this is NOT PMR related. But made me laugh out loud. So true about so many! (if directed I'll take it down. mcsweeneys.net/articles/ano...
NOT PMR> but a laugh for the day.: this is NOT PMR... - PMRGCAuk
NOT PMR> but a laugh for the day.
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DorsetLadyPMRGCAuk volunteer
Unfortunately a lot nearer the truth than most of us would like!
We’ve had another manic weekend on some beaches here in Dorset (south coast)!
Ha as you say: laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing ( beaches rammed in Leigh on sea as well) 😰
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Oh dear ...
Sky News had an article about the come to Jesus meetings on California beaches. The lady said "Christ Overcomes Victory In Disease". Yes maam - you believe that.
Later there was an article in our local Italian online paper; All the novices at the Frances of Assissi monastery have tested positive. They had been in contact with people who were there for a retreat. A young French guy had flu symptoms and a fever so was tested together with his parents who are also positive. But they are continuing to hold mass with appropriate precautions ...
😳no wonder some people get led into dangerous situations!
A few months ago, as things were starting to get dire in the US, I heard a woman saying she was covered in the blood of Christ so she wouldn't get covid. One of the many who attended religious services despite them being so dangerous. Un-be-liev-able.
"Christ Overcomes Victory In Disease" If death is considered "victory in disease".. it is a way of defeating the virus or any infection, as it cannot eventually survive on a dead body... so that statement sound fair to me? I gess it's not what it is supposed to mean?
😉 witty!
I remember reading somewhere that something is only funny if it's true, and this is funny.
My sister and her husband had to verbally abuse her BIL when he wanted to enter their home. He didn't need a mask because God was protecting him.
Is God a Catholic? (see my reply above 
)
Shakes head.
Apart from anything else she was very upset by the whole episode.
Even I would have been
I think most of us would have been. I think "angry" would be a better word!
It goes to show how hard it is when even families have difficulties respecting each other's boundaries. And also demonstrates how amazingly well we can do if we have the will. I hope they've been able to move on. 🤗
What about the others? What an attitude!
🙄What are people thinking....or are they NOT thinking. Covid is an equal opportunity infector and does not discriminate against sex, race or religion~~~everyone is welcome in the COVID-HOUSE..
It is up to us to control our environment and those we let in.
Recently one of my friends who is of a different political persuasion than I am had her son, DIL, and 10 others who had gathered in her son's home get Covid....and they had gathered for a worship since their church was closed and a pot-luck....YUK. One person died after 14 days. My friend still thinks the virus is exaggerated. I cannot have her visit and won't be comfortable for some time because of the people she keeps having in her home...I don't know who they know....or if they mask...?😥
xo
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It's sad isn't it, we are all going to have to learn new social behaviour. It seems some need a harder lesson than others.
I cannot tell you how sad this behaviour makes me feel. So many of us are trying so hard not be exposed to or to become vectors, and then there are the relative few who keep spoiling our efforts and making it all last longer. There are places in the world, I currently live in one (touches wood, crosses fingers), where covid is vanquished. Given good sense and willpower we humans could have managed this everywhere.
It may be a bit premature to say vanquished. People are mobile, nowhere is safe, we can not afford to be complacent.
I think the poor of the world, living crowded in slums, without running water may find it difficult to be as careful as they would like. Things are out of their hands.
We are far from complacent, we have worked very hard to get here, and are working hard to stay this way. This is why face masks are now mandated in indoor public spaces, new, to the dismay of those who can't understand why we have to be so careful when there hasn't been any community spread for months. We require anyone entering to self-isolate for two weeks. Recent cases have been found in a number of people coming into the province from other countries who have been following that protocol. Large crowds are prohibited, physical distancing remains in place everywhere. At present only one active (travel-related) case. Yes, I would say we had vanquished it. But we are also in a "bubble" geographically, where our neighbouring provinces have also done well. I still cannot safely travel to Ontario to visit my daughter and her family. If they came here they'd have to be quarantined for two weeks. The border with our large neighbouring country is likely to remain mostly closed for the foreseeable future. Some pundits are even saying into late 2021, but we shall see.
Our family is quite affected as not only are the visits back and forth to Ontario currently not feasible, but there was a wedding planned here for September, my younger son, and that has had to be cancelled. Pretty much every activity I had organized to fill my empty post-retirement days has been suspended since March. I have only met once with a friend for coffee when she invited me to sit on her spacious deck. I would say personally although I did very well for the first few months I am not doing well now. So no, we are not complacent, and some of us are really starting to suffer.
I think you know my son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren live in NS. Nova Scotia and its citizens have done a wonderful job and continue to work at it~! xo
We haven't got rid of it yet - but almost all new cases are from Italians who have travelled and brought it back, migrant workers come for the harvest or tourist season or their families. So quarantine helps stop the spread.
The migrant workers and travellers are the main source these days in Canada generally, but complacency has led to outbreaks in places where the disease had been under control.
Sounds like you've got it sorted a lot better than we have here. I'm still waiting to feel confident to go out. Every weekend people flock down here to the coast, often ignoring any rules, in the name of freedom.
I saw my doctor this morning. She was saying how thankful she is she lives here. We may all be grumbling about continued restrictions but we are also grateful.
Every time I try to summon up courage to go out further than my 20 min round the block walk I see pictures of the crammed beaches and scuttle back home again.. Also so few people on the streets here (west Sussex) seem to be wearing masks and my neighbour told me that quite a few are not wearing them in shops either. How can they be so selfish?
If we had all managed better from the beginning, the disease would not have got into places like that. However in many places, believe it or not, these areas are relatively unscathed, because of their social isolation! No one is flocking to a slum area to party, they head to a beach! We were very worried about our homeless, about our aboriginal communites. There was a community flare in a Black community. So what did we do? Housed the homeless in hotels (they loved it of course and some were known to say they hoped they would be able to stay there after the pandemic). The aboriginals set up their own additional barriers to passage in and out of their communities. The Black community which had the community spread was given its own testing station and community leaders were enlisted to encourage everyone to get tested.
Where we failed was when infection got into a large long term care facility. Of the 64 deaths in Nova Scotia, 53 took place in this one facility. Blame shared rooms (older building) and underpaid workers who worked in more than one place. A lot of the workers got sick too, not just the residents.
It's just keeping those borders locked and waiting a few months as they still don't know if it can live in parts of the body hidden away..like the brain, testes and resurrect itself?. (though if it did I would suspect the Chinese would have found out by now?)
It actually IS a tad discriminatory it seems ..it prefers men and they don't know why but they one possibility is maybe it may be lurking in the testes and that is why men get it worse than females. But they are only guessing.
250,000 COVIDiots have gathered in a small town in South Dakota, USA:
usatoday.com/story/news/nat...
That is a SAD SAD fact....when you think of all the people they will come in contact with after they leave the gathering~~~sometimes I'm more angry than sad. These folks have subjected themselves voluntarily.....In the states there are many groups who suffer greatly because they lack the basics. xo
And the difference, allowing for scale of course, is the annual Wharf Rat rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, is not happening this year.
Hysterical!
Sadly, this is the attitude of far too many.
So spot on!!! I loved it! Thank you!
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