Checked the shark tracker at Ocearch. There are a few in the Gulf, but the sharks have more sense than that.
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If they would keep it to themselves, I’d be right there with you. Instead, they are going to help spread it around the country, like multiple viral Johnny Appleseeds
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And when the sun goes down they all pile into clubs(still open I’m guessing?) and cheap motel rooms and pass around booze, smokes, saliva, etc. And I’m guessing hand washing happens… kind of once in a while?
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Me and my mom ended up going to Kroger over HEB and it was actually not bad! We went friday night and figured it’d be chaos, we swung by just in case and there wasn’t many people there. Some things had been bought out but we were able to find everything we needed to throw my dad an early bday cookout. I have heard that many HEBs had cops outside controlling crowds which is pretty crazy.
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That’s barbaric. We stir up a similar level of panic much more efficiently using the old giant robot Jaws shark from the Universal Studios park. If it can swallow a fishing boat and reset every 10 minutes, it can keep the beaches clear.
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Dense crowds. Well put.
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Dense crowds tightly packed.
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Maybe they are all trying escape from FL to Cuba to get tested.
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I only did a Florida college spring break once. Unfortunately it was in coco beach and there was no one there. There were no clubs. Your version sounds like a lot more fun (other than the Corona related death.)
Mmmm… just a skosh more than 10 people.
Your version sounds more fun to me!
Of course 18 year old me probably would have had a different answer.
Wonder how fast he’s pivoting now that dumpf is claiming, sorry, gaslighting, about how he had a feeling it was a pandemic before they were saying it was a pandemic. Lying fuck.
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Cheap airline tickets. A relative of mine called me and told me she was in Florida. Here’s hoping A. She doesn’t get Coronavirus or B. Doesn’t get stranded in Florida with Trumps possible national flight ban.
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Only a few weeks ago, BoingBoing ran a few articles about how “authoritarian” China was when they were keeping people in their houses.
Well, it’s an understatement to say that they ain’t the best system of government, sure, but at least they’re getting the situation under control.
Meanwhile, in the states, far too many people are completely ignoring recommendations, and of those who aren’t, many of them are panicking and packing into stores like sardines in a can in order to fight for a year’s worth of toilet paper.
I say bring on the body heat sensing smart goggles and loudspeaker drones that shame people for being outside.
This thing has the potential to get real bad real fast, exponentially even, yet the American public is seemingly incapable of having any sort of third setting in between ignoring and panicking.
I think we’re well past “potential” at this point.
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I just post this here…
The domestic response was, and still is, abysmal, but when I say “real bad” I’m talking about making Italy look like the good scenario: two thirds of the population getting infected in a short amount of time, the healthcare system being overloaded, millions dying, many not even from the virus but secondary effects of societal collapse, that sort of thing.
It did give a narrative cohesiveness to Star Trek Enterprise, but it was an obvious attempt to tie STE into the The War against Terror’s propaganda component.
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