Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Freeza]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Sine when is Cape Cod known as a dangerous place to live with lots of violence? I grew up on the Cape and it was peaceful and quiet. Granted that was decades ago, but we're talking about the Cape here, not the Bronx, yet even on the Cape we're reading about violent customers causing a restaurant to close out of fear.

Have you been back for a visit in the past several years? There's a lot of hard drug use there, especially in the off season, and with practically everything shut down, it's pretty much the off season.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by philzilla

you should learn to multi-quote

Sorry, too much coffee this morning. I need to cut back.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by chip75

The restaurant thing is easy enough, either provide masks at the door to all customers who need them (supermarkets will have to do this as well) and/or have someone blocking the entrance like the do at nightclubs (with one of those rope things, people seem to respect those), people can't just walk in anymore, so they should be a necessity, refusal to wear a mask means refusal of entrance.

An eight-foot bouncer is optional.

I think people should be responsible for their own masks, at this point. No one is going to learn that this is protocol from now on.

No shirt. No shoes. No mask. No service.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by philzilla

you should learn to multi-quote

It doesn't bother me for one second.

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

I think people should be responsible for their own masks, at this point. No one is going to learn that this is protocol from now on.

No shirt. No shoes. No mask. No service.

If I was in the restaurant business (food groceries, drugstores, ...) I would try to accommodate my customers who don't have a mask during a pandemic ...

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

I think people should be responsible for their own masks, at this point. No one is going to learn that this is protocol from now on.

No shirt. No shoes. No mask. No service.

Lol I have been at work having to wear one for three days now an I'm ready to $@#@# rage with these things. Surgical, gators and n95's all super annoying to wear.

What the new normal for me is going to be anyways is not going out much anymore, movies, food entertainment all can be done at home now I guess if this nonsense will be the new normal.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Bigdog

Lol I have been at work having to wear one for three days now an I'm ready to $@#@# rage with these things. Surgical, gators and n95's all super annoying to wear.

What the new normal for me is going to be anyways is not going out much anymore, movies, food entertainment all can be done at home now I guess if this nonsense will be the new normal.

I agree; N95 and most surgical masks are not comfortable.
We need masks that are comfy, easy to breathe in&out, and safe, and washable and reusable.
Whoever make those should make billions of them for the entire globe's population.
...Every towns, villages, cities, ...
And they shouldn't cost more than just few dineros.

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by Bigdog

Lol I have been at work having to wear one for three days now an I'm ready to $@#@# rage with these things. Surgical, gators and n95's all super annoying to wear.

What the new normal for me is going to be anyways is not going out much anymore, movies, food entertainment all can be done at home now I guess if this nonsense will be the new normal.

I’ve been using a neck gaiter. It’s warmer, but the comfort level is way better.

[bruceames]

Wolrldmeters site has a new column called "projections" which has interesting info.

Have noticed that New York cases are way down lately. Other states now have more daily cases. Hopefully it stays that way.

California on the other hand has been annoying consistent, even trending upwards on cases. The LA area needs to get this under control before they loosen statewide restrictions.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[mar3o]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ticke...b61ff94e84126a

A railway ticket worker in London has died from the coronavirus two weeks after she was spat at and coughed on by a man who said he had COVID-19, the disease caused by the contagion, the transport workers’ union said.

The assailant demanded to know what the women were doing at the station, per the BBC, and spit on them when they said they were working. Both women ended up contracting COVID-19, according to their union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association. The man escaped and hasn’t been caught.

I really hope they catch him and charge him with murder.

[Batman1980]

I hope he resists arrest and they have to manhandle him.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by chip75

The restaurant thing is easy enough, either provide masks at the door to all customers who need them (supermarkets will have to do this as well) and/or have someone blocking the entrance like the do at nightclubs (with one of those rope things, people seem to respect those), people can't just walk in anymore, so they should be a necessity, refusal to wear a mask means refusal of entrance.

An eight-foot bouncer is optional.

But you can't eat with a mask on, so what's the point of a mask in restaurant? Who would want to sit at a table with a mask? I'd rather stay home and eat.

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

I’ve been using a neck gaiter. It’s warmer, but the comfort level is way better.

Our site workers agree with that, our boss bought a couple hundred gators, but for me they just wont stay up around my nose. I am seriously putting myself in greater risk just trying to wear these mask's as I am grabbing around my face ten fold more now.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Freeza

Have you been back for a visit in the past several years? There's a lot of hard drug use there, especially in the off season, and with practically everything shut down, it's pretty much the off season.

I haven't been back there in a very long time. That's too bad to hear. Is that just in certain areas?

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by mar3o

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ticke...b61ff94e84126a





I really hope they catch him and charge him with murder.

Agreed. But how would you prove they got it from him?

[mar3o]

I made my weekly trip to the grocery store today. At one point I saw a little old lady with a mask following a meat dept. guy around as he was putting meat out, just talking up a storm and standing not more than a foot away from him, right up in his face. He kept trying to walk away and she would follow him.

Don't people realize these workers don't want to chit-chat with us right now? They have a dangerous job currently.

Also, these arrows are pointless, because many people just aren't following them anyways. Had a woman go all the way down the isle the wrong way, coming right at me. I had to get out of her way.

Meanwhile, my girlfriend's dad told me today he went to get his car inspected and get an oil change, then went to Lowe's and then Home Depot. He said Lowe's was packed and there was a line of about 14 people at the register. He said he decided not to go into Home Depot because they were only letting a certain amount of people in at a time and there was a line of people going out the door waiting to get in.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

Agreed. But how would you prove they got it from him?

I don't know - that might be difficult. But he told them he had it, then spat and coughed on them, and they both caught it, and one died. It's very likely it was him that infected them both, but like you said, could it be proven in court?

People are insane. Who would do that whether they really had it or not?

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by mar3o

I made my weekly trip to the grocery store today. At one point I saw a little old lady with a mask following a meat dept. guy around as he was putting meat out, just talking up a storm and standing not more than a foot away form him, right up in his face. He kept trying to walk away and she would follow him.

Don't people realize these workers don't want to chit-chat with us right now? They have a dangerous job currently.

Also, these arrows are pointless, because many people just aren't following them anyways. Had a woman go all the way down the isle the wrong way, coming right at me. I had to get out of her way.

Meanwhile, my girlfriend's dad told me today he went to get his car inspected and get an oil change, then went to Lowe's and then Home Depot. He said Lowe's was packed and there was a line of about 14 people at the register. He said he decided not to go into Home Depot because they were only letting a certain amount of people in at a time and there was a line of people going out the door waiting to get in.

I don't agree with the arrows, mainly because I don't want to circle around 3 aisles just to get the product I want. Plus there are times the arrows would take me in the wrong direction if I'm trying to leave, which increases my risk of contact with other people.

Also employee safety, so often I see workers either in a bunch talking or super close to customers. I think most of them just don't care.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

I don't agree with the arrows, mainly because I don't want to circle around 3 aisles just to get the product I want.

Also employee safety, so often I see workers either in a bunch talking or super close to customers. I think most of them just don't care.

You're probably right - many employees probably aren't taking this seriously. I'm sure some are concerned and some aren't.

The other week at Wal-mart I asked an employee on the floor where the price scanner was, standing a good 6 feet away, and instead of just telling me where it was so I could scan it, she walked right up to me and asked me to hand her the item and she would scan it with her scanner.

The arrows just make you have to be in the store even longer as you circle around over and over going down isles you don't need to go down again. I had to do that several times today, go down one isle just to follow the arrows to go down the next isle I want to be in.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Finally got my Trump check yesterday. Cashed it at Walmart, got a couple blus, and ate at Longhorn with a friend. Solid day yesterday. I missed Longhorn.

I got a letter from the IRS last night. I thought I had been targeted for auditing but it turned out to be a letter about the stimulus check - nearly a month after I'd gotten it. The letter was signed by Trump. I'm going to keep the letter until one day after the November election. Then I'll throw it away.

[Batman1980]

Actually the next time an employee gets too close to me on purpose and not just passing by like an idiot, I'm going to locate a manager and snitch on them. Generally I'm against snitching but this is a very serious situation and a lot of people are acting like idiots.

Well not really because that would be super awkward but doing things like that would definitely reduce the stupidity in stores.