Wanker Bob

Went to the state fair for the first time a few years ago and first thing was got a beer then 2nd was a corny dog. Didn't like it. Took 2 bites then tossed it and got a giant baked potato topped with cajun shrimp that was damn good

it's by no means any kind of win but it's the reality every American family who has no bearing on the choices of American leadership lives in right now. Of course there are stark differences to the blitz or other past disasters but what is similar is we have to adapt to our circumstances and be smart to survive them as best we can. Choosing the send your children to a place where other infected children from families you don't know will be present with them for hours each day is not taking the safety of your family seriously.

I think it's pretty clear at this point Europe and pretty much every developed nation will be way on the downside of this and opened back up while we're still dealing with massive numbers of infections. This disparity could possibly last months. What does that do to US dominance world wide? Most likely the EU and most countries will ban travel from the US and therefore their citizens won't come here either. Tourism will be devastated for a long time. Could this have a negative impact on exports? On international business dealings? Does it get so bad long enough that the US slides down the superpower ladder and the world looks more to the likes of China?

I meant the herd immunity argument people

Ahhh the old "let's sacrifice over a million lives, destroy our medical professionals, and potentially set up tens of million of Americans with permanent health damage" plan Hitler would be proud.

I think that was the study before Israel had single digits cases per day and opened schools fully only to see an explosion.

As a kid outside London there was a chap who was a giant pain in the ass named Robert Willingham. A little wannabe bully in our neighborhood we nicknamed "Wanker Bob". Seemed fitting for this instance.

Thanks for the info. There's no way to get the equivalent of a normal year. Just can't happen no matter what you do. We've been about mitigating risk so far and have set up small socialization groups periodically since March for both the girl and my wife. Other than one night of partying where my wife cracked we've been pretty good at managing this with risk mitigation. We would just continue to do so with this new virtual learning situation mixed in. It's not easy but right now is a time for sacrifice and perseverance. We're making sure the child understands this is needed at times in life but shall pass and we will be stronger for it. We have a very unique situation I don't wish to delved into online but so far it's worked out as well as can be expected and we got lucky my wife didn't get infected during her night of clubbing.

Point is we don't know the long term effects yet. There's evidence of heart issues in children from it but nothing concrete as children aren't the focal point of medical study and resources at the moment. So no one knows how this could effect them long term. Also, their physical health is only part of the problem with sending them back to school en masse. In a risk vs reward evaluation I just don't see how it's a risk worth taking.

I never said they didn't, but it's a fact having to find alternative learning situations for your kids is far better than having to deal with their death/permanent damage from viral infection/death of their parents/grandparents. To argue otherwise is pure insanity and not even worth entertaining. For my step daughter we're entertaining this for the upcoming school year: https://www.iuniversityprep.org/ We know a couple of kids who went this route because of behavioral issues and heard good things about it. At least it's a concept that has experience with virtual learning and should be better than a makeshift one thrown together by ISD's that have zero experience other than what they were forced into 5 months ago.

Isolation is very difficult indeed but these risks are what parents and children have had to deal with through all of human history up until our last couple of generations. We've become extremely spoiled and have been chasing self actualization in Maslow's Hierachy in this society for all our lives. Well now that shit is gone. We dropped way to the bottom with this pandemic and now are scrambling to satisfy physiological and safety needs. I'm sure parents and kids during the London Blitzkrieg wanted to go out and play and go to school and pretend everything was safe too. Same for every location in every society that deals with widespread disaster, war, famine, and disease outbreaks. But it's not a luxury to be afforded when mere survival is the front most pressing need and we are smack in it right now in the USA. Your kids' isolation issues can be managed and overcome. Their permanent brain/lung/heart damage and/or living with the guilt that their school activities led directly to mom/dad/grandma/grandpa's deaths cannot.

if you send your kid to a school this fall you will be purposely infecting them. There is zero possibility they don't get exposed to the virus in that environment with how horribly this country and state in particular have handled the outbreak. I would keep my kid home from school for a year and just have them pick up next year on whatever grade they would have gone into before I sent them to get infected and possibly damage them permanently, and also myself, my wife, and our parents. It's sheer insanity if anybody would willingly send their kids to a school next month in this country.

Anyone who would send their kid to a pandemic factory to purposely infect them I'd an unfit parent and should do time for child endangerment. Sure the fatality rate for children is very low but we don't know the long term effects of infection and there's already evidence of possibly permanent lung damage in mild or asymptomatic people.

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Racist, tbh

The person in office is a complete idiot but is competent at stealing. The smart criminals are the business people who are kissing his ass to get giant contracts with the government only to completely abdicate any responsibility to fulfill them. Like these clowns who put up a makeshift shitty wall then run off with 1.7 billion of American deficit.

He's talking basically about one or two very specific neighborhood clinic in Queens. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-antibodies.html https://www.businessinsider.com/68-people-tested-at-new-york-clinic-had-coronavirus-antibodies-2020-7 But it wasn't randomized testing as far as I can tell so chances are the only people that took the test were people that were feeling sick already enough to go to a clinic. Of course that's going to lead to higher antibodies and positive test results, so if they took those specific neighborhoods and did completely randomized antibody testing chances are the numbers would be far far lower. Of course because he's zork he says all of NYC.

The problem is the US is 40-50 percent zorks. It's why democracy is completely failing. Democracy requires competent and contentious citizens.

Oh those numbers aren't counting violent crimes perpetrated by police.

If you aren't looking for ambiance and just quality food one of my favorites was always White Sands Restaurant in Port Isabel. Lower prices and damn good fried seafood just has a small town diner feel.

So the promise of a $1 margarita got you laid? Were these Ethiopian refugees straight off the boat?

Racist, tbh

I was thinking of going down here next month to get away and sit on the beach for a bit. I'm very familiar with the area but with the valley hospitals getting blasted by the pandemic is it worth the trip right now? If so what are good accommodations at the moment? Are most of the restaurants available for takeout? Do they do takeout cocktails?

It's more about each conference controlling the dynamics. They may just have a centralized location for the conference games or something. They'll figure out a way to not lose out on a billion dollars.