COVID Surge Is Cutting Into Supply Of Oxygen Used To Purify Orlando’s Water | Talking Points Memo

After four days of irrigation austerity, the Orlando officials are urging residents to continue cutting back on watering their lawns and other nonessential water use — because of COVID-19. 


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As long as Disney World and Universal Orlando don’t need to cut back,…

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Boy…they could ask Disney World to close. I bet that would help quite a bit. Bet they wont, because who needs water? People need their mice!

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Orlando pumps liquid oxygen into its water supply??? I can imagine why but I know there are other ways to aerate water. They must be using the surface water method.

They ought to go to a natural system that involves underwater plants to oxygenate through photosynthesis; a lot cheaper in the long run.

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I’m sure there are other methods, but they’re using the oxygen to eliminate the sulfer smell from drinking water. (A lot of water systems in FL have this problem.)

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Do they really need to water anything in FLA? They get twice the water we do and I haven’t watered my yard in 30 years, it just makes for more mowing.

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In other COVID news….

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“It’s with a heavy heart and some genuine sadness, that REDCON1 has decided to discontinue any and all support for the Arnold Classic and the other Arnold related events around the world,” Singerman said.

“Anyone who says ‘screw your freedoms’ is un-American, and REDCON1 is a patriotic pro-freedom brand. We support freedom of choice. We don’t want Arnold censored or cancelled. We just can’t support his opinion with our dollars.

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There is a real shortage of truck drivers to deliver other gasses as well.

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but we’re censoring and cancelling him anyway.

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FaKE newS. The air IS FULL of oxygen!

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LOL! Not too Freudian…

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Perfect job openings for Beavis and Butthead, years of practice there.

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“Cancel Culture” is what lib’ruls do, so by definition a “patriotic pro-freedom” brand cannot be part of cancel culture, even as they withdraw their sponsorship based on what he said.

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Isn’t that called the Everglades?

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Let alone that the water itself has oxygen in it. By adding more oxygen molecules, the government is trying to further the poisoning of our bodily fluids that they started with fluoride.

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Reading their statement, it is easy to see a convenient misconstruing of Arnie’s intent. Now they can be the brand that stood up to Conan and (tried to) shame him.

And honestly, 15 years and “hundred’s of thousands” doesn’t sound that big of a deal. If they had said millions, now that might be something. Even if it added up to a million over 15 years, it is like 66 grand a year. Arnie can chip that in himself if need be.

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Really, they do that? In places down south and elsewhere in the past [long ago], it just seemed a normal thing that people said they got used to.

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raised the prospect of introducing a boil-water advisory if residents weren’t collectively able to cut back enough.

State government downplays masking, meh. State government lets 10s of thousands more die of covid-19 than should, meh. State government sends a SWAT team to silence a data analyst accurately reporting numbers, meh. State government forces kids back into schools unmasked during the delta variant outbreak, meh. State government sets up regeneron infusion centers with a profit motive rather than telling people to vax or die, meh.

But now they’ve gone and made the drinking water stinky.

“MARGE, WIPE DOWN THE GOLF CART! WE’RE GOING RIOTING!”

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I’m with them. Shouldn’t be diverting any oxygen that makes the water taste better to help save an anti-vaxxer.

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You may want to check out florida’s geology.

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