Man (Stories) during Corona

[ADoyle90815]

On 12/23/2020 at 7:26 AM, nokidsmom said:

Event contract cancellation terms can vary in flexibility and honestly back when I planned big events while I was at The Big Company I hated doing those contracts.   If there was a need to cancel, and the Big Company had a penchant for doing that on a regular basis when they needed to cut costs, we would be stuck shelling out serious cash anyway. 

That said, I have wondered how couples are managing with cancellation clauses in their contracts due to Covid and unfortunately this venue was not going to be flexible.   I imagine some others are, though, probably for the reason above: bad publicity, even local, will hurt them more.    And it could help those venues recover post pandemic if they are known to be accommodating in a crisis versus the competition who wasn't. 

I'm just relieved that we hadn't started actively planning our wedding, originally set for May of 2021, but over the summer, we decided it was better to just postpone it until 2022. Most who had already been planning weddings had just cut it way back to the couple, officiant, and witnesses with the ceremony being streamed online.

[Black Aliss]

On 12/22/2020 at 5:29 AM, 47of74 said:

It’s frustrating watching the fuzz calmly try to reason with this bastard when they should have cuffed him and dragged his ass down town. 

That's called "white privilege"

[AmazonGrace]

So this person who wants to run for Congress from NY in 2022 attended the Mar-a-Lago super spreader event maskless and is now upset that people are upset with him.

 

[AmazonGrace]

Thems Bad People

 

 

[JMarie]

On 1/3/2021 at 6:33 AM, AmazonGrace said:

So this person who wants to run for Congress from NY in 2022 attended the Mar-a-Lago super spreader event maskless and is now upset that people are upset with him.

 

His fiancee has been working 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week, for the past 9 months, while living in New York, and still found time to jet on down to Florida for a Trumpless Trump party. Wow.

[47of74]

Why I want to move out of Iowa in a nutshell

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A large but peaceful group of protesters that has concerns about mask mandates and vaccination guidelines gathered inside the Rotunda.

The group is called Informed Choice Iowa and about 200 of them gathered at the Statehouse

They chanted “freedom” repeatedly and several members used a bullhorn to speak to their supporters.

None of the people in the protest wore masks. They say Gov. Kim Reynolds has abused the emergency powers act by mandating masks.

I don't know what reality they're all viewing but she has done next to nothing in the pandemic.

[47of74]

That's the hill you're gonna die hard on, Bruce?

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Bruce Willis was asked to leave a Los Angeles Rite Aid on Monday after he refused to wear a mask, a spy tells Page Six.

The spy says people inside the store became upset that Willis, 65, wasn’t wearing a mask — despite having a bandanna tied around his neck, which he could have easily pulled up.

We’re told the “Die Hard” star, who was photographed at the store without a mask on, walked away without making his purchase.

A rep for Willis didn’t return Page Six’s request for comment.

I hope the employees told him (in an Alan Rickman voice) Yipee-ki-yay mother fucker. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

I'm a grown man so I don't want to have any adult responsibility. 

[AmazonGrace]

https://cbs12.com/news/local/maskless-woman-who-refused-to-leave-business-says-her-constitutional-rights-were-violated

[AmazonGrace]

 

[47of74]

11 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

https://cbs12.com/news/local/maskless-woman-who-refused-to-leave-business-says-her-constitutional-rights-were-violated

Yeah I was just heading over here to make mention myself of Florida Karen's anti-mask adventures.

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When Cindy Falco DiCorrado, a 61-year-old resident of nearby Boynton Beach, refused to wear a mask upon entering Einstein Bros. around 11 AM, a store manager called cops.

While waiting for Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies to arrive, DiCorrado declared, “I’m an American and I’m allowed to breathe. And it’s against my religion. And it’s against the amendment.” As she referenced purported legal citations proving that it was illegal to require masks inside a private business, an onlooker asked her, “Shouldn’t you be storming the Capitol?”

As seen in the above videos, a deputy calmly tried to convince DiCorrado to leave the shop, but she told him, “You need to read the Constitution!” and “Get you hands off of me.” She also claimed that the cop was “kidnapping” her when he grasped her wrist.

DiCorrado, who is a registered Republican, was arrested last May for trespassing and resisting at a West Palm Beach restaurant where two of her friends had been arrested a day earlier (apparently as part of a mask protest). DiCorrado told cops she was on the property because her friends “wanted to hold signs to the public.”

If you read on, yeah she's a complete Branch Trumpvidian. 

What amendment would that be lady?  The one that says you have a constitutional right to be a dumbass?

[Ozlsn]

35 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

Yeah I was just heading over here to make mention myself of Florida Karen's anti-mask adventures.

If you read on, yeah she's a complete Branch Trumpvidian. 

What amendment would that be lady?  The one that says you have a constitutional right to be a dumbass?

It is the exact same mentality as the people who entered the Capitol buildings. I am white, middle class, and therefore I am not a criminal and should face no consequences for anything I want to do. 

Why do these idiots fail to understand what the first amendment actually says? Oh well, hope they add resisting arrest or equivalent to her trespassing charges.

[Ozlsn]

42 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

“I’m an American and I’m allowed to breathe. And it’s against my religion. And it’s against the amendment.”

Well she's got 2 out 4 right, but given that masks don't prevent you breathing I'm not sure that either of those two have any relevance. I'm sure in her mind she's Rosa Parks.

[JMarie]

On 1/16/2021 at 3:36 AM, AmazonGrace said:

https://cbs12.com/news/local/maskless-woman-who-refused-to-leave-business-says-her-constitutional-rights-were-violated

She seems pleasant. Love the leopard print outfit.

[47of74]

On 1/16/2021 at 2:26 PM, Ozlsn said:

It is the exact same mentality as the people who entered the Capitol buildings. I am white, middle class, and therefore I am not a criminal and should face no consequences for anything I want to do. 

Why do these idiots fail to understand what the first amendment actually says? Oh well, hope they add resisting arrest or equivalent to her trespassing charges.

Like so many of her fellow Branch Trumpvidian cultists she's a Constitutional Scholar who went to Facebook University School of Law.  As well as an infectious disease expert who went to the same university's school of Medicine.

And since she's an older white woman that of course means she doesn't get beat up or worse for resisting but merely has extra charges tacked on.  That story would have ended in a very different manner if she was a minority. 

[AmazonGrace]

Family that stays together covids together.

[Ozlsn]

And we have a batshit crazy "human rights lawyer" trying to sue here.

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Midway through her tirade against unnecessary masks, abusive vaccination programs, corrupt judiciary and lying public servants at an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne last month, Melbourne lawyer Serene Teffaha seemed almost to run out of breath. "I've given birth to this class action," she said.

One academic described the coronavirus protest movement as a whale shark, with every anti-5G, anti-vaxxer, medical sceptic, snake oil salesman and far-right libertarian feeding off it like pilot fish. Ms Teffaha, who rose from obscurity to reinvent herself as a "human rights lawyer" last year, has emerged as their champion.

It is perhaps not a surprise that she's risen to prominence during a pandemic, a time when baseless conspiracy theories about the dangers of 5G and the origins and spread of coronavirus have swirled feverishly.

Serene Teffaha has been drumming up clients for a catch-all class action that includes people affected by any form of detention, mandatory vaccination, business closures, residential aged care isolation, cross border rules, contact tracing, compulsory testing and masks and various other measures put in place to control the spread of coronavirus. She has raised at least $500,000 since May, but is yet to file any class actions. The federal government has made clear it will not make a coronavirus vaccine mandatory.

She is also representing Jenny D'Ubios, who escaped hotel quarantine in Perth on Boxing Day after claiming her detention was a violation of her human rights and based on a virus that did not exist. Ms D'Ubios was put into a maximum-security prison after police found out Ms Teffaha had mistakenly given the wrong address in her bail application.

Ms Teffaha appeared at a rally in Broadmeadows on December 6 to prosecute her argument against coronavirus restrictions, with a speech that described bureaucrats as "liars", judges as "corrupt" and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as "the most terrorist organisation". She also said there was no need to wear masks at a time they were mandatory in numerous settings in Victoria.

"This is gaslighting," she said.

"This is abusive behaviour. This is not on and we will call them out and if these judges are going to be corrupt we will call the judges on it.

"We will keep calling them all out until there's a revolution on the streets and if we need to shed blood for peace, then so be it."

Ms Teffaha was previously a senior lawyer with the Australian Taxation Office but left after lodging a whistleblower complaint and subsequently sued the ATO.

She said she has more than 2000 clients, each of whom must give a minimum upfront payment of $250. The money was being held in a trust, she said, and she had not yet paid herself for her work.

However, she said she was not required to hold in trust monies donated by people who had not signed a costs agreement.

Ms Teffaha has drawn the attention of anti-scamming activists including "Lucky Lance" Simon, a convicted criminal-cum-comedian married to Melbourne gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson, whose early scepticism about some coronavirus claims has been replaced by a crusade against those who seek to profit from it.

Mr Simon started by skewering anti-coronavirus groups. He has also targeted libertarian Facebook group Reignite Democracy Australia and right-wing activist Avi Yemeni, who has raised $100,000 through crowdfunding for a constitutional challenge against the lockdown.

He encouraged his followers to report Mr Yemeni to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for deceptive and misleading conduct. No action has been taken against Mr Yemeni regarding his fundraising.

Mr Simon said he had been contacted by many people who had donated to Ms Teffaha's class action and were concerned that nothing had happened yet. The rally footage has been sent to the Victorian Legal Services Board.

"Nothing she says makes sense, but she's a champion of the people because she's a lawyer," he said. "If someone like Serene Teffaha calls lawyers corrupt, people believe her and there's a huge attitude in society that the judges are all against us and I don't think that's helpful."

The Legal Services Board is prevented under the legislation from confirming whether a complaint has been received.

Ms Teffaha said she planned to file the "detention towers" class action this week, followed by the national class action and a COVID-19 vaccine challenge once it had been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

She said her use of the term "blood on the streets" was not meant to be taken literally, but referred to the expression coined by Baron Rothschild and intended as a plea for people to go against the crowd.

"My speech was a protest speech and was impassioned, which is not my usual demeanour," she said.

"I was not referring to all judges as corrupt but specifically the Family Court of Australia has many corruption issues with people taking children and forcing them to go with the perpetrator parent — I am doing an action on that."

So she's not totally without self-preservation- but I suspect she will be asked to appear before the Bar Association due to some of her comments. The legal fraternity take a lot if stuff seriously here, and calling judges and the legal system corrupt is reason to be asked to justify your actions at the very least.

Also "whale shark", heh.

[AmazonGrace]

President of Mexico has Covid because of course he has.

 

[Ozlsn]

Hospital incursions by covid deniers putting lives at risk say health leaders.

So these arseholes are now entering hospitals, filming patients and arguing that coronavirus is a hoax with medical staff.

I have some issues around some of the legislation regulating protest here and in the UK, but holy hell people should be able to work in their workplace without having to worry about these morons. They should also be able to enter their workplace without having to run a gauntlet of idiots.

Quoting from the article:

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In the latest example of a growing trend, a group of people were ejected by security from a Covid-19 ward last week as one of them filmed staff, claimed that the virus was a hoax and demanded that a seriously ill patient be sent home

“He will die if he is taken from from here,” a consultant tells the man on footage, which was later shared on social media. Following contact by the Guardian, Facebook took down footage and other shocking posts in which conspiracy theorists described NHS staff as “ventilator killers”.

...

The man behind the camera says that patient should be brought home and the treatment replaced with vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, but is told by the consultant: “None of those are proven treatments for coronavirus.”

You know what? If it wasn't unethical I would be all in favour of treating these morons with vitamins and zinc. Why bother with ICU when you can struggle to breathe at home, right?

Gah, they make me so angry.

[danvillebelle]

A friend of mine got into a shouting match with some moron at the gas pump the other day because he made fun of her husband wearing a mask.  She informed him that her daughter has had the virus and that it killed her uncle.  He still claimed it's all a hoax.  

I don't understand.  430,000 people are dead and millions of people still don't believe it's real.  There is no way to combat that.  How can you?  It's impossible.  Where do they think 430,000 people went?  How can they think all those families are faking their mourning?  

My dad said to me on the phone last night that he's frightened (about the fact that half the country is not living in the same reality as the other half).  I can't remember ever hearing him say that out loud to me in my entire life.  He's 79 years old, still works full time out of necessity, delivering for a pharmacy...and still hasn't gotten the vaccine.

I can't think about it for too long or I know my depression and anxiety disorder will start kicking my ass with a vengeance. 

[47of74]

An actual Karen is in trouble now for getting stupid about masks

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A 55-year-old Parma Heights woman is facing several criminal charges after she refused to wear a mask inside a Northeast Ohio grocery store.

According to Brook Park police, Karen Turner was arrested on Jan. 18 at the Marc’s on Smith Road for refusing to leave after being asked by employees because she was in violation of the store’s mask policy.

Body camera video obtained by 19 News shows Turner refusing to leave or provide identification to Brook Park officers. She then continued to resist police as they escorted her to a cruiser.

Court records filed with the Berea Municipal Court show that Turner pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, criminal trespassing, and failure to disclose information.

 

[47of74]

The perils of using zoom without checking the settings first. 
 

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A lawyer in Texas became a viral sensation on Tuesday after accidentally activating a cat filter during a court hearing over Zoom.

Footage of the incident, which went viral on Twitter, shows attorney Rod Ponton struggling to deactivate the filter while appearing as a young feline.

In perhaps the best moment of the video, Ponton attempts to reassure the judge that he is in fact not a cat.

“I’ve got my assistant here, and she’s trying to remove it but uh… I’m prepared to go forward with it,” Ponton says. “I’m here live. I’m not a cat.”

Here’s the video in the spoiler  

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[Knight of Ni]

I had to do a one day conference over Zoom to get CEUs for my license I need for work. Usually these types of courses are in person but they've been virtual this year. Some people were tuning into the course from their homes.. One user must have forgot that his camera was on because 10 min into the first speaker he got up and didn't come back for the rest of the day. He still got credit since he was logged in but it was obvious he wasn't there.

[Ozlsn]

Today we had anti-vaccination protests in most major Australian cities. In Melbourne they had roughly five hundred people (out of over 4 million, so... not huge) and marched from the park across the road to the main hospital that deals with infectious diseases (presumably they started at the other end of the park and marched along St Kilda Rd otherwise it's a very short march). 

I am a bit done with them to be honest - no one is forcing the not-yet-rolled-out-here vaccines on them, no one (well.. maybe except me) is proposing that they not be covered by Medicare if they choose to not get vaccinated and then are hospitalised with covid. It's a lot of sound and fury by a tiny group - even with the vaccine hesitant groups included 71% of Australians would get the vaccine by October. It's not enough, no, but I think these numbers may change if we lock down again, particularly over winter. 

I still would like them to be liable for any disease spread by them if they choose not to vaccinate, and to be required to pay for treatment. But that's because I am over it, and sick of herd immunity freeloading when I have friends and family who have no choice but to rely on it.

[Ozlsn]

Apparently they also walked through a cricket match and caused it to have to be abandoned - thanks guys, like the lock down and covid hadn't screwed things up enough. I'm sure you won friends and totally influenced people.

Still. Schadenfreude about parking fines tastes delicious - no, attending a political rally makes no difference to the two hour time limit.