Ocean City, Maryland boardwalk on Saturday 5/23

[iluvtennis]

D. Earl Stephens@EarlOfEnough·2h
G'night, Twitter. This picture of Ocean City, Maryland today just guts me.

This is one dumb-shit country.

Link to tweet

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This is so DISTURBING. They are the GERM SPREADERs laying the foundation for the next onslaught of CV-19.

[sfstaxprep]

1. This Is One Dumb-Shit Country

He says all that needs to be said.

[iluvtennis]

2. Yes, indeed. nt

[R02091201]

3. State and local authorities need to make and ENFORCE rules on these places. If not, it's on THEM.

[LizBeth]

4. We will see what happens by the end of the month. I am staying in. I am sure bosses will

want me to go back to work in a week or two, so this will be an indicator for that.

[elleng]

5. People are people,

and we 'limp' along without leadership.

Was very warm Saturday; cooling down tomorrow/today, so crowds will likely be smaller, similar Monday.

[BigmanPigman]

6. And I will not feel sorry if any one of them

gets Covid and goes bankrupt (unless they are one of the few wearing a mask that is). I feel sorry for the people who they will infect.

[BComplex]

7. Those are mostly rednecks, republicans, and people who think they're above it all.

Many of them are going to be dying before the year is over. Many of them will watch a family member die because of this little outing. The ones wearing masks will likely be ok if this is all they do.

I really believe most democrats (and ALL of the democrats I know personally) are staying indoors as much as possible, always wearing a mask, and often gloves and/or hand sanitizer or sani-wipes. They're NOT going out into crowds.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Remember.. "Stupidity ought to be painful" ??

It soon will be.

Was just reflecting on that picture. I grew up in proximity with my G'Ma, and thru her, of course, my own mother.
G'Ma raised 8 kids, all but the last one during the depression.Tough woman.
One of the traits she couldn't stand, and this was passed right on down the family line, was stupidity.
Not book learning stupid, but common sense stupid. You could do the occasional stupid thing, like when my uncle was lake fishing with dynamite and blew up his boat,....alcohol was very much involved..
"damn fool ought to know better"

but to do the kind of stupid that most people should know better, esp. sober people, like the pic above, would have her for hours above "god gave a goose more sense", and "what the hells the matter with people, I swear they get dumber every year, don't they have even a little common sense....etc etc"
that sometimes spoiled over to anyone who had voted "wrong".

I can just feel her rotating furiously in her grave.

[iluvtennis]

18. Your grandma was spot on - they have no common sense. I love

Sitting and chatting with older people and would have been honored to met your grandma.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. Just saw this on the Lol cat page....she would have loved it.

[iluvtennis]

28. LOL. :-)

[shanti]

24. It is supposed to be painful.

'A hard head makes a soft behind.' I learned that lesson personally.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. That's a new phrase to me

but easily understood.

[Talitha]

9. I hate to play the Devil's Advocate here, BUT - - -

This damned virus will have its way with all of us, globally.

Sad to say, none of us will go unscathed before this thing simmers down.

I haven't got it 'yet' but fully expect to within the next 2 years.

Fasten your seat belts kids, we're in for a bumpy ride.

[tanyev]

12. Yes, but a competent federal government would have used the down time

to work on strategies to cope with it over the long haul before opening back up. We're opening up now and very little has changed. Mask wearing is more prevalent than it was before the shutdown. Hopefully that will last, it might not. The level of testing and tracing needed to safely open up is completely absent.

[uponit7771]

15. +1, along with an attractive and effective quarantine process. Trump just wasted all the shelter

... in place time with stupid press conferences and in the end said testing makes cases show up.

Trump is like the best attack on America anyone could dream of

[iluvtennis]

19. + 2

[uponit7771]

13. No, this is wrong information. We can have a federated TTQ and not get it at all Its not inevitable

... if we can get federal government leadership that can wipe themselves properly.

A properly federated TTQ will allow people to go about with low enough numbers until a true effective vaccine comes.

[iluvtennis]

20. + agree.... like South Korea and China. nt

[uponit7771]

21. 👍

[Garion_55]

10. and probably 2+ more weeks of this.

spread spread spread...all is good...bars...eating...gathering...worshiping......o shit not feeling very well...o shit call 911....o shit nana is on a vent.....o shit nana is dead


quick everyone inside!!!

why didnt anyone tell us there was a deadly virus going around??????????

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. This is OK with me, frankly.

Link to tweet

5 or 6 are wearing masks in that picture, but I have gotten too far past trying to concern myself whether Americans are smart enough to save themselves.

They aren't, by and large. Or at least a huge number of them aren't, that's for sure.

I tell every sympathetic ear I can that this is far from over, and that complacency will be deadly for another half million Americans, at LEAST.

There was a Loves Truck Stop I went into the other day that had signs on the door declaring that the county REQUIRED the wearing of masks to enter, and they were enforcing that.

How many of the 10 or so customers in that store were wearing masks, do you think?

If you guessed 6 or more, you would be wrong. So they weren't really enforcing it at all! Another truck stop I visited in West Texas pulled the "Social Distancing" stickers off the floor last week!

If you can not see it out your front door, it isn't happening, seems to have become the mindset. No one I know has died, so fuckit.

You have to love the defensive position "WELL! NOW they're saying that you don't have to...or You Can't catch it if.........blah blah blah, as if evolving scientific opinion on particular aspects of this means the scientists don't have any clue AT ALL!

I'm pretty sure I said this on a post in the last month or two, but when all is said and done, it will be over a half million dead from this, because too many Americans are fucking morons.

[iluvtennis]

22. If you can not see it out your front door, it isn't happening, seems to have become the mindset.

+++++ agree. And that’s so sad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. George Carlin grins, Darwin smiles, and Gaia keeps on fighting the cancer that is mankind. n/t

[Renew Deal]

14. I'm not worrying about this stuff

Everyone learns differently.

[Wounded Bear]

16. In MAGAT-speak, I think they call it "culling the herd"...

[Bantamfancier]

17. Still true today...

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

[iluvtennis]

23. Still true today. nt