What these stores should do is offer to collect phone numbers, and then call the next week to take curbside pick-up orders. I understand senoirs struggling with placing online orders, but it’s still the perfect resource for this situation.
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Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, has tested positive for the virus.
This is a good idea. I also think that everyone who doesn’t have the luxury of living in less populated areas or the ability to control weather, and especially the higher risk groups like those > 50, with preexisting conditions, or compromised immune systems, should be wearing masks (surgical is fine if everyone is wearing one, N95 or better if very few are wearing masks).
Except when you breathe in.
Anyway, my whole argument with you was because you were questioning the closing down of schools. What you described as “being careful” is not workable in a full classroom, so you have not justified why you question the closing of schools.
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Why? Because that’s the most secure, consistent, controlled environment a lot of those kids are going to be in - they’re with the same handful of adults and same 20 kids all day, day after day. And spending a day in school inherently limits the time they have to do other things after school. Then, it’s resulted in things like public libraries hosting day care for displaced students - replacing that controlled contact with the same couple dozen people, with open contact with hundreds coming and going throughout the day. Contrary to popular opinion, a school is not a public building, access is (or can be) extremely limited. And with minimal adaptation, it can provide a pretty low risk environment (I know it’s a non-zero risk so thus it’s terrible in your mind, but we know we disagree on that).
Lift the mandatory attendance requirements, and make it optional - sure, let the parents who want to lock down their kids do so… But attending school was protecting a large number of students as much as it was putting them at risk.
Regardless, the ship has sailed. And as I said, I understand why. I did say I question it, not object to it.
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President Trump will be briefing the nation fifteen minutes from now. Dunno if Congress has settled yet on impending legislation. Perhaps this will be announced. Hope so.
I know what they don’t mean, but I don’t know what they mean, and would appreciate clarificdation.
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If you’re at the grocery store touching things other people have touched or breathed on, it’s wise not to touch your face until you’ve washed your hands again.
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Exactly. That’s making all of those households (including the others since really every class period may have different groups of kids, and there’s common areas) exposed to each other.
So it’s like group events of 100s/1000s every day the schools are open
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Way off on time. Speaking now.
“Highest poll numbers… just came out”.
“This will be a great victory. And I feel much sooner than it was originally expected…” "A lot of great things will happen. "
I don’t get the absurdity always thrown in, everything’s a campaign event, of course nothing surprising at this point.
Not sure what to make of the FEMA guy’s expression behind the smiling Trump. But Pence has the neutral expression down.
Edit:3 minutes 41 seconds after open for s&p futures to get stuck at limit down.
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And if you want to be OCD about it, you’d also disinfect all the packaging. Refrigeration is likely to only prolong the survival of the virus.
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Im seeing articles saying other coronaviruses ~2yrs in the freezer (!)
Uhm, elementary schools maybe, and only if you lock them in the classroom 24/7. For middle school and higher they’re not locked in to the same 20 (or in many cases 30), it’s more like 20 classmates * 6 periods per day, plus crowded hallways = everyone infected rather quickly, then spread to their families, etc.
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This is the scary part:
"GOP senators told CNN Paul was in the gym with colleagues Sunday morning, and several pointed out how close Paul had sat to others during Senate lunches in recent days. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said he saw Paul in the Senate swimming pool Sunday, according to a source in the GOP lunch.
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A statement from Paul’s office posted to his Twitter account Sunday said he was “feeling fine” and was “tested out of an abundance of caution.”"
Yeah, it’s almost like I didn’t even think that they’d need to adapt a little.
Oh, wait. That’s exactly what I did say.
As opposed to being in the public library with kids from all over coming and going throughout the day?
Way to quote just enough to respond to while hiding the full context of my comment.
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He tries to be like the great speakers in history, inspirational and sowing unfeathered optimism. He just really sucks at it. Really, really sucks at it.
I don’t know if he thinks that’s what he is doing, or if he’s just trying and failing. But it’s painfully bad.
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“People are dying to go to a restaurant. People are dying to go on an airplane.”
That one wasn’t part of the written “speech” (q&a and understandable accident), but I had to sadly laugh…
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Sorry. I see that part of the comment now. I didn’t know that’s happening anywhere (it’s not locally) , of course that’s not much better – although probably less would be in those than the entire schools, and most would hopefully stay at home.
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Didn’t the US government spend trillions of dollars and decades of planning for continuity of government against war/disasters? Oh wait, that was only against the Russians nuking us.
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Alternately, set up a couple rooms to alternate quarantining non-refrigerated/frozen food? Use one of the rooms every other week? Satisfy your OCD requirement without requiring all the disinfecting…
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