Miggs
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All in NJ, homie.
My buddy said his school just called and said the state DOE might shut everyone down for two weeks.
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All in NJ, homie.
My buddy said his school just called and said the state DOE might shut everyone down for two weeks.
sahlensguy
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Two weeks off means for hardship for those families who rely on school meals and/or those with guardians who are away all day at work.
Yeah, not funny. I'm sorry.
I didn't say it wasn't funny.
Miggs
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sahlensguy
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Enjoy your mini vacation man!
idestroyedthetoilet
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Lucky dogs. I let curiosity get the better of me Friday and had the misfortune of checking the new price for some non-refundable flights I booked 6 weeks ago. Nearly half off GDIMFOFFS!
Jazzmix
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Here in Belgium we have 267 cases so far, no deaths, one person cured. Mostly people who came back from ski holidays in Italy week ago. Belgium is small and densely populated so it can spread easily (12000 sq miles and 11,5 million people). The government just suggested to cancel all public events above 1000 people but leaves the decision to be taken by municipal authorities. I work in performing arts, our hall's capacity is around 800 so no holiday yet.. I have the impression that the governments in Europe are trying now to be one step ahead in implementing extra measures to avoid what happened in Italy. Hopefully it will work. In the shops it's still calm, no shortages.
Miggs
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@Ron Mexico
Are you even currently active in the role for which you were hired or is everyone still in a lockdown of sorts?
Are you even currently active in the role for which you were hired or is everyone still in a lockdown of sorts?
Archie Moses
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Not 100% on the guys accuracy, but some highlights from what I remember:
-obesity in the US has him worried
-estimating a 4 day incubation period (exposure to symptom time)
-people are infectious without symptoms
-expects that we'll see our schools and whatnot shutting down in the coming weeks
-is concerned about sick leave and how that'll work, many nurses are parents to young children
-is worried about supply of medicine for other conditions, many are produced in China
I'm sure there are other important points, but those stuck in my head.
candrew
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This guy has spent his entire professional life researching infectious diseases.
Basically he said we're ****ed.
This will be 10-15 times worse than the worst flu season and he thinks it will last at least 3 to 7 months.
Masks won't work
Washing your hands constantly and not touching your face isn't going to protect you in the long run. The virus is airborne. If you're in a confined spaces with someone else who has the virus and they're breathing and you're breathing, you're probably going to get it.
If you're over 55 and you have underlying health issues, don't go out in large public areas.
The obesity problem in this country is going to exacerbate the severity of the virus immensely.
I live at the facilities my team trains at. So we are still active. Our main athletes are still planning to compete at the Olympics so still working hard, but I think they will be postponed... Lots of our competitions are and their points are getting worrisome.
I have no pretense of having a band wagon, and merely despise everyone who feels the need for validation.
Look for the facts, and make up your own dreams.
@Red : I still think you're mistaking my meaning, and the basis for my views, on most things. I suppose there could be an "objective" list of points unique to "communism", but I am not that much of an authoritarian, not even on the level of Daniel Webster. I use common associations, by which I could make a fair case that most Americans favor at least one of Marx's core principles or assertions. Maybe Mark Levin or Andrew Wilkow would score a perfect zero, but even a Sean Hannity gets a couple of points.
Most Mormons today do not consider their communist origins with the likes of Sidney Rigdon and "communism" was present in the Americas in several little areas at certain times, as people tried to emulate the early Christion practices. During the most serious times of persecution, Christians developed a manner of helping one another associated with an idea of total worldly sacrifice.
SonnieJohnson and Tupac Jesus, however he spells his name, might be the most enthusiastic black advocates of "Capitalism" today, and they talk a lot about the commies everywhere.
Dalamon and others in here I know are some modern variant of "communist" progressives, who would likely score a little higher than you, and I think Game would not be really quite on your level. But you missed the point that it's not just your use of the "history" concept quite characteristically as many do who believe in Hegelian or Marxist direction or progress, as an inexorable social process that will work us on through towards a "better way" as they dream it.
If my Marxist true-blue believing friend, who used to keep me awake on a two hour commute every day, were here, he's call the lot of you "Statists", and reject you as complete phonies as "Communist".
He would also, like the simplest Mormon ever, give me his shirt off his back and his last dime, if I needed it.
Most Mormons today do not consider their communist origins with the likes of Sidney Rigdon and "communism" was present in the Americas in several little areas at certain times, as people tried to emulate the early Christion practices. During the most serious times of persecution, Christians developed a manner of helping one another associated with an idea of total worldly sacrifice.
SonnieJohnson and Tupac Jesus, however he spells his name, might be the most enthusiastic black advocates of "Capitalism" today, and they talk a lot about the commies everywhere.
Dalamon and others in here I know are some modern variant of "communist" progressives, who would likely score a little higher than you, and I think Game would not be really quite on your level. But you missed the point that it's not just your use of the "history" concept quite characteristically as many do who believe in Hegelian or Marxist direction or progress, as an inexorable social process that will work us on through towards a "better way" as they dream it.
If my Marxist true-blue believing friend, who used to keep me awake on a two hour commute every day, were here, he's call the lot of you "Statists", and reject you as complete phonies as "Communist".
He would also, like the simplest Mormon ever, give me his shirt off his back and his last dime, if I needed it.
Looking at the Bright Side, or being funny.....hard to believe coming from you,......
OK, So I think the DumpTrump PanicWagon is bit off, going be off its wheels in about three months. Won't make much difference in the coming election.
The fuss being raised by the Panick Express will change the shape of the curve, and maybe give out medical folks a better chance to save some. But I think that it will spread, and decline in a couple of months, partly because of temperatures and sunlight doing the regular job of killing loose virus, drying up the habitat and whatnot, reducing "hang time" in the air and survival time on surfaces. We can do all that with good cleaning practices on any relevant surface, and in any air space we care to treat with uv light, oxidizing chemical vapors, or any disinfectant.
H1N1 or whatever it was, in 2009, claimed about 13,000 lives some say. This CoViD-19 got a late start in October, and will not really get all around the world this year, maybe. Our panic and reduced travel and better health awareness and use of good sense and good cleaning stuff will now likely greatly reduce the spread this year, but it's likely to have a non-zero nadir before starting again next year in the Northern Hemisphere. Next year, likely, we'll have a vaccination campaign.
The good trick for the DumpTrumpsters will be to just not look like such fools as they are.