Dave
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People aren't wearing masks BECAUSE of dipshits like those protesters and the
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Dave
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I would amend that last one to:
No mask Karen = 2x regular price raised to 8x price if the manager is spoken to.
People choosing not to wear masks is just people being arrogant pricks who couldn't care less about what happens to anyone outside their selfish little Monkeyspheres, or people who can't see enough moves ahead into the future to realize that this is going to come around later and bite them in the ass. As Terrik says, people being the usual amount of stupid, and not political.
But the FAKE NEWS people going around preaching that it's all a conspiracy? That vaccines are really government mind-control microchips engineered by Bill Gates teaming up with Steve Jobs' cybernetic singularity, and that COVID-19 was actually
And the worst part is that they end up convincing some of the people in group A to join them, ultimately dragging them along to their potential death by idiots who preyed on their desire to be part of something bigger than themselves.
--Patrick
With my immune system being what it is, I don’t want to go anywhere for a while after restrictions are lifted. The office and home will do.
Now our office is revolting and falling apart, but it’s huge so social distancing will be easy.
I understand that masks are hard to come by, but everyone should have a bandana or a scarf that they can turn into a mask for shopping.
I had to cash a chèque last week and I was happy to see the bank employee in gloves and a mask directing who got to come in and who needed to wait for space and directing ATM traffic.
Now our office is revolting and falling apart, but it’s huge so social distancing will be easy.
I understand that masks are hard to come by, but everyone should have a bandana or a scarf that they can turn into a mask for shopping.
I had to cash a chèque last week and I was happy to see the bank employee in gloves and a mask directing who got to come in and who needed to wait for space and directing ATM traffic.
Masks are enforced law, and people still don't wear them.
Today was the first day of easing resrictions, some shops opening up again, etc. EVERYBODY and their dog warned on tv - don't make a mass run for the sohps, don't all bunch together, only go for short periods and when necessary, wear a mask.
All open shops were swamped, large gathered crowds pushing and pulling to get in, police having to send shoppers back home.
I mean, it's no "shoot the security guard who's restricting me" American idiocy, but we're not far off.
People are morons. Complete and utter morons.
I went for a walk on Saturday - with a mask, making pretty much a spiral to stay as close to home as possible. The amount of people still happily blocking the whole sidewalk and not budging when you come close, talking to neighbours without masks, strolling around far from home,.... Uggh. The people I see posting on Facebook about their 100-miles-and-more biking tours, uggggh.
Seriously, I mean, most of the civilized world isn't as bad as the USA because our politicians are just incompetent rather than actively trying to kill off parts of the population, but the population themselves happily helps along.
Today was the first day of easing resrictions, some shops opening up again, etc. EVERYBODY and their dog warned on tv - don't make a mass run for the sohps, don't all bunch together, only go for short periods and when necessary, wear a mask.
All open shops were swamped, large gathered crowds pushing and pulling to get in, police having to send shoppers back home.
I mean, it's no "shoot the security guard who's restricting me" American idiocy, but we're not far off.
People are morons. Complete and utter morons.
I went for a walk on Saturday - with a mask, making pretty much a spiral to stay as close to home as possible. The amount of people still happily blocking the whole sidewalk and not budging when you come close, talking to neighbours without masks, strolling around far from home,.... Uggh. The people I see posting on Facebook about their 100-miles-and-more biking tours, uggggh.
Seriously, I mean, most of the civilized world isn't as bad as the USA because our politicians are just incompetent rather than actively trying to kill off parts of the population, but the population themselves happily helps along.
Dave
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Not sure where to put this. It's politics, it's corona virus, it's injustice. But by god we need more people like this in the world.
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Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
Tim Bray says the company has become 'toxic' and the firings are 'designed to create a climate of fear.'
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figmentPez
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Talked with my mom today about how I'm worried about the confused messages from our government, and how Trump is always lying. Turns out his claims that the virus will just disappear, and that we'll have a vaccine by the end of the year aren't him lying, they're just him trying to provide hope, and I can't prove that there aren't any doctors who told him that those things would happen.
You can't prove a negative. You will never be able to prove that no doctor(s) told him this.
Plenty of examples to prove he is a habitual liar, though.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Nope, there is no proving to either of my parents that Trump makes a habit of lying.
figmentPez
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Welp. I know what places to avoid on Friday and next Monday.
While I feel for those states where they're easing restrictions soon (too soon, in my opinion) I'm selfishly glad that they're being the canary in the coal mine. We're still on lockdown for 6 weeks.
figmentPez
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Unfortunately poor communities and major cities are also more at risk. Are Republicans going to loose more because of old people, or are Democrats going to lose more because more get infected (denser populations in cities, more of them working service jobs, etc.), fewer have access to proper healthcare, and possibly may have higher rates of co-morbidities (i.e. diabetes and heart disease among black people.)
7 States banding together to buy PPE at bulk rates. It's a wonderful idea shame nobody thought of some way that all the states could band together to buy the supplies they need and really use the buying power of some kind of United States.
In before Kushner and daddy-in-law swoop in to confiscate it all.
figmentPez
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Please tell me this is fake:
Apparently the woman whose son (allegedly) returned to the store and shot the guard in the back of the head insists it was done because the guard "disrespected" her.
The guard leaves behind nine kids.
--Patrick
The Indonesian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Japanese earthquake that led to the Fukushima Meltdown, and now a Global Pandemic.
Ever get the feeling we are in a SIM game where the player has gotten bored and is now just unleashing disasters?
Ever get the feeling we are in a SIM game where the player has gotten bored and is now just unleashing disasters?
I can’t even process that.
Actually, what it's feeling like to me is that we're in a SIM game where someone is using the FUND cheat so many times that we get the disasters. But they don't care, they just keep FUNDing.
--Patrick