Yeh, I know with some of those American pastors and their church businesses can be extremely lucrative for them, and some are billionaires.
God bless the late Robert Schuller.
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Yeh, I know with some of those American pastors and their church businesses can be extremely lucrative for them, and some are billionaires.
God bless the late Robert Schuller.
Off-topic, but my "favourite" was Oral Roberts: I remember him saying that God had told him that if he didn't reach his target in his current fundraising drive he would be "taken home". I was amazed that his followers seemed to accept this: I would have thought that if you wanted to illustrate the concept of blasphemy then accusing God of demanding money with menaces would do nicely.
Depite the fact that we've been in an lockdown for three months and shut down a $22T global economy over a virus with a 0.1% death rate, the Darling Bride and I are taking the opportunity to grow our own grocieries again in a raised garden. Lots of good stuff growing, although she really like beets. Lots of lots of beets! YUK - but she learned a trick from an old farmer when she was a girl: we were trashing a beat-up, old dresser. We saved back two drawers (they're in great condition); I drilled holes in the bottoms and lined them with weedblock for drainage and retention of contents; we're putting them on saw horses, filling them with soil and she can grow all the beets she wants in them. And that leaves room in our garden for food I consider edible...
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With states reopening, what are you doing to stay safe? Keep in mind that although we may be allowed to resume some of our normal activities, the virus has neither vanished nor lost its ability to kill.
I saw a fairly comprehensive list of "re-opening" activities and their respective level of risk. Top of the list (most risky) was eating at a restaurant with an indoor dining room, attending large gathering functions like sporting events or weddings, and attending church services. It had mostly to do with number of possible contacts, proximity to those contacts and length of exposure.
I will miss my favorite eating establishments, at least for a while. I won't be going to the ball games if they ever play again, and church? Not likely.
They placed shopping as medium to low risk, but that's dependent on how each store adapts to customer distancing policies.
EDIT: Found the article ... Is it safe to go to the beach?
I will miss my favorite eating establishments, at least for a while. I won't be going to the ball games if they ever play again, and church? Not likely.
They placed shopping as medium to low risk, but that's dependent on how each store adapts to customer distancing policies.
EDIT: Found the article ... Is it safe to go to the beach?
ok so i'm thinking of venturing out....with a mask of course...to get a haircut. i'm curious if anybody else has started to venture out more? if so where did you go?
Milo Willamson
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Already got my hair cut today with my mask on. mostly going to grocery shopping, and phone shopping soon.
Just trying to get my mind off things ya know..
Just trying to get my mind off things ya know..
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wow talk about getting your hairs cut.....lol
Milo Willamson
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Mike with this Thanos Chin. Wow man your hair is really tiny and short buddy.
Still would not mind getting my new phone today.
Still would not mind getting my new phone today.
I on the other hand should have cut off all my hair years ago.
Keep wearing masks.
Keep wearing masks.
just went to a sushi restaurant the other day and actually sat down to eat with a friend. i was way nervous and it felt uncomfortable and good to be out all at the same time. they spaced the tables out, but it looked way empty.
not sure if i want to do that again or not. i think i'll wait until those numbers here in Cali come down again as they are on the rise.
and please y'all wear a mask
not sure if i want to do that again or not. i think i'll wait until those numbers here in Cali come down again as they are on the rise.
and please y'all wear a mask
Just saw a very sobering headline: California shatters its one-day record of new COVID-19 cases, with over 6,000 reported Monday.
*SMH*
*SMH*
the only thing is that testing has ramped up so new cases will go up. from what i have been reading is that is only part of what we should be aware of. the others are the number of cases vs hospitalizations....which i think has been pretty steady which is a good sign.
https://www.latimes.com/california/...-coronavirus-deaths-as-more-businesses-reopen
good to know:
Unfortunately several states are showing record numbers of hospitalisations as well as cases.
We'll see how it goes in the UK. They are loosening several things at once here, and while the R rate is lower than it was when they first "locked down" it's still fairly high (the infection rates have only been dropping slowly for the last several weeks) and the daily infection numbers are very close to what they were when the lockdown started. So if they've misjudged this (which includes judging how people will interpret things) the potential to take off again is there. It's a dangerous time.
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I agree it's sending all the wrong signals.
Timings were unclear, announced too soon and being misinterpreted widely already.
A lot of people are behaving abominably.
Boris playing to the public and commerce after the Cummings affair.
Restrictions have to be eased at a risk eventually, but they seem to want to wash their hands of it too soon. (not intended)
More importantly there are virtually no sanctions and monitoring by HSE in place for disregarding the new guidelines in July. This was discussed widely on radio today.
The criteria for getting tested are still ridiculous imv.
This could become immensely worse, even with more understanding of CVD and improved resources, but I hope not.
Timings were unclear, announced too soon and being misinterpreted widely already.
A lot of people are behaving abominably.
Boris playing to the public and commerce after the Cummings affair.
Restrictions have to be eased at a risk eventually, but they seem to want to wash their hands of it too soon. (not intended)
More importantly there are virtually no sanctions and monitoring by HSE in place for disregarding the new guidelines in July. This was discussed widely on radio today.
The criteria for getting tested are still ridiculous imv.
This could become immensely worse, even with more understanding of CVD and improved resources, but I hope not.
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To add a bit of anecdotal information, friends of my employer who have a college-age daughter had been staying inside and social distancing in central PA. Pretty isolated by US standards. The daughter badgered the parents until they capitulated and took her to what they thought was a safe vacation spot. The beaches of South Carolina. All three have now tested positive for COVID and from what I understand, the father is now hospitalized. 
Indeed. Dr Barbara Ferrer [the head of LA's public health department] reports that she, and other public officials, have received death threats. As she noted, "we didn't create this virus." They're just doing their jobs, updating us daily with facts and statistics about COVID-19. And advocating for continued personal responsibility. Go figure...
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I do think it must be scarier in the US, with large portions of Joe Public wanting to believe what Donald wants to tell them.
This is (probably) racist but many temporary European manual workers here don't give two hoots about the country, anybody and anything and it's depressing in a big dense city.
This is (probably) racist but many temporary European manual workers here don't give two hoots about the country, anybody and anything and it's depressing in a big dense city.
When you have an imbecile advocating injecting COVID-19 patients with bleach to, you know, kill the virus, and NEVER wearing a mask, even when visiting medical facilities where he was told ALL visitors must do so, and the collective IQ of his supporters is <100...yeah, you're in trouble.
I think the word here is "nationalist" rather than "racist", though I regard the two as closely related and equally bad. I'm afraid I'm with Primo Levi on anything that divides people into "us" and "them".
However I've also seen many UK-born people who seem unable to understand that the rules are serious and apply to them as well as others (including some in senior roles in Government, as well as in the streets and supermarkets). I think the truth is that there are selfish idiots everywhere.