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[McTraveller]

My mother-in-law is the opposite.  She wants to go shopping.  And she is over 70, has emphysema and known lung issues. She says "if it's my time to go, it's my time to go."

Different people have different world views, that is sure.

[Iduno]

Gun shop owners see sales 3 times as high as on black friday. Ammo shelves are emptying.

All countries have strange cultural traditions that may seem unhealthy from a distance. For the USA it's widespread gun ownership, and very high gun-related dead counts, for other countries it is eating pangolins. Both may be difficult to change, but we can hope people will try.

"...from my cold, dead hands. Probably next week, based on my decision-making abilities and those of the people around me."

[martinuzz]

Our dutch minister of Medical Care has resigned.
Wednesday he fainted during a debate in parliament, albeit only for a few seconds.
He blamed it on tiredness and lack of sleep and said he'd be fine.
But now he resigned after all. It is unknown why.
Perhaps he had a brain aneurism, or maybe going without sleep for 3 weeks since the corona shit hit the fan has given him a burnout.

EDIT: okay, he resigned because of exhaustion, he needs to rest for a few weeks.

[coalboat]

for other countries it is eating pangolins.

Actually the equivalence is not eating bushmeat, but is censoring information. The Chinese government believes that non-freedom of speech is an integral part of the nation, as much as The US government does gun ownership.

[Frumple]

Ah, mea culpa on assuming it was probably some obscure racial jab then, we get kinda overloaded with it here so rather than jump to corvid from coronavirus disease 2019 I'm like "wtf, is this some shit where people from one arbitrary part of the world said they were hawks and their chosen 'other' group from an arbitrarily nearby but slightly different part of the world were crows" instantly.

Yeah, it's literally just a corruption of covid into corvid which = crows. It's not exactly fair to crows, like, at all, but it's also the snappiest designation for the disease I've seen so far, involves less non-words than covid (and is less than a pain in the ass to type on a tablet than covid-19 or CoV-SARS-2 or whatever the hell it is), and has less genocide flavor than boomer remover or stuff in that direction. Crow plague rolls off the tongue well, and that's about all that's behind that.

Unless some jackasses somewhere have coopted it to mean something shitty, I guess. Until I hear word of otherwise I'm sticking with crow plague mostly 'cause I like typing it best, and little pleasures are how you weather disasters relatively sane.

[nenjin]

As an American I'm waiting for the first news story about someone getting shot in a grocery store over a package of chips, because some people have already convinced themselves this is the apocalypse and it's now eat or be eaten.

[TamerVirus]

Some guy got stabbed with a broken wine bottle in a Georgia Costco a week ago.
They were fight over bottled water

[mko]

She also thinks this pandemic will "wipe out everybody"

Dammit, why people have two state mind? "nothing happening" or "we will all die". The same as with global warming, both are completely idiotic.

[scriver]

Ah, mea culpa on assuming it was probably some obscure racial jab then, we get kinda overloaded with it here so rather than jump to corvid from coronavirus disease 2019 I'm like "wtf, is this some shit where people from one arbitrary part of the world said they were hawks and their chosen 'other' group from an arbitrarily nearby but slightly different part of the world were crows" instantly.

Yeah, it's literally just a corruption of covid into corvid which = crows. It's not exactly fair to crows, like, at all, but it's also the snappiest designation for the disease I've seen so far, involves less non-words than covid (and is less than a pain in the ass to type on a tablet than covid-19 or CoV-SARS-2 or whatever the hell it is), and has less genocide flavor than boomer remover or stuff in that direction. Crow plague rolls off the tongue well, and that's about all that's behind that.

Raven Flu is better

[McTraveller]

Raven Flu is better

"Nevermore"

[ChairmanPoo]

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[Kagus]

Aw man, who got the double decker coffin?

[Greiger]

Mom is self quarantining after her doctor told her to.  Since I partially take care of her and she can't quarantine if I'm not.  I called into work and told my boss I had to quarantine, boss refused to allow it.  I responded by taking one last trip out of the house to hand over my store keys and uniform.

I guess I'm unemployed now, yay?

[Naturegirl1999]

Mom is self quarantining after her doctor told her to.  Since I partially take care of her and she can't quarantine if I'm not.  I called into work and told my boss I had to quarantine, boss refused to allow it.  I responded by taking one last trip out of the house to hand over my store keys and uniform.

I guess I'm unemployed now, yay?

your boss is an ass

[Doomblade187]

Mom is self quarantining after her doctor told her to.  Since I partially take care of her and she can't quarantine if I'm not.  I called into work and told my boss I had to quarantine, boss refused to allow it.  I responded by taking one last trip out of the house to hand over my store keys and uniform.

I guess I'm unemployed now, yay?

your boss is an ass

Yeah, that's a case of your boss being an ass. Make sure that you can get confirmation that you're fired, so you can collect assistance as needed.