CoronaVirus ==> Empty Shelves

[woodPixel]

I have found myself using the various parts of the walking stick to be useful for many things like opening doors and pushing lift buttons etc.

My wife also uses one, due to the wild and whacky ever-changing vagaries of a big brain tumour.... but it has been very useful.

I can wave it at pesky teenagers who are loitering to get off my lawn!

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[Lappa]

Maybe if they stopped social distancing and open up the States with people protesting , in a few months the problem would be buried?

[RossM]

Before the internet, what did we call trolls?

Narcissistic sociopaths

[Bushmiller]

Lol, nailed it! It's the internet's fault!

Before the internet, what did we call trolls?

Grotesque misfits, full of anger, well-balanced ( chips on both shoulders ), resorted to living under bridges, greedy and unable to know when they are out of their depth until a really big Gruff Billygoat comes along and gives them a huge helping of GBH.

Regards
Paul

[woodPixel]

Maybe if they stopped social distancing and open up the States with people protesting , in a few months the problem would be buried?

Is it all part of a Cunning Plan by The Grand Cheeto?

Drive all the nutters into the streets, in vast mobs, repeatedly, to cross pollinate and therefore be the perpetrators of their own doom?

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edit - I was catching up with the days news with a very decent latte and saw this rather profound article - Conservatives Fuel Protests Against Coronavirus Lockdowns - The New York Times

It makes me wonder. It really does. Imagine this being in your city. Wow.

[FenceFurniture]

Conservatives Fuel Protests Against Coronavirus Lockdowns - The New York Times

It makes me wonder. It really does. Imagine this being in your city. Wow.

A companion pic for you, from The Guardian.

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[justonething]

Are we getting a little distracted from the point. Even ignoring the public display of military weaponry (I am taking the word of you blokes, being more knowledgeable than me on firepower, who hardly knows the difference between a Glock 17 and an AWM lapua magnum sniper rifle) the blatant flaunting of their lockdown policy seems weird. My question being is there no need for a lockdown?

So I looked into the statistics for Michigan, a state of nearly 10 million people bordering the Great Lakes. I couldn't find the total cases for Michigan, but the total deaths were 2,212. The major county, Wayne, which includes Detroit, had 13,223 cases and 1,044 deaths: That is a particularly bad ratio. The plot thickens when you realise that Trump had encouraged the population to defy the restrictions and that the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer is a democrat. This looks horribly like a political ploy by Trump at the expense of the population and a play to coddle up to his red-neck supporters. It would be interesting to know how often he has attacked democrat governors compared to republican governors. I note that Andrew Cuomo, the republican governor of New York, is having quite a stoush with Trump.

Crises of this nature should be beyond politics.

It is shame that we can't allow them to dispense with the lockdown in Michigan and hope that those on the steps of their courthouse (I assume) are those to become seriously infected. Of course that doesn't happen in practice and it is the collateral damage that becomes the most sad aspect: Just like in any gunfight.

Anyhow, back in good old Oz, we appear to be performing much better than so many parts of the world. Actually, with a population two and a half times that of Michigan compare our cases (6547) and deaths (67).

Regards
Paul

You can see state by state break down here. United States Coronavirus: 738,913 Cases and 39,015 Deaths - Worldometer
Andrew Cuomo, the brother of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is actually a democrat. Trump can't successfully attack Cuomo because Trump is not popular in New York at all and not many people listen to him there.

[woodhutt]

Yes. And don't forget Facebook, probably THE evil empire of the technology world, by a significant margin.

[woodhutt]

It does seem rather odd that these spontaneous (ahem!) displays of discontent should be taking place in those states with Democratic senators given that there are also Republican led states who also have lock-down regimes at the moment.

The two photos showing angry demonstrators protesting outside their state's Capitol (?) buildings (maybe Courthouse?) put me in mind of the angry, flaming-torch wielding mob storming Frankenstein's castle in the old movies.
Pete

[justonething]

A companion pic for you, from The Guardian.

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I hope they are watching the one world together concert on ABC and NBC after a hard day protesting

[GraemeCook]

No, I spent my 20 year and two day Army Career working as an Intelligence Analyst, among other things.

Hi Doug

Maybe jargon has changed in the last 50 years.

I worked in a civy job at Defence in the sixties at the height of the Vietnam War and then Sigs was commonly referred to as "the other switchboard". All we knew was a building that we did not go into.

[doug3030]

Hi Doug

Maybe jargon has changed in the last 50 years.

I worked in a civy job at Defence in the sixties at the height of the Vietnam War and then Sigs was commonly referred to as "the other switchboard". All we knew was a building that we did not go into.

Yes terminology changes with time. When I was working there I was like WoodPixel said earlier - we were all cleaners, gardeners or worked in the canteen.

I have been out of that field now for a quarter of a century and I feel it is safe now to tell people what my job title was but not necessarily what it entailed. I have no information from that time that would currently be of use to anyone any more.

One thing that remains with me from those days is the ability to be able to work out what is really happening in the world from the lies and half-truths put out by the media.

[GraemeCook]

That's what the govt said through Stuart Roberts (If he knows what he's saying).

I think there might be a contradiction there. He is amongst the dopiest ever.

I did not know who Stuart Roberts was, so I googled, and top of the list was a this headline from the Guardian.
Stuart Robert's incompetence on MyGov should accelerate his ...

Little point in reading further or doing more research!

[Just repeat my "research" if you think I am making this up.

[GraemeCook]

Graeme

I'm in the same boat. Ohhhh...errr. I could probably have phrased that better.

Regards
Paul

Quiet, now, Paul

Gerry Harvey will want ScoMo to make it compulsory for everyone to own a "coronavirus monitoring" mobile. Purely for the purpose of saving mankind, and nothing to do with the profit line.

[GraemeCook]

Can anyone imagine this scene in Australia? Simply because they are sick of the lockdown?

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What's more, they are almost exclusively overweight middle-aged WHITE males with goatees. Not a woman in sight. I think there might be something in that for all of us.

FF; you omitted to caption your photo.

Is it a meeting of Mensa ?