yes obviously same here and as you can see thats why they tightened the rules.

and speaking of homeless, unlike the apparant typhoid mary types such as yourself, it is heartening to see that generally even the more mentally ill homeless in ny are wearing masks. :tup:

The (small) bar that I frequent the most here re-opened about a month ago.

I've been twice so far.

You need to check in when you arrive, wash your hands and wear a mask as you walk to your table.

You can take your mask off while seated. But if you get up (ie to go to the bathroom) you need to put it back on.

Servers all have masks or plastic visors.

You can't walk up to the bar to order a drink anymore. It's all table service.

The number of patrons is limited.

Adverts have adapted.
Here, it's for high speed train travel

"Choyez les bienvenus à bord de nos trains" is "Soyez les bienvenus à bord de nos trains" (Welcome aboard our trains).
The "S" replaced by "Ch" expresses the distortion of pronunciation with a mask. :haha:
There is also a double meaning because the verb "Choyer" exists and means means "to pamper".

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Pub TGV by Minato ku, sur Flickr

Trains stations are busy.
People are traveling all over the country.
Notice the big billboard with advices for fighting the COVID 19.
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Gare Montparnasse by Minato ku, sur Flickr

Corona or not, this shit was gonna happen eventually. The tax rape continues!

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Murphy hints tax hikes in N.J. are likely because of coronavirus

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https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/...ronavirus.html

^ Are you laughing out of joy or laughing in tears?

^^^^

Some more comedy material below.

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N.J. Borrowing Bill Could Lead to Statewide Property Tax Surcharges

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http://tomsriver.shorebeat.com/2020/...ax-surcharges/

Like the Joker laugh. A maniac laugh. :haha:

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Its funny because we have the highest property taxes in the nation, and now, a nice increase is "just" what folks need, and sales tax too! :tup:

Now, we'd think logically it would be a short term hike, to pay for Corona related rubbish, but I bet it will stick for years and years. Not going away. Corona is a good excuse to tax folks for a mismanaged budget to begin with.

Its absurd.

Sounds like the Federal income tax, which was meant to be for the top 0.5% of the population when initially implemented.

That would be nice if its the case, but NJ has an excellent track record of doing the opposite. Things remotely tied to sales tax, tolls, property tax surcharges will effect a lot of folks.

This will burden folks even more (middle/upper middle class folks). What they really need to do, if they want to help people with covid recovery, is consolidate school districts (huge huge chunk of costs for folks and budgets) on the local level and reduce some public workers. NJ is over policed (suburban town salaries are well over 100k for towns where the biggest crime is a man making a noise complaint after his stock price dropped), with rampant abuse of funds. My town has a specialty fit fire truck that can fight airplane fires, and there isn't a bloody airport in my town). Abuse I tell yah. The 3500 sq ft colonials doesn't warrant Newark Airport worthy equipment.

Its going to be interesting how Covid will shape the budgets of "X" location. Not just NJ, but FL, TX, CA, and so on. This is taking a huge toll on states. Let's hope the Feds help states because if the burden is on the citizens in the acute sense (in NJ's case, these will permanent I bet, always is).

Have to make sure working age people suffer even more because the elderly (like our own Pedestrian) refused to just stay in their own damn houses.

Actually because people like 10023 have to enjoy life. Don't blame others for your sociopathy.

God damn you Pedestrian! Stay the fuck home so guys like 10023 can hit the gym and have cocktails afterwards without being inconvenienced.

Lol, taxes almost never go down in Illinois. In fact they are always trying to find something new to tax because our pols have no ability to control government spending.

We could have far better federal programs to support small businesses and the unemployed. It's not the shutdowns, but the lack of assistance.

It would be the same inconvenience, but forced on far fewer people, and with less opportunity cost. Let’s be honest, from about the age of 30 every year of life is worth less than the one that came before.

I’m not being a hypocrite, I feel exactly the same about my own later years.

I know you guys hate this, but tough. There has been generalised suffering when there only needed to be targeted suffering. And in terms of real economic harm, the lockdowns have only affected the young and not the old they were meant to protect. No one’s social security or pension payments have been reduced, but lots of incomes and career prospects and educations have suffered greatly. It’s all the result of a political power imbalance that favours the old.

UCSF Grand Rounds: A tale of four COVID-19-ridden cities

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Euthanasia is the answer.

It's clear your approach is to control the behavior of anyone whose behavior limits your own.

For you maybe but I am enjoying life more now in my 40's than I did in my 20's. I was broke then, out of shape and clueless about life in general. The only thing I was able to do then was party until 3AM and not sleep the next day away.

As for Pedestrian, it's selfish Zoomers and Millennials who refuse to take pandemic seriously the reason why the US is in the shape it's in with skyrocketing cases. If everyone wore masks and social distanced for a month or two, we all could go back to normal.

People like 10023 simply don't grasp the basics of Covid. It seems like he never will.

I said “about 30” for a reason. Most people are broke and/or working too hard in their 20s to really enjoy them, but one’s 30s should be the time to have disposable income and the youth to enough it. It’s all downhill from there.

You have been frightened into thinking that the risks to younger, healthy people are greater than they actually are (i.e., infinitesimal) by a concerted public health and media campaign conducted to promote compliance with things like social distancing and mask-wearing amongst people who aren’t really vulnerable to this.

But people aren’t stupid, and everyone in their 20s and 30s knows that they are taking a greater risk crossing the street than going to a restaurant or meeting with friends without a mask.