Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[bigdude2468]

I'm having trouble following the narrative. The father told his 12 year old son he was being irresponsible, but still allowed him to get on a plane and fly to Detroit, or am I missing something?

No, my friends son is father of the 12 yo. He told his 50 year son flying to Detroit for a 350 team hockey tournament is totally irresponsible. Flying to Detroit with a "cold" when your wife had a confirmed exposure and is waiting for her test results is to quote my friend "fucking insanity". My friend asked his son how they identified their specific team and the other one that was sent home and he would not give him a straight answer.

[riser3]

I just checked and it looks like my friend returned from Europe around March 9th, so looks like there was a radical change between then and when you returned, which isn't surprising.

Ya, as I posted way up thread, I came back March 2nd from Madrid. All they asked was where was I coming from [on that day], not where had I been. As I also posted I got sick on March 4th and could not get a test for love or money. Some folks commented on my fever dream posting here. I still think I had the regular [Spanish] Flu. Nobody else here got sick.

[The AD]

No, my friends son is father of the 12 yo. He told his 50 year son flying to Detroit for a 350 team hockey tournament is totally irresponsible. Flying to Detroit with a "cold" when your wife had a confirmed exposure and is waiting for her test results is to quote my friend "fucking insanity". My friend asked his son how they identified their specific team and the other one that was sent home and he would not give him a straight answer.

Got it.

[old goat]

I like that graphic. Where's it from? Makes it look like California has been largely spared though?

California has been spared because it's still summer here. If and when the weather changes expect to see us join the rest of the country.

Rapped his way to an appointment with the Feds.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fontrel...-fraud-scheme/

Feds go after a rapper while the fat cat corporations that got PPP money get away with it.

I’m fucken done with this shit. 99.9% survival rate. My whole family already had the virus, we were more affected by the flu 2 years ago. I’m moving on

Please. And get a flu shot.

[KQ]

Trump saying the quiet part out loud again. Hope to see more of this kind of "fuck it" disclose over the next two weeks.

Attachment 344004

Trump trashes Fauci and makes baseless coronavirus claims in campaign call

[Mofro261]

Thanks, boring trolls are kind of boring.

Back to the topic, mofro was your jury duty in person? My friend's in lockdown in her house because she started coughing, no fever but she got a swab test. We'll see what happens, I thought her job would be more helpful with testing as a nurse but I guess not.

Zoom jury selection, a couple of zoom witnesses, but jury and court being done out of the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.

[Woolly the Mammoth]

Zoom jury selection, a couple of zoom witnesses, but jury and court being done out of the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.

What were your general thoughts about doing jury selection and having witnesses via Zoom?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Trump trashes Fauci and makes baseless coronavirus claims in campaign call

In any normal world and time this would be the end of a presidency. We have truly boiled the frog.

On November 4 I'm either buying the best bottle of champagne in town or a passport.

[ml242]

the virus is spreading

[Mofro261]

What were your general thoughts about doing jury selection and having witnesses via Zoom?

Its lacking an interactive element and has tech issues, delays. Was nice to not have to pool for jury selection but the zoom witnesses don't have the same impact as being questioned in person imo.

[Ted Striker]

the virus is spreading

FWIW, Canada has always had its share of idiots. The difference is that they aren't given equal billing.

[Thaleia]

Yep, we've had a few very loud and public 'activists' refusing to wear masks since the beginning of lock down, and unfortunately their groups of supporters are growing.

This picture was taken at an anti mask rally in Toronto last week.



Not seen in this picture were signs supporting trump, qanon, blue lives matter etc. In Canada. Fuckin white people.

EDIT also I'd mention I don't understand all the Quebec flags, but then again I really don't understand any of what's going on at this point.

[altasnob]

Its lacking an interactive element and has tech issues, delays. Was nice to not have to pool for jury selection but the zoom witnesses don't have the same impact as being questioned in person imo.

FYI, Meydenbauer Center is being used only for civil trials. And the actual trial would still be likely be in person, not zoom. I believe criminal trials are still 100% in person. The logic being criminal always takes precedent over civil and a criminal defendant has a right to in person trial and a right to a speedy trial. Civil litigants can voluntarily accept the zoom conditions or they can just continue until pandemic is over.

"Civil jury trials will take place at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Voir-dire will be conducted via video and the remainder of the trial will be in-person (and or remote) with appropriate social distancing measures and masks worn."

[Ted Striker]

Yep, we've had a few very loud and public 'activists' refusing to wear masks since the beginning of lock down, and unfortunately their groups of supporters are growing.

This picture was taken at an anti mask rally in Toronto last week.

This blog's take on that event is exactly what I was getting at. https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/10/...oronto-idiots/

[powdrhound]

I am scheduled for in-person jury duty on Election Day.
Hopefully get selected and sequestered for a month.

[The SnowShow]

Isn’t travel to Mexico from the US closed? Someone I know has been posting pics from Mexico surfing and I’m wondering if I missed something.

[tetzen]

Got some good news from the in-laws today. FIL and SIL both heading home as they have tested negative for the Covid. Oxygen levels starting to return to normal, so they can recover from pneumonia at home. Finally breathing a sigh of relief around here.

Remdesivir showed up late on Saturday, but they decided to hold off on using it for now. Hoping the MIL doesn't catch it and need it.

[m2711c]

that is good news! i hope things keep getting better.

[teledad]

Isn’t travel to Mexico from the US closed? Someone I know has been posting pics from Mexico surfing and I’m wondering if I missed something.

Travel over the land border is closed (with exceptions), air travel is allowed.

[The SnowShow]

Got some good news from the in-laws today. FIL and SIL both heading home as they have tested negative for the Covid. Oxygen levels starting to return to normal, so they can recover from pneumonia at home. Finally breathing a sigh of relief around here.

Remdesivir showed up late on Saturday, but they decided to hold off on using it for now. Hoping the MIL doesn't catch it and need it.

Great news.

[The SnowShow]

Travel over the land border is closed (with exceptions), air travel is allowed.

Ah. Didn’t realize that was open to non essential travel.

[altasnob]

Tourism is 8.5% Mexico's GDP versus around around 2% for Canada and 2.8% for US. Main reason why Canada is still keeping US out and Mexico aint.

[Deebased]

Has anyone been so bold as to estimate a relationship between rate of positivity and undetected cases?

between 10/90 and 50/50 in April. Early antibody tests were showing a similar range.

[ill-advised strategy]

Well, now I live in one of the most infectious places in the country.

Our local news always stretches to find a way to downplay it. The numbers have been going higher and higher. From when most days had nothing new and it was surprising to see 7 or 8 in a day to now 100+ daily, 200+ sometimes. Yesterday the news wouldn’t report the infection numbers, saying there was a problem with the numbers...but really it was just that there’s now like 500 new cases in our local prison and 250 new in the community...so their eyes just couldn’t believe the numbers, so they assumed the numbers weren’t right and reported “we’re waiting on the corrected numbers” instead.

My employer and coworkers have become fatigued with cleaning and masks. They never adopted masks in the office, only when out in public or when there was a board member or media or whatever around. The elderly and vulnerable coworkers who had been staying home in spring and summer when we had no cases are showing up to work again at the worst possible time.

I pick up employees from the hospital, they say it’s totally full in there.

A dialysis patient booked a ride from his luxury condo to dialysis today. Because you can’t safely get a bus to his condo, my dispatch decided to order me to go with a minivan. We haven’t been using those since covid, for obvious distancing reasons. I said no fucking way am I doing that...are you out of your god damn minds? Instead of correcting the minivan idea, they decided the problem was me, and they just sent our bus-cleaning janitor with the minivan instead. I saw her tonight walking around the bus garage just open-coughing, mask on her chin, no hand over the mouth, just open hacking for like 20 seconds. That’s the person they put in a minivan with a dialysis patient, that’s the person who walks through every bus “cleaning” while she hacks away open-coughing. It’s astonishing.

Every day at my wife’s work they lose more people to positive tests and quarantining...they’re running out of people to staff the store. Employees are almost surely coming in sick because they need the money.

There were two different people unmasked at the grocery store tonight.
We’re fucked here. It’s all going to shit.

[Mazderati]

Lots of areas still easing restrictions while cases increase. Like, here's your opportunity to re-evaluate. Maybe scale back and get in front of it instead of feign surprise when a bigger bag of shit hits the fan. Dumb dumbs.