Yeah I know of an underground game running for a few months, no masks, no cases. I’ve turned that down on multiple occasions. This one is more lucrative and masks required… I think I have to take a shot and see if they’re respecting the mask rule.
Asthma, overweight, likely slightly high cholesterol.
My games have dried up online, I’ve lost money over the last two months… Could just be a downswing or stress causing me to play worse. This is extremely lucrative and masks are required. If this goes on another year or so, I’d be okay financially to cover my expenses but I’d come back to live poker making way less due to the hit to my bankroll. Like I’d make about a third of what I do now. This may be the safest chance I have to make the most money while this is going on.
I should add $300/hr is probably the low end of what I’d make.
I think part of it is I was forced out due to the housing search and that’s made me feel less terrified of being around people with masks on, part is the financial situation.
First, lol, that’s a good one.
But I didn’t say pure evil, it was stupid politically. If I was in Congress, let alone speaker, I wouldn’t do this.
And my argument was fuck politically (optics) - we don’t have to feed into that. We can’t always be the side that eats their own when the other side is just laughing their ass off.
Remind me which state you are in? If it’s okay to ask.
Yeah, this game I’m contemplating is run by a guy whose daughter has some health issues, so he’s been taking it seriously. Masks, sanitizer, he cleans the chips each week, etc.
I might have to try it out.
Our 0 poz rate is in jeopardy. I do understand the temptation.
I was just playing around with this guy again to answer cuse’s question.
https://www.microcovid.org/calculator
I input California, seven people, everyone wearing at least a cotton mask or bandana, but cuse is wearing equivalent to a surgical mask, session lasts four hours, interactions are similar to person-to-person at a grocery store.
To be clear I’m not telling you to do it or not. I’m just saying if it is one of those situations where you will be around a finite amount of people. Presumably over several sessions. The odds you can use PPE as well as a trained doctor or nurse is probably 0% and a huge percentage of those working around Covid patients have gotten pozzed. So maybe it isn’t a lock you get it if someone there is infected. But it’s highly probable.
So it’s different than let’s say eating at Chili’s. Prolonged contact for hours multiple times a week means it just comes down to one person getting it or not.
Now do it for 8 hours and interactions similar to a glory hole.
A responsible gun owner, eh?
Translation: Dude’s got a vunerable daughter but still gotta risk her life with a few essential coin flips, but masks so all’s good!
Meanwhile, OMG schools are open!
And here we wonder what will drive the 3rd surge. Must be schools.
Well within the acceptable risk parameters then?
Cuse,
I think I’d pass on poker for $300/hr and I have less money than you and I have been less careful about covid. Otoh I think I have more/better alternative income streams.
I said back in May that I was heading out and would come back after the election to catch up on all the shenanigans here. I was thinking about you guys today and it occurred to me that waiting until the day after the election would result in one of two outcomes:
Biden wins and everyone would be too insufferable to even interact with. Not much fun.
Trump wins and I get insta rage-banned after the first post, no matter the content. I’ll already be having a bad day given how much money I have against Trump, so again, not much fun to be had.
Looks like most of my @ notifications from the past 4 months are from known bad actors. Picked yours to respond to instead because everyone loves iron81.
point is now moot. Just got a text that we’re doing a lit drop this weekend for Ammar Campa-Najjar’s campaign, so I’ll be putting miles on the car and steps on my feet instead.
I can kinda see what he’s getting at here i think. If we had a normal Hillary Clinton presidency, right wing nuts would absolutely be anti-mask and anti-shutdown. And with a woman telling ME to do a thing I don’t feel like doing? Way more right wingers would react negatively to attempts to slow the virus. Republican legislators in every state would continue pandering to their base and fanning the flames, and we would not be able to control the spread.
Tough to imagine many Republican presidents coming up with “slow down testing” tho