Re: COVID-19 - On the Ground
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:48 am
Makes sense if they are required to go to court.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 amI've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
Makes sense if they are required to go to court.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 amI've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
i get the sentiment...Elvis publicly took the polio vaccine for the same reasonjfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:24 amI saw the Wall St. Journal advocating for people like LeBron and Mahomes to get early access, so that they can set an example of the vaccine being safe, etc.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 amI've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
That's fine as far as it goes, but you know every single sports team owner read that as step one to everyone in sports being moved to the front of the line.
And this guy is not, thank goodness.twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:48 amMakes sense if they are required to go to court.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 amI've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
Courts up and running, whether in-person or virtual, is absolutely essential especially when it comes to the criminal, family, etc. dockets.twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:48 amMakes sense if they are required to go to court.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 amI've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
Right - I'm good with a few people getting it, for example-setting purposes.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:51 ami get the sentiment...Elvis publicly took the polio vaccine for the same reasonjfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:24 amI saw the Wall St. Journal advocating for people like LeBron and Mahomes to get early access, so that they can set an example of the vaccine being safe, etc.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 am
I've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
That's fine as far as it goes, but you know every single sports team owner read that as step one to everyone in sports being moved to the front of the line.
but, three former presidents are doing the same
If it was the city judges, they have a way nastier attitude.jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:53 amAnd this guy is not, thank goodness.twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:48 amMakes sense if they are required to go to court.CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:22 am
I've been told that lawyers are essential workers in Missouri.
I've appeared in court as a lawyer exactly one time. Right after I passed the bar, a friend got a speeding ticket. This was before you could do lawyer things on those online.
So I walked from my office to the courthouse at the appropriate time, and made my appearance. I was a very young-looking 25, and the judge (understandably) was somewhat credulous as to me being a lawyer.
It didn't help matters that I just wore what I typically wear to work (being slacks, a dress shirt and, it being October or something, a golf pullover).
I was red fucking meat for her honor on this sartorial fuckup.
She read me the goddamned riot act. My buddy's ticket was amended down, but I've never recovered. No more favors for anyone.
totally agreejfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:56 amRight - I'm good with a few people getting it, for example-setting purposes.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:51 ami get the sentiment...Elvis publicly took the polio vaccine for the same reasonjfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:24 am
I saw the Wall St. Journal advocating for people like LeBron and Mahomes to get early access, so that they can set an example of the vaccine being safe, etc.
That's fine as far as it goes, but you know every single sports team owner read that as step one to everyone in sports being moved to the front of the line.
but, three former presidents are doing the same
But when a few becomes, what, 40-200 people per sports organization at a minimum, plus media? All of the sudden you're getting into mid-five figures' worth of vaccines for low-risk people.
My joke was about lawyers being considered essential workers across the country--which, I get because of criminal dockets and such--but I've seen too often firm heads using that as a basis to require mandatory office attendance for lawyers that are not doing life and death work, like myself.zsn wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:13 am I don’t know if you guys are joking about lawyers getting vaccinated (rough few days at work) but my employment-lawyer friend who nearly died (for a while we thought he was gone), spent nearly 3 months in the ICU, likely contracted the virus in court. So there’s that. Of course that was in early March when we didn’t know that much.
couple that general sentiment of anti-vaxers with the unknown of just how long immunity lasts if one gets the vaccine, and we could be in for a dire situation long past 2021jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:05 am I saw a report this morning that 55% of surveyed FDNY firefighters would not take a Covid vaccine if offered.
Too much gets stupidly forced through the 9/11 lens, but: we're experiencing 9/11 losses every single day, and it is terribly sad that a majority of FDNY firefighters won't take a shot to prevent it.
I'm not breaking any new ground here, but: corporate and institutional (i.e., colleges/universities, public utilities, etc.) America is going to have to save us from ourselves.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:36 amcouple that general sentiment of anti-vaxers with the unknown of just how long immunity lasts if one gets the vaccine, and we could be in for a dire situation long past 2021jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 10:05 am I saw a report this morning that 55% of surveyed FDNY firefighters would not take a Covid vaccine if offered.
Too much gets stupidly forced through the 9/11 lens, but: we're experiencing 9/11 losses every single day, and it is terribly sad that a majority of FDNY firefighters won't take a shot to prevent it.
and that’s just from a public health perspective. who knows how bad the economic impacts will be