Rant about people and COVID19 (mostly people)

[Platapus]

I went to the grocery store today. All throughout the store are signs to keep 6 feet apart and stickers and tape on the floor to help people.


However This plan will only work if PEOPLE would only put their sticking cellphones down for just a moment. Crikey, can people, even in these times, not put their stupid cell phone down and just do shopping?


Once again the aisles were blocked by people not shopping. Drove me nuts.


But wait, it gets worse


While I was stuck in grocery traffic, I noticed this woman wearing an improvised face mask. The issue was that this face mask was made from an American Flag. Not material with the flag pattern, but a genuine flag. I could see the seams and hems.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why would anyone think this was appropriate? Yikes. I don't understand people and the more I am around them, the less I want to understand about them.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Platapus

But wait, it gets worse


While I was stuck in grocery traffic, I noticed this woman wearing an improvised face mask. The issue was that this face mask was made from an American Flag. Not material with the flag pattern, but a genuine flag. I could see the seams and hems.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why would anyone think this was appropriate? Yikes. I don't understand people and the more I am around them, the less I want to understand about them.

An off topic question

Don't you have laws when it comes to your flag.
If I understand what you wrote this woman have violated the flag.
In Sweden it would mean a fine or in severe case prison.

Markus

[Buddahaid]

Yes, but they are just generally ignored even to the rules regarding displaying the flag by those who are proud to do so. It's just ignorance mostly.

[Skybird]

Don't get me started. You don't really want it, so just don't do it. Really. Don't get me started.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by mapuc

An off topic question

Don't you have laws when it comes to your flag.
If I understand what you wrote this woman have violated the flag.
In Sweden it would mean a fine or in severe case prison.

Markus

Yes there are laws but when it comes to the National Flag they're treated more like a request for polite etiquette and any breach of said etiquette is normally protected free speech.

[Buddahaid]

I remember how disgusted I felt after a Giants game when about a thousand of the little US flags handed out to wave during the seventh inning stretch were just tossed under the seats. I still have mine.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by mapuc

An off topic question

Don't you have laws when it comes to your flag.
If I understand what you wrote this woman have violated the flag.
In Sweden it would mean a fine or in severe case prison.

Markus

We do have a law.

18 USC S 700 However the Supreme Court rendered a decision that this law was unconstitutional.



The courts would be overwhelmed if everyone who broke the flag laws was prosecuted.



Even our Olympic athletes use the Flag as a sweat rag and pose for pictures.

[blackswan40]

Cometh the Hour Cometh the men

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I went to the grocery store today. All throughout the store are signs to keep 6 feet apart and stickers and tape on the floor to help people.


However This plan will only work if PEOPLE would only put their sticking cellphones down for just a moment. Crikey, can people, even in these times, not put their stupid cell phone down and just do shopping?


Once again the aisles were blocked by people not shopping. Drove me nuts.


But wait, it gets worse


While I was stuck in grocery traffic, I noticed this woman wearing an improvised face mask. The issue was that this face mask was made from an American Flag. Not material with the flag pattern, but a genuine flag. I could see the seams and hems.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why would anyone think this was appropriate? Yikes. I don't understand people and the more I am around them, the less I want to understand about them.

I work at a grocery store so yeah I see this five days a week. I see people using those little produce bags as gloves, people totally ignoring the 6 foot rule, the signs and arrows in spite of the announcements every 30 minutes or so. People asking about when we're going to get a delivery of this, that or the other thing. You know what the problem is? People, people are the problem.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

You know what the problem is? People, people are the problem.

Yes. The time that dawned on me was the time when I quit psychology.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

You know what the problem is? People, people are the problem.

QFT

When I think back to how the UK bonded together during WWII enduring the blitz and widespread bombings it makes me shudder to think what the collective response would be if it happened now.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

QFT

When I think back to how the UK bonded together during WWII enduring the blitz and widespread bombings it makes me shudder to think what the collective response would be if it happened now.

Probably like this:

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

Probably like this:

[Eichhörnchen]

My wife waited outside the big LIDL store on Friday in an orderly queue... everyone waiting 6 feet apart... then (as is clearly the case in your parts too) this was all completely forgotten by many once they got in

Last week in ALDI it seemed to her that she was the only one complying... but the behaviour of the others made things impossible, and she said that many of them were the husbands, who were doing nothing but following their wives around the store... it really freaked her out. Luckily, LIDL is much bigger than ALDI and she was able to keep away from these morons

Believe it or not, I am a keen misanthropist, and this business is only making me keener. When I go out to the trash bins near the road I have to look up and down first for "Zees" as I've begun calling them; we live in the middle of nowhere, but over the past few weeks (since we were all told to stay home) the place has become overrun by cyclists and joggers

[vienna]

The Walmart store I went also has the tape markings on the floor and the queue outside the door, six feet apart waiting to get in; some stores like Walmart have begun to allow only so many persons per square footage to be in the store at the same time, so it a 'one out, one in' process; once inside the Walmart, almost without exception, people were trying to maintain distance while shopping; I did notice some of the younger shoppers seemed to give seniors, like myself, a wider berth than other shoppers when we approach; there may be some good from this, after all...

I am also not a social person and tend to prefer my own company, both in the real world on online; in my last job, when I said I didn't use social media at all, a coworker asked "Why Not?"; one of the other workers who had known me for a few years said "Oh, he's waiting until some one comes up with "Anti-social Media"...

I use to enjoy taking walks because LA is such a car city the sidewalks are very often fairly wide open; now, with the lock down, more people with nowhere to drive to are walking around their neighborhoods; I don't recall seeing the amount of foot traffic on the local side streets as I have in recent weeks; noticeable has been the reduction of people glued to their cell phone locally; I guess if you're not planning social meets or calling ride shares, or going to restaurants and sending photos of whatever it is you're eating, cell hones just don't have much purpose other than the mundane phone call...







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