I will miss occasionally shouting at the dicknoses and the maskless.
This weekend I saw my first bunnings sausage sizzle since February, which is surely a sign that everyone thinks everything is back to normal and will be back in lockdown well before we get a sniff of the vaccine.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/07/on_the_uk_governments_covid19related/
"IT workers join elite sports stars, fat cat biz execs, celebs and posties for special treatment under England's COVID-19 travel isolation rules"
woot!
― koogs, Monday, 7 December 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
well done, headline writer
― Nhex, Monday, 7 December 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
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Does the entire Register aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
i have always liked their headlines
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
Looking forward to my post-vaccine transformation into a cyborg for socialism!
― Bnad, Monday, 7 December 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
I just got back from a run of the mill supermarket. Most people were wearing masks, but - and I know correlation is not causation - literally everyone I saw wearing a mask improperly was in a high risk group, or some combination high risk groups.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
the olds, or the sicks?
― Nhex, Monday, 7 December 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Elderly, obese, or African-American. Or two or three of those categories. I just don't get it. If you know to wear a mask, how can you still not know how to wear it properly? Especially if you are in a higher risk group.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 December 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
My uncle's funeral service was webcast on Saturday. I mostly held it together until the photo montage, at which point I wept a little when I saw pictures of him together with my mom.
― DJP, Monday, 7 December 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
So sorry, Dan.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
JiC, a lot of older people don't have masks that fit them properly, and surprise surprise, the messaging about masks in my majority minority city is not being broadcast to the poorer, Blacker neighborhoods.
If there was any sort of coordinated, national effort to get people to wear masks and wear them properly, we wouldn't be having these problems.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
It would be nice if the uncoordinated national effort to spread disinformation, fear, uncertainty and doubt was tamped down to a quiet murmur, too.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Monday, 7 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
Sorry again, Dan.
This disease is terrible and how it is forcing us to grieve and attempt to find or offer comfort via screens just adds to the toll it takes.
I came here to moan about taking my third covid swab in three days but maybe a wee bit of perspective...
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
My father in law has needed of heart valve surgery for the last year, but it was delayed due to other health issues and then covid in March. His health deteriorated further and he just went to the ER because of how bad he was feeling and it ends up what he thought was a hernia is likely a sarcoma the size of a grapefruit. We're three hours away and my wife couldn't get in the hospital to see him anyway and he is too weak from the heart/other health issues to have chemo/surgery so things aren't looking good. So he's probably going to die soon, alone, and my wife won't be able to see him or give him a hug and it won't be listed as covid, but fuck this shit.
― Joe Biden Shot My Dog - Vols. I-XL (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
How awful, I'm so sorry.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Fuck, PBKR :(. I'm so sorry - nobody deserves to go through that
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
PBKR and DJP, hugs.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
Jfc. So sorry PBKR.
My mom is still in hospital with what they say is pneumonia, and she seems to be responding well to antibiotics. They say she's getting out tomorrow...my fingers are crossed because the longer she stays in....
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
I know that anxiety, ttitt. COVID has a lot of ways to get at you, including how it fucked up PBKR's father-in-law.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
Major hugs to DJP and PBKR.
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
Seconded
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
my condolences, DJP... and sympathy for PBKR and everyone else
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
<3 DJP & PBKR
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
i'm sorry this is happening, for you both. <3
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
Thanks everyone for the well wishes.
Covid is complicating things absolutely; just not being able to see him and having to get information over the phone are difficulties. Btw, this is in Eastern PA and we have been hearing that the hospital is basically at capacity (I wonder why). He spent 36 hours in the ER partially because they had no place for him.
― Joe Biden Shot My Dog - Vols. I-XL (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
Thanks, everyone
― DJP, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
on a related note, people are evil and stupid: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/us/los-angeles-super-spreader-party-arrests/index.html
― DJP, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
the most evil and stupid person in that article is the LA county sherrif btw, who is refusing to enforce the county and state's public health measures, while calling press conferences about "public safety" in non-white parts of the county.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
I'm now on 4 covid tests in 4 days
hopefully I'm doing my bit to keep overall test positivity levels low enough to get the pubs open for Christmas or something
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
onimo, I'm sorry you're still stuck in COVID limbo. Any progress on getting the scans done so you can get out of there?
― colette, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
By “in that article” do you mean actually quoted, caek? because actually sex trafficking a minor is pretty evil if true. xp
― pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
I am pretty skeptical about reports of “sex trafficking” coming out of the la sherrifs department at the exact moment there is finally a push to cut their budget and impeach the sheriff. And honestly there’s a pretty long list of terrible crimes that are less evil than the routine policing work of the most murderous police force in the nation. But sure, if true.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Basically they are killers, and they also lie about specific crimes *all the time* https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-30/police-public-relations
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
sex trafficking is a real thing but it becomes a right-wing bogeyman at convenient moments - which includes them actually murkying the waters on what trafficking is (as opposed to being kidnapped out of a Target from the Xbox aisle)
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
Sorry this is a derail. My sympathies to everyone posting their own news on this thread.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
This happened in New Orleans: https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/the_latest/article_7441a6d4-33f4-11eb-9fc2-c393a2fe67c3.html
Are we allowed to note that this was a really fucking stupid idea or no?
― DJP, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
I'm past scans etc and heading for surgery in the morning. Repeated covid tests are due to repeated equipment delays.
Details on the Fuck Cancer thread ---
fuck cancer
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
xp let he who has not had a key party during a global pandemic throw the first etc
― lukas, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
key?
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
another form of swinger's party, where you all put your keys into a bowl and then you pick someone's out at random and whomever's keys you get is whom you ride the baloney pony with that night
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
I always spell that "bologna pogna"
― DJP, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
Update: Bob Hannaford says in his blog that he sent his co-host wife to Mexico this year because she has a compromised immune system.
"As I was writing everyone to try and convince high-risk people not to come, I thought of my own wife (Tess) who has a compromised immune system," he wrote. "How could I ask her to attend when I was telling others in her situation not to come? How could I move forward with the event without Tess? More moral and ethical decisions to make. I decided to send Tess back down to Mexico where it was a lot safer than the U.S."
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
My Dad got an NHS mask examption card, which is interesting. He only has one lung, which I guess is why.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 12 December 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
I'm impressed by, and envious of, some of my friends' fearlessness in the face of this. They're not covid deniers at all, but they are able to live their lives with some semblance of normalcy, even extending to traveling with family and friends to holiday destinations with precautions but without worry. They are younger than me, so I can kind of get it. I would like to join them and feel like I'm missing out, but I can't.
― Dan S, Sunday, 13 December 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
odds are it will turn out fine for them. possibly less so for their servants at holiday destinations. one of their kids might collapse while playing baseketball, but that might have happened anyway
also, fuck off you fucking clown
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
fuck you
― Dan S, Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
your friends are idiots
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
I don't think they are though. I don't really understand
― Dan S, Sunday, 13 December 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link