Look at the bright side: somehow FL is not one of the leading COVID states this week. Depending on which state Sis is from, she may be going someplace safer than home. 
But if so, she’s part of the horde importing extra COVID into FL. As a FL resident myself, it seems we’re determined to regain our number one spot even if we have to cheat using outsiders.
The new FL state motto:
We’re number one! We’re number dumb! We’re number one! We’re number dumb!
Man refuses to wear mask in hotel.
Hotel employee comes over and tries to get him to wear a mask.
Man spits on hotel employee.
Hotel employee has heart attack and is in ICU.
Man charged with assault.
A meme an acauaintance shared on social media:
"It’s hard to imagine a more sanctimonious, sneering, and just plain stupid reaction to Americans having a family dinner:
[Washington Post headline] “World watches with dread, disbelief, as Americans gather for Thanksgiving.”
Because yes, it’s stupid to be appalled by people so stupid they regard disease-spreading events as “a family dinner.”
You want to know why this pandemic won’t quit? It’s because of Covidiots like these.
In the Adelaide area of South Australia, they’ve been having an outbreak - not too bad yet, around 30-ish people contracting COVID.
Then some nitwit breaks quarantine to visit several stores.
A large number of South Australians are being urged to get a coronavirus test — even if they do not have symptoms — in the wake of an infected man leaving quarantine and visiting several shops and businesses in Adelaide last Sunday.
The man, aged in his 30s, is believed to have caught the virus as a casual contact at the Intensive English Language Institute (IELI) at Flinders University.
SA Health said people who on Sunday, November 22, were at Big W Brickworks between 12:15pm and 12:50pm, Foodland at Norwood between 1:20pm and 2:00pm, and Kmart at Kurralta Park between 2:45pm and 3:00pm should urgently get a COVID-19 test.
Big W is the Australian equivalent of Wal-Mart, Foodland is a large grocery store chain, and KMart is still a going concern here. Basically, the guy picked just about the worst shops to visit. There are worse places for him to have been, but this is not good.
Update: Shopper who tested positive for coronavirus was not told to quarantine, SA Health now says.
Authorities now say a man who attended several shops before testing positive for coronavirus did not breach quarantine, as he was a casual contact and not under a quarantine order.
So, the guy was not in the wrong - I withdraw the covidiot label, at least for him.
Anyway, that cluster remains at 33, and there are no new cases in South Australia, at least today.
I’m not sure who the rolleyes is aimed at. The guy? By the way, your sequence is slightly off. He spat on the employee, they called the police, he was arrested - they are looking at assault charges, but haven’t laid them yet - and then the lady had her heart attack. The arrest was not related to the heart attack, but to the act of spitting.
And I say good. Charge that fucker with anything you can dream up.
Two passengers on the transport van taking me to dialysis today. One was not wearing a mask at all and eating and coughing. The other was wearing his like a chin diaper. They were both talking and spewing droplets everywhere. This was in spite of a clearly stated mask policy and a sign at the front of the van. The driver apparently made no effort to enforce the policy. The company’s policy says that drivers can deny rides to anyone who is not wearing a mask.
I didn’t make a big deal out of it at the time. I’m lousy at confrontation and the two people were far enough away and not facing me, fortunately. When I got to dialysis, I called the company to complain. The dispatcher took my information and said they would speak to the driver.
I keep seeing those silly plastic sneeze-guard masks, the ones with a strip of clear plastic about 3 inches [7.5 cm] tall jutting out from the chin at least an inch from their face. They provide little protection to anyone because they are completely open. “See, I’m wearing a mask.” Some of those people seem incredibly smug.
Did you ever play the “I’m not touching you” game in the back seat of the family car with a sibling? Best enjoyed during a long road trip? You look up front of the 1968 Ford Galaxy to see that one vein in your dad’s forehead throbbing? Your mom tries to get your sibling to stop, to no avail?
The stupidvisor people are the “I’m not touching you” instigators.
I live in the land of covidiots and freedumb. Here is a published article on an entire town and area of covidiots:
QFT.
With all of the crazy things that have been out of stock, it seem every time I go to the store I have to adapt on the fly because the store is missing items.
I know it’s a pandemic and unusual circumstances but unless the driver is the shift supervisor, it is the manager’s job to enforce policies - not a peer.
That’s why I didn’t complain to the driver and kicked it up the food chain.
My point was that the manager should have dealt with the guys rather than bumping it down to the driver.
This starts elsewhere, but ends up at Covid.
My parents are infirm and have a constant series of home health aides at their home. In addition to the reformed addict who’s presence always corresponded to missing medicine, and the one who didn’t believe Mom was a fall risk (and let her hit the floor twice in her first and only day at their house) they got the following:
After watching a handyman repair a bunch of buried PVC pipe, the aide asked what all the white tubes were. Dad replied it was part of their irrigation system. Her response was to ask what “irrigation” meant. Next their meal conversation turned to the upcoming vaccine. Since she was a health worker, dad asked her when she could get the vaccine. She replied there was no way she’d get it, as it was very dangerous. Dad asked why, her reply was that everyone knows it’s dangerous, you can read it on Facebook.
And how would the manager do that? Pay those people a visit at home? They were off the van before I got to call. For better or worse, all they can do is to advise the driver to enforce the mask policy or not let the people ride without a mask. The manager can’t realistically deal directly with the passengers. The driver is right there, the manager is in some remote office.
Oh OK. For some reason I thought the others in back were employees like on an ambulance. Am I allowed the excuse that I posted before coffee?
Others in back? There are just passengers and a driver. It’s not an ambulance, it’s like the city bus company, except you schedule the van to pick you up at your door if you’re unable to physically get to a bus stop.
About a month ago, my wife, 2 of my daughters, sister, and granddaughter drove to Lafayette for a family wedding. I wasn’t feeling too sparky that day but trudged on, By the time we left the wedding, I knew something was up. Monday I went to the doc and got tested. Positive. By Thursday everyone in the car had tested positive, save my granddaughter. I was basically it over by Monday. My wife and one of my daughters and sister were almost asymptomatic. One daughter had a rougher go of it. She ran a high fever for several days. My symptoms were mostly achiness and shortness of breath.