Maybe Spring Breakers in Florida can have wet t-shirt contests where they hose them down with rubbing alchohol?
Seems like he was on to something there…
Andrew Aitken Rooney (January 14, 1919 - November 4, 2011)
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That, and that the “common good” is for wimps…
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Donnie, why are more dogs and cats being tested than American citizens?
Vet diagnostic company IDEXX IDXX, -0.637% said thousands of dogs and cats have been tested for Covid-19, and so far, none have tested positive for the virus.
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So if you visit your doctor with an illness and he prescribes you life-saving medication, who’s the winner and who’s the loser in that scenario?
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No no no. The issue is not that THEY are going to get sick, it is that they are going to come home and get their parents sick or kill their grandparents or their younger sibling with severe asthma will wind up on a respirator.
As the parent of a kid who finished his middle-school soccer career last fall, Um.
Kids are germ mixers. It’s what they do.
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Actually, the young can get sick from this virus. That information has been revised.
But yes, they can bring it home to grandma as carriers for the virus…but again, unless they actually care about grandma or their younger sibs with asthma, or they can be reasonably shamed with their still developing conscience into not acting like buttheads in mind, they’re gonna practice being teenagers first, because that’s who they are.
Sadly, there’s a much larger supply of spring breakers than rubbing alcohol. Good luck finding any of the latter…
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and these are the people he wants to give ‘free’ college to? a total waste…someone should tell them the TITANIC is docked at PIER 27…and is about to sail…all their friends are going…
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its the ‘trophy’ generation.
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That’s fine. If the situation is so dire then they should have to suffer actual penalties if they negligently infect another person. So to start, no entrance to university. Second, criminal fines. third, mobile device forfeiture. I get that kids are selfish, but you wonder why they give a shite about global warming then.
If we are gonna be locked inside for the foreseeable future, shooting a few teens for breaking curfew seems a relatively small price to pay.*
*Partly in jest. My kids are not teenagers yet, but I’d like to live long enough to see how awful they are gonna be.
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Rachel Busman, a child and adolescent psychologist with the Child Mind Institute in New York, said the still-developing adolescent brain can exhibit
thoseTrumpian traits and more, only nowteensman-babies with thoughts of invincibility can potentially do real harm to themselves and others.
I’m here because of countless miracles. They occurred most frequently between the ages of 15 and 25.
Soccer actually is kind of a contact sport.
My son is right no en route to a soccer practice where they’re going to focus on passing rather than scrimmage. If you’re actually playing, there’s a pretty good chance you’re going to be all over other players.
I suspect he’d say “the doctor” as he’s the one making a profit. He’s not entirely a Trumper, and his view of the world is coloured by a bad divorce after a marriage he let go on far too long, but on the flip side, his son is still struggling to find a path forward, so he keeps helping him out and he actually gave one of the son’s girlfriends a place to stay for a while, urging her back into community college and loaning her a car so she could get to classes.
I know deep down he’s one of us, just hurt badly so hiding behind “his wall”. I’m not sure how many others of Donnie’s folks I could say the same of, but I actually have hope that a lot of folks are about to learn a positive lesson when they see the value of all pulling together. We’re checking in on our older neighbors, one of them just left a big bag of tangerines at our front door to help feed the now six folks in our house (father, mother, two kids and one friend for each kid who are basically refugees trapped away from their home base by how quickly things have morphed).
It’s also important to be reaching out. We’re checking in with a couple of nieces every day or two (one of whom is symptomatic and awaiting test results, the other who is a single mother who just retired as an Army medic now in nursing school who’s been thrown into the world of online learning as her classes went digital) and in daily contact with all the siblings scattered around the world. Similar stories of empty toilet paper aisles everywhere (although Canada does still seem to be the most together on this, must be all the trees? 
) and generally doing what we can to keep spirits up.
I did notice at the local market today that things might, just might be easing up a bit. There was actual meat and chicken in the butchers, a couple of cans of the less popular canned goods (cooked lentils) left, some store brand milk products (but not the name brand equivalents) but still no paper products. Still, could it be that everybody’s running out of space, or maybe just starting to calm down?
To quote the 1950’s newscasters - “Only time will tell…”
So - "Keep Calm and Carry On!"
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Hey, back off! We warned them about Trump!
Loved that man. When he died, I bought an anthology of his WW2 dispatches. If I were teaching a class in journalism, I would make it required reading. He describes incidents that burn themselves into one’s consciousness and memory.