fwiw:

Comcast in particular currently wishes to move most folks back inside as soon as it's definitely safe. The most recent company-wide email that was shared with me went out about a week ago now. Bear in mind, they have more than 120,000 employees across all divisions. Call Centers are but one bit of it all. Their HQ in Philly is a big building, far too expensive to keep empty too long. They'll be itching to refill it.

If pre-Covid something like 5% of all American workers could work from home (made up number), I'll be pleased to see that increase to 10% post-Covid, and will be estatic for anything better. Progress is progress.

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Originally posted by PASig:
What are all you guys’ state or local restrictions on indoor restaurant dining?

I believe it is still totally shut down in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia.

Just got home from a trip to take son to college and take in a bit of Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks. It was interesting how different places were different.

CA - lots of signs, extremely varied compliance. People are tired of this shit. No indoor dining. Some local towns have used K-rail to block off parking areas of the street outside local restaurants so they can do outdoor dining.

Nevada - harsher signs, but allow indoor eating and somewhat less compliance.

Jackson Hole, WY - people seem to have drunk the coolaid. Masks everywhere, lots of no mask no service signs, people apparently afraid. Indoor dining allowed, not sure the tables were distanced, certainly not in some outside seating areas.

Bozeman, MT - Seems to be drinking the coolaid mostly. Indoor dining allowed, tables not too religiously distanced.

Alpine, WY - What is this mask bullshit? Wear one if you want, we won’t abuse you, but we ain’t buying that horseshit. Only ate at a friend’s house here, no idea what restaurant rules are.

Idaho - WTF is a mask? Why would you screw with that nonsense? Indoor dining allowed, tables blocked off for social distancing.

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Originally posted by PASig:
What are all you guys’ state or local restrictions on indoor restaurant dining?

Harris County, Texas resident here.

After "the surge" (there wasn't any f---ing SURGE), that neophyte, moronic, wanna-be, woke-ass, inept, sophomoric, bitch Lena Hidalgo (Harris County "Judge"...I've explained the nonsense of that title previously) threw down her Dictatorial EDICT, and disappointingly Gov. Abbott fell for it, to reduce restaurant capacity back down to 50% and in another Dictatorial EDICT, customers now MUST wear a mask upon entering the establishment and keep it on until reaching their table [effing eyeroll...like this is some sort of mutant "SMART" virus. JSMH]. If you get up for ANY reason, such as go to the bathroom, you must re-mask. GMAFB!!!!!!

Stupidity. SHEER. STUPIDITY!!

Just heard our old office manager died from COVID after a month on a ventilator. 56 years old with no real pre-existing conditions. It's sad.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Harris County, Texas resident here.
...restaurant capacity ...to 50% ... MUST wear a mask upon entering the establishment and keep it on until reaching their table... If you get up you must re-mask.

Generally the same in the North Dallas area. I have made a point not to mask until I am walking in, rip it off as sitting down and as soon as coming to the door threshold to leave.
3 months ago, I walked into a pizza place to pickup a pizza without a mask (unintentionally). Previously there was never another patron there. But that day several customers were gathered up waiting next to the door. They looked about as aghast as one can while wearing a mask. I looked up as I entered and said 'Oops almost forgot, security theater' as I unpocketed and donned my useless mask. I was still 6 feet or more away from them.

Apparently all of these humorless assholes were drunk on the koolaid. I wound up instantly glad it had happened.

Here in Ohio mask on to walk in. Off at the table.

What makes this bullshit mask order in Texas even worse is that it only ends when our cowardly Governor says it ends. So until his liberal friends tell him that it’s safe, we’re screwed. I’ve called and written his office numerous times but from what I’ve seen the fear mongers outnumber people like me 5 to 1. Abbott is dead to me now. I don’t give a rats ass about his supposed conservative views anymore. He can’t be voted out fast enough for me.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Here in Ohio mask on to walk in. Off at the table.

I asked an individual here running for a County Commission seat about the mask thing here in Orange County Florida. Oh she thought it was imperative to "stop the spread of the virus". I asked her if she was aware that people need only wear a mask into the restaurant and when leaving, but for the entire 30-45 minutes they and their families spent eating and interacting with restaurant staff and other diners, no mask was required because apparently the virus is not transmittable when you're seated. She said she knew that was the way the order was drafted, but that it was still very important. Then she asked me if I knew how I'd be voting this fall. My exact words to her (standing approximately 3 feet in front of her while not wearing a mask) was, "I'm not sure yet, but I know I'll be voting against you because you're simply to stupid to ever be allowed near any level of authority." Her response..."Well that was terribly rude." My quick response..."No, actually that was blunt. Wanna try for rude." She left me at that point much to my pleasure. We are in a severe drought when it comes to thinking, rational, people running for office.

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IT departments aren't exactly a yardstick by which to measure the working from home crowd by. I have two friends who both own small businesses. Both of them have told me that when this Covid BS is over, 'all' of their employees are coming back in house, or the ones that refuse will be replaced. Apparently both gentlemen have had nothing but continual problems and complaints about employees being inaccessible and/or completely unprepared in dealing with clients, and both are pretty much over it already.

I would hardly call two of your small business owner buddies that don't know how to ride herd on remote employees a yardstick, would you? I'll bet you would I wish them luck.

Both of these guys are veterans of large IT companies who struck out on their own years ago and have been very successful in building companies that service multi-million dollar clients up and down the east coast. It's not their management abilities that's failing their companies, its undisciplined employees who have never worked in a remote capacity, and like many others, never should. It fascinates me that people think this transition to remote work is seamless and simple when many of these people have a hard enough time showing up on time for work everyday in their standard office environment, that's devoid of the myriad of distractions they now face at home.

I just got done with an all-nighter-dayer with an 30 member work from home team for a web site release (6 month project). It was all hands on deck.
Guaranteed nobody was slouching or unreachable for the duration. GAUREN.FUCKING.TEED. Oh, we were under budget and ahead of schedule. Either I am a genius at hiring a good IT team (very unlikely) or your buddies don't know as much as you put on (very likely). I wish your buddies good luck with their office reoccupation!

We're not going back to an office when this Covid thing is resolved. Too expensive and restrictive.

OH MY GOD!! OHMYGOD!!!!

NC State moves classes online after off-campus parties spread COVID-19

I can see the future. All these boys and girls are going to grow up harboring unprocessed anger because they didn't get enough of this:



Sofa King Stupid

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
Here in Ohio mask on to walk in. Off at the table.

Brilliant

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OH MY GOD!! OHMYGOD!!!!

NC State moves classes online after off-campus parties spread COVID-19

UNC-Chapel Hill (also known as UNC-Cheater Hill") did that a few days ago and other colleges here have also done that. The stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

Here in PA I saw some outraged headlines about Penn State students being caught at large parties, in “violation of safety protocols” if that wasn’t the most dystopian thing you’ve heard yet.

It’s a fucking college, people! Not a monastery!

There won't be any more college parties now, right.

Institutions of ‘higher learning’ most often have the stupidest people teaching. They’re too dumb to be hired in the real world so they go to their little ivory tower and wait fir tenure so they can do even less

If you’re looking to them for guidance, if you do the exact opposite you will more than likely be right.

Virginia Plans Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations For All Residents

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...ations-all-residents

As Friday's hospitalization numbers across the Sun Belt appear to confirm CDC head Dr. Robert Redfield's assertion that the American COVID-19 outbreak has peaked and is starting to fade, the State of Virginia is setting a new precedent by seriously discussing forcing Virginians to be vaccinated with whatever rushed-to-marked candidate the FDA approves first.

During an interview that aired on Friday, the state's health commissioner said he planned to invoke state law to make vaccinations mandatory - once a western product is available, presumably.



State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.

Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021.

Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.

"It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives," Oliver said.


Pro-medical-choice activists in the state argue that the issue is a matter of medical choice, and that the hasty "expedited" approval process being implemented by the FDA is grounds for concern. State health authorities insist, meanwhile, that they would never mandate a vaccine that hadn't already proven to be safe.

Virginia Freedom Keepers Director of Communications Kathleen Medaries, a mother of three from Chesterfield, says this is a matter of medical choice.This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not a pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine issue," Medaries said. "For me, it’s an issue of being able to assess each vaccine for myself and my family one at a time."

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"He shouldn’t be the one person to make a decision for all of Virginians,”"Medaries responded.

The state's top medical official is opposed to a bill that has been put forth in the state assembly that would create more exemptions to the mandatory vaccination power, allowing exemptions on religious and other grounds.

Oliver believes that COVID-19 is a public health emergency that should take precedent over everything else, and that vaccine-assisted herd immunity is the state’s best and only real defense.

The decision comes after Massachusetts said it would make the flu vaccine mandatory this year as part of a campaign to protect the state's medical system. We suspect Virginia and Massachusetts won't be the only states to discuss mandatory COVID and/or flu vaccination in the coming weeks, as the school year begins.

^ I expect to see alot more states mandating vaccines in the very near future, along with some employers requiring certain vaccines as a condition of employment.

No matter how we feel about the anti-vaxer trend, we cannot allow the government, whether it be local, state or federal to force people into taking medications, vaccines, or submitting to medical procedures. This is a very, very slippery slope & I expect we'll be seeing this in the Supreme Court sooner rather than later.

a 9mm inoculation might be in order for those trying to stick something unwanted in my body

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"It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives," Oliver said.

1) It's not killing a lot of people (2,400 if you believe every one of them actually died from COVID).

2) We have several treatments for it.

3) Hundreds of lives saved at what cost? What if the vaccine has unknown side effects?

I'm not going to be a guinea pig. Prove its safe, then I'll take it.

No lockdown, no masks, no hysteria… NO PROBLEM (Sweden)

“A few days ago, I took a stroll to the shops. It was a glorious morning and the parks and cafés were full of families enjoying the sunshine.

Perhaps the shops were a little quieter than they would have been a year ago; but they were busy enough.

The restaurants were preparing for lunch; the mood was relaxed and happy. And nobody — yes, nobody — was wearing a mask.”

Much more follows…

https://mol.im/a/8652523

Every time these new vaccines are mentioned I get an image of Will Smith in Legend and say "Hell No"