COVID-19: Chapter 4 - OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Louisiana just released an enormous backlog. The number today here is super inflated.

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Georgia, a state of maximum preparedness.

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The amusing part about the dentist trip today is that it’s in the same building as a bank. The kids and I pretended we were going to rob the place as we got our masks setup in the car. My son, especially, looked like some wild west train robber because his mask was still in a nice, pointy shape. I told my daughter to take care of the guard while my son covered the back exit.

(yes, we shutup as we got close to the bank)

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Seminole Hard Rock Casino reopens tonight in Tampa. All staff and guests required to wear masks. Stepped up cleaning procedures and 50% capacity max…blah blah blah. Players at table games including poker will be separated by plexiglass barriers and everyone gets a temperature check before entering casino. And they’ve got a new slogan. “Good. Clean. Fun.”

Doctor should have told the guy that he’ll make an exception in his case and put SFI on the death certificate instead of COVID. When the guy asks what SFI stands for doctor says “Stupid Fucking Idiot”.

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The reopening wave seems to be becoming apparent in several places.

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Who had Montgomery, AL as the first city to have their hospitals tip over? Brilliant late round sleeper pick in retrospect.

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Singing in church. What could go wrong? I’m having a really hard time drumming up sympathy for these idiots.

It’s just so stupid. How can they look at their no-dobut aging congregations and think they can just pack the pews again?

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The worst part, perhaps, if you look at the graph is that it’s not even close to tipping over into runaway exponential growth. It looks like it’s in the phase where, if you don’t know better, you’re like “I think that’s maybe linear?”

If they’re overflowing the hospitals with that, look out.

This is going to be an interesting one for right-wingers. The corporate overlords don’t want people to go back to church, they want them to go back to work. If churches cause massive problems and places to shut down sooner than otherwise, that’s not gonna make the Adelsons of the world happy.

Also at the same time this is a big test for Karen. Does she just want to get her butthole waxed, or is she willing to put her DEMANDS FOR FREEDOM to the test and sit in church for an hour w/o a mask while in the pew right behind her belt out Our God is an Awesome God?

Unfortunately Karen probably isn’t a major church regular. So it’s the true nutters that are going to get nailed with this.

I don’t think it will last long. One outbreak on a Friday after Sunday service and the church will shut itself down.

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I think they’re looking at their empty tithing baskets instead and deciding they don’t care who has to die to fill them back up.

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Why wouldn’t you pack the pews? God has a plan.

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My man, don’t you know they’re covered in the blood of Jesus?

https://twitter.com/alphacentauriii/status/1246798299194994694

W/o much investigation I’m going to guess this hospital is a very “urban” part of town and is always chronically understaffed and underresourced. Those were the first hospitals to get in trouble in NYC, NO and Atlanta.

Sadly I think it’s gonna need to happen to a white a white hospital before the shit really hits the fan as far as Wall St. tanking again - which is the only thing that moved Trump into action the first time.

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If all you’re doing is struggling to drum up sympathy, you’re doing way better than me.

Zero chance any of the people going to church know that singing loudly risks the spread.

I told my mom about the pastor in Cameroon who said he could heal coronavirus by laying hands on people, who then died of coronavirus himself. Her response, “But how many of the people were healed?”

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I don’t think I would speak to my Mom again if she was that out of it. I’m a shitty son as it is.

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I bet a lot of these people have that “Christian” health insurance too - which sprang up after the ACA rules on crappy health insurance were rescinded.

I guess that stuff is a pretty good deal, unless everyone on your plan gets sick at the same time, then they basically have to go begging for money.

The only requirement is you have to go to church regularly. I’m going to take a wild guess that rule is selectively enforced to keep out undesirable types.