D&D and the rising pandemic

[Istbor]

It shows that, despite what we learned in 1918, some of us are making the same damn stupid decisions. Thus, we prove the adage about repeating history to be true.

Maybe we should have put up some Flu Pandemic statues. I hear that is how some people learn about history now-a-days.

Florida is looking to break another record high today it seems.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Didn’t just break it, threw it in the fireplace and yelled “OPA, beaches!” broke it.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Just to make a point, I'm not getting a haircut until the lockdown ends in my area and Coronavirus is under control. (that is, if that ever happens)

 

[Umbran]

Not really it's been that way since the Great American Tax Dodge I mean War of Independence.

Yeah, thanks for the insult. Very endearing.

 

[Umbran]

Just to make a point, I'm not getting a haircut until the lockdown ends in my area and Coronavirus is under control. (that is, if that ever happens)

I am, honestly, extremely surprised about one thing - hairdressers have rather missed an opportunity.

You can buy portable sinks, for like $120 at Home Depot, and free-standing mirrors. There's no reason you can't set up outdoors. With masks, that'd bring the risk way down.

 

[Cadence]

I am, honestly, extremely surprised about one thing - hairdressers have rather missed an opportunity.

You can buy portable sinks, for like $120 at Home Depot, and free-standing mirrors. There's no reason you can't set up outdoors. With masks, that'd bring the risk way down.

I was pondering this just this morning. Could even drive to see whoever you're cutting. One friend said they were considering it, but the recent spikes here have made even that sound a bad idea.

Luckily my cut is just a 6 all over, so my other-half ordered some trimmers for $50 and took off a few months worth this morning. She didn't trust me to do anything for her hair in return though

 

[Hussar]

Funnily enough, my wife was the same. Strange that.

 

[Eltab]

Using Indiana as a model, the rural counties could very well be tested fully (somebody in every household, if not every individual), infected individuals quarantined and the healthy released, using the resources now available - also in effect building cordon lines around the cities / counties with the most cases. Much like the plan described a few pages back. One rural county near me had single-digit total cases into May, while the urban counties report hundreds each.
But
Good luck finding a medical expert and/or a responsible politician and/or ranking bureaucrat who will stand in front of cameras / microphones to tell the city-dwellers they get taken care of second.

And another thought: the virus has found its way into the "YOU are not the boss of ME!" subculture(s). It's going to have to burn through them, because no amount of telling them ... well, anything ... is going to change what they decide they want to do. I'm ticked that the rest of us are going to have to hear lots of very earnest scolds going on and on about what people ought to do but are not actually doing.
And in the social climate of the last few weeks, good luck with "We're going to call the police if you don't..."

 

[Eltab]

Just to make a point, I'm not getting a haircut until the lockdown ends in my area and Coronavirus is under control. (that is, if that ever happens)

Your barber may be the best "weight-loss diet" you ever tried, by then.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I am, honestly, extremely surprised about one thing - hairdressers have rather missed an opportunity.

You can buy portable sinks, for like $120 at Home Depot, and free-standing mirrors. There's no reason you can't set up outdoors. With masks, that'd bring the risk way down.

I know a few already doing some of that, as part of their mission/ministry to help out people in hospitals, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and so forth. But the new sanitizing regs are actually slightly harder to cope with* in a mobile setup.




* assuming they’re reading those regs right, of course.