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achooloco

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  1. Admittedly this isn’t an easy question to answer but does it seem like the people in those affected counties are now more disposed to following SiP/SaH orders? Sucks for the sick kids and people/kids stuck at home but wondering if it is converting some of the people that might not have been taking it that seriously. My sister is one of those. Prior to this story she had fallen into the fb mommy group Home schooler/anti vaccine hole and been spreading various “hoax” memes, just the flu, etc (some admittedly worth a good chuckle). While we still had civil discussions about taking precautions, social distancing, etc, she was not taking it serious and did minimal effort for any of those things. Overall she as a nurse knew it existed but was more “roll her eyes” and “whatever, if we get it we get it, no one dies, we’ll be fine, I just want to enjoy green belt!!!“ Her compadre is mid-40s, outdoor worker, more fit than an avg male in his age group, and showed symptoms 13 days ago. First day of symptoms he actually spent with them but has since been in quarantine (luckily, as of today no one has shown any symptoms in her family). By day 9, she reported to us that his main complaint was that he was bored only watching tv and resting. And she said “for some reason” his doc advised him to not do any strenuous physical activity. That got a comment but whatever, it ended with me saying I really hope that in ten years that will be his CoVID story that he was just bored. Very next night she texts at midnight EST freaking out that her compadre’s wife just called and that they were in route to the hospital. He went from fine to not breathing/unconscious in minutes. The wife had actually been leaving to get the daughter from work, said bye to the husband but only checked on him bc he didn’t respond and found him gasping for air before shortly not breathing at all. Had she left a couple minutes earlier they’d have come home to a dead guy. Obviously now my sister is in overdrive. Where can I buy the good masks, why can’t we get the great ones, only one person goes out, etc. From the anecdotal stories on seeing mask usage in the wild on this board, I’m assuming that she isn’t the only person in Texas in that situation. And for those that get sick or know infected people, don’t forget days 10-14/15 are a bitch, always be extra vigilant then. Stay safe y’all
  2. Anyone looked at aytu?
  3. grew up in austin, everyone always pronounced it like that. never heard a native Austinite pronounce it different but I've only known Czechs, Mexicans, and African Americans growing up, and all my schools were east of 35.
  4. That does suck, sorry. But honestly, I think a second anniversary of the 50th is more realistic next summer. Stay healthy, and plan big for a date that hopefully isn’t overbooked after we get the vaccine (crossing fingers! But honestly think we will. We are an amazing species at times, we can do this, we have to do this and we will).
  5. Do they feel ok? Sucks they’re positive but have they been able to weather it ok? Hoping none of them have been hospitalized or worse
  6. Sorry about your dad, hopefully it isn’t that. Fuck cancer
  7. Doubt it but possible. People generally wear masks everywhere here. And a lot of people know someone who died or at the very least had it and have been told they “wouldn’t wish it on their worst enemy”. I’m not saying we’ve handled it better but we definitely have taken it more serious than Texas has. Think ny will look more like the euros until the weather turns cold and then it’ll be a shitstorm again. And not much we’ll be able to do about it then other than just taking it. edit: also we never stopped riding the subway so not sure what you mean
  8. Jesus fuck. Back to shutting down subways? Be better, dumbass
  9. Or if they moved their maga hats out of the way so they could aim at Klayton, Kallie, and Katie a little better. Happy now you piece of shit?
  10. Yeah... disagree. Protests are about a show of solidarity in the vicinity of others while sports events for the audience involve communal celebration but don’t necessitate it. You can protest with a little bit of distance, mask on, and sober while being “safe”. but an audience at a major sporting event would mean drinking, possible frequent removal of masks or having them off, and limited distancing. And any drinking will lead to bad behaviors very easily. would be for having sports with no audience if we can figure out how to keep the players and their families CoVID free and socially healthy.
  11. Is there a graph/link to that data that it’s youngs? Or young’s protesting? Thought it was too early to see that correlation to the protests. But if you have it, would love for you to be right since hospitals are looking good for now. And thank you for the daily-ish Austin charts, they have been very informative.
  12. And bc we closed down the first wave was delayed, you opened up too early and now you will use all that extra space unfortunately to deal with the “grim shit”.
  13. Yes, we are trying to open up safely. We had to close down until we could but we are slowly opening up safely (admittedly relatively considering this is a novel virus). We will close down if we need to. Can Texas or Florida say the same?
  14. No, we are no where near herd immunity here. What’s your basis for column b?
  15. That NY is doing it correctly now And everyone else could be shutting down but instead chooses for grandma to die, for better or for worse. NYC was caught with our pants down for a variety of reasons, but there are still plenty of people for the virus to kill here, isn’t ny state at like 20% for herd immunity?
  16. I don't think you will see the same thing in NY. Least not in the summer and still too early to tell what the fall will bring in each area. Aside from the street drinking, the majority of people here wear masks almost all the time. Now, the street drinking might override that all even though it is mostly the youngs doing it, but I'm willing to bet/hope that it doesn't.
  17. That is “Doctor Fauci” to you, the wannabe dictator piece of shit traitor.
  18. Ah ok, that explains a lot (having been born in the 80s) of why i thought it was a texas thing. Thank you.
  19. yeah, i grew up thinking it was a texas thing. kind of irked me when all the yankees were trying to celebrate it here in the last couple years. but whatever. its for the greater good now.
  20. I like marlo's quote from his first scene better, "Do it or don't. I've got places to be."
  21. so that shit was real and not bait? holy shit, what a time to be alive
  22. Congrats, keep it up. Doing the work is tough but damn, it feels good fitting into the clothes you want to fit into. I'm about to hit my target weight, and while I don't have the flat abs/8pack/"Seriously, It's like you're photoshopped?!" I thought I'd have at this weight, I'm happy with the work I put in. Now I'm going to work on slowly NOT cutting calories and trying to maintain the level i'm at. Using those apps to track what i eat and over the next couple weeks going to increase it from lose 2 lbs to maintain over the next 2-3 weeks. I feel like a smoker who says "i'm great at quitting, i've done it a thousand times!" I can lose the weight and have a number of times (although not to the level I'm at now) but never really been good at maintaining. My goal now is to maintain this level of eating (not dieting) and exercise through the rest of summer as practice for football season when Saturdays wreck my shit. Then correct what ever needs correcting next Feb, as soon as Super Bowl Sunday is over.
  23. This thread moved fast while I was busy and caught up on others before this one, so responding to this b/c it was the last thing i read on here way back... Monday. Jesus, Covid fucks with time. Anyway, the chick who threw it at an occupied car is definitely guilty of attempted murder but thats not the chick. My buddy's ex is Urooj. Supposedly the last girl he seriously dated before going on a Tinder tear these last few years. Pretty sure it was his college sweet heart. It'll be a minute before I go through pages 55-94, so not gonna be able to respond immediately if there is other stuff after.
  24. No, but i can understand people in the last 48 hours thinking he was a racist and acting accordingly. Honestly I don’t agree with them but I haven’t read Zinn in decades so my memory is fuzzy.
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