What it's like to be retired during Covid

[moguy1973]

21 minutes ago, nomolites said:

Stood in line for 2 hours this morning to exercise mine.  Saw 3 people out of several hundred not using good sense.

Mike

I was quite surprised as well.  I only saw maybe two people with their nose dangling out of their masks.  All others were wearing it properly.

[oneshot]

Oh I might add most masks I can’t read lips. Use my Hearing Aid it helps some but bulk of the time I need to see lips moving.

oneshot

[snagged in outlet 3]

22 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

I was quite surprised as well.  I only saw maybe two people with their nose dangling out of their masks.  All others were wearing it properly.

I went. 25 minutes.  100% masks and social distancing.  

[Mitch f]

I always were a mask when needed, no biggie

[ColdWaterFshr]

Several nose danglers, including one jerk directly in front of me in line.  Stood outside for a good 30 minutes before entering the building.  He didn't put on his mask until the exact second he crossed the threshold of the door.  And then it only covered his chin.  He wore it this way for a solid hour longer until an election official came up and said he need to wear it over his mouth and schnozz, at which point he said his disposable mask was broken.  So she went and got him a new one, brought it to him, and he put it on in the exact same way he had been wearing the other one.  Qanon Trumpanzee no doubt.

 

[fishinwrench]

6 minutes ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

Several nose danglers, including one jerk directly in front of me in line.  Stood outside for a good 30 minutes before entering the building.  He didn't put on his mask until the exact second he crossed the threshold of the door.  And then it only covered his chin.  He wore it this way for a solid hour longer until an election official came up and said he need to wear it over his mouth and schnozz, at which point he said his disposable mask was broken.  So she went and got him a new one, brought it to him, and he put it on in the exact same way he had been wearing the other one.  twinkletoes.

 

Yo Karen,   If you were truly concerned then you coulda stepped a few places back in the line.  

Typical whiner!  😅 

"How dare you punish ME because of my self-induced insecurities".  🙄

[Terrierman]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Rick I am still an active scientist, but it is getting harder and harder to find the "real Science". The rush to publish, the competition for grants, etc. all open the door for falsification of records and corruption. In the case for COVID it may be recognition or monies that make for poor science or an overreach of the data to push their findings into the news cycle.

You also know that many scientists tend to be hesitant to over generalize their data. In that case more often than not scientific accuracy comes only after more data are available and not necessarily when the public wants you to be predictive and set policy on small data sets. 

Patience is a virtue.  It took a lot of research and years of policy development to do something so seemingly straightforward as controlling nutrients in wastewater discharges to Table Rock Lake.  Magnify the COVID thing by about a billion levels of complexity and degrees of outcomes.  It's hard.  People aren't perfect and neither is science.  But science remains as our only real hope.

[Flysmallie]

2 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Working from home reduces traffic, which reduces the chances of automobile accidents.  Win.  

Not a win. My paycheck comes from automobile accidents.

Just kidding, but seriously it's off about 30% right now. And that does affect a lot of people's paychecks, mine included. 

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, moguy1973 said:

I was quite surprised as well.  I only saw maybe two people with their nose dangling out of their masks.  All others were wearing it properly.

I went to Bluebird Park to vote...where was your polling station?

[moguy1973]

17 hours ago, Mitch f said:

I went to Bluebird Park to vote...where was your polling station?

Our elementary school.  If I had known STL county residents could have gone anywhere I would have skipped the line there and went to meremec college as I found not many people were voting there.