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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    I think a big part of it is to show -- hey fuckers, we mean business. You don't act right this is how long it's going to take. You put out there Easter as a shelter in place date and people are like, oh that's no big deal, just two weeks, so I can keep doing what I want. You tell someone two and a half months, it gets their attention
     
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  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Maybe, but if you know you're not going to have staff there for a while, or cops either for that matter, it makes sense.
     
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    One would hope. But, again, no one is following guidelines. Anywhere.
     
  4. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Johns Hopkins map shows 3,008 deaths in the U.S.

    That's more than 9/11.
     
  5. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    With all due respect, MH, where I live ... it's a virtual ghost town. Hope you're doing well, man.
     
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  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Didn’t some NYC stores - like Louis Vuitton - do that last week?
     
  7. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    It's certainly being followed by many here. I haven't ventured to downtown in a couple of days. I'm guessing it's a virtual ghost down, but can't say for certain. But at the nearby large park again today, lots of people out and about.

    Several mountain counties have implemented that open lands are only for use for residents of those counties. In terms of enforcement, that's another question.

    Be well.
     
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  8. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Here too.
     
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  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Don't know about gun shops, but our local pot shop is still open!
     
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  10. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Lucky you. <sour look>
     
  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    It wasn't?
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    We don't know that the individual store managers didn't call employees. There is ALWAYS a company-wide email that goes along with these things. Seen enough from Craig Forman the past few years.

    NO. IT. DIDN'T.

    1. They were planning on staying open --- like most businesses--- until ordered to close.
    2. The wife supposedly got some "encouragement" from above that God would get them through it yada yada yada. The same script we always see when times are tough. Nothing was said about "telling them to stay open.'' That was just horseshit headline writing on top of horseshit stories.

    Disturbs the fuck out of me that journalists don't see the bad journalism but instead act like outraged Facebookers.
     
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Last week, the mayor of Denver said dispensaries and liquor stores were going to close, causing a mass panic and people lining up around buildings -- not six feet apart -- to stock up. That changed after 90 minutes. And, yes, gun stores open in the state.
     
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