Strangemover wrote:
Fair enough 👍 It is difficult to avoid but that one was pretty flippant and unnecessary, my bad.
P.S. I didn't mean to single you out, by the way, I just quoted the last mod edit for expediency.
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Apr 11, 2020
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#403
No danger. Back to matters at hand, there have been several instances in the last few days in the UK of police apologising for instances where members of the public outside their homes have been dealt with unreasonably. The issue of enforcing the lockdown is quite muddled and I sympathise somewhat with police officers dealing with these unprecedented circumstances face to face. The UK lockdown period officially ends on Thursday but of course is likely to be extended further as people continue to die.
Strangemover wrote:
No danger. Back to matters at hand, there have been several instances in the last few days in the UK of police apologising for instances where members of the public outside their homes have been dealt with unreasonably. The issue of enforcing the lockdown is quite muddled and I sympathise somewhat with police officers dealing with these unprecedented circumstances face to face. The UK lockdown period officially ends on Thursday but of course is likely to be extended further as people continue to die.
Same things here. One item of note happening is that gardeners and landscapers are supposed to be locked down as non-essential, but lots of them are still operating and hoping they don't get fined. On NextDoor arguments are raging between people that think people that report this to the police are f'ed up and those that think that letting this go when those workers, even if socially distanced and masked, are making food and gas stops etc. is irresponsible.
There's a group of local people here who are packing up their kids and driving around all around the neighborhood every few days honking their horns with "We Luv U" signs on their SUVs. They don't get out of their vehicles, but of course this also divides opinion on whether it's a smart course of action.
Apr 11, 2020
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#405
I think people are behaving as they see fit on an individual level to a large extent. A personal example, at my local petrol station plastic panels have been erected in front of the 2 cash registers to reduce/eliminate contact between workers and customers. On the first occasion I went in there I was told to hold my items up to be scanned through the plastic. On the second the cashier simply reached around and picked up my items to scan. Some places are operating with gloves at all times, others not. I ordered a Dominos pizza earlier, the guy came in gloves and mask and left the food outside my door. I am working delivering food from a farm shop and am provided with gloves but no mask.
Strangemover wrote:
I think people are behaving as they see fit on an individual level to a large extent. A personal example, at my local petrol station plastic panels have been erected in front of the 2 cash registers to reduce/eliminate contact between workers and customers. On the first occasion I went in there I was told to hold my items up to be scanned through the plastic. On the second the cashier simply reached around and picked up my items to scan. Some places are operating with gloves at all times, others not. I ordered a Dominos pizza earlier, the guy came in gloves and mask and left the food outside my door. I am working delivering food from a farm shop and am provided with gloves but no mask.
I was just on a zoom call that included my cousin in Barcelona, and the restrictions there are no joke. Her upstairs neighbors have it, her downstairs neighbors have it, and another couple in the building they knew had it is no longer responding to calls, so they are assuming they both were taken to the hospital at some point. She's been stopped by the police after taking out her garbage, while walking 50 yards back to the apartment without her garbage bag. There's no food or supply deliveries, etc. They want to switch to cloth diapers for their new baby, but they have no way of getting them even if they could locate some, etc.
Cut to my US cousins from the west coast and Chicago...they are lamenting only having 30 rolls of TP in reserve, not having bought hand sanitizer in time, eating pizza delivery because they "don't trust" ethnic restaurants' procedures, etc. while laughing and opening bottles of wine 
. It's kind of surreal in juxtaposition.
The US is really on "shelter lite" right now. It really takes seeing a host of people in a person's local area infected and sick to actually get people to pay attention. Right now most people, even those observing restrictions, don't really seem to feel like there is much risk at all.
btickler wrote:
Quasimorphy wrote:
Ecuador not Equador in the earlier post. I can't believe no one raked me over the coals for that slip. LOL
It's like I was saying on the old thread...I think spelling and grammar nazis gave up about a decade ago, because, you know, irregardless and for all intensive purposes people nowadays are going to spell how they want to, and its not like you're first option is to reconstitute Marshall Law or something...
I'm a pedant myself and IRREGARDLESS is not a word...although it is in my vocabulary.
Germany gets alot of stick especially from those opposed to the european union , but to me their efforts in offering hospital spaces , and also there testing for virus is how we all as countries should be tackling this by co operating as this virus attacks all regardless of nationality
Apr 11, 2020
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#409
ATV-STEVE wrote:
btickler wrote:
Quasimorphy wrote:
Ecuador not Equador in the earlier post. I can't believe no one raked me over the coals for that slip. LOL
It's like I was saying on the old thread...I think spelling and grammar nazis gave up about a decade ago, because, you know, irregardless and for all intensive purposes people nowadays are going to spell how they want to, and its not like you're first option is to reconstitute Marshall Law or something...
I'm a pedant myself and IRREGARDLESS is not a word...although it is in my vocabulary.
I hope that's not all that you found wrong with that paragraph, which btw, was obviously tongue in cheek... :-)
ATV-STEVE wrote:
btickler wrote:
Quasimorphy wrote:
Ecuador not Equador in the earlier post. I can't believe no one raked me over the coals for that slip. LOL
It's like I was saying on the old thread...I think spelling and grammar nazis gave up about a decade ago, because, you know, irregardless(1) and for all intensive purposes(2) people nowadays are going to spell how they want to, and its(3) not like you're(4) first option is to reconstitute(5) Marshall Law(6) or something...
I'm a pedant myself and IRREGARDLESS is not a word...although it is in my vocabulary.
Pedant, perhaps...but if you were a true grammar nazi, you'd have caught the other 5 intentional problems I put in my not-so-subtle sarcasm-infused post. I highlighted them in red for you.
Edit: Escher beat me to it...
It’s very dangerous in America now :(
Apr 11, 2020
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#412
TonyBenBen wrote:
It’s very dangerous in America now :(
I can't really argue with that statement...
And I am in America
TonyBenBen wrote:
And I am in America
I've skimmed your previous body of posts, and I'm letting you know in advance that you're already 2/3rds of the way to a preemptive block .
Show that you are capable of something more erudite than throwaway one-liners.
Yeah, I was gonna give you, Etude, & Hessian Warrior a heads up about that.
btickler wrote:
ATV-STEVE wrote:
btickler wrote:
Quasimorphy wrote:
Ecuador not Equador in the earlier post. I can't believe no one raked me over the coals for that slip. LOL
It's like I was saying on the old thread...I think spelling and grammar nazis gave up about a decade ago, because, you know, irregardless(1) and for all intensive purposes(2) people nowadays are going to spell how they want to, and its(3) not like you're(4) first option is to reconstitute(5) Marshall Law(6) or something...
I'm a pedant myself and IRREGARDLESS is not a word...although it is in my vocabulary.
Pedant, perhaps...but if you were a true grammar nazi, you'd have caught the other 5 intentional problems I put in my not-so-subtle sarcasm-infused post. I highlighted them in red for you.
Edit: Escher beat me to it...
Most things like that don't bother me(unless I'm the one making the error), but Marshall Law always gets to me.
Apr 11, 2020
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#417
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-ravages-storied-orleans-mardi-120802534.html
Coronavirus ravages storied New Orleans Mardi Gras group
Apr 11, 2020
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#418
btickler a écrit :
Strangemover wrote:
I think people are behaving as they see fit on an individual level to a large extent. A personal example, at my local petrol station plastic panels have been erected in front of the 2 cash registers to reduce/eliminate contact between workers and customers. On the first occasion I went in there I was told to hold my items up to be scanned through the plastic. On the second the cashier simply reached around and picked up my items to scan. Some places are operating with gloves at all times, others not. I ordered a Dominos pizza earlier, the guy came in gloves and mask and left the food outside my door. I am working delivering food from a farm shop and am provided with gloves but no mask.
I was just on a zoom call that included my cousin in Barcelona, and the restrictions there are no joke. Her upstairs neighbors have it, her downstairs neighbors have it, and another couple in the building they knew had it is no longer responding to calls, so they are assuming they both were taken to the hospital at some point. She's been stopped by the police after taking out her garbage, while walking 50 yards back to the apartment without her garbage bag. There's no food or supply deliveries, etc. They want to switch to cloth diapers for their new baby, but they have no way of getting them even if they could locate some, etc.
Cut to my US cousins from the west coast and Chicago...they are lamenting only having 30 rolls of TP in reserve, not having bought hand sanitizer in time, eating pizza delivery because they "don't trust" ethnic restaurants' procedures, etc. while laughing and opening bottles of wine . It's kind of surreal in juxtaposition.
The US is really on "shelter lite" right now. It really takes seeing a host of people in a person's local area infected and sick to actually get people to pay attention. Right now most people, even those observing restrictions, don't really seem to feel like there is much risk at all.
In the US only .7% were tested...and they are in many places 2 weeks behind Spain....
In 3 weeks in the usa it will be very bad in a lot of places...
On Thursday, April 9, Italy reported 4,204 new cases and 610 deaths, both figures on par with recent days.
Meanwhile, the U.S. reported 32,385 new cases and 1,783 on the same day.
When will life return to normal? Expert says US testing is too far behind to know.
IRREGARDLESS
they say it is. its just kinda oafy. its reirregardless that probably isnt...as fun is it is to say.
Apr 11, 2020
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#420
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVAnaHxHbM
Fair enough 👍 It is difficult to avoid but that one was pretty flippant and unnecessary, my bad.