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  1. Unlike a lot of other places, New York is taking this seriously. I had to go to the grocery store Friday. I had avoided it, but Instacart wasn't able to deliver until later this week so I but the bullet. I dont have a mask, but I have a scarf, and something is better than nothing. Almost every shopper, and all the staff had a mask on, though not all were the N95s. For shoppers that didn't have masks, they did the scarf thing like I did (except for a young couple who didn't have anything). All the employees also had on gloves as did a lot of shoppers. Everyone was diligently maintaining distance. Yesterday morning, I took the dogs for a nice long walk. We headed west on 58th and walked up to Central Park. We then headed through the park to 72nd where we crossed to Madison and headed south. Then headed back east on 62nd to get home. It was a nice 3 mile walk. It was about 52 degrees and overcast, and it did rain on the last half of the walk, though not too bad. Here are the photos that show the lack of people. On a normal day, CP would be packed!
    26 points
  2. So I had a surreal first hand experience with the scary direction of where this could head, yesterday. My kids were playing in the front of our Galveston house and I look out at them and see four cop vehicles in front of my house. No one is down here hardly at all, so I’m like “WTF is going on?”. I go outside and the cops, keeping their distance, are talking to the kids and then see me and the first one up says “Sir, we’re going to have to ask you and your family to pack up and vacate the premises within the next 30 minutes. We’re here to ensure that you do that.” ”First, I’m going to need you to step off my property. “ ”Sir”. “Step off of my driveway right fucking now, please.” Cops back up into the street. “Now what is going on?” ”An ordinance was passed last night that requires all short term renters to leave the city and county immediately.” (I’m infuriated) “Well, that’s not happening. I own this property outright and have for years.” ”Sir, calm down.” ”You’ve shown up to my house to threaten to forcibly remove me in front of my little kids. Don’t tell me to calm down.” ”The city marshal sent us out here, we’re just doing our jobs. “ ”Well and good but you’ve got bad information. We live here.” ”How often do you live here?” ”That is none of your business and a further invasion of my privacy. The hell with it, here is my drivers license. Why don’t y’all call this in and get this shit straight.” They then do that and apologize profusely and leave. They acted like I had a rattlesnake when I walked towards them to hand them my license. Apparently, a busybody Karen down the street who lives here permanently decided that we were renters and needed to be tattled on. We’ve filed complaints regarding this bullshit to the POA and sent an email directly to the marshal himself asking for an explanation of what fucking evidence he thought he had to do something like that and literally said in the email, “pandemic or not, this isn’t nazi Germany and we have rights as private citizens. “ Fucking bullshit. Meanwhile, hotels and RV parks remained fucking open until enough complaints went in last night and now they’re closing all of those. I also saw a fucking story from KHOU today showing people how they can anonymously rat on businesses for being open that they think shouldn’t be. If this is where we’re headed, people won’t tolerate it en masse more sooner than later and we’ll throw the whole premise of sheltering in place out the window and take our fucking chances. I’d rather die heaving on a hospital floor than live under a police state where the next door neighbor can have you thrown in jail on a whim. Sorry for the rant.
    23 points
  3. Had a bunch of quarantine Wild Turkey 101. Got a late night hunger pang. Made sloppy joes for the family for dinner tonight. Smoked a pork butt two days ago. Here is pulled pork and sloppy joes on a hot dog bun.
    17 points
  4. This one hits very close to home. He is literally the first person I know IRL to get the diagnosis. He and my dad go way back -- when I was about 8, John stashed his black Cadillac in dad's driveway so his soon-to-be-ex wouldn't get her hands on it in the divorce. So there for a little while, John Prine's black Cadillac was my play fort. I didn't have a clue who he was at the time and it wouldn't have impressed me if I did. Dad hung around lots of songwriters and I had a front row seat for living room concerts by Townes, Guy, and Steve Earle, who was like my big brother for a couple of years circa 1976. But then years later I got turned on to Prine as an adult and man...you can't teach or learn the gifts that he has. He was just born with a rare talent and such a wise and warm sensibility. Time and time again, I've puzzled over the lines of his songs, wondering how the hell he thought of them, or who were his influences...Where does this stuff come from, John? He once told me he idolized Roger Miller, and that makes sense, but he took his songs beyond Roger's, and that's no slight to Roger.
    15 points
  5. I think we'd rebound nicely in the Rodman administration.
    15 points
  6. if you want to forget about the covid for 4 minutes, check out the honey badger who really absolutely positively gives negative fucks:
    14 points
  7. Plus, he's somehow amazingly involved in surgery/healthcare. I wouldn't want him anywhere near me during any kind of medical procedure. Nurse: "Doctor Johnson, just FYI, the patient's heart rate dropped very slightly." Greenspoint, over the Dr's shoulder: "Ballgame. He's a goner. Let's call it."
    13 points
  8. Ravioli is done. It's not the easist pasta to make. I know a lot now about it that I didn't know before. I did end up with a brown butter and herb sauce on top. The flavors were spot on. I just need to work on my ravioli making skills a bit.
    11 points
  9. France officially recognizes chloroquine as treatment... sounds like some good news! Debate Ends Over Chloroquine as France Officially Sanctions Usage "Days after beginning a large scale double blinded trial, the so called gold standard, France has now reached the conclusion chloroquine is recommended to treat corona. Speaking at a news conference, Jérôme Salomon (pictured), France’s director general of health, said the officially sanctioned prescriptions of chloroquine to treat corona “allows a temporary authorization to allow certain patients with coronavirus to benefit from this therapeutic route.” Doctors in France now will finally be able to treat patients with Didier Raoult, a renown doctor that specializes in infectious diseases, announcing new clinical results that show out of 80 patients treated with chloroquine, 78 recovered within 5 days." https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/debate-ends-over-chloroquine-as-france-officially-sanctions-usage
    11 points
  10. My family thought I was crazy for returning to South Korea during the height of the outbreak here. When my first flight got canceled back, they thought I would stay in the USA until this whole thing blew over. Instead, I hopped on a plane back to SK the next day. My reasoning was that it would hit America much harder than SK eventually. First, America's president and administration are a bunch of frothing morons who were not preparing or taking things seriously at the time (the end of February). While SK at that time was massively testing and implementing measures to slow the spread of the outbreak there. Second, SK has universal health care and the USA doesn't, so in SK people, when they get an inkling of any kind of illness, they head to the doctor so cases would get found out quicker and are isolated, compared to the USA where many people avoid going to the doctor unless they are very sick just due to cost, even when they have health coverage. Third, Koreans are group oriented, which has drawbacks at times, but in this case is a huge positive because they do things to protect the group like wearing masks to protect others, easily accepted social distancing, and they are cleaner than Americans, in general, so hand washing/sanitizing is easier to implement. Whereas, many Americans hate being told what to do or having their movement restricted, even to help themselves and others. Throw in that the average Korean is in better health than the average American and their medical system was less likely to be overwhelmed due to less people having complications that make COVID-19 more deadly. The people here have handled it much better than Americans. No runs on supplies. Stores have masks and sanitizer for sale. Stores still have everything they always had here, including TP, just there are less people out on the streets running around as people stay home as much as possible. And when they go out most are wearing masks. I could still get it (we all very likely will be exposed to it sooner or later before a vaccine or cure is developed), and possibly die here. But at least I know I will be tested, cared for, and at the end ventilated, if it comes to that. Hope you and yours remain healthy and avoid the worst of this pandemic. Take care and good luck..
    9 points
  11. 9 points
  12. Just had a positive thought that hadn’t occurred to me: the next season of South Park will be pure gold.
    9 points
  13. Self-appointed HOA presidents Self-appointed playground monitors who call CPS if a kid is at the park or riding a bike down the street, that they think is too young to be there without a parent (Stranger Things would make them shit a brick) People who don’t like kids playing in their own yards when mommy or daddy aren’t hovering. May not rate a call to CPS, but it might. Responsible for a lot of Nextdoor drama Self-appointed thread police People who shit all over underworked and underpaid employees at a store, for decisions made by six-figure/millionaire executives who work in a completely different state People who think they are important enough to rate talking to the manager when an employee gives them a corporate answer they don’t like. Ties into the above. There’s some overlap with Beckys, but this might help you out
    9 points
  14. Huh. I wonder who he could possibly be talking about.
    9 points
  15. Madame Guillotine was created for situations like this.
    9 points
  16. As much as we have all watched Trump be a jackass, it is still hard fully digest that he just had a press conference where he ordered the VP not to return calls to state leaders who are desperately reaching out for help. Help that could directly save lives of Americans and help that they shouldn't have to publicly ask for. I mean what the living fuck man, what the fuck!?!!!?
    9 points
  17. If we had actual leadership at the national level, we wouldn't have to be thinking in the abstract to solve things in individual states. What we should have is a clear and concise message supported by facts and science coming from the president and his administration. Instead what we have is a petulant child who goes on babbling rants spewing falsehoods and conjecture. And all the while insulting the state leaders he should be working the closest with. I mean what an opportunity he had to genuinely help people and bring this country closer together. He had the opportunity to make the over half of this country that doesn't like him actually like him. But instead he is just as divisive and insulting as always. He is incapable of any other way. It's not in him. He is a good bullshitter, which his base loves, and a terribly awful leader. Keep thinking in the abstract and being solution oriented because it's got to come from somewhere.
    9 points
  18. This was referenced upthread by @MNLonghornFUKM, but now it's been finalized. US deaths way down today (by about 50%). Hopefully, this is the start of a flattening.
    8 points
  19. It's almost like you've never seen him post on game threads. Go pick a game where we were behind early and look for some posts from him.
    8 points
  20. You are cut off from making predictions dude. Pretty sure you were expecting more than 10K deaths per day and a complete breakdown of society by now.
    8 points
  21. Shoot this fucker into the sun in November. No whisky, no hash browns. Rocket. Into. Sun.
    8 points
  22. I had to run to the pet store to get some food for the animals. Kid walks in with a full Spiderman outfit on. I was like, respect.
    8 points
  23. 8 points
  24. Anyone in government making decisions regarding distribution of emergency supplies based on political leanings needs a bullet in their head.
    8 points
  25. 8 points
  26. brief update from down unda. say day 16 i think. was trucking along and healing i thought but went downhill 2 days ago, and then last night was awful. after about 4 days of no symptoms i ended up having the worse breathing night of this whole ordeal. without any understanding of what "call the amberlamps" level bad was too feel like - i just sat here lost and really freaked out. too some sedatives to try and druged myself to sleep. finally happened at like 5AM. Wife is mayb 90% now, and doing better than me. i'll take it. had a tele-doc today and got some antibiotics. the thinking that i am likely over the virus but now have an infection my lungs. like way at the bottom. the feeling is different now (than say last week) so i am hoping i guess that is right. and the ABs starting kicking in. fuck me. i did ok for the first week or and held my own but this last round of hard breathing is wearing me out man. it is a fucking shitty feeling to sit there feeling like you can't get enough O2. ya'll hang in there. me too. a happy immune system to you all
    8 points
  27. If your daughter is dating a guy that can't afford an RV park, she needs to look harder.
    8 points
  28. Bragging about the ratings of his news conferences during a global pandemic. It's been said a bunch, but if he were the villain in a movie, he would be too cartoonish to take seriously and would ruin the movie.
    7 points
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