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Wes Mantooth said:
@candrew

You probably saw but a 30 year old baseball coach from Cliffside Park died from Covid.
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Yes, he was on Don Bosco's undefeated team in 2008. Just a kid.

North Jersey is getting ravaged. My county (Union) just passed a thousand known cases - tho about a third of them are in Elizabeth. Cranford has 50 including my cousin's daughter (she's 20 and doing good)
 
candrew said:
Yes, he was on Don Bosco's undefeated team in 2008. Just a kid.

North Jersey is getting ravaged. My county (Union) just passed a thousand known cases - tho about a third of them are in Elizabeth. Cranford has 50 including my cousin's daughter (she's 20 and doing good)
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Yeah we have 1,033 cases in Monmouth County. I’m glad I’ve been hardcore about this.
 
We had a 22 year old girl die in Utah yesterday but she had type 2 diabetes and went through open heart surgery about a year ago.
 
Scat said:
We had a 22 year old girl die in Utah yesterday but she had type 2 diabetes and went through open heart surgery about a year ago.
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Age isn't going to matter if you have a compromised immune system. Even 'healthy' people could die from this as they may simply not know if they have an underlying condition.

Hope you guys have a comfy office chair as we're not going anywhere for months.
 
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I wonder if there are some things that can be done to help expedite the development of a vaccine? Last I checked they said 12-18 months. It’d be amazing if they could cut that to 6. However, I’m unsure what all that would entail.
 
The Thriller said:
I wonder if there are some things that can be done to help expedite the development of a vaccine? Last I checked they said 12-18 months. It’d be amazing if they could cut that to 6. However, I’m unsure what all that would entail.
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It's the testing that takes time. Gotta make sure we're not injecting people with a vaccine that causes a zombie apocalypse.
 
The Thriller said:
lol

How many times have Democrats gone to the White House to negotiate immigration reform or “infrastructure week?” When Obama tried to pass his stimulus, Republicans openly bragged about voting against it to purposely make economic recovery harder and make him a one term president. When developing Obamacare, Republicans insisted on having certain provisions in the bill. Then they voted against their own provisions. Why? They hoped Democrats wouldn’t pass their provisions so they could blame them for shutting them out of working on obamacare. So when Democrats relented, they still voted against the provisions because they ultimately didn’t want to give Obama a big health care win.

When Democrats had the chance for payback right now, they worked with Republicans and passed a bill. If Hillary was president, republicans would be openly bragging about making this economy worse to destroy the her re-election. I guarantee it.

Just because we have a two party system doesn’t mean we have equal levels of partisanship.
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You are so clueless that it is truly frightening. What do you have to say about all of the society changing provisions the Dems tried (but fortunately failed) to pack into the most recent bill?
 
Zombie said:
Of course they have to some degree, and I'm not a fan of the party generally, but it's just a fact that they have been more ready and willing to work with Republican presidents than vice versa.
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Ridiculous. The Democrats have obstructed Trump in every way they can dream of. Just because they found themselves forced by public opinion to vote for the corona bill (after failing to fill it with pork) does not mean they are cooperative. Both parties are ridiculous in their obstruction of the other party. To me the Dems are worse, but I'm sure that's mostly because I simply disagree with their agenda. I can see that if I was for the Dem platform I might believe that the Republicans are worse. To suggest that one os significantly worse than the other feels like blind partisanship.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Both parties are ridiculous in their obstruction of the other party. To me the Dems are worse, but I'm sure that's mostly because I simply disagree with their agenda.
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The former is something everyone should agree on, the latter is debatable depending on POV as you rightfully pointed out. We commonly only remember what's happened lately, but McConnell made it quite clear publicly that they wanted to make Obama a one-term president through obstruction.

Main reason nothing gets done in Washington is simply due to needing the House, Senate and presidency all aligned amongst party lines. The Republicans wasted a golden opportunity in the first two years while they had the numbers.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
You are so clueless that it is truly frightening. What do you have to say about all of the society changing provisions the Dems tried (but fortunately failed) to pack into the most recent bill?
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I think he would say they agreed to pass the bill rather than bragging about an effort to make Trump a one-term President.
 
I can't/won't speak to every part of the bill but Trump has being playing games with NEA funding since day one. He held massive funding cuts over the D's head with every budget.

The 75 mil to the NEA was a big FU to Trump. The Stimulus Package was probably not the time and place - but a little context is needed.
 
Not encouraged by what I saw on a ten minute drive to Target. Lots more groups of people chatting, kids playing together, etc. than I’d seen the last two weeks. Wife is seeing a ton of FB invites to play games with friends pop up because everyone is getting stir crazy.

April is going to be one of the darkest months in the history of this country if people can’t get their **** together.
 
Avery said:
Not encouraged by what I saw on a ten minute drive to Target. Lots more groups of people chatting, kids playing together, etc. than I’d seen the last two weeks. Wife is seeing a ton of FB invites to play games with friends pop up because everyone is getting stir crazy.

April is going to be one of the darkest months in the history of this country if people can’t get their **** together.
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I went to Walmart on Sunday to pick up a few things to allow me to make a meal out of some of the staples I stocked up on. Holy ****, full families packing the place. A mom, dad and 3-5 kids with the kids running all over touching whatever. These stores should have someone at the door. If there are two adults and kids then they need to tell them that one of the adults needs to wait in the car with the kids, period. For the safety of their employees if nothing else.
 
Avery said:
Not encouraged by what I saw on a ten minute drive to Target. Lots more groups of people chatting, kids playing together, etc. than I’d seen the last two weeks. Wife is seeing a ton of FB invites to play games with friends pop up because everyone is getting stir crazy.

April is going to be one of the darkest months in the history of this country if people can’t get their **** together.
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I'm gonna go on my first camping trip of the year in April though.
So at least there's that

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Gameface said:
I went to Walmart on Sunday to pick up a few things to allow me to make a meal out of some of the staples I stocked up on. Holy ****, full families packing the place. A mom, dad and 3-5 kids with the kids running all over touching whatever. These stores should have someone at the door. If there are two adults and kids then they need to tell them that one of the adults needs to wait in the car with the kids, period. For the safety of their employees if nothing else.
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That's literally what my wife and I do. We had to sign some documents at the bank and we went in 1 at a time while the other stayed in the truck with our daughter.

Or if we have to go to the store then only one person goes and the others just stay home. Pretty simple really.

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Saw this. Don't know if true but......
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candrew said:
My wife had a pretty disturbing story to tell me:

She works part time for the Dept. of Health in Plainfield, NJ. It's a poor/working class town in Central New Jersey. Her usual job is pretty mundane - she works 12 hours a week keeping track of folks who have and haven't gotten licenses for their pets; but with the current situation it's pretty much all hands on deck dealing with the virus. The number of cases in Plainfield have almost quadrupled in the past week. That's not the disturbing part.

Apparently the way it works is a person tests positive for the virus, the medical facility alerts the state and the state alerts the township and the township calls the individual to provide guidance on what they should do. They also ask them where they work and if they've been in contact with other people recently (the quarantine has been going on in NJ for about a week and a half now). Many people are refusing to answer questions, others are just flat-out hanging up the phone. Obviously these people are still functionable enough to go to work and are doing so out of fear of losing their job. Others might have a "questionable" citizenship status and are worried about getting deported.

I don't know how to editorialize this without sounding melodramatic - I see this eventually becoming a disease associated with class/status. Given the present climate I can only imagine how ugly things are going to get.
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Yet another horror story from my wife's job:

She follows up on another positive case reported to the BOH. Guy is mid-30's with a wife and two kids. Wife not tested but has all the symptoms.

Guys picks up the phone - he's at work.

His occupation - elevator repairman.
 
There's a chat exchange forwarded in a local group in China that says some guys from wuhan and Chongqing we're found positive again after they were released from hospital. They took a nucleatic acid test before release but after few days,took a Nat+CT test and found positive again. Now they fear that those who were released are still carrying them and a second wave is coming.
 
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