Coronavirus

I’m putting my money on mtb in a cage match though.

Yes you would
No one likes seeing me mean

it’s not pleasant

You’d lose
Hell if you and Chinacat fit in the cage with him
You’d lose

I bet Tony would stick dat cigar in his opponent’s eye before da ref says go... cellfish...

There’s no way in hell im wasting a 20.00 cigar
On three guys Whom I wouldn’t give a nickle to for

and I’d wait for the bell , maybe even give them a few seconds head start
Snowflakes ain’t shit

Too funny

[URL unfurl="true"]https://us.yahoo.com/news/doctors-calling-quits-under-stress-193342087.html[/URL]

Too funny

we could do a pay per view...if Tony would put down his cigar and meatball hero for a few minutes.....20 dollar cigars??? bs the last time i saw him he had a stogie with a band that said "it's a boy"

Here's something for folks that like cruising on those mega, floating city, cruise ships and have always wanted to be a lab rat...

[HEADING=2]The Latest: Cruise lines seeking volunteers for CDC-ordered ‘test’ voyages[/HEADING]
[pressherald.com/2020/11/16/the-latest-amid-surge-new-jersey-slashes-gathering-limits/]('https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/16/the-latest-amid-surge-new-jersey-slashes-gathering-limits/')

November 16, 2020

Tens of thousands of cruise enthusiasts have offered to volunteer for “test voyages” that the cruise lines have been ordered to run before they’ll be allowed to resume operations out of United States ports.

And while cruise lines are so far keeping mum about what the actual test cruises will entail, requirements by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control suggest they’re not intended to be fun days at sea.

Still, responses so far show many sea-starved cruise fans are desperate to escape dry land.

Kelli Holder Guffey, one of the fans posting on Royal Caribbean’s volunteer Facebook page, Volunteers of the Seas, said she’d be “happy to be a test cruiser and docking there for a few days. Anything anything on a ship will make me happy.”

More than 100,000 people have clicked a sign-up link posted by Royal Caribbean International last week seeking volunteers for “simulated trial sailings” that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says are necessary to perfect their COVID-19 prevention measures.

Volunteers likely won’t be lounging all day on the Lido decks if chosen. A 40-page framework outlining what cruise lines must do to get back in operation requires the simulations to include run-throughs of check-ins, evacuation procedures, on-board activities, including at dining and entertainment venues, evacuation procedures, transfer of symptomatic passengers and crew members from cabin rooms to isolation rooms, quarantining of all remaining passengers and non-essential crew members, plus lab tests of all passengers before getting on and after getting off the ships.

*And while cruise lines are so far keeping mum about what the actual test cruises will entail, requirements by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control suggest they’re not intended to be fun days at sea.

*

Oh Canada!!

[HEADING=2]I Am Living in a Covid-Free World Just a Few Hundred Miles From Manhattan[/HEADING]
Welcome to Nova Scotia, the land that proves that beating back the virus is possible.
By Stephanie Nolen
Photographs by [Paul Atwood]('http://paulatwood.net/')
Ms. Nolen is a journalist.
[LIST]
[*]Nov. 18, 2020

[/LIST]
HALIFAX, Canada — This morning, my children went to school — school, in an old brick building, where they lined up to go in the scuffed front doors. I went to work out at the gym, the real gym, where I huffed and puffed in a sweaty group class. And a few days ago, my partner and I hosted a dinner party, gathering eight friends around the dining room table for a boisterous night that went too late. Remember those?

Where I’m living, we gather without fear. Life is unfolding much as it did a year ago. This magical, virus-free world is just one long day’s drive away from the Empire State Building — in a parallel dimension called Nova Scotia.

This is one of the four Atlantic provinces that cling to the coast of Canada, north and east of Maine. In Canada, these are typically known as “have-not provinces,” economically depressed areas dependent on cash transfers from wealthier provinces to the West.

In the pandemic era, however, “have not” takes on new meaning.

Our coronavirus lockdown began swiftly in March and was all-encompassing. The provincial borders were slammed shut. In Nova Scotia, even public hiking trails were closed, a big deal for a population used to the freedom to head into the wilderness at will. But the lockdown worked, and we released our collectively held breath as new case numbers dropped to the single digits. Restrictions eased in May and lifted in June; in early July, the Atlantic provinces “bubbled” together, allowing free travel among them — but maintaining a strict quarantine rule for anyone who came from outside. And the border to the south, the one with the United States, has remained firmly closed.

The horrific pandemic news from south of the border feels like a looming shadow these days. The numbers coming from the United States are almost ungraspable: 120,000, 140,000, 180,000 new cases a day. When I talk to friends there, they are locked up in their houses, trying to work with the kids running through the room, or, increasingly often, sick or recovering from Covid-19. Case counts are also climbing in other parts of Canada. My brother and his family in Montreal are [once again in lockdown]('https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/world/canada/coronavirus-quebec-ontario-lockdowns.html'). The pictures I post in our group chat, of slumber parties and speedskating races, are a surreal contrast to their circumscribed days.

The pandemic has changed the way people live, here, too. We stand six feet apart in the line at the grocery store. There is plexiglass around the cashier at Starbucks. I had to keep my dinner party guest list to 10 people in total. Nova Scotia has required everyone to wear a mask in any indoor public space, including upper grade schools, since July. But that seems normal, by now, just one more thing in the morning: got your homework, got your lunch, got your mask? I can go days without the virus really intruding on my life.

And word has gotten out: The Halifax [real-estate market]('https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/peter-simpson-covid-19-boosts-provinces-housing-market-511979/') is frenzied this fall. Our small, pretty city has relatively affordable housing, beaches and wooded parks. But historically a lack of jobs kept ambitious people away. Now that so many of us work from the kitchen table, the pokey economy matters much less — and Torontonians are fleeing the big city, and the virus, for a charmed life in the bubble.

Geography and demographics have helped Atlantic Canada establish this alternate universe. The population is small, about 2.5 million people across the region, none of it too densely populated. Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island are, well, islands, which makes border control easier. Only one province in this bubble has a land border with the United States, and only one an active border with Quebec, the hardest-hit province. The Halifax airport is the largest in the region, and it was receiving only about a dozen international flights each day when the pandemic began. There are none now. We’re a very small New Zealand.

When I asked Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s avuncular public health chief, what he thought allowed us to maintain this level of normality, he added another ingredient to my list: Public health officials, not politicians, set the policy here about what opens. And people (mostly) follow the rules on closures and gatherings and masks. “The message has been that we need to do it to keep each other safe,” he told me. ”I think there’s something about our culture, our collective ethic, if you will, that means people accept that.”

The pandemic has caused real pain in this region: the economy, heavily dependent on tourism, has regained only about 80 percent of the jobs that were lost in April, and won’t fully recover with the borders closed. This morning I saw another small business in my neighborhood with a closing-down notice taped to a shuttered window. Eviction rates are climbing. Residents of long-term care homes can have only limited visitors. If we leave the region, we have to spend two weeks in quarantine when we come back, and that can make a person feel trapped.

We argue all the time about what level of isolation and restriction are appropriate; but we have a sense here in Halifax of what has kept us safe and we know that those things are deeply controversial in the United States: public health care; public media; a social safety net. It’s baffling to watch the epidemic in the United States spin wildly out of control, knowing it could easily be different. We know that it could, because we’re living it.

At my dinner party last week, my friends and I raised a glass to our good fortune, and to Dr. Strang. Our freedom feels precious and fragile. It has not come cheap. But it’s a steadying thing, the knowledge that we will make hard choices for each other, and that sometimes when we do, the reward is a life we recognize.

Stephanie Nolen is a journalist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

we could do a pay per view...if Tony would put down his cigar and meatball hero for a few minutes.....20 dollar cigars??? bs the last time i saw him he had a stogie with a band that said "it's a boy"

Now we can add lying to your list of snowflake flaws

I don’t do carbs so the hero’s out
And rarely smoke anything other than padron exclusivo maduro
And the occasional partagas d robusto

Ok parents, time to scramble!

***Big Apple parents should brace themselves for New York City public [schools to close]('https://nypost.com/2020/11/13/richard-carranza-warns-principals-to-prepare-for-nyc-schools-shutdown/') for in-person learning as early as Monday [amid a spike in coronavirus infections]('https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/de-blasio-says-nyc-dangerously-close-to-second-covid-19-wave/'), Mayor Bill de Blasio warned Friday.

Hizzoner suggested that parents “have a plan for the rest of the month of November” in the event that in-person learning shutters and all students must switch to remote learning.***

“I think that’s the safe way to think about it. Have an alternative plan, beginning as early as Monday, for whatever will help get through this month if school is not open,” he said.

So it was postponed for a few days

[HEADING=2][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-city-schools-close-again-193129191.html[/URL][/HEADING]

I got a message saying the schools are beginning to close tomorrow

He threatened Monday originally, now it's tomorrow for sure.

Oh Canada!!

[HEADING=2]I Am Living in a Covid-Free World Just a Few Hundred Miles From Manhattan[/HEADING]
Welcome to Nova Scotia, the land that proves that beating back the virus is possible.
By Stephanie Nolen
Photographs by [Paul Atwood]('http://paulatwood.net/')
Ms. Nolen is a journalist.
[LIST]
[*]Nov. 18, 2020

[/LIST]
HALIFAX, Canada — This morning, my children went to school — school, in an old brick building, where they lined up to go in the scuffed front doors. I went to work out at the gym, the real gym, where I huffed and puffed in a sweaty group class. And a few days ago, my partner and I hosted a dinner party, gathering eight friends around the dining room table for a boisterous night that went too late. Remember those?

Where I’m living, we gather without fear. Life is unfolding much as it did a year ago. This magical, virus-free world is just one long day’s drive away from the Empire State Building — in a parallel dimension called Nova Scotia.

This is one of the four Atlantic provinces that cling to the coast of Canada, north and east of Maine. In Canada, these are typically known as “have-not provinces,” economically depressed areas dependent on cash transfers from wealthier provinces to the West.

In the pandemic era, however, “have not” takes on new meaning.

Our coronavirus lockdown began swiftly in March and was all-encompassing. The provincial borders were slammed shut. In Nova Scotia, even public hiking trails were closed, a big deal for a population used to the freedom to head into the wilderness at will. But the lockdown worked, and we released our collectively held breath as new case numbers dropped to the single digits. Restrictions eased in May and lifted in June; in early July, the Atlantic provinces “bubbled” together, allowing free travel among them — but maintaining a strict quarantine rule for anyone who came from outside. And the border to the south, the one with the United States, has remained firmly closed.

The horrific pandemic news from south of the border feels like a looming shadow these days. The numbers coming from the United States are almost ungraspable: 120,000, 140,000, 180,000 new cases a day. When I talk to friends there, they are locked up in their houses, trying to work with the kids running through the room, or, increasingly often, sick or recovering from Covid-19. Case counts are also climbing in other parts of Canada. My brother and his family in Montreal are [once again in lockdown]('https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/world/canada/coronavirus-quebec-ontario-lockdowns.html'). The pictures I post in our group chat, of slumber parties and speedskating races, are a surreal contrast to their circumscribed days.

The pandemic has changed the way people live, here, too. We stand six feet apart in the line at the grocery store. There is plexiglass around the cashier at Starbucks. I had to keep my dinner party guest list to 10 people in total. Nova Scotia has required everyone to wear a mask in any indoor public space, including upper grade schools, since July. But that seems normal, by now, just one more thing in the morning: got your homework, got your lunch, got your mask? I can go days without the virus really intruding on my life.

And word has gotten out: The Halifax [real-estate market]('https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/peter-simpson-covid-19-boosts-provinces-housing-market-511979/') is frenzied this fall. Our small, pretty city has relatively affordable housing, beaches and wooded parks. But historically a lack of jobs kept ambitious people away. Now that so many of us work from the kitchen table, the pokey economy matters much less — and Torontonians are fleeing the big city, and the virus, for a charmed life in the bubble.

Geography and demographics have helped Atlantic Canada establish this alternate universe. The population is small, about 2.5 million people across the region, none of it too densely populated. Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island are, well, islands, which makes border control easier. Only one province in this bubble has a land border with the United States, and only one an active border with Quebec, the hardest-hit province. The Halifax airport is the largest in the region, and it was receiving only about a dozen international flights each day when the pandemic began. There are none now. We’re a very small New Zealand.

When I asked Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s avuncular public health chief, what he thought allowed us to maintain this level of normality, he added another ingredient to my list: Public health officials, not politicians, set the policy here about what opens. And people (mostly) follow the rules on closures and gatherings and masks. “The message has been that we need to do it to keep each other safe,” he told me. ”I think there’s something about our culture, our collective ethic, if you will, that means people accept that.”

The pandemic has caused real pain in this region: the economy, heavily dependent on tourism, has regained only about 80 percent of the jobs that were lost in April, and won’t fully recover with the borders closed. This morning I saw another small business in my neighborhood with a closing-down notice taped to a shuttered window. Eviction rates are climbing. Residents of long-term care homes can have only limited visitors. If we leave the region, we have to spend two weeks in quarantine when we come back, and that can make a person feel trapped.

We argue all the time about what level of isolation and restriction are appropriate; but we have a sense here in Halifax of what has kept us safe and we know that those things are deeply controversial in the United States: public health care; public media; a social safety net. It’s baffling to watch the epidemic in the United States spin wildly out of control, knowing it could easily be different. We know that it could, because we’re living it.

At my dinner party last week, my friends and I raised a glass to our good fortune, and to Dr. Strang. Our freedom feels precious and fragile. It has not come cheap. But it’s a steadying thing, the knowledge that we will make hard choices for each other, and that sometimes when we do, the reward is a life we recognize.

Stephanie Nolen is a journalist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I’m moving to Oak Island.

The US reached 250,000 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, data shows.

America has recorded the most coronavirus fatalities in the world, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the global coronavirus death toll, according to Johns Hopkins University.

With cases climbing during a second wave, experts have warned that the country is on course to lose more than 511,000 lives from the virus by the end of February, [the Guardian reported]('https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/coronavirus-half-a-million-deaths-study-forecasts').

This suggests that the death toll could double in the next four months.
While the US has the highest death toll, it is 12th in per-capita deaths. Belgium has the highest COVID-19 death rate, with 1,292 deaths per million people, while Peru is second with 1,084, [according to data from Statista]('https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/'). The US is currently seeing a death rate of 754 per million, the data shows.

The US has recorded more than 11 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins.

most everyone I see walking da city streets & subways are adhering to the mask thing, so where’s da problem coming from... ? cellie...
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You went full Godwin.