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2020-05-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

The escape outdoors: Sun seekers without masks go tubing in Texas, students swim in Colorado creeks and New Yorkers keep flocking to bars serving drinks outside - despite fears of a surge of infections this summer if social distancing is ignored

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-21 08:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 'Body Glove' appears to be leaving the pack and pulling ahead for the early lead.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-21 08:45|| 2020-05-21 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Inability to postpone gratification

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-21 09:01|| 2020-05-21 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 It was at first just paddle-board girl...

Who is the creep-o taking pictures up the hillside through the brush of the young gals in bikinis?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-21 12:54|| 2020-05-21 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Fears, shmears. I might get hit by a car, too. Tired of the narrative....

Posted by Clem 2020-05-21 12:56|| 2020-05-21 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 “~~Puritanism.~~ Quarantine cultism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

Slightly adapted from H.L. Mencken

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-21 13:30|| 2020-05-21 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Going camping this weekend. Sue me.

Posted by Iblis 2020-05-21 15:55|| 2020-05-21 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Some history of recent pandemic "Second Waves" -

"H2N2 influenza virus [Asian Flu] continued to circulate until 1968, when it transformed via antigenic shift into influenza A virus subtype H3N2, the cause of the 1968 influenza pandemic." [Wikipedia]

"The H3N2 virus [1968 Hong Kong Flu] continues to circulate worldwide as a seasonal influenza A virus." [CDC]

"On August 10, 2010, WHO declared an end to the global 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, (H1N1)pdm09 virus continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year."[CDC]

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-21 17:22|| 2020-05-21 17:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I know the weather is different but bars are inside and thus far different than swimming or tubing. NY can't do anything right.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-21 19:04|| 2020-05-21 19:04|| Front Page Top

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