Good for her. She's a modern day Henry David Thoreau.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
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Good for her. She's a modern day Henry David Thoreau.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I don’t think so but whatever. She was factually incorrect because she kept shouting she wasn’t required to wear a mask in a public place, all the while the bank cop reminded her that she was not in a public place. It was a privately owned institution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
They can't seize her assets like that. She should be able to withdraw her money and close her account.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Oh please. “ Seizing her assets” is overly dramatic When the bank is simply keeping the money exactly where it’s always been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Besides, the cop told her all she had to do was put on a mask to do business and she could withdraw her money.
If you can't access it, it's seized. Just like Trudeau seized the assets of protestors in Canada.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
There are multiple ways to get to your money besides physically going into a bank.Quote:
If you can't access it
Comparisons of states (like Florida) and countries (like Sweden) without mask mandates have shown no difference in covid outcomes. So at what point are people going to stop forcing others to do something that has no logical basis and is discriminatory?
It's like in the olden days when some people thought blacks had cooties and they couldn't come into places of business, or had to use a separate entrance.
Just stop already!
Even in private places there should not be discrimination in public accommodations.
Both Florida and Sweden have had more COVID casualties per capita than their neighbors. I'm not sure how that's a victory for anyone.
Sweden, quoting World Health Organization figures on excess deaths:Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...oiding-strict/
Florida is disproportionately elderly. Even so, here's a comparison with California, one of the strictest states, in which there is no significant difference:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...ovid-reckoning
I know - does anyone actually go to the bank anymore to make a withdrawal?Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
I agree with this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
“The lesson from Sweden is to invest in your population's health and have less inequality,” Prof Devi Sridhar, the chairman of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, told The Telegraph.
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"But in the context of the Covid pandemic, another takeaway might be that Florida’s health outcomes haven’t been any worse relative to California’s than they usually are. The “DeSantis doctrine” on Covid has been defined as protecting the elderly while letting the young take risks, and that seems to have been pretty much what the state’s policies delivered."
There were signs that Florida was cooking COVID numbers early in the pandemic. That said, though both your examples did somewhat worse than comparable areas (Sweden much worse than other Nordic countries), the final outcome was awful everywhere.
If I were younger, sporting my original robust immune system, maybe I'd be as sanguine as you are about catching COVID.
Me! Me! Me!Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I didn't realize you were so frail. Queen Elizabeth in her 90's, Biden frail and nearing 80, Fauci in his 80's, Pelosi, many other elderly people have had covid and it's been like the cold or a flu.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Now there are severely immunocompromised people like Colin Powell who was undergoing cancer treatment and who died, but one thing we've discovered in the pandemic is that a lot of people think they're immunocompromised and they're not. They don't understand the term. An example would be a former coworker of mine in his 20's, participated in sports, very active lifestyle, but was all worried about working in person because he has Crohn's disease which is a digestive disorder.
Crohn's is an autoimmune disease. Your coworker had every reason to be concerned.Quote:
because he has Crohn's disease which is a digestive disorder.
Not exactly, it may trigger the body's immune system but I don't think it's classified as an autoimmune disease.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heal...crohns-diseaseQuote:
I don't think it's classified as an autoimmune disease.
That's what I would have guessed.Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
"Crohn's disease is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. It is an autoimmune disorder, meaning your body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in your body."
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Originally Posted by Alan
As I understand it there are differing opinions within the medical community as the body's response doesn't target the patient's body, as an autoimmune disorder would, but is limited to bacteria within the gastrointestinal tract. The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation simply refers to it as an IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease).Quote:
Originally Posted by herbgeek
I would think that in any discussion of immunocompromised systems, it wouldn't be considered an autoimmune disease. But maybe that's just me.
I guess we won't know how frail I am until I'm tested, will we? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Well if you suffer respiratory distress doing ordinary tasks in your everyday life that would be a pretty good indication since covid is a respiratory virus.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Early on the mother of a coworker of mine died of covid. He was not surprised because she was elderly, in a nursing home, and had COPD.
The media has largely ignored risk stratification and tried to scare everyone, ditto public health.
IMO we should all be worried about contracting covid if for no other reason ... the possibility of long term effects. Those who are not concerned are foolish. Just saw that 229,000 people in the US died so far this year from covid. It is not over.
Drive through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
What my credit union, and the bank we use for work, have been doing for everything, pretty much the whole pandemic.
I go make the night deposits, change orders, etc. Then for my personal use, I go to deposit my checks, get cash (never used an atm), etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
This is not a “rant” but is a mild observation: yesterday I hit several thrift stores looking for various things. Didn’tfind any of them, but I did see a small size rice cooker that I would have purchased had it not been priced at $30.00!!!!!
Yoinks! Is really high, but they are in a Desi community so perhaps they know their clientele.
edited to add: no they do not. The same rice cooker lists on Amazon at $29.
This is not one of those high end super tech Japanese models.
I was going to ask if it was one of those Zojirushi fuzzy-logic models.
Iris, lots of people have been reporting much higher thrift store prices in a frugality group on FB.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Oh yes, I think prices are up. And I don’t mind that they’re adding a couple bucks to things that used to sell for a couple of bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
A $30 price tag on a small kitchen appliance needs to be, in my mind, for a high-end practically new small kitchen appliance.
Thrift store prices are way up here - well...isn't everything these days. If I go to one, I wait until half price or senior days.
Been trying to exercise more. After the last 2 classes at the gym, I came home and slept for 2 hours. It simply is too much for me. I’m sure if I didn’t take my homeopathic remedy, I would not be walking the next day. And, I perspire more than ever! Will call today and see if I can get a trainer to help me set up a pool routine to work on by myself. Free training session so might as well take advantage of it!
In negotiations with coworker about vacation time at Christmas so I can go cave diving in FL. Feels like I’m negotiating a nuclear treaty with the Soviets! Coworker will be visiting his in laws who live in FL. I’m aiming for the week before Christmas, back at work the 26th. Coworker’s wife has absolutely no sense of urgency about figuring out their dates. I finally told him yesterday I need to know sooner than later if I’m going. There’s just the two of us who share the customs brokerage work load. It’s driving me batty.
Double post
Not really a rant but it's frustrating when you are really proud of something you did and someone comes along and makes a comment and it just takes the wind out of your sails.
Tell them to pound sand! I do know what you mean though. Probably jealous?Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
That's what I was thinking too.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Or ignores it completely, even when you mention it. I feel your pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
I think I would he rather ignored it than to make a negative comment. I worked really hard on it and he pretty much said it wasn't worthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Unless this was in an educational setting, where it was harsh but maybe understandable, he really should have emphasized the project's positive qualities or kept his mouth shut, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
Or they have different values and see what your doing as EGO and boasting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
I've pretty much done both, as a big part of it is how much or many times someone goes on about something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Klunick
For instance, I know and have known way more then my share of professional athletes. Generally I am able to ignore them, or they try to do something to make the story relevant to me since I don't give a c about sports. But I have taken the wind out of their sales and also had to deal with being "gifted" something (or an "experience", aka want to hold the Superbowl trophy, etc), they think is doing me good, and I think of either as a dust catcher, or (in the case of an autographed jersey), a glorified, fancy dipstick oil wiper.
I never said anything about what I did to them so it can't be perceived as boasting. I'm sure they didn't mean to hurt my feelings. For all I know, they had no idea I was the one who did it so they might have thought I was an impartial person and were just giving their opinion on a random thing. I am over the hurt now and am still proud of what I did. Comment just stung for a moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Ya’ll know this thread is nearly 11 years old, right? Haha, we have a lot of rants. It is human nature, I guess.
I wonder how early poster who we no longer see around here are coming along with their annoyances and problems.
Today I will rant about my own self centered laziness. During the pandemic I developed the bad habit of ordering common stuff from Amazon and having it delivered. OK I can excuse my actions then because it was Pandemic Time.
OK but that is over and I’ve been going into regular stores for a year and a half maybe two years.
Last week I was making a grocery store run to the big supermarket in the next town over and I needed bobby pins and toothpicks. It is a new store to me and I don’t know the layout. I looked in the aisles where I thought these things would reside. They were not there.
since I was running out of steam I came home and order them on Amazon along with other things in my cart. I’ve been making a weekly order on Amazon, setting it up to all ship on one day because you would think they would pack them all together, right? Saving gas, saving packing materials.
Well today I got a shipment that I ordered last week. Look at how they’re packed. Makes me sick when I think of the thousands hundreds of thousands know millions and billions of stupid empty boxes that have been shipped around.
My penance is that I *DO* break down these boxes and drive them to the recycling center in Hermann. But recycling is not as good as never getting it at all.
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