Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[The Brain]

Dorsey's point about avoiding unnecessary restrictions is not insane. Climbing may not be the most vital thing, but it's clearly important to Dorsey, and to this foreigner it seems like a bizarre thing to restrict outdoor activities of that kind given what else is allowed. And of course the wider point is relevant to large number of people, some of whom (eg abused kids who only get away from hell by going to school) may be more emotionally attractive to the Languish crowd.

[Eddie Teach]

Guys, this pandemic shit has been hard on everybody.  Don't dogpile on Dorsey.  We're all suffering, and dealing with it in our own ways.  He's been a valued member of our community for over 15 years too.

The fuck he is. And fuck you for suggesting that.

He didn't make any claim to universality or consensus.

[garbon]

Guys, this pandemic shit has been hard on everybody.  Don't dogpile on Dorsey.  We're all suffering, and dealing with it in our own ways.  He's been a valued member of our community for over 15 years too.

The fuck he is. And fuck you for suggesting that.

He didn't make any claim to universality or consensus.

[katmai]

Guys, this pandemic shit has been hard on everybody.  Don't dogpile on Dorsey.  We're all suffering, and dealing with it in our own ways.  He's been a valued member of our community for over 15 years too.

Tell me another one lips

[Zoupa]

I think the people losing their shit is this high school clique that has been largely getting obliterated in logical arguments with Dorsey and are instead taking out their frustration by this endless disgusting dogpile.  I'm sure Dorsey can and does stick up for himself, but frankly it's been disgusting to observe this dynamic going on for two months here.

[Monoriu]

I love Dorsey 

[garbon]

I love Dorsey 

And you know where you can go.

[Zoupa]

I love Dorsey 

Edgelords of a feather

[Sheilbh]

Srsly, Americans, chill out and stay at home
https://abc7news.com/us-man-caught-sneaking-into-germany-to-see-girlfriend/6179710/

You've changed your tune since your feverish Easter Egg days.

No I've not - my view's the same, but non-essential shopping in the local supermarket and non-essential international long-haul travel seem different

Police and people need to follow the rules (not make them up), and the police/authorities should be liberal in applying them and we should be kind and not judge other people or police their decisions/assume the worst of everyone when we don't know their situation.

But I basically agree with AR on outdoor spaces and I think it's particularly insane that they're still closed while, say, bars are open. It does really emphasise that the decision-making on what to re-open is focused on earning money again and not any sort of actual assessment of the risks for covid-19. There's been doubt over how much this disease is transmitted in outdoor spaces (as opposed to bars - see South Korea recently), so the only reason I can assume they're not opening outdoor spaces is no-one will profit from it.

[Eddie Teach]

I love Dorsey 

And you know where you can go.

Canada!

[garbon]

Srsly, Americans, chill out and stay at home
https://abc7news.com/us-man-caught-sneaking-into-germany-to-see-girlfriend/6179710/

You've changed your tune since your feverish Easter Egg days.

No I've not - my view's the same, but non-essential shopping in the local supermarket and non-essential international long-haul travel seem different

Police and people need to follow the rules (not make them up), and the police/authorities should be liberal in applying them and we should be kind and not judge other people or police their decisions/assume the worst of everyone when we don't know their situation.

But I basically agree with AR on outdoor spaces and I think it's particularly insane that they're still closed while, say, bars are open. It does really emphasise that the decision-making on what to re-open is focused on earning money again and not any sort of actual assessment of the risks for covid-19. There's been doubt over how much this disease is transmitted in outdoor spaces (as opposed to bars - see South Korea recently), so the only reason I can assume they're not opening outdoor spaces is no-one will profit from it.

This feels a bit breezy given, as GF mentioned previously, we are all talking from different standpoints of what regulations are in place and where.

Also, a quick thought is that outdoor spaces are harder to monitor/patrol than an indoor space.

[Tamas]

Yes, although I do think Dorsey's treasured mountain hiking roads are mostly collateral damage in all this, if we close bars/pubs but opened parks and other outside places, what we are likely to see is people starting to use the latter as places to socialise, making them the primary way of spreading the disease.

[The Larch]

I'm sure his arguments would fall on more fertile ground if he was less hysterical/outraged about it.

They would fall on more fertile ground if he didn't have a history of years and years of lies, selfishness, dishonesty and deception.

[The Brain]

I'm sure his arguments would fall on more fertile ground if he was less hysterical/outraged about it.

They would fall on more fertile ground if he didn't have a history of years and years of lies, selfishness, dishonesty and deception.

Welcome to Languish.

[Maladict]

I'm sure his arguments would fall on more fertile ground if he was less hysterical/outraged about it.

They would fall on more fertile ground if he didn't have a history of years and years of lies, selfishness, dishonesty and deception.

Welcome to Languish.

I was going to say, this thread is old school Languish