Badger Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 When burning brush in my teen years, my dad and me found out turtles can move surprisingly fast when confronted with flame. We moved him to safety by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 12 minutes ago, Badger said: When burning brush in my teen years, my dad and me found out turtles can move surprisingly fast when confronted with flame. We moved him to safety by the way TrickstaPriest and ScottishFox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Quelle surprise... 6 Staffers Working On Trump’s Tulsa Rally Test Positive For COVID-19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Cygnia said: Quelle surprise... 6 Staffers Working On Trump’s Tulsa Rally Test Positive For COVID-19 Is it bad that I'm LOL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 Texas cases are SOARING the last 3-4 days. Only place I see masks now are hospitals and restaurants. All the customers are walking around without a care in the world. When the workers at the corner grocery/gas station quit wearing them I was concerned. I interact with 1-2 non-family members a day while I work from home, but these guys interact with hundreds per shift. Put a mask on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 This past week California initiated a Statewide masks as a requirement (not a recommendation). Numbers continue to rise, and still within margins for ER/ICU/respirator quantity for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted June 20, 2020 Report Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Tom Cowan said: Is it bad that I'm LOL? Yes, very bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 8 hours ago, unclevlad said: There's no reason to think the first wave ever ended. Don't look local, look global, or at least broad. It's meaningful in a national and state/territory context. Essentially, for much of Australia, the number of new cases currently borders on zero. The exceptions are mainly related to international or interstate travel. The current spike in Victoria is likely to slow the ongoing process of lifting restrictions, and may, critically from where I am in Queensland, result in a delay in our state borders being reopened. Unsurprisingly, the media outlets that have been campaigning to have restrictions lifted, borders opened and so on, are now, without a hint of self-awareness, going into panic mode about the increase in cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 Tri-Met, which has been requiring face coverings for several weeks, has had some issues with driver non-compliance. So when they announced that one of the drivers our of their west-side garage had tested positive, it naturally gave me cause for concern. One of the chief warning signs of COVID-19 is a fever. so this is a terrible time not to own a thermometer. I cannot find them anywhere -- not even the obsolete mercury sticks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 5 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 My cousin-in-law pointed out yesterday that "with 641 new COVID cases today, Utah (population 2.7 million) has had more new cases than Canada (37.7 million) for the third straight day." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 19 hours ago, Tom Cowan said: Is it bad that I'm LOL? That just means you missed your PRE roll, but it was at -5, so.... I gotta admit I hope Trump gets covid-19. Not lethal...but nasty enough so he can't blow it off as "just the flu." Am I proud of this feeling? HECK no. But he's a horrific impediment in the process, and what lesser approach might make him change his mind? I *certainly* don't want 200 cases to emerge from that rally. The art at which Trump is a world-class master is in reducing people to his level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, unclevlad said: I *certainly* don't want 200 cases to emerge from that rally. It's not however many people who attended the rally, many of whom specifically chose not to wear masks, and later come down with COVID-19 that would bother me - frankly, I'd view that as evolution in action. What would bug me are all the innocent people they're likely to infect, people who had absolutely nothing to do with the rally but just have the misfortune to later cross their paths. Or people who can't get treatment for other health issues if the hospital gets overrun with COVID cases that spike because of these idiots. I was talking to one of the workers at our local grocery store. She was highlighting the words on the sign up front saying mask use was required of everybody shopping there, and she told me they had to call the cops yesterday to remove someone who refused to wear a mask and refused to leave. The dumb, sometimes it really burns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 Florida's cases per day has been going up by about 255 (cases per day per day) since June 8: it was 962 on the 8th, and it was over 4000 on the 20th. Here in WA, we added over 650 cases yesterday (only day so far we've been over 500). Yakima County (where my sister lives) is up to the nightmare rate of 2440 cases per 100,000 (on a population of a bit over 250k). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted June 21, 2020 Report Share Posted June 21, 2020 1 hour ago, BoloOfEarth said: It's not however many people who attended the rally, many of whom specifically chose not to wear masks, and later come down with COVID-19 that would bother me - frankly, I'd view that as evolution in action. What would bug me are all the innocent people they're likely to infect, people who had absolutely nothing to do with the rally but just have the misfortune to later cross their paths. Or people who can't get treatment for other health issues if the hospital gets overrun with COVID cases that spike because of these idiots. I was talking to one of the workers at our local grocery store. She was highlighting the words on the sign up front saying mask use was required of everybody shopping there, and she told me they had to call the cops yesterday to remove someone who refused to wear a mask and refused to leave. The dumb, sometimes it really burns. I get that, and I largely feel the same...again, not saying this is a good thing. It's not; it's anger, fear, and hate speaking. But, I doubt it'd work to derail Trump's ego train. It could do a number on his campaign, but that cost, and as you note, the derived cost, is too high. Same with forcing the cadet class back to West Point...I think this is NOT going to sit well with a LOT of military types. But not at the cost, should there be a sudden outburst of cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 Oregon's Governor has also issued a masking order, apparently in hopes of not having the Phase 1 opening of the entire state lead to a massive spike in cases. Whether there can be any teeth at all to such an order is an open question. There is so much other bad stuff going on in Portland right now that writing tickets to the large portion of Portlanders who go out unmasked now is not at all feasible. I am a bit lax in my own masking, sometimes forgetting my mask when I go down the street to the gas station for a soda. When I remember en route, I'll go back and grab it, but sometimes I forget. Yes, that does make me a terrible person, among many other things, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 Mistakes and flaws don't make you a terrible person, Michael. They make you human. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: Mistakes and flaws don't make you a terrible person, Michael. They make you human. I agree. Masking isn't...normal. It's weird. We don't like it, either, so I think that might work against remembering. Heck, I've forgotten my wallet...and not remembered until I was *checking out* at the market. It's a 15-20 minute drive to my house...then back. ARGH!!! It happens. (Last time it happened, it was the last straw to upgrade from my old Moto 4G...and get a phone with NRC to use Google Pay.) Heck, I've had the stuff laid out...reusable veggie and grocery bags...and flat left em. It just says you probably need to sleep more and worry less.... Hey, what...stop wrapping that jacket around me....!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Oregon's Governor has also issued a masking order, apparently in hopes of not having the Phase 1 opening of the entire state lead to a massive spike in cases. Whether there can be any teeth at all to such an order is an open question. There is so much other bad stuff going on in Portland right now that writing tickets to the large portion of Portlanders who go out unmasked now is not at all feasible. I am a bit lax in my own masking, sometimes forgetting my mask when I go down the street to the gas station for a soda. When I remember en route, I'll go back and grab it, but sometimes I forget. Yes, that does make me a terrible person, among many other things, I do forget when getting lunch after working mornings. After having to struggle with it for 6 hours, it is hArd to remember after having it off in the car for 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BNakagawa Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 This is evidently the new normal. It took a little while to get used to having to store reusable shopping bags in the car all the time. Then you had to remind yourself to stop bringing reusable shopping bags because they wouldn't allow them. Storing hand sanitizer and spare masks in the car are going to be the standard moving forwards. Or they should be. Assuming you aren't one of those anti-maskers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 Remembering to take a mask when I leave the house is something I still haven't mastered. I've had to turn around more times than I care to admit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 I wonder if Batman and Spider-Man ever go out and forget their masks.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 No. They're both motivated by what I call, "constructive paranoia." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted June 22, 2020 Report Share Posted June 22, 2020 I just leave my mask and my daughter's mask in the car between cleanings. Otherwise we forget them too often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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