@Jolly said in 104,000: @Loki said in 104,000: @Jolly said in 104,000: @Loki said in 104,000: Regular beds can easily be flipped to an ICU bed. I have no idea why this is never mentioned. Bless your heart, you don't know what you're talking about. So you are arguing that hospitals in general are at or near capacity and can’t take on new Covid patientsas a widespread issue? Good luck with that. I'm not arguing. I know what I'm talking about. You don't just wave a magic wand and create ICU beds. You can wave a magic wand and convert Med/Surg units, even cardiac units to COVID units, but not ICU units. And ICU nurses ain't floor nurses. The gap is wide and deep. Never mind. We are talking past each other. I know what a traditional ICU bed is and it’s too bad you thought I was being literal about expanding that. Seriously, I’m done with this.

I dunno, she's made the Judge in that case look like a sniveling, partisan hack.

@xenon said in Realign: @Copper everything by the government is funded by citizens. No There is a difference between paying an insurance premium for my own individual coverage and having the government just give it away to everyone, most of whom pay nothing

Politucal ramifications, assuming he can do it?

@AndyD said in Interesting: I like this, our border collie is still 99% wolf and will eat anything offered (excepting quinoa). He needs that badge and we need to take that pledge You tried to feed a dog quinoa? really? 55555

Almost verbatim the conversation I had with my old boss yesterday.

@taiwan_girl said in 8,000,000?: @Jolly said in 8,000,000?: The media has no right to select a President. This falls exclusively under the domain of the American people. Is he suggest remove the electoral vote??? No.

@AndyD said in I have questions: It's been Air Farce One for much of the last four years, so the world is hoping for better. BTW, in case you haven't heard, Trump lost He may have lost a battle, but he won the war.

More on the silver lining front: "Peter Sutcliffe, UK [serial] killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, dies with coronavirus." https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_701ca36026fccae33756b03dff527b94

Which is why we need more oversight. And very, very few mail-ballots.

I suppose many of the 245 thousand American deaths so far have been due to COVID complications rather than only COVID, but when you start think about comparisons, the figures are numbing. The Pacific War with Japan cost the USA something like 120 thousand deaths, an horrendous amount. COVID deaths are already double that, and yet some Americans wearing flak jackets & semi-automatics are are refusing to wear a mask. I listened to their reasoning and felt, well, sadness more than anything, especially for their elderly relatives and friends. I think you are probably right John, worse than 60k american deaths before Christmas.

@89th Excellent! You will love it in Greater Minnesooooooota. That's what we call any part of the state not in the Twin Cities metro area. I highly recommend checking for housing in Greater Minnesooooooota. We're where the fun is!

I can't stand NewsMax - it's like CNN for the Right. All that red meat is just gross.

I want to work there.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched: @Jolly said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched: @taiwan_girl said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched: It would be an interesting poll to ask prisoners in jail if they were religious or not. My guess would be that the majority say that they are religious. Depends if they are on death row. If I was on death row, I don't think I'd want to believe in OT God, because in that scenario chances are things are only going downhill after the injection. Oh, I'm not talking out of my hat...My wife's uncle worked Death Row for years. I've been places down at Angola that you never could...After the guys knew me, I've had bars clang behind me many times as I was trying to get papers signed (guards don't always have relief). Camp C, Camp A and Death Row. I used to eat down at Camp F a good bit...White beans and smoked bologna over rice and a slice of cornbread ain't bad. Even back years ago, when Old Sparky was in use, I was down at the prison a good bit during hunting season. One of the guys I hunted with, bagged the remains after execution. So I've been all over the grounds and I've talked with a lot of cons. You'd be surprised at how many churches are on the grounds of Angola. Prisoner built, some of the work is pretty durn good. Lots of love in those boards. Many of those prisoners on The Farm will die on The Farm. Their coffins are built in the woodworking shop. Most if the time, nobody wants the body, so they get buried on the grounds. [image: 16623be1ba21d26c9a29931ba00b16a7.jpg] If grey walls are your life, religion offers hope. It offers a certain kind of mental freedom before death and spiritual freedom after.