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Post by Clipper on May 24, 2020 16:14:27 GMT -5
LOL. It will still be there when you get back to it. A little taller perhaps, haha. It was 86 and humid here this afternoon without a breeze. We took a ride out to South Holston Lake to check out a new fishing area that they had built with a concrete pad and things to prop your rods on. I got hooked just watching. Some guy pulled in a 19 inch trout while I was watching them fish. I have to buy my license and carry myself over there early some morning soon.
So much for social distancing. They had the picnic tables spaced for it, but there were a couple of tables that probably had15 people flocked around them grilling and drinking beer. NO ONE was 6 feet from anyone else.
On the way home we passed a house that was having a graduation party. So much for groups of 10. There had to be 20 cars parked all up and down the road and on the lawn. The entire senior class must have been in attendance. Young people just don't seem to give a damn. Screw everyone else. They party like the pandemic never happened.
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Post by BHU on May 25, 2020 14:03:29 GMT -5
I don't get it, but I get it. The reason infections are dropping off in some areas is social distancing. That's it. The virus has not gone away. The one reason for the drop off & people are ignoring it. I have a feeling that in the near future there are going to be some very sick & some very sorry people, including health care workers who are going to have to take care of those knuckleheads.
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Post by Clipper on May 25, 2020 14:48:08 GMT -5
I don't get it, but I get it. The reason infections are dropping off in some areas is social distancing. That's it. The virus has not gone away. The one reason for the drop off & people are ignoring it. I have a feeling that in the near future there are going to be some very sick & some very sorry people, including health care workers who are going to have to take care of those knuckleheads. Oops I hit edit on your post instead of quote. No harm no foul. You are right BHU. I think we are going to see an uptick in cases in about two weeks as a result of the morons that have simply tossed aside any recommended precautions and crowded beaches and parks. Give it two weeks to incubate and we will be seeing a upward trend in "the curve." I am not happier than anyone else about having to remain fairly isolated and stuck at home, but I think I would much rather do that then to contribute to the lunacy or to catch the virus and croak. We simply have to resign ourselves to the fact that it is going to take time, and it seems to me that if we keep rushing back to the former level of activity and socialization, we are just going to hit a perpetual cycle of ups and downs in the numbers of cases and resulting deaths. |
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Post by BHU on May 27, 2020 10:48:58 GMT -5
I don't believe these claims that certain people are making about a vaccine being ready by year's end. Sure, there may be a vaccine but will it be safe? There's talk of a live vaccine. Really? Who in their right mind is going to volunteer to be a guinea pig in that trial? I was watching an expert on vaccines on one of the cable news show yesterday. He was a research expert retired from Harvard & he said that some of these vaccines being developed right now are so unstable that they need to be stored under dry ice. In the mad rush to develop a vaccine & make money if they get this wrong it'll be a catastrophe. Me? I'll stick with a mask & practice social distancing. I'm not being a test subject for anyone, certainly not big pharma.
The quickest a vaccine has ever been developed if I'm not mistaken was for mumps & that took 4 years.
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Post by clarencebunsen on May 27, 2020 11:56:59 GMT -5
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