Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Colonoscopy.

(Mic drop. EDIT: Well, maybe not. The gyno exam has it beat. But that prostate exam ...)

 

My doctor's office called today to put off my 30K bp and cholesterol check in June for the second time.

 

Right now if people of a certain mindset want to go out, meet in groups and increase the chance they will get very sick and die, I'm all for it.

Let them bet the rats in the cage getting studied.

My family is able to stay inside right now and for the foreseeable future

A finger up the ass for a wiggle while you are fully conscious is a lot more personal than going to sleep and having a tube up your ass.

 

I've had them both. No fun either way.

 

Or something involving the ghost of Jim Jones and Kool-Aid. Getting that many to accidentally fall out of a window will take a lot of coordination.

 

Just back from a run, I counted at least 16 kids and three coaches having a full on baseball practice. Where the fuck does a travel team expect to go this summer?

 

I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy last week (results were better than 3 years ago, so that's good). But my dental appointment has been canceled twice.

 

My wife (who also loves cruises) and I were talking about this ... the biggest problem I foresee is not necessary passengers worried about cleanliness and germs (although that will take time to overcome).

Cruising is a social type of trip, and at least three major ways the cruiselines make money — buying drinks at the bar, gambling onboard, and excursions — all require being in close proximately to a bunch of strangers.

I'm not even sure they will be able to run their buffets, at least not in the self-serve style I remember. It's one thing when you can help yourself to an absolute pig-out, quite another when you have to ask for all that bacon or desserts on your plate!

 

I had that daily double. They assured me they stuck the tube down my throat first.

 

I sometimes wonder if questions like this belong here or the sports thread, but with a kid who plays a lot of sports and only recently had his spring season canceled it is of big interest to me. Goes for other things like camps and the like as well, but I'm most interested in sports. There are so many goofy ideas floating out there.

Our league keeps postponing its baseball activities, which I commend them for because honestly, they are a bit money grubbing. But our parks are closed until at least June 1 and school district fields closed until July 1. So they have no where to play anyway. I wouldn't be shocked if some teams try and squeeze onto an HOA park or something but I haven't seen it (still have gatherings of 10 or more outlawed). I've heard rumors them wanting to use masks and no fans, but I just don't see how they get it done. It all seems to be overly hopeful, which isn't bad, but delaying the inevitable.

It goes for any youth activity this summer, but we should probably just suck it up, be better safe than sorry and lose a summer. For all but the oldest kids, which is sucks just like for this year's high school seniors, it really won't matter a ton in the grand scheme of things. As a parent it's hard to plan with the delaying the delays anyway and who knows if we'd even let our kids participate at this point. And one thought I keep having, while a lot of these organizations depend on their summers to survive they aren't going to survive anyway if an outbreak happens related to them because they tried to squeeze in a season. If, like you said, teams and families even travel or decide to participate. Have to imagine if things do end up happening, participation will drop like a rock regardless.

 

I agree. They’re just giant resorts that happen to be on a ship, and they’ve been plague vectors for years now.

I grew up around the ocean, but going on a cruise ship is not doing anything with the ocean unless you’re going with something like Island Windjammers which uses proper sailing ships. Of course, they don’t have casinos, buffets or Blue Man Group.

They also don’t have an ecologically safe way to deal with garbage or sewage … so they dump it into the ocean. And the fuel oil they use is so dirty that one cruise ship emits as much pollution as 700 trucks.

Ban ‘em at least until they clean up their acts. Then we can return cruising to its proper definition — a sailboat navigating toward the second star to the right, straight on ’til morning.