I was not the only one who thought it was cold yesterday morning in the Tiny Russian Village (TRV)!
I went walking and it was around -10 at that time. Not frosty, too dry of an air, but still beautifully calm damn cold…
I was walking along the old river bed of our river and noticing that there are deer tacks and deer droppings all over. Then I saw way in the distance, something that did not look like the surrounding area. I thought to myself, “Self, that is something red and what is red out here?”
I used 10X zoom and while it could have been much better if I had held the camera still. I suspected what I took a picture of would soon and I mean soon realize that a big mean bear was around…
Yes you can see the ears facing my way. I call that, their radar is on alert…
I snapped a few pictures and my stupid phone made a shutter sound. Why oh why? I have since turned that off. The sound carried like a lightning bolt in the crisp air and…
The fox, I swear….jumped ten feet in the air and literally walked on air as I gawked like a little kid in astonishment. He bee lined to the river nearby and never to be found again…
I thought about Boza and all the times he chased deer and foxes across this same field. Boza was fast like that also, in his prime. Now he chases them in my imagination. 😉
But I like to walk as quietly as I can as I explore. You never know what you will find?
So this morning I got up at 3:30 a.m. and found it as blistering cold as yesterday. So I am posting this and looking at Coronavirus news…
Then in a little while, I will walk again and try to find my foxy friend…
Moscow has started to ask the elderly to self-quarantine. They are having issues keeping the elderly under control and now are telling them to please stay home for three weeks and we will also pay you an extra 4000 rubles to do that. That might seem cheap, but 4000 rubles is a bunch of money to them, it will buy a bunch of stuff extra for them…
Sveta’s mother is a prime example of who they are struggling to get to stay home. Sveta’s uncle, who is the elder brother of her mother is happy as a bee at a huge flower to stay home and ride it out. I think since he uses western news sources as his reading, is a bit more worried after what he reads in the western news…
Sveta’s mother is even balking at the fact that the government is saying stay home old people. Old Soviet to the core….bless her heart, I understand completely, but I want her safe also…
Five new testing places have been opened in Moscow.Many more will open quickly and I am impressed with how Russia does not wait around to see what might be, but tries to error on the safer side of issues…
I like it, the image above…
They are pushing old Soviet style to get the new hospital done…
When the person in front of you falls and fails, pick up his hammer and keep hammering!
The Orthodox have their way to deal with the coronavirus…
Stay two meters apart and do their thing anyway. They also have made sure that communion biscuits are individually wrapped and they have doubled the communion wine. They say that the wine fights the coronavirus and is good for you…
Now that is makes me smile and I hardly can disagree with that thinking. Take a nip and or two to make things better…
A brief thought about the USA…
America you should be ashamed at increasing sanctions during this time and you should be double ashamed at even sanctioning so many countries in the first place. The US has just increased sanctions on Syria, Russia, Iran, China and many more….
The way the USA is acting about this virus is making the world stop and stare. Italy is being helped, by many but the US is looking the other way. Russia has just sent tons of supplies to Italy, yet the US got Poland to close their airspace to Russian jets delivering the help…
Sick country America, very sick…
China is basically back in full swing, still some limitations, but we have received all items ordered in a timely manner and Russia just got 25,000,000 masks from China no issues…
I am proud of how China handled this virus issue, yes they are still fighting it, yet they have a country, despite all what the western press has said, it pulled together and did what they had to and are doing what they have to now…
Bless the Russians hearts, they are doing the same and it is wonderful to see the respect for the elderly (as in China) that I am seeing in Russia…
Russia has started testing of vaccines against the novel coronavirus disease, Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor announced on Friday.
“The research center of Rospotrebnadzor started testing the vaccine against the novel coronavirus”, the watchdog said, stressing that the vaccine prototypes are based on six different technological platforms.
Rospotrebnadzor hopes that the mass production of the vaccines would be launched in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Woke this morning at 4 a.m. and found it at -12 and you could hear a tree creak from a kilometer away. Sound travels very far when it is cold….and when the world is asleep also. The stars were like right above me and it looked as if I can just reach up and pick one from the sky…
It has been a mild winter and now it is having a last attempt at telling us who is boss…
Tiny Russian Village TRV
Oops found the bridge
Yup it is our bridge
Oh my, we had an accident…
Our pond
Sad dead Birch forest
Really this is a main road…
Long shot of our missing bridge…
Trying to walk twice a day…
The pussy willows are blooming and that reminded me of Easter….looks like Easter will be postponed this year. April 19, 2020 is Easter for the Orthodox and that will be in the middle of the coronavirus worst for Russia….don’t know yet, we will see…
Sveta is working from home and she is finally getting into a routine there. She is having issues getting her family to get themselves corralled and stay home. But I suspect that is common all over the world right now?
I find people interesting when The S@#$ Hits The Fan…
I am stocked in the TRV and if her family gets itself together, I am getting set up for them….but….it looks like they will be a day late and a dollar short. Too many, who cares, I am not sick, the government has not said and just plain stubbornness abound…
Yesterday, one village home was opened up and a whole family moved in. They had two vehicles and trailers full of food and their furniture. They have enough room at their place for twelve and more people and they are full….I was proud of who ever got them to obey and do what is right…
See, in Sveta’s family they do not have an elder man who is the boss and it shows. I do not count, I am just an American, what does he know?
Enough of that…
It will be crystal clear for the next few days and all I have to do to finish and stay put is get all my gas cans full and make sure I have all my medications…
I feel good this morning and according to the Russian doctors talking on TV and such, if you do not show symptoms in five days (????), you are pretty safe and should stay isolated to keep from getting it…
I suspect that our village will gain new tenants as the weeks go by. People will wake up and leave the huge cities if they can. I just know that I will be locking the gates and putting up keep out signs…
Been shopping at the Big Village and getting our homes in the Tiny Russian Village stocked. Vova is happy someone has finally come to the village and things in our village seem so removed from what is happening around the world. It is just a Tiny Russian Village and as of this moment there are no more than three people here, including me…
I will start taking pictures as I find more time…
Sure nice being in TRV….just wish my Sweety was here with me…
I left early this morning and got to TRV safe and sound. Tomorrow I will start posting, but right now I am going to finish getting this computer set up and get the homes warmed up and beds made. I will extend this article tomorrow after I go to the Big Village and start stocking food and other supplies….maybe take a few pictures…
Kinda a wild trip, yet it was smooth and fast…
Talk to everyone tomorrow and thanks to all who inquired about coming to the Tiny Russian Village…
Looks like in the next day or so. I will go to the Tiny Russian Village and get everything in order. We have two homes there and if need be, the whole family can come to stay. I have been working for years now in TRV for just this issue that we are facing right now. Not just Russia, but the whole world is facing…
I will drive down alone and stock everything, before it is too late. Got to cut wood and got to get the places cleaned up from a long downtime. It is surreal feeling, yet I know it is what I have to do. The family has to have someone get the bug out place ready…
I will be posting from the Tiny Russian Village after I get set up. It will take a few days, but I will be back online. The computer at home has become a work place for Svetochka and Moscow is on the verge of lock down. Thus, I have to leave quickly…
This is why we have a rainy day savings and it is time to dig into it…
In about two weeks, Moscow will be exponentially getting out of control. I am seeing mass issues in the US and the EU. It does not matter if you believe or not, it is happening and you must get ready to try to salvage all we can….Russia is building a huge emergency hospital in the middle of nowhere literally. Totally isolated from civilization and that should tell you something…
I also need to get Vova in gear and wake up also. He is going to have to isolate himself and not party like a fool. (Good Luck ? I know ?)
Sometimes we must do against our feelings. I desire to stay with Svetochka and will hurt driving away. She is well stocked here in Moscow (For both her mother and her. Sveta has stocked her Uncle completely and her son is isolated in the country with lots of food.) and I have to get the same in the TRV. For then I will be able to help the family when the going gets rough…
Talk to everyone in a few days when I get settled in TRV…
A new coronavirus hospital is being built in Moscow:
More than two thousand people are building a new hospital. China’s record of just days to build a hospital is not at risk from Russia. Russia says outwardly, We do not plan to repeat the Chinese records…
But, the construction should be completed as soon as possible…
They found 43 hectares of empty land near the village of Golokhvostovo in the New Moscow area and turned into a construction site. A mobile infectious diseases hospital will appear here, which will complement the hospital in Kommunark and the City Infectious Clinical Hospital (ICD) No. 1…
It will be 70 thousand square meters and equipped for intensive care of patients. Andrei Bochkarev, deputy mayor of the capital on urban planning and construction issues, said that the new complex will last for at least 20 years – therefore, it will be actively used after the coronavirus pandemic. That is why it will take longer to build and setting records is not important…
Russians are disappointed that they did not try to set a record and beat China at building a hospital!
Myself? If Russia builds the hospital at all….it is win win for Russia. Better than what I am seeing in other parts of the world right now. Russia will need the hospital when the virus goes full retard…
The government is coming up with a plan to support Russia’s economy, over the coronavirus situation. It provides for the creation of a fund of 300 billion rubles ($4.1 billion in US dollars), tax breaks for businesses dealing with the virus issue and paid sick leave for quarantined individuals, for which some businesses will not be able to keep paying regular salary…
I talked this morning about Sveta going to have to self-quarantine and this will become the norm in Russia…
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing calls for lifting Iran sanctions as the Islamic republic fiercely struggles to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
“China urges countries involved to immediately lift the relevant sanctions against Iran to avoid further damage to the Iranian economy and people’s lives,” the ministry’s spokesman Geng Shuang said.
Keeping sanctions in force at a time when the fight against the virus in Iran “has entered a crucial stage” would be antihuman, he added.
The diplomat warned that the restrictions would get in the way of the United Nations and other organisations providing assistance to virus-hit Iran.
“Beijing will continue providing assistance to Tehran based on the needs of the Iranian side and its own capabilities, and we also call on the international community to cooperate with Iran to ensure public health security at a regional and global level,” he stressed, noting that China had already sent humanitarian medical supplies and experts to help Iran.
According to the Iranian health ministry, 1,053 new cases of Covid-19 infection have been reported in the country in the past 24 hours.
Starting to think this isn’t about a virus but a western (mainly), yet world financial reset. This week will tell a lot. If they “quarantine” the USA, then halt financial market activity, and then start talking about a global depression, then we’ll see the media conversation switch to a world digital currency. We’re watching something planned/devised unfold and it has nothing to do with us peons, except we must endure what is dealt us as cards…
Sveta is tea and I am coffee…
Went to Globus for the last time for awhile:
I picked up items that will be needed for about four months of semi-isolation. Things like new batteries for the exercise bike, so that Svetochka and I can exercise and try to stay healthy. That kind of stuff…
The reason that this has happened is that this weekend, Sveta has been set up to work from home. Sveta works for the Gazprom Bank and she is a vital key to keeping the bank running. Sveta is the person responsible for the Gazprom’s servers…
The vital employees that are able to stay away from work and do their job from home are now all on Citrix Workspace and she will in a few days be isolated at home with me….poor Svetochka!
Therefore, it has hit home and the SWHTF soon… (Lets hope I am wrong!)
Russians are taking their children to the villages and dachas. Lots of the moms and children are gone right now….playgrounds are empty. This morning it was 99% men shopping and we looked at each other in silence and you could see the look of, “Is this real?”
I knew when Svetochka’s boss at Gazprom was pushing for her to get set up on Citrix, that life has changed and we have to change and adapt. Most likely forever…
Sveta is going to her uncle today and take multiple loads of groceries to him. Then tomorrow he has to go to the doctor and the next day she will try to convince her mom to stock food. Her mother believes that the government will save her, while I agree that Russia is vastly superior to what the US will do, I am not able to put all our apples in the same basket…
I also think that Sveta will try to go to see her grandkids one last time this weekend and then it will be home bound for us both. Sveta needs to take masks, sanitizer and stuff to her son’s, they have not even cared to do anything at all. Just blowing it off. The good thing about them is that they are living very isolated and not in the big city of Moscow…
I do not know what to say about my family in America:
I have tried the last few days to contact them and no one responds. Most likely they decided that I am worthless and changed all numbers and emails to keep me from contacting them. They made their choice and I made mine and my family is here in Russia now. It is Svetochka’s family that needs our help….you can only deal one thing at a time and Sveta reminded me of that last night…
Sveta is a smart girl…
Britain is a test ground for isolating the elderly:
“Death toll leaps and forces Johnson to act” is the headline in the Sunday Times. The paper says Prime Minister Boris Johnson is accelerating plans to buy up beds in private hospitals and potentially make the elderly and vulnerable self-isolate – possibly for months.
It reports the strict new measures could be brought into force this week – a fortnight earlier than medics and scientists had originally expected.
The front page of the Sunday Express also homes in on the implications for older citizens. “Over-70s face stay at home order” is the headline as it details what it describes as a “dramatic plan to save lives”.
The move comes, the paper says, as Britain is “rocked” by the increase in deaths. It suggests the new rules will also apply to anyone under 70 with pre-existing medical conditions.
I suspect that we will see this happen the world over and it will be expanded to younger than 70 people…
Get ready!
I am very disappointed:
In what I am seeing as mainly a western youth response to what is happening. It seems that online, we have developed a huge following of youth that, “OK Boomer!” to everything said to them and they feel that the death of the elderly is a good thing. They do not want to support us and do not care about us, for their wants and needs come first…
Talk about making a bed and having to lay in it?
These children were raised by the elders and we nurtured this response over the years…
I do not see this happening in Russia. The children and grandparents are all working their way to the villages and dachas as you read this. There is still much respect for the elderly in Russia. – Thank God!
Yet being elderly, I understand that we are the most expendable…
It is something so simple, yet so bad that no even the most ardent supporter of sanctions should be able to look in the mirror at themselves right now….the world community has to work together to fight this….Yet!
The fact that the USA increases during this time, sanctions upon certain countries, such as Iran, Iraq, Russia, China, Syria, Venezuela and many more. That fact that the US uses her dollar to not help others, but hurt others around the world….Is telling in who is and what is this all about. The world will never trust America again after this is all over. The wind is changing and payback will be hell…
I feel sorry for the normal people in America, just trying to survive their own government…
Yes it can…
Sveta said:
This will be in the history books one day as children learn about it in school!
Yes, world wide history is being altered right now…
Is it good or is it bad?
WtR
PS: What is the agenda? – I ask that question of everything we have to deal with when it comes from people higher than us. Such as governments, rich people and mafia wannabes. They are the same you know… (No insult to real mafia intended.)
Sometimes we must do against our feelings. I desire to stay with Svetochka and will hurt driving away. She is well stocked here in Moscow (For both her mother and her. Sveta has stocked her Uncle completely and her son is isolated in the country with lots of food.) and I have to get the same in the TRV. For then I will be able to help the family when the going gets rough…
