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    Sheriff Gary Gulledge would like to announce the partial opening of the new Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and Jail complex. The new complex which has been under construction for the past several years is officially opening tomorrow morning to the public. Although full Jail operations will begin in the coming weeks, all other law enforcement operations will be conducted out of our new facility which is located at 180 Constitution Boulevard Dallas, GA 30132 (directly behind the Paulding County Courthouse). Sheriff Gary Gulledge stated, “We fully intended to host seve
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    Happened to be checking out something entirely different on Youtube when I came across this documentary on the 1918 Flu epidemic which killed about 3 percent of those infected - sometimes within hours of contracting the disease.
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    I think what most folks don't really grasp is that a viral epidemic is kind of like food coloring being dropped in a vat of crystal clear water. You drop it in and it starts dispersing throughout the vat but rather slowly. If the vat of water is stirred, it disperses very quickly but even if the vat is left undisturbed, eventually that food coloring will be equally dispersed throughout; given time. This is as inevitable as the sun rising or the wind blowing. There is literally nothing we can do other than keep the water as still as we can until we either find a 'cure' or a vaccine to m
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    Major Donny Wix Retires From the Sheriff’s Office (Paulding County, GA) On Thursday April 30, 2020 Major Donny Wix retired from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic an official retirement celebration was unable to occur, but his Deputies and other Paulding County Courthouse employees were able to send him away with well wishes from afar. Major Wix began his career in law enforcement with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office on November 5, 1984. During his nearly 36 year law enforcement career he served under four dif
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    (Paulding County, GA) On Friday April 17, 2020 a very small retirement reception was held in honor of Major Tom Murphy in the back parking lot of the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the gathering, Major Murphy was surrounded by a limited number of co-workers and his wife (keeping social distancing in mind) to celebrate his esteemed career. Major Murphy began his career in law enforcement with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and then moved over to the Dallas Police Department. He then briefly got out of law enforc
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    Yeah, I heard the undertaking business is set to boom, not to mention the overtime of those in the medical field are earning. But after the congress failed to bail out state and local government, I hear LEO, teachers and other local and state government workers will be being laid off not to mention the rise in state and local taxes to pay for the $5.00 N95 masks being confiscated and hoarded by FEMA. Of course we all know why Trump won't go along with a plan to help local and state governments; it is because the hardest his states and impacted cities are mainly in Blue areas. You kn
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    Since I can copy and paste this directly from my email, I thought I would share it as well as create a special place I can go to watch these myself. FYI, this is the kind of stuff that interests me IDTechEx Webinars
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    Parks, apparently where there are also playgrounds for the kids, are closed because the playground equipment, picnic tables and pavilions are or could have been reserved and rented before the covid outbreak even for events happening next week or the week after. To break those contracts the parks, pavilions etc. had to close when the emergency orders were given. This act of closing parks is further official effort to dissuade folks from congregating, Trails, which typically don't have pavilions and picnic tables, usually don't have fences along them and so have open access like pub
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    Cool video: Really ... It is a lot more stylistic than this effort from a dozen years ago or this one from six years ago: Neither of which are nearly as slick a production as your's. I really like the titles timing with the audio.
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    I was at a store in Temple yesterday. I had some screwy dishtowel arrangement for my 'face mask.' The store had for sale a box of 'ear warmers' ... little felt like arrangements, that almost looks like an eye mask that would look normal if placed over your eyes except there are no holes for the eyes. So it looks pretty good and seems relatively convenient. That is an idea because the experts are calling on people - all people - to wear a mask of some sort. Further they are saying that wearing a mask won't protect you from the Covid19 which seems kind of self-defeating considering
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    check the 'front' and answer the challenge ... Were you there???? I was and as the video shows, I made quite a splash. I remember that day quite well including the use of Vaseline, saran wrap and then normal clothes. Hell I remember thinking this could be like being the north sea on the Titanic. You can tell your son Austin that I forgot he was the one who, out of frustration, came up and slapped the target sending me into the drink. That was soooooo cold ... on his part Pat
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    -I missed this one when it first appeared but it appears some folks are a little invested. My comment is that it is an extreme form of psychological abuse to force a child to kill any living thing; without a lot of teaching as well as forcing the kid to watch "The Yearling" four or five times.
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    Apparently the ability of copper to act as a antimicrobial did not escape the attention of some 3D computer printer designers who've come up with an inherently copper-infused anit-microbial, re-usable N-95 mask. Since viruses can't tolerate the presence of copper, the designers created a 3D print medium that includes copper which kills coronaviruses including Covid-19. Because it is plasticized the resulting mask can be fitted to each individual's face by heating the unit, which gives it some remolding flexibility. Yep, it appears that relatively soon one will be able to buy some 3D
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    This Friday the public will be able to view the analysis of how the Covid-19 is progressing nationally on a zipcode by zipcode level using a somewhat randomly distributed internet app that uses data collected from two million Americans from a 'temperature' data pattern collected with a connected digital thermometer. The story about this development is here. The graphic below is an obviously not intended to show data on the county level and this may be an image using flu data ... but IF it is a close expression of how this is progressing, I'm seeing how it can show patterns. In any case, t
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    This bit of fact came to me in one of the newsletters I get and I was fascinated by how it was first discovered in the old days. Of course the problem with copper/brass fixtures and surfaces is they oxidize and look 'dirty' as they slowly turn green. The article surmises "so what? ... it retains its anti-microbial properties regardless of whether it has been polished or not." The realization is that most folks never realized why door knobs and the like used to be commonly made from brass. Of course now, if you look at most institutions like schools and hospitals avoid the
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    The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office and Jail will be closed to the public until further notice. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office will continue to respond to all emergency calls for service and will still operate our Jail. If you need to file a nonemergency report, please contact the Paulding E-911 non-emergency line at (770) 445-2117 and a Deputy will contact you back to take your report over the telephone. Our Jail will function as normal to include the intake and bonding processes. Although we will cease any on-site inmate video visitation, we will be offering one free off si
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    Foxmeister: I'm no fan of China and I'm aware of the millions who were killed by intentional flooding in the period after WWII when the commies were taking over. They've done some horrible things but you do know the colonists and Spaniards were known to lace blankets with small pox and, in the end, native Americans (from the artic circle to the antartic) were nearly exterminated. Hell, we were still being hit with "the only good injun is a dead injun propaganda in the 50's. Obviously you're in the minority in your thinking that all men are islands and communicable diseases developin
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    Yeah, that's it, blame it on China because as we all know that Chinese culture, which dates back four-thousand years, literally venerates one's ancestors as a key element of their national religion so they'd be the first to murder their elderly. Oh, and DJT and the GOP (remember GWB) have been doing their best to cut social security for the last 15 years and, indeed, however Covid-19 evolved to be, one might suggest that "incompetence as a conspiracy" because it conveniently creates a blameless path for culling the sickest people on social security ... especially if introduced into nursing
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    We can remove your membership but as a general rule we have never excised ANY former member's comments/posts. Usually, folks just leave if they wish. You do have some options; you can remove your graphic ID and change your posting name.
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    I started getting notices from my server software alerting me to the rapid sending of email (presumably spam). I've disabled the 'vision@paulding.com' email account which is used to send notices to folks. Some other email that bounced back (other than the text grass statement) was to bad emails where the former member was interested in the obits posted on the site. Notably, I'm guessing today was the day that greener grass pulled the big push because the act "spammed" pcom itself as the list he sent had 5000 bounces (bad emails). As you folks know, last summer I gave up manageme
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    The reference above of a 50-50 chance is something I saw on one of the news channels and I can't verify its veracity. I do suspect it was mortality for those with underlying health conditions like heart disease, COPD or diabetes. The chart below sets the mortality by age range which still looks pretty dire for those 70+ ... particularly on the older end of that scale. The above is an image captured here. I think it important to note that this is based on early data and while the sample size is pretty large (I understand in the tens of thousands) it is still subject to change
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    When I was researching the above bit, I ran across this World Health Organization page and I present the link. FYI, this page was part of the opening standup about the virus on the Late Show with Colbert. It provides some good tips and exposes myths, like rubbing one's body down with alcohol will not cure anyone of the virus. Of course Colbert turns that into a joke with his taking a shot of whisky as the punchline.
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    Coronavirus Covid-19 will be the worst thing for most folks ... Including me. Personally, I'm 69 Years old and like most folks over 65, this puts me at not just risk, but high risk of dying from this viral infection. I mean this virus apparently can strike down doctors (like those in China) at the age of 35 and I've seen mortality rates for those over 70 with other underlying complications (heart disease, copd, diabetes, etc.) in the 50-50 range. This virus may well take a lot of us. The good news is this is a race to keep this virus under control for about another 16 months wh
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    I hear there is going to be a big sale for Peking Duck world wide ... 20 percent off; 'cause there are too many fat ducks.
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