the travel restrictions were in place so chances they came in on a plane out of China would have been highly unlikely. Made me wonder if they flew military personnel out of China. I guess I was misunderstanding the quarantine restrictions, I thought anybody coming back into the country from China and/or had potential contact with known cases had to be quarantined on a designated military base, that restriction only applies to those coming directly out of Wuhan. My personal opinion is those on the ship should have went to military bases considering we all know ships are infamous for spreading viruses. Tonight they are announcing they may set up a military base about forty five minutes from my house as another quarantine location. I've been doing some first of line defense stuff just in case. I must not be the only one as I went to Walmart to buy the large bottles of Tylenol and Ibuprofen and there were maybe ten among all varieties left in stock. Even the double bonus prices packages were slim pickings. Cold and flu meds were slim pickings also, you couldn't even get day time bottles. What's the worse that could happen if I never needed them outside I could refill my kids empty bottles when they ask if I have any headache medicine instead of give them a few. I usually stock a variety of stuff anyway when I see it on sale or discount for that very reason...they are always asking me if I have any of this or that. I've been out on the web looking at what the area stores have in stock for mask, plus researching the mask trying to make a determination which one's I should buy and doing pricing in preparation to buy some this week. Those too are slim pickings with most varieties sold out. Again if I don't need them I'll never have to buy mask again to do drywall or mix cement. I'll probably have enough left over to will them to someone when I pass away someday....hopefully not from this virus either. We have two with asthma in our family, my lungs are probably not the healthiest, plus one person has a heart problem and my son's girlfriend dad is severely ill with a autoimmune disease that if he lives to Nov of 2021 he'll be the longest known survivor in the country of the disease...so we have to much to lose not to be thinking about early just in case preparations. After all that's in place and considering how this thing keeps unfolding I am doing research on what foods are known to have natural antibiotic properties then I will include those in any potential contingency plans to be able to stock enough food for up to twelve people, (thank goodness I have a duplex that is large) for a three month period...for right now thinking beyond three months is way overwhelming in thought...hopefully I won't have to implement such a plan but if I should at least I will know what I am looking at. I am only concerned more so than ever before because I've never seen anything they are doing to contain this virus like they are doing, one has to admit to themselves that these activities are highly unusual. Like in Hong Kong it's only going to take that one odd ball who infected an entire church to set off a chain reaction that finds your town under quarantine, you ain't going to be able to run out and grab a loaf of bread so you'd better be prepared to start baking your own, there isn't going to be room in the freezers to stock any either...so you see how this crisis has driven thoughts I've also never had to think about before, god forbid relying on the kids to take any measures, we'd all die. As an example a couple weeks after this all started I was taking my one son somewhere and I happened to mention how scary this virus situation was, he quipped back yeah what's up with that anyway. Here they are spending all this time on their phones and totally unaware that fifty million people are under quarantine somewhere in this world and people are dropping dead on sidewalks....yeah, we'd be doomed. lol.
Holy smokes! The kids have no idea what's going on? wow. Well it's a good thing they have you there to think for them and prepare for them.
They say if you have a strong immune system you won't get the virus so we're making sure we have plenty of immune boosters. Here's an article about boosting the immune system with the right amount of supplements:
"'The coronavirus can be dramatically slowed or stopped completely with the immediate widespread doses of vitamin C,' says Dr. Andrew Saul, an international expert on vitamin therapy. 'Bowel tolerance levels of C taken in divided disease throughout the day is a clinically proven antiviral, without equal.'
Saul adds, 'Dr. Robert F. Cathcart, who had extensive experience treating viral disease has stated, ''I have not seen any flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C.
The physicians of OMNS and the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine urge a nutrient-based method to prevent or minimize symptoms for future viral infection. Here are their recommendations for adults:
Vitamin C: 3,000 milligrams in divided doses
Vitamin D3: 2,000 International Units daily
Magnesium: 400 milligrams daily
Zinc: 20 milligrams daily
Selenium: 100 micrograms daily
'These supplements have been shown to strengthen the immune system against viruses,' says Saul."
The only thing we haven't looked into is masks, let me know where you can order those from if you have a chance.
Healthy individuals was the key word there, like I said I have one son who has asthma along with a grandson, when he was born he spent three weeks in the hospital with respiratory issues and for the first two years of his life he was in and out for varying periods of time. He is stronger now but I don't know what risk the virus would pose to him. Then there's one with the pacemaker and the other with the immune disease disorder. I did find some n95 mask at the smaller hardware stores this morning as Home Depot and Menards were completely sold out and the site said no shipments were expected and there wasn't any at any of the stores within a hundred mile radius. Not that we plan on being out if the virus starts moving close or spreading across the country. I did buy several boxes of regular mask, they are not n95 but better than nothing, one can always double them up. You can go online but people are price gouging, charging a hundred bucks for a box of ten that normally sell for twenty bucks. When you do have one that says they have them the ship date is into March or April....by then we hope it's over right?...otherwise the government is telling one whopper of a lie about it's origins. I appreciate the formula above I will shop later to gather those, I have had a pneumonia shot, I don't know how much that protects from this type of virus if any.
My kids aren't the only ones, well because of me they aren't so much anymore, but while waiting for them to look in the back room for stock and talking among the people waiting for service there's a whole lot of people who have no idea the extent to what's going on. One guy said the only reason people are so alarmed is because social media didn't exist ten years ago so we couldn't see what was happening in China so they were probably doing the same thing. I don't know what rock he's been under but the internet been around for a long time and so has cell phones with cameras. Some said well the government said most of us will only get the sniffles....that's nice let's just hope everyone you sniffle around is healthy. lol.
lol..I'm laughing at those people in line who are clueless. That's why it could spread so fast here. That's just amazing to me.
So the masks to look for are the n95 type because they filter very small bacteria? That's kind of alarming that they're already sold out everywhere!