The best mask usage I’ve seen on my infrequent outings have been at the local dispensary; pretty much everyone wears a mask or face covering (correctly), keeps their distance and uses the hand sanitizers that are strategically placed throughout the facility.
Stupid stereotypes be damned; where I’m at, the stoners are responsible a/f.
Stoners could be wildly irresponsible, and still look good compared to the Trumpies.
Tl;dr United is the worst
Something similar here…
…but slightly funnier, because the person who caught them in the violation has the person who gives them permission to fly on speed dial.
Bless me father for I am parched.
I wonder if water balloons would work for an entire family? 
“My child, receive this blessing. Receive it right in your f****n face.”
Oh, FFS. Swabs that are not individually wrapped are fucking useless for coronavirus testing. Or I should say, the first swab is good-to-go; then you have to toss the rest of the box.
The test amplifies RNA from the virus. If there’s contamination with ribonuclease, the viral RNA gets chopped up into unrecognizable bits. Worse, if someone is performing swabs and just keeps reaching for new ones out of an open box while interacting with people getting tested, odds are pretty good the whole box could be contaminated by viral particles, yielding sporadic false positives.
This just makes my head explode with rage.
Ohio’s reopened the restaurant patios (crowded, according to news photos), but a lot of small businesses in my area are taking their time to figure out how to open safely, and getting mostly support on social media. The confectioner on our block is open only for carryout one day a week, and is getting slammed with questions about when the store will be open. (Not for while).
I can’t see being comfortable around strangers anytime soon.
Of the couple of dispensaries I use, I went with the one that had less selection but has had for a while now clear directions on their website about parking lot pickup; I figured they had their shit together to be as contactless as possible (considering that they only take cash). My plan was to put the envelope of cash in the very back and pop the hatchback so I wouldn’t even need to come face to face. I pull up to the designated parking spaces… where a security guard is sitting right there at the front of the spaces, so it’s impossible to get out without being 3 feet away and he’s got his damn mask pulled down on his chin. SMH.
I’ve done some sort of curbside pickup I think 3 times now and none of them have thought things through enough and I always leave feeling like it was unnecessarily risky and disappointed in humanity.
Bummer, dude: my local dispensary also takes plastic.
Well, this is not particularly encouraging.
Also potentially infecting people coming in to get tested.
Not that they’d know, since the test would be borked in any case.
If my calculations are correct, with a total population of about 47 million and a contagion rate of 5%, it comes to about 2.35 million infected. With 27,000 deaths so far, that means a fatality rate of 1.15%. Most probably some of the more vulnerable population had a higher rate of infection, but it seems that a fatality rate of around 1% could be expected if the epidemic spreads unchecked. Scary.
