SUPPORTIVE COMMENTS
We have been getting a lot of feedback and many comments on our HELP CENTER, including from Paul Ré, Kelly Byram, Lindsay Buroker, Southwest Writers, Jill Lane, RJ Mirabal, Mary Neighbours, Vicky Ramakka, John Crain, Gloria Casale, Jay Cutts, Jonathan Miller, Ann Zeigler, Geri Rhodes, and Pat Hodapp
Gloria Casale said: "Do not beat yourself up. The amount of junk out there is amazing. I missed your post with the errors. But, there are all kinds of rumors about how good health care is in Cuba, that they have a cure for cancer that can't be distributed to the world because of United States. I'm a Preventive Medicine Doc... we would be eager to conduct studies that verified the so called Cure. It would benefit the world. University Researchers in the the US want to benefit any and all with valid, reproducible studies."
Ann Zeigler said: "Many many thanks and virtual hugs and handshakes for your tremendous service to the NM/AZ book community, as we struggle to maintain some semblance of normalcy...well, assuming the bookie community ever was. Normal for us, I guess. But thanks from us, whatever we are at the moment."
Pat Hodapp said: "Just a little humor. The first time I went to England I haunted all the little lanes and alley ways to buy books, many on tables outside the shops. One day noticed in one lane sign after sign for “bookmakers.” I was thrilled until I found out they were betting places."
Geri Rhodes said: "I think by now we've all been victims of myths about the virus, so please don't feel so bad, although I'm glad you alerted us to the misattribution."
Vicky Ramakka said: "I’m thoroughly enjoying the Help Center brightening my days. The connections and the humor are most welcome. As you can see below, I have been following them carefully:
Apologies accepted for passing on the “Understanding Viruses” in the Help Center #15 edition. I read it over carefully, and had already concluded that some of the items just weren’t accurate. Here’s why:
Item: …That is why any soap or detergent is the best remedy, because the foam CUTS the FAT (that is why you have to rub so much: for 20 seconds or more, to make a lot of foam)…
Reality: I sat in the bathtub, covered with soap suds for 30 minutes, and I’m still 30 pounds overweight.
Item: HEAT melts fat; this is why it is so good to use water above 77 degrees Fahrenheit for washing hands, clothes and everything. In addition, hot water makes more foam and that makes it even more useful.
Reality: The bathtub water was hot, lots of foam, still 30 pounds overweight.
Item: Any mix with 1 part bleach and 5 parts water directly dissolves the protein, breaks it down from the inside.
Reality: Maybe helped some—made the mix, drank two quarts, now at 27 pounds overweight (lost a lot of liquid vomiting).
Item: Alcohol or any mixture with alcohol over 65% DISSOLVES ANY FAT, especially the external lipid layer of the virus.
Reality: Didn’t help either."
Mary Neighbors said: "After the rush of launching, I’m finally catching up with my email. I am deeply grateful that you published an announcement with the link to our page—thank you!"
RJ Mirabal said: "Thanks for the clarification about the Johns Hopkins thing. If I sold a book for every bit of info I received in a forward from a good friend and then forwarded it myself... well, James Patterson might be looking over his shoulder at me coming up fast on his "best seller" status! Of course, I felt like you too, when I discovered the error and felt obligated to send out an apology. Hang in there, you're doing good work."
Jill Lane said: "Good report. Lots of good financial info for our group of independent workers. You bring so much value with your posts. You are APPRECIATED! "
Lindsay Buroker said: "If you need something else to read, and you're trying to save money right now, I've put together my entire Dragon Blood series (nine novels and one novella in one big boxed set). It's not for sale anywhere yet, but you can download it for free from Bookfunnel. Both the .mobi (Kindle) and .epub (all other e-readers) versions are there. If you have any trouble getting it on your device, please email Boookfunnel through the help link on their page. They're pros with all the different e-readers. Here's the link for the boxed set: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/g6fjhw4maw"
Kelly Byram said: "Thanks for continuing to send these out—and I’m glad folks are being responsive and participating! Medium selected one of my pieces from this week for curation and distribution (on two lists, working from home and cybersecurity—the latter being incredibly competitive to get curated in). It’s “Don’t Bomb at Zoom”—about how to use Zoom safely. I’m not sure how many folks in the co-op are using Zoom, but it’s a handy guide to avoiding ZoomBombing (trolls crashing your meeting and showing porn and using hate speech, mostly). The piece is behind a paywall, but the Friends link (removes the paywall) is https://medium.com/@KellyByram/dont-bomb-at-zoom-db4aa2b1d177?source=friends_link&sk=da2e9525443a7edf2bc02c9b9c885690"
Christina Stock sent her March 30 article in the Roswell Daily Record which featured a book by Paul Ré. Here is a good example of why you need to read the ISOLATED PAGES for marketing and sales ideas. — https://www.rdrnews.com/2020/03/30/comfort-food-and-books-for-comfort-the-basics/
John Crain said: "Thanks so much for doing this. It’s a wonderful example of the new kind of connectedness that seems to be developing as a result of the pandemic. It may not be worth much, but I’d be happy to provide ebook-formatted copies of my short story sci-fi anthology, 13 Figments of Imagination, to any NM Book Coop members for free. Maybe there are some of us out there in need of diversion. I could email the generic .epub file to anyone who requests it (only about 2.1 MB in size). My email address is igrok42@mail.com.
Jay Cutts said: "It happens to the best of us. I've learned that when information about covid comes across my desk, it is suspect if it doesn't include a verifiable real name and/or direct link to the source. Most bogus info refers to a specific university or organization or an "renowned expert" but doesn't provide any links to the site at the organization from which the information came and it doesn't provide a name and contact for verifying that expert. A recent such letter gave the name of the "mother of a researcher at Johns Hopkins". This makes people think there is a real person behind the posting but a random name is unverifiable. So another hint of bogusness (bogosity?) is a name that is given but doesn't actually verifiably connect with the information. Another example is saying that the information was "passed on to me by my friend Al Bogus, PhD, who is a biomedical researcher.) Name dropping and irrelevant!"
Jon Miller said: "Just wanted to say that Barbe would be extremely proud of you."
