Corona-Stupid

You wanted the gym to completely shut down for days if not weeks because 1 member tested positive?

^^^ Nope, they can do what they want, I do know that the gym didn't sanitize worth a shit and it's probably just potentially going to spread it through the community because of that.

If they did a deep clean that night I see no problem with them opening the next day.

What do you think the solution should have been?

Are you trying to say the Swedish model of citizens taking personal responsibility would not work here (given how many fans that model seems to have and how many here claim it's the way to go)

Many people, particularly young people, think missing out on one day of partying, even less a few-months, is too much to ask - there are people, particularly young people, that only think about themselves and what's best for them irrespective of the damage to others - there are people whose lives revolve around partying above everything else damn the consequences.

I don't know if there is any solution for gyms -- unless you keep them closed. Sanitizing can only go so far since the virus is airborne during working hours. And we've discussed all the issues about asymptomatic carriers.

Our community indoor gym closed for two months, then opened on a limited basis. As a compromise, the new policy for swimming is that you reserve a lane for one hour, and that lane is yours during the reserved time -- effectively social-distancing for swimmers. Since the gym is indoors, I've decided to forgo swimming and that's been a hard adjustment.

We have no plan in place for testing, tracing, isolation -- so everyone has to make their own choices. A certain segment of society (nutcases) don't wear masks and don't take the disease seriously.

Who gets drunk when they are sick?

Papi, Americans suck at taking personal responsibility. I don't know whether it happened during the boomer generation or earlier generation X, but they passed it on -amplified- to gen Y and the millennials. That leads us to our current state of people wanting the government to pay for everything, to get a mulligan on every mistake, and being wholly unable to work things through in a truly bipartisan fashion while still holding to a set of guiding goals or principals.

China just locked down 400,000 people; like they were in prison, because of 18 cases. Progressives and Democrats admire them for this and want to be like them.

It isn't generation X. I'm in my forties and I've lost track of how many times I've looked at millennials and shaken my head. It makes me feel like an elderly man yelling "get off my lawn" but the point being even the generations just ahead of them don't understand them any more than older generations.

Why not post the link so we can all be reminded which skanky stripper you're talking about?

Right now isn't a good time to go to the beach or gym exactly because of people like that. These types of people are far too common now(especially millennials) so you* should know better than going to the beach or the gym right now.

There are several early to mid 20's folks I follow since I have known them since they were babies. Every one of them keep posting pictures being out at bars with big groups, no masks or distancing. they are out every night. Absolutely right that is how it is spreading. One of them goes and gets tested every Saturday morning and posts that he is "still negative" like he expects to get it at some point. One of them had a friend that tested positive and that friend is STILL IN THE GROUP GOING OUT.

Thought I might know who the dancer is, but hell, it could be any of a dozen of them.

Stupidity is unbelievable lately that’s for sure

The good news in this is that Darwinism will look after some of this, erasing many of the dumb clucks who still want to party while sick or party with sick ppl or attend huge political rallies. Soooo sad.

" One of them had a friend that tested positive and that friend is STILL IN THE GROUP GOING OUT." i would be ok with any cop to choke the living daylights out of this piece of shit.

Well stupid isn't limited to just the young either. Our local VFW is populated by mostly 45-75 year olds and the monthly drawing was this past Saturday. 50-60 people packed into an indoor bar area with no ventilation; talked to someone that briefly went in and word was that not a single one of them had a mask on; zero.

^ Somehow you managed to outdo your last avatar, Nobody suggested stupid was limited to any age group, just look around there's stupid everywhere, some of the stupidest among us think wearing a mask is a political statement, it isn't, its really an IQ test

The sad, selfish realization is they know THEY are not really in danger. It is older people they then interact with. They don't seem to understand or give a shit that their actions are endangering others. I hear them say masks don't protect you. NO SHIT! They protect other people FROM you. They only care about minimizing the inconvenience and impact on themselves. It is a very self-centered and live for the moment generation.

The ones I know also selectively ignore, doubt, dismiss, accept and dogmatically believe what any government says on the matter.

Everyone knows the data is exaggerated. Most people have already had it and lack of testing does not show it. The numbers are inflated because of politics. They said on TV it is dying down. They would not allow bars to open if it wasn't safe.

Not wishing this at all, but maybe if one of them loses a parent or grandparent they will wake up.

Posts crossed. I am not saying older people are not being stupid, too. but the millenials seem to be exceedingly stupid about this.

The younger generations always appear to be the stupidest, they do not have a monopoly on stupid but to onlookers they appear to be severely handicapped in the common sense department

Life experience means something. If you've never suffered big consequences from being careless, what's the deterrent? Plus there's just stuff that looks different through "older" eyes.

But there's also things I do now that I wouldn't have done in my 20s. I've lived long enough to know that opportunity doesn't stick around forever, so when it's there I just go with the flow.

I mentioned "life experience" and how it changes us as we age to my wife after going through this thread and her comment was "If that is the case, how come I never know if one of your crazy drunken guy stories happened in 1974, 1990 or 2018?

"Experience" is what I call my mistakes.

Mistakes make for better stories than successes.

@skibum609 “Mistakes make for better stories than successes.”

LOLOLOL. See my latest article.

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