COVID-19 Casino Impact

[olds442jetaway]

Thank you Rascal. I completely understand your position. None of this is important, but I was in the first lottery during the Viet Nam war. My roomate was number 1. He went over, was slightly wounded and came back ok. I got rejected on the physical. I guess being almost blind in one eye, ultra high arches and high blood pressure even back then got me rejected. Anyway, I am the proud son of a great dad who is one of the few remaining WW2 veterans at 95 years young. When I take him to the local VA which is quite often, and see some o the guys and gals there and what they are dealing with, I realize what a great country we have and that is so because of the sacrifices they and the others who never came home have made.

[Tedlark]

I'm glad to see that Florida Governor DeSantis finally wised up.

[tech58]

Government bureaucrats and CDC lifers reacting to Trump touting a malaria drug as possibly helping here.
NO CLINICAL TRIALS,DANGEROUS, POSSIBLE LIFE THREATENING COMPLICATIONS!!

Memo to all ventilator patients: Sorry we can't endanger your life,hang in there.

[davidearl]

My wife is in the kitchen making homemade face masks. My niece is helping. She wore a blue tee-shirt that said "yup I'm essential" to work 2day with e blue facemask 2 match. they are machine washable. Every time I go to the store, she hands me a mask that matches my shirt. Stay healthy everyone!

[seemoreroyals]

My wife is in the kitchen making homemade face masks. My niece is helping. She wore a blue tee-shirt that said "yup I'm essential" to work 2day with e blue facemask 2 match. they are machine washable. Every time I go to the store, she hands me a mask that matches my shirt. Stay healthy everyone!

Nice to have a seamstress in the family. You cannot be too careful. We have a couple of homemade face masks that our sister in law made for us. It takes some getting used to but having a hard time getting my wife to wear hers. We only leave our property once a week for provisions. Thankfully we live on 50 acres so we have a lot of room to move around. Best wishes to you and stay healthy to your family as well.

[notes1]

I'm glad to see that Florida Governor DeSantis finally wised up.

time will tell if florida gov acted too slowly.

couple of questions for all;
-do all states need the same restrictions?
-does every part of every state need the same restrictions throughout the state?
-does rural nys need same restrictions as nyc?
-how about detroit vs the rest of the state or chicago vs the rest of the state or miami vs rest of florida?
-do some groups within the country need to take more precautions than others, or everyone the same?

more than half of all florida cases involve a relatively small part of southeast florida, and miami had previously closed beaches weeks ago and taken additional precautions. despite being the 3rd most populated state and the influx of irresponsible spring breakers, the state is 10th on the death list, according to the nytimes map.

i am struck by looking at the national map of virus cases. it looks a lot like the maps we see after a national election, separating rep and dem votes.

[Maxspot]

keep safe everyone. let's pray that this pandemic health crisis will end soon. then we can go back to our normal usual life.

[Carcounter]

Government bureaucrats and CDC lifers reacting to Trump touting a malaria drug as possibly helping here.
NO CLINICAL TRIALS,DANGEROUS, POSSIBLE LIFE THREATENING COMPLICATIONS!!

Memo to all ventilator patients: Sorry we can't endanger your life,hang in there.

Kinda reminds me of George Carlin's take on executions by lethal injection. They rub alcohol on the arm so the patient doesn't get an infection.

[tech58]

Every time i hear George Carlin's name i think of my fav. of his.
"99% of the species that ever existed on earth are extinct! WE didn't kill,them ALL!"

Sorry for the digression,tried to resist.

[rascal]

as an interesting exercise;

-would you vote for someone who you considered a draft dodger or someone with obvious mental lapses?
-would you vote for someone you consider a draft dodger or a socialist/communist?
-would you vote for someone you consider a draft dodger or someone you consider incompetent?

rascal, you didn't answer all the criteria questions. i am still interested, thanks.

Hi Notes,

I wonder if you meant to insert the words "you considered to have" in front of "obvious mental lapses"? In your third hypothetical example, you did indeed use the word "consider".

My point is that almost all of our process of selecting who we vote for is highly subjective. I have stated that my refusal to vote for a draft dodger is absolute. My definition of "draft dodger" is absolute. Clinton and Trump absolutely, in my view, dodged the draft. Olds, in my view, did not --- he was obviously medically unable to serve. (From my interactions with him on this forum I am certain that he would have preferred to serve.)

"Obvious mental lapses" can be defined by a trained mental health expert. Forgetting where you placed your keys or what city you are in at the moment is fully considered by experts to be far less of an indicator of "obvious mental lapses" than forgetting what city you were born in or when you were born. I am very forgetful, Notes, yet I hope you will not place me on your list of those with obvious mental lapses. To sum up your first example, respectfully, I am not convinced that there is a finalist candidate who has "obvious mental lapses."

Your second example is much more open and shut. Sanders has already defined himself as a socialist. That immediately eliminates him as a choice for me. But ---- he is not likely to be nominated so I don't have to make the choice you asked about. I realize that I weaseled out of a direct answer, but there are many hypotheticals in our lives that we don't have to directly confront, so I prefer to use my limited brainpower to worry about those that I do have to directly confront.

Your third example once again is on the side of subjectivity. We could debate it until the cows come home. My definition of incompetence, SMR's definition of incompetence, your definition of incompetence, would never be exactly equal. But, no, I would not vote for someone that in my subjective but carefully researched opinion I considered to be incompetent. That doesn't mean that I would instead vote for the draft dodger. I did not vote in a very recent presidential election, because I was confronted with two candidates that each had seriously disqualifying problems, in my opinion.

Notes, it is interesting and informative to read Olds' recent post where he speaks of his WWII veteran father. It should embarrass and dismay each of us to think about how far our moral and patriotic standards have been reduced since the time that Olds' father and his peers so quickly, willingly, and gladly stepped forward to serve their country when called. It goes beyond that --- the difference in many of the other social standards of the Greatest Generation vs what we easily and casually accept today is upsetting, at least to me. I know, I know, we can't live in yesteryear. But what we can do is emulate and honor the "Country First" attitude of the Greatest Generation, and there is no better place to start than by refusing to allow those who sneered at our military and our flag to serve as Commander in Chief.