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    • AnesthetistA
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      Link wouldnt work for me.

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      IG: bluehandsslim

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      • DougNgD
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        Now?

        https://www.newsweek.com/inside-us-militarys-plans-stop-civil-disturbances-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-something-they-1493485

        I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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        • JDelageJ
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          The title is misleading as the only forces that can be used (AFAIK) for such use in the US is the nat'l guard. As I understand it, the Fed is very limited in what it can do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act).

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          • DougNgD
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            That is correct. The insurrection act prohibits the military to function on us soil

            Also impressed. Most people don’t know that

            I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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            • JDelageJ
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              <insert blushing="" emoji="" here="">(I'm a low-grade politics & political philosophy geek. Just got my US citizenship too….)</insert>

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              • GilesG
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                Should not even be a point of discussion.  Take the licence away, no exceptions….

                https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52016102

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • DougNgD
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                  They should also issue painful fines to anyone found in there.

                  I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                  • ChapC
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                    https://www.deutschland.de/en/news/germany-helps-italian-patients

                    👏👏👏

                    God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson

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                    • Stuart.TS
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                      I went to a food bank today to pick up supplies for a vulnerable adult I support in my job. It was based in a church in an affluent part of the Borough I work in. The vicar told me that a neighbour in an adjacent house had called the police to ask that they 'dispurse the crowds'… 'crowds' that were being quiet, observing social distancing, and in many cases were facing the prospect of using a food bank for the first time in their lives, and having to take their small children with them. The police arrived and advised the vicar that the food bank would have to close if people didn't practice social distancing.

                      We cannot let this crisis create even more of a them and us mindset than brexit already has. For fucks sake people, have some humanity (a general observation not aimed at people here).

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                      • GilesG
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                        😘 😘 😘

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • JDelageJ
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                          I have read at least 2 stories in France of health care workers being pressured out of their apartment by their neighbors who feared that they would bring the virus back into the building. (In one case, the pressure didn't work, but it very much was there.)

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                          • gaseousclayG
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                            @Stuart.T:

                            I went to a food bank today to pick up supplies for a vulnerable adult I support in my job. It was based in a church in an affluent part of the Borough I work in. The vicar told me that a neighbour in an adjacent house had called the police to ask that they 'dispurse the crowds'… 'crowds' that were being quiet, observing social distancing, and in many cases were facing the prospect of using a food bank for the first time in their lives, and having to take their small children with them. The police arrived and advised the vicar that the food bank would have to close if people didn't practice social distancing.

                            We cannot let this crisis create even more of a them and us mindset than brexit already has. For fucks sake people, have some humanity (a general observation not aimed at people here).

                            Grocery stores here have started implementing a social distancing policy by placing colored tape, 6 ft apart, on the floor to the checkout lanes. When I was in checkout some a-hole behind me decided to ignore this and was within 2 ft of me. I really wanted to lay into the guy for being a dick but I’m usually the non-confrontational type. Really chaps my ass when people have zero disregard for personal space, especially during this pandemic

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                            • Stuart.TS
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                              Social distancing wasn't the issue here. People were very observant of it, not least because most were mums with young kids. It was more a frustration that someone contacted the police, most likely because there was a food bank where usually is not one.

                              I went to my local pharmacy that also has a post office. They are operating a one in one out policy that was working really well until one dickhead literally pushed past me at the door. The pharmacist asked to leave. He looked at me with daggers. I had my work ID on, else I would have said something stronger.

                              The staff at both places were awesome and we're running such efficient systems. They were being the best of what a crisis can bring out of people. While NHS staff are doing a sterling job, there are thousands of other front line staff just getting on with incredibly important jobs that don't get a second look. People working to support the homeless (some of the most vulnerable at this time) are doing incredible stuff, and really placing themselves at risk as most don't have PPE

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                              • gaseousclayG
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                                @Stuart.T:

                                Social distancing wasn't the issue here. People were very observant of it, not least because most were mums with young kids. It was more a frustration that someone contacted the police, most likely because there was a food bank where usually is not one.

                                Oh for sure, I was just speaking to your point about people being selfish a-holes

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                                • S
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                                  Very well made video that ratcheted my anxiety up considering we’ve been half-assing most of these measures, and I haven’t yet been successful in putting my foot down on insisting on doing the grocery shopping for my parents.
                                  Welp, it’s a crapshoot in many respects anyway, I guess.

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                                  • Stuart.TS
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                                    On a lighter note  😃

                                    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PAEscaYG0L8G3trbyUEf-QAW_ghJ4DzM/view?usp=drivesdk

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                                    • DougNgD
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                                      On a darker note

                                      https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELM4DOBYYb0Q6pe5BA2dnhUqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTCtvxU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

                                      I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                                      • DougNgD
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                                        Just got a heads up from a police officer friend of mine that the new thing to look out for is that someone tackles you as you're going from the grocery store to the car and run off with your groceries…

                                        I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          One out, one in…...

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • DougNgD
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                                            @Giles

                                            What is that, a prison?

                                            I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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