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    How are you feeling today?

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    On 4/4/2020 at 7:17 AM, Eirynne Sieyes said:

    It's got nothing to do with Jared. Each of our States should have had all this preparedness equipment to begin with. It is part of their job and is  budgeted. But the monies were spent on other projects. (Like who could have possibly imagined this!!!) So the Fed is pitching in and procuring supplies.

    Oh.

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    How are you feeling today?

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    2 hours ago, Seicher Rae said:

    I know, I know, I keep saying I need to pull away from the forum because it makes me crankier, but not this thread (usually). My depression has so many facets, like a big, crummy lump of coal-carbon cut like diamond-carbon,  and such facet is me getting a little OCD about things... like forum. Anyway, I understand wanting to keep politics out of this thread, I do. The problem is that so many of us are having stress and "stuff" over the pandemic and unfortunately a lot of that stress is caused by various politicians effing things up. I've heard so many times/places "oh you Americans think everything is about you!" well, folks, in this one we're all together, including effed up political responses and including the rare little bright spots of competency.  So I don't know how we walk the lines between supporting each other, venting our frustrations, and avoiding the political. I think maybe avoiding the political FIGHTING might be the answer, and for the most part I think this thread has done that pretty well.

    I keep hearing the lyrics to "A Day In the Life"... I read the news today oh boy...  

    When the news is crazy making, how can you not vent?

    Yes. It’s one thing to be distressed by a natural disaster, but something else entirely to watch helplessly while our medical teams and essential workers risk their lives because pandemic planning was scrapped.. That is what has plunged many of us into despair/depression, not the virus alone. If it was just the virus, we would normally execute our well developed plan and save many lives. But this is not normal, and distress is an appropriate response. Discussing that response is not “discussing politics”. IMO. 

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    How are you feeling today?

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    14 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    IMO, that went too far.

     

     

    I guess I'll go drown my emotions elsewhere for a day or two and see if things calm down around here.

    Not any calmer, but commiseration over the situation can be found in the other forum, which has become a pretty supportive place during this catastrophe. 

    How are you feeling today?

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    3 minutes ago, Beth Macbain said:

    Let's make sure we keep politics out of this thread as much as possible so we don't accidentally get the thread closed. I'd hate to see that happen and I know you guys would, too. 

    Not that anyone has really stepped out of line, but Sparky is closing several threads and I want to protect this one!

    I went with the cuddling option, btw. 😋

    Yes but Beth my favorite post is yours about someone’s pie hole. 😁

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    How are you feeling today?

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    6 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

    I think there's a substantial possibility that we'll never be able to show that those red state governors made the wrong call. Our lack of test capability, along with our population's abhorrence for government involvement in something like movement tracking, will make it more difficult to identify, or at least easier to refute, any connections between COVID deaths and state public policies.

    Don't fool yourself into thinking that natural selection is responding to pressures (like intelligence) that you're imagining. Modern societies have all be eliminated those ancient selection pressures. If the least educated members of a population out reproduce the most educated (the trend in most western democracies), it might be that ignorance is evolutionarily advantageous.

    Nature is not only cruel, she's also devious.

    I mean, a lot of people will be removed by covid. I guess we will see if social distancing is yet another hoax or not.

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    How are you feeling today?

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    27 minutes ago, Tari Landar said:

    Am I allowed to tell someone eff them and the horse they rode in on, or is this still considered polite society and such actions therefore frowned upon?

    If the latter, I'm gonna have to put in my two weeks for polite society.

    Bunch of frick fracken ducking bullspit

     

    I don't feel better, I demand a refund

    Of what I don't know, but I demand one anyway....I hear demanding ***** is in. 

     

     

    How about a code word. Unless it’s me!

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    How are you feeling today?

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    I am trying a new sleep tactic, by pretending I meant to wake up, and having little tasks to perform, instead of lying there ruminating. Last night at 2am, I soaked in a tub of hot water. At 4:30 I logged into SL and fixed a toaster a customer had requested. Each time, I was able to go back to sleep for a bit. 
     

    I used to easily sleep through the night with the aid of a cannabutter cookie, but I can’t do THC at all because it makes me ruminate. By the time the first covid patient arrived in this country I had already ruminated the Apocalypse we are in now. I don’t want to go there anymore, however prescient.

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    How are you feeling today?

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    In the US, we are not just dealing with the virus disaster but the avoidable results of catastrophic and often deliberate mismanagement by those with power. The first is hard to bear but the latter is much worse. It is terrible that people are dying, but unendurable that so many of them could have been saved. Even now, nine states have no lockdown orders. Georgia just reopened the beaches they closed just the other day. It is all madness, or spite, and that is what is so hard to endure. 

    For those not listening to Gov. Cuomo’s daily briefings, they are inspiring. Gov Cuomo has begged for national rolling deployment* of medical resources for when states are peaking, instead of individual states bidding against each other AND FEMA, then when the peak is over, being left with a glut of equipment. This makes perfect sense, but the admin says no, states are on their own. 

    *“Calling New York a hot spot in the fight to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the governor urged President Donald Trump to consider a “rolling deployment” of ventilators and medical personnel first to this state before moving to other regions.

    “We can take the equipment, we can take the personnel, we can take the lessons to the next area in need,” Gov. Cuomo said.”

     

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    Scientific Data on Covid

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    On the contrary, there are many brilliant, honest, patriotic, heroic, deeply moral people in Congress, working constantly to save our democracy. The impeachment was not a circus, but a battle brilliantly executed in the name of truth and justice. 
     

    But there are a lot of others with blood on their hands. And they are fine with it. 
     

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