vxbush 3/24/2021 5:34:13 AM

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Thus begins a dreary day 

In COVID land a-waiting

Folks to see the Fakery

And start the tar and feather-ing

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Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 5:36:00 AM

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Good morning. It’s raining here in DC today. It wasn’t raining yesterday. And you know what that means, don’t you?

OMG CLIMATE CHANGE

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 5:45:42 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

Last week, some days only got to 40-45 degrees. Tomorrow, 75! Warming! At that rate the oceans will be boiling in less than a month!/////////////////

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 5:46:51 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:

If it gets as hot as the dog days of the summer, does that make it climutt change?

PaladinPhil 3/24/2021 6:13:45 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 6:16:58 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 5:

Great. Glad you get to visit her

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 6:39:09 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 5:

very glad to hear it.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 6:41:29 AM

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In #3 Kosh's Shadow said: Last week, some days only got to 40-45 degrees. Tomorrow, 75! Warming! At that rate the oceans will be boiling in less than a month!/////////////////

Our top priority has to be to save Obama's Martha's Vineyard beachfront home!

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 6:48:52 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: Our top priority has to be to save Obama's Martha's Vineyard beachfront home!

He can do that easily himself, as he can keep the seas from rising!

PaladinPhil 3/24/2021 6:57:40 AM

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In the past few days I am seeing things out there. This whole Covid BS is starting to impact people for the stupidest things. When the Squire and I got tested there were several family groups there getting the tests as well. Schools are panicking with the spring sniffles and don't want to take any chances or risks. Employers aren't being lenient as well. 

Everyone is sick of the lockdowns and restrictions and are starting to ignore health department diktates. This could be very good or very bad. Not to mention I heard a rumour that if someone dies of vaccine complications their life insurance won't cover them since the so-called vaccine is considered experimental. Don't know if that's true or not but if it is.... 

PaladinPhil 3/24/2021 7:02:05 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 10:

Even my wife is starting to question a lot of the made up rules. She was told today that corporate denied her sick time while we were waiting for test results. She just screamed out the door to get to work fuming like a mad woman. Doesn't matter that we had directions from the local public health unit that we all had to isolate while the Squire was waiting for his test results. And it didn't matter that corporate DEMANDED that we get a negative test before we returned to work.  Too bad, so sad, you're out of pocket on this one prole.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 7:25:25 AM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 11:

#FollowTheScienceOrSomethingLIkeThat

vxbush 3/24/2021 7:26:11 AM

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In #11 PaladinPhil said: it didn't matter that corporate DEMANDED that we get a negative test before we returned to work.  Too bad, so sad, you're out of pocket on this one prole.

Sheesh. I'd be fuming, too. 

Syrah 3/24/2021 7:47:41 AM

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I still see people walking outside, alone, wearing Covid masks.

i still see people alone in there cars, wearing their Covid masks.

i still see men with full mountain man beards, wearing surgical masks. (It really looks stupid. The only thing being filtered out is large flying insects.)

“15 Days to Slow the curve” is going to last years at this rate.

JCM 3/24/2021 7:53:01 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

D.C. might turn into a swamp!

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 7:54:57 AM

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In #14 Syrah said: I still see people walking outside, alone, wearing Covid masks.

Oh, I can go one better.  As I've mentioned before, I see people walking/jogging outside, wearing their face-diapers, along the major avenue where I live, weaving in and out of parked cars, INTO the (quite busy) avenue, in order to avoid coming near pedestrians on the sidewalk. 

This, presumably, for  the sake of, um, "safety".

On Saturday, I saw parent playing with their kids, in the middle of a big, nearly-empty park, on a breezy day... everyone wearing a cloth mask.

Sights and wonders.  it's quite an age we live in.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 7:56:18 AM

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I see face masks when there's no one near

Social-distance, 'cause their lives are bare

I wonder why?

I wonder why?

/I'll leave the rest to buzz

JCM 3/24/2021 8:00:34 AM

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You know for the environment!

PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) — Disposable masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment are safeguarding untold lives during the coronavirus pandemic. They're also creating a worldwide pollution problem, littering streets and sending an influx of harmful plastic and other waste into landfills, sewage systems and oceans.

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 8:01:51 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 16:

I have a lady here cleaning my house and I told her she didn't have to wear a mask and I'm vaccinated (half true). She's still wearing it.

vxbush 3/24/2021 8:06:09 AM

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In #14 Syrah said: I still see people walking outside, alone, wearing Covid masks. i still see people alone in there cars, wearing their Covid masks. i still see men with full mountain man beards, wearing surgical masks. (It really looks stupid. The only thing being filtered out is large flying insects.) “15 Days to Slow the curve” is going to last years at this rate.

Not to mention people not covering their noses, so there's actually no filtration at all.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 8:17:21 AM

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Reply to JCM in 18:

I heard this talking point being recycle (get it?) on NPR not long ago. 

And of course, what they were suggesting was... we should all wear masks, yes, but the utterly useless cloth ones.

They want us to be in a continuous panic over Covid-19; and, simultaneously, to take "safety measures" that are useless and ritualistic. 

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 8:19:04 AM

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In #19 doppelganglander said: I have a lady here cleaning my house and I told her she didn't have to wear a mask and I'm vaccinated (half true). She's still wearing it.

And, of course, she's free to do so.  I also understand a bit more if someone whose business brings her into contact with a lot of different people might opt to continue wearing one (my cleaning ladies do, too).  

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 8:20:12 AM

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In #16 Occasional Reader said: I saw parentS playing with their kids

JCM 3/24/2021 8:22:34 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 20:

My favorite is the people with wearing plastic shop face shields, the even more ridiculous plastic face masks they sit away from the face with a gap all the way around.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 8:26:59 AM

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Reply to JCM in 24:

I'm still tempted to stroll into my local grocery store at some point wearing this*:

https://tinyurl.com/6uyx7fk6

*Which... yes, I own one, just because "be prepared" and all that

vxbush 3/24/2021 8:31:26 AM

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In #24 JCM said: My favorite is the people with wearing plastic shop face shields, the even more ridiculous plastic face masks they sit away from the face with a gap all the way around.

Yeah, a friend gave me one thinking it would be a solution to my asthma causing problems while wearing a mask. I said thank you politely and then put it aside. 

JCM 3/24/2021 8:34:35 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

Make sure when you do you add a Darth Vader Sound to it.....

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 8:41:09 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 22:
Yes, and I can see why she does it. I would just rather not have anyone wearing a mask in my home. It seems alienating. 

JCM 3/24/2021 8:44:21 AM

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Reply to doppelganglander in 28:

Little tin foil hat time.

But totalitarian regimes always tried to alienate the people from each other. The regime can't stand any other loyalty than to the regime. If everyone is an informer no one can be trusted.

Masks are a little taste of it, depersonalize a person.

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 8:47:08 AM

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Reply to JCM in 29:
True, whether they realize it or not.

I just got a video from my DIL of my granddaughter playing on a swing with her little friends, just laughing their heads off. Not a mask in sight. Seeing children in masks just breaks my heart. 

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 8:54:58 AM

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In #29 JCM said: Masks are a little taste of it, depersonalize a person.

Next, they'lll propose a more full measure of PPE for everyone. 

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 9:01:34 AM

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In #30 doppelganglander said: Seeing children in masks just breaks my heart. 

Good thing you weren't at the partk I mention above, on Saturday.  It was maddening seeing this, little kids wearing masks while playing with their own families in open air, 50 feet or more from the nearest  other human being.  Mass psychosis/mask psychosis. 

Alice in Dairyland 3/24/2021 9:21:27 AM

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In #18 JCM said: creating a worldwide pollution problem, littering streets

My husband commented on this recently.  Seeing many used masks in store parking lots, boat landing/fishing areas, parks, etc.  We even had one blow into our yard; that was disgusting, having to pick up somebody else's used/dirty mask.  The thing I hate the most is when somebody uses a towelette to wipe off their shopping cart handle before use and then leaves the dirty thing in the cart for the next person to dispose of.

JCM 3/24/2021 9:37:30 AM

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Your shipment will be late....

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 9:45:13 AM

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Reply to JCM in 34:

Yikes.  Suez Crisis!

JCM 3/24/2021 9:55:33 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 35:

One of the pictures shows the bow.

The bulbous bow is buried into bank.

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 10:15:51 AM

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vxbush 3/24/2021 10:19:01 AM

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In #37 doppelganglander said: Yale fired her last May, and now she's suing them.  I'll be over in the corner, gloating.

Was she ever censured by the APA or other professional group? Professional ethics don't mean much if you don't hold folks accountable. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 10:20:07 AM

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Reply to JCM in 36:

Ship has been freed.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 10:30:36 AM

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In #36 JCM said: The bulbous bow is buried into bank.

The Alliterative Suez Crisis!

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 10:43:36 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 38:

According to the article, the Dean of the Department of Psychiatry wrote to her and told her she had violated the Goldwater rule. However, she hasn't been a member of the APA since 2007 so presumably they didn't have the authority to censure her. The next step IMO is for the State of Connecticut to yank her medical license. I would love to hear what her former students and patients have to say about her.

JCM 3/24/2021 11:11:48 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 39:

Free at last! Thank God Almighty! I'm free at last!

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 11:49:28 AM

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Report: Boulder shooter swore allegiance to ISIS, targeted 'Jewish store'

However, Loomered.com reported that the King Soopers market targeted by the shooter is known as a “Jewish store” with a majority Jewish clientele due to the large supply of kosher items the store carries.

King Soopers website indeed advertises the grocery chain as “Your One-Stop Shop For Kosher Groceries.” The store is also included on a Vaad Hakashrus of Denver list of stores that carry kosher items.

So, when will this be in the MSM?

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 11:54:31 AM

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Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 11:58:10 AM

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In #43 Kosh's Shadow said: is known as a “Jewish store” with a majority Jewish clientele

Hmm.  I think that might be overstating things.  As I've mentioned, I've been to that store (while visiting a friend in Boulder) on a few occasions.  It's basically a big, pretty nice neighborhood grocery store - I don't recall anything specifically "Jewish" about it.  I have no doubt they have a kosher food selection - just as my neighborhood Safeway does.   The shooter may have targeted it out of some perception of it being "Jewish",  I don't know, of course; but my recollection is that this is very much just a big, general supermarket. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 12:10:53 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 45:

Most stores around here have a fairly small kosher section - maybe a segment or 2 of a rack.

A few have larger sections, of half an aisle or an entire one, and a few bays of frozen and refrigerated areas. These are not that common, though. (Closest for me is around 30 miles away, as opposed to several supermarkets in a 10 mile radius)

While this isn't Boulder, Colorado, it isn't DC, either. If Boulder doesn't have a large Jewish population that keep kosher, most stores might not carry much in the way of kosher food.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 12:15:49 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 46:

Yeah, my impression is that one would have trouble keeping a big supermarket as a going concern in Boulder if one were dependent on having a "majority Jewish clientele"... but I don't know that for a fact.  

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 12:51:11 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 47:

He probably targeted the supermarket with the largest Jewish clientele in the area.

buzzsawmonkey 3/24/2021 1:07:23 PM

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In #44 Occasional Reader said: An inquiry at The Frontier, if any of y'all have a moment. 

Left you a likely-wholly-useless, but well meant, reply.

JCM 3/24/2021 1:07:58 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 43:

Positive feedback loop.

Sell Kosher items, if they sell well, store puts out more items etc...

PaladinPhil 3/24/2021 1:17:59 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 46:

Reply to Occasional Reader in 47:

I find it interesting that there are no Kosher sections at work. Yet there's all sorts of Halal offerings in the frozen and meat section. Small town and I don't think there's anyone here that observes Kosher rules.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 1:47:00 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 49:

Got it and replied in the Frontier; thanks (to you and all who responded). 

lucius septimius 3/24/2021 2:00:27 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 48:

In my area there was a particular store/chain that had extensive Kosher sections (including Kosher wine).  When the chain moved out the other stores picked up the slack, but I haven't seen any with quite the same extent of products.

lucius septimius 3/24/2021 2:02:33 PM

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In #51 PaladinPhil said: Yet there's all sorts of Halal offerings in the frozen and meat section.

There aren't any halal sections in my local supermarkets though most of the Asian markets have halal products.  There are a couple of Bengali grocery stores up the road.  One opened near my mom, which was sort of bizarre.  

PaladinPhil 3/24/2021 2:10:23 PM

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lucius septimius 3/24/2021 2:18:56 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:\

Very sorry to hear that.

Occasional Reader 3/24/2021 2:22:14 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

May her soul be elevated; and may you be comforted. 

doppelganglander 3/24/2021 2:26:47 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

Phil, I am so sorry. May you find comfort in your memories. 

vxbush 3/24/2021 2:29:08 PM

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In #55 PaladinPhil said: Mom passed away half an hour ago. Just finished making all the phone calls. Wife is on the way home from work, and I am just waiting to break down fully...

My condolences to you. (((Phil)))

buzzsawmonkey 3/24/2021 2:32:24 PM

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In #55 PaladinPhil said: Mom passed away half an hour ago. Just finished making all the phone calls. Wife is on the way home from work, and I am just waiting to break down fully...

I am so very sorry to hear that.  Having dealt with the loss of my own not so long ago, I know how difficult it is.  

I will echo OR:  May her soul be elevated, and may you find comfort.

Alice in Dairyland 3/24/2021 3:09:50 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

So sorry to hear that.  May she be at peace now and may you find peace in your memories of her.

JCM 3/24/2021 3:36:14 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

Thank God you got to see her!

Prayers with you and yours.

@PBJ3 3/24/2021 3:54:17 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

I am so sorry (((((Phil))))).  You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

Kosh's Shadow 3/24/2021 4:41:38 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 55:

{{{Phil}}}