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On May 25, 2020:

On May 22, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Politics of covid-19" at 02:48 pm
  • posted by Rotinaj

    Trump demanding churches be opened. I know they can't stay closed forever but is there a worse place to be right now than a packed church? Not sure how social distancing is even possible. 

    Two services.  Or one service with half watching from home and alternate.  They only meet once a week.

On May 21, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 11:43 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    300 at a wedding is ok in June but 2 months later please no more than 12 kids on a bus

    Its arbitrary.  Fear has set in. The ability to control is ripe for the picking. Even some staunch libertarians are falling in line.

    The idea that kiddos can't live their lives because grandma and grandpa might get the plague is selfish.  If your fear is so great stay away.  My wife and I have liberated ourselves from our children and grandchildren being a sponge for the virus and so have our elderly parents.  When my son comes home from Chicago I am going to give him a big hug which I admit I was scared to give him the last time he was home.

    Fear will no longer trump my grandaughter laying on my chest while I read a book while she lives the life we all enjoyed as kids. 

    By the way I wonder how many are troubled by crowds gathering and not worried about the teenage kid dropping a handle full of ketchup packets in their takeout bag.

On May 19, 2020:

On May 12, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Meat Shortage" at 09:05 pm
  • posted by Gardens35

    Wife and I went in w/some others and bought a cow. Butchered, packaged, delivered. Split 3 ways.

     

     

    Who got the tongue?

On Apr 22, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 08:43 am
  • posted by geeblock

    Not sure if “leaked” is the right word because it was in his obituary that he died from Covid 19

    Probably not.

On Apr 21, 2020:

  • majorspark repped a post in "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 10:06 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Sorry but if you mock something for being a hoax and then end up dying from it, you deserve to get ridiculed whether you’re a random person or a politician. 

    I disagree. This guy is not an elected leader. He made some stupid remarks. But so has every other person.  This guy was some Joe Schmoe trying to be funny on his Facebook. His family doesn't deserve this 

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 09:43 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Sorry but if you mock something for being a hoax and then end up dying from it, you deserve to get ridiculed whether you’re a random person or a politician. 

    I would disagree a random person deserves to be named and get ridiculed in the national media like a politician or one holding influence over them.  The cause of death was leaked for its intended purpose.

    That said I do think people need to take care with comments made on social media that can be attributed to them personally.  Even more so than in public because they can easily be taken wildly out of context.

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 08:39 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Lol aw you’re mad

    You could say that if you want.  I guess I would rather national media stick to going after people in power who they believe downplayed this than a previously unknown person with a cold take on social media that has passed away.

On Apr 16, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 06:47 am
  • posted by kizer permanente

    I’m assuming you celebrated Easter with your family ?

    Nope.  The normal Easter get together was off.  Didn't see my wife's parents, daughter , and youngest son.  My middle son stopped by the house with the granddaughters because he was in town.  We sat out on the front porch my wife and I wore masks.  She gave them some gifts.  They briefly came into the house to go to the bathroom.  We saw them for maybe a half an hour.  The girls are so young they don't understand why they don't get to stay over at grandma and grandpa's house like they used to.

    My middle son lives in Chicago.  He was home for three weeks.  Normally he stays with my wife and I.  He stayed with his sister instead over an hour away.  We barely get too see him it's rare he is home.  While he was home my  wife and I saw him just three times. A wave out the back door, we had him over for dinner on the front porch where he sat on one side and my wife and I the other, and on the front porch before he left we always send him home with plenty of homemade food.  My wife and I did not even give him a hug. 

On Apr 15, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 08:57 pm
  • posted by kizer permanente

    Highest new cases today. I wonder how many decided to go celebrate Easter with families this past weekend. 

    New cases would have to be evaluated as to the availability of testing, where, and who is getting tested etc...  A lot of factors involved.

    Your latter statement insinuates a correlation that has no basis.  

On Apr 13, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 01:40 pm
  • posted by justincredible

    Or are we locked down for the remainder of the fucking year?

    If you are willing to provide the state with a sample of your blood they may provide you with papers certifying you to engage in some "non-essential" economic activity.  Or you can risk it and possibly end up in one of their leper colonies. 

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 01:12 pm
  • posted by friendfromlowry

    Yesterday there were 6,518 cases in the state and today will probably be around 7K. Does that include all people diagnosed from back in mid-March until now? Or are they removing the people from that count who’ve recovered. 

    It is the total.  Most stats I have seen keep the running total and then as people are recovered they are moved to a seperate number.  So subtract the recovered from the total and you have active cases.

On Apr 9, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 10:53 pm
  • posted by friendfromlowry

    The other day the local news showed a few cop cars showed up to a 4-year olds house briefly for his birthday. So this fool is telling us that isn’t safe? GTFO. 

    Given the scary models that have scared people shitless and numbers falling far under those models being humped hard as attributing to strict social distancing get used to this kind of irrational behavior.

On Apr 8, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "2020 Presidential Election thread" at 01:24 pm
  • posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

    Did we say at 9/11, "10-20 times this many people die every year from the flu - we shouldn't overreact."?  Of course not.  

    The 9/11 analogy does not make any sense to me.  Apples and oranges.

  • majorspark repped a post in "Covid-19 discussion, continued..." at 12:23 pm
  • posted by justincredible

    I'm seeing screenshots all over social media of people asking who they can call to report people for various reasons.

On Mar 26, 2020:

  • majorspark replied to "Coronavirus" at 10:56 pm

  • Prior to the current levels of testing many with symptoms could have been infected.  Around five weeks ago I had a strange illness.  Went into the office very early as usual within an hour began to have severe chills and body aches along with chest congestion and occasional cough.  Left for home a couple of hours later shivering in my winter coat.  Shaking and teeth chattering the whole drive home. Wife threw a couple of blankets on me left for work some time after 9am with me still shaking like a leaf.  Never checked my temp because I did not feel hot.

    Woke up in the afternoon and the chills were gone but the body aches remained chest congestion remained.  Body aches were severe late that evening I was sure I would not be going into the office.  Woke up earlier than usual the next morning.  Body aches gone.  Still had the occasional cough and milder chest congestion.  Thought this has passed so went to the office and had a sudden cough at my desk that I caught with my hand.  Blood.  Again blood then just small dots.

    Got an appointment at the doc.  They checked my temp there.  Normal.  Scheduled me for a CT scan and bloodwork. Nothing of consequence found in the phone convo but wanted me to come in at a later date to formally discuss.  Final reschedule never happened as shortly after this all went down.

    Chest congestion lasted a several weeks.  Given my medical history if this happened today I might be in line for a test.