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One of my bosses is sick with a high fever and waiting on the results of his covid test. One of our other office people is feeling a little weird too and she had to work closeish around him late last week. I'm high risk as ****, so I've wiped down all my computer and phone stuff and I'm trying to stay as safe as possible during the times I have to work in the office. I was also around the guy myself last Monday, but so far I feel fine, outside of my usual seizures, chronic pain, and CKD. Dude's wife works for a hospital. It was just a matter of time really that he would get this thing and I'm kind of low-key pissed that he didn't take more precautions not just for himself but the other people around him. Way too many people still are not taking this seriously enough.

My wife and I are high risk for different reasons so we have someone do our shopping for us and they use self checkout.

I don't trust people to maintain good hygiene, especially at a fast paced job like working a drive-thru at lunch time. That person is exchanging germs with so many different types of people and then handing your bags to you. Personally I try to carefully remove food from the outside bag without touching them, discard the bag, wash my hands and then deal with the food. But, I doubt most people do that. They're digging into their waffle fries as soon as they get them.

Doesn't seem worth the risk to be ordering fast food from these places. Those tellers are touching so many people's cards and cash. Better to get carry out from higher end restaurants that switch out gloves with every carry out meal and have less traffic coming through during the day.

@stevemcqueen1 if you don't mind me asking, do you have any opinion on his hand placement/technique? I haven't looked deep into Charles' cut-ups myself, but I read Bullock's take and his main issue with him was missing often with his outside hand placement in particular, but also having both hands high and wide and leaving his chest open to edge rushers.

For those wondering if we picked him too high...

Man, I can definitely tell the difference between indica and Sativa. Different strains will give me different mixtures of head and body highs and then different shades of each or different hybrids will give me different mixtures of feelings in my body. But, I only vape at lowish temperatures to preserve the terp profile and I try to only mess with connoisseur grade, organically grown, and highly developed strains that have multidimensional personality. I don’t get straight smoking anymore. I want to taste my green and I’m not into taking all that tar and stuff into my body. I had this really cool strain called Magnum Terps from the Turtle Pie Company which actually has layers of terps that change as you get closer to the stem. It has a sweet almost gelato smell to the middle, that then changes to straight gas once you get to the stem. That one has a really distinct high that hits you full blown in body and mind. MAC-1 from Capulator has a really distinct body high all to its own. I had some Pop Rocks the other day from a Las Vegas company that tastes a bit like actual pop rocks and it gives you this super clear head high that hits you in the back of the head and lower neck and is really great for creative work. I mostly mess with indica or indica leaning hybrids but i bet if you tried something like Durban poison which is straight Sativa and then something like Violator Kush you’d be able to tell the difference between highs.

Nah, we can do better. Every man/woman for those who are worth a damn and trying to protect people precious to them. Like our doctors and nurses and grocery store people and those who gave the GOP the middle finger in Wisconsin. There are people worth protecting and fighting for. Let’s not throw the baby out with the **** water.

This country is filled with adult age children.

Is there a larger point to you asking me these questions? Unofficially the opportunity to learn and model critical thinking skills can occur all throughout life, from parents to peers, to self-teaching through taking on a "pathless road" of figuring things out for yourself and testing your results and analysis in a systematic and progressive way, which would also involve critical peer review. Officially, I'd have to dive deeper into what schools and colleges are currently teaching people and then differentiate them based on whatever streams of data I find and their co-determinant variables. The teaching and application of critical thinking should be pervasive in all walks of life. We have a shared responsibility as a human race to teach ourselves and each other how to develop, exercise, and maintain the capabilities needed for critical thinking. We can talk about degrees of responsibility commensurate to degrees of capability with critical thinking, but no single person or group is either 0% responsible or 100% responsible. Again, we all share responsibility, because we are all effected by the decisions made by humanity to a greater or lesser degree.

What we have now is what happens when a society teaches memorization and regurgitation over critical thinking. Many people can get diplomas from college just doing the former and then go out into the world never doing the latter.

How about we both take a second and compare/contrast the following variables between the flu and covid-19 ? What is the R0 value for each so far or estimated R0 range in Covid-19’s case? What is the estimated fatality rate for Covid versus the flu? What is the timeline for the flu deaths vs the timeline so far for Covid? Hint, One is a much longer time frame than the other because one is still in progress. Then what are the differences in fatality rates per capita in those countries implementing social distancing versus those who are not? Now im not going to make the mistake of doing the work for you. Compare those variable and maybe then you’ll get it.

Sooooo... you still don't get it?

I hope this finally convinces more people that they are sharing a country with a segment of the population who is perfectly willing to violate every value Americans are supposed to hold dear to hold onto their power. They are cancers, they are valueless, and see us as objects to drain for their own benefit. They all need to be changed, contained, or destroyed. The severity of those options depends on their continued behavior. They will not change themselves, they will not self-regulate or self-restrain. We have to stop them.

I completely agree. We as a human race need to take up as a conscious practice the managing of our emotional and cognitive palate. We need to understand that just like our taste palate can maladapt to prefer **** food over nutritional value, so to can our mind, emotions, and spirit. People accept way too much **** in their life that maladapts their character and spirit. It cheapens and dilutes who they are and people don’t have the humility to understand that the changes are subtle and occur by nature within our blind spots and no one is immune to the change. If we are exposed to it and internalize it in any way, it will effect us. And we don’t have enough of a shared sophistication and level of observational nuance to recognize and properly communicate when a person’s palate is off and what they need to do about it in a way that people will accept and internalize and then act upon. We as a society will have to develop in these ways so that we properly safeguard positions of huge responsibility from sociopaths and others who have just straight diarrhea **** emotional, cognitive, and spiritual palates.

I work in construction and there are certain activities where N95 masks are required so things like silica particles don't get into your lungs. However, I've talked with a couple of the largest commercial suppliers of these masks along the East Coast and they've already allocated the majority of their stock to hospitals and one of them donated some to the Manassas area hospitals.

These are hard as ****. I used to do these too, but for us the jokers meant you had to re-do the last 5 cards you discarded. Our exercises were pull-ups, push-ups, burpies, and I can't remember what the last one was.

Prepare to be shocked then. Shelter in place for all of VA.

I wonder if he'll be making the same stay at home order Hogan just made in MD?

Anyone watching All American on Netflix? It’s a football/drama show based on a true story about a kid from Crenshaw taking his chance on getting to the NFL, starting from high school. Its got great characters with actual integrity and character which is a breath of fresh air from all the other shows that seemed to be filled with weak and petty mother****ers. My wife loves it too,

Problem is people aren't differentiating between normal scrub masks versus industrial N95 masks.

We have a severe problem with character, shared responsibility, and the meaning of community in this country. I've been saying it for a long time, but it's the kind of thing that people only pay lip service too until it's too late. These types of challenges and life-threatening situations are exactly what training to have good character is for.