How can there not be a COVID-19 thread?

SuperMatt said:
I saw an older guy in the store today (grocery run) who felt it necessary to put his mask below his chin so he could look at a box of something. Was he going to lick it? Pissed me off, but I just stayed far away from him. Somehow every other person in the store managed to do things correctly.
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Since our delivery drivers cannot put a mask on when coming up our corridor I put in a small (dog or child) gate at the end of it with a note that says "please leave deliveries in front of the gate". This way they're actually outside of the entire house and we can just walk out and grab the packages without having to wait for the air to clear.

It saddens me that so many people cannot take this simple step, we are our own worst enemies with this virus.
 
Yeah! Scheduled for my shot this week.
Wife's getting Moderna, I'm getting Pfizer. What a family divide...:)
 
P_X said:
Yeah! Scheduled for my shot this week.
Wife's getting Moderna, I'm getting Pfizer. What a family divide...:)
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Finally, a family divide we can all agree on. Congrats to both of you.
 
theSeb said:
arstechnica.com

There is no COVID vaccine reserve. Trump admin already shipped it

"This is a deception on a national scale."
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Just another crime against humanity to add to the list. And yet 74 million people took the time to vote FOR him to be in charge another 4 years. This country is seriously f-ed up. Will the Capitol insurrection cause people to wake up? Or will people quickly forget and get back into the Fox News outrage cycle pushing baloney like blaming Antifa for the insurrection, or threatening that Biden will confiscate everybody’s guns, etc?
 
SuperMatt said:
Just another crime against humanity to add to the list. And yet 74 million people took the time to vote FOR him to be in charge another 4 years. This country is seriously f-ed up. Will the Capitol insurrection cause people to wake up? Or will people quickly forget and get back into the Fox News outrage cycle pushing baloney like blaming Antifa for the insurrection, or threatening that Biden will confiscate everybody’s guns, etc?
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I think anyone who voted for him should be moved to the back of the line for the vaccine.
 
lizkat said:
Meanwhile Florida continues proving itself a probably welcoming environment for a post-WH Trump.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1350915605831053314/
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A bad thing about ideologues running things in government is when they do stuff like this, they personally don’t suffer from the inevitable wrongful arrest lawsuit/multi-million $ settlement that is certain to follow when this woman easily wins in court.
 
SuperMatt said:
A bad thing about ideologues running things in government is when they do stuff like this, they personally don’t suffer from the inevitable wrongful arrest lawsuit/multi-million $ settlement that is certain to follow when this woman easily wins in court.
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Yet the idiots among the taxpayers will often re-elect those same ideologues.

"Soft on crime!" or "Socialism!" TV ads played a thousand times during campaign season two years from now will likely far outweigh any passing recollections of a lawsuit some governmental entity chose to settle.
 
P_X said:
Yeah! Scheduled for my shot this week.
Wife's getting Moderna, I'm getting Pfizer. What a family divide...:)
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Hey, with a little effort we could turn this into a Mac vs. Windows kind of thing. 😄

(Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine commercial:

“There’s no step 2. [Chuckles] There’s no step 2!”)

I was more than pleased to be able to take my mom for her first shot this weekend. Can’t wait for my wife and I to be able to get ours as well. But that’s at least a month or more off.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Hey, with a little effort we could turn this into a Mac vs. Windows kind of thing. 😄

(Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine commercial:

“There’s no step 2. [Chuckles] There’s no step 2!”)

I was more than pleased to be able to take my mom for her first shot this weekend. Can’t wait for my wife and I to be able to get ours as well. But that’s at least a month or more off.
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I'm getting my 2nd tomorrow. We'll see...
 
lizkat said:
Yet the idiots among the taxpayers will often re-elect those same ideologues.

"Soft on crime!" or "Socialism!" TV ads played a thousand times during campaign season two years from now will likely far outweigh any passing recollections of a lawsuit some governmental entity chose to settle.
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The Democratic Party among others needs to get their act together and call the Republicans soft on crime (especially terrorism) and fascist every chance they get. I know they don’t do that often, but if not now, when?
 
Thomas Veil said:
The Democratic Party among others needs to get their act together and call the Republicans soft on crime (especially terrorism) and fascist every chance they get. I know they don’t do that often, but if not now, when?
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I don't so much care what Dems or any responsible Republicans call any who enabled or supported the insurrection at the Capitol, but I do care that the guilty get punished because to ignore an attempted coup merely invites a better organized one in future. And it's apparent that some members of Congress supported the idea of overturning an election that the Trump administration's head of cybersecurity had called "the most secure" election the USA has ever held.

Of course Trump promptly fired that guy for having said that. The point though is that the election was lost, not stolen, and yet over a hundred fifty members of Congress participated in a grotesquely extended denial of that fact, contributing to the unrest and eventual signing-on of Trump fans to the march to and breach of the Capitol on January 6th after Trump laid on his exhortations to go down there and fight.

And then there's the underwriting by right wing media of the Trump-GOP false claims... remains to be seen if they go completely free of consequence or if "the market" will deal some memorable cards to at least some of the more widely viewed outlets like Fox. Right now Fox is doing essentially the same thing some GOP Congress members are doing, i.e. trying to hang onto Trump's base.

I find media perpetuation of the Big Lie about the 2020 election even more reprehensible than how the congressmen are behaving, since the Fourth Estate is what we have counted on to shine a light and provide robust defense against a tyrannical government. So what could seem more of a lackey to tyranny than a media outlet like Fox dedicating itself to Trump's fantasy of a perpetual occupancy of the American presidency?
 
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