"Jason Spears" (shadestalker)
04/21/2020 at 19:25 • Filed to: This Is Fine
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"Jason Spears" (shadestalker)
04/21/2020 at 19:25 • Filed to: This Is Fine | 3
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The GA gov announced reopening starting Friday. This would be fine, except people and businesses are actually going with it.
I just got an email from a local escape room business, they’re raring to go and apparently inviting everyone who ever gave them an email address to come on out this weekend.
UserNotFound
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:27 |
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Cool now we know where the next hotspot will be!
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> UserNotFound
04/21/2020 at 19:31 |
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Pretty much. I suspect there may be a big surge in cases in GA in about two weeks.
ranwhenparked
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:32 |
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My understanding is that it is a partial reopening in two phases on Friday and Monday, and that something like an escape room wouldn’t be included in either phase. Though, apparently, bowling alleys are?
Maybe they’re of the opinion that “bowling alley” isn’t meant to be taken literally, and refers to all providers of indoor entertainment offerings? Still, seems like something like an escape room - which usually operates with minimal staff and with small groups of customers, would be a lower risk than a bowling alley or movie theater, with large numbers of people close together.
Kiltedpadre
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:32 |
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I’m sure the sanitizing standards at the escape room will be stellar. One near me has a “mad scientist” escape room where they supply costumes which include fake surgical masks. I’d feel real comfortable being the seventh person to wear that on opening day.
That being said a business where I pay to be confined to a room is very low on my list of post living in a hole destinations.
TorqueToYield
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:35 |
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eh, its going to be an experiment thats for sure. whole lot of people betting a whole lot of other peoples lives on everything being A-OK.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:35 |
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At least the mayors of Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and Hilton Head realized McSlaveMaster was a moron.
Dusty Ventures
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:37 |
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Lock yer door and get ready for that second wave
dumpsterfire!
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:39 |
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I've got a couple of hydroxychloriquine left over from a trip to Africa many years ago. Will that make it safe for everybody?
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UserNotFound
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/21/2020 at 19:40 |
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I can’t remember the the term I’m looking for is “petri dish” or “litmus test” but it will definitely be something along those lines ...
For Sweden
> UserNotFound
04/21/2020 at 19:44 |
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Did you think Hotlanta was just a name?
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Jason Spears
> ranwhenparked
04/21/2020 at 19:45 |
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I’ve been to the venue. We had 6 people in our party, and the starting room is about 10x10 if that. Other connected spaces were smaller.
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UserNotFound
> For Sweden
04/21/2020 at 19:47 |
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The Hotlanta Zone, A Terrifying True Story
boredalways
> UserNotFound
04/21/2020 at 19:48 |
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Would "cesspool" work?
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ranwhenparked
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:48 |
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That meets the requirement for group sizes under 10, but not for 6 ft social distancing. I still don’t get what category they think they fall under, I think bowling alleys and theaters are the only two entertainment sectors mentioned - the former on Friday, the latter Monday "if all goes well" over the weekend. They're not either
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> boredalways
04/21/2020 at 19:49 |
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thatsmr
> UserNotFound
04/21/2020 at 19:52 |
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Bowling alley is georgia for "shitty town bar" sorry i promised to be positive
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:54 |
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I don’t agree with with Mike DeWine politically, but at least he’s not an idiot looking to suck up to “President” Trump.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:56 |
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I am terrified on how this will affect me. At least I am reasonably certain I won't actually have to go back into the public because no way Jose.
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thatsmr
> ranwhenparked
04/21/2020 at 19:57 |
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Oh yes blessed are the cheesemakers. I think he is referring to producers of dairy products
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 19:58 |
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I don’t think Georgia is even close to being out of the woods yet.
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thatsmr
> thatsmr
04/21/2020 at 19:59 |
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Under_Score
> ranwhenparked
04/21/2020 at 20:04 |
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I think people are overreacting because Stacey didn’t win. Seriously, though, slowly reopening bowling alleys and movie theaters isn’t a bad idea because they’re easy to configure.
Bowling alleys are spaced between the lanes, and there’s only a few items people handle. One ball, a pair of shoes, the keypad. What people aren’t realizing is that these places are needing to operate under the guidelines grocery stores are following right now with distances between customers and staff, limited congregating, etc. A system such as keeping bowling balls behind the counter like shoes, limiting capacity (maybe even taking reservations), and allowing time to clean the keypad at alleys once bowlers are done will allow places like Stars and Strikes to stay open without putting people “in danger.”
Maybe it’s when I go, but I remember going to see Popstar (funny movie) with my dad the Thursday night it came out, and there were definitely less than 10 people in that big cinema. With so few movies still airing or staying current (ex. that Pixar movie got moved to Disney+), it’s likely that movie theaters can make the protocols work. Order tickets ahead, limit the number of screens used, etc.
As much as I’m on board with stuff opening again, I completely understand people being iffy about up-close-and-personal services like massage therapists. That’s a bit different, but for the leisure activities and “non-essential” stores, I say go ahead. Kids especially will be thrilled. Parents still doing fine paying a big chunk to reserve Stars and Strikes for four hours? That’ll make the kids happy, and Stars and Strikes will love the money.
I understand people’s concerns, but we need to get back on track. Even Colorado’s liberal governor is enacting similar procedures. I know he had the protesters, but still. Once more governors start enacting policies like Kemp, Lee, and Polis, I think other states will start to follow.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 20:08 |
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I don’t see how they can reopen, the list is fairly specific. Oh and good news the Tiger Drive In is opening at half capacity every other space. Support them of you can. They are showing old Movies Grease was last weekend.
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ranwhenparked
> Under_Score
04/21/2020 at 20:23 |
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That’s probably true. The debate over too soon is a valid one, but the idea of a rolling reopening a few industries at a time is how it should be done, not flipping a switch and opening everything at once.
Theaters are maybe the ones I’d question - you can close off every other row and every seat on the intervening rows and get distancing, but people will still crowd together to exit. I could see how a big, open, high ceiling bowling alley/indoor fun center might work.
Too bad you can’t retrofit smoke eating systems to filter the virus, lots of older places built back when indoor smoking was allowed had them. The ones in Vegas casino floors are so powerful, I’ve sat next to people smoking cigarettes without even seeing or smelling the smoke. Would be nice if they could suck up and exhaust people’s sneeze and cough clouds like that.
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Under_Score
> ranwhenparked
04/21/2020 at 20:35 |
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Exactly. This is a rolling reopen. Bars and nightclubs are still staying closed. The elderly and vulnerable’s shelter-in-place doesn’t expire until May 13. There’s a picture of a sheet of paper of the 20 or so guidelines these businesses have to follow upon reopening, which are the same guidelines places like car dealerships had to follow.
PyramidHat
> ranwhenparked
04/21/2020 at 20:38 |
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Bowling alleys, where everyone touches everything and then eats handheld food.
LastFirstMI is my name
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 20:39 |
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Do they think the right to “concealed carry” refers to viruses too?
fintail
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 20:50 |
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Gone?
Textured Soy Protein
> Under_Score
04/21/2020 at 20:51 |
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No, Colorado is not rarin to go like Georgia is.
The #1 criteria that even the WH’s own plan for reopening includes is 14 days in a row of declining cases. That simply has not happened in Georgia.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/
If you think now is the time to open up shit like bowling alleys where everybody shares shit like balls and shoes, you need to have your fucking head examined. “Oh but we’ll have the bowling alley workers sanitize those things” is not detailed enough of a plan.
Brian Motherfucking Kemp is quite possibly the least qualified person to decide to open a state back up. This fucking idiot claimed on April 2 that “just now” the experts learned that people without symptoms can transmit the disease. Meanwhile that’s what the scientists have been saying for MONTHS.
Why the fuck should anyone treat his opinion about protecting the health of Georgia residents when he’s that fucking clueless? They shouldn’t.
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Under_Score
> Textured Soy Protein
04/21/2020 at 21:09 |
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Reading that, especially April 27, sounds like GA. See my follow up about what people miss about GA. Just because Kemp is a Republican and Polis is a Democrat doesn’t mean one is better than the other.
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ranwhenparked
> Under_Score
04/21/2020 at 21:10 |
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In the meantime, my state has been projected to hit a peak of double the current cases 3 weeks in a row, which hasn’t happened, our hospital system is strained, but not overwhelmed, and we’ve returned all the extra ventilators other states sent us, because we didn’t need them. Our stay home order expires May 15th. I think we can go ‘ till then without doing much more damage than has already happened, but if things stay on their current trend and we get to the 15th without any talk of loosening/reopening, or the date gets pushed back , that’s when I might consider throwing in with those nut jobs waving signs in the streets.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Under_Score
04/21/2020 at 21:25 |
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Good lord, talk about reading the wrong fucking part of the article. The Colorado plan which on the 27th transitions from “stay at home” to “safer at home” says right here under “safer at home,”
MOST PEOPLE STILL STAY AT HOME AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND AVOID UNNECESSARY SOCIAL INTERACTIONS.
Here are more details, which are linked to from my previous link.
“Retail curbside delivery, any retail that wants to do that, that starts immediately April 27,” Polis said. Other retail would be allowed to open May 1 with some restrictions.
He said that elective surgeries would be allowed starting Monday.
Large workplaces, starting May 4, will be allowed to open at 50 percent capacity, and are advised to have symptom and temperature checks for workers as they arrive.
Polis said his own goal for bars, restaurants and clubs to reopen would be mid-May, but that he’d have to wait for data on the effects of other changes to make those decisions.
“But they can’t get it all at once,” he said. “That’s what we have to prevent.”
This is not opening up fucking bowling alleys and movie theaters on April 27. And he said right there he needs to watch the infection numbers and act accordingly.
This has nothing to do with political party and everything to do with following the damn public health experts and not bowing to a bunch of political pressure from people who are willfully disregarding science in the name of principles of individual liberty, a.k.a. covidiots who are salty about being told what to do because a bunch of eggheads said so.
It just so happens that the majority of politicians being fucking idiots right now, and not listening to scientists, are Republican.
But, not all Republican governors are idiots. For example, Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of my state of Maryland, just flew in a 777 full of 500,000 test kits from South Korea.
That’s the kind of shit that needs to happen right now, not sending the teeming masses out to go bowling.
PS9
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 22:05 |
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Why do we have to do the dumb thing that won’t work, watch the dumb thing not work, then look back and wish we hadn’t done the dumb thing that doesn’t work when we can just not do the dumb thing that doesn’t work???
avalonian
> Jason Spears
04/21/2020 at 22:37 |
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As a Georgian I'm scared, but as someone who believes in science. I hypothesis chaos, and expect a swift re-shutdown. Trust me, I want a line up and fade, but not this bad!
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avalonian
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/21/2020 at 22:38 |
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Ccases have been climbing steadily the last couple of days too.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> UserNotFound
04/21/2020 at 23:26 |
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Dusty Ventures
04/21/2020 at 23:42 |
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ON FB p eople are going “first day out, i’m doing this, this, this, this.. ,” F that. I’m super stocking assuming we’re going to be shutdown end of May, June
Stef Schrader
> Jason Spears
04/22/2020 at 11:39 |
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Oof. This sucks out loud. Texas’ POS lieutenant governor has been saying the same kind of nonsense, though, so common sense (and the opinion of MOST of the people in this country who’d rather wait this out until things actually improve !) doesn’t even reach these people.
At this point, it sounds like something the Onion should pick up. “Texas politician complains that Texas’ death toll isn’t high enough; vows to fix it with more people dying:” https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-economy-coronavirus/