How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Fionalein]

You get enough people together to have the same nutty thoughts then Evangelicalism happens. It's why I enjoy paganism. There is no unified nuttiness.

... there was this thing in Germany in the 30s...

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Well worth it.

Oh, it was. I had no regrets.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Oh, it was. I had no regrets.

Spoiler: English translation, but you don't really need one

No, absolutely nothing
No, I regret nothing
Not the good that has been given
Not the bad, it's all the same to me

No, absolutely nothing
No, I regret nothing
It is payed, done, forgotten
I don't care about the past
With my memories I light the fire
My pains, my pleasures I don't need them anymore
I'm done with the loves and all their troubles
I'm done for ever
I start over with nothing

No, absolutely nothing
No, I regret nothing
Not the good that has been given
Not the bad, it's all the same to me
No, absolutely nothing
No, I regret nothing
Because my life, because my joys today, they start with you

 

[Shiloh Lyric]

That bitch got me sent to Twitmo when I replied to someone who called her a bimbo by saying "referring to Tomi as a bimbo is an insult to bimbos". I got 24 hours for that one.

Ha! She was my one and only Twitter "timeout", too. I don't even remember what I said. I think I called her a moron, or something else super-mild. She reports for everything. Little snowflake. Wants to dish it out, but she certainly can't take it.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

That bitch got me sent to Twitmo when I replied to someone who called her a bimbo by saying "referring to Tomi as a bimbo is an insult to bimbos". I got 24 hours for that one.

I think what I resent most about conservative trash like Tomi, Quack Laura, Judgemental Piro, Kay-lies Mac-a-ninny, and whomever else I'm forgetting...
is all the extra strain on my few surviving filters. Like the one that stops me from accidentally barking the C word.

If anyone knows a more acceptable word for: "I'm going to say and do things that would get me kicked in the effing face if I were a man. But I'm pretty -and- a total sell-out, so I have some clout within the party of rampant misogyny. Nyah nyah!"

 

[Romana]

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[Aribeth Zelin]

I think what I resent most about conservative trash like Tomi, Quack Laura, Judgemental Piro, Kay-lies Mac-a-ninny, and whomever else I'm forgetting...
is all the extra strain on my few surviving filters. Like the one that stops me from accidentally barking the C word.

If anyone knows a more acceptable word for: "I'm going to say and do things that would get me kicked in the effing face if I were a man. But I'm pretty -and- a total sell-out, so I have some clout within the party of rampant misogyny. Nyah nyah!"

'Hypocrite'

 

[Kara Spengler]

Police vow to break up planned anti-lockdown protests in UK cities

Identity of organisers is unclear, but experts warn of cross-pollination with far-right ideas

www.theguardian.com

Why bother? They will all catch covid and spread it to people who like brexit and worship both bojo and donnie.

 

[Kara Spengler]

You get enough people together to have the same nutty thoughts then Evangelicalism happens. It's why I enjoy paganism. There is no unified nuttiness.

Just random nuttiness. Like my invoking 4 ancient computers into the cardinal directions for the ritual when I was done with classes in it.

 

[Kara Spengler]

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(It would seem that to stop a bad guy with an axe you need a good guy with an axe, or the cops).

ETA

Not sure if that is approved PPE.

 

[Fionalein]

Why bother? They will all catch covid and spread it to people who like brexit and worship both bojo and donnie.

Because sadly they will still infect others.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Not sure if that is approved PPE.

The only way to stop a bad Pikachu with a gun is with a good Pikachu with a gun.

It is known.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Not even shit for brains.

Always fun to see those things turned around. Like the anarchists laughing at bostonites because they kept indoors during the manhunt for the bombers. They completely missed the point. Quite a few ppl in that area have relatives who are first responders. The bombs also went off at the marathon on Patriots Day, which is up there in the Massachusetts pantheon.

They were not scared and hiding inside. Everyone up there knew if the citizens caught them before the police there might not be a trial.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Because sadly they will still infect others.

Not sure which infection is more deleterious... the disease or the willfully ignorant conspiracy theories.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Who would you rather have leading your country during the pandemic, Trump or Bolsonaro?

'The ship is sinking': Bolsonaro battles to block foul-mouthed cabinet video

A partial transcript of the meeting in Brasília offers a glimpse of the paranoia and ideological obsessions of Brazil’s president

www.theguardian.com

 

[bubblesort]

I was thinking about reopening things, and how it could best be done in an ideal world. I mean, right now is definitely not the right time to open everything in America, but you know, people are stupid.

According to this blog post, from a professional immunologist, the main things that cause risk for starting a corona cluster are the size of the space you are in, the number of people there, what they are doing (singing and exercise generates more particles in the air), and how long people are there.

So maybe we should determine whether it's safe for an establishment to reopen by looking at their square footage, and the square footage of the rooms people will spend time in. Massive stores like Wal Mart and the average grocery store in my area present low risk, because they are massive, but the corner bodega is too small, so maybe don't let the bodega reopen? Then again, if the bodega can show that people spend less time in a bodega than in wal mart, then maybe allow the bodega to open?

Ideally, there should be a reopening function, that takes into account square footage, average time spent there, average population in the establishment, and increased aerobic activity into account, and then spits out a yes or no answer. Time spent in a store, average population, and aerobic activity levels are difficult to know, though, so maybe just go by square footage and review the other factors qualitatively?

For stores that are too small to reopen by square footage alone, maybe they can still operate, but customers can't enter. So they could do things like curbside drop off and pick up for the local vacuum repair shop, or maybe restaurants could set up an outdoor food court on some public property that is surrounded by small restaurants.

Gyms definitely have to stay closed, no matter the size, because of the aerobic effects of exercise, and the amount of time people spend in there. Same goes for manufacturing facilities where workers have to do hard manual labor that increases their aerobic activity. If the factory workers are just pushing buttons, though, then let them open.

Food trucks should still operate everywhere.

I'm just brainstorming... what do you guys think?

 

[Pamela]

Out of curiosity I started reading Dafoe’s Journal of the Plague Year. Interesting that people back then took pandemics lot more seriously than many Americans do now. That pandemic apparently came and went In waves for several hundred years. People didn’t have to be told twice to avoid sick people like the plague.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I think what I resent most about conservative trash like Tomi, Quack Laura, Judgemental Piro, Kay-lies Mac-a-ninny, and whomever else I'm forgetting...
is all the extra strain on my few surviving filters. Like the one that stops me from accidentally barking the C word.

If anyone knows a more acceptable word for: "I'm going to say and do things that would get me kicked in the effing face if I were a man. But I'm pretty -and- a total sell-out, so I have some clout within the party of rampant misogyny. Nyah nyah!"

Nope. C-word is quite appropriate there. C-word in desperate need of Vagisil.

 

[Pamela]

Whoa, we need a lot more of this!

 

[Isabeau]