This is good. Carry on.

(05-11-2020 09:08 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  This is good. Carry on.

I lived in Browning one year. No AC. Lol.

(05-11-2020 09:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-11-2020 09:08 PM)Browning Hall Wrote:  This is good. Carry on.

I lived in Browning one year. No AC. Lol.

I would have lived in a tent to get away from Mom & Dad. They were only five miles away if I needed something lol

(05-09-2020 09:31 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Yeah, traffic was a pain in the tail today and lines everywhere.

Frankly, I was glad to see so many people without masks. This ain't China!


Based on what I saw today, the people have decided the quarantine is over.

Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Would you similarly be glad to see foodservice workers handling raw chicken without gloves or people sneezing without covering their mouths?

I'm not talking about quarantines or anything else and certainly not about laws..... I'm simply talking about people doing you the common courtesy of 'controlling' their bodily fluids?

There are perhaps some legitimate reasons for your happiness, if you live in a very low contagion area of a state that had mandated masks or something... but if this is just a general comment, I'm confused as to why it would make you glad?

What would make ME glad is to see a lot of people voluntarily doing such simple and 'optional' things so that it (or worse, a lockdown) never needed to be mandated.

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 09:31 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Yeah, traffic was a pain in the tail today and lines everywhere.

Frankly, I was glad to see so many people without masks. This ain't China!


Based on what I saw today, the people have decided the quarantine is over.

Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Would you similarly be glad to see foodservice workers handling raw chicken without gloves or people sneezing without covering their mouths?

I'm not talking about quarantines or anything else and certainly not about laws..... I'm simply talking about people doing you the common courtesy of 'controlling' their bodily fluids?

There are perhaps some legitimate reasons for your happiness, if you live in a very low contagion area of a state that had mandated masks or something... but if this is just a general comment, I'm confused as to why it would make you glad?

What would make ME glad is to see a lot of people voluntarily doing such simple and 'optional' things so that it (or worse, a lockdown) never needed to be mandated.

What works for me is not getting worked up about it either way.

(05-12-2020 01:53 PM)TripleA Wrote:  What works for me is not getting worked up about it either way.

How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Do you consider changing the 'common courtesy' of sneezing into your elbow if you have, or thing you could have a contagious disease to wearing a mask 'getting worked up'?

Swine infected 60mm people... this (best we know) has infected maybe 2mm. If it had infected 60mm and killed the same percentage... so around 4mm people... would that be worth getting worked up over? Really just asking if there is 'some anticipated death rate' at which you think harsh actions were warranted?

Not intended to antagonize, just trying to define perspectives. I agree that we shouldn't get worked unnecessarily, and I support moves to 'raise the bar' on what is reasonable.


ETA... I've really been saying this from the beginning if someone wants to resurrect the 'overkill' thread... If we did these simple things as a courteous society, we wouldn't have had to do most of the things we've done, which wouldn't have encouraged/allowed ANY of the things that are so troubling.

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 09:31 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Yeah, traffic was a pain in the tail today and lines everywhere.

Frankly, I was glad to see so many people without masks. This ain't China!


Based on what I saw today, the people have decided the quarantine is over.

Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Would you similarly be glad to see foodservice workers handling raw chicken without gloves or people sneezing without covering their mouths?

I'm not talking about quarantines or anything else and certainly not about laws..... I'm simply talking about people doing you the common courtesy of 'controlling' their bodily fluids?

There are perhaps some legitimate reasons for your happiness, if you live in a very low contagion area of a state that had mandated masks or something... but if this is just a general comment, I'm confused as to why it would make you glad?

What would make ME glad is to see a lot of people voluntarily doing such simple and 'optional' things so that it (or worse, a lockdown) never needed to be mandated.

Mandate MY arse Karen.

(05-12-2020 02:08 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:53 PM)TripleA Wrote:  What works for me is not getting worked up about it either way.

How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Do you consider changing the 'common courtesy' of sneezing into your elbow if you have, or thing you could have a contagious disease to wearing a mask 'getting worked up'?

Swine infected 60mm people... this (best we know) has infected maybe 2mm. If it had infected 60mm and killed the same percentage... so around 4mm people... would that be worth getting worked up over? Really just asking if there is 'some anticipated death rate' at which you think harsh actions were warranted?

Not intended to antagonize, just trying to define perspectives. I agree that we shouldn't get worked unnecessarily, and I support moves to 'raise the bar' on what is reasonable.


ETA... I've really been saying this from the beginning if someone wants to resurrect the 'overkill' thread... If we did these simple things as a courteous society, we wouldn't have had to do most of the things we've done, which wouldn't have encouraged/allowed ANY of the things that are so troubling.

Simple. I don't get concerned about what other people do or don't do. Some people follow the rules. Some don't. Some go to jail. Some don't. Some are azzholes. Some aren't.

I just worry about myself and deal with it all.

And I don't lecture other people on message boards for having different opinions.

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-09-2020 09:31 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Yeah, traffic was a pain in the tail today and lines everywhere.

Frankly, I was glad to see so many people without masks. This ain't China!


Based on what I saw today, the people have decided the quarantine is over.

Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Would you similarly be glad to see foodservice workers handling raw chicken without gloves or people sneezing without covering their mouths?

I'm not talking about quarantines or anything else and certainly not about laws..... I'm simply talking about people doing you the common courtesy of 'controlling' their bodily fluids?

There are perhaps some legitimate reasons for your happiness, if you live in a very low contagion area of a state that had mandated masks or something... but if this is just a general comment, I'm confused as to why it would make you glad?

What would make ME glad is to see a lot of people voluntarily doing such simple and 'optional' things so that it (or worse, a lockdown) never needed to be mandated.

Because, personally -- and this is just my opinion -- I think the statistics are out of whack. The chance of getting the disease is low. The chance of having adverse effects from the disease is even lower. The change of death is even lower than those.

I live in Memphis/Shelby County. We're battling it out with Nashville/Davidson County to see who has the most cases. As of now they're ahead by 151 cases, 3,580 to 3,429. So we're not in an area with low confirmed cases. But, we're sitting at 0.35%. That's not even one-half of one percent of the population.

We don't shut down our economy for other diseases. We don't run around wearing masks for prior contagious diseases.

People can control their body fluids on their own.

Wash your hands. But prior to this outbreak people either washed their hands or they didn't We survived the chicken problem.

As it turns out, I'm a (somewhat compulsive) hand-washer. Always have been. To the point that my wife used to joke about it.

USED to joke about. Not any more. :D

I've always used napkins to pick up the salt/pepper shakers at restaurants and paper towels to open the bathroom door. Stupid McDonald's makes me use toilet paper.

I've always turned away and covered my mouth when I sneeze or cough.

But even though I routinely do those things, not everyone else did. And we survived as a society.

Masks are overkill. Or they may not be as effective as some think they are. There are many people who say masks exacerbate the problem while there are others who swear by them.

I went along with shutting everything down and doing the self-quarantine for a bit -- not because I agreed with it, though.

(05-12-2020 02:08 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:53 PM)TripleA Wrote:  What works for me is not getting worked up about it either way.

How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Do you consider changing the 'common courtesy' of sneezing into your elbow if you have, or thing you could have a contagious disease to wearing a mask 'getting worked up'?

Swine infected 60mm people... this (best we know) has infected maybe 2mm. If it had infected 60mm and killed the same percentage... so around 4mm people... would that be worth getting worked up over? Really just asking if there is 'some anticipated death rate' at which you think harsh actions were warranted?

Not intended to antagonize, just trying to define perspectives. I agree that we shouldn't get worked unnecessarily, and I support moves to 'raise the bar' on what is reasonable.


ETA... I've really been saying this from the beginning if someone wants to resurrect the 'overkill' thread... If we did these simple things as a courteous society, we wouldn't have had to do most of the things we've done, which wouldn't have encouraged/allowed ANY of the things that are so troubling.

"How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Sorry but just reading your Post on this subject. You are one worked up person. And I have to agree with TripleA, you do tend to lecture people.

(05-12-2020 03:27 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 02:08 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:53 PM)TripleA Wrote:  What works for me is not getting worked up about it either way.

How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Do you consider changing the 'common courtesy' of sneezing into your elbow if you have, or thing you could have a contagious disease to wearing a mask 'getting worked up'?

Swine infected 60mm people... this (best we know) has infected maybe 2mm. If it had infected 60mm and killed the same percentage... so around 4mm people... would that be worth getting worked up over? Really just asking if there is 'some anticipated death rate' at which you think harsh actions were warranted?

Not intended to antagonize, just trying to define perspectives. I agree that we shouldn't get worked unnecessarily, and I support moves to 'raise the bar' on what is reasonable.


ETA... I've really been saying this from the beginning if someone wants to resurrect the 'overkill' thread... If we did these simple things as a courteous society, we wouldn't have had to do most of the things we've done, which wouldn't have encouraged/allowed ANY of the things that are so troubling.

"How do you define 'getting worked up'?

Sorry but just reading your Post on this subject. You are one worked up person. And I have to agree with TripleA, you do tend to lecture people.

Lol. Dude took a beating over this and CANT let it go.

We KNOW who is worked up.

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Speaking for myself because it would mean that there aren't as many stupid sheep out there wearing useless masks that aren't protecting anybody from anything and are probably doing more to spread any possible contagions that the false narrative says they are preventing.

(05-12-2020 04:33 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Speaking for myself because it would mean that there aren't as many stupid sheep out there wearing useless masks that aren't protecting anybody from anything and are probably doing more to spread any possible contagions that the false narrative says they are preventing.

it's become the latest version of facism...fk dat...

#choice

Thanks to all three of you for clearly demonstrating the problem as I see it.

Shere, I believe you started, or at least participated in a thread suggesting that we weren't far from open revolution. I think that makes it VERY clear how worked up YOU are over this.

As for me, Redbanks, I'm arguably worked up, but not over 'this' (the government's covid response). It's like being upset at a dog for licking its balls. The government has been expanding its power since any of us were born. What I'm worked up over is people like Shere who are quite literally the poster-boys for the power-grabbers he complains about. He's the reason they feel justified in doing these things. He won't just quietly do as he pleases (which I've suggested) but insists on at least the idea that making a scene (or even revolution) is a good idea.... and then wonders why 'the government' is cracking down? I lecture him because he's the one giving power to his (and my) enemy. He's the reason they're passing laws.... because they know he won't do it voluntarily... and by making a scene, he's allowing them to create a target.

I feel like the guy who quietly owns 100 guns... telling the guy in Springfield who owns three, but insists on making a scene by putting on a flak jacket and tactical gear and openly carrying all three through the Wal-Mart to shut the **** up.... because it's THAT guy, and not the guy who quietly owns 100 whom politicians put in their ads and gin up 2nd amendment opposition to.

Having the opinion that the government should just 'let you do you' is a perfectly reasonable political goal... one I fully support... but we're so far from that right now that you may as well be wishing for unicorn farts.

The fact is, about 35% of the country want to take away most of our rights... and about 25% of the country want to take them back from the government... I'm one of those...
but 25% doesn't pass a bill, nor does it win an election, much less a revolution.

So it sounds all tough and independent and all... meanwhile the government keeps doing what it's been doing

Like it or not, in 4 years I don't see another Trump waiting in the wings... do you? I see all sorts of Bernie's. Lecture or not, some of you know I'm right

(05-12-2020 04:33 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Speaking for myself because it would mean that there aren't as many stupid sheep out there wearing useless masks that aren't protecting anybody from anything and are probably doing more to spread any possible contagions that the false narrative says they are preventing.

If they keep us from shutting down again 'the next time', are they useless?

Well more than 50% of the population see this reaction as 'rational', even if they would make some minor changes.

(05-12-2020 06:04 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 04:33 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Speaking for myself because it would mean that there aren't as many stupid sheep out there wearing useless masks that aren't protecting anybody from anything and are probably doing more to spread any possible contagions that the false narrative says they are preventing.

If they keep us from shutting down again 'the next time', are they useless?

Well more than 50% of the population see this reaction as 'rational', even if they would make some minor changes.

That's the problem, they aren't going to keep us from shutting down. If anything they are liable to lead to more shutdowns in the future because the undeserved sense of safety people wearing them have causing them to be lax on other safety protocols that actually would keep us from being locked down again.

Besides, you and I both know that since the sheep went along so willingly and simply handed their rights away this time around, yourself included, there's going to be future lockdowns just like this regardless if you are wearing a mask that up until a couple weeks ago was a t-shirt you got from the Justin Bieber concert you went to two years ago or not.

(05-12-2020 07:04 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 06:04 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 04:33 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(05-12-2020 01:48 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Serious question....
Why would you be glad to see so many people without masks?

Speaking for myself because it would mean that there aren't as many stupid sheep out there wearing useless masks that aren't protecting anybody from anything and are probably doing more to spread any possible contagions that the false narrative says they are preventing.

If they keep us from shutting down again 'the next time', are they useless?

Well more than 50% of the population see this reaction as 'rational', even if they would make some minor changes.

That's the problem, they aren't going to keep us from shutting down. If anything they are liable to lead to more shutdowns in the future because the undeserved sense of safety people wearing them have causing them to be lax on other safety protocols that actually would keep us from being locked down again.

Besides, you and I both know that since the sheep went along so willingly and simply handed their rights away this time around, yourself included, there's going to be future lockdowns just like this regardless if you are wearing a mask that up until a couple weeks ago was a t-shirt you got from the Justin Bieber concert you went to two years ago or not.

XACLY! and lmao....

it's another version of 'phasing in' a control mechanism....

#muhSheeple

Dude thinks I'm worked up. Lulz

Saw on the news that the suburbs here are already pushing to re-open movie theatres, ball fields/ parks, bowling alleys, etc. Meanwhile, I hope those folks in NYC and LA enjoy their summer being locked inside.

(05-13-2020 07:28 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Saw on the news that the suburbs here are already pushing to re-open movie theatres, ball fields/ parks, bowling alleys, etc. Meanwhile, I hope those folks in NYC and LA enjoy their summer being locked inside.

the Health Department is now pushing the narrative that the surrounding counties viral reproduction rates "are concerning". So, even if Memphis is fine, look for them to use Crittendon/Tipton/Fayette/Desoto evidence as well.