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Post by S. Griffin on Mar 30, 2020 16:35:28 GMT -5
Our governor has now strengthened and extended a "Stay at Home" order until June 10th because fuckers went to the beaches and were, I shit you not, stupid enough to gather at Hampton Roads to see the hospital ship depart, and also because of that whole Liberty University thing. I swear, all those stupid redneck assholes south of here who want to split off and form their own state or join West Virginia can be my fucking guest.
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Post by frinspar on Mar 30, 2020 19:47:52 GMT -5
Arizona just jumped on-board today. I had to go in early to order again and the roads were pretty damn empty already. Been sitting here all day with the windows open and it's been really quiet out there.
I went to receiving to check before I left and we still got damn near nothing for a delivery. Produce is mostly available and I was able to have a full and beautiful department all weekend. But empty shelves ain't gonna help. Arizona is apparently one of the worst states about hoarding.
Falwell can fucking die in a tire fire.
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Post by okcomputer on Mar 31, 2020 8:49:27 GMT -5
The Liberty "University" thing is just completely insane. If they arrested that megachurch pastor in Florida for endangering public health by holding a church service last Sunday, I don't see why Virginia can't perpwalk Falwell and his poolboy off that campus and into the clink.
But on the other hand, all those Liberty students are about to get a brutal lesson in Darwinian natural selection.
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Post by S. Griffin on Mar 31, 2020 12:59:36 GMT -5
Different laws here than there. Some better. Some not. But I can pretty much guarantee our AG is cooking something up for Falwell.
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Post by frinspar on Mar 31, 2020 20:32:21 GMT -5
Nail & hair salons, gun stores and golf courses are essential under the Arizona decree. All those old white fuckers in Phoenix need to carry on as usual and wouldn't let Ducey deprive them I guess.
About 1/3 of the country isn't doing shit yet. Whatever projections have been made are too optimistic and underestimated.
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Post by S. Griffin on Mar 31, 2020 20:41:18 GMT -5
Eleanor Shelstrop needs her nails done. It's important.
And yeah, we're probably looking at September at the earliest for things to go back to normal, considering how bad some people (including entire states) are about all this.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 1, 2020 9:21:32 GMT -5
Stage 4 lung cancer patient Rush Limbaugh has gone full COVID-truther, claiming the whole thing is a ruse to destroy the American economy.
This week I learned there are exceptions to my "Fuck Cancer" mantra.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 1, 2020 20:30:17 GMT -5
Governor of the state where the CDC is headquartered said that he only found out today that people who are asymptomatic can pass the virus.
Steve Bannon has won. There is no federal government anymore. Every regulation to protect our air, land and water has been repealed. The governors are bidding against each other to get supplies that aren't even here anymore. Information is not remotely consistent from one state leadership to another. We all use the same money, but we're each on our own.
We're going to lose millions. And from the 2 minutes I could stand of the mind rape rally today, I heard whatshisface talking about 100 million dead from the 1918 flu. He's actually just fine with any number UNDER 100 million now.
It's funny, he'll be trying to move to Mexico pretty soon to get out of here.
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Post by solominicknight on Apr 2, 2020 5:07:15 GMT -5
Just saw on the news here that the dead rate down there is about 1000 a day now.
Sad thing is, it could go that way here as well. Not sure about elsewhere in Canadia, but here in Vancouver, no one seems to be taking it seriously, like at all. Government has stepped in and revoked business licenses for a few places still allowing gatherings. My job is half assing how its dealing with this. Talked a big game about cleaning our away from home terminals and the locomotives but only the newer road loco’s are cleaned fully. Stuff that’s used in the yard is up to us to clean with our own supplies. We complain we get threatened with a write up.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 2, 2020 9:14:51 GMT -5
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Post by frinspar on Apr 2, 2020 17:25:19 GMT -5
^ It's amazing he's managed to avoid AIDS from the hookers up to now.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 2, 2020 17:37:35 GMT -5
My mother's best friend's son, daughter-in-law,and her parents who live in Georgia, all got the Covid19 bad. The daughter-in-law's parents both died last week. Thanks, Kemp.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 3, 2020 14:33:50 GMT -5
My mother's best friend's son, daughter-in-law,and her parents who live in Georgia, all got the Covid19 bad. The daughter-in-law's parents both died last week. Thanks, Kemp. Good lord...
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 3, 2020 14:58:24 GMT -5
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Post by frinspar on Apr 3, 2020 15:14:12 GMT -5
That's awful, losing both parents together. I can't imagine there won't be too many who are alive on the other side of this, that won't be impacted personally by the lives lost.
The state of the nation is really bad, and we're going to be hit hardest because of the ignorance and arrogance that we so gleefully embrace as a whole. We're going to keep spreading this around for a long time. Families have one place they can go together now: grocery shopping. And they are.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 3, 2020 19:13:34 GMT -5
I went to pick up some groceries for my parents last night, and it was pretty shocking how cavalier people were about distancing. Even the people wearing masks would walk right up next to me, as if that mask is gonna keep any germs I might have on my clothes from brushing off on their clothes. This was at the giant Kroger in town. People at Target are much cooler.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 3, 2020 19:38:13 GMT -5
More stores are going to be instituting caps on how many can be inside at a time. I think Target and WM are among them. And I've seen that others are basically having people shop in spaced lines, no going back for shit you forgot on the last aisle. Like a rail game. Some good things: This time of year, the lizards come back in full assault and thrive in our yard. We have damn near the only grass yard in the neighborhood, with lots of shrubs and plants, so they have cool places to live and water to drink. This guy let me get up close the other morning. They do tend to get used to us being close each year. And if I end up with any time locked down at home, my tone plank will provide some solid distraction, with the nifty delay pedal on the right added today.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 3, 2020 21:36:56 GMT -5
I went to pick up some groceries for my parents last night, and it was pretty shocking how cavalier people were about distancing. Even the people wearing masks would walk right up next to me, as if that mask is gonna keep any germs I might have on my clothes from brushing off on their clothes. This was at the giant Kroger in town. People at Target are much cooler. This makes me afraid about the "mask" order/suggestion/whatever from Trump and the CDC. Most people are fucking stupid, so they will of course think that if they have a mask on, they don't need to stay six feet away from others.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 3, 2020 22:32:34 GMT -5
While he was on TV acting like a 5-year-old having to eat broccoli in order to get dessert at the suggestion of wearing a mask, his baby mama was tweeting about how we should all wear masks when we go out. Great messaging synergy.
I do see more people wearing masks each day. And it does make some of them braver/dumber. My wife showed me a pic of some guy in a store line wearing gloves with his mask under his chin, eating from a bag of chips he just grabbed. I don't know if it was real, but it was accurate.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 5, 2020 21:39:44 GMT -5
Well, I’m officially in quarantine for the next week. I’m not sick, but our whole staff is starting a staggered schedule of weeks off. Half of us are off all this week, then the other half is off the next week. Rinse and repeat until this shit gets better. Full pay, time not taken from banked personal time.
You guys got any movie recommendations?
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 5, 2020 23:27:18 GMT -5
Well, I’m officially in quarantine for the next week. I’m not sick, but our whole staff is starting a staggered schedule of weeks off. Half of us are off all this week, then the other half is off the next week. Rinse and repeat until this shit gets better. Full pay, time not taken from banked personal time. You guys got any movie recommendations? Recent: Knives Out and Jojo Rabbit A little less recent: Bumblebee, We're the Millers, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Blackkklansman, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Wall-E. Classic: Blade Runner, High Plains Drifter (The original "Weird Western"), Murder by Death, Night of the Creeps, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, In the Mouth of Madness, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Trading Places, Prince of Egypt. You didn't ask for it, but Mrs. Griffin and I have been binging a lot of animated tv shows lately. Two great ones on Netflix are Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated (imagine a genuinely funny and intelligent Scooby Doo show) and The Dragon Prince (imagine Game of Thrones crossed with Lord of the Rings crossed with Avatar: The Last Airbender). We are also about to start watching Batman Beyond, which I don't think is on Netflix and is probably on DC Universe. In January or so we finished watching Avatar: The Legend of Korra, which I think is on CBS All Access of all places and is free for the next two weeks. Speaking of CBS All Access, we just watched Picard, which is not a cartoon and very much a mixed bag but still enjoyable overall. But you're a Star Wars guy, so NVM about that, I guess.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 6, 2020 1:01:30 GMT -5
Watch 5 movies you hated and see how you feel about them now. I dunno why, but you have time.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 6, 2020 16:46:50 GMT -5
Goal for this week: watch Lawrence of Arabia. I’ve never seen it, I got the Blu ray for Christmas years ago and it’s been sitting on the shelf unwatched all this time.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 6, 2020 17:40:34 GMT -5
I've never seen it, either.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 6, 2020 20:16:08 GMT -5
Love it. I saw it when it was re-released in 70mm years back when I was a yoot. Made a big impact seeing it that way. Beautifully shot. In somewhat of a same-but-different vein, follow that up with The Man Who Would Be King to get the blood in your legs moving again.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 7, 2020 14:48:36 GMT -5
So far the best thing about quarantine is weekday afternoon beer.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 8, 2020 9:46:26 GMT -5
A longtime family friend, who's been like a sister to me since I was six years old, her father just died. He didn't have Covid19, but his family also wasn't allowed in the ICU room with him AT ALL until his test results came back negative. By then it was almost too late.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 8, 2020 19:56:34 GMT -5
There are already so many without closure because they can't say goodbye. Those are scars that will never heal on the other side of this.
I feel like I'm okay with this. Not that I'm good with it, but that I'm getting through it relatively level. And at least I have work to go to to help keep me occupied. And not broke. But my brain seems to not agree. I'm not sleeping much lately. I'm awake through the night, and usually end up awake around 4am waiting for my alarm to go off at 5:30.
Tend to nod off on the couch for an hour after I get home, getting 15 or 20 minutes stretches. It's enough to keep me awake until it's bed time and I go back to roll around until the sheet is twisted around me and do it again.
Lots of celebrities and musicians are putting out videos in their lockdown. Thought it was a neat bonus, getting to see them cataloging their time, since we're all doing the same things now. But you can sense the same stress and depression and uncertainty in them, and it's not helpful or entertaining ultimately. To me. I wouldn't dare stop anyone from doing whatever works to get through, and it's helping other people, but I'm gonna be choosy about the ones I watch.
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 8, 2020 23:13:53 GMT -5
A longtime family friend, who's been like a sister to me since I was six years old, her father just died. He didn't have Covid19, but his family also wasn't allowed in the ICU room with him AT ALL until his test results came back negative. By then it was almost too late. Jesus, I’m sorry. I keep waiting to get the call that one of my relatives has it, but so far we’ve been lucky.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Apr 9, 2020 16:31:25 GMT -5
A coworker's father died. He had been in a nursing home and when this hit she was no longer allowed to visit him, which she did several times a week. For him to die without a chance to say goodbye was devastating for her. Unfortunately, there are going to be a lot of these stories with people that both did and didn't have it.
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