Red Mosquito

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I used to be what I would consider a good person who cared about my fellow man, but that is so far gone at this point that I really don’t care what happens much outside of my immediate family and group of friends. So yeah, go ahead and open it all back up for all I care. Go get your haircuts and do your pointless shopping at Pier 1 for more useless garbage to add to your house. Act like it’s all behind us and go sit in a crowded bar or restaurant. Let God and the coronavirus sort it out, because people never will.

Pier 1 filed for bankruptcy, Supes. People don't have much time to grab that sweet, wicker furniture!

Biff Pocoroba wrote:I heard this morning the state of Georgia viral reproduction rate is 0.81; which I thought was surprisingly low. We'll see if that is the case in a couple weeks as things start to reopen.

“We’ll see” is doing a lot of work to pretend a mystery here. You reopen, and the reproduction rate goes up. Full stop. No other scenario. Germany’s COVID reproduction rate was .7 before partially reopening and climbing back to 1.0.

McParadigm wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I used to be what I would consider a good person who cared about my fellow man, but that is so far gone at this point that I really don’t care what happens much outside of my immediate family and group of friends. So yeah, go ahead and open it all back up for all I care. Go get your haircuts and do your pointless shopping at Pier 1 for more useless garbage to add to your house. Act like it’s all behind us and go sit in a crowded bar or restaurant. Let God and the coronavirus sort it out, because people never will.

Not exactly how I feel, but seven weeks of being stuck indoors while politicians make horrible life-and-death choices based on polling talking points has soured my mood on just about everything.

Yeah, at least when they detained asylum seekers indefinitely they were nice enough to separate them from their kids.

Great, now you're giving me ideas.

Simple Torture wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I used to be what I would consider a good person who cared about my fellow man, but that is so far gone at this point that I really don’t care what happens much outside of my immediate family and group of friends. So yeah, go ahead and open it all back up for all I care. Go get your haircuts and do your pointless shopping at Pier 1 for more useless garbage to add to your house. Act like it’s all behind us and go sit in a crowded bar or restaurant. Let God and the coronavirus sort it out, because people never will.

Not exactly how I feel, but seven weeks of being stuck indoors while politicians make horrible life-and-death choices based on polling talking points has soured my mood on just about everything.

Yeah, at least when they detained asylum seekers indefinitely they were nice enough to separate them from their kids.

Great, now you're giving me ideas.

Alright, who wants to play cross the border?

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:I used to be what I would consider a good person who cared about my fellow man, but that is so far gone at this point that I really don’t care what happens much outside of my immediate family and group of friends. So yeah, go ahead and open it all back up for all I care. Go get your haircuts and do your pointless shopping at Pier 1 for more useless garbage to add to your house. Act like it’s all behind us and go sit in a crowded bar or restaurant. Let God and the coronavirus sort it out, because people never will.

Big savings on federal health spending!

Very bad feelings here in Houston, at least in my little circle of friends and family.

My friends who own or manage small restaurants are expressing fear of reopening with regard to their staff safety and the fact that 25% capacity is not financially worth it.

Meanwhile, jackass conservative business owners like Matt Brice have preemptively opened because he doesn't like the rules and a bunch of fucking karens are flocking to his restaurant because they are "ready to have fun with their girlfriends." Zero repurcussions on a local, state or federal level. In fact, some politicians even ate there on opening night.

Judge Lina Hidalgo is doing an excellent job managing the virus. We just closed a massive pop-up med facility that ended up not being needed, and of course the Right is lambasting her for the "wasted" $$. She issued a mandatory mask order last Friday, which other counties have already done with minimal blowback. But she is a young, hispanic, strong-willed up and coming democrat in a state that may or may not be turning purple. Citizens and the establishment TX pols are disrespecting her, left and right. In fact, yesterday, the governor issued an executive order pointed directly at Harris Co. prohibiting municipalities from issuing fines for any order having to do with masks.

My family has been staying at home. We see family through windows. My seven month old son can't be held by his grandparents or play with his baby cousins. My wife's dad has been stuck overseas since well before this all hit and has never met his grandson. The sooner people put on a god damned mask and wait this shit out, the sooner we can get back to normal.

To those of you who just have to get non essential businesses open like, yesterday...go fuck yourself. It's not time yet.

I have an idea. The federal govt will repay your student loans if you are under 30 and go work in PPE or food production. $10k in loan reduction for every month in addition to your salary.

washing machine wrote:Very bad feelings here in Houston, at least in my little circle of friends and family.

My friends who own or manage small restaurants are expressing fear of reopening with regard to their staff safety and the fact that 25% capacity is not financially worth it.

Meanwhile, jackass conservative business owners like Matt Brice have preemptively opened because he doesn't like the rules and a bunch of fucking karens are flocking to his restaurant because they are "ready to have fun with their girlfriends." Zero repurcussions on a local, state or federal level. In fact, some politicians even ate there on opening night.

Judge Lina Hidalgo is doing an excellent job managing the virus. We just closed a massive pop-up med facility that ended up not being needed, and of course the Right is lambasting her for the "wasted" $$. She issued a mandatory mask order last Friday, which other counties have already done with minimal blowback. But she is a young, hispanic, strong-willed up and coming democrat in a state that may or may not be turning purple. Citizens and the establishment TX pols are disrespecting her, left and right. In fact, yesterday, the governor issued an executive order pointed directly at Harris Co. prohibiting municipalities from issuing fines for any order having to do with masks.

My family has been staying at home. We see family through windows. My seven month old son can't be held by his grandparents or play with his baby cousins. My wife's dad has been stuck overseas since well before this all hit and has never met his grandson. The sooner people put on a god damned mask and wait this shit out, the sooner we can get back to normal.

To those of you who just have to get non essential businesses open like, yesterday...go fuck yourself. It's not time yet.

Thanks for sharing WM. Anecdotes like this break my heart.

washing machine wrote:Very bad feelings here in Houston, at least in my little circle of friends and family.

My friends who own or manage small restaurants are expressing fear of reopening with regard to their staff safety and the fact that 25% capacity is not financially worth it.

Meanwhile, jackass conservative business owners like Matt Brice have preemptively opened because he doesn't like the rules and a bunch of fucking karens are flocking to his restaurant because they are "ready to have fun with their girlfriends." Zero repurcussions on a local, state or federal level. In fact, some politicians even ate there on opening night.

Judge Lina Hidalgo is doing an excellent job managing the virus. We just closed a massive pop-up med facility that ended up not being needed, and of course the Right is lambasting her for the "wasted" $$. She issued a mandatory mask order last Friday, which other counties have already done with minimal blowback. But she is a young, hispanic, strong-willed up and coming democrat in a state that may or may not be turning purple. Citizens and the establishment TX pols are disrespecting her, left and right. In fact, yesterday, the governor issued an executive order pointed directly at Harris Co. prohibiting municipalities from issuing fines for any order having to do with masks.

My family has been staying at home. We see family through windows. My seven month old son can't be held by his grandparents or play with his baby cousins. My wife's dad has been stuck overseas since well before this all hit and has never met his grandson. The sooner people put on a god damned mask and wait this shit out, the sooner we can get back to normal.

To those of you who just have to get non essential businesses open like, yesterday...go fuck yourself. It's not time yet.

Make it a Campari, doug.

washing machine wrote:Make it a Campari, doug.

i don't really do requests

Bi_3 wrote:I have an idea. The federal govt will repay your student loans if you are under 30 and go work in PPE or food production. $10k in loan reduction for every month in addition to your salary.

Indentured servitude! What a concept

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Very bad feelings here in Houston, at least in my little circle of friends and family.

My friends who own or manage small restaurants are expressing fear of reopening with regard to their staff safety and the fact that 25% capacity is not financially worth it.

Meanwhile, jackass conservative business owners like Matt Brice have preemptively opened because he doesn't like the rules and a bunch of fucking karens are flocking to his restaurant because they are "ready to have fun with their girlfriends." Zero repurcussions on a local, state or federal level. In fact, some politicians even ate there on opening night.

Judge Lina Hidalgo is doing an excellent job managing the virus. We just closed a massive pop-up med facility that ended up not being needed, and of course the Right is lambasting her for the "wasted" $$. She issued a mandatory mask order last Friday, which other counties have already done with minimal blowback. But she is a young, hispanic, strong-willed up and coming democrat in a state that may or may not be turning purple. Citizens and the establishment TX pols are disrespecting her, left and right. In fact, yesterday, the governor issued an executive order pointed directly at Harris Co. prohibiting municipalities from issuing fines for any order having to do with masks.

My family has been staying at home. We see family through windows. My seven month old son can't be held by his grandparents or play with his baby cousins. My wife's dad has been stuck overseas since well before this all hit and has never met his grandson. The sooner people put on a god damned mask and wait this shit out, the sooner we can get back to normal.

To those of you who just have to get non essential businesses open like, yesterday...go fuck yourself. It's not time yet.

tragabigzanda wrote:Trump to order meat plants to stay open in pandemic, source says. Thousands of workers already sickened by covid-19.Meat plants will be declared “critical infrastructure” for their role in the nation’s food supply even as many become virus hot spots

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... lants-dpa/

My wife said there was no bacon at the store yesterday. This probably terrifies Trump.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinio ... 230105.php

but my civil liberties!

Guess the date of the quote:

But I think what happens is: it's gonna go away. This is gonna go away. And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we'll be able to handle it. We'll be able to put out spurts. And we're very prepared to handle it

ooh so close