Califan007 The Constipated

Didn't consider the "lure" aspect lol...

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2020, ladies and gentlemen....

At the store I go to, they have plexiglass between the cashiers and the customers, all employees are required to wear masks, they have markings on the floor as to where to stand when in line, The first hour the store is open is only for shoppers 60 years and older, They have a limit on the number of people allowed I the store at one time, they wrapped the debit/credit card payment machine in plastic that gets changed every hour, and about 75% of the shoppers are wearing masks. But there are numerous times when you're definitely within 6 feet of someone, it's almost impossible to avoid. But everyone is REALLY courteous lol...never heard so many people say "After you", "no, after you, I insist" in my life. For me it's more the logic (or lack of) behind believing this type of stuff. Like you said, wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out some hospitals ended up attributing some deaths to COVID and being motivated by money when they do...but the idea that it's being done on such a massive scale as to call into question the legitimacy of the COVID death count boggles the mind. And it would be sooooooo damn easy to prove, too lol...

My feed has been getting the "Hospitals are counting all deaths as COVID-19 deaths to get more money" tweets lately...thankfully not from anyone I follow but because those I follow end up responding to the nonsense and it gets put on my feed. One woman said she has family members that work at a hospital and since March they were instructed to report all deaths as COVID deaths, and that the actual death total from COVID is much lower than being reported. I said, "So, if you checked the hospital where your family members work, there would be zero deaths recorded from heart disease, cancer, gunshot wounds, car accidents, drug overdoses, etc., and just 100% deaths from COVID?"...she said she didn't know because she doesn't work there lol 😂...

Prince had a series of concerts in London that were $10 bucks a show....I mean, damn lol. At one point, a show was advertised at $70 a ticket and people were lined up around the block ready to buy, and he changed it so that it was back to $10 instead.

I've been using webex and gotomeeting for online meetings for like 12 years. Never needed to see anyone else. Plus, the UI tells you who is talking at any given moment, and we can share our screens to show the interface work we're conducting or the usability test results PPT. We've had a few perspective clients use video on their end to talk to us and it always come across as tacky and unprofessional. Bad lighting, half-drawn horizontal blinds, trash can in the corner, etc, etc...it's distracting, actually. Much prefer talk-only meetings where you just pay attention to what's being said.

Thanks for that update...that story pissed me off to no end.

Cinco de Mayo Menu Diet Coke Microwave popcorn

2020 in a nutshell...

Stimulus Proposal: $2,000 Payment Plus $1,000 Per Month Until 1 Year After Crisis Ends 😐 I feel like the government knows something is about to happen...

We survived the Bowling Green Massacre, we can survive Covfefe-19!! #OpenTheStripclubsNow

In that first one, there's a disembodied hand holding a football lol 😐

Some family portraits after a month and a half of quarantine...

I love that song...

Add me to the club lol.. Actually had a date this time.

Hence the name lol... But right now I'm stuck in Ohio (I'm really close to my daughter, though, so "stuck" isn't the right word to use there).

Some severely underrated 80s funk... It's gettin' ready to shake You're gettin' ready to ache Somebody done snitched to the news crew And it's gettin' ready to break You're gettin' ready to lie They're gettin' ready to spy Somebody' s been put on the hot seat And you're gettin' ready to fry

Pretty sure he didn't get tasered.

I thought the point @Bacon was making was that since there are empty beds in the hospital, it actually means the strain on hospitals has not gone up even though the number of confirmed COVID cases increased (along with what we can assume would be increases in the ICU and increases in those needing ventilators). People who do not have COVID would rarely require trips to the ICU or to be put on ventilators, I would assume.

Got my threads mixed up lol...I was actually responding to another poster on the COVID thread but assumed the discussion continued over here by mod directive. The other poster said, among other things: "I’m sure there is a no weapons law in state houses and any other government building, there are here in Charlotte. Every one of those people armed in that building are breaking the law, and our law enforcement should act accordingly. As was stated, if they were black, you can bet some **** would hit the fan. " The Great Buzz responded with "If you are so sure, would you mind providing a link to said law?" When I came over here I saw TGB going back and forth with Dat T and just assumed Dan was the one who asked that first question on the other thread...whoops lol. Then yeah, you missed my point. My point was not about gun laws. Whether or not they're allowed to do it is one billion percent irrelevant to the point I was making.

What's the point the article is trying to make?...I can't read it without subscribing. And would the strain on hospitals be best measured by the number of confirmed COVID cases? It feels like those patients would require the most hospital resources (equipment and human resources).