That’s pretty much the reverse of what we’ve seen, but we’re in a blue town, so even the boomers are probably better than they would be elsewhere.
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Also reverse of my run to get propane, since none of the employees or customers had masks and they let people line up like normal and the customer base skewed older hard. Had I not just been outside the store and not having to buy stuff inside it I would have left.
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That’s right on “The Magnificent Mile” (Michigan Avenue)!
Not sure which is the more amazing sight: a coyote in the center of the high-end part of town, or the utter lack of cars or pedestrians during daylight hours…the latter causing the former, of course.
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Rural area in question is east of Durham and north of Raleigh. They are big blue spots in a purple state, but the line of demarcation can be a bit sharp, hence my pleasant surprise at all the rational behavior.
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Oh, it didn’t show up until the 21st of February, huh?
Yeah, pull the other leg! (Not you, the broadcasters who thought people wouldn’t be able to see through the propoganda.)
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Us in a year.
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Please maintain six feet distance from all tigers for the duration of the pandemic.
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Well, holy shit. We truly live in the end times.
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Ah… so the national leader of Ireland is a medical* doctor.
Perhaps he’s the one to listen to about new COVID-19 therapies 
*(I put that qualifier there because Angela Merkel has her doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, and yet she’s been strangely quiet on the subject of Chloroquine…) /s
(Our 
PM is a teacher, but he would be the house majority leader in the 
; our actual head of state is Julie Payette, an astronaut (edit: also strangely silent about Choloquine /s) )
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That coyote’s body language is just screaming “what the fuck is going on!?”
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Maybe, “Can it be true? Are we finally rid of them?”
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Ars Technica hopefully also resilient:
That’s why, when we started to see Bad Things™ in our industry a couple of weeks ago, we knew that we needed to turn to our most important lifeline—you. We picked a big goal: something that would not only impress Condé Nast leadership but would be a meaningful bridge to better times.
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That’s painful, isn’t it? I had a similar engagement, over climate, with my sister and her Fox-News-watching husband, over dinner at a family get-together. She came out as contemptuously dismissive of climate concerns and I responded by telling the climate truth, in detail, including the science, the consequences of inaction, and what we should do about it. I followed that up with a series of emails to everybody there substantiating it all. A little cruel, but I wasn’t willing to yield the assumed status-quo truth. That was nine months ago and we’re still working out a new way of being together.
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Thread on another type of PPE many people don’t know how to use properly.
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Yeah. Sounds about right.
Trouble is, this time it is clear and present danger.
My niece, his daughter, has to take immunosuppressives. The mother stopped him from seeing her, currently. I can’t call her to thank her, because I think this would definitely deteriorate the situation further. But I definitely am thankful for it.
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