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1 minute ago, KillerKat said:

Do you have down syndrome? 

Using that as an insult is worse than gatekeeping hat wearing fwiw.

9 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

If you are still wearing baseball hats over the age of 25....yikes 

I’m 40 now and wear a Panthers hat every time I leave the house. I also rock a Panthers face mask most of the time, and am currently wearing a Panthers coat, too. Also my shoes are Panthers blue. 
 

Ride or die, betch!

For real though... gatekeeping hat wearing is kinda strange.

As far as NE colors. They’re close enough. I have few cheap 9Fortys that are my go to, I also have a 9Twenty that’s all black except for our logo. The blue is just a shade more radiant than it should be, but it’s definitely close enough.

disgusting tbqh

7 minutes ago, Moneyman321 said:

The death rate is astronomically low. - It doesn't matter. It is still very deadly. Excuse me if I don't write off thousands of people dying as nothing.

Masks don’t stop the coronavirus - Nobody said they do. They potentially lower chance of infection.

social distances doesn’t stop the coronavirus - See above

If it is such NO BIG DEAL GUYS to you, then go ahead and go everywhere in your F150 without a mask, or lick toilet seats for all I care. Evolution will take care of you.

But if you do go out without a mask, know that you're being passively violent. And if someone takes it upon themselves to call you out on it, and/or defend themselves from your assault on common decency, then you deserve it.

4 minutes ago, stirs said:

A discussion board is just that.

If you ban everyone that disagrees with your opinion, it becomes my big ole echo chamber.

Out of the 50 different people who have posted here, I probably agree and disagree with different points they have all made, even 4 Corners, although not that often, haha.

Let people argue their points, good, bad, informed, ill informed, etc.  Stop the cancel culture attitude on a damn message board. Sheesh.

Everyone is subject to post stuff they read and the world is full of varied opinions.  Quit trying so hard to make people think exactly like you do, or in 4 Corners case, to think at all.  It won't work.  Apologies to 4C, it was just low hanging fruit.

This is no different than arguing different points of view on drafting a WR or an OL based on stats and measurables, well, except people aren't dying.  Anyway, calm down, let people talk.  If they are calling names, then step in, otherwise you are herding cats.

Look at our elected gov officials on both sides of the aisle and tell me with a straight face that America is all about the smartest people to follow.

If we stopped dumb people with dumb opinions from posting, you would have been gone a long time ago.

 

15 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

From a moderator.  Does Igo condone this?

lol

So the argument against wearing masks is that it is potentially only 10% efficient?

LOL

Would you rather have 10% of a million dollars, or 0%?

Great, big brain logic going on here.

Wear a mask of some sort so your dumb asymptomatic ass has at least a 10% less of a chance of spreading A VIRAL PANDEMIC. I'll wear my mask so I can also have a 10% less chance of catching it from all your mouth breathing ass, and combined we can potentially cut the risk of A VIRAL PANDEMIC spreading by 1/5th.

If you argue against mask wearing, you're an insolent toddler. Just like the President of the US.

If you see someone not wearing a mask in a public place, punch them in the face just like you would a Nazi.

a throwback

Raleigh representing!

seriously might be album of the year so far

I fell down a YT rabbit hole this morning and now this is my favorite band atm:
 

We went to a local IGA store last Tuesday night. Most of the meat was gone, all of the bread and toilet paper, and lots of the other consumables were noticeably hit.

My wife went to our local Walmart yesterday morning and was there when it opened at 7 am. She said it looked like Black Friday with people literally lining up at the doors. When the doors opened, people took off running to the toilet paper aisle. She was getting a pack for her mom (we're good on it) and they had employees on the aisle telling people they could only purchase one pack. She saw several people going through self checkout with more than one pack. She was otherwise mainly there to get our typical weekly/biweekly/once a month groceries, but she said it was straight up crazy how many people were there and how they were acting.

Yesterday evening, we stopped by a local Food Lion on a whim while we were already out to see if they had a couple things that Wally world didn't have. We got most of what we were missing, but holy poo had they also been hit hard. Most of the frozen food aisles were barren. A lot of the shelves on the other aisles were slim pickings as well.

People have lost their goddamn minds over this.

Y'all stay safe out there.

How long before we see bands of raiders start hitting neighborhoods? lol

My sister and brother-in-law are getting tested as I type this. They've had mild fever/shortness of breath/cough/general fatigue.

I just came off antibiotics last Saturday for a "severe ear and sinus infection" and, after a day of finally feeling like I was getting better yesterday, I've been feeling pretty crappy again today. Feverish, post-nasal drip induced sore throat, body aches, and upper respiratory tickle/cough.

This is exactly the way I've been feeling most days since November. I'm still sticking to it being here even way back then. If I don't feel any better tomorrow, or if I notice further decline in my condition, I'll be trying to get tested as well.

I'm hoping it is allergies, but it has been going on since before spring allergy flare up, and I've never had allergies make me feel this cruddy.

I know there's a bunch of Tool/NIN fans here. Y'all should probably check out Code Orange's new album:
 

4 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Wait....what?? When have I ever engaged in either of those discussions? You sure you don't have me mixed up with someone else?

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

The fact that politics has somehow managed to worm it's way into a pandemic discussion at all just shows how completely broken this country is. To be sure, there are valid political considerations and there are GLARINGLY obvious blunders but the fact that we cannot disconnect from this "MY TEAM VERSUS YOUR TEAM" mentality over something so bi-partisan as a serious public health issue is completely and totally damning. 

I was talking about this post. Maybe it wasn't fair to you because I can't recall your stances on wealth hoarding and M4A at this point in time. But as soon as you mentioned this, a Super-Mod showed up threatening to move it to the Tinderbox.

I just thought it was really convenient, and maybe I should have quoted said mod alongside you.

My B.

2 minutes ago, stirs said:

Give us time to ponder your depth before we respond

Tinderbox is missing you.  Someone needs insulting, hurry, run

Oh, I'm sorry. I should have posted some useless snarky link about people running out of toilet paper.

Again: STFU, Chud. You contribute relatively nothing to these forums. Especially after we ran you off the Tinderbox.

3 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

 

 And this is why I keep harping on the statistics and keep saying to be calm and reasonable. I absolutely DESPISE to agree with anything our current leader said but when he relayed that message from the grocery industry about not hoarding, he was 100% correct. If you freak out and act like it's the end of the world, that panic spreads much faster than this disease does. Reference other panic incidents recently(gas shortages due to Katrina come to mind). 

Logically there is not a reason to panic at the moment. There are ample reasons to be aware, be cautious and use common sense. 

How can you apply this logic to this situation and then get all offended when people start talking the political/societal impacts of wealth hoarding and the US not having M4A?

2 minutes ago, stirs said:

Guy was buying up propane tanks yesterday like he was going to lose power any minute

haha you're fuging Hank Hill.

16 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

So then influenza is a far greater threat than COVID-19? Because the worldwide annual  estimates for influenza deaths are 250-700k per year. 

I assume that means that is worse than COVID-19 by your logic, right? 

No. We know the flu. We expect it every year.

This is new, and still a relative unknown.

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

That's also not looking at the rates compared to the countries specific demographics. That's not really the best way to look at that data to compare it. 

Really dude, you gotta lay off a bit.

This is literally you right now.

I don't panic much because I have always believed in being prepared for anything. But at this point you're almost acting like people shouldn't be vigilant or at least pay attention to this.