If it wasn’t real for you yet

nolaegghead

GATraveller said:

ColbyLang said:

90 tests sent to lab yesterday in my town of 125,000. 2 positives already back. Cue the fear/panic in 3,2,1....

@ColbyLang Please give your location.... 

Lafayette, LA

ColbyLang

Lafayette La

YukonRon

Level 4 global travel advisory from the State department, telling all Americans to return home, or stay isolated where they are.

dmchicago

We have a work team text chain. About 12 of us in the Team Texas group.

It's for sharing successes, new intel on competitors, generally just pumping each other up.

Last night, after a flurry of positive messages about staying safe, this will pass, etc. one guy lets loose with, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I'm sorry if any of y'all are a liberal but it sucks that we have to deal with the phony crisis due to China teaming up with Joe Biden to create this virus so he can steal the election from Trump."

We're all 1099 ISO's so not much management can do but they did delete his post.

Oh, he's the Uncle of our National VP of Sales.

frazzdaddy

dmchicago said:

We have a work team text chain. About 12 of us in the Team Texas group.

It's for sharing successes, new intel on competitors, generally just pumping each other up.

Last night, after a flurry of positive messages about staying safe, this will pass, etc. one guy lets loose with, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I'm sorry if any of y'all are a liberal but it sucks that we have to deal with the phony crisis due to China teaming up with Joe Biden to create this virus so he can steal the election from Trump."

We're all 1099 ISO's so not much management can do but they did delete his post.

Oh, he's the Uncle of our National VP of Sales.

The stupid is strong out there.

nolaegghead

dmchicago said:

We have a work team text chain. About 12 of us in the Team Texas group.

It's for sharing successes, new intel on competitors, generally just pumping each other up.

Last night, after a flurry of positive messages about staying safe, this will pass, etc. one guy lets loose with, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I'm sorry if any of y'all are a liberal but it sucks that we have to deal with the phony crisis due to China teaming up with Joe Biden to create this virus so he can steal the election from Trump."

We're all 1099 ISO's so not much management can do but they did delete his post.

Oh, he's the Uncle of our National VP of Sales.

Good lord!

Legume

dmchicago said:

We have a work team text chain. About 12 of us in the Team Texas group.

It's for sharing successes, new intel on competitors, generally just pumping each other up.

Last night, after a flurry of positive messages about staying safe, this will pass, etc. one guy lets loose with, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I'm sorry if any of y'all are a liberal but it sucks that we have to deal with the phony crisis due to China teaming up with Joe Biden to create this virus so he can steal the election from Trump."

We're all 1099 ISO's so not much management can do but they did delete his post.

Oh, he's the Uncle of our National VP of Sales.

That is so completely wrong.  The Chinese were clearly working with Bernie to create a need for universal healthcare.

GATraveller

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

speed51133

One of my best friends is a very successful business man, engineer, real estate investor etc. All totally self-made.

He is convinced that this is essentially a global conspiracy for world governments to gain power and unite with common interests. Sort of the new world order. I know of countless others who also believe this is a real threat, but no more than seasonal flu and the media is trying to frame trump. When I ask who the rest of the PLANET is also tanking the world-wide economy just to eliminate Trump when worst case is he's gone in 4 more years, they don't have a solid response.

I am a very conservative political voter and even more so socially conservative. I am just dumbfounded at how people, some of which are successful, smart people and well educated, yet think so crazily. That said, I do believe there are those who will use ANY reason to blame Trump....

Maybe I am just crazy too....

caliking

dmchicago said:

...

Last night, after a flurry of positive messages about staying safe, this will pass, etc. one guy lets loose with, and I'm paraphrasing:

"I'm sorry if any of y'all are a liberal but it sucks that we have to deal with the phony crisis due to China teaming up with Joe Biden to create this virus so he can steal the election from Trump."

...

As they say in the South... bless his heart.

alaskanassasin

This is a fire drill for the big one

frazzdaddy

alaskanassasin said:

This is a fire drill for the big one

Said that to my wife last night.

DoubleEgger

Remember that morons are not all millennials.  

https://www.wafb.com/2020/03/18/baton-rouge-area-pastor-defies-governor-welcomes-large-gathering-into-church-service/

dmchicago

"The goverment is not a shipping clerk."

-President Trump responding to a question regarding the lack of supplies for medical professionals vs. his claim that millions of supplies are available.

YukonRon

speed51133 said:

I am a very conservative political voter and even more so socially conservative. I am just dumbfounded at how people, some of which are successful, smart people and well educated, yet think so crazily. That said, I do believe there are those who will use ANY reason to blame Trump....

Maybe I am just crazy too....

And those people who will use any reason to defend Trump, such as the "made up" democratic conspiracy using Covid19 as a plot to steal the election, you know, what he called "fake news" and "no threat" and "completely under control", up until a week ago, when the financial sector showed their faith in his leadership capabilities. Lest we forget, all the other instances, weekly, since becoming president.

Those people.

I am dumbfounded, too, on the people that has not seen through this man, and even after this, they still do not.


FYI, for those who care:

My soapbox is an empty case of Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend, 1945.

JohnInCarolina

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

g8golfer

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

So let me get this right. People are getting harassed for Trump calling it the Chinese Flu but yet on a daily basis you call ppl who support anything Trump does idiots? 

DoubleEgger

“If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not gonna let it stop me from partying,” Brady Sluder, who was visiting from Ohio, said in the CBS interview.
 
Visiting from Ohio.... No surprise there. FIFOs 

DoubleEgger

Truth 

JohnInCarolina

g8golfer said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

So let me get this right. People are getting harassed for Trump calling it the Chinese Flu but yet on a daily basis you call ppl who support anything Trump does idiots? 

If that's really how you reacted to my comment I don't know what to say and obviously can't help you anyways.  I was simply trying to get GATraveller to think about how this kind of thing impacts some of the more vulnerable people among us.  

For the record, there are things Trump has done that are worthy of support.  I don't think people who voice support for some of the things Trump does are idiots.  As for those who support *every thing* he or any other President does, well that's a different story, isn't it?

ColtsFan

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

My realtor is Chinese. She came here 10 years ago from Beijing. Spoke to her last week before this thing really took off. She was at the local farmers market with her kids. Walked up to a vendor and tried to buy produce. The guy literally backed away and wouldn't serve her.

Asinine!

Canugghead

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

Some Sikhs were harassed after 9/11.
By his royal highness' logic if coronavirus=chinese flu, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu=?

alaskanassasin

Rocky Mountain fever?

Canugghead

alaskanassasin said:

Rocky Mountain fever?

nay, Rocky Mountain is neither a race nor a country 

JohnInCarolina

Canugghead said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

Some Sikhs were harassed after 9/11.
By his royal highness' logic if coronavirus=chinese flu, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu=?

We had a Senator complaining the other day that MERS also started in China.  I just can’t anymore...

nolaegghead

Homo Sapiens started in Africa, so our president is African American?

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

Canugghead said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

Some Sikhs were harassed after 9/11.
By his royal highness' logic if coronavirus=chinese flu, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu=?

We had a Senator complaining the other day that MERS also started in China.  I just can’t anymore...

Everyone knows Middle Eastern Respitory Syndrome started in China.  Duh.

Canugghead

JohnInCarolina said:

Canugghead said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

Some Sikhs were harassed after 9/11.
By his royal highness' logic if coronavirus=chinese flu, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu=?

We had a Senator complaining the other day that MERS also started in China.  I just can’t anymore...

He is right,  China is in the ME, all you need is a sharpie.

dmchicago

lkapigian

Canugghead said:

JohnInCarolina said:

GATraveller said:

It is no longer PC to mention "Chinese" or "China" in the discussion of COVID-19.  Thank you for understanding.

So... I have a few PhD students who are Chinese.  I also oversee the PhD program here in Mechanical Engineering at Duke.  

Several of our Chinese PhD students has already been harassed in public.  We even have one Japanese student who was harassed.  

I think it's easy for those of us who perhaps look like "typical Americans" to think that referring to this as the "Chinese flu" is not a big deal.  But it is.  And it's not good.  

Some Sikhs were harassed after 9/11.
By his royal highness' logic if coronavirus=chinese flu, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu=?

Dickies BBQ?