Rants and Raves

[QUOTE=SeekingHead;4766428]I was active duty navy & through some luck plus studying my ass off at A school ended up at a Air Force base as part of a Navy detachment doing comms. Was shocked at the differences between the services. We were treated like human beings, not convicts out on work release to do a job. Every other Friday was surf & turf, the dining facility was not allowed to turn a profit & due to the large amount of TDY's we had coming & going the facility made money. So to break even the Air Force would through a picnic for the permanent party people with surf & turf. The facility was only open for breakfast & lunch, so all of us were on commuted rations.[/QUOTE]I was Army, over 23 years in uniform and another 10 as a civilian. If you really want proof of how the USAF is... The best chow hall I ever ate at was the enlisted mess at Pensacola Naval Air near the flight line. The worst was Key West Naval Air station. That place was so bad, the USAF declared it off limits to Air Force personnel and put them all on separate rations to eat elsewhere. I went in for midnight chow one time and they were service scrambled eggs and sauerkraut. That was all in the early '80's.

Nightclubs and Bars can reopen after May 14 unless the Governor decides to extend the order so we will see even if the strip clubs open back up I don't see them getting any business for a long time but then again Atlanta full of Thirsty dudes tho LOL.

Hi all. I'd like to hear from some long time players in the game about this one.

I've been seeing this provider for a few months and we've gotten pretty cool with each other.

I use a GV account and have been text only.

Well after a good night I logged back in to see if she's left me sweet nothings as usual.

Well tonight it was about 10 missed calls from her number and a flurry of texts from who I assume is her man saying things like he's going to come to my house. He has a pic of my license from the hotel cameras etc.

Needless to say I've not replied, and unfortunately my time with this provider has come to an end, but I am a little concerned about this.

Has this happened to anyone before? Should I be worried?

She has told me he's a convicted felon with no car no job etc.

I'm hoping he'll just go away now that I've gone away.

I'd appreciate any advise as I'm kind of scared.

[QUOTE=HumbertHumbert;4768755]Hi all. I'd like to hear from some long time players in the game about this one.

I've been seeing this provider for a few months and we've gotten pretty cool with each other.

I use a GV account and have been text only.

Well after a good night I logged back in to see if she's left me sweet nothings as usual.

Well tonight it was about 10 missed calls from her number and a flurry of texts from who I assume is her man saying things like he's going to come to my house. He has a pic of my license from the hotel cameras etc.

Needless to say I've not replied, and unfortunately my time with this provider has come to an end, but I am a little concerned about this..[/QUOTE]I once went to see a chic posted on backpage, who was in an apartment in Marietta. About 5 minutes away from her apartment, she text me telling me to not come right now because her "dude" just showed up unexpectantly. Muthafucka! You're trying to get me killed, is what I thought. Well, 15 minutes later, this wench had the nerves to ask me where I was and I let her know how I felt about the situation. She then got angry with me talking about its her place and she runs things in her place. Well, apparently not, you tramp, because your "man" showed up unexpectedly and you know I couldn't show up else it would have been some problems. Smdh.

I even had some dumb broads from Listcrawler, give me a link to their IG or snapchat page for proof of their authenticity, only to see them all over their page with Tyrone Jenkins "their dude" kissing all over them. I'm like bish, what the fuck are you showing me your IG page for when you and your man is kissing and hugging all over the place. These chic's are fucking lunatics. They will get you caught up and could give a damn what kind of trouble it gets you in. Just remember, Bro's before Ho's.

[QUOTE=HumbertHumbert;4768755]Hi all. I'd like to hear from some long time players in the game about this one.

I've been seeing this provider for a few months and we've gotten pretty cool with each other.

I use a GV account and have been text only.

Well after a good night I logged back in to see if she's left me sweet nothings as usual.

Well tonight it was about 10 missed calls from her number and a flurry of texts from who I assume is her man saying things like he's going to come to my house. He has a pic of my license from the hotel cameras etc.

Needless to say I've not replied, and unfortunately my time with this provider has come to an end, but I am a little concerned about this.

Has this happened to anyone before? Should I be worried?

She has told me he's a convicted felon with no car no job etc.

I'm hoping he'll just go away now that I've gone away.

I'd appreciate any advise as I'm kind of scared.[/QUOTE]I'd say don't sweat it, his women is out banging multiple dudes for money. He was probably fucked up last night, got ahold of her phone & was venting. Just block the number & move on, I highly doubt he shows up at your house, as this requires either money for a cab or a car, both of which he doesn't have.

[QUOTE=SeekingHead;4747294]100% this, isolate get this fucking thing under control, reopen for business in the middle of July. Once we get the rate down to around 1% we can isolate the pockets & people who are carriers. After this we effectively eliminate the virus, 95% of things return to normal we just don't have church, concerts, large gatherings & sporting events.

Now strip clubs are an essential business & need to re-open asap, plus I need to bang my SB again.[/QUOTE]It seems like contact tracing is the only reliable way to keep any rebound wave from happening. It worked well in South Korea where they had very aggressive testing and then isolating any person infected and testing close contacts of that person and isolating them if necessary. South Korea rapidly dwindled to almost zero cases within a few weeks.

However, I wonder if federal HIPAA laws would cause major impediment to aggressive contact tracing in the USA? Seems to be violating HIPAA is somebody from the health department calls you and tells that someone you work with just tested positive for COVID. Depending on your work situation, it could be easy to figure out who is infected and then that person's name gets splashed all over social media as somebody to avoid. I could see a lot of people getting upset about this.

[QUOTE=TMeister;4770694]It seems like contact tracing is the only reliable way to keep any rebound wave from happening. It worked well in South Korea where they had very aggressive testing and then isolating any person infected and testing close contacts of that person and isolating them if necessary. South Korea rapidly dwindled to almost zero cases within a few weeks.

However, I wonder if federal HIPAA laws would cause major impediment to aggressive contact tracing in the USA? Seems to be violating HIPAA is somebody from the health department calls you and tells that someone you work with just tested positive for COVID. Depending on your work situation, it could be easy to figure out who is infected and then that person's name gets splashed all over social media as somebody to avoid. I could see a lot of people getting upset about this.[/QUOTE]When people stop acting like Covid is Ebola. So what if there is a rebound wave. 3,000,000 in New York State have recovered from this virus. LA County, Santa Clara, Germany all the places doing antibody testing same result, time and time and time again. . 1% 2% Everybody is going to get this, a couple 100,000 are going to die in the US. That's what it is. Just like on the Theodore Roosevelt so few healthy people under the age of 50 are even going to know they have it, that's how week it will be.

Sweden still under 3,000 deaths even though every other day CNN is publishing articles about their "sky rocketing" infection rate.

I'm not saying it's nothing, it aggressively kills people in risk groups but look up how many people on the Theodore Roosevelt went to the hospital. That was seven weeks after exposure living in a situation where social distancing was impossible.

Look it up, then tell me again why it's so important to aggressively contact trace.

Fuck I can't wait until people just wake the fuck up and start living life again. The hysteria is going to kill so many more people in the third world than would ever have died of the virus.

[QUOTE=Admin2;4770871]When people stop acting like Covid is Ebola. So what if there is a rebound wave. 3,000,000 in New York State have recovered from this virus. LA County, Santa Clara, Germany all the places doing antibody testing same result, time and time and time again. . 1% 2% Everybody is going to get this, a couple 100,000 are going to die in the US. That's what it is. Just like on the Theodore Roosevelt so few healthy people under the age of 50 are even going to know they have it, that's how week it will be.

Sweden still under 3,000 deaths even though every other day CNN is publishing articles about their "sky rocketing" infection rate.

I'm not saying it's nothing, it aggressively kills people in risk groups but look up how many people on the Theodore Roosevelt went to the hospital. That was seven weeks after exposure living in a situation where social distancing was impossible.

Look it up, then tell me again why it's so important to aggressively contact trace.

Fuck I can't wait until people just wake the fuck up and start living life again. The hysteria is going to kill so many more people in the third world than would ever have died of the virus.[/QUOTE]Everything boils down to flattening the curve. If we had 10 X as many hospital beds and ICU beds and 10 X as many doctors and nurses as we do now, then open up the whole country back to normal and who cares about how many people get sick per week. But the bottom line is that we have limited healthcare resources which is the reason we can't afford to overwhelm the system. There are literally HUNDREDS of stories in NYC of sick COVID patients lying around in hospital hallways dying in front of doctors and nurses that were too busy treating other COVID patients. Reports of bodies being stacked 10 high in refrigerated trucks outside funeral homes. So many bodies being cremated that a few ovens broke down. So many dead bodies they were being buried in public landfills with bulldozers. Over 25,000 dead in New York City alone in less than two months!

It makes my blood boil to see these IDIOT protestors with their flak jackets and AR-15's with ZERO fucking clue about what kind of death and carnage is raging out there. Do any of these low IQ fuckers work in a hospital? I would bet anyone $100 they don't, which makes it easy for them to say "OPEN IT ALL BACK UP" because these assholes ain't the ones dealing with the problems on the frontline. If I was the governor in any states with protestors, I would immediately order all hospitals to refuse them healthcare if they get sick with COVID. Teach these ignorant chimps a good lesson about believing in medical experts and not conspiracy theories!

The bottom line is that seasonal flu kills about 30,000 people a year in the country but that's for the WHOLE year. COVID-19 has already killed over 70,000 Americans in LESS than two months, and over half of those got sick during total lock downs where as with the flu we never lock anything down. And our national population will NEVER get herd immunity from this thing unless we are willing to tolerate letting it run rampant and unchecked and that is not an option. A vaccine is not realistically expected until next spring at the earliest, and that's assuming all the safety trials go smoothly and it actually works.

[QUOTE=TMeister;4771059] It seems like contact tracing is the only reliable way to keep any rebound wave from happening. … It makes my blood boil to see these IDIOT protestors[/QUOTE]WTH??

[QUOTE=Admin2;4770871] Look it up, then tell me again why it's so important to aggressively contact trace. Fuck I can't wait until people just wake the fuck up and start living life again. The hysteria is going to kill so many more people in the third world than would ever have died of the virus.[/QUOTE]I agree Admin!

Listen to what is being touted, contact tracing the way they are speaking of is nothing short of the type of Big Brother spying movies have been made about. They want to use your cell phones or other technology to know where you have been and possibly even a vaccine card you have to carry around with you? This country was founded on individual freedom and responsibility not the land of the oppressed. These protesters are exercising their constitutional rights to protest ridiculous rules. It has been stated that many surgeries that can help people live longer and healthier have been shut down, so how many have died as a result? These morons have made people suffering serious diseases and injuries from going to an ER out of fear. We must stop the fear-mongering and get on with knowledge and live life.

Current data shows 14 healthy Georgians under the age of sixty have succumbed to the China Virus. 0.00015555% of all Georgians under the age of 60! I can smell the death from my front porch. If you're healthy and under the age of sixty hide inside your fucking houses or you will die.

[QUOTE=SgtLurker;4771274]Listen to what is being touted, contact tracing the way they are speaking of is nothing short of the type of Big Brother spying movies have been made about. They want to use your cell phones or other technology to know where you have been and possibly even a vaccine card you have to carry around with you? This country was founded on individual freedom and responsibility not the land of the oppressed. These protesters are exercising their constitutional rights to protest ridiculous rules. It has been stated that many surgeries that can help people live longer and healthier have been shut down, so how many have died as a result? These morons have made people suffering serious diseases and injuries from going to an ER out of fear. We must stop the fear-mongering and get on with knowledge and live life.[/QUOTE]This is why all protestors should be denied healthcare coverage if they get sick from COVID. You don't get to have two sets of rules. You either follow the rules and guidelines of medical EXPERTS and you get healthcare if you get sick, or you flaunt the rules and are DENIED treatment as punishment for your ignorance and "Constitutional rights" to endanger the public with stupidity.

I've had this same attitude towards Anti-Vaxxers for many years. If you're a parent who is stupid enough to believe anti-vaxx nonsense, then you and your child should be DENIED healthcare if your kid gets a horrible communicable disease. Watch your kid die painfully from meningitis and then come tell me about the virtues of anti-vaxxing bullshit.

Yesterday Trump's former FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that the new normal is 30,000 new cases of COVID-19 DAILY and 1,000 deaths per day. And that will continue throughout the summer. He expects to get to 100,000 deaths in June. Celebrating the Fourth of July by noting that more Americans have been killed by COVID-19 than in all of World War I (116,708) would be no fun at all. White House coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx told "Fox News Sunday" yesterday that she is sticking with the initial estimate of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in total, which is not that different from Gottlieb's prediction if it lasts all year.

To make matters worse, while the number of deaths in New York still leads the pack by a mile, as states in the South reopen, more of the deaths will be coming from Southern states going forward.

Given the incubation period of about 2 weeks, those deaths won't be showing up this week, but by Memorial Day we will likely be seeing plenty of them.

[URL]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/03/gottlieb_says_coronavirus_mitigation_didnt_work_as_well_as_we_expected_in_reducing_cases.html[/URL]

The Trump administration is projecting that the United States could see up to 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, a person familiar with internal documents confirmed to The Hill on Monday.

Data and modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the federal government is expecting the number of cases and deaths associated with the pandemic to continue mounting, even as President Trump and other officials push for states to lift restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus in favor of reopening businesses.

The New York Times, which was the first to report on the projections,*posted the documents, which show the CDC and Federal Emergency Management Agency forecast a steady increase in the number of new cases per day. *.

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html[/URL]#link-7 b42 d0 f5.

[QUOTE=TMeister;4771486]This is why all protestors should be denied healthcare coverage if they get sick from COVID. You don't get to have two sets of rules. You either follow the rules and guidelines of medical EXPERTS and you get healthcare if you get sick, or you flaunt the rules and are DENIED treatment as punishment for your ignorance and "Constitutional rights" to endanger the public with stupidity.

I've had this same attitude towards Anti-Vaxxers for many years. If you're a parent who is stupid enough to believe anti-vaxx nonsense, then you and your child should be DENIED healthcare if your kid gets a horrible communicable disease. Watch your kid die painfully from meningitis and then come tell me about the virtues of anti-vaxxing bullshit.[/QUOTE]And by that logic, if you go to a prostitute and catch something you should not be allowed to go to the dr. You knew the risk! And if you have a car wreck and you were speeding or ran a red light or had 1 beer they shod throw your body in a ditch and leave you. You knew the risk.

Seriously, that is the kind of thought that scares me. Pure fucking stupidity. Just as fucking stupid as the parents who won't vaccinate their kids. If those regards want to go out, let em. I will voluntarily stay home and healthy not at the barrel of the government's gun.

And an atlanta councilman was just on the tv talking about standing up against the people leaving their house and showing them he is serious. . that is the kind of authoritarian government you want?

But next month you will be crying that the same government shut down your favorite parlor.

In my opinion. To the people complaining about the protesters asking for their rights and the ones saying that the government should enforce the lock down orders by any means necessary. I truly believe that a very large portion of the population would willingly cram themselves into cattle cars if the government said they were being relocated to a COVID prevention camp.