Conavirus......

[iris lilies]

Weird thing. I use a program on my Mac that simplifies keystrokes. So if I type teh and follow it with a space, it automatically corrects it to the . Quotation marks are part of the program, too. Cool stuff and it's probably saved me enough time over the years to knit a sweater. But at one point yesterday every time I hit the left quotation mark, it jumped to a new line and printed the quotation mark and the phrase okra cury, which was in my clipboard. I saw it when I posted and edited it out. I don't know how coffee pods ended up in there except that I was copying the URL for an article about Friends- (Central Perk-)themed coffee pods for our daughter (who is crazy about Friends ... but not about coffee ). Because of that and some other browser weirdnesses, I shut down the browser and started it up again and things seem to be behaving today.

So, with that mild comic relief, I return you to your regularly-scheduled forum. I'm going to edit out the URL.

ETA Tammy I'm sorry you are going through so much with this illness... It's hard enough to fight; people don't have to be stupid around it and make your job worse.

That Mac on your program needs to get together with my computer translator girl who created “ fizzy attic” for me, the two of them could get together to create really weird baby phrases.

[jp1]

Not accurate. In the few places where antibody testing has been done, prevalence of the virus is often around 2%, meaning there is a 98% chance you are not infecting anyone. If you don't work in a nursing home or hot spot the chances are even less that you are contagious. If you're 2 years old there's basically a zero chance you can contract or transmit the virus, but everyone 2 or older is supposed to mask up. This is totally unrealistic for 8 hours a day in daycare or 6 hours a day in school. Some places say mask if you're 10 or older but not the big government blue states where daddy doesn't know best, the governor does.

So ‘only’ 1 in 50 people I come in contact with are likely to have it. (Assuming a 2% infection rate, which is probably off the charts low in a lot of places today). How many people go through a grocery cashier’s checkout line during a shift. I would bet well more than 50.

Stop your selfish whining and put on your god damn mask.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Even the statement that it's about blue states is wrong, yes somewhat more, but look at an actual map sometime.

https://www.axios.com/states-face-co...cdb1032fb.html

[JaneV2.0]

IMO, my west coast blue states were slow to issue blanket mask directives. When I was going out, I wore one long before they were mandated. IIRC, Washington is at about a 6% infection rate.

I'm a fan of natural immunity, but I'm not going to bet my life on it. I'd take my chances with colds and flu viruses, but not COVID. Even my blood type is supposedly out to get me with this one.

[Yppej]

Jane in California, Washington and Massachusetts among other blue states 2 year olds must wear masks. In Texas a red state the mandate only applies to those age 10 or older.

[Chicken lady]

WWJD? Matthew 4:7

[JaneV2.0]

Jane in California, Washington and Massachusetts among other blue states 2 year olds must wear masks. In Texas a red state the mandate only applies to those age 10 or older.

Texas is dealing with the results of doing everything wrong, IMO.

[Tradd]

Went to Sunday church for the first time today since early March. 30 people total. Chairs well spaced apart. Everyone wearing masks. I’m told if someone showed up without one they would be told to leave.

[Tybee]

So glad you were able to get back to church, Tradd. One of these Sundays I will have to brave it! Church of Zoom does not work for me very well, although I tried it.

[happystuff]

WWJD? Matthew 4:7

Wow! A test?

Then how about Matthew 22:37-40 (esp. verse 39)