Cerberus Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 In the news today, it seems that an Iowa man just held a horse auction that attracted 600 people, mostly Amish. He sold 150 horses. He wanted to sell his horses so he could move to Ohio. One is uncertain whether Ohio would be considered an upgrade from Iowa, but this is beside the point. Because of the vagueness of Iowa's restrictions, the gathering was not in violation of any order, though the Governor has since decreed that livestock auctions can have no more than 10 participants, 25 if the animals are food animals. All this equivocating! All these exceptions! California has sensibly closed churches, but Florida has decided that churches need to be open, even though data has been showing that high numbers of coronavirus cases are being traced back to church gatherings. And - funerals. See how crafty this virus is? It even sets up the situation for infecting new victims by killing the ones closest to them. Meanwhile, in Mexico, the Governor of one Mexican state has proclaimed that the poor are immune to the virus, and in Japan, Abe Shinzo is refusing to declare a state of emergency, but has prudently announced a plan to issue two (2) cloths masks per household. At the end of the month. #ScrewYourTwoMasks is apparently trending in Japan. In Ecuador, people have begun leaving the bodies of the dead out on the sidewalk for want of any other place to put them. If this goes on, we'll soon see men moving down the streets with carts, shouting "Bring out your dead!" and there won't be anything the least bit funny about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antecedent Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I have 10 times the anxiety that I need and they seem to have one tenth of the anxiety that they need, if there was only some way I could give it away to them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Antecedent said: I have 10 times the anxiety that I need and they seem to have one tenth of the anxiety that they need, if there was only some way I could give it away to them. Try sneezing on them? Lots of things are communicable that way, I hear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I had honestly wondered about the Amish, because they’re all over the place where I live. Guess they’ll find out soon when Walmart implements the x-number of customers only allowed at one time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antecedent Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I don't know much about the Amish but it doesn't seem like a cult to me. The Jehovah's Witnesses are using this as a sign of the end of days and recruiting people, it's very manipulative. The watchtower I should say, the witnesses themselves are lovely people. Then of course that cult in S. Korea intentionally infected their people and if it wasn't for them the outbreak there would have been miniscule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 The Amish are definitely not a cult. They’re an offshoot of the Mennonites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRedhead Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) Some people just don't care about these stay at home orders......The Gov of California issued a shelter in place/stay at home order effective on March 20....The very next day, the beaches were packed....**SIGH** https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/us/california-stay-at-home-beach-goers/index.html For instance, this was Huntington Beach, California on March 21, 2020: Crowded bike path in Huntington Beach: Edited April 4, 2020 by CrazyRedhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antecedent Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) Oh dear god, Redhead, that's so so awful. That's so so awful. We could see very clearly what was happening in Spain and Italy (don't look, no one here is suffering from toxic positivity like those people are).. what the hell were they doing... and by now many of them will have sick neighbours or family members and their toxic positivity will help them convince themselves it can't possibly have been them that spread it Edited April 4, 2020 by Antecedent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) Just read that the governor of Georgia issued the stay at home order... and reopened a popular tourist beach. Town has to comply. I’m so infuriated I can barely think straight. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/us/tybee-island-georgia-beaches-open/index.html Edited April 4, 2020 by Rabbit37 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancesintherain Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I've never been so grateful for the governor of my state (MD). That said, it's not the CA governor's fault if people are idiots and assholes and ignore the orders. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstrung Harp Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, CrazyRedhead said: Some people just don't care about these stay at home orders......The Gov of California issued a shelter in place/stay at home order effective on March 20....The very next day, the beaches were packed....**SIGH** https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/us/california-stay-at-home-beach-goers/index.html For instance, this was Huntington Beach, California on March 21, 2020: Crowded bike path in Huntington Beach: A Facebook friend who lives there, who is a doctor, just went on a rant about Huntington Beach, so it seems to still be going on. Edited April 5, 2020 by Unstrung Harp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 hours ago, Rabbit37 said: Just read that the governor of Georgia issued the stay at home order... and reopened a popular tourist beach. Town has to comply. I’m so infuriated I can barely think straight. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/us/tybee-island-georgia-beaches-open/index.html Every once in a while a well-regulated militia doesn’t sound so bad. If I lived on Tybee Island, I’d be real tempted to join my fellow citizens in an effort to keep my home closed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antecedent Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 The problem with a militia is when most of the people who own guns are the very ones who are brainwashed into thinking that anything involving an increase in rules MUST be an excuse and must be a hoax of some kind hashtag not all gun owners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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