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Rambo John J

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What about places where we're deep into the blue part and still being told we need to stay at home?
my area never even had a curve
Gov wants hella shutdown and precautions and nothing ever happened
Doubling down basically

Some places are not using science/common sense/math at all, just following the "lead" of states with similar politics.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Then either your govt is ridiculous, your neighbors are idiots that can't be trusted, or both. I'm leaning towards both.
It's the government. A city 4 hours away is a disaster so everyone has to stay closed. They are easing restrictions, but we're not seeing relaxing of restrictions proportionally with decline. There's a town here that's had 0 cases.
 

FINGERS

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its ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. This is the sort of stupidity that is going to break people.

if you decide to play tennis then play tennis. If the other person is infected then that’s the risk you have decided to take.

this is just to cover lawsuits imo.

all it needs is a sign saying you play at your own risk.

like a bouncy castle.
So much this.
Gov't needs to fuck off

Living life comes with risks. How much risk I want to take is my decision.
 

nuraknu

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If you read the article, the headline really doesn't do it justice at all. The article is about many different problems being faced right now because of lockdown.

A lot of kids, if they slip up and their parents figure out they're gay, are just being thrown into the street. Because of the virus and past abuse, the first-time homeless are not sure they should be going to the shelters offered.

A lot of teens and others who aren't thrown out but are being abused are using apps to find "sex work". They agree to sleep with a stranger in exchange for a place to stay away from home for the night. Sometimes they're forced to do things they don't want to, etc. But the article says this type of exchange is happening a lot more due to the lockdown and people trying to escape abusive families, because people can't go to friends' houses or clubs . Because it's lgbt support groups reporting this, there isn't really information about whether the same thing is happening to straight people, but of course it could be.

The bit about domestic abuse by teens against their parents gives the impression that could be a problem across the board, not just in LGBT-parented homes.

I think the lady in the picture is the one they talk about whose neighbor or roommate (I couldn't tell) in her coop has been home doing drugs and throwing crazy parties. When she complained, the neighbor started threatening her. After a couple of calls to the police about it, instead of doing something about the woman, the coop basically just told them to work it out, and the lady who was threatened felt so unsafe she fled to go live back home with her elderly dad in her homophobic hometown.

The other problem they talk about is partner abuse in lockdown, and they attribute a lot of extra violence to people turning to alcohol abuse because their regular drugs aren't available. So of course that can also be a problem for straight couples too.
 

FINGERS

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They've just announced that all our universities over here will not be open till 2021.

We are in May.....
 
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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude my sister lives in Dallas. My niece has her HS graduation next month and her school has gone from having a graduation to doing it all virtually to now having a live graduation again (with some retarded rules that you'd only find in the south).

My mother and stepfather are going but they're concerned. We Floridians have finally gotten our COVID-19 problem under control and now they are literally driving (they would normally fly but fuck that shit) to the Wild West.

I've been to Texas so I know you're all very nice people, but do you have any tips on how they can avoid getting rona? I don't think my stepfather is bringing his guns so "shooting it" is not an option.
 

ThatOneDude

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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude my sister lives in Dallas. My niece has her HS graduation next month and her school has gone from having a graduation to doing it all virtually to now having a live graduation again (with some retarded rules that you'd only find in the south).

My mother and stepfather are going but they're concerned. We Floridians have finally gotten our COVID-19 problem under control and now they are literally driving (they would normally fly but fuck that shit) to the Wild West.

I've been to Texas so I know you're all very nice people, but do you have any tips on how they can avoid getting rona? I don't think my stepfather is bringing his guns so "shooting it" is not an option.
Is your niece having her graduation at the Texas Motor Speedway?

Can you be more specific as to where they are going? I'm 30-45 minutes north of Dallas and our situation is not the same as in Dallas, so it really depends on where they are going.

FYI - Your Step dad can bring his pistol and carry it concealed in his car, legally. Castle doctrine applies to boats and cars as well as homes.