I thoroughly believe that a lot of world leaders woke up one morning and found themselves minus some 0's (or even commas) in their bank accounts and "suddenly" everything started to open up.
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I thoroughly believe that a lot of world leaders woke up one morning and found themselves minus some 0's (or even commas) in their bank accounts and "suddenly" everything started to open up.
Why Florida has a Covid Problem by Some Dumbass War Profiteer
Dec. 20 I flew non-stop from a nation on the Arabian Gulf to Chicago and from there to Orlando. The Gulf to Chicago plane had maybe 50 people so spacing wasn't an issue. I noticed in the Gulf airport that masks were generally worn, but a number had their noses sticking out. Ugh. Whatever.
Then I hit I hit Chicago. The number of folks doing the "nose outside the mask" (NOTM) thing went up. Social distancing? Hahahaha! Some earlier observations:
Covid-19
At the end of three "too short" weeks I returned to that Gulf nation via the same path. So...Florida:
Sea World did a good job, but none of the employees enforced properly wearing a mask. I noticed that NOT A SINGLE COMPANY enforces this. Publix, Home Depot, BJ's (more on this later), Costco, local restaurants...no one. At BJ's you could walk in without a mask and the guys at the door were mob witnesses because they "ain't seen nothing." Social distancing? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! GTFO of here, no such thing in FL. Elderly and don't want to roll with a mask? No problem. You know how many folks I saw with multiple obvious comorbidities without a mask or NOTM? Look up the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." I didn't see a single employee at ANY business enforce a mask mandate.
So, we've been told masks work, social distancing works, but to do both is a best practice. Not in Florida. In Florida you can't swing a dead Biden voter without seeing someone with an improperly worn mask and/or social distancing problem. Businesses are putting up signs that state the mask "rules" but refuse to enforce those or a population cap in their stores. Florida is wide open. Period. Dot. End of Story.
Shifting gears slightly, my daughter works at a ski resort in CO. Her manager told her that geting CV-19 is inevitable and to not worry about it; go to work peasant. My daughter's improving, but damn...that's a management take? Money talks, Covid walks.
Folks, want to avoid Covid or reduce your risk? Here's one simple trick to help:
You're on your own. Do the right thing. Wash your damn hands, keeps your dick/ woman parts beaters away from your face, stay the fuck away from people, and whatever else is recommended. Protect yourselves. Protect your parents. Do the right goddamn thing for once in your miserable lives so we can put this shit behind us.
Unless you live in Florida, because...reasons or "freedom" or some such shit.
Upon my return to the Gulf nation I was entered into a database and issued a GPS tracker. I take Covid test in 8 days and if negative have the "smart watch" removed in 10. Until then I "self" quarantined in my hotel room. Yay for booze and video games.
Author's note: I have jet lag like a motherfucker so any typos or other "wordy" issues are my own.
Dec. 20 I flew non-stop from a nation on the Arabian Gulf to Chicago and from there to Orlando. The Gulf to Chicago plane had maybe 50 people so spacing wasn't an issue. I noticed in the Gulf airport that masks were generally worn, but a number had their noses sticking out. Ugh. Whatever.
Then I hit I hit Chicago. The number of folks doing the "nose outside the mask" (NOTM) thing went up. Social distancing? Hahahaha! Some earlier observations:
Covid-19
At the end of three "too short" weeks I returned to that Gulf nation via the same path. So...Florida:
Sea World did a good job, but none of the employees enforced properly wearing a mask. I noticed that NOT A SINGLE COMPANY enforces this. Publix, Home Depot, BJ's (more on this later), Costco, local restaurants...no one. At BJ's you could walk in without a mask and the guys at the door were mob witnesses because they "ain't seen nothing." Social distancing? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! GTFO of here, no such thing in FL. Elderly and don't want to roll with a mask? No problem. You know how many folks I saw with multiple obvious comorbidities without a mask or NOTM? Look up the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." I didn't see a single employee at ANY business enforce a mask mandate.
So, we've been told masks work, social distancing works, but to do both is a best practice. Not in Florida. In Florida you can't swing a dead Biden voter without seeing someone with an improperly worn mask and/or social distancing problem. Businesses are putting up signs that state the mask "rules" but refuse to enforce those or a population cap in their stores. Florida is wide open. Period. Dot. End of Story.
Shifting gears slightly, my daughter works at a ski resort in CO. Her manager told her that geting CV-19 is inevitable and to not worry about it; go to work peasant. My daughter's improving, but damn...that's a management take? Money talks, Covid walks.
Folks, want to avoid Covid or reduce your risk? Here's one simple trick to help:
You're on your own. Do the right thing. Wash your damn hands, keeps your dick/ woman parts beaters away from your face, stay the fuck away from people, and whatever else is recommended. Protect yourselves. Protect your parents. Do the right goddamn thing for once in your miserable lives so we can put this shit behind us.
Unless you live in Florida, because...reasons or "freedom" or some such shit.
Upon my return to the Gulf nation I was entered into a database and issued a GPS tracker. I take Covid test in 8 days and if negative have the "smart watch" removed in 10. Until then I "self" quarantined in my hotel room. Yay for booze and video games.
Author's note: I have jet lag like a motherfucker so any typos or other "wordy" issues are my own.
ThunderHorse
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Rona gonna Rona. I seriously don't think face coverings work at all. I also don't think N-95s work either. Want something that works? Full MOP.
Also...
Also...
Face coverings work, or else we wouldn't have seen such a drastic drop in standard cold/flu. BUT they are not as effective as the magic mask morons think they are, especially if your nose is sticking out or you've been using the same disposable mask since March.
ThunderHorse
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Personally, we have 20 manufactured face coverings in our house. We wash all of them every week. Sometimes I take two with me. I'm surprised we haven't gotten it.
I was speaking with a friend last week who has "recovered". She was asymptomatic, so was her mother and sister. She didn't get it from her family though. But according to her, all the women in her family would have had no idea they had it outside of testing. But her dad who's in great shape, walks up and down mountains sheep hunting, was knocked on his ass.
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Wow. You cannot go anywhere in NV (including the airport) without a face mask. It is absolutely not an option.
Which is why folks here are so pissed off at the governor. He gets it after wearing a mask constantly and then blames everyone in the state with, "you people need to get your act together."
Dude, fuck you.
I, and everyone I know, wears a mask just like you, every damn day. Get a fucking clue. If you got it, they don't fucking work.
From everything I've read, the key factor in infection, is prolonged exposure. So a mask just adds time to how long.
ThunderHorse
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Well the boss was exposed for over an hour by her esthetician back in November. She isolated herself, waited for the viral load and appointments to open up, tested, then negative.
I look at it this way: wearing a mask costs me nothing. NOTHING. I have no problem wearing a mask. Do I believe in them? Eh... Do I think the gov't should require them? Let's go with "No." Would I wear one without a gov't requirement? Yes.
One reason I would wear a mask is surprisingly for others. Wearing one costs me nothing. Some people are understandably freaked out by the Rona. I get it. If I can take the edge off of a grocery store cashier by wearing a mask? I'm onboard. The mental health of our country as a whole is in the toilet and if wearing a mask puts an "essential employee" at ease for a moment, I'm all in.
Just don't tell me I HAVE to wear one.
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Not to be the world's biggest pedant, but I've been seeing variations of this and it simply isn't true. It does cost you something, even if you don't value the cost.
People buy masks (money out of pocket). People maintain/wash masks (time and money out of pocket). Putting masks on and taking them off costs time. Wearing masks all the time has an impact on your breathing -> physiological homeostasis (calories out of pocket). Psychological/emotional costs for some. Respirational costs for others. Opportunity costs for all.
Again, to be very clear, I'm not making any judgement over the value/magnitude of these costs (I am not saying that that these costs are even significant), nor whether they should be cheerfully shouldered or not. But I'm generally against hyperbolic language. And we are at the supermassive blackhole intersection between ['volume/spiciness' of one's statement == how much emotion/virtue/magnitude one wishes to signal] and [logical blackhole from rampant and obscene misuse of the word "literal" in literally any situation but that in which it applies]. So from time to time, I feel like it's worth pointing out brute reality.
I think @AWP was speaking from the aspect of being a war profiteer where money no longer holds value to him. ;)
On a serious note, if I'm supposed to be scared of the Rona then I should see some Dustin Hoffman 'Outbreak' level of response with field hospitals running day and night in the hot spots. But I don't. So I'm not. Now that Trump is gone, it will be the responsibility of the media to unfuck their overdramatic reporting of everything going on to give Biden a win he doesn't deserve.
ThunderHorse
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OMGEEE THERE ARE ONLY 1% vacancies in SoCAL ICUS!!!!
A FAT ZERO requests from Garcetti, the board of idiot queens, or Newsom for federal support. Also, as I said previously, LA County collapsed their surge capacity. So they have to ability to fire, maneuver, and adjust. But they won't. Because we know why.
AZ also collapsed its surge capacity, but our surge capacity was actually built into hospital design, so if we actually had weeks of no room we could open the capacity up. But given how ICUs have been run across this country for decades due to cost, we still have plenty of space. ICUs run at 80-90% capacity all year, it's not a phenomenon because of the Rona. Only because of the Rona are those dashboards under public scrutiny though.
I just got cut off by a fucking school bus yesterday. Lol.
Stop driving like a grandma. lol
Fuck dem kids. I drive like Earnhardt in school zones!
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This is the way.
Well fuck. Forget the curfews, we're going worse than we were in the spring.
Ontario declares state of emergency and issues stay-at-home order as modelling warns of COVID-19 spike
And Québec, specifically Montréal has been the worst cases in Canada since the start.
Montreal hospitals nearing critical triage point, when doctors must 'kill people' to save others
Ontario declares state of emergency and issues stay-at-home order as modelling warns of COVID-19 spike
And Québec, specifically Montréal has been the worst cases in Canada since the start.
Montreal hospitals nearing critical triage point, when doctors must 'kill people' to save others
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Oh this is where I find out if Liam has done my bidding
