Sad Sign and Current State of the World

Social distancing works. Wearing masks while outside works. Stopping the spread only works if everyone is responsible enough to recognize the virus threat and take a personal stand to stop the spread with simple means any and everyone can do. 

Anyone who thinks it's funny to cough in public places as a joke, and to get together with friends and act as if nothing is happening on a global-scale, is not only fooling themselves, but is a serious threat to everyone, including their "friends" and themselves. 

Social distancing works ONLY if everyone practices it. If everyone stays disregards that contact distance, then it's not social distancing; it will be ineffective and will just give everyone in those groups a greater threat of infection.

You can laugh all you want, if and after you and your friends get infected. If you are wearing a mask but your partner, spouse or children are not wearing a facemask, what good is that? Is your life or the life of your children or loved ones so insignificant that you do not require them to use a facemask? 

You are outdoors. Perhaps at a store buying food, or in a public park. Somehow and unknowingly, you get infected. You do NOT know you are infected yet. You visit some friends and spend some time together. 

Your friends are now possibly infected. Each one of you and your friends go elsewhere - not knowing each have been exposed and possibly infected - and individually visit some other friends. 

Now each of you have possibly infected others!

How long will this cycle of seeing, visiting others, and possibly infecting still more people, before you actually begin feeling the symptoms and go to a hospital before it's confirmed you are infected, and now have possibly infected a huge group of people, who will continue to meet up with many others, and based on your initial infection, will expose others?

A lot to laugh about. What friend exposes others, strangers, family members, friends, and more with a very deadly virus, and laughs about it because they think it is all a joke?

What a great joke!

We are ALL in this together! Unless we ALL work to stop the spread, then we all will suffer in one way or another!

On the other hand, the skies are bluer, there are much LESS jet-trails above, and the streets aren't as crowded with cars as before! 

Front Door Window Glass Visitors

So, it seems today we have another visitor! It's a spider, which type I have NO idea, but I love to watch it from the other side of the glass of the front door. It seems to stop to watch ME also, as I can see that its front body has raised and its eyes are pointed down, if that can be done. I am just curious though as I hate insects of any type (but I think they are so cool), I can watch in this situation without having to go crazy with the insect world. 

Right now we have a medium-sized fly that's been annoying me a LOT, and I wish this spider would take care of my problem...

I grabbed my screen shattered smartphone, a SSG S5 and commenced snapping it while zoomed in a little. I know I lose a bit of sharpness, but otherwise I cannot get "close" enough to snap a pix, plus the phone camera refuses to focus when too close to ANY object. 

You'd think by now the smartphone companies would LEARN and add a macro/closeup mode by now, but they aren't that smart yet. I don't use the macro lens on my two bigger cameras because it's such a huge pain....   Heck, now that my S5 doesn't receive anymore system updates for the OS, every app does NOT function correctly. Even the camera system is a pain, and often I have to restart or clear the cache for something to function. I tell you this now: my NEXT smartphone will NOT be a samsung!

These are just a few of my many images, downloaded to my desktop so I can post here, and of course NO editing, retouching or cropping. This is all untouched territory here!!

No cropping here, this is the real mcCoy!

 I've seen and snapped quite a few spiders and other insects since living in WNY but this is the very first time I've posted any images like this to my blog.

In the image below, the spider has noticed me - actually I had already spent a few minutes watching it. On previous occasions, I've watched as it caught and ate a few insects of the winged type. Unfortunately, it shows no respect as it leaves insect remains sticking to my front door window glass. Yuck! 

It's already raised its head and it's looking at me. Well, not looking at me but at the big white rectangular object in front of me (the S5 in hand). I have used the smartphone flash on other times and the spider doesn't seem to be bothered by it.

It's noticed me again, and is curious about me as I am about it!

Now in this final picture below, it's looking at me again. Remember you can click on the image and it'll enlarge to be viewed bigger so you can see the details! Yup, as if you really wanted to see these details!! hahahahaaa

Look at those big black eyes!!!!

There is a big hydroplane boat race this weekend. Sheila and I will be there to snap a "few". I'll post some pixs after each day of the two day event. They'll be firing off fireworks also on Saturday, the first day, but not on the following day when it ends!