OT: Coronavirus

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Just got back from the grocery store, brought a mask, just in case, and most folk were wearing them.  Funny the power of peer group pressure, not sure if I would have done it if I was the only one in the store.  But I know it's the right thing to do.

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@Hidalgo said:
One of (probably several of) the local churches is planning an Easter egg hunt Sunday for the kids

I am not surprised. Sad but true several churches are gathering saying that the government is denying their religious freedom. No one is denying religious freedom, the focus is on keeping people safe. Any religious organization that puts their parishioners at risk is not helping anyone. My mom's church makes DVDs and CDs of sermons and they have online services and tv services as well. More churches should utilize technology to help their parishioners at this time. 

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@A1Janitor said:

@JimmyinSD said:

@bigbone62 said:

@JimmyinSD said:

@bigbone62 said:

@JimmyinSD said:

@bigbone62 said:

@mblack said:

@A1Janitor said:
Apparently Trump’s friends ... Kraft and the owner of the Brooklyn Nets ... stepped up.

Some of the owners are paying all of
their workers.

And baseball announced players will receive their checks.  I have seen several who are donating their checks to help.

Pretty cool how some of these people are helping. 

On twitter I saw Sharyl Attkinson gave away 1,000 to the first 100 people that emailed her.  Great idea - cool if it went viral.  

At the bold... I could not help notice. Some can't make a post without tying it to the "almighty" Trump. I wonder how the bold is related to the gesture. I bet in some twisted reasoning baked in someone's brain Kraft and co are doing it because of their "friendship" with Trump. The post is even qualified with the word "apparently".

For such a delicate snowflake constantly triggered and whining about leaving politics out of this he/she/them/they sure do bring up politics a whole lot.

you must be confused,  I am the snowflake that is asking posters to keep the fucking politics off this board.   A1 is one of those that has no issue with injecting politics on any forum.

Not sure the confusion but neither myself or the post I quoted mentioned you. We were both talking about A1.

just that I dont see him asking to not talk politics on this board,  i think if it was up to A1 there wouldnt be separate boards or rules prohibiting it in this forum.

He doesn't ask to not talk politics as long as it is politics that align with his. But when comments dont align with his he frequently calls out mods and posters for talking politics, what he perceives as talking politics or when mods "like" when someone posts something he perceives political. And mocks them by saying to keep politics out of this. 

well i guess we all have our quirks...

It is also bullshit.  Jimmy - you are the mod.  When have I ever called out politics or objected to political discussions?!?

Maybe I call out personal attacks against other posters AFTER I am accused of that.

Weird because on 03/31 you called out Jimmy for liking a post that I made which triggered you. Even though it wasn't  a political post. You are looking for fights, and it is painfully obvious.  Hence you being triggered by my none political post and you adding silly things like Robert Kraft being Trumps pal to comments. 

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But the numbers we see could have been prevented had our country had its shit together.

How so?  It seems like we have done fairly well.  It looks like the bed situation was just fine.

What should have happened was China shouldn’t have lied and WHO should have done their jobs.  

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Has anyone from the board actually been tested? 

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@"BarrNone55" said:
Has anyone from the board actually been tested? 

I don’t know anyone who has been.

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Nope, wifey and I, were both symptomatic, mid March after a trip to DC a couple weeks earlier.  They were only testing those they were going to put on ventilators, is what we were told.  State, Iowa, had less than 600 test available and less capacity to process them.

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@"BarrNone55" said:
Has anyone from the board actually been tested? 

we have had 2 confirmed cases,   Zanary and Havoc both have been through the protocol from what I have read.

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@Ilovebigtd's said:
i blame this all on trump for his lack of readiness/being prepared. awful. 

I hope you’re joking. China is 100% responsible. The WHO isn’t clean either. Even up to mid January the WHO was telling us there was no evidence there was human to human transmission. The US did not dawdle on this as much as sick people want that to be the case. 
As for preparedness, that’s a topic much of the media doesn’t really want to touch: 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/los-angeles-times-and-bloomberg-news-federal-stockpile-of-n95-masks-was-depleted-under-obama-and-never-restocked

The one “saving grace” for avoiding complete blame for the abomination that was our massive shortage of supplies, is that not much had happened the past couple of years either. I couldn’t even find evidence the admin had noticed how low the stockpile was. I don’t think they had a clue until it was needed. 
Plenty of blame to go around, but there is no question there’s a primary group of people responsible. They happen to be the exact same people on tv the past couple of months trying to obfuscate their utter failure. For instance citing a NSC group that was “fired”. It’s not actually true of course. The duties remained, there was simply a shifting of responsibilities and some title changes. 
The stockpile was Heavily depleted back in 2009 and most of the public hasn’t a clue. The sheer power of our media to set the narrative is incredible. In my opinion, partisanship will ultimately be our downfall.

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@Havoc1649 said:

@Ilovebigtd's said:
i blame this all on trump for his lack of readiness/being prepared. awful. 

I hope you’re joking. China is 100% responsible. The WHO isn’t clean either. Even up to mid January the WHO was telling us there was no evidence there was human to human transmission. The US did not dawdle on this as much as sick people want that to be the case. 
As for preparedness, that’s a topic much of the media doesn’t really want to touch: 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/los-angeles-times-and-bloomberg-news-federal-stockpile-of-n95-masks-was-depleted-under-obama-and-never-restocked

The one “saving grace” for avoiding complete blame for the abomination that was our massive shortage of supplies, is that not much had happened the past couple of years either. I couldn’t even find evidence the admin had noticed how low the stockpile was. I don’t think they had a clue until it was needed. 
Plenty of blame to go around, but there is no question there’s a primary group of people responsible. They happen to be the exact same people on tv the past couple of months trying to obfuscate their utter failure. For instance citing a NSC group that was “fired”. It’s not actually true of course. The duties remained, there was simply a shifting of responsibilities and some title changes. 
The stockpile was Heavily depleted back in 2009 and most of the public hasn’t a clue. The sheer power of our media to set the narrative is incredible. In my opinion, partisanship will ultimately be our downfall.

Do you have it?