Open Thread Wednesday

La Cleaners and Tailors are making and handing out free masks to help the community. They are at 130 union Street. I picked some up and gave them a donation. They have adult and kids sizes. When they run out they make more for the following day.

Peas & Pickles–or whatever it’s now called–sells a package of ten masks for $17.95. Yes, expensive, but….

Bought a package today and it looked like they had a decent stock.

Correct.

I thought that the data might be misleading because the facilities are of different sizes. Although the Cobble Hill Health Center is the largest of the nine locations listed on Patch, its deaths-to-beds ratio is still the worst, shockingly bad in fact.

Downtown Brooklyn; 6 deaths, 320 beds
Haym Solomon; 6 deaths, 240 beds
Oxford; 7 deaths, 235 beds
Seagate; 7 deaths, 360 beds
Sea Crest; 8 deaths, 305 beds
Shore View; 14 deaths, 320 beds
Dr. Susan McKinney; 17 deaths, 320 beds
Bensonhurst; 34 deaths, 200 beds
Cobble Hill; 55 deaths, 364 beds

When I was looking for a rehab facility for a family member, Seagate, Sea Crest and Shore View were all highly rated but too far away for frequent visits. We choose CHHC out of convenience, thinking that family visits contributed a lot to recuperation. This data, however — yikes!

Lots of articles, in the NYT and elsewhere, about people botching DIY haircuts.

Mark from Salon Van Sickel is staying at his Florida home with his partner; he’d been on vacation since February and extended it.

My hair is a little ragged, but a little trimming around the ears helps. Maybe time to go back to a shaggier look…

You can wash and reuse those, you know…

I finally went to Trader Joe’s on the 16th, first time I was there since March 10th. As a senior citizen, they let me in without a wait—the line stretched down Atlantic to Clinton and around the corner—and got what I needed, and more. Most I paid there ever, then got several week’s worth of pent-up exercise by walking everything, slowly, 10 blocks uphill to the north Heights.

Joe’s will be closed for cleaning on April 28th, according to Eater.com

Here are the NY-area locations to close, and the dates:

April 20: East Village Trader Joe’s on 436 East 14th St.
April 21: Brooklyn City Point Trader Joe’s at 445 Gold St.
April 21: Upper West Side Trader Joe’s at 2073 Broadway
April 22: Murray Hill Trader Joe’s at 200 East 32nd St.
April 23: Rego Park Trader Joe’s at 90-30 Metropolitan Ave.
April 24: Essex Crossing Trader Joe’s at 400 Grand St.
April 24: Union Square Trader Joe’s grocery at 142 East 14th St.
April 27: Union Square Trader Joe’s wine shop at 138 East 14th St.
April 27: Chelsea Trader Joe’s on 675 Sixth Ave.
April 28: Brooklyn Trader Joe’s at 130 Court St.
April 28: SoHo Trader Joe’s at 233 Spring St.
April 28: Upper West Side Trader Joe’s at 670 Columbus Ave.

Good to know. With so few options around, we have to be a little resourceful.