That’s harder than you think. Most of these guys have milquetoast jobs and retirements and are pretty non-distinguishable when they’re not indulging their inner walter mitty.
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Not too long ago, I saw a piece about findings from the WHO saying young people appear to be becoming one of the primary engines for the spread of covid (the Guardian, maybe.)
Apparently, the talk about their relative immunity to the disease’s more serious effects resulted in a widespread belief in the younger set effective immunity, which translated into more careless behaviors. The result is that more youths are being infected.
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Just when the country seems to have reverted to mean (not recovered) from the 4th of July parties.
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Yeah I’m ticked off at our neighbor. At least there’s a fence, thank heavens.
He also leaves his sprinklers set to go on and leaves town and it rains and they go on in the rain. That pisses me off too. Water is not endless. But you know - neighbors. hahaha Mainly he’s a nice guy and a good neighbor.
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Real men who don’t really like beer.
Group nonconformity.
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Seriously, I go to great lengths to conserve water. I collect rainwater for watering garden and other outside stuff. And I live in the land of water. But still, one should conserve as much as possible.
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Yeah I hear you I do. I’m very sensitive to the issue having spent a lot of time in the mountain west where water is in very short supply. And the supply in Texas is going down too.
I’ve threatened to turn him in when he ran those sprinklers in the rain during our last drought. If I can do it anonymously I will - but I don’t want to piss off my next door neighbor.
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Dallas code actually requires rain sensors that turn off the irrigation when it rains. Not that my sensor has ever worked all that well.
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Yeah we have them. I don’t know what the deal is with his sprinklers.
I’ve gone 100% xeriscape with a drip system.
It will be interesting to see how people approach Halloween Trick or Treating this year.
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Blame the AP for this one. This is the way it appears on dozens of news sites.
If you think about it for a second, that’s not a good sign at all. It means that either there’s more community spread from other sources, or the spread from the rally has already reached 2 or 3 levels out…
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Do the Hell’s Angels still own the “campground” just up the hill?
Very few bikers stay in Sturgis…
The college town nearby has good eats, may have to do some contact tracing, too.
The Spearfish medical clinics serve NE Wyoming…
If Sturgis is a hub, it’s not on a unicycle… there are lots of hubs
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I’m afraid you’re right. Our county, Umatilla(eastern Oregon), got busted back to baseline after a couple months in Phase 1(limited inside seating in restaurants, gyms and hair salons open)because of skyrocketing case numbers. We got mentioned as a national hotspot several times. Finally, last Friday, after 3 weeks of lockdown and 2 months of mandatory masks, the governor lifted the lockdown order and we were back to Phase 1. Not 4 hours after the announcement, neighbors threw a couple of the biggest parties with the loudest music I’ve ever heard in this quiet neighborhood. It went on 'til 1 am. So yeah, Labor Day will be a predictable disaster. Impossible to see this country surviving a World War II-level event now, you know, “I’m not turning my lights out, it’s my constitutional right to read all night if I want to,” “nobody’s going to tell me I can’t drive, I have rights,” etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum.
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I’ll put it on the (long) list of things I blame the AP for.
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On Fire Island?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
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Talk of Eastern Oregon always brings back memories of driving through Wagontire.
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Of course I paved you a nice broad road for that one.
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Had to run with it.
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