outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

the scary thing is that FL has over 4.3 million citizens over the age 65. If left out of control, the death numbers are going to be in six figures for the state.

It's absolutely terrifying. And absolutely unfair to everyone who's given a shit and taken precautions.

Florida is the Italy of America in many ways

genuinely an insult to Italy and Italians the world over

JUST IN: Texas Gov just issued statewide order requiring a mask or face cover in public

— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) July 2, 2020

brb printing up "Don't Mask With Texas" bumper stickers.

But what about my liberties?

Sad lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UnBAQknLQ

the first time i've seen a state giving specific quarantine instructions to visitors from particular other states - i wondered near the beginning of the pandemic if states might start policing their borders against other states and this seems like a step towards that

https://i.imgur.com/1M33hHF.png

NY and CT also have these instructions as of a couple of days ago. I can't imagine they're tracking people or preventing them from traveling though

NJ too I think

MA too

Might be hard to apply to long distance truck drivers.

I know they are checking license plates at the NY border, fwiw

I was planning on flying from CA to CT in mid July, to Hartford through Dulles. Who will be there to admonish me and track me when I get off the plane? Who will know where I came from? And will United really try to prevent me from traveling home 10 days later, 4 days too soon?

I don't know the answer to these questions but am uneasy about the plan to travel

I’m not going to an airport in 2020 unless godforbid a parent is literally dying

yeah

How in the world can they possibly even pretend to enforce those rules? We're not talking the Canadian border here, any dork can "enter" into PA without, what, papers?

This isn't new. States had NY on the list in late March and early April and NY, NJ, and CT signed a pact a week or two ago to open together and then impose quarantine on FL, TX, and CA.

bar or small restaurant with no one wearing masks >>>>>> airport

Not that I'd visit the latter.

it's also i think a case of what's good for the goose in that some of those states were quarantining against new yorkers a few months ago
what a petty bunch of children lead us

I know they are checking license plates at the NY border

And doing... what?

Pulling people over and telling them to stop and turn around?

I mean, last time I drove into NY (via 95 / NJ Turnpike) there was basically no point at which I was driving less than 55 mph.

And I frequently rent a car for longer trips, with no control of what state plates said car has.

Or if I'm on Amtrak, and buy a ticket to Boston but get out in NYC?

"bar or small restaurant with no one wearing masks >>>>>> airport"

don't agree

bars? tightly enclosed spaces where people are unmasked and shouting and spitting into each other's faces? no

would you be ok indoors in a restaurant with no one wearing masks?

yeah without question an airport would be safer (maybe that’s what alfred meant?). an airplane maybe too, with masks

Based on the following comment the ">" signs meant greater danger. bars greater danger than airports.

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/oregon-state-police-dont-wear-coronavirus-masks-as-they-patronize-corvallis-coffee-shop-despite-governors-order.html

pin a medal on that coffee shop's assistant manager

was out on Columbus Avenue today. I liked the general compliance with mask wearing and the taking-over of parking spaces to accommodate outdoor restaurant parklets. It really seems like a renaissance in outdoor dining, there should be more of it

gotta get me one of these Cinco Food Tubes so I can enjoy a nice dinner out with friends while keeping my mouth hole and nostril holes covered with protective cloth the entire time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o7YG3x0DI

you are a troll

you are a guy named Dan S

more likely burrito is just someone with very poor judgment regarding where he inserts things

Excuse me, sirs, but my post was quite relevant to this discussion regarding the wearing of face masks at food restaurants and/or beverage bars. If you would have watched the video that I generously shared with this group (perhaps regrettably, as you all are obviously ungrateful and frankly rude people) you would have seen that it portrays a humorous scenario in which a member of a dining party utilizes the Cinco Food Tube system to consume his meal at the table without directly inserting the food into his mouth using a fork. The system would enable a person to fulfill the primary objective of a restaurant visit (consuming foods and socializing with friends and/or family) while adhering to the current face-covering guidelines designed to protect public health during this Corona Virus (COVID-19) crisis.

Please be more considerate of your fellow posters, and please read your fellow posters' posts more thoroughly. Thank you.

when you're sliding into first, and you feel something burst
God is dead

well actually, for that you're gonna want the D-Pants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEwjogp4wIo

burrito, please stop and consider that there are many people on this board who have directly and personally suffered pain, fear, job loss, deep anxiety, and many other highly unpleasant consequences from the ongoing pandemic, which continues to deliver these consequences at an accelerating rate with no end in sight, and many of these people do not consider this the appropriate thread for such light heartedly frivolous hijinks as you chose to inject into this discussion. There are entire ilx boards devoted to such levity. Please employ them.

then gtfo with that crap

(x-post) Specifically, COVID-77

Florida is one of my many regular webcams that I keep an eye on, and I've been astounded at the lack of respect for social distancing in the past couple of months that I've seen, and even still doing it - do they not know what's happening?

We know, we're just filled with me-first assholes.

I’m worried that the Australian equivalent of refusing to wear a mask is refusing to get tested when asked.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/health-minister-raises-conspiracy-concern-as-10-000-refuse-virus-test-20200703-p558va.html

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/02/mongolia-quarantines-russian-border-region-over-bubonic-plague-suspicion-a70756

Aw yeah.

yeah without question an airport would be safer (maybe that’s what alfred meant?). an airplane maybe too, with masks

― k3vin k., Thursday, July 2, 2020

Yeah, sorry this is what I meant. A large interior space where people wear masks >>>>>>> smaller space where few do.

From ShariVari's link:

Lab tests confirmed that two unidentified individuals had contracted the “marmot plague” in the region of Khovd, Mongolia’s National Center for Zoonotic Disease (NCZD) said in a statement.

Simulation going to simulate.

Khovefe would have been funnier but I guess The Programmer knows when to dial it down

https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/nice-marmot-the-dude-big-lebowski-Edited.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=963&h=481

Oh, this is gonna be fun

A surprising new study found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped Covid-19 patients better survive in the hospital.https://t.co/j6zs4SI2Su

— CNN (@CNN) July 3, 2020