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He never did learn to not play with the black and white cats.

I'm not a religious man but, amen to that.

I was referring to my likely relocation, actually. Assuming it happens, I'll be a bit north of you. Commute was a bit of an exaggeration, but it wouldn't be a journey.

In a couple of months the journey to do this may be more like a commute....

I'll have an NS response to a skunk. Even a little one. I think it may be a Pavlovian reaction after spending over a decade giving the family pooch too frequent peroxide and tomato juice baths every Summer.

It's the journey, not the destination. I think you are on to something regarding the idea that those who have the most are most scared.

vs. no Aunt Ruth, no cousin Jimmy, no Daddy, no neighbor Carol. Some things are temporary and replaceable. Others, not so much.

@Neo I won't burden the thread with a full quote. We certainly have burgeoning evidence that strongly suggests the journey to the end with person's freely willing to assemble being quite less manageable than the journey to the end with person's minimizing risky behavior. Again, it's not inward risk. It is outward risk. Person's choosing to freely assemble are affecting the lives of person's who do not make that choice. I'll posit that a true libertarian would not freely assemble in this environment because a true libertarian would not pursue a course of action that has a fair degree of possibility that the results of their action would affect another negatively. Free assembly in this environment is NOT libertarian at all. I don't equate servers and grocery workers with a Georgetown professor. Only one of those has the ability to continue to earn a living in a way that doesn't put others at risk. Brenda and Sandy aren't angling to be heroic victims. They're just trying to make ends meet. Dr. Professor is making a choice. Brenda and Sandy aren't, really. Noone wants people to not work. Noone wants people to get sick either. Some have a choice. Some do not. I have genuine empathy for those that do not have a choice. I know many of them as well. I call many of them friends as well. And victims take many forms, some are economic and some are medical victims. They are all real victims. There is no need to create heroic victims. I've only read what you posted. I don't struggle with reading comprehension. I may struggle with insufficient information at times. It comes across as heroic victim to me.

Yes. To all of this post. Apparently I have struck a nerve. I''ve struggled with how I want to respond. I like and respect you and mean no ill will. You assumed Eleven's intentions were to keep "his people" healthy. The message was more simple than that, "keep as many as you can healthy". Rather than consider that maybe the response was more general in nature you've spent the ensuing weeks throwing tribalism and righteous around as thinly veiled slurs, all the while being self righteous yourself. Noone meant to insult or judge or disparage. It was all well meaning advice with society as a whole in mind that has lead to this eloquent, simmering perturbation. Regarding that article, or the portions of it you excerpted anyway...... my take is that professor, like so many others, are perceiving risk as an inward hazard, when it is really an outward hazard. The message that is trying to be sent is not "protect yourself". It is "protect others". I suppose you can make a case that his profession may be essential and therefore the risk may be justifiable, but I'm not convinced given the ability to perform his functions remotely. He's portraying his plight as that of a heroic victim. The idea is to prevent him from turning his students into heroic victims.

Super Frolik? Were we his kryptonite?

I wonder if they were rational and without tribalism or righteousness?

Tin knocker. There is a word I haven’t heard in ages.

Changed one letter to reflect my thoughts. Hockey has its own risks, let alone adding the risks associated with a pandemic to them.

Ogre, I think you are misinterpreting Eleven here. He's not defending what Europeans did to the natives in NA. He's comparing it to what else has happened in history and saying, sometimes it has been alot worse for those natives. Nowhere does he say NA natives should accept what happened to them. In fact, he's said flat out that that they've been mistreated and marginalized. And of course, he's referring to those that actually survived the conquerors. I don't know my history well enough to know whether Eleven's depiction is accurate, but I do know that his intent was only to compare one bad invader to others in history, not to rationalize that NA natives got it easy. Although I can definitely see where it could be interpreted that way. I know Eleven well enough in real life to know he's definitely not cut that way.

That was an actual fan post. I'd encourage more of those, not dissuade them.

This is relevant to my interests. May I, sir, subscribe to this newsletter?

Never been. I’ll have to give them a try.

My wife and I got caught in the mother of all downpours coming out of the grocery store. And of course we were parked in the back of the lot. Soaked down to our underwear. It was so ridiculous that both of us were laughing while loading groceries into the car.

Yeah, as said already, the death rate is only a fraction of the story. The long term issues look alot worse than what influenza is capable of. We need that rate as well.

Howinthehell did I forget about Lanny McDonald?

It had to be a bear. Have you ever seen a green wolf?

Won’t be there this Sunday. Family stuff. Next Sunday is in play though. Very familiar with Abandon. Its another favorite.

Wait.... that's a thing? Oh my.

Who's from SA?

I tend to gravitate towards breweries based on crowd, rather than the beers themselves, although quality of the beer does determine the frequency of my return. I go for the smaller, quieter places. The more out of the way, the better. The two I hit most often lately are Silver Lake Brewing and Dublin Corners Brewing. Dublin Corners is in the middle of nowhere. We usually go on Sunday afternoons. I can usually count the number of patrons on the fingers on one hand on Sundays, and that's a pretty big motivator for me. Especially now with COVID solidly in place. If any of you ever find your way down to Chautauqua Lake, Big Inlet Brewing just outside of Mayville is making some damned nice beers.