How can there not be a COVID-19 thread?

[JayMysteri0]

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1340321421608824833/

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1340781560774221828/

And unsurprisingly
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1340683851715239937/

 

[JayMysteri0]

I AM SHOCKED.

Shocked I tell you, ...that it looks this long for a Covid Karen titling

The Associated Press reports:

Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on Nov. 27 and was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arrives in the British Caribbean territory. However, she broke quarantine on Nov. 29 when her boyfriend picked her up to attend a water sports event, Hughes said.
After their arrest, a judge ruled the couple had to provide 40 hours of community service and pay a $4,400 fine. In addition, Ramgeet was ordered to a two-month curfew that would start at 7 p.m. But the prosecution appealed, arguing the punishment was unduly lenient and would not deter other possible violators. A higher court decided in favor of prosecutors, ruling on Dec. 15 that the couple be imprisoned immediately.
The Cayman Compass newspaper reported that Judge Roger Chapple said during Tuesday’s sentencing that the decision to violate safety measures was born of “selfishness and arrogance,” adding in its report that Mack spent seven hours out in public without a face mask or social distancing.

Followed by... Wait for it...

Family of U.S. teen jailed in Cayman Islands asks Trump for help

Skylar Mack was sentenced to prison in the Cayman Islands for breaking Covid isolation protocols. Her family has appealed to the U.S. government for help.

www.nbcnews.com

The family of an American college student is appealing to the U.S. government for help as she faces a four-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to breaking the Cayman Islands' mandatory 14-day Covid-19 isolation protocols for visitors.

"She just wants to come home," 18-year-old Skylar Mack's grandmother, Jeanne Mack, told the "Today" show on Monday.

"She knows she made a mistake, she owns to up to that, but she's pretty hysterical right now."

Skylar is a pre-med student from Georgia. She traveled to visit her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, who was in the Cayman Islands for a jet-skiing competition.

Mack did not isolate for the mandatory 14 days.

Instead, Mack said she isolated for two days and tested negative twice for coronavirus before abandoning her tracking device and leaving isolation to attend her boyfriend's jet-skiing competition.

Mack was sentenced to prison last week.

Jonathon Hughes, the attorney representing Mack and her boyfriend, said four months in prison — an upgraded sentence from community service — would have "a particularly harsh effect on her."

Her family said they appealed directly to President Donald Trump, whose office wrote back that her case would be forwarded to the "appropriate" federal agency, likely the U.S. State Department.

 

[Clix Pix]

Pre-med no more.....no medical school would accept her after this!

 

[JayMysteri0]

Wow.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1341401653736579075/

I wonder how this will get twisted?

 

[thekev]

Wow.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1341401653736579075/

I wonder how this will get twisted?

Either blah blah ..... socialism or something about Democrats spreading COVID. The really crazy ones might call this biological warfare if democratic Congress-critters have a lower median age than Republican counterparts.

 

[JayMysteri0]

 

[SuperMatt]

Either blah blah ..... socialism or something about Democrats spreading COVID. The really crazy ones might call this biological warfare if democratic Congress-critters have a lower median age than Republican counterparts.

I heard on the radio today that members of minority groups are skeptical of the virus.

74,223,744 ignoramuses in America. I wish it was a smaller minority than that, but at least it is a minority.

 

[Thomas Veil]

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[Clix Pix]

I heard on the radio today that members of minority groups are skeptical of the virus.

74,223,744 ignoramuses in America. I wish it was a smaller minority than that, but at least it is a minority.

That is what is really scary: all these clowns who are refusing to accept that this virus is real or that they could catch it -- who needs a silly mask, anyway?! -- and therefore are running around spreading it are now saying that they're not going to take the vaccine injection when it becomes available to them. Sigh...... This pandemic is probably going to go on a lot, lot longer than it ever should simply because of idiots like this.

 

[JayMysteri0]

Yeah, this is reassuring
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1343468734933917696/

 

[lizkat]

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Yeah you might be surprised. Around here it's apparently macho in some guys' minds to battle the elements --aka head to the store in their biga$$ trucks to stock up on bread, beer or baby formula-- five minutes AFTER they close the roads. And these are guys who have lived here all their lives so it's not like they don't know what a round of really bad weather looks like when it's setting up to roll in here.

 

[Alli]

It’s all a hoax, yet the newly elected congressman from Lousyanna (whose name escapes me) has just died from Covid. Never even got sworn in. So now they’ll need a special election.

 

[Eric]

On my NextDoor app they have posts where people are discussing restaurants that are defying closure orders so they can gather, and NextDoor is allowing it. As everyone knows CA is now the worst state in the nation and this is why and they're more than happy to let the hospitals fill up if it means being able to dine in somewhere.

 

[JayMysteri0]

It’s all a hoax, yet the newly elected congressman from Lousyanna (whose name escapes me) has just died from Covid. Never even got sworn in. So now they’ll need a special election.

I was curious about where he stood on the virus, and I see of all things Herman Cain is trending because of him

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344134128862601217/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344126097244479490/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344135893762928640/

 

[User.45]

It’s all a hoax, yet the newly elected congressman from Lousyanna (whose name escapes me) has just died from Covid. Never even got sworn in. So now they’ll need a special election.

see what you did there

 

[User.45]

I was curious about where he stood on the virus, and I see of all things Herman Cain is trending because of him

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344134128862601217/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344126097244479490/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1344135893762928640/

He wasn't an antimasker though..."just" very inconsistent with the mask usage.

I'll use a gun owner analogy to this... The chances are very low to be killed unintentionally by your own gun, but you always make sure there's no bullet in the chamber before you clean your weapon. That's the gun owner's analogy to the utility of masks. Not great, but may resonate better.

 

[Alli]

On my NextDoor app they have posts where people are discussing restaurants that are defying closure orders so they can gather, and NextDoor is allowing it. As everyone knows CA is now the worst state in the nation and this is why and they're more than happy to let the hospitals fill up if it means being able to dine in somewhere.

Have you tried reporting them? Ours has been very good at removing posts (and people) who go on anti-mask kicks or make fun of those who wear masks.

 

[SuperMatt]

Well, the vaccine roll-out is going great. At its current pace, we should reach 80% vaccination by the year 2030. Trump is awesome!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/29/covid-19-vaccine-distribution-slow-testing/