Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[KQ]

I'm not anti-vax but I do have concerns about them whipping up a batch so quickly. "Hastily created vaccines? What could go wrong?!"

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Best not read about the polio vaccine then.

[ill-advised strategy]

Go ahead... cane me.

[Benny Profane]

depends on the well and the city.

NYC rocks.

[bennymac]

it's human nature to want to watch a train wreck or dumpster fire go out of control

[Ted Striker]

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Win!

When I read ice's post I was thinking of riffing "Ronald Reagan! The actor?!" into a Trump bit, but yours is much better.

[donutlynx]

You won't read this ...

https://www.perell.com/blog/news-in-...e-of-abundance

Thanks for that. Posting it up in the longform thread...

[jono]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KyleClark...53280088248322

Historians will long remember that America's moral compass in this time of trial was a frozen meat company.

[mcski]

Best not read about the polio vaccine then.

Yet, most everyone back then would have gladly rolled the dice on it because it was worth the risk.

[PNWbrit]

same here, BTW the brits did not send 14 yr olds off to fight the dirty Boche

The really young kids like my 8 yr old aunt were moved to live in the country with a nasty family she didnt like, at night when the air raids would start grand dad, teenaged dad & uncle bob would head out all night with garden spades & garbage can lids to smother the napalm, if they came home for breakfast they weren't dead, lots of food shortages, my granddad & uncle bob were killed

but my mother's side had it worst, singapore occupied by japanese, grandfather arrested and never seen, more food shortages

in comparison I haven't sacrificed anything and i don't think anyone else is either

Both my parents were young kids at the outbreak of the war and lived in London.

They were both evacuated (and also separated from siblings) it was feared London would immediately be bombed and gassed.

The initial "phony" war and the heartbreak of being separated* meant that both of them were back in London by the late summer of 1940 when the large scale bombing attacks on civilian targets started.

My Dad didn't keep count but he reckons several hundred nights were spent in the Anderson shelter in their back garden during active raids. Several hundred more just to not have to move out there if sirens sounded.

Then there were the V1 and V2 attacks. The former "not too bad" the later just out of nowhere massive explosions without warning day or night.

My mother's youngest uncle was captured at the fall of Singapore and spent the duration a prisoner of the Japanese.

So hang in there core shot. Hopefully you're finding good Netflix content and internet porn to tide you through.

* the childless couple my mother was billeted with wrote to my grandparents and informed them they liked having her so much they had decided too "keep her".

[Rideski]

Thanks for that. Posting it up in the longform thread...

I bookmarked it previously, looked like it was going to be too long for this morning. Last sunshine day maybe for a week. Snow tomorrow.

[Ski to Be]

Let's put it this way, I've never seen a HD lot that full in my life. Obviously a lot of people working on home projects and gardening, but bringing your entire family of 5 into the store with you is fucking retarded. Really I don't see why anyone needs to go to any store in a group right now, make a damn list and send one person in.
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I saw this yesterday. Six people in a family and they were all big. I was in the contractor line and they were in the parallel line to enter HD. they were all huddled up so that they were protruding the little rope 3 feet into my side. Of course when we go inside they were going to the same isle that I was were they were all 3 to 4 feet apart and taking up a lot of space. They seemed completely oblivious to their surroundings

[KQ]

My mother's youngest uncle was captured at the fall of Singapore and spent the duration a prisoner of the Japanese.

Gawd that was awful.

[uglymoney]

I had one of the PVC drainage pipe nuts under my sink crack last week. Water puddle forming. Went online and ordered the part from Amazon and it was here the next day anyway...fixed. No way I am going to Menards or Lowe's or Home Depot when they are packed full of mouth breathers who think this is overblown. I'd rather just fix what I can or just let the house falls apart.

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[TWINS]

I saw this yesterday. Six people in a family and they were all big. I was in the contractor line and they were in the parallel line to enter HD. they were all huddled up so that they were protruding the little rope 3 feet into my side. Of course when we go inside they were going to the same isle that I was were they were all 3 to 4 feet apart and taking up a lot of space. They seemed completely oblivious to their surroundings

Went to our Lowes for the first time yesterday.
They were dialed in.
Social distancing, facemasks, etc.
Best thing was a sanitation section outside with a tub of wipes to clean everything.
Dialed in here in SoCal.

[XXX-er]

Gawd that was awful.

my uncles were all half chinese so the japanese did not take them, but my grandfather was an American the engineer at the opium plant ( pre-war it was legal ), he was taken and never seen from or heard of again but they figure he died on the Burma railroad ... there is such a thing as being too white eh

my father briefly worked in the factory building Spitfires before joining the navy shipping out to SE Asia, after the war lord Mountbatten told the lads don't come home cuz there was nothing left of Britain so he stayed in Singapore



it may seem tough ( ish) for people who have made a lifestyle out of going outside

but its not like you are getting shot at or bombed to oblivion

just stay home, you and others will live

[Core Shot]

I had one of the PVC drainage pipe nuts under my sink crack last week. Water puddle forming. Went online and ordered the part from Amazon and it was here the next day anyway...fixed. No way I am going to Menards or Lowe's or Home Depot when they are packed full of mouth breathers who think this is overblown. I'd rather just fix what I can or just let the house falls apart.

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I mouth breathe in your general direction

Don’t make me taunt you a second time


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[uglymoney]

I mouth breathe in your general direction

Don’t make me taunt you a second time


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Socially distanced mouth breathers are fine. No worries.

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[powdrhound]

Is it better to go to the store to get the 6-8 items you need in one trip, or to have 5-8 different people coming to your door to deliver those items that come from 5-8 different Amazon vendors?

Who am I kidding? What project ever gets covered in one trip?

[MontuckyFried]

Best not read about the polio vaccine then.

EXACTLY the incident I was thinking of. I'll let you guys take your chances on the first batch. I'll hold off a lil while longer to make sure those kinks are worked out first.

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[uglymoney]

Is it better to go to the store to get the 6-8 items you need in one trip, or to have 5-8 different people coming to your door to deliver those items that come from 5-8 different Amazon vendors?

Who am I kidding? What project ever gets covered in one trip?

I'll take day or three old virus on cardboard dropped outside my house or out in the locked usps box over fresh airborne particles. All day long.

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[XXX-er]

For plumbing especialy I buy absolutely everything I might even remotely need and return most of it the next week which will mean only 2 trips

[riser4]

For plumbing especialy I buy absolutely everything I might even remotely need and return most of it the next week which will mean only 2 trips

This. I except I often forget to return it. So now I have stuff I don't even know I have. So I buy more.

[Lvovsky]

How bad?

Drove by Lowe’s (NE ABQ): parking lot was full as any normal day before stay at home order.

[Ted Striker]

I'll take day or three old virus on cardboard dropped outside my house or out in the locked usps box over fresh airborne particles. All day long.

This times a hundred.

Unless you were planning to snort a few lines off the box, you'll be fine.

[EdAbbey]

Why isn't anyone talking about Sweden?