Yes, I feel the same. It just hits close to home when a Facebook friend writes about how devastated he feels that he can’t open his restaurant when he was told he could.
I had the exact same experience in Dallas! Couldn’t find a sympathy card at either store I went to.
Just got a chill. ?
I don’t mean this as an ad, but you can order and personalize lots of cards, including sympathy cards, at the site: greeting card universe . I’ve used it a lot and have discount codes. PM me if you want them. I just ordered a bunch of cards (birthdays, anniversaries, father’s day all upcoming).
Anyone notice that ads for cemeteries started showing up on Facebook feeds?
My state has lost its first child to multisystem inflammatory syndrome, brought on by Covid-19. The first teenager to die of Covid here also had heart failure so he might have had MSIS-C too, but that was about 2 months ago.
There are 12 other children with it in the state and 4 of them are hospitalized. The median age is 11.
No. I’m getting ads for beach wrap skirts. 
Texas Supreme Court apparently doesn’t think in-person voting during a pandemic presents “a likelihood …of injuring the voter’s health“ for people under 65.
Ironically they heard the case while working remotely like the WI Supreme Court.
“The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a push to expand vote-by-mail to registered voters in the state amid the pandemic, saying that a lack of immunity to the coronavirus does not count as a “disability” for which a voter can apply for a mail-in ballot.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/politics/texas-supreme-court-blocks-vote-by-mail-expansion/index.html
I get ads for wine!
Food. I get ads for food, local food delicacies they’d ship right to my house.
The fear of getting Covid-19 is not considered a disability and therefore not a qualifying reason for an absentee ballot in Missouri.
I hope things go well for you in your county. I haven’t been following individual counties progress as well as I could. I am grateful the my county, Harford, has followed the least restrictive path. I understand other areas may be harder hit. I want to find the county data that Hogan was showing today about positive test percentages. That should tell a lot.
I personally wouldn’t characterize it as a “fear” of getting of sick, but rather a reasonable expectation that you could/would get sick coupled with a small but real probability of serious injury or death. The same way shelter in place orders weren’t based on fear but rather on science.
I’m just spoiled from living in a state where you don’t need a reason for an absentee ballot, I guess. I hope everybody that’s forced to vote in person this year stays safe.
And wasn’t the sentiment expressed from someone who remains in total lockdown?
Yes. But I read (not on this thread) how the mental effects suffered by college students who might not get their sleepaway experience are more important than anything, and justify the college staff’s exposure to covid. The staff doesn’t matter. If they don’t want the job, they can quit! The optic isn’t good.
Well, there isn’t going to be any voting a poster off the CC island, nor should there be.
But you are right about the vagueness of what was supposed to happen in this thread. And was it also the other covid threads that were going to be on “loose moderation”? What about the school and covid one? That got quite contentious, and for some odd reason a very important voice in that thread was shut down.
It seems so inconsistent. Certain posters apparently get warnings for things other posters are allowed to do. I’ve seen mods posting in threads that they moderate (it’s either a rule or it isn’t).
The change in moderation was because there were so few mods. Now there are more (3 more?), so what is going to happen after this month?
I occasionally watch Cuomo’s pressers. As recently as just last week, reporters still ask him about the covid nursing home issue. Rather than apologize, he just keeps deflecting blame. The phrase, “I made a mistake” doesn’t seem to be something he can say. What happened in NY is something that I hope he and his advisors lose sleep over for years to come. The spotlight was on NY, and they didn’t do very well (they also didn’t do well in other areas).
(They are not the only state that has had issues, but I don’t think the other states repeatedly tell anyone and everyone that NY is the best! Better than any other state!..oh, and he really needed to stop showcasing his daughter’s silly video contest in multiple pressers.)
Not sure what you are referring to. Can you provide a link? I’ve read a lot about the MH effects of the pandemic and resources to help manage the struggles, but I’ve not seen anything specifically about college students and summer programs. Are you referring to HS students who want to take summer programs on college campuses, or college students doing internships? The emotional toll this pandemic has taken on the population as a whole is much more widespread.
I hope the situation accelerates the move towards online or absentee voting for all. I do understand why courts are reluctant to consider fear over COVID a disability-the implications for other areas like OSHA and unemployment insurance are huge and best avoided.
My neighbor’s son was scheduled to have a stem cell transplant on March 19 (it was originally scheduled for the week earlier but delayed one week). The transplant was then cancelled by governors orders (Detroit area).
He just had his port inserted Tuesday with the transplant scheduled for next week.
In that time since March, he had to go back into chemotherapy and was hospitalized once for fever.
Our voting registrar specifically said to use disability as the reason for an absentee ballot, and encouraged people to do so.
I am starting to read how the fear of going back to work might look like for people preferring to just stay on unemployment.