Neighbors are just talking for now. Maybe they were dissuaded when I started at them like they grew another head.
Our private community pool is seriously having a meeting to decide whether to re-open and resume the keg parties and kids swim team. Insanity.
I get cabin fever, honestly I do, but I have no sympathy for people who were militant about social distancing and then abruptly change tunes when you dangle a margarita in front of their noses. The numbers are the numbers.
Having meetings and letting people be heard is the best way to get accurate information to people who, even now, aren’t really paying attention to the news.
Cruise lines are getting ready to set sail on 1 July! Whoopee! All aboard the SS Pestilence!
Hope there is an expanded sick bay and room in the hold for a refrigerated morgue!
~VOW
Went to the store the other night and there were so many people wearing their masks wrong. One employee had uncovered not only his nose, but his mouth. Mask isn’t going to do you much good if it’s only covering your beard. :smack:
Depends on the beard, though, doesn’t it? 
I’ve gotta say, I’ve never used curbside pickup before but my 2 experiences thus far have not been good. One, I had to pick a date like 3 days in the future, a 1 hour window. 5 minutes before my window, as I was on the way to the store, I started getting texts from Pam, my “personal shopper.” Apparently the store contracts curbside pickup through Shipt. She was helpful and I had no real beef with my service, but despite having 3 days of advanced warning my order wasn’t actually ready to go prior to my appointment window and I had to respond to text message at red lights on my way there.
Second experience yesterday, with a full day of lead time and 4 hours after I got the “your order is ready!” notification, I sat in the parking lot for 45 minutes while they picked my order. Meanwhile, yeah, I’m watching people go in and out of the store the whole time. I had to interact with 3 employees and it took about twice as long as if I’d just gone in, picked my own items, and interacted with 1 employee.
What’s the benefit here? I can appreciate that stores that never did big business in online orders are suddenly getting hammered with them, but it’s not like ordering a pizza yet.
I just had someone walk into my business with a mask around their neck. She tried to argue that the state requires you to wear a mask but doesn’t specify how you wear it. I told her to GTFO. She said she was claustrophobic and couldn’t wear a mask. I told her I would call the police if she didn’t put her mask on or leave. She left.
This shit is getting old.
They learned a lot in skool. 
Be thankful that she didn’t send her husband and son back to shoot you.
Yeah, it could happen. I’ve only had a couple people complain about having to wear a mask. One guy called me a socialist for cooperating with the state.!?
I had an idea for a mask and was checking redbubble to see if it was already done.
Searching “constitution” on redbubble is depressing. Including the mask that said “this is what tyranny looks like”
Saw some guys today riding motorcycles. They were wearing their Covid masks… but no helmets.
We humans are really, really bad at this risk assessment thing.
My wife has been doing telemedicine as well, and she had one guy with no shirt (note, his complaint was not a rash or anything dermatologic and even if it were you don’t do the entire visit half naked), and she had one guy just crack open a beer in the middle of the visit. I think a good rule of thumb is that if you wouldn’t do it at the doctor’s office, please don’t think it’s okay via telemedicine.
Risked being dismissed from one of my part time jobs by complaining about the latest antivaxxer tool that also launches harebrained accusations against Dr Fauci.
That propaganda piece was so bad even YouTube removed it, not before catching many unawares in the wild and in my workplace. Why it is that they do not think about upsetting a captive audience in an open office with their cellphones at full audio, and they end up complaining to the person that knows already about the poison being served and just wants to continue doing his job?
Anyhow, the “friends” of management that came wanted to discredit Dr Fauci so as to help President Trump “see the light” :rolleyes:
Wasn’t sure what thread this should be in. I was watching a news show about opening up the beaches and they were making the point that while distancing can work on the beach, the real problem is the restrooms. Now this is a good point in that social distancing is more difficult in public restrooms. However, we are talking about the beach here. I can’t be the only one who thinks “just pee in the ocean”? Don’t worry, I am not a beach person so your oceans are safe. You will only be dealing with fish pee.
Take a look at reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/ for some covidiot experience.
What’s the deal with people driving, alone and masked?
They’re driving from one store to another, and they don’t want to take off their mask in between? It’s probably not that bad an idea
Once you put your mask on, you really shouldn’t be taking it off until you are back home and have a chance to sterilize/wash it. If you do have covid, then it will quickly accumulate the virus on the outside of the mask. (This is why the advice for so long was not to bother with them as when they sampled the outside of the mask, they were able to grow the virus in petri dishes.) Every doff and don after you’ve been breathing through it increases the likelihood that you will get the virus on your hands and spread it to anything you touch.
I’m on the board of my HOA and we need to meet to decide what to do about the pools. I’m going to recommend closing them for this season. I think it’s actually a little bit of a silver lining, as we need major repairs and wouldn’t be able to open for the full summer anyway. Now we have a good excuse.
I’m also going to recommend that we give each homeowner a small rebate against their HOA fees since we won’t have the pool. Especially since I found out that our HOA is really good with budgeting and has a reserve fund of several years worth of dues.
We were supposed to have a phone or video meeting today, the details weren’t ironed out. Because one member says that phone meetings aren’t “convenient“ for him and he wants to know why we can’t just meet at the clubhouse.
WTF? It is a small group but still…how in the f can a phone meeting be LESS convenient than an in person meeting? I’m tempted to tell the guy to go to the clubhouse and we’ll all call him while he’s there.
It also makes me think that the 2020 pool closure, which was a no-brained to me, may meet with some opposition.