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Post by sol-survivor on May 8, 2020 17:21:59 GMT -5
I'm still working, though half my usual hours, but I'm still getting full pay for the next few weeks. I am perfectly happy to sit at home on the couch.
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Post by crowschmo on May 10, 2020 17:43:14 GMT -5
I forget what country it was, I heard something on the radio while I was out driving - I think South Korea? I don't know. But they had a spike in cases after things opened up a little and all the people infected were people that were hanging out in bars. And I just read a blurb, nothing in depth, but I think Georgia is having a spike, too, after opening things up more.
Gee, who'da thunk?
And what's with all the White House staff testing positive? They'd better be careful.
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Post by crowschmo on May 11, 2020 18:42:15 GMT -5
Don't know how they keep it from fogging up, but great idea.
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Post by spacebot3000 on May 14, 2020 2:13:52 GMT -5
Too Bad that Professor Wilson Bryan Key is not alive to give us his wisdom on this current crisis.
I might not necessarily agree with what this late, and (by me, at lest) lamented, and obviously highly opinionated, sage might have to say about this world wide situation, and the media coverage of it, but I definitely would like to know what he would have to say if he were still in the Physical Vehicle.
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Post by spacebot3000 on May 14, 2020 2:20:04 GMT -5
PS To Last Post. And, of course let's don't forget that other Great, and Long Gone Media Commentator, Marshall McLuahn.
What would his observations be on this situation be if he were still around?
And, does anyone also here also remember Vance Packard?
If you do, like myself, you've probably got One Foot In The Grave.
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Post by crowschmo on May 15, 2020 12:55:11 GMT -5
I can see a study in extremes happening when things start opening back up. There're going to be people who are still too nervous to go to things like theaters and restaurants, so even with things open, the economy might still be sluggish. Then there might be people who are too cavalier in their attitudes and overdo it, and not distance themselves enough and not wear masks, causing a new spike in outbreaks.
It's going to be tough going for another year or so, I think.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on May 15, 2020 14:40:30 GMT -5
Definitely. We're still a minimum of eight months from any reasonable hope at a safe vaccine from what I'm hearing and that's the absolute best case with a year and some change still being more likely. In that time people are going to go stir crazy, take unnecessary risks, get afraid, take unnecessary precautions, and get really good at some hobbies. I'm actually optimistic about how we'll be able to handle it, but there's gonna be a lot of problems along the way while we do.
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Post by crowschmo on May 15, 2020 16:40:54 GMT -5
They're already packing the bars in Wisconsin. No distancing, no masks. My father had to go to the hospital for a one day surgery on his bladder. He was sick the next day, throwing up and feeling dizzy. He thought it was food poisoning, but no one else was sick and we all ate the same thing. He was still sick as of today (it started Tues. or Wed., I forget which) and he had my mom drive him to the emergency room. Hopefully they figure it out. Maybe it was some other bug he caught at the hospital. I HOPE it's not COVID, but I think it takes longer for symptoms to appear for that, doesn't it? And he wasn't having trouble breathing or anything. He did have diarrhea. He's over 80 so naturally I'm worried. My younger sister is mentally and physically disabled and lives in a group home (she's in a wheel chair), so the rest of us of course are worried for her that they are taking proper measures and have all the supplies they need. We haven't been able to go visit her since March so we feel bad. She's probably wondering why she hasn't seen us in so long. My mom used to visit her a few times a week and my other sister and I at least once a week. For some strange reason she hates listening to people on the phone (she always pushes it away, heh) so my mom didn't do that so she wouldn't get my sister upset, but she may have to try it and see because they extended the "no visitors" rules for another month. My mom did drop off some candy for all the workers as a thank-you (the people who work there should all be sainted), and so my sister did see her from the door. She used to ask for hugs all the time but hasn't done that in quite a while, but she had her arms out like she used to, so of course my mom felt guilty and felt so bad. Poor kid. She's not a kid anymore, but we still call her that. My mom doesn't have Zoom or Skype or anything like that. This whole thing sucks. Edit: My dad is home and they think, like I did, that he just got some other bug from the hospital. They gave him antibiotics and stuff for nausea and recommended he also use Pepto-Bismal (however you spell it). Hope that's all that's needed. He said the nausea stuff helped.
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Post by sol-survivor on May 15, 2020 19:12:57 GMT -5
I live in Wisconsin, and where I live and work it was pretty empty when all this started, but the last couple weeks the traffic has been really heavy, and I don't think it's completely because of the never-ending massive road construction in the busiest part of town. I don't know where people are going since most businesses around here are still closed. I don't go to bars myself so I don't know how they are in this area. This county still has the stay-at-home order in place. The ones crowding the bars or any other business either in this state or anywhere else are complete idiots. I can just imagine who they'd blame if they or a family member got sick.
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Post by mylungswereaching on May 15, 2020 19:50:15 GMT -5
I live in Wisconsin, and where I live and work it was pretty empty when all this started, but the last couple weeks the traffic has been really heavy, and I don't think it's completely because of the never-ending massive road construction in the busiest part of town. I don't know where people are going since most businesses around here are still closed. I don't go to bars myself so I don't know how they are in this area. This county still has the stay-at-home order in place. The ones crowding the bars or any other business either in this state or anywhere else are complete idiots. I can just imagine who they'd blame if they or a family member got sick. Somehow it would be Obama's or Clinton's fault. /s Or it was god's will.
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Post by crowschmo on May 16, 2020 0:20:32 GMT -5
All of a sudden Mitch McConnell is saying he "was wrong" that the Obama administration didn't leave a plan book for epidemics. Yeah, we knew that, Sparky. Also, before then the Trump administration was admitting they couldn't come up with a plan of their own? Do we have that right? Hmm? Well, now Trump is saying, yeah they left a plan book but they "improved" on it.
'Kay.
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Post by spacebot3000 on May 16, 2020 0:48:30 GMT -5
crowschmo, sorry to hear about your family memers' difficulties, and hope things turn out good for them.
I'm still "on furlough," from my job, but the highways are just as crowded and dangerous as ever, and I only get out of my Dungeon once a day.
Wonder of there is any Coronovirus Virus on the Satellite of Love?
Would it be better to be free of the Virus in that place, and having to watch boring films, or be down here and have to take the risks of exposure?
Would Joel and Mike's bosses try to get those two Hosts infected as part of their evil plans?
Being on Earth, I wonder if any of them and the other workers at Gizmonics Institutes and the 13 oufit have become infected?
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Post by crowschmo on May 18, 2020 19:55:51 GMT -5
crowschmo, sorry to hear about your family memers' difficulties, and hope things turn out good for them ^^^Thanks. Grandparents from a generation ago: I used to walk 5 miles to school each day in 3 feet of snow, uphill both ways. Grandkids: Pffft, yeah, right. Grandparents of next generation: There used to be human contact...and there was this place called Disney World.... Grandkids: Sure there was, gran, sure there was.
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Post by mylungswereaching on May 18, 2020 20:13:38 GMT -5
I think the handshake might die. I can see complaints about a politician 20 years from now, "And then, he wanted to grasp my hand with his and shake it up and down. I felt so uncomfortable." Kids of the day are outraged that he actually used to shake hands.
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Post by crowschmo on May 20, 2020 16:54:08 GMT -5
In Michigan barbers are offering to give free haircuts to the "stay-at-home" protesters. I get, maybe, like it's symbolic and solidarity, perhaps? But, if they're so worried about small businesses going under, what the heck are FREE HAIRCUTS going to do to help that? Then all the complainers will already have haircuts and won't be patronizing those small businesses. That makes no f*cking sense.
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