Where's the petri dish thread?

[HouseDivided]

Mayor Lightfoot isn't playing.
Problem is people are still basically telling her she can go fuck herself.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-coronav ... y/6145557/


Took this pic a few hours ago. This is a cop blocking off one of the main "arteries" leading to the foot/bike trail along the lake. It's been closed for about a month and I'm pretty ticked off about it.

Fear only works for so long as a motivational tool. Eventually, it is replaced by other needs, or people figure out it wasn’t as fearful as they assumed. Fauci and the Globalist Cabal will either have to up the fear factor or get honest with people and just straight up impose martial law. I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

[sdoyel]

Sigh. Republicans.

[sdoyel]

[Geezer]

Mayor Lightfoot isn't playing.
Problem is people are still basically telling her she can go fuck herself.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-coronav ... y/6145557/


Took this pic a few hours ago. This is a cop blocking off one of the main "arteries" leading to the foot/bike trail along the lake. It's been closed for about a month and I'm pretty ticked off about it.

Fear only works for so long as a motivational tool. Eventually, it is replaced by other needs, or people figure out it wasn’t as fearful as they assumed. Fauci and the Globalist Cabal will either have to up the fear factor or get honest with people and just straight up impose martial law. I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

Fauci and the Globalist Cabal?
Have you considered therapy?

[DCHawk1]

You know what else New Mexico has?

It's largest city has 1/15th the population of NYC and population density of 1/22 of NYC.

It also has no subways.

[HouseDivided]

Mayor Lightfoot isn't playing.
Problem is people are still basically telling her she can go fuck herself.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-coronav ... y/6145557/


Took this pic a few hours ago. This is a cop blocking off one of the main "arteries" leading to the foot/bike trail along the lake. It's been closed for about a month and I'm pretty ticked off about it.

Fear only works for so long as a motivational tool. Eventually, it is replaced by other needs, or people figure out it wasn’t as fearful as they assumed. Fauci and the Globalist Cabal will either have to up the fear factor or get honest with people and just straight up impose martial law. I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

Fauci and the Globalist Cabal?
Have you considered therapy?

I’m all booked out for the next couple of weeks, but I can get you in the week of the 18th if you reserve an appointment now. PM me your insurance info.

[seahawk]

Some news on the topic:

As the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, tens of thousands of people could die. But some scientists believe a vaccine might already exist.
Surprising new research in a niche area of immunology suggests that certain live vaccines that have been around for decades could, possibly, protect against the coronavirus. The theory is that these vaccines could make people less likely to experience serious symptoms — or even any symptoms — if they catch it.
At more than 25 universities and clinical centers around the world, researchers have begun clinical trials, primarily in health care workers, to test whether a live tuberculosis vaccine that has been in use for 99 years called the bacillus Calmette-Guérin, or B.C.G., vaccine, could reduce the risks associated with the coronavirus.
Another small but esteemed group of scientists is raising money to test the potential protective effects of a 60-year-old live polio vaccine called O.P.V.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opin ... unity.html

[Deleted User 89]

ya down with OPV?

[twocoach]

Yeah, you know me.

[seahawk]

ya down with OPV?

There's a clinical trial with BCG in Australia for frontline healthcare workers.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04327206

Didn't a lot of us get the OPV vaccine?

[zsn]

There’s a hypothesis that the reason for the low COVID infection rate among India’s seniors is that they all got the BCG vaccine in their younger days. That vaccine is not without controversy either!

[ousdahl]

People are done with this crap.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

My family lives in your county. It's tiny. And there are more than 15 confirmed cases. They and the rest of the majority understand what is going on and why. They're also finding things to do during this time, getting all of the food they need, etc. You're in a lonely position.

[HouseDivided]

I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

My family lives in your county. It's tiny. And there are more than 15 confirmed cases. They and the rest of the majority understand what is going on and why. They're also finding things to do during this time, getting all of the food they need, etc. You're in a lonely position.

I think you have my county confused with another one, then.

[Deleted User 289]

I live in a county that has had a grand total of 15 cases and 1 death. People are done with this crap.

My family lives in your county. It's tiny. And there are more than 15 confirmed cases. They and the rest of the majority understand what is going on and why. They're also finding things to do during this time, getting all of the food they need, etc. You're in a lonely position.

I think you have my county confused with another one, then.

I live in a county where there have been 58,500 confirmed cases and 2500 deaths.
That my friend is also "crap".
I have little doubt people in your county want to open back up for business. I don't blame them.
Heck, I very well might be out there "protesting" if I lived in your county and I needed to open up my business to survive.
Now here is something to ponder, your county may have only 15 confirmed cases and 1 death. How would you feel if INFECTED people from my county came to your county to hang out in your open businesses? Point of my asking is the same thing I have been saying for a couple of weeks. PLEASE open businesses but PLEASE be smart and safe about it. We live in a country were many people don't feel a need to be smart and safe about it. Thus, the never ending in the near future virus cycle will go round and round and round. We are damned no matter what we do - and what we don't do.

[HouseDivided]

My family lives in your county. It's tiny. And there are more than 15 confirmed cases. They and the rest of the majority understand what is going on and why. They're also finding things to do during this time, getting all of the food they need, etc. You're in a lonely position.

I think you have my county confused with another one, then.

I live in a county where there have been 58,500 confirmed cases and 2500 deaths.
That my friend is also "crap".
I have little doubt people in your county want to open back up for business. I don't blame them.
Heck, I very well might be out there "protesting" if I lived in your county and I needed to open up my business to survive.
Now here is something to ponder, your county may have only 15 confirmed cases and 1 death. How would you feel if INFECTED people from my county came to your county to hang out in your open businesses? Point of my asking is the same thing I have been saying for a couple of weeks. PLEASE open businesses but PLEASE be smart and safe about it. We live in a country were many people don't feel a need to be smart and safe about it. Thus, the never ending in the near future virus cycle will go round and round and round. We are damned no matter what we do - and what we don't do.

I don’t think what you are saying is unreasonable. My point all along has been that it is ridiculous for the government to demand that areas like mine handle things the same was as NYC or Chicago. I do think that we are much more likely to come out of this on a workable timeline via herd immunity than waiting another 18 months for a vaccine that may never come and/or may be about as effective as our current flu vaccine protocols.

[DCHawk1]

I don’t think what you are saying is unreasonable.

Worst post you've ever made.

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[HouseDivided]

I don’t think what you are saying is unreasonable.

Worst post you've ever made.

Better check with PChiknbut and Plano. They might disagree.

[Shirley]

I don’t think what you are saying is unreasonable.

Worst post you've ever made.

Better check with PChiknbut and Plano. They might disagree.

It was a low bar.