"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/30/2020 at 13:07 • Filed to: coronavirus
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/30/2020 at 13:07 • Filed to: coronavirus | 0
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A group of residents from an island town in Maine cut down a tree and dragged it into the middle of a road.
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“While investigating the downed tree, a neighbor started yelling at him and a group of people showed up and began to gather around,” the sheriff’s office said. “Believing the group may be there to harm him,” it added, the man fled back to the residence and alerted his roommates.
An earlier statement from the sheriff’s office said someone had reported that “several people with guns had cut down a tree and were telling them that they need to stay quarantined.”
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Story should be outside the paywall, since Coronavirus coverage is free on NYT.
facw
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 13:26 |
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I hope that group of vigilantes remembered to stat 6' away from each other...
Actually I think Trump’s utter incompetence may have helped us here. This thing is everywhere already so there’s little point in trying to differentiate between outsiders and locals. People will still do it to some extent I’m sure (I mean it’s clearly the first impulse of our idiot president), but I think most people realize that the only way to stay safe is to keep away from everybody, not just outsiders.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> facw
03/30/2020 at 13:28 |
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Their shotguns are 6 feet long, so they’re good.
The Ghost of Oppo
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 13:29 |
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You still need to create an account with NYT to access Coronavirus coverage.
I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 13:30 |
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Tip: bypass the NYT paywall and a few others by changing “.com/” to “.com./”
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ttyymmnn
> I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
03/30/2020 at 13:34 |
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Huh. I’ll have to try that. Although I’ve been paying for NYT for years.
ranwhenparked
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 13:50 |
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The fear and hysteria has reached a point where it's only a matter of time before someone gets murdered now.
functionoverfashion
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 13:51 |
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Does not surprise me at all. People here in NH are pretty upset with MA people coming up for the weekend and going back home.
Yes, yes, this is the primary driver of the state’s economy: tourism. But when both states are asking people to stay home, you’re not helping.
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facw
> ranwhenparked
03/30/2020 at 13:52 |
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The 86 year old was apparently getting too close to another woman, so the other woman shoved her away, and the old woman fell and hit her head and died.
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ranwhenparked
> facw
03/30/2020 at 13:54 |
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Oh, well, there you go.
Alt hough that is probably more manslaughter
Thomas Donohue
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:02 |
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They were bunch of workers from NJ who had been living up there for over a month. Someone saw the NJ plates and figured they were vacationers who recently escaped from the NY area.
“There were some words between them and some locals and the conversation apparently didn’t go very well,” she continued. “I did hear the guys from [New Jersey] were fairly arrogant in their response. A group of local vigilantes decided to take matters into their own hands and barricaded these guys into their rental property.”
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facw
> functionoverfashion
03/30/2020 at 14:03 |
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Hey now, I haven’t been to New Hampshire in over three weeks!
Though if the weather gets a little nicer, some (socially distanced) hiking might be in order.
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ttyymmnn
> facw
03/30/2020 at 14:05 |
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God is dead.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:10 |
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If you add the second dot you might get a refund.
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ttyymmnn
> Thomas Donohue
03/30/2020 at 14:14 |
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Predictions for my part of the country are that we will peak in three weeks. I hope it doesn’t get as bad as it is back east, but I can certainly understand why people from there are freaking out.
BigBlock440
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:23 |
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Taking the China approach.
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Thomas Donohue
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:27 |
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People in rural Maine do this kind of thing every summer, even if you’re from Mass.
Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:36 |
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From in the story:
“the tree was discovered after one of the roommates left their residence on Cripple Creek Road in Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine,”
Music time!!!
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ttyymmnn
> BigBlock440
03/30/2020 at 14:36 |
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My wife and I were discussing how authoritarian countries have a better chance of limiting the spread because they are more capable of enforcing curfews and SD. Also, the people are more used to being subjugated.
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Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 14:46 |
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Well God WAS
pretty old and was in the high risk group for COVID-19...
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 15:16 |
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I ‘ve told this story to someone on oppo recently, but it’s directly relevant here:
During Hurricane Katrina, we were in Cuba on holiday (I’ve got a fantastic photo of the Bay of Pigs during the storm) . Havana got hit just as hard as New Orleans , but it didn’t hit the international news. That’s because when it became apparent that Havana was smack in the path of the hurri cane, Castro ordered the military to evacuate the city. So they commandeered every school bus in the country, rounded up the residents at gunpoint if necessary, took them up in to the hills, and told the locals they were b illeting some city folks for a week .
As you say, authoritarianism works best in a crisis (as long as you pic k the right authority). There’s a reason why military and paramilitary organisations haven’t bought into flat structures, self-organizing teams, or any of the other modern management fads...
Manny05x
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 15:37 |
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We have a Condo in Myrtle and the property managers are suggesting for NY owners not to come visit their own condos.
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BigBlock440
> ttyymmnn
03/30/2020 at 16:06 |
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DipodomysDeserti
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
03/30/2020 at 16:16 |
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Hurricane Katrina didn’t hit Cuba. It was a tropical storm when it passed near Cuba. It hit the US as a cat 3 hurricane.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> DipodomysDeserti
03/30/2020 at 17:02 |
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Pick your part of Cuba. It was a cat 2 hurricane before it crossed F lorida, and it passed the western part of Cuba after that, as your map shows . It was upgraded to cat 3 when it was pretty much dead north of H avana. The eye wasn’t a di rect hit on the island , but hurricanes are big weather patterns - there was plenty to go around .
In any case, a
t the time authorities were taking precautionary action (
or not)
nobody knew exactly where it would hit - that’s the nature of storms. My point about Castro being in a better position to take action than the Louisiana governor remains.
And having been in Cuba at the time, and in Havana soon after, it was a pretty darn severe weather event , and enough to make a hell of a mess (and that’s coming from someone who grew up in the world’s windiest city - my standards for w ha t constitutes weather worth worrying about are high ). Havana’s a low lying city which has had essentially no building standards for the previous 80-odd years: there would for sure have been multiple deaths if action hadn’t been taken.