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On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 1:14:21 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-12-30 12:14 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > On 12/30/2020 11:43 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:

> ooks is expensive!
> >>
> >> I enjoy reading but I rarely buy novels, that's why I have a library
> >> card... I've had a library card since I was three years old. Library
> >> cards are free and if the local library doesn't have a particular book
> >> they will get it for you and notify you when it's in. I have a
> >> collection of cookbooks but mostly How To and Historical, I don't need
> >> recipes.
> >>

> > To be fair, most public libraries have been shut down in 2020 due to
> > Covid-19. I don't have to buy books. There is a library on Dataw
> > called 'The Cannery'. Residents donate books and have been doing so for
> > decades. I always have five or six books waiting to be read. And yes,
> > I read very quickly. The type of books I read vary from historical to
> > biographies to fiction and murder mysteries. I'm never bored. I sure
> > as heck don't have to go online looking for some guy to make me feel
> > complete. Julie comes across as terribly desperate.

> Our library was shut down for over a month back in March and April but
> than opened up for curb side pick up only. Then in the summer they
> opened up to limited numbers of people for short stays. They took out
> all the computers, tables, chairs. Books had to be returned to the drop
> box and sit in quarantine for four days.
>
> We went back into lock down this week and the doors are locked. They
> switched back to curb side pick up. It is a lot better now than it was
> back in the spring. I put on a hold on three books and three DVDs late
> last night and got emails about most of them being ready for pickup. I
> have a half dozen DVDs and some books to go back and one I should finish
> tonight, so I will take them back tomorrow.
>
>
> I don't know about other people, but I find it difficult to select books
> to read without being able to open them up and have a look. Now I have
> to go by author and hope for the best, or go for re-reads of previously
> enjoyed books.


My wife's library quarantined books. Quarantining books and wiping down
surfaces is a waste of effort. The virus is almost exclusively airborne. The
new variant is more transmissible, while seemingly no more virulent. The
logical assumption is that either the new mutation is better at binding to
human cells, or that the exhaled quantities of virus are increased, more
likely the former. In either case, 95% respirators are even more preferential
to cloth masks.

--Bryan