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Western PA here. Kennywood Park just announced they're opening in mid-July. 50% capacity, temperature screening, 6 foot spacing for lines, disinfecting the rides between each trip, and you must wear a mask. I sure as hell won't be going, but it seems like they at least put the bare minimum amount of effort into this. So, of course, every single comment on facebook is some variant of "WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?" or "I WON'T WEAR A MASK THIS IS AMERICA!" One woman was concerned she'd "drown" if it rained and her mask got wet. USA, everybody!
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VVV - my father in law also wanted to do a "family get-together" this past weekend. My wife and I were going to go when we thought it was 8 people in total hanging around outside. It turned into "Okay so 50 members of my church are going to be there, and we'll be inside my 3 room house. Oh and my church believes the virus doesn't exist so nobody will wear a mask and will, in fact, get visibly angry at you for wearing a mask." We told him no, he got pissed, but I'm not going to risk anything like that. It really sucks that saying "I don't want to potentially infect you and everyone you come in contact with" is now a statement akin to "hey im gonna do gay space communism now" with conservative members of the family, but here we are.
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Jun 16, 2020 13:26
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My in-laws said they were "done with masks" this past weekend, since they're tired of having to remember to wear them. Accordingly, my wife and I will not be seeing them any time soon. Tough conversation but this poo poo is far from over, it's insanely irritating for people to say they're tired of wearing masks when my wife and I wear them all day at work and have no problems wearing them anywhere we might encounter other people. But it's apparently soooo hard to wear a mask for a few hours a week to get groceries or whatever.
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Jun 23, 2020 14:52
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Jolo posted:He seems to just fundamentally not understand what the purpose of testing is and how catching a cold or virus actually works. There were the comments weeks back when one of his aides got the virus and he said: Trump believes the human body has a finite amount of energy and that exercising uses up that energy. This is completely true, you can find him talking about it multiple times. He most likely believes diseases come about from an imbalance of bodily humours or something.
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Jun 23, 2020 15:52
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JonathonSpectre posted:The good news is that while literally every pro sports league in the loving entire world is cancelling seasons over this, my school district in Florida is now allowing groups of 20 to practice and groups of 10 to loving toss balls around. See, it's dangerous if the PROS practice and play, but not the KIDS, because uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I WANT FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL! No didn't you hear? Kids barely die from this, so they can catch it with no problems! Teachers? Wait, you mean those people we barely pay as it is? And treat like poo poo because we place our failings as parents on them? Well, gently caress 'em, that's what I say! If they catch the virus (which is really just the sniffles anyway!) they'll be fine. No, they are not allowed to take time off or suggest a strike, that's socialism.
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Jun 23, 2020 16:56
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Lol that the one time America faces a common ennemy, which is the easiest way for a president to get full support and collaboration of the population like it happened after 9/11, the sitting president dismisses it as a hoax, dooming both his presidency and country. He kept saying "it'll go away on his own" because his childhood church preached about magical thinking and he to this day believes saying a thing multiple times makes it happen. Now that we're deep in the poo poo and looking at probably 200,000+ dead this year, he realizes it's too late to "fix" this and is instead focusing on making people forget about it. I think somewhere in his tiny brain he realizes that politicizing masks was a mistake, but he's too vain to wear a mask or to admit he made a mistake. You can realistically pin 10s of thousands of deaths directly on Trump being dumb and lazy as poo poo.
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Jun 26, 2020 13:22
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I work for a pretty huge company that's headquartered in the South. Up until a week ago they were planning to send people down to HQ for training. A month ago on a huge webinar somebody that makes at least 6 figures said that corona was "almost over". We still have no official company policy on working from home in my department, except "well, maybe you can do it? But not too much." We've been forced to figure this poo poo out ourselves locally, which is kind of a perfect microcosm of the US in general.
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The biggest headache in my life right now is the disconnect between my wife's family and reality. My parents are both staying home outside of groceries and grabbing takeout. We saw them last week for the first time in a long time, and my Dad told me he had to live through this (he has COPD) so we could go to the movies together again. My wife's parents are divorced, and her mom is "over the mask" in her words. We visited them a while back and she said we were being "crazy" because we refused to hang out inside or to go to church with them. Her dad is completely loving bonkers and thinks this is all a political hoax, despite his new wife being a nurse. His wife also thinks it's a hoax despite the fact that she's treated people with covid-19 AND she has loving lupus. I do not know how the gently caress we're supposed to deal with this insanity for the foreseeable future. We do a Halloween party every year and have already told people it's probably not happening unless it's all virtual, possibly we'll try and do *something* outside. But nobody is coming into our house, especially not people who think the virus is a hoax. I'm sure a lot of people are dealing with much worse, but it is loving exhausting to have to explain why we wear a mask, why we carry hand sanitizer, why we aren't "going on vacation", why we can't just hang out all day long, why we don't want to see her aunt and uncle that just drove up from Florida, and why we don't want to hug people and shake hands. I knew they were pretty hard Republicans, but holy loving poo poo I'm trying to be a good son-in-law here and they just make it impossible.
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Jul 7, 2020 18:14
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beer gas canister posted:Michigan is starting to reopen now and it's not looking good. MI had one of the strictest lock downs and reduced the curve dramatically for a while, but now people are sort of going apeshit, eating in restaurants, no masks, etc, and poo poo's going to get bad again fast. Strange to see how people have become blasé about it so quickly, like the early success is going to sabotage everything now. This was Pennsylvania about 3 weeks ago. We completely hosed up opening. Bars were all packed without anyone wearing a mask or even standing a few feet apart. Bar owners just bitched "Well, what were we supposed to do?" like there wasn't a basic blueprint they could follow for this. Cases skyrocketed in a few counties because of this, forcing bars and indoor dining to close again (thank God). That seems to have actually helped already, so hopefully people are getting it thorough their thick skulls that this poo poo isn't complex. Just wear a goddamn mask and avoid big crowds, especially indoor ones.
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Jul 7, 2020 19:13
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John_A_Tallon posted:It does make me smile thinking of how Trump has to have a swab stuffed all the way up his nose every day for his corona virus test. There were a few weeks where Trump kept repeating "the cure cannot be worse than the disease" and I 100% believe it's because he got the swab up his nose and it traumatized him so much he decided in that moment to just give up on having any kind of response at all to this.
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Jul 8, 2020 13:56
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My company has never put out a formalized plan for working from home, it's just been at our discretion. Today they emailed everybody an excel file to fill out and list how much you're actually working from home. Everybody's worried they're going to cut back or force us back into the office at this rate. Because surely right now is the right time to do this.
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RumbleFish posted:I took a trip with one of my best friends the weekend before poo poo got real and states started announcing lockdowns, and it was almost impossible for us to relax and fully enjoy ourselves. It's an annual tradition for us that involves a lot of brewery hopping and good food and just being kinda silly and drunk for most of the weekend, and I literally don't think either of us even got a buzz on. We just sort of quietly went about our business and left town earlier than usual, because things felt too off and uncertain and foreboding. And that, of course, was when we didn't even know how bad it actually was, and how bad it would get. Literally can't imagine hitting up a place like Disney World right now. My wife and I and another couple did an Escape Room in mid-March. They sanitized the hell out of the place (one puzzle used a rubber ball and you could still squeeze sanitizer out of it) and we still felt weird about going. That was our last big outing, I think PA's lockdown started 2 weeks later. We would normally get dinner or something after that, but we were all like "Eh, let's go home." Of course, we have some basic empathy towards other human beings and realized that we could easily be getting others sick by our presence. I feel bad going to the freaking grocery store for that same reason. My wife and I would, god willing, probably survive corona. But if I gave it to some old person, or somebody with cancer or something? Holy poo poo, how the hell could I live with myself?
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Jul 13, 2020 16:39
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BonerKid posted:I'm on day 118 and I live in a small 1 bedroom basement apartment with very little sunlight. Luckily I live in the suburbs and there are parks nearby so I can go for jogs or walks and not have to dodge too many people. This really sucks because I haven't seen anyone I care about in more than 4 months at this point, with no real end in sight. Stay tough. I'm lucky enough to have my wife with me, but our neighborhoods sound similar. My next door neighbors have been having small parties more and more frequently. Last week my wife and I were out walking and there were about 30 people at a house a street over. It's infuriating because this should be a community effort, but at least now you realize who the pieces of poo poo around you are!
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Jul 13, 2020 18:40
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My company has no official policy and about a month ago they announced a major project is underway that's forcing people to go back into the office and, in fact, to travel to multiple locations to complete the project. We are a worldwide company and on a recent conference call some bigwig said she thought "We're almost through the virus so I'm excited to see all of you back in the office"
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Much like covid's physical impact, we're going to be dealing with life-long issues because Trumpy hosed up so badly. There will absolutely be a generation of kids who suffer from less than adequate education. We're also going to have a shitload of homeless people in a few weeks, not to mention the potentially horrifying mental health toll this has taken on most of the population.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:09
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Platystemon posted:Can’t have PTSD if I know it’s just the flu. Somebody who knows more about mental health than me (ie anybody at all); I'd love to know if there's some version of PTSD that we're all going to be suffering from after this. I definitely have bad mental health days more frequently this summer. A mix of feeling like I'm trapped at my job, frustration with the general state of the US, and an inability to go out and do a lot of things without the risk of getting myself or someone else sick.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:25
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zer0spunk posted:i mean, can we try it one time? let's see what happens if we have representatives on the other side of the wealth disparity. the disconnect between constituent reality and elected official reality is on some "how much could a banana cost, $10 bucks?" poo poo and we're looking at it right now with the ongoing stimulus debates The right constantly demeans AOC as "just some bartender" for daring to get into politics. That's the mindset - if you're not already part of a political family or super rich, you don't deserve to be in politics. Plus as others mentioned - the time commitment means most normal people can't do it. I looked in to running for my local city council and I couldn't possibly keep up with time demands for stuff like fundraisers and campaigning.
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Jul 28, 2020 16:59
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Zero VGS posted:I was wearing my full face respirator in Home Depot in Boston a few minutes ago, and some loving' guy ran up to me with a white t-shirt with #plandemic and a bunch of nonsense scribbled on it, telling me how I of all people needed to read his shirt. I told him I was going to give him a free ambulance ride if he didn't get out of my face that second, and to put his loving mask back on (had one around his chin I assume so he could sneak in). Anyway he got the hint and went on to accost other less agitated customers. I don't have time for this poo poo. Go be mentally ill somewhere else. Like a month ago I was getting gas at Sheetz and ran in to grab some food. As I'm crossing the parking lot a dude yells "GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS AMERICA!" at me and another person walking into the store. Then he goes "I WILL NOT BE MASKED!" as he hops in his car and drives off. I didn't see any Trump bumper stickers but, let's be honest, we know who he's supporting.
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Jul 29, 2020 17:35
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I heard Herman Cain really died of cancer and that all the kids who are also about to die have cancer, too. But the nurses, they put "COVID" on the death certificate to get more money for the hospital!!!!
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Aug 4, 2020 18:16
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My sister-in-law is a teacher and already gets an incredible amount of disrespect on a daily basis. I cannot imagine the living Hell she's going to suffer through in a few weeks. It doesn't help that Trump's now arguing that teacher's unions are bad and are just indoctrinating your kids!!!! with socialism or whatever.
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Liberals are always complaining about overpopulation, and now that President Trump (all glory to Him) has a way to cut down the population you suddenly freak out! Most of these kids will probably live, and at least the stock market is okay, that's the important thing.
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Hobo Clown posted:Are there studies* out there that show decreased productivity during WFH, or is there some other reason so many businesses are itching to get people back in their buildings? If you've established WFH as possible then what's the rush to end it? I assume it's just bullshit to "be sure" you're working your assigned hours each day. As long as you're getting your assigned work done it shouldn't matter, but I think some companies are worried that people just gently caress around all day. Joke's on them, I gently caress around MORE at the office since I know I'm stuck here til a certain time. May as well stretch 4 hours of work into an 8 hour day.
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I'm in PA and we seem to be trying to get this poo poo under control. We had about 2000 cases a day when lockdown started, now we're at around 700 a day. Still way too high and, sadly, above the ~500 a day we had back in may. Testing is way up, too, which is good, we've basically been trending upward this entire time. Republicans have been fighting every single step of the way. Arguing that masks kill people, trying to get bars open, arguing that all school must be in-person every day of the week. And this week there's a bunch of Republican events going on "to support Trump". The last local one only had 9 people show up, so hopefully that trend continues. My Dad would die from covid (he has COPD and already survived a ruptured bowel 15 years ago that left him in septic shock and a coma) so every time I see an anti-masker I flip poo poo.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:41
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I. M. Gei posted:My last full-time job lasted a month and a half and ended in July 2018. And my work history even before that is......... let's just say "thin". It's not great but come drive for Fedex or UPS or the Post Office. All are busy as hell right now and I can speak from experience that we're basically hiring people off the street at Fedex as long as you have a driver's license and haven't been in a major accident in the last 5 years.
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Aug 25, 2020 14:54
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xtal posted:Isn't it extremely likely that he'll die if gets it considering his terrible health? He must be really confident in his quarantine policies if he is letting the world burn down next to his own house. Nah according to that one doctor Trump's the healthiest man who ever lived in history, is exactly one pound under the limit for obesity, and might live to be 200 years old. His only tiny vice is the miniscule amount of fast food he eats, that's it.
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xtal posted:That reminds me: why do people think there will be a vaccine? You can't just sit down and make a vaccine for anything you want, even if you have infinite time and money. In the US at least, there's a vocal minority of Americans who already think covid is over (because they're bored) and have no problem spreading it to the rest of us. This group include the President of the United States. If we get a successful vaccine, at least I know I won't die because somebody at the gas station parked next to me is coughing up a lung for freedom.
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You can make a deal with anybody, okay, or sometimes... sometimes with any THING. A thing that you might call covid-19, or the CHINA FLU, or the invisible enemy.... it has a lot of names, doesn't it? But it's very smart, it's incredibly smart even for a germ, smart enough that you might be on the bed and you hear it start talking to you. And if offers you a deal. And if you're a good deals guy, like me? If you know the deals? You'd say "I'll take that deal, let me see door #3". And then you sign a little piece of paper with your blood and the deal is struck. Or made, as the... you.... that's another term. So you've made the deal, okay, you're going to get out of the hospital soon but it's going to be go very badly for some other people, people you know and work with perhaps. Okay. That's... listen. LISTEN. Nobody knows this, nobody EVER heard of this, but it's possible to get sick, recover, and then get many other people sick from the disease you had. It's called SPREADING, and I know a thing or two about that. Is Ivanka here? Ivanka, darling? She's... she'll be catching it very soon. The invisible enemy is here, and darkness and decay and the CHINA FLU hold ill..illeshhhh...... well, they're here, folks. *COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH*
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Oct 6, 2020 12:55
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Hadlock posted:What is Trump going to talk about at his rallys after he gets voted out Launching the Trump News Network to give you the "real news" the Demoncrats don't want you to hear! For just $15.99 a month you too can be part of Trump's secret network of supporters!
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Don't worry, I've been informed by both my father-in-law and the mechanic at work that this is all just going to disappear after election day.
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explosivo posted:Gov Wolf (PA) is making some announcement this afternoon, my gf is convinced that he's announcing a new statewide lockdown but I haven't heard anything about that so who knows. We desperately need it though. I'm also in PA (outside of Pittsburgh) and am hoping for the same. At least get rid of in-person dining. My wife and I got takeout on Friday, I was SHOCKED by how many people were eating inside and at the nearby bar. I'm in good health in my early 30s and couldn't imagine eating in a restaurant right now, but I saw plenty of elderly people just chilling out inside.
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Nov 16, 2020 16:35
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Also PA here outside of Harrisburg. Hooray for being work from home, but it's also unfortunate that I have several coworkers who believe that it's all a hoax. I have a coworker who is basically a living co-morbidity. He's obese, has diabetes, and just had knee replacement surgery. He thinks it's a hoax and gets offended that nobody wants to sit in his office with him for conference calls.
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FiskTireBoy posted:I have to say I'm pretty surprised with Trump. I'm sure once he hired Scott Atlas that Atlas put the idea in his Trumps head that the national strategy is going to be herd immunity. And I'm sure Trump with his animalistic view of humans (wolves and sheep) thought that was a great idea and went with it. Yet I don't think I've ever heard Trump say publically that the Governments strategy is herd immunity. It's almost like he's keeping it a secret? Which is not like Trump at all. He ALWAYS says the quiet part loud. I think even his dumb rear end realizes saying "A lot of people are gonna die, mostly old people." would have hurt him in the election. And at this point? He just doesn't give a poo poo, he's checked out except for getting credit for the vaccines that he deserves absolutely no credit for.
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Xaintrailles posted:I don't understand the US system - why don't health insurers deny claims where they find people who broke COVID rules got infected? If it's provided through employers, why don't they suspend coverage for unsafe workplaces? Suspending coverage for unsafe workplaces would only serve to punish ordinary people forced to work. My brother-in-law is a huge CHUD and owns a small grocery store. He never wears a mask and even before covid got sick CONSTANTLY because of his poor hygiene and diet. He doesn't tell anyone to wear a mask when they enter the store and doesn't enforce occupancy restrictions or anything. If one of his employees gets sick I don't think they should be denied coverage just because he's dumb as hell, they're just forced to work to make ends meet.
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Nov 17, 2020 13:36
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Kharohz posted:Went to a wake last night. When I was there there was 30 people, only 5 were wearing masks. I wonder if the funeral home will give them a bulk discount.
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My wife and I ordered takeout on Friday night from a local bar and grill. We show up there and there's just wall-to-wall people inside. No tables are closed off, nobody has a mask on except for the staff, and a group of about 20 people is just congregating in a huge circle in the middle of the place, no masks on, with drinks in their hands. I ask where I can pick up my takeout, they direct me to walk THROUGH the entire restaurant, past the huge group of people, and up to the crowded bar. Easily the most insane poo poo I've seen since covid started, the only thing closer was this dude at Walmart back in April walking around without a mask and saying "Let me see your smile, honey!" to every woman he passed.
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A guy at work started freaking out this morning about getting his temperature checked, seemingly for no reason. He spent about an hour this morning complaining to everybody that it "doesn't matter" and "it's all overblown". I assume it has something to do with PA announcing no alcohol sales from 5 pm tomorrow until 8 am Thursday, which a whole lotta idiots are considering the end of civilization as we know it.
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My sister-in-law has to buy her own PPE and even had to put up a bunch of plastic sheets to separate her classroom. She's supposed to be "reimbursed" for it eventually, but I doubt that's gonna happen. There's no way they're gonna install new ventilation and stuff.
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Blistex posted:How much of that wall actually got built? I am asked so much about Wall, about the Wall. But this wall... it was built to a degree like nobody thought possible, more wall and it's even taller in some places than I thought... and I.... I mean, I designed it. You know, these architects, they come up. And these are guys, the industry calls 'em wall guys, they know walls that well. Ceilings, too, I guess but they... they trained on the walls. Building 'em. And the wall guys show me the drawings, give me the blue prints. And the very first time, you know, I said "This looks good, but what if we did this." And these eggheads, okay, they're looking at the paper and at me and then they go "Wow, we never thought of this." And now the wall? I made it a little taller, okay, a little bit... it's a little bit tougher to climb. And you know, the guys wanna throw the drug bags, but it's too tall for that, now. So I saved a LOTTA lives. But the wall itself it's... I never said... I NEVER SAID only physical, or building. Okay? OKAY? I said it was a series of walls, and the real wall? The true wall, which... I built that. Okay? I designed it with these HUGE HANDS but the real wall is inside of us, and I... I did that.
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