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China has gone to much trouble to appear like a Capitalist country. Make no mistake they are still Communists they just pretend to be Capitalist to benefit from international trade $$ They are still information-suppressing, people-living-in-fear, boot-on-the-throat Communists.

I absolutely loved my Z. Probably the second favorites off all the bikes I've owned, But when the most favorite bike I've ever owned is still sitting in the garage it didn't make sense to to have both. Esspecially when it would free up the funds to buy the mrs. her dream bike.

when it's my turn to follow the Spyder one must find a wake-up exercise to pass the time.😀

Yes they should probably explain that those checking on the vulnerable need to do so with barriers in place and anybody dropping off supplies needs to make sure to take precautions against spreading the virus on the outside of the supplies. Spray the stuff down with isopropyl alcohol before leaving it on the doorstep, for example.

China has also - Blamed this pandemic on both Italy and the USA, telling its citizens that the virus originated outside of China Banned all foreigners from entering the country, even visa holders, blaming them for bringing the virus back and "restarting" infections Banned all foreigners currently inside China from being out in public, for the most part, by issuing advisories to most businesses to deny foreigners access - including grocery, pharmacy and hospitals Expelled all foreign media Disabled 21 million cell phones over the last 3 weeks (probably not death related, more than likely information control measures due to an ongoing outbreak) Forbade any medical sites from submitting any new confirmed corona cases, as if they do they will have to "bear the full responsibility" - whatever that means in communist-speak Sent 70% faulty tests and compromised medical goods (masks, PPE, etc) to multiple countries while making them pay for these supplies Actively bought up all PPE available in Australia while still telling the world that this virus was not transmissible human to human Roped the W.H.O. in with (money? access? political favors?) and had them providing the entire world outside of China with dangerous, false information, ultimately delaying the response and leading largely to where we are today Nobody should be looking at China's numbers at this point. They are throwing off models and contributing to poor/misinformed decisions being made.

This is fantastic. Mike DeWine was visibly and audibly pissed yesterday about the FDA dragging its feet in approving Battell's life-saving technology. This DOES make me proud.

Yesterday: Completed a great curvy back-road Street-ride with the wife down to the river at Portsmouth. Lot of roadway debris along the route with some wind provided a little spring training in avoidance. Just over 200 MI. http://www.supportraven23.com/

Feed PETA to the bears... Problem solved.

Had a mellow ADV ride yesterday with three from AIO. Ran into Pauly at the Bucket. Finished the day with 7hrs and 200 MI. Bremen--555diner--Stockport--M.Bucket--Blue Rock.

Left the house around noon and home by 5:30. Just a nice, mild cruise to get reacquainted with the Voyager. Amanda made PB&J sammiches and we snacked at a picnic table for lunch. Took 93 from Canal Fulton, 83/78 to Muskie, then 78/821/209 and then County 35 out of Cambridge (which is a lovely road, btw) to 258/36.. amd then set the cruise to 75 and rolled up the interstate to home. I really do enjoy that bike. I am glad we got a quickie in today. I will be in Wisconsin this weekend... in the car. Drag!

Put a Sargent seat on the Kaw H2 SX SE bike and rode 265 miles today, seat is very comfortable.

Got the beast out of storage today, rode a few hours and put on the rear seat cowl I bought back in december. Forgot what an absolute monster this bike is...