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ToroidalBoat said:
What do you think is the stupidest coronapanic measure?

- Face masks?
- "Social distancing"?
- Those sneeze guard screens?
- Groups limited to 10 or less?
- Or something else?
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The spit/sneeze guards & windows at most retail stores now are possibly the best thing to come from this whole shitshow.

I can't count how many times I've seen mouthbreathers straight up spackle the countertop, cashier, register, money, everything.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
What do you think is the stupidest coronapanic measure?

- Face masks?
- "Social distancing"?
- Those sneeze guard screens?
- Groups limited to 10 or less?
- Or something else?
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The dumbest measures are the ones which haven't (yet :cryblood::cryblood::cryblood:) been adopted widely, like banning people from buying seeds or paint at an otherwise open store. Or the Prohibition ones where you can go to a bar but can't drink after 6 PM or whatever. Or the virus-related curfews, since Corona-chan only comes out at night or something. Or banning people from going to church but permitting strip clubs and gay bathhouses.

Honorable mention to face masks because they're so ubiquitous and symbolic of submission to the "experts" in the government and the fear/propaganda being spread through advertising, social media, and traditional media. Even though the masks most commonly used are scientifically proven and were stated by Dr. Fauci and the WHO to have negligible impact in preventing the spread of disease and study after study confirms this. Yet almost every single mask law allows people to wear a bandana or stupid yarn masks or whatever over their face which are even worse and do fuck all. It sure is funny how these laws only came into place when they stopped talking about the "mask shortage".
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
What do you think is the stupidest coronapanic measure?

- Face masks?
- "Social distancing"?
- Those sneeze guard screens?
- Groups limited to 10 or less?
- Or something else?
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I'd say the panic-induced lockdowns that shut "nonessential" businesses down for months.

Thanks to the "experts", we're now in a recession that can become a depression the more they pussyfoot reopenings.
 
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Vault Boy said:
panic-induced lockdowns that shut "nonessential" businesses down
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The local library has been closed for about 5 months now - except for "curbside service" (they closed the book drop at first). And the local community center and movie theater remain "temporarily" closed. And of course, the chlorine-filled public pool is closed.

Save the Loli said:
like banning people from buying seeds
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I hope this "new normal" goes back to the hell it came from.
 
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JosephStalin said:
This is really stupid, on so many levels. Students confined to campus. Employees/visitors come and go as they please. And the students have to have a tracking app on their phones. Good reason to leave the phone secured in the dorm room. Can't track you if you don't have that phone.
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Here is what I said about this a few pages back:
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
I suppose Albion figures they can get away with this being a private college. On one hand, I understand their desire to keep everyone safe on campus and try to minimize COVID cases for those people.

However, required monitoring and tracking is a Pandora's box or slippery slope with huge privacy ramifications. How far will they go? Will they eventually want to track students under 21 to make sure they don't go to frat houses having parties so to deter underage drinking? Will they use it to enforce on-campus curfews? Funny how the usual privacy advocates seem uncharacteristically silent about this; not even a"We're looking into this to make sure student privacy is balanced with student safety" canned response on the matter.
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
Albion has already implied students refusing to install the app will be dismissed from campus if not outright expelled. The exact words from the article were, "They're [students who refuse to install the app] choosing to take the semester off."
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What people I talked about this with also found this to be a privacy/slippery slope issue. If it's true staff will be exempt from these restrictions, than it becomes an untenable double standard. Staff members can just as easily contract the virus, too, especially if they don't take other appropriate precautions in terms of hand-washing and proper hygiene.

JosephStalin said:
Unsurprisingly, "celebrities" attending the Video Music Awards need not worry about NY's quarantine measures.
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Yet another example of "Rules for thee, not for me." This is the exact thing that makes normies not want to take precautions -- including the reasonable ones that they should be taking at a bare minimum.
 
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JosephStalin said:
TX, too. In San Antonio you usually started running the air in March, pretty straight through until November. Hot and humid as hell. Here next to the Pacific doubt few, if any residences have A/C. We don't even have a fan.

Added: A/C systems, even window units, contain filters. Can the filters trap the virus? Don't know, some might, But either way, keep filters clean or replace as needed, air should be cleaner inside.

Couple of stories...

This is really stupid, on so many levels. Students confined to campus. Employees/visitors come and go as they please. And the students have to have a tracking app on their phones. Good reason to leave the phone secured in the dorm room. Can't track you if you don't have that phone.





Unsurprisingly, "celebrities" attending the Video Music Awards need not worry about NY's quarantine measures.


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ToroidalBoat said:
a tracking wat

What fresh hell is this?

I've been saying we live in a real life cyberpunk dystopia...
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Time to drop out. At that point going to the school isn't worth it anymore.
 
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It's been a while guys. They started up the next year of my apprenticeship program and here is what has happened: The moment you enter the school building, you have to sign some sort of sheet with your temperature and shit, along with having to have a mask on at all times...even if you aren't around anyone else. They put up plastic barriers between all of the tables as well.
At that rate, I just realize how slave-like this shit is. Within 3 weeks, they completely moved my classes online. I still can't believe this nonsense is still going and it is August. My neighborhood on the other hand is always my refuge. No one is wearing a face mask here around each other.
 
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Ethereal Eye said:
It's been a while guys. They started up the next year of my apprenticeship program and here is what has happened: The moment you enter the school building, you have to sign some sort of sheet with your temperature and shit, along with having to have a mask on at all times...even if you aren't around anyone else. They put up plastic barriers between all of the tables as well.
At that rate, I just realize how slave-like this shit is. Within 3 weeks, they completely moved my classes online. I still can't believe this nonsense is still going and it is August. My neighborhood on the other hand is always my refuge. No one is wearing a face mask here around each other.
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If everything is online anyway, the good thing is you can just pick a better school that's probably priced more reasonably as it was, well, already online.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
What do you think is the stupidest coronapanic measure?

- Face masks?
- "Social distancing"?
- Those sneeze guard screens?
- Groups limited to 10 or less?
- Or something else?
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Outdoor face masks. When you live in a place as windy as mine, you doubt that the fucking aerosols can even get close to you before being blown to the sea.
Besides, outdoor clusters, as long as people are not packed like cattle, really does not seem to be a thing.
 
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Ethereal Eye said:
My neighborhood on the other hand is always my refuge. No one is wearing a face mask here around each other.
August. My neighborhood on the other hand is always my refuge. No one is wearing a face mask here around each other.
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I can at least take that similar solace. Seems like most people around here wear the muzzles only because they have to. I have a sibling in a nearby cookie-cutter suburb with many folks of all ages and I've not seen one of them wear one while out and about enjoying the summer weather.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
What do you think is the stupidest coronapanic measure?

- Face masks?
- "Social distancing"?
- Those sneeze guard screens?
- Groups limited to 10 or less?
- Or something else?
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The social distancing shit probably. It's aggravating and off-putting that entire fucking booths at restaurants have silly caution tape over them, or the cashier at the gas station has some weird glass barrier separating themselves from everyone else
Smug Chuckler said:
Forcing people to wear masks while driving cars.
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They do that shit? Force you to wear a mask while in fucking cars?
 
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