VitalSigns posted:

Great

Brawnfire posted:

Viruses and bacteria saturate the inside of the mask too, the ones that would be floating around the grocery store otherwise

Augh

PeterCat posted:

I mean, poo poo, I have a good job, but between the mortgage, paying for a new furnace, and childcare who has money for a motorcycle I can only ride 4 months a year that would cost more than my car?

the_steve posted:

Yeah, I won't lie, the idea of a motorcycle has appealed to me every once in awhile. But, like you said, between various important expenses and whatever other real life reasons, how would you justify a stupidly expensive seasonal toy like that? Plus, you'd have to get a different license to be allowed to even drive it.

LonsomeSon posted:

This explains why 70% of doctors, nurses, and medical techs die of asphyxiation within their first six months on clinical assignments!

Golbez posted:

Friends, if this weren't posted by my insane Trumpfan stepdad, I would have fully believed it was a joke.

Golbez posted:

Friends, if this weren't posted by my insane Trumpfan stepdad, I would have fully believed it was a joke.

happyhippy posted:

Ill do it:

Al Gore - March 31, 1948
Hillary - October 26, 1947
Kerry - December 11, 1943
Dean - November 17, 1948
Pelosi - March 26, 1940
Feinstein - June 22, 1933
Schumer - November 23, 1950
Boxer - November 11, 1940

So hur hur hur they must be aliens too yuk yuk yuk!

Cerepol posted:

You think those are the real birthdays????

Ashcans posted:

Really looking forward to two weeks from how, when we start getting the FWDs about how staying inside is bad because it exposes you to harmful miasma trapped within your house, and the true preventative is to ensure a proper balancing of the bodies humors.

Panfilo posted:

Two weeks from now? Idiots have been arguing this now. It's a conflating of a few things :

-People understand that in normal circumstances it's fine if kids get dirty or fight off normal colds and we like to imagine getting dirty /exposed inoculates us against minor things

-Grossly misunderstanding herd immunity and assuming Covid-19 can be beaten just by getting it and shrugging it off.

So you mash those two dumb things together and you get people thinking that staying indoors will just make you more sick. I've already seen a lot of talk on FB pointing out examples of people who were sheltering in place who inexplicably got sick anyway. When you have people that don't follow the 'rules' staying healthy and people going full Howard Hughes and still getting sick it just reinforces all these bad ideas and misconceptions.

borkencode posted:

quote:

I TALKED TO A MAN TODAY . . .

I talked with a man today, an 80+ year old man. I asked him if there was anything I can get him while this Corona virus scare was gripping America.

He simply smiled, looked away and said:

"Let me tell you what I need! [pause] I need to believe, at some point, this country my generation fought for [pause] I need to believe this nation we handed safely to our children and their children [pause] . . .

I need to know this generation will quit being a bunch of sissies . . . that they respect what they've been given . . . that they've earned what others sacrificed for."

I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or if it was going anywhere at all. So, I sat there, quietly observing.

"You know, I was a little boy during WWII. Those were scary days. We didn't know if we were going to be speaking English, German or Japanese at the end of the war. There was no certainty, no guarantees like Americans enjoy today.

And no home went without sacrifice or loss. Every house, up and down every street, had someone in harm's way. Maybe their Daddy was a soldier, maybe their son was a sailor, maybe it was an uncle. Sometimes it was the whole drat family . . . fathers, sons, uncles . . .

Having someone, you love, sent off to war . . . it wasn't less frightening than it is today. It was scary as Hell. If anything, it was more frightening. We didn't have battlefront news. We didn't have email or cellphones. You sent them away and you hoped...you prayed. You may not hear from them for months, if ever. Sometimes a mother was getting her son's letters the same day Dad was comforting her over their child's death.

And we sacrificed. You couldn't buy things. Everything was rationed. You were only allowed so much milk per month, only so much bread, toilet paper. EVERYTHING was restricted for the war effort. And what you weren't using, what you didn't need, things you threw away, they were saved and sorted for the war effort. My generation was the original recycling movement in America.

And we had viruses back then...serious viruses. Things like polio, measles, and such. It was nothing to walk to school and pass a house or two that was quarantined. We didn't shut down our schools. We didn't shut down our cities. We carried on, without masks, without hand sanitizer. And do you know what? We persevered. We overcame. We didn't attack our President, we came together. We rallied around the flag for the war. Thick or thin, we were in it to win. And we would lose more boys in an hour of combat than we lose in entire wars today."

He slowly looked away again. Maybe I saw a small tear in the corner of his eye. Then he continued:

"Today's kids don't know sacrifice. They think sacrifice is not having coverage on their phone while they freely drive across the country. Today's kids are selfish and spoiled. In my generation, we looked out for our elders. We helped out with single moms whose husbands were either at war or dead from war. Today's kids rush [to] the store, buying everything they can . . . no concern for anyone but themselves. It's shameful the way Americans behave these days. None of them deserve the sacrifices their granddads made.

So, no I don't need anything. I appreciate your offer but, I know I've been through worse things than this virus. But maybe I should be asking you, what can I do to help you? Do you have enough pop to get through this, enough steak? Will you be able to survive with 113 channels on your TV?"

I smiled, fighting back a tear of my own . . . now humbled by a man in his 80's. All I could do was thank him for the history lesson, leave my number for emergency and leave with my ego firmly tucked in my rear.

I talked to a man today. A real man. An American man from an era long gone and forgotten.
We will never understand the sacrifices. We will never fully earn their sacrifices. But we should work harder to learn about them . . . learn from them . . . . . to respect them.

Panfilo posted:

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T-man posted:

speaking to a man willingly will be logged for your Gender Eradication Compliance Record, your sissy baby steak government welfare rations will be reduced as punishment.

That Old Tree posted:

Millennials and/or Gen Z, famously known for eating loaded sloppy joes or bowls of cereal while driving. I always hate how erratic my driving gets when I steer with my knees so I can dip my roast beef in the au jus.

Panfilo posted:

It's funny how the same people lecturing on sacrifice are utterly unwilling to make any kind of sacrifice when it comes to shelter in place. You'd think this old guy would be mocking the boomers that are protesting over not being able to barge into Fuddruckers without a mask on.

borkencode posted:

VitalSigns posted:

It's just more Boomers pretending to be their parents

The person who wrote that didn't live through WW2, their actual Greatest Generation parents would tell them to shut the gently caress up and stop endangering their fellow Americans because they want their bangs professionally highlighted.

PeterCat posted:

You misunderstand me, what I posted was not a FWD, it's an actual poster from WWII, and my commentary is making fun of the people out there protesting the lock down.

ChaseSP posted:

My favorite one of those is the one with a dude driving with hitlers ghost.

the_steve posted:

My favorite part about those STDH novella posts are how the writer is so confident that they aren't one of the people that the Wizened Old Sage is bitching about.
"Ah yes, this mythical old person who knows unerringly how the world should be if it wishes to once again enter a Golden Age. He just so happens to believe everything should be the way that I also believe it should be, that's how I know he's smart."

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