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[ZEROPILOT]

My wife has also been sent home now.
No work until further notice.
In the short term, she will still get a paycheck.
For a lot of folks sent home, they will not.

 

[Cathie G]

I strongly assume that the number of actually infected are much higher than we now know due to the little symptoms that some of us will get.

I was waiting for Columbus to get it's first confirmed case. They have a major airport and OSU. They have no way of knowing the number of people already infected since they are just playing catch up with testing. Columbus is less then 28 miles from little old me. Many people from my city commute to Columbus for work. My brother goes there twice a week for his art program for disabled adults...we'll see.

 

[Cathie G]

I don't know how many members saw Maggie's rant before I had a chance to remove it, but to explain - She wrote that on a FB trucker group she belongs to and, not being computer literate or understanding how to use her lap top/ chromebook, it somehow got copied and posted to the forum too. She tried all she knew how to delete it, to no avail, so she called me and asked me to delete it. Trouble was I couldn't find it. The only thing I can figure is my Kindle must've been looking at a cached copy an d not the current copy. But this a.m. when I accessed from my computer, there it was. So it has now been removed and Maggie's sorry she offended anyone

Oh me oh my. Butt I'd probably read it anyway. Maybe I missed it somehow.

 

[Maggie3fan]

I don't know how many members saw Maggie's rant before I had a chance to remove it, but to explain - She wrote that on a FB trucker group she belongs to and, not being computer literate or understanding how to use her lap top/ chromebook, it somehow got copied and posted to the forum too. She tried all she knew how to delete it, to no avail, so she called me and asked me to delete it. Trouble was I couldn't find it. The only thing I can figure is my Kindle must've been looking at a cached copy an d not the current copy. But this a.m. when I accessed from my computer, there it was. So it has now been removed and Maggie's sorry she offended anyone

I am more than sorry...I am dismayed and humiliated. Even the people who don't like me here would admit...I don't ever talk like that on this Forum...like Y said...I did post it on my truckers FB page...then came here and when I clicked on reply to someone's post...and crap...my tirade was posted here...I tried 'cut' and 'delete' to no avail...I am sincerely sorry...I hope I will be forgiven...and I slink off in embarrassment...

 

[Cathie G]

She found an exterminator website for me on the web.

?

 

[Blackdog1714]

I am more than sorry...I am dismayed and humiliated. Even the people who don't like me here would admit...I don't ever talk like that on this Forum...like Y said...I did post it on my truckers FB page...then came here and when I clicked on reply to someone's post...and crap...my tirade was posted here...I tried 'cut' and 'delete' to no avail...I am sincerely sorry...I hope I will be forgiven...and I slink off in embarrassment...

I should have known- a truckers FB page! Makes so much sense, but due to my career and my tennis obsessed wife I am no shrinking violet when it comes to cussing. It’s the quiet ones that really scare me!

 

[Cathie G]

I am totally freaked out by the panic...empty shelves now...just what will be avaliable to me Friday when I have money...this is just what I think about the whole thing...scared ...and...View attachment 288235

Don't get freaked out too much. They already spent all their money on toilet paper and rubbing alcohol. They'll have to stay home to protect their life savings.

 

[Tom]

I am more than sorry...I am dismayed and humiliated. Even the people who don't like me here would admit...I don't ever talk like that on this Forum...like Y said...I did post it on my truckers FB page...then came here and when I clicked on reply to someone's post...and crap...my tirade was posted here...I tried 'cut' and 'delete' to no avail...I am sincerely sorry...I hope I will be forgiven...and I slink off in embarrassment...

Truckers??? I thought it was sailors who talked like that!!! No big deal Maggie. Don't worry about it. Come back here and stop slinking. We love you for who you are. Ain't none of us perfect either, ya know.

 

[ZenHerper]

I am more than sorry...

Good news: tortoises don't have ears. And they don't read the internet.

They really are better than we are. Well, they've had more practice...

And here's a nugget about the adaptive benefits of swearing:

Swearing Can Actually Increase Pain Tolerance

Researchers have determined that swearing can have a ‘pain-lessening effect’, according to new study.

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[Tom]

Where did you get that "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dancing banana emoji???

 

[ZenHerper]

Heh. You might slip and fall in. Don't say I didn't warn you:

Upside down banana emoticon | Emoticons and Smileys for Facebook/MSN/Skype/Yahoo

www.sherv.net

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I don't know how many members saw Maggie's rant before I had a chance to remove it, but to explain - She wrote that on a FB trucker group she belongs to and, not being computer literate or understanding how to use her lap top/ chromebook, it somehow got copied and posted to the forum too. She tried all she knew how to delete it, to no avail, so she called me and asked me to delete it. Trouble was I couldn't find it. The only thing I can figure is my Kindle must've been looking at a cached copy an d not the current copy. But this a.m. when I accessed from my computer, there it was. So it has now been removed and Maggie's sorry she offended anyone

I love Maggie and her rants have been some of the best readings on this forum.
Everyone gets POed at something

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I am more than sorry...I am dismayed and humiliated. Even the people who don't like me here would admit...I don't ever talk like that on this Forum...like Y said...I did post it on my truckers FB page...then came here and when I clicked on reply to someone's post...and crap...my tirade was posted here...I tried 'cut' and 'delete' to no avail...I am sincerely sorry...I hope I will be forgiven...and I slink off in embarrassment...

Don't be embarrassed
I wouldn't want everything I've ever posted held against me.

 

[Tom]

There is talk of gas stations here not refilling once they sell out of what they have in the tanks.

If that happens, I predict major civil unrest. If you take away food, water, electricity or gasoline, things go bad fast. Real fast.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

There is talk of gas stations here not refilling once they sell out of what they have in the tanks.

If that happens, I predict major civil unrest. If you take away food, water, electricity or gasoline, things go bad fast. Real fast.

Inconvenienced humans become animals pretty fast.
Not all of us, but enough of us that there would be a serious issue

 

[queen koopa]

It's getting a little sketchy here in GA. Everything closing, stores empty. People acting irrational. Be mindful of germs and stay safe out there tortoise forum friends.

thanks for starting this post.
Henderson Nevada here (neighbor city Las Vegas. In the past 7-10 days casinos are closing. Ghost town on the strip. Even whole foods was sold out of everything, including vegan stuff now HAHA. I’m plant based myself, any-who I visited a Stations casino in Henderson 3 days ago and it was totally normal in there. Went to Laughlin Nevada yesterday and it was busy in the casinos I went to, but also I think 1 or 1 were closed. Hotel security on toilet paper watch. Also I was by far the youngest person there at 33 (which is just fine). Chatted with a front desk manager at The River Lodge, owned by Dottys and she said the only way they close down is if the Health Dept shuts them down. So I’ve been a bartender and server for about 6 yrs, worked in So Cal and now here in Henderson and on the strip. I can tell you that the Health Dept is a joke in both states, just ridiculous, worse in vegas. If state health departments actually worked here hotels, casinos, and spas would not exist. Outlawed as hazardous! Ha! Sick the things I know about vegas now. Also I think I read somewhere down in this thread that if influenzas were handled in the way corona virus is then there would less deaths/infections. I feel if we handled our year around flue like this, the American way of life would cease to exist. Stay safe guys!

 

[queen koopa]

PS

That's my thought too.
I know a few people that were really sick a month or so ago.
I still have a scratchy throat and itchy, runny eyes. (And no known allergies)

Sadly we humans are grossly over populated and will always be sick. On going proof of social filth = rats & cockroaches, AND viruses. Theres my rant. Oh and I wish I would have seen maggies post!

 

[Toddrickfl1]

I am more than sorry...I am dismayed and humiliated. Even the people who don't like me here would admit...I don't ever talk like that on this Forum...like Y said...I did post it on my truckers FB page...then came here and when I clicked on reply to someone's post...and crap...my tirade was posted here...I tried 'cut' and 'delete' to no avail...I am sincerely sorry...I hope I will be forgiven...and I slink off in embarrassment...

No offense taken, I thought you were just telling us how you really felt! Lol I think the majority of us here are adults.

 

[ZenHerper]

There is talk of gas stations here not refilling once they sell out of what they have in the tanks.

If that happens, I predict major civil unrest. If you take away food, water, electricity or gasoline, things go bad fast. Real fast.

Who is doing the talking, and what is their factual basis for it?

 

[Tom]

Who is doing the talking, and what is their factual basis for it?

My auto mechanic and the manager of this particular station. Factual basis? The manager said "We are 1000 gallons down, and we don't plan on refilling when its empty."