I suspect in this case it has more to do with age than your political inclinations 
I also never give out my cell # to anyone. But I also don’t give out my Ooma number (that would be the landline number, if I had a landline number, except all landline numbers are public in yellow pages unless you pay extra for privacy, right?). I only give out my Google Voice number, which rings both of my other lines at the same time.
The Ooma hub has a jack that connects to your house phone line. So it’ll ring all of your phones just the same. And I already explained that you can keep your number. If you have a reliable internet connection at your house and you are paying more than $4/mo for your landline, there’s no good reason to keep paying for your landline.
Initial research shows the virus was transmitted from humans to animals, and so far has not seen any cases of the opposite. “Everything we’ve looked at here in Utah suggests its gone from the humans to the animals,” Taylor told CNN. “It feels like a unidirectional path,” he said, adding that testing is still underway. Utah’s was the first outbreak among mink in the United States.
The cluster of cases in Utah has spread to nine farms, but Taylor warns that “we’re still in the middle of the outbreak.”
The USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed cases of SAR-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – in dozens of other animals, including dozens of dogs, cats, a lion, and a tiger.
Excellent post, Argyll. Thanks
It’s only my opinion, and it’s also an unsupported opinion, however:
This is a truly vicious virus. I don’t doubt for a second it can be transmitted from animals to humans. COVID-19 is a powerful, and lethal, living force.
Well either that already happened, or it was cooked up in the Wuhan lab. There were already cases of mink-back-to-human in the mink outbreaks in the Netherlands.
Interesting, xerty. I was unaware of that evidence.
But I suspect the threat extends well beyond mink. COVID-19 seems to me a multi-species pestilence with uncommon ability to do harm without regard for living host. After all, did not early transmissions emerge from the Chinese “wet markets” where virus present in and adapted to wild animals sold there successfully made the transition to human beings…
I love animal stories! But, this science report “takes the cake”.
This interesting information about Minks in the Netherlands is unbelievable. The fact that they have proof of humans contacting Covid from the minks. And the idea of gassing thousands of newborn pups to try to get an edge on the virus.
I’m going to keep track on this, to see where it ends. (if ever)
No, the wet market was put forward as an early possibility (distraction?), but subsequently no evidence was found of it in the animals and a number of covid cases were found in Wuhan before that wet market spreading event. In short, the virus was already there in Wuhan, whether by some accidental lab release or from some animal transmission or some other means, and the wet market theory has since been discredited as the proximal original.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rules-out-animal-market-and-lab-as-coronavirus-origin-11590517508
I have Vonage but recently began to wonder whether Ooma is better. Could you share your impression of Ooma? Is it reliable?
–TIA
"Right now Wisconsin is battling the worst coronavirus outbreak in America. The question is why. What about Wisconsin is different from, say, the neighboring states of Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois, where the virus isn’t spreading nearly as fast?
The answer, at least in part, is politics: specifically, the brand of cavalier, it-will-go-away politics propagated by President Trump and parroted by lower-level Republicans who seem hell-bent on resisting efforts to sustain social distancing and mask wearing when the spread is still low enough to contain — and in Wisconsin’s case, who continue to resist even after infections spiral out of control.
I don’t recall anyone blaming Michigan or Illinois’s “broken politics” the 6 months they had some of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the nation, while Wisconsin was doing magnitudes better…
If you have a reliable internet connection, then they’re probably similar in terms of reliability – never had any serious problems except a few brief outages and maybe one that lasted a few hours. I had Vonage for a few years before I switched to Ooma because of price – break even was ~8 months for me, and I’ve had it for ~12 years now, grandfathered into the original “free for the life of the device” plan that was only available with the original hub. I’ve been recommending it to friends and family and I signed up at least 3 paying users, so hopefully they’re not losing too much on me 
I switched from Vonage to Magic Jack nearly a decade ago. Bought a couple 5yr/$99 renewal packages (I think 3/$90 is their best offer now).
I tend to believe that reliability is more dependant on your internet service than the specific phone provider.
Thanks for the info, Glitch99 and Scripta.
Riding out my Obihai devices until they eventually stop supporting them (they got aquired by polycom). But Google voice is nice.
What’s up?? Is this photo current?
Our President would like to see the same happening, but not a soccer game. 
How reckless! All it takes is one infection festering in the shadows, and thousands are going to die!
pandemic over.
