GRAND OPENING - GRAND CLOSING (Florida)

[DisneyJamieCA]

I guess no state is immune to stupidity

https://people.com/music/andrew-cuo...-chainsmokers-drive-in-concert-i-am-appalled/
ETA: I know they say it’s the camera angle that is misleading, but I find that hard to believe. And it’s still 2,000 people when gatherings aren’t allowed over 50. Definitely not as bad as some other gatherings, but still dangerous, imo.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Cuomo has been very good about the morons, taking liquor licenses away from restaurants and bars, etc. Every state should have a governor like him.

 

[kdonnel]

You really think that making a joke out of the deaths of 186 fellow human beings is funny?

I do.

As do many others. Many do not. Amazing!

There have even been peer reviewed studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020769/

https://www.dyingmatters.org/page/dying-laugh
Some more studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...reavement&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

 

[KBoopaloo]

Maybe it’s just me but I think there is a pretty giant difference between people with terminal diagnoses using humor to help cope with facing their own death from a terminal illness and making a joke about nearly 200 people you don’t know dying in excruciating fashion from an infectious disease they may have been prevented from catching had people taking preventative measures more seriously.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

ETA: I know they say it’s the camera angle that is misleading, but I find that hard to believe. And it’s still 2,000 people when gatherings aren’t allowed over 50. Definitely not as bad as some other gatherings, but still dangerous, imo.

Darned biased media. They didn't show the angle straight up. There was nothing but blue sky and no people in that camera angle. But did they bother to show that one? Noooo.

 

[bethbuchall]

I guess no state is immune to stupidity

https://people.com/music/andrew-cuo...-chainsmokers-drive-in-concert-i-am-appalled/
ETA: I know they say it’s the camera angle that is misleading, but I find that hard to believe. And it’s still 2,000 people when gatherings aren’t allowed over 50. Definitely not as bad as some other gatherings, but still dangerous, imo.

There are definitely people everywhere who don’t believe, don’t care, or think nothing will happen to them. We were at a NYS Park on Sunday. The woman at the booth said that we were the last car allowed in. The parking lot was almost full, and the beach areas around the lake appeared packed with unmasked people. We were there to hike and didn’t get close to the beaches, so I only saw it from a distance. Fortunately, we passed only two other groups on the trail, but they were also unmasked.

 

[DisneyOma]

Not going to lie. It's an issue for me. I'm trying to get down that asile. But how do I do it? It's not as easy as it would seem. Walk over to the adjacent aisles but people are standing in the middle looking at goods. The other aisles is the same thing. This means I'm walking halfway across the store just so I can get down the aisle to grab the thing that I already knew I wanted. Or, since nobody is there can I just sneak in the wrong way, get it and go? I walk in with a plan. I know what I'm getting and I have an idea on where it's located. Some stores like walmart will even give us the location of the item we want online.

If you just follow those lines you could end up spending 3x the time and coming closer to 3x the people as you walk through the main isles trying to figure out how to make your way around the store. I'm not joking. At times attempts to separate us does the excat opposite. But I'm not out often. Maybe people who are have better ideas on how to handle it. I'm only there because it's urgent or it's something I can't arrange to have picked up for me.

If the aisle is empty and the arrows point the other way, I back into the aisle down to the item I need. If someone comes in the right way, I stop.

I do have to admit being extremely frustrated by a woman and her son standing and debating catfood for 15 minutes or more in Target. I looped around and did the rest of my shopping, came back and she was still there. I finally just said "excuse me" and grabbed 4 cans of what I wanted. That poor woman couldn't make a decision to save her life, and neither could her son, it seems.

 

[soccerdad72]

I guess no state is immune to stupidity

https://people.com/music/andrew-cuo...-chainsmokers-drive-in-concert-i-am-appalled/
ETA: I know they say it’s the camera angle that is misleading, but I find that hard to believe. And it’s still 2,000 people when gatherings aren’t allowed over 50. Definitely not as bad as some other gatherings, but still dangerous, imo.

Neighboring NJ as well...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...ild-700-person-house-party-3-charged/2536281/

 

[billlaurie]

I shop sometimes at a grocery with the aisle markers and I am finding that most people just ignore them anyway. However - at least at the time of day I shop (or day of the week?) it isn't very crowded so I really don't care. I was strictly obeying the signs and I still try to do so but sometimes there's 5 people already in the aisle for my direction and no one in the next aisle (against the arrow) so ... I'd rather get in and out of that aisle. Of course sometimes I forget something - then do I walk back down the wrong way? I also have really bad knees so I really like to be as efficient as possible and not backtrack if I can help it.

At least for me personally, I'm super fine if someone is coming down the aisle towards me or wants to come from behind me and go around while I read a label or whatever. I find most people are very good about not stopping near me so I feel like that's the more important thing....as well as if an aisle is crowded just skip it and come back to it later if possible. YMMV kinda depends on how wide the aisles are, how big the store is, how many people are shopping, etc. I think overall the key is not to spend a lot of time around any one person inside if you can help it. If I was finding a lot of crowding I'd probably just go home and order online and do the pickup where they put it in my trunk.

I have the same observations. Just walk around someone who is stopped. It is better than creating a traffic jam of people breathing on each other. I sincerely hope people walk around me and I have waved them on. I sometimes linger in the aisles looking for things, heaven forbid.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I do.

As do many others. Many do not. Amazing!

There have even been peer reviewed studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020769/

https://www.dyingmatters.org/page/dying-laugh
Some more studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...reavement&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

I don't think that study applies to your joke. You see it's a HUMOR intervention study, not an inappropriate, and unfunny jokes intervention study.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Did you hear the joke about COVID?


You probably won't get it.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Or make some tasty soylent green! I heard from my uncles best friends hairdressers cousin that the reason for all the food shortages is to get us all used to eating soylent green.

That movie still creeps me out!

 

[KBoopaloo]

The death number today for Florida was awful but there is some good news here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1288214440551370752

See, I am not all doom and gloom despite popular opinion!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Did you hear the joke about COVID?


You probably won't get it.

 

[DisneyOma]

The death number today for Florida was awful but there is some good news here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1288214440551370752

See, I am not all doom and gloom despite popular opinion!

See, I see that the ICU numbers are down, but the deaths are still high, and I think - lots of ICU patients died.

 

[kdonnel]

I don't think that study applies to your joke. You see it's a HUMOR intervention study, not an inappropriate, and unfunny jokes intervention study.

You deal with the pandemic your way, I’ll deal with the pandemic my way.

 

[CarolAnn856]

I do.

As do many others. Many do not. Amazing!

There have even been peer reviewed studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020769/

https://www.dyingmatters.org/page/dying-laugh
Some more studies on humor in palliative care and bereavement
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...reavement&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Not at all applicable.

 

[jlwhitney]

See, I see that the ICU numbers are down, but the deaths are still high, and I think - lots of ICU patients died.

the deaths are high but should hopefully decrease
In 2-3 weeks maybe less since those numbers lag.

it’s new icu admissions the numbers are referencing which is good to have each day less being admitted.

 

[Crazyheaven]

I get it. Some people here find me disrespectful. That's fine. But I'll not pause anywhere near people when it can be helped.

Last week was in a small ice cream shop. 1 family at a time. We wait our turn and go in. The next family doesn't want to wait. But they are told they can't come in. So they block the door. Now we can't leave. All I said excuse me to the mom. Apparently that was enough to have her shove me out the way so she can go in. Similar thing happened to me at autozone. Guy would not move and ignored every employee trying to get him out of the way.

Those are the people I find disrespectful. I can't even count the number of service workers who went out of their way to thank those who treat them like they are alive and are in this too. Apparently it isn't a common thing in Ohio and our numbers are showing the results of this.

Let's all try to stay as safe as we can out there.

 

[dvcgirl67]

You deal with the pandemic your way, I’ll deal with the pandemic my way.

Ha. Well, this is exactly why we're in the mess we're in. Some countries did a good job handling the pandemic and are now cautiously opening and are in a position to extinguish outbreaks with city or regional suppression and mitigation efforts. They're getting back to some sense of normalcy. Here, we had states in the south saying to the northeast, "you guys handle it your way, we'll handle it our way". And as you indicate, it's right down to the individual by individual level. This "approach", which really isn't an approach at all, is why we're failing so utterly and completely to contain the virus. It's also why we shouldn't expect life to resemble anything close to 2019 anytime soon.