Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 2)

7,146 people

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Shared with me earlier today:

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Unlocking his father-in-law’s iPhone when Daddy can’t remember the passcode?

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Are you saying that photo was from an Applebees and not a Menards? Because the sign really looked to me like the latter.

7,146 people in an Applebee’s would be impressive, and not in a good way.

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just mashing up comments, but yes, Menards. It’s just a ridiculous “safe” number based on floor area. There will never be 7,146 people in the huge store, and if there were, it would be a Euclid-level SCP.

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https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4975

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me neither. i live in a very heavily republican area where a very large plurality of people have never masked, where restaurants have posted but not followed occupancy restrictions, and where a “karen” in a truck ahead of me opened her door and leaned out to scream “take off that fucking mask you goddamn antifa terrorist!”

i might have been a bit hyperbolic but not by much.

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he was quoting my comment which i’ve commented on just above this reply.

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That sign can be purchased over at _signage | 2ndwnd

Edit: Whoops I didn’t see it posted here already. Well at least I included the purchase link.

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Not sure it makes that much difference as they aren’t delivering the vaccine anyway. We wouldn’t have the supplies for a second dose if we didn’t suspend new vaccinations.

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Doesn’t matter. Unless the job is Crash Test Dummy, Jared is always “not the best qualified.”

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Even then, you’d have to play the Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm song at 2x speed to match his voice…

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Side effects.

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I don’t know, crash test dummies are supposed to model the behavior of human bodies under high velocity impacts.


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I threw this out the other night, but I have to comment a bit more:

I’m in the “Performing ‘Fine’ Arts” industry, though not in a role that involves much interaction with the artists (and less so now that I work from another state). Over the past year we’ve had a lot of retirements and a lot of morale-preserving zoom meetings where people talk about their experiences and where they find the value and purpose in this industry, and I was a little surprised at just how many people put their experiences with Yo-yo Ma at the top of their life lists. Sure he’s the world’s pre-eminent cellist, and sure he’s the guaranteed big draw and cash cow of any season we get him for, but the stories weren’t about that. They were about his incredible generosity and natural leadership, entertaining everyone around him for hours with stories, but stopping constantly to talk to and hear from student musicians.

He recorded a performance for us as part of our streaming video offerings that we’re using to keep our organization going through lockdown, for far less than he could have asked for.

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His youtube channel alone seems to be getting a lot of people through the pandemic.

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