Just Wondering

tbr, I'm not referring to this exact moment specifically.

When NY was reporting 10,000 a day, and Florida was reporting 300 - Florida is stupid.

When CA was reporting 2,500 a day and Florida was reporting 600 - Florida is stupid.

Now that Florida has 5,000 a day - well, I guess they are still stupid.

Its not to say that there isn't a serious cause for concern, I'm just referring to the near-constant singling out of Florida since almost the beginning of this.

Btw, for the sake of taking responsibility for the #s I post...

My infection rate in Ontario is wrong. I took the total # of cases in Canada and divided by the population of Ontario. So their actual rate is about 253 per 100,000.

"JW why the state with the 31st highest COVID infection rate is getting all the press as to how much it sucks."

C'mon man...

You are looking from the beginning of the outbreak.

All of the numbers for Florida are going the wrong way.

25% of cases identified in Florida were in the last 7 days.

And the rate of positive tests is 14.4% (rolling 7 day average).

Not to mention that there is significant evidence that Florida is falsifying their reported numbers, so it is probably worse than that...

Floriduh kept the beaches open for spring break to reap the financial gain only to close them once the out of state students left taking the Covid back to their homes, schools and families.

VAB: Seriously? It's pretty obvious that the media campaign against Florida is directed at the Governor, it began when he refused to order the beaches closed and a dozen college students on spring break tested positive for C-19. Governors with a R after their name wear a pretty big bullseye, regardless of reality.

JW why the state with the 31st highest COVID infection rate is getting all the press as to how much it sucks.

It's getting tiresome having Canadian friends and family talking about it from their position of ignorance. Yeah ok Florida has a case rate of 482 vs 693 for Ontario, and death rate of 15 vs 18 for Ontario (all per 100,000). Oh you saw it on the news - got it.

NandR, This is why I am a Pacifist, WAR? There never was and there never will be anything to win. Humans are bad.

NandR, yes I have looked up and totally expendable. Earth 6 1/2 billion years. Here today gone tomorrow. Crazy earthlings worry about climate change?????

just wondering if anyone has ever spent a significant amount of time looking up at the Milky Way and not been totally humbled by the experience. We really are just a pimple on the face of the universe...

Some of y'all really should do a ride-around with a local cop and see what they do every day, the people they deal with and the bullshit they tolerate, it would be very enlightening.

THAT 7, what are we going to send out there, SNOWFLAKES WITH GITTARS?

JW why if the object of this site is to allow people to hook up for recreational sex, why the admins continue to restrict the ways we can do that...

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JW how many job categories just tend to naturally attract exactly the wrong type of people needed to do the job effectively. Examples:

Job Title: Peace Officer
Skill sets most often needed: Defusing tension. Keeping peace. Restraint. Conflict resolution.
Most common traits of applicants: Control freaks. Inherent biases as to guilt and anticipated behavior. Suspicious nature.

Job Title: President
Skill sets most often needed: Diplomacy. Ability to compromise. Humility . Desire to serve. Ability to inspire confidence.
Most common traits of applicants: Narcissism. Arrogance. Sense of entitlement due to position. Paranoia about legacy.

JW if they can identify "control freaks" among applicants for police jobs. Seems to me, a control freak should never have a gun.

If you're doing your job, not a dirty cop, not abusive, don't assault citizens... You have nothing to fear about applying for these jobs.

Onefor: nothing in my post would lead any rational person to believe that's what I said.

New appointed Police will come from, "UNDER THE HOOD" and "MEXICAN CARTELS". Don't you feel safe.

So your belief is that if an officer can't bully, assault and brutalize there is nobody who would be willing to work as a cop?

Negotiations? Who the fuck in their right mind would apply for a cop's job in those cities after all this?

If they thought they had bad cops now, wait until next year.

All negotiations have to start somewhere (Put the fear of total disbandment into the PD mindset) and work their way to a middle ground.

I thought the assorted cities announcing they were defunding their police departments wanted to somehow break the Unions or weaken their protection of the "bad cops", but after listening to the Minneapolis City Council President it seems evident that they want to simply do just that: eliminate the police from society. The Mayor talked about re-structuring things and examining hiring practices and such, but the Council seemed to be saying that simply calling the Police to report crime is a racist act and shouldn't happen.

It's truly a WTF moment in Bizarro World.

I don't know what the MPD is thinking, but I think the broader goal of de-fund the police is a laudable one.

In fact, I think so highly of the idea that I think we should do it with our military, as well.

@Current,RE: dismantling of the PD in Minn.

I can't begin to help with what their intent is but if I were to hazard a guess they may be thinking along the lines of what was done here in NJ with the Camden PD. after Camden had become the crime capitol of the nation a few years back.

The Camden City PD was dismantled and was taken over by the Camden County PD, they fired all personnel and after a reapplication process rehired those deemed worthy along with new hires. They changed their policing style (not sure exactly what and how) to be more community oriented, and they now have reduced crime yearly ever since. (They were just mentioned in John Oliver's program on HBO this past Sunday)

I haven't tried to configure anything like that and honestly I don't think I want to. It's nice to have at least one place where I can avoid such distractions.

@VA

I'm damned if I've been able to figure out how to limit the voice reading on my car system. It seems it's like all or nothing, and I've worked on it a lot. If I want my text messages and voice mails to come through, I have to accept email notifications as well. Or I have to turn the email notifications off on my phone completely. Now, if a lifestyle person sends me a text message, I simply won't play it in mixed company, out of an abundance of caution. However, some of the spam I get courtesy of my lifestyle activities, is incriminating enough even without playing the message. For example: "You have...one...new email message....from....hot sluts are us dot com...subject...hey big guy...would you like. to....

By this point I will have probably driven into the ditch in my single minded haste to turn the volume down.