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@Helen – Glad to see you back, and hope you feel a bit better about everything now. And UGH. I know. I am fed up with people acting like racism is over. Do they not realize that a lot of the people who were raised with Jim Crow and were OK with it/agreed with it are still kicking? That wasn’t that long ago. The people pouring milkshakes on the heads of people at counter sit ins are probably still alive. A lot of the people protesting/screaming at students trying to go to “white schools” during integration are still alive.

I’m also worried that we won’t get a vaccine for this. I figure we’ll just have to keep distancing, and if people would wear masks that would help. I read about an anti-mask league that existed during the Spanish flu, and I don’t know if it made me feel better or worse that people haven’t gotten any smarter in the last 100 years. It really doesn’t cost you anything to wear a mask (other than the one time investment in a mask/masks) if you’re going to be close to other people.

@Cleopatra_30, my mom is also not socially distancing the way she should and it’s driving me crazy since she has heart issues, recently had radiation, and goes to visit my 97 year old grandmother(though stays distanced from her, thankfully). I think people are just wanting to be social so badly now, but my mom also wasn’t distancing even in the beginning (or my dad, really).

Yeaah… this week felt a little meh. I know I have it better than most though, so I’ll just keep trying to crush these feelings in my mind vice. Also just trying to brainstorm if there is a way to get out of the US once the pandemic calms down (if ever, at this point). It just feels like everything is wrong here, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it.

I read an article by the author of “America: The Farewell Tour” by Chris Hedges about how we’re a crumbling empire, and now I just want to leave. I have read some people find him extremist/alarmist and such, but he wrote a book in 2007 about the far right (“American Fascists”), so I’m kind of like “Well, he wasn’t wrong about that.”

I’m waiting for America: The Farewell Tour digital copy from the library, but don’t know how much I want to read it and feel depressed right now. But I also want to see what it has to say.

Anyway!

@BGM, I love the cactus flowers! I am usually more of a woods/forest person, but it does look gorgeous out there.

Sorry to sound so pessimistic through this post!I hope everyone is OK out there.

Helen, Marietta is so cute! I love the square, the Strand, the little restaurants and knick knack stores, etc.I can see how you’d miss it. I mean I miss it! How far are you from there now?

And it’s hard to not see loved ones right now, and it’s especially scary when you have someone with an underlying condition, especially since your mom’s is lung related. I’m worried enough about my mom too, since she has heart valve issues, and had radiation this fall and we’re still waiting to see if she can make it to remission. It sounds like your mom is hopefully social distancing? I dropped masks off at my parents’ house since they insist on going out more than necessary, and had to beg them from afar in the yard to STOP going places. You don’t need to go to the store every other day. You don’t need to go pick up used furniture for a friend in the truck from an internet stranger right now. Just stop! And I can’t believe Covid has held onto you for six damn weeks. That sounds just awful.

And they really do. To quote the Boondocks “Ronald Reagan was the devil.” But Republicans loooooove him so much.

That coin is so hideous, but you know some people are going to buy it just because they love Trump. I love the CAPITALIZATION on certain parts of the COIN! It makes it so CLASSY!

Helen, I’m in Atlanta! Though grew up closer to Marietta area (I saw you mention the square a while back in this thread and got excited). It has gotten crazy expensive here, and the only reason I’m not struggling to pay bills is my boyfriend bought a place 6-7 years ago so we haven’t suffered from the rising rent prices.

And yes. If they want to pick and choose science, take away all their science LisforLeslie! They lost their science privileges.

Trump definitely has some sort of neurodegenerative disease. I have a friend who works at a brain trauma center, and one of the neurologists there actually wrote an article supporting that hypothesis. Another gem of an article I once saw said that French translators have a really hard time translating anything he says, because he isn’t actually saying anything coherent or with a real meaning.

Hope everyone on here who has been sick is feeling better!

I have a friend who works for Zifty, and she says that basically no one tips. If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t actually afford delivery/take out/dining out.

Living in GA, the only thing I can tell myself to feel better is that at least we’re not Alabama, but Helen’s right that we’re really basically at the same level of asshattery. We just have a bigger oasis than Alabama because we have Atlanta. Kemp is really going for it right now, though.

LisforLeslie, I did love seeing Trump throw him under the bus, though watching Trump supporters (who are also Kemp supporters, typically) trying to do the mental gymnastics required to support both of them has been fun. Especially because I feel like Kemp thought he was going to be given a nice pat on the head by Trump for this nonsense. Hopefully that reaction does cause other governors to hesitate before reopening.

At least two of the counties that make up Atlanta (Fulton and Dekalb) are supposed to have the CDC going around and doing antibody testing to see how far Covid has spread… but we’re just nowhere near ready to open. The whole thing makes me want to pack my bags and move somewhere that believes in science.

Anyway!

Helen, I’m also in Georgia and I’m so pissed at Kemp. This is all a ploy to get 1099 people off of unemployment, as far as i’m concerned. I read that if restaurants/salons/etc. choose not to open, the burden of unemployment then falls to the business to pay. If that’s true, it’s going to screw them over completely.

This whole thing makes me want to pack up and move somewhere that’s not run by a heartless moron who ran his own election. I’m probably going to have to go back to work soon (i work for the county in a public-facing job and have gotten emails hinting as much) and this idiot is going to get people killed.

Ugh. End rant.

As someone currently job hunting, that comment would be really off putting to me… He just sounds insensitive.

(On another note, I went on a second date Sunday night with someone from Match -my first internet dating experience so far- and it was actually really good. Our first date was a little awkward, but this one was more comfortable. And! We both recently got out of long term relationships and want to keep it casual, but it’s nice to know there are intelligent, funny guys out there and they didn’t all disappear while I was with my ex. We had drinks, crashed an art studio party (by accident), played Jenga over dinner, and made out…and it ruled. After being with someone with a low sex drive for a long time, I’m like “this is on like Donkey Kong.”)