Me personally, during this whole thing i have never felt any fear whatsoever regarding the virus. Yes this virus has taken out lots of people worldwide, but you know what else has, the flu. Each year worldwide, influenza kills 500,000 people every year. And that was from a google search i saw early on when. Funnily enough this statistic no longer shows up when you type in how many people die from influenza each year worldwide. What, did people just stop dying from the flu this year??
Its all BS, the fake corrupt media made this thing out to be the apocalypse, like it was the end of the world. Well it didnt take me out, im still here. And like the great DJT, i dont wear a mask when i go out.
I was worried that he would start wearing a mask during press brefings, thank goodness he is still the good old DJT i know and love. He like me cannot and will not wear a mask.
Mark my words, wordwide this virus is on its way down. Just look at countries all over the world, especially Italy, Spain and Britian that are now reopening thier countries.
Also, i have this belief that DJT will win re-election in a landslide and that whatever the media and Democrats try to do between now and November will blow up in their face.
I fear my favorite restaurants won't open again. Ever.
Mostly it isn't fear, it's anger. Anger that many of our leaders just don't give a shit about businesses and jobs. That they are so weak that they can't handle a discussion about the realities of what they are doing. That journalists aren't haranguing them daily about these issues.
The reality is a vaccine isn't coming. in time if at all, that can stop this virus completely. If they accepted that, then we'd being having discussions about opening far more rapidly then we are. People die, more will die. That's life. We need to get on with it.
Seeing restaurants get boarded up and for sale signs being put in breaks my heart.
One of my favorites just announced they bit the dust yesterday evening. Just months ago there was a nice row of locally-owned restaurants in a town adjacent to mine (a town known internationally for the wrong reasons) where my wife and I would go on date nights. An easy ten minute drive from home. Not the most prosperous area so having this area doing well is great for the whole region. Well, now two restaurants are gone, a third is teetering, the number of not only shuttered but boarded up businesses are accelerating, leaving questions about the stability of the rest of the area. Fuck you, coronavirus/MSM panic. Fuck you, county executive Sam Page.
What, pray tell, were the restaurants that got shuttered? I get the sense I might have been to a few of them before.
will PM you
Threadgills closed for good, along with Shady Grove and Matts El Rancho.
These have been locally owned and multi generational establishments all now gone for good.
6th Street (even though Im not a fan) is boarded up with lot's of for sale signs in the windows.
Less than 100 people died in Travis County and City Of Austin commies are over riding the govenors order to reopen and stay closed for another 30 days.
People here are saying it isn't enough while giving crocodile tears about the locally owned places being shut down for good.
Wonder how much the city council got paid off by multinational land and development companies to get that prime realestate for pennies on the dollar for million dollar 400 sqft condos...
Abbot once again doesn't do shit about these flagrant abuses of power from the mayors.
Why? No media attention.
And meanwhile the media spills buckets of tears over meatpacking plants and some of those get shut down and the ripple effect could lead to those already at or near poverty levels going hungry for some time to come. Screw the media. Not news to any of us posting here, but I wish more would wake up about the media.
Anger sums up my feelings for the last 5-6 weeks. Initially I could be described as fearful since we didn't know what the hell this thing would do, and because I have numerous elderly loved ones. However, now I'm just pissed off when I go into my local stores. Waiting in line and having to wear a mask just gets under my skin now. I respect the employees, but I can't help feel bothered when they give their little lecture as to these rules. Anger does not consume me all the time, but it does while I'm experiencing the so-called "new normal" which I understand to not be based on science, but instead it's all based on political correctness and sticking it ignorant Orange Man and his followers.
Nothing is based on science. You can walk on the beach, but not sit? Where is the science saying one is more likely to get the virus by sunbathing than by wandering around all over a beach walking? Where would one encounter more people? Walking or sitting off alone on a towel?
No, not science based or really based on anything. They attempted to justify the shutdown of the state parks here as required in part because they wouldn't have the resources to maintain things like trash pickup, etc., but that has proven to be a load of crap. I live next to a state park and I've seen more state parks employees over the last two months than I've ever seen. They have plenty of resources to put up and maintain their barricades and stand guard over park entrances. If anything they have the state parks employees working overtime to enforce the lockdown.
In MN our Governor has decided that some small business can reopen again. But not until MONDAY. Now, why Monday? What would be wrong with them opening Friday so they could have the whole weekend or Saturday? Or heck, why not today? No, Monday. Random and stupid and based on nothing. What data says it is going to make a bit of difference to the virus to wait and open next week v. a few days earlier? Now small business is closed another weekend, which does matter to their bottom line financially.
Governor Walz needs to go.
Having a hard time talking to my best friend about things we normally talk about. His job is in jeopardy if this continues. My job, while stressful right now, is essential and was never in jeopardy. While it won't likely be as good as last year, it'll still be a great year. I don't want to talk work, he doesn't either. We can't talk politics it's all doomsday shit. We can't talk about the Wuhan, he's got ChinaFlu exhaustion. We talked a bit about family. Lost/canceled vacations etc... Otherwise it was a bit like the weather... gloomy.
totally agree, at first I was like ok, this must be something bad, but now I feel like enough of this bullshit!
I've already resigned myself to the fact that my dining out and bar drinking days are pretty much over. My local pub, which I was a fixture at, will most likely never reopen, and even if some restaurants reopen, the dining experience will be so unpleasant with all the ridiculous restrictions that I would choose takeout instead.
I place 100% of the blame on Democrats, from the politicians that run this state and create these edicts to the cucks and Karens who want to keep things closed forever and are constantly bitching and complaining about people not wearing masks and not staying home. Fuck them all.
Dallas County?
Sitting in a plastic bubble somehow degrades from the restaurant experience. Who would have thought?
Yeah, here in Oregon your dining experience under "phase 1" would go like this:
Make reservations at your local casual restaurant to be one of the lucky few. Get greeted at the door by a mask wearing employee asking you to wait outside under other parties leave. You are finally allowed entry into the staging area, where the masked employee takes your temperature, squirts disinfect gel into your hands, and admonishes you for not wearing a mask. You are then carefully ushered into the feeding area, making sure you are at least six feet from anyone else at all times on the way to your table. Once you are seated at your table, that smells like a hospital room, you are handed your freshly sanitized, laminated menus as you notice the masked diners at the table across the room glaring at you. You order from the limited menu and then sit there quietly waiting for your food, taking in the scent of bleach and alcohol. If you need to use the restroom you will be carefully escorted by the masked host to ensure that you maintain your social distancing. You eat your meal, pay your tab, and are then carefully escorted out as a masked sanitization crew sweeps in to isolate and sterilize the table you were just sitting at and anything that touched it.
Yeah, that sounds like a fun night out.
The waiter shows you your meal, then goes back to the kitchen and puts it into a Vitamix, blends the shit out of it, and brings it back to you in a cup with a straw. You suck your meal through the straw without removing your mask completely. Romantic as hell.
Yeah, I figure that there is a small chance that they might do that here, but there are so many Karens here that calls to the "authorities" will be swift and unrelenting for any place that doesn't enforce it. They have already proven this with other Democrat edicts that have been passed here like the styrofoam ban. I applaud any bar that does it, and they will have by business, but I doubt that any will risk it.
Yeah, MN has shuttered a few restaurants because of this.