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(24,639 posts)Smart people to stupid people....although zippo social distancing. Is a sale, really worth your life?
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)Celerity
(43,545 posts)cayugafalls
(5,645 posts)hadEnuf
(2,215 posts)Thanks to snake oil salesmen like Trump and his filthy deplorables COVID-19 is becoming a matter of opinion instead of a medical fact.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)A veritable Covid-19 smorgasbord.
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)The one thing I have learned during this pandemic is that I must have lived in a bubble for 65 years because I never knew there were so many stupid, ignorant people in this country. Jeeze....what is so fricken important out there that you need to risk your life or the lives of those you are close to. I can understand the need to work but I'm sorry, leisure shopping, eating out or unsafe other activities is just beyond my understanding. I am an introvert so the need to physically socialize or be in close proximity to others is not something I miss. It's so frustrating seeing so many people engaging in such risky behaviors. And although wearing a mask is a kindness to others if you aren't socially distancing you are placing yourself at risk.
Tink41
(537 posts)My introversion prevented me from being exposed to the pure stupidity of people. I'm astounded sometimes.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)Apparently, these magic words are worth risking lives for.
Part of my brain must be missing because I don't feel the need to jump in amongst them. The magic words don't move me. I am a flawed consumer unit.
patphil
(6,217 posts)Multiply this by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of stores across the state, and it's a slow motion disaster that will manifest over the next 2-3 weeks.
LiberalArkie
(15,729 posts)patphil
(6,217 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)It reaffirms my previously held opinion that Americans are dumber than dirt (that is why I knew Dear Leader would win in 2016). Not much has changed. Europeans can't figure it out but if they had Fux Ruse and RW radio circulating for decades they would understand how we got here.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)This is why you simply could NOT pay me enough to live in "The South" like, ever.
quickesst
(6,283 posts)Hundreds of Montana residents protest stay-at-home order
by The Associated Press
Sunday, April 19th 2020
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Montana state Capitol to call on Gov. Steve Bullock to ease stay-at-home and business restrictions enacted to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
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HELENA, Mont. Hundreds of people from across Montana showed up to Helena for the Montana Liberty Rally Sunday afternoon.
https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/hundreds-of-montana-residents-protest-stay-at-home-order
Skittles
(153,199 posts)very disturbing indeed
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)My sisters are going nuts not shopping.
Skittles
(153,199 posts)yes indeed
jpak
(41,760 posts)Yup
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)made a single trip to a store since the end of February. I made a 'senior only' trip to Target just this past Wednesday morning. First one in and first one out. More employees (masked) than shoppers.
Submariner
(12,509 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Really?
That is all.
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)That and a JCPenneys is all that's within 50 miles of me.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)The woman in the lower right hand corner probably got her mask ripped off.
Talitha
(6,619 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)some will do the same next year to honor family members at graveside......
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I suppose this memo didn't make the trip by mule train....
KY............
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)pstokely
(10,530 posts)social shaming them is useless when do they don't care
misanthrope
(7,431 posts)None of this is new. Let Trump run all TV ads he wants. Of those who cheer them on, many won't be around to cast ballots in November.
Darwin strikes again.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)You can not fix the Stupid.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)In It to Win It
(8,286 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This week will see the first spikes from the original "end the lockdown" demonstrations.
pwb
(11,292 posts).
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)That's my impression. I would not be there under any circumstances.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)EMPTY!!!
Unfortunately my empathy has dried up regarding certain groups of people. I have officially become a callous person.
When these people get sick, I will not care one whit. Too bad that they go home and infect others. May they dwell on their responsibility for it.
I WILL, however, reluctantly offer my tots and pears. No, I take that back, only tots. I feed my pears to my visiting deer. At least THEY are appreciative. After all, THEY allow ME to live in THEIR backyard.
pstokely
(10,530 posts)nt
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Are there glorying holes in the dressing rooms too?
Wouldn't go to a crowded anywhere for less than $150,000, the cost of 2-3 C-19 recoveries.
I've got no health insurance, I won't see another human outside of my circle of 3 for at least 18 months if not 24/36 more, I figure, unless we have to be dragged to a hospital, which would be a fucking nightmare.
I'm in twisted circumstances, FML....
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)From what I've observed at a local grocery store, while inside my car and awaiting pick-up orders, there will be an explosion of cases here too.