wolfriverjoe

This has been bouncing around FB today. There are a couple of reasonably reputable sources reporting it, so it may well be true (no, I don't have any of the links handy). But, as you point out, it's a clear result of the 'for profit' health care. Where you cannot get any accurate estimate of what a procedure will cost, where different people pay vastly different amounts for the same procedure, all of that. And points 2 & 3 are spot on.

That's from the end of January. I think it was already posted here, but I could be wrong and it was a while back. I'm not totally sure of the motivation. It could simply be that they are idiots who believe the stupid shit they are told and are just passing it on. There's also the idea that the whole "Q" thing is just a bunch of 4chan trolls seeing how much stupid shit they can get the gullible idiots to believe. Either way, I have less and less of a problem with it as time goes on. Those morons are endangering people's lives with their stupidity. If that same stupidity means they follow dangerous suggestions (like drinking toxic chemicals), then they are less of a danger to me.

Given the overall response to the Mango Mussolini's idiotic statements, I would disagree that 'most' people are that stupid. However, it seems like intelligence is in inverse proportion to the likelyhood/enthusiasm of support for Trump. He does, after all, 'love the uneducated'.

Amazing how fast the Trumpettes came out to defend him. Sad that there have been multiple 'Public Service Announcements' to warn people against shoving a UV light down their throat or up their butt, and to not take disinfectants like Lysol or bleach either internally or intravenously.

Suuuuuuure you have. It's been abundantly clear that you feel that way. Your posting history shows that.

Don't forget that the snake handlers are also Pentacostals. I know Ron isn't of that sub-sect, he's made that clear. But the idea of intentionally handling venomous animals to show how you don't fear the devil is pretty ridiculous.

The problem is that it's not a binary solution. It's not 'keep the economy shut down and bring on a depression vs open the economy and have a few more people sick' It's more 'keep the economy shut down until we can open it safely or open it too soon and cause far, far, faaaaar greater havoc when the disease spikes'. Nobody's seen this in their lifetime. Well, maybe a few who are over 100. But I doubt they remember anything. But there are records. Many of them show that places that stayed shut down longer recovered economically sooner. Some of them showed that places that opened up sooner saw the disease return with a vengeance: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/opinions/denver-1918-lesson-avlon/index.html?utm_content=2020-04-22T23%3A00%3A09&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR2URVyYvUUCm8SnNy4NhOdl8tMrbGFcJQTH1pgvf_vp_XiFX0w-9-Tn8Wg

To be honest, I doubt you're going to get too many takers. How well did you 'fit in' around the DZ? Did you make many friends? That's where I'd start.

If you think the demonstrations last weekend were the 'people rebelling', I would strongly suggest taking a good look at who organized & promoted them.

No. I think in that particular case, the policy holder had to wait 2 years after initiating the policy to resume jumping. If you aren't doing it now, they'll cover you. If you say you aren't doing it, and then get the policy, and then die jumping; the insurance company will just refuse to pay.

And then, after touring the CDC, he claimed that the doctors there were amazed at how much he knew. He also claimed that he knew it was a pandemic before anyone else.

Those who refuse to learn from history will be doomed to repeat it. In this case, the 'doomed' part is particularly fitting. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/opinions/denver-1918-lesson-avlon/index.html?utm_content=2020-04-22T23%3A00%3A09&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR2URVyYvUUCm8SnNy4NhOdl8tMrbGFcJQTH1pgvf_vp_XiFX0w-9-Tn8Wg

While this sounds great, it's REALLY wrong. If the only people who were affected by that behavior were those people, then I'd be fine with it. But that's not what will happen. "Those that do not" will infect themselves, then become infectious and infect a LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE before getting sick themselves.

Tony Spell has another problem. He's gonna need another lawyer. His attorney is in the hospital. With Covid-19. https://www.wafb.com/2020/04/16/report-attorney-representing-la-pastor-defying-governors-stay-at-home-order-hospitalized-coronavirus/

Yup. Abso-fucking-lutely hilarious how many Trumpettes have suddenly decided that they should have the right to make decisions about their own body. In this case, however, they completely ignore the fact that becoming infected and infectious affects a LOT of other people too.

There is an interesting study in progress. It's not finished, so there is still some uncertainty. It examines people who watched Hannity vs those who watched Carlson. It looks at what they heard and what they did. It is finding that those who heard the line 'it's not a big deal' are getting sick and dying at higher rates. Go figure. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/22/21229360/coronavirus-covid-19-fox-news-sean-hannity-misinformation-death?fbclid=IwAR2iayj_XbT2r1eRm9kVgcRwE0VLsIbAIa4kAXzz4s7P093qYtvNybg553c

Of course they're different. The plan to 'open' Colorado is actually as restrictive, if not more so in some ways than the current restrictions in place in other places. But what would the Trumpettes do without their false equivalences to pretend that it's all political?

Well, Kentucky was the first to have these. Now they are seeing a spike in infections. Go figure. It will be interesting to see what the next 10 days or so brings to the places that had those protests.

Apparently the coronavirus is quite a bit more robust than other viruses. It's surviving quite a while on a variety of surfaces and sunlight doesn't kill it anywhere near as fast as others. Maybe not for days, which is way too long to leave gear out in the sun.

I had to look it up. Of course. He died at 83, not 93. In 1996, not last week. But the part about the difficulties of getting him in the box was apparently true.

Yes. It's really overwhelming, really fun and cool and totally irrelevant. For a tandem, you need nothing. For initial AFF, you need nothing. You may want to get your own goggles, gloves, helmet and altimeter fairly soon. Your instructors will provide guidance for that and the DZ will likely have them for sale. Yes, you can probably get a bit better price online somewhere, but supporting the DZ store is usually a good idea. As you progress, you will get more and more knowledge of the gear and what you will want. I'm not trying to put you down, but what you are doing right now is the equivalent of someone who hasn't even started driver's ed trying do decide what options to get on a Hellcat or a Shelby.

The Republicans in several states have admitted that if everyone who was eligible voted, they'd be in real trouble.

They've gained a lot of power in Lebanon through proxies, but never actually invaded. Same in Yemen. They may have built some installations in Syria, but then again... So has the US. You sort of ignored the Professor's question about how many the US has invaded. And you are very wrong about a couple things: 1 - Iran never had 'Marxist Trainers'. The Soviets never, ever had any real influence over Iran. Iran was the US's puppet until '79. They had all the best US hardware, including F-14 Tomcats. The only MiGs they ever had were the one's Saddam's airforce ran away with. The Shah's secret police, the SAVAK, were trained by Mossad, not the KGB. Some of them bugged out during the 79 revolution, but many of them stayed. Their loyalty was to their country, not the Shah. Or to the power of the position. Either way, some very well trained folks ran Iran's intel community. But not Soviet trained. 2 - The nuke agreement was just that. Nukes. Not terrorism. The article you linked a few posts back addressed that. It clearly stated that Obama was leaving certain sanctions in place despite the 'historic agreement' because Iran was still playing games the US didn't like.

I have a feeling they are going to win that suit. I'm not sure about the "U.P." (upper peninsula), but down here in Wisconsin, you get a citation for disorderly conduct. You don't get arrested.

Which statutes are those? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. I know what the 'reasonable man' standard is, and I know how it's applied. But I can't find any actual statutes that use the term. I could be looking in the wrong place.