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Not really sure what all of this "let's have a conversation" is supposed to mean. We're a republic because we're larger than a village and thus have too many people to make direct democracy work. So,

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80,000 dead Americans.  And climbing.  Encouraging armed yahoos to march on state capitols.  Lying repeatedly about the greatest crisis the world has experienced in generations.  All while continuing

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1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

Great Great grandparents came from mexico in 1931 and decided Abilene is where they should set up shop. Hate that damn town 

My dad's family came over during the revolution and settled in Southeast Texas. I was raised on a hatred of Pancho Villa.

 

 

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17 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Houston

 

 

i live about 3/4 of a mile from there

 

from a fellow heights anesthesia provider when i sent him that link:

“Yeah. That’s less than a mile from my place. There’s an earlier vid of all those people on the median across the street cuz the urgent care said they couldn’t line up before they were ready. As soon as they announced they were, everyone sprinted to get in line cuz they only have 150 tests. The charge RN said no gets wristbands until they acted civilized. This was end result. For a test that has a horrid success rate. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️“

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23 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

I mean...... 

 

At 66 years old, this should work out well for him.  I'm all for this, especially if they can lock him in a side room for House sessions and cut the sound when he's being a whiny, little bitch. 

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So, I used to do weird-ass loser shit like spend all my money on local businesses, because I give a damn about local businesses.

This last couple of months though, I have seen many local businesses that don't give a damn about me. Motherfuckers breathing all over each other, no distance, no mask, or mask hanging from lapel button, or maybe mask "chin strap" because, hey, the magic still works if the mask is within a foot of your face.

God damn motherfucking regard shit pea-brain fucking fucks pushing back the time I can go hug my old little mama. This is fucking personal.

We now avoid the grocery store one block away for ones that make an effort. Hell, we might become Chinamen because those dudes at the Asian market at least can slap on a mask without it meaning that they hate the Baby Jesus' Gun. I started ordering shit online all the time like some broke-dick HOA-dweller because, even if it comes from some Covid-coughing bastard 5 states away, well hell, that's still 5 states for it to cross and die out in before my dumb ass opens the box and breathes it in.

Goddammit fuck it all to hell. It doesn't matter who wins any election because we are dealing with a fucking personality defect among half the populace.

I am to the point where I will laugh if businesses I used to patronize go out of business. But they won't. What's going to happen is that everything will sort out into Masked Sheeple and Freedom Fries Chest Bump. And everybody will keep passing on this shit no matter what. We can't get as well organized as Italy. ITALY.

 

tldr: fuck you go back and read it because it's awesome.

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3 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

I mean...... 

 

then you might want to start wearing a mask now, Congressman.  I personally know someone who spends a lot of time out at the bars in Austin.  He probably has Covid-19.  And he  face-fucks your middle-daughter on the reg.   And she visits you and your absolutely horribly fugly wife, so you're probably walking dead.  So mask up and quit raising whores dipshit.  See you on the backside fuckface.

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3 minutes ago, Bartles said:

Some great lines in there but it absolutely fucking matters who wins a bunch of elections in November

It matters in lots of ways, but imagine if Covid had hit under Obama: the anti-maskers would have been Resisting The Imposition of Sharia Law or some shit. They'll use some other angle against Biden. Ain't nobody gonna change until they lose a shitload of their own money. Or maybe if Trump wins, gets it, and pukes his own guts out during a rally.

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God damnit, Hugo. Ya'll had Mardi Gras despite everyone else in the world knowing it was a terrible idea, and four weeks later every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day with people laughing and thumbing their noses at the virus. Nobody in Austin was out on St. Patrick's day because our bars were closed. 

Texas has handled it poorly but so did Louisiana. And you guys are spiking too. Fuck outta here with that.

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22 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Texas waited until the ICUs filled up before taking action.  Not even NYC did that shit.  I am so sorry Texas but the next month is going to be brutal.

 

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God damnit, Hugo. Ya'll had Mardi Gras despite everyone else in the world knowing it was a terrible idea, and four weeks later every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day with people laughing and thumbing their noses at the virus. Nobody in Austin was out on St. Patrick's day because our bars were closed. 

Texas has handled it poorly but so did Louisiana. And you guys are spiking too. Fuck outta here with that.

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......We now avoid the grocery store one block away for ones that make an effort. Hell, we might become Chinamen because those dudes at the Asian market at least can slap on a mask without it meaning that they hate the Baby Jesus' Gun. I started ordering shit online all the time like some broke-dick HOA-dweller because, even.....

 

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On 6/26/2020 at 6:41 AM, washparkhorn said:

It depends on how you define: "well-educated"

These are the same Texans who chortle at liberal arts degrees. They have no idea how to identify systemic issues in governance.

I graduated from UT with a liberal arts degree. Let’s be honest, the chortle is deserved.

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19 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

God damnit, Hugo. Ya'll had Mardi Gras despite everyone else in the world knowing it was a terrible idea, and four weeks later every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day with people laughing and thumbing their noses at the virus. Nobody in Austin was out on St. Patrick's day because our bars were closed. 

Texas has handled it poorly but so did Louisiana. And you guys are spiking too. Fuck outta here with that.

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It would probably be rude to say that our President was repeatedly saying there. is nothing at all to worry about in this timeframe.  So it's sort of hard to blame New Orleans in the same way .  As New Orleans is actually doing contact tracing, and taking your name if you go to a restaurant, and they absolutely saw a shit ton of cases early.  

Texas reopened KNOWING THE RISKS, much more than New Orleans did during Mardi Gras.  Though the President was saying "all is well, please reopen quickly because it's my only hope for reelection."  We shit the bed, for one reason- Governor's like Abbott parroted the Trump rejection of masks.  Thus insuring spread, that was easily preventable.  In essence we did not take the virus seriously, when we knew it was serious... because of Presidential politics primarily.

I wish this wasn't true, be nearly every Republican led state put politics ahead of science.  Urban areas and poor folks are still gonna take the brunt of the blow.  But there are going to be a LOT of dead Texas older white rural folks on the slabs starting in late July and August. This is the spike just the natural progression of a virus when leaders simply prefer to bend to politics rather than science.

 

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It would probably be rude to say that our President was repeatedly saying there. is nothing at all to worry about in this timeframe.  So it's sort of hard to blame New Orleans in the same way .  As New Orleans is actually doing contact tracing, and taking your name if you go to a restaurant, and they absolutely saw a shit ton of cases early.  

Texas reopened KNOWING THE RISKS, much more than New Orleans did during Mardi Gras.  Though the President was saying "all is well, please reopen quickly because it's my only hope for reelection."  We shit the bed, for one reason- Governor's like Abbott parroted the Trump rejection of masks.  Thus insuring spread, that was easily preventable.  In essence we did not take the virus seriously, when we knew it was serious... because of Presidential politics primarily.

I wish this wasn't true, be nearly every Republican led state put politics ahead of science.  Urban areas and poor folks are still gonna take the brunt of the blow.  But there are going to be a LOT of dead Texas older white rural folks on the slabs starting in late July and August. This is the spike just the natural progression of a virus when leaders simply prefer to bend to politics rather than science.

 

 

New Orleans had bars open in the middle of the initial spike, full well knowing the dangers. Long after Texas and most states had closed theirs.

I'm not at all being an apologist for Abbott. He is terrible and I've made my thoughts known about him here before. But Louisiana is the poster child for "how not to handle Covid". For all of the teeth-gnashing about NYC, Louisiana had bars 100% open for business on St. Patrick's Day, a full month into the pandemic. They may be the worst state in the country in terms of how they've handled the virus. Glass houses.

And NOLA is my favorite city in the world. I'm by no means a Louisiana hater. 

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Just in case you were worried about ICU capacity in Houston the Governor has helped alleviate the concerns. The hospital Systems for some mysterious reason now are not reporting the factual information. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-hospitals-hit-100-base-ICU-capacity-15372256.php

I guess it you don't count things and make things public you can pretend almost anything.  

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Friday morning, 24 hours after the four CEOs’ press conference, the TMC released no new data. After reporting 17 charts and graphs on most days for three months, the organization did not post from Thursday morning until Saturday at about 9 p.m.

When the charts re-appeared, eight of the 17 original slides had been deleted — including any reference to hospital capacity or projections of future capacity — and the lone remaining slide referencing the risks associated with shrinking capacity had been altered.

 

An “early warning” chart on Thursday reported base ICU capacity had reached 100 percent, and was marked with a red dot signifying a “warning.” On Saturday, the same chart no longer discussed ICU capacity but instead intensive care “census growth,” and was marked with an orange dot signifying “moderate concern.”

 

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2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Texas waited until the ICUs filled up before taking action.  Not even NYC did that shit.  I am so sorry Texas but the next month is going to be brutal.

TX vs LA talk not going away because we're not getting Texas vs LSU this year aside...

This is what scares me, honestly. Maybe the fact that the reported cases seem to be more among young people, the impact on hospitals won't be as severe as it was in NYC. But also, who knows given the limited extent of testing. The fact is people are still going to indoor, sit down restaurants right now as hospitals are getting stretched thin. We could weld everyone in their homes tonight and we'd still be seeing higher counts of new cases for a week or two. I don't know how this doesn't end with hospitals past capacity.

That was the one thing we all agreed was the thing we absolutely had to avoid and we're going to fuck it up because of state leadership's fealty to Trump. God damn.

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New Orleans had bars open in the middle of the initial spike, full well knowing the dangers. Long after Texas and most states had closed theirs.

I'm not at all being an apologist for Abbott. He is terrible and I've made my thoughts known about him here before. But Louisiana is the poster child for "how not to handle Covid". For all of the teeth-gnashing about NYC, Louisiana had bars 100% open for business on St. Patrick's Day, a full month into the pandemic. They may be the worst state in the country in terms of how they've handled the virus. Glass houses.

And NOLA is my favorite city in the world. I'm by no means a Louisiana hater. 

This take is wrong.   On March 17th all casinos, video poker establishments, movie theaters, bars, bowling alleys, and fitness centers and gyms, statewide, had been ordered to cease operations completely by the Governor.   Did someone violate the  law?  I'm sure.  I have an idiot friend who was at a block party.   But it is simply false to say that we were 100% open for business on St. Patrick's Day and after.   True, we have a Democrat who does not have to suck Trump dick to avoid a primary, so we have more leeway than the Texas political brain trust.  The worst state in the country in terms of how they've handled the virus?   Shit - I want what you're smoking.   You must not watch Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia or Florida   Or Texas.

Enjoy Abbott and Ghomert.    It's like your life depended on it.

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3 hours ago, BradInATX said:

God damnit, Hugo. Ya'll had Mardi Gras despite everyone else in the world knowing it was a terrible idea, and four weeks later every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day with people laughing and thumbing their noses at the virus. Nobody in Austin was out on St. Patrick's day because our bars were closed. 

Texas has handled it poorly but so did Louisiana. And you guys are spiking too. Fuck outta here with that.

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Out side of that cruise ship Trump did not want to take, the US had a total of 14 cases on Mardi Gras Tuesday.     Yeah, it was so fucking clear in the two weeks run up to Feb 25 that Covid was gonna be as big as it is.

"Every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day."  There you  go again.    Every St Paddy's day parade was cancelled. Every St Joseph's day parade was cancelled  Every block party at the usual places was cancelled.   Did idiots get together and drink?  Yes.   Was it legal to go to a bar on the 17th of March?  No.   What the news kept showing was the large crowd at Tracey's the Saturday before the 17th.   Tracey's is typically a part of the Irish Channel St. Patrick's Day Parade and Block Party.  The NOPD broke it up, btw. 

We are talking about governmental actions, not mouth breathers ignoring that action.

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Out side of that cruise ship Trump did not want to take, the US had a total of 14 cases on Mardi Gras Tuesday.     Yeah, it was so fucking clear in the two weeks run up to Feb 25 that Covid was gonna be as big as it is.

"Every bar in the city was packed on St. Patrick's day."  There you  go again.    Every St Paddy's day parade was cancelled. Every St Joseph's day parade was cancelled  Every block party at the usual places was cancelled.   Did idiots get together and drink?  Yes.   Was it legal to go to a bar on the 17th of March?  No.   What the news kept showing was the large crowd at Tracey's the Saturday before the 17th.   Tracey's is typically a part of the Irish Channel St. Patrick's Day Parade and Block Party.  The NOPD broke it up, btw. 

We are talking about governmental actions, not mouth breathers ignoring that action.

 

I had pictures texted to me from St. Patrick's day block parties in front of bars with people holding cups bearing the bars' branding. Two different places. 

I suppose the virus just somehow magically materialized in New Orleans citizens in rapidly increasing fashion leading to probably the 2nd biggest early spike in the country as they were all safely sitting on their couches at home?

Or maybe it was all of the block parties, bars defying orders (and not being enforced), and crawfish boils that people in Louisiana were having (laissez les bon temps rouler!) while everyone in Texas was sitting at home watching Netflix. 

If there is one state that doesn't get to point fingers at Texas, it's Louisiana. 

 

You should make sure your own house is in order before you go talking shit about other states:

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2 hours ago, BradInATX said:

 

I had pictures texted to me from St. Patrick's day block parties in front of bars with people holding cups bearing the bars' branding. Two different places. 

I suppose the virus just somehow magically materialized in New Orleans citizens in rapidly increasing fashion leading to probably the 2nd biggest early spike in the country as they were all safely sitting on their couches at home?

Or maybe it was all of the block parties, bars defying orders (and not being enforced), and crawfish boils that people in Louisiana were having (laissez les bon temps rouler!) while everyone in Texas was sitting at home watching Netflix. 

If there is one state that doesn't get to point fingers at Texas, it's Louisiana. 

 

You should make sure your own house is in order before you go talking shit about other states:

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Yeah but they have an excuse. They're Louisiana. This is what's expected of them. 

Texas should be better than this. But in the end Texas just has way too big a population of racist ignorant fuckheads. 

 

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My son attended a wedding for my Ex's family in suburban Houston. Surely they are taking this seriously?

A quick search through Facebook.

Indoor reception with the full dinner and dancing and people from all over the state. People in their 80s with plenty of comorbities. And tons of recent posts by attendees from inside resturants, the gym, and multiple parties with no social distancing. Oh and a post less than a week ago of Dan Crenshaw saying it's all a democrat hoax to hurt Greg Abbot.

Look forward to seeing my kid again in 14 days. Idiots.

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A little racist

 

When I put that in I had not read the previous page and seen that the thread was threatening to turn into a State vs State showdown.  I get it, but hopefully we all agree that if we had competent (and non-criminal) national leadership that the conversation would not be about a state to state comparison.

 

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