+1 to Joe Kelly, -1000 to cheating scummy astros

Lasted a day.

https://www.newsweek.com/norway-crus...undsen-1522149

Yeah one big problem is anyone who wants to go on a cruise right now has a much higher than average chance of not taking covid seriously. So your passenger pool is a disaster before you even set sail.

The person who made GCDS get a covid test, because he was exposed to him last Thu for 5 minute but the kid still tested positive, went to Block Island this weekend for a trip with like four families. His Dad tested positive too, but stayed home. WTF?

Think we need to let these people know there are less harmful forms of gambling.

Back from my month in Spain.

Spain has pretty tight coronavirus procedures - compared to Slovakia the main stricter thing was wearing masks in the street rather than just indoors (Slovakia was also outdoors before but not now) the only less strict thing I noticed was that the Spanish still have hot-air dryers in public toilets, whereas they're all turned off in Slovakia (perhaps they create aerosols, or perhaps there is no justification).

We had British TV in the villa there, so it was nicely surreal to see all the unmasked people on television in the UK (7-day moving avg 64 deaths) fretting about which country was going to "reinfect" them. The main favourites were France (10 deaths per day avg), or Croatia (2 deaths per day, albeit with a population 15 times smaller than that of the UK). Eventually the government came in and settled the question by announcing that the threat lay in Spain (2 deaths per day avg) where we were watching from, and people returning from there were highly suspect (rather than being far less likely to be infected than anyone who'd been in the UK for the last 2 weeks) and would have to quarantine for two weeks.

However it didn't affect us, as there were no controls of any kind going from there to Hungary and on to Slovakia. We walked past some border guards at the airport in Budapest but they weren't stopping anybody or checking passports (which in normal times they don't between the "Schengen" countries). So Hungary is just waving through people arriving from Spain (classed as green), while people arriving from the UK (classed as orange) have to undergo a medical examination to get in then isolate for 14 days - which also tends to suggest that Spain is less dangerous than the UK.

The UK media these days is shockingly bad not to have the ability to ask hard questions about this kind of thing.

Does anyone else feel like they are in the minority of taking this disease seriously now?

It seems like most people I know are back to going to gyms, eating in restaurants, having parties, etc. Hell one of my buddies is back in jiu jitsu class.

My wife and I feel like we are in the twilight zone.

I think there's a lot of that going around. Our daughter & son-in-law visited this weekend. Daughter is pregnant and due in a few weeks. At one point she said that I am the only person she knows that she would feel comfortable leaving the baby with at this point because everybody else has slacked up so much on social distancing. My first thought was a sarcastic, "Oh lucky me," but the second was a more realistic "No wonder we're getting deeper and deeper into this pile of ****."

My wife says this a few times a day regarding how people are treating it.


I know an older guy who was in the hospital for a few weeks with it and is slowly recovering. His son is having his first child and sent him a list of things he needs to do if he wants to see the child. The older guy says "I guess that is what Facetime is for, I have another grandchild that is in daycare that I can see anytime without these restrictions, so I'll just see them instead". Remember, this is someone who was already hospitalized with it.

Had to run to Office Max to pick something up, and inside they had like 5 of these tall fans on sale, the type you'd put in a small warehouse to keep it cool. All of them were on display, oscillating and blowing air all over the store.

wow I'm having a total Mandela effect about this one, could've sworn Office Max went out of business years ago

Seems like those companies are always going bankrupt then re-emerging. Until they finally disappear like Toys R Us.

Office Max and Office Depot merged. Both storefronts still exist, afaik, but that's just a question of signage.

Most People are ignorant and stupid; this is nothing new or surprising. And yet the human species still inhabit the planet. Like a viscous virus, they are hard to get rid of. Cheers!

Wife and I in the same boat. The only other two families we know who are taking it seriously still both, have nurse moms.

Toys R Us is still around, just need to know where to look

Nostalgia:

I remember that!

In addition to the above, the Malaysian govt just announced yesterday that effective immediately, everyone needs to download a govt app, and that entry into any kind of business will be dependent on using the app to check in before entering.

The difference in how seriously the SEA countries take this pandemic compared to the lol attitude of places like USA#1 is kinda crazy.

FYP

meanwhile...maybe you should quarantine for the safety of your home country's citizens, seeing as though you took unessential travel to the most infested place in Europe Should have come to the UK where you're 5x less likely to catch the lurgy

Spain and UK count covid deaths in a different way too - let's just say UK includes more deaths that 'could' be attributable to covid than Spain.

Is College Football our savior? Saving lives isn't enough, but if college football is at risk, now that is personal.

"...as irritating as that may be..." ok Gov. ****stick.

maybe sit this one out.
dude is saving lives

...and bitching the entire time.

And lol at him saving lives. He posted that because he had to, not because he wanted to.
So maybe take a seat yourself.