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Maro2Bear

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Here in Baltimore, someone removed the basketball hoops from the backboards overnight. The park has no gates to lock. Or somebody just needed some hoops, wouldn't the first time they have gone missing.

Maryland Gov Hogan”s office announced today that they closed all parks, were in the process of removing all basketball hoops & nets & tennis court nets too. Too many ppl out congregating. So, all Parks & beach areas closed.
/Twitter / Mike Ricci spokesman fir Gov’s office /
 

jaizei

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How are you both a new member and a five year member?

The title (New Member) is based on points, while the banner is based on time.

***edit: title based on points by default unless changed to something else by moderator or admin
 

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Oh yea ...cute doggie pictures are needed here right now!?
I have an ulterior motive. I'm trying to?...nudge my brother into painting adorable dog paintings. His paintings end up hilarious.love...
 

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Mark1 I'm with you. You will have to look this up ZenHarper, but we in the medical community were warned years and years ago that giving the Chickenpox vaccine to children would eventually create a Shingles epidemic and sure enough it has. In the past when children developed Chickenpox, a mild childhood virus for most, they would inadvertently boost the adults in the family including the grand-parents. This helped prevent Shingles later in life. Now we have an epidemic of Shingles in adults and the younger children too. When an adult comes in contact with a child who has been given the Chickenpox vaccine or an adult who has been given the Shingles vaccine they now have a much greater probability of developing Shingles. We also see a large group of adults vaccinated with the Shingles vaccine who develop Shingles for life. Not fun.
Me too. I took a screen shot of this post to make mental notes about my dogs! ??
 

Blackdog1714

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Mark1 I'm with you. You will have to look this up ZenHarper, but we in the medical community were warned years and years ago that giving the Chickenpox vaccine to children would eventually create a Shingles epidemic and sure enough it has. In the past when children developed Chickenpox, a mild childhood virus for most, they would inadvertently boost the adults in the family including the grand-parents. This helped prevent Shingles later in life. Now we have an epidemic of Shingles in adults and the younger children too. When an adult comes in contact with a child who has been given the Chickenpox vaccine or an adult who has been given the Shingles vaccine they now have a much greater probability of developing Shingles. We also see a large group of adults vaccinated with the Shingles vaccine who develop Shingles for life. Not fun.
So if with having chickenpox in my youth I have a very low chance of getting Shingles! Please be real and not internet nonsense!
 

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Where in the heck do you get your numbers. How is your spreading fear of the government ok but the so called government propaganda bad. Please stop pretended this isn't serious. If we can't trust any of the figures out there we can't trust yours either.
Fear, uncertainty, panic, mistrust, disunity... Seems to be working.

Sir or Ma'am, if you are not afraid of your government, you have not been paying attention for the last few decades.
 

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I really have trouble following some of the more recent posts here and the apparent trend to discount this issue. I just this evening got a group message from a very good friend of mine that I used to do semimars and public speaking with. This is a very strong, active individual. Was one of the top female softball players in the world that did world tours and taught olympic players. Thought it may provide a needed perspective:

Good people. I wanted to tell you that Rosemary and I have tested positive for COVID-19. We believe we were infected on Friday 13. I started having serious symptoms a week ago. We were lucky enough to get tested pretty quickly, and it became official Wednesday. You should know that these symptoms are no joke. I have never been so sick in my life, and I’ve had a few tangles with other illnesses. COVID 19 is overwhelming.
I thought I was being careful. I’m not a risk-taker with my health, but I got it anyway. I am right in the middle of this thing and weeks and months ahead of almost everyone I know. I want you all to understand that it’s worse than you think. Way worse.
When you have a choice between your normal habits and what you know to be safer habits, I don’t want you to think twice. Please err on the side of health, yours and the other people’s you come into contact with. If I knew two weeks ago what I know now, I wouldn’t have left our home, for however long it takes.
I can’t do much about my situation now, I’ve got to ride this thing out and hope for the best. But there’s lots you can do. If this message can make you re-think how seriously you’re taking COVID-19, I will feel like my message is successful .....even while I’m lying here in my bed. I’m encouraging you and cheering you on to be smart, for yourself and the rest of us. I don’t want to see any more of my friends getting sick.
Rosemary S Harris symptoms are gone...thank goodness. If you see her walking our dogs, please avoid her and do not pet our dog. We are trying to stay away from them but they aren’t having it and we are worried it’s on their fur.
This will not be over by Easter. Cuomo seems to be the truth teller right now. Over 600 are waiting for tests from St. Francis. I know our city is doing all we can but please do your part. I am in awe of our first responders. Truly.
I will post again in a few days. Please don’t call us. Our phones are off. We don’t need one thing.
Please stay safe. Much love to all.
 

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Fear, uncertainty, panic, mistrust, disunity... Seems to be working.

Sir or Ma'am, if you are not afraid of your government, you have not been paying attention for the last few decades.
I guess it's sir but I don't feel like one lol. This has nothing to do with fear of the government and has everything to do with spreading fear and confusion with conspiracy theories not based in facts. We have a serious problem on our hands and the actions we take as a society will have a huge affect on peoples lives. I never said we should blindly trust anyone. We need to follow CDC and WHO guidelines and not be looking for reason to make light of this. Now is not the time to spread mistrust it is the time to come together and help one another. Wait until we have medicine that has been proven to work and a vaccine then spread all the government hate you want. I'm not here to argue with you or anyone else. Just know there are many people on here who need to be cautious because their lives may depend on it.
 

queen koopa

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I really have trouble following some of the more recent posts here and the apparent trend to discount this issue. I just this evening got a group message from a very good friend of mine that I used to do semimars and public speaking with. This is a very strong, active individual. Was one of the top female softball players in the world that did world tours and taught olympic players. Thought it may provide a needed perspective:

Good people. I wanted to tell you that Rosemary and I have tested positive for COVID-19. We believe we were infected on Friday 13. I started having serious symptoms a week ago. We were lucky enough to get tested pretty quickly, and it became official Wednesday. You should know that these symptoms are no joke. I have never been so sick in my life, and I’ve had a few tangles with other illnesses. COVID 19 is overwhelming.
I thought I was being careful. I’m not a risk-taker with my health, but I got it anyway. I am right in the middle of this thing and weeks and months ahead of almost everyone I know. I want you all to understand that it’s worse than you think. Way worse.
When you have a choice between your normal habits and what you know to be safer habits, I don’t want you to think twice. Please err on the side of health, yours and the other people’s you come into contact with. If I knew two weeks ago what I know now, I wouldn’t have left our home, for however long it takes.
I can’t do much about my situation now, I’ve got to ride this thing out and hope for the best. But there’s lots you can do. If this message can make you re-think how seriously you’re taking COVID-19, I will feel like my message is successful .....even while I’m lying here in my bed. I’m encouraging you and cheering you on to be smart, for yourself and the rest of us. I don’t want to see any more of my friends getting sick.
Rosemary S Harris symptoms are gone...thank goodness. If you see her walking our dogs, please avoid her and do not pet our dog. We are trying to stay away from them but they aren’t having it and we are worried it’s on their fur.
This will not be over by Easter. Cuomo seems to be the truth teller right now. Over 600 are waiting for tests from St. Francis. I know our city is doing all we can but please do your part. I am in awe of our first responders. Truly.
I will post again in a few days. Please don’t call us. Our phones are off. We don’t need one thing.
Please stay safe. Much love to all.
Most of us are able to feel sympathy and empathy for others. It’s a matter of being able to put yourself in other peoples positions or stoping yourself and remembering past experiences of your own. Covid 19 is REAL. No one has said its fake and its a conspiracy. Our species is over populated thus making viruses and infection inevitable (rats and cockroaches anybody? Yep, those are ours!) I know 2 people who are infected, one has recovered and one was admitted to the hospital yesterday and is getting worse.

Some of us are trying to say something along the lines that Government, The Hidden Hand, or whoever, controls the movement of information or lack of to the public. They use specific words to draw attention, dramatize, & offend certain people to create disunity. In the case of Covid 19, figures and statistics change daily preventing logical assessments. This should have been a time to work together as a society creating awareness and then implementing permanent changes to how we operate. Mainly our sanitation and health standards starting with environmental and diet. Also the health care industry! I’d say there are major discrepancies in our hospitals financial runnings creating lack of resources. Instead we are social distancing and constitutional rights are being threatened.
 
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Gijoux

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So if with having chickenpox in my youth I have a very low chance of getting Shingles! Please be real and not internet nonsense!

Almost no one today has a low chance of getting Shingles, because the majority of our children and grandchildren have never had natural chickenpox to boost our immune system throughout the years, for this particular herpes virus. Sorry to say, but having had chickenpox as a child, in this present day scenario, makes us more likely to get Shingles.
 

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I guess it's sir but I don't feel like one lol.
I don't understand this quote. You are a male, but don't feel like one? What do you mean by this? Is it a joke that I'm not getting? Sometimes jokes go right over my head...


This has nothing to do with fear of the government and has everything to do with spreading fear and confusion with conspiracy theories not based in facts. We have a serious problem on our hands and the actions we take as a society will have a huge affect on peoples lives.

This has everything to do with the New World Order that has been building for decades. Not based in facts? Its a fact that our entire society and economy is shut down until further notice over a virus that no one seems to really know the facts about. It is a fact that the .gov, which already has us in trillions of dollars of debt, has now halted the entire economy, and is about to hand out trillions of dollars back to us, with plans to do this on a regular basis. Its a fact, that we are about to be forced into having some sort of biometric ID system that tracks everything we do from now on. It is a fact that there is an enormous power grab in the works, and that we are being manipulated in ways we don't even know about yet.

Have some people died that were infected with this virus? Yes. That much is obvious. How many of them were already on death's door? How many of them would have died if they'd been infected with "regular" flu? How many of us have been exposed and our immune systems successfully defeated this virus as most of our immune systems do every single day with uncountable numbers of viruses and other infectious pathogens that surround us? If we tested everyone, I'll bet that by this point, almost everyone has been in contact with it. We have annual flus that regularly kill 10,000+ people a month in this country. C19 has killed a fraction of that, as far as we can tell from what "they" are telling us and allowing us to know. But how do any of us really know what is or isn't true anymore?

You think those of us questioning what the heck is going on are spreading fear and confusion? You weren't scared and confused about all this before you read my posts? I am terrified by what I am seeing. I have no idea how far this is going to go or how bad its going to get. I went from making six figures a year to making nothing, zero, zilch, overnight. No warning. No choice. No way around it. No end of it in sight. No recourse. No way to change it. We are seeing the end of society as we know it. I knew something big was coming, but never imagined it would be done in this way.

I agree that we need to come together and help each other. I agree that our lives may depend on it. My words on these pages are intended to do just that.
 
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Yvonne G

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I think he was referring to be called the respectful term, 'sir.' Maybe didn't feel worthy of that respect??? At least that's how I read it.
 
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