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« Reply #75 on: April 11, 2020, 12:02:06 AM »
News says that the US is calling back overseas American citizens, and will punish countries refusing or delaying their citizens to leave the US.

What is it for? To wage a war? ???
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« Reply #76 on: April 11, 2020, 02:39:34 AM »
News says that the US is calling back overseas American citizens, and will punish countries refusing or delaying their citizens to leave the US.

What is it for? To wage a war? ???
Do you have an online link to hat? I’m not exactly sure what this refers to and I need a context.
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« Reply #77 on: April 11, 2020, 03:41:13 AM »
News says that the US is calling back overseas American citizens, and will punish countries refusing or delaying their citizens to leave the US.

What is it for? To wage a war? ???
Do you have an online link to hat? I’m not exactly sure what this refers to and I need a context.

The first piece is from Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelGov/status/1245869713827086336
https://twitter.com/TravelGov/status/1246197272989270022

The second piece is from RT: https://www.rt.com/usa/485552-us-sanctions-coronavirus-foreign-citizens/
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« Reply #78 on: April 11, 2020, 08:09:06 AM »
The US cannot compel its citizens to return. There are saying if one is a US citizen on non-essential travel with plans to do so, they need to make arraignments as soon as possible, that was a week ago. A number of countries have since closed their borders to nonessential travel, or all travel.

That is different than the second news item you links which deals with foreign nations who aren’t being accepted in the US or who cannot remain because their permits or visa have been withdrawn or have expired. If a home country is refusing to accept their citizens or residents, then the US will plan sanctions against that country.

Two unrelated actions.
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« Reply #79 on: April 11, 2020, 10:30:22 AM »
Moving forward, lets all post LINKS to any "news" being discussed. Thanks!
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« Reply #81 on: April 15, 2020, 09:03:27 AM »
And that IS a comfort and a joy!!
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« Reply #82 on: April 25, 2020, 01:58:49 AM »
 :ghug: Hi, all. I'm new to this forum, but not new to reality forums. I stumbled upon this one tonight because I was just thinking about all of the joy I used to get from Big Brother/Survivor/TAR forums and at a time like this, it's nice to have a good distraction so here I am.

So, I'm currently in California (originally from Kentucky) and it's been an interesting time. I work at a major theme park here in California and I've been out of work due to Covid-19 since March 14th and we're not expected to open until June...if that. I've been in quarantine ever since I came home from work on March 13th and I've only left the house once to get groceries. These last couple weeks, I've been getting my groceries delivered. If you leave the house, go to the store, ride in an Uber, etc then you're expected to wear a mask. Thankfully, a friend of mine offered to sew me some masks.

There have been over 16,000 people infected in the county I'm in and everything is still mostly closed. Parks, beaches, hair salons, etc. I was watching the news tonight and they showed a lot of people gathering at the beaches here, despite them being closed. The police will be fining people at the beaches that are disobeying the stay-at-home order. It was 98 degrees today and it'll be in the mid 90s again tomorrow. I know it's hot and people want to go to the beach to cool off, but the best thing to do right now is stay home.

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« Reply #83 on: April 25, 2020, 11:26:08 AM »
:ghug: Hi, all. I'm new to this forum, but not new to reality forums. I stumbled upon this one tonight because I was just thinking about all of the joy I used to get from Big Brother/Survivor/TAR forums and at a time like this, it's nice to have a good distraction so here I am.

So, I'm currently in California (originally from Kentucky) and it's been an interesting time. I work at a major theme park here in California and I've been out of work due to Covid-19 since March 14th and we're not expected to open until June...if that. I've been in quarantine ever since I came home from work on March 13th and I've only left the house once to get groceries. These last couple weeks, I've been getting my groceries delivered. If you leave the house, go to the store, ride in an Uber, etc then you're expected to wear a mask. Thankfully, a friend of mine offered to sew me some masks.

There have been over 16,000 people infected in the county I'm in and everything is still mostly closed. Parks, beaches, hair salons, etc. I was watching the news tonight and they showed a lot of people gathering at the beaches here, despite them being closed. The police will be fining people at the beaches that are disobeying the stay-at-home order. It was 98 degrees today and it'll be in the mid 90s again tomorrow. I know it's hot and people want to go to the beach to cool off, but the best thing to do right now is stay home.

Welcome to RFF panikmoon! So glad you found us.

We are having the same issues here (Ga) as our Governor has unwisely opened up multiple non-essential businesses.

I saw some of the FL beaches that were opened and there was no safe distancing or masks going on.  As a medical professional that is literally terrifying. I hope we can start finding better ways to lighten restrictions without risking lives. For now I too am being compulsively safe. The only good thing about 90 degree weather is that there is some hope heat will reduce the spread. TBD.

We have a great community here, I hope you have fun. Please browse around and find places to join in. Great discussion is the most thought producing and fun thing we do. Survivor (US and AUS) and all versions of Amazing Race are our most popular.

Amazing Race 32 airing is coming soon (that's my favorite lol) and you can read and join in all the episode discussion live time if you like or after. Cast reveal soon, poor teams have been waiting over two years. We are known for our live tracking spoilers so if you don't mind knowing stuff that is a fun thread. But if you prefer being unspoiled those threads are clearly marked.

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« Reply #84 on: April 25, 2020, 07:34:56 PM »
Daniel Andrews, James Merlino, open the Victorian schools. Children are not at risk of being infected with COVID-19 at school and we are being denied a full education by the move to online learning.

Your 'Chief Health Officer' is certainly acting on your government's demands he is not acting independently, as he should be!

Open golf courses, open driving tests, allow people t sit on a pier by themselves nd fish, 9thoput them cooping a $1652 fine. Allow people to gather in no more than groups of 10 in the private home. GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, or people will take to the streets, like in America! Do you want that Premier Andrews?

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« Reply #85 on: April 26, 2020, 03:04:20 AM »
:ghug: Hi, all. I'm new to this forum, but not new to reality forums. I stumbled upon this one tonight because I was just thinking about all of the joy I used to get from Big Brother/Survivor/TAR forums and at a time like this, it's nice to have a good distraction so here I am.

So, I'm currently in California (originally from Kentucky) and it's been an interesting time. I work at a major theme park here in California and I've been out of work due to Covid-19 since March 14th and we're not expected to open until June...if that. I've been in quarantine ever since I came home from work on March 13th and I've only left the house once to get groceries. These last couple weeks, I've been getting my groceries delivered. If you leave the house, go to the store, ride in an Uber, etc then you're expected to wear a mask. Thankfully, a friend of mine offered to sew me some masks.

There have been over 16,000 people infected in the county I'm in and everything is still mostly closed. Parks, beaches, hair salons, etc. I was watching the news tonight and they showed a lot of people gathering at the beaches here, despite them being closed. The police will be fining people at the beaches that are disobeying the stay-at-home order. It was 98 degrees today and it'll be in the mid 90s again tomorrow. I know it's hot and people want to go to the beach to cool off, but the best thing to do right now is stay home.

Welcome to RFF panikmoon! So glad you found us.

We are having the same issues here (Ga) as our Governor has unwisely opened up multiple non-essential businesses.

I saw some of the FL beaches that were opened and there was no safe distancing or masks going on.  As a medical professional that is literally terrifying. I hope we can start finding better ways to lighten restrictions without risking lives. For now I too am being compulsively safe. The only good thing about 90 degree weather is that there is some hope heat will reduce the spread. TBD.

We have a great community here, I hope you have fun. Please browse around and find places to join in. Great discussion is the most thought producing and fun thing we do. Survivor (US and AUS) and all versions of Amazing Race are our most popular.

Amazing Race 32 airing is coming soon (that's my favorite lol) and you can read and join in all the episode discussion live time if you like or after. Cast reveal soon, poor teams have been waiting over two years. We are known for our live tracking spoilers so if you don't mind knowing stuff that is a fun thread. But if you prefer being unspoiled those threads are clearly marked.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions, we welcome you!

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Thank you! I too am a huge TAR fan, so I'm looking forward to this season. It'll be a good distraction from all of the crazy things going on in the world. It has been too long since it last came on and it came back at the perfect time because we need this now more than ever with everything Coronavirus going on. I'll be checking out that section of the forum soon.

As I mentioned before, I'm originally from Kentucky and I lived there for over 25 years. I spoke with my mother today about how the Coronavirus is affecting my home state and its been crazy over there. Recently there was a protest to "open Kentucky" and a few hundred showed up...very few wore a mask and even fewer practiced social distancing. Honestly, it's just not the time for that right now, especially not where I'm from (Eastern Kentucky, an incredibly rural area) because there aren't very many hospitals around and the hospitals that are there aren't well equipped to handle so many cases of COVID-10 properly. For example, even before COVID-19, if you were to become incredibly sick at our local hospital, you would be flown to a hospital over 2 hours away to be treated. That hospital is treating the majority of cases in Kentucky. I believe the state is now at 3,905 cases with 205 deaths and this is just in a few weeks. If the people of my state don't take this seriously, that number of cases will skyrocket and I'm so, so worried about my mother and my grandparents.

https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Tennessee-ranks-among-top-states-most-at-risk-for-severe-COVID-19-cases-569952431.html

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« Reply #87 on: April 26, 2020, 06:40:04 AM »
Daniel Andrews, James Merlino, open the Victorian schools. Children are not at risk of being infected with COVID-19 at school and we are being denied a full education by the move to online learning.

Your 'Chief Health Officer' is certainly acting on your government's demands he is not acting independently, as he should be!

Open golf courses, open driving tests, allow people t sit on a pier by themselves nd fish, 9thoput them cooping a $1652 fine. Allow people to gather in no more than groups of 10 in the private home. GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, or people will take to the streets, like in America! Do you want that Premier Andrews?

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This is a very irresponsible post.

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« Reply #88 on: April 26, 2020, 07:38:27 AM »
Daniel Andrews, James Merlino, open the Victorian schools. Children are not at risk of being infected with COVID-19 at school and we are being denied a full education by the move to online learning.

Your 'Chief Health Officer' is certainly acting on your government's demands he is not acting independently, as he should be!

Open golf courses, open driving tests, allow people t sit on a pier by themselves nd fish, 9thoput them cooping a $1652 fine. Allow people to gather in no more than groups of 10 in the private home. GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, or people will take to the streets, like in America! Do you want that Premier Andrews?

:groan:

This is a very irresponsible post.

It’s really not. Cases have dropped in Victoria dramatically since the start to mid April. Queensland and Western Australia are going to start to reopen activities on Friday. Tasmania & SA are sending their kids back to school? Why are Victorians suffering, when the Prime Minister AND Australia’s Chief Medical Officer says it is perfectly acceptable to send children to school. The Premier has loved power ever since he was first elected in 2014. Andrews would love to keep us ‘locked up’,  cause Andrews is a borderline socialist/communist. However Matthew Guy lost the election in 2018 is behind my belief. Hurry up and put Michael O’Brien in power, he would at least be responsible in the handing of this crisis!

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« Reply #89 on: April 26, 2020, 08:02:52 AM »
Daniel Andrews, James Merlino, open the Victorian schools. Children are not at risk of being infected with COVID-19 at school and we are being denied a full education by the move to online learning.

Your 'Chief Health Officer' is certainly acting on your government's demands he is not acting independently, as he should be!

Open golf courses, open driving tests, allow people t sit on a pier by themselves nd fish, 9thoput them cooping a $1652 fine. Allow people to gather in no more than groups of 10 in the private home. GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, or people will take to the streets, like in America! Do you want that Premier Andrews?

:groan:

This is a very irresponsible post.

It’s really not. Cases have dropped in Victoria dramatically since the start to mid April. Queensland and Western Australia are going to start to reopen activities on Friday. Tasmania & SA are sending their kids back to school? Why are Victorians suffering, when the Prime Minister AND Australia’s Chief Medical Officer says it is perfectly acceptable to send children to school. The Premier has loved power ever since he was first elected in 2014. Andrews would love to keep us ‘locked up’,  cause Andrews is a borderline socialist/communist. However Matthew Guy lost the election in 2018 is behind my belief. Hurry up and put Michael O’Brien in power, he would at least be responsible in the handing of this crisis!

bourkie this is a disaster of a post with misinformation up to the eyeballs please don't do this

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« Reply #90 on: April 26, 2020, 08:22:40 AM »
As if the Murdoch media and the red tops can be trusted over this pandemic.

Anyway, my heart goes all out for the people affected by the pandemic. Hope this can be over as soon as possible.
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« Reply #91 on: April 26, 2020, 12:16:56 PM »
Speaking from years of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine...putting children into any environment where they are in close quarters with limited understanding of maintaining a safe distance is asking for trouble. Reopening schools is hopefully going to be one of the last things to happen.

Love you Bourkie but your info/source is definitely wrong about this.

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Okay guys...MOVE IT ON please!  :ghug:
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« Reply #92 on: May 01, 2020, 08:25:05 AM »
Speaking from years of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine...putting children into any environment where they are in close quarters with limited understanding of maintaining a safe distance is asking for trouble. Reopening schools is hopefully going to be one of the last things to happen.

Love you Bourkie but your info/source is definitely wrong about this.

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Okay guys...MOVE IT ON please!  :ghug:

I work in a special needs school library. Trust me, it's the last place I want to be in a pandemic situation (apart from the hospitals). Thank goodness there wasn't an outbreak before the government closed the schools.
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« Reply #93 on: May 01, 2020, 09:42:27 AM »


I work in a special needs school library. Trust me, it's the last place I want to be in a pandemic situation (apart from the hospitals). Thank goodness there wasn't an outbreak before the government closed the schools.

Hopefully they will find a way to continue to provide remote schooling even for special needs. In which case your library skills will be needed. :kuss:
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« Reply #94 on: May 01, 2020, 10:47:02 AM »
As we enter into a new month, may of us are either still required or are choosing to remain  in some isolation.

Sending all of you  my love.


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« Reply #95 on: June 05, 2020, 03:11:20 AM »
Please, please, please, people in Australia, DO NOT attend the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the country tomorrow. Do you people WANT a second wave and an even HARDER lockdown this time around, because of your selfishness?  :groan:

And the Premiers allowing these protests to ahead (ahem, DANIEL ANDREWS, STEVEN MARSHALL) I have no words  :groan: :groan: :groan:
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« Reply #96 on: June 05, 2020, 07:21:29 AM »
im going to the protest and using PPE so hopefully indigenous stop getting killed by the police sorry if this offends you bourkie

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« Reply #97 on: June 05, 2020, 07:56:38 AM »
Please, please, please, people in Australia, DO NOT attend the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the country tomorrow. Do you people WANT a second wave and an even HARDER lockdown this time around, because of your selfishness?  :groan:

And the Premiers allowing these protests to ahead (ahem, DANIEL ANDREWS, STEVEN MARSHALL) I have no words  :groan: :groan: :groan:
As an American citizen, I cannot even begin to describe how deeply this offends me. In the States, we've had protests earlier in the lockdown over haircuts, an incredibly petty and selfish demand. However, these protests are over decades of mistreatment, abuses of power, including police brutality, overt racism, and much more. Everyone I know that has gone to a protest has done so with the utmost caution. I'm seriously disappointed to read this.

Air, thank you for your solidarity.
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« Reply #98 on: June 05, 2020, 08:06:35 AM »
Please, please, please, people in Australia, DO NOT attend the Black Lives Matter protests happening around the country tomorrow. Do you people WANT a second wave and an even HARDER lockdown this time around, because of your selfishness?  :groan:

And the Premiers allowing these protests to ahead (ahem, DANIEL ANDREWS, STEVEN MARSHALL) I have no words  :groan: :groan: :groan:
As an American citizen, I cannot even begin to describe how deeply this offends me. In the States, we've had protests earlier in the lockdown over haircuts, an incredibly petty and selfish demand. However, these protests are over decades of mistreatment, abuses of power, including police brutality, overt racism, and much more. Everyone I know that has gone to a protest has done so with the utmost caution. I'm seriously disappointed to read this.

Air, thank you for your solidarity.

Same. I was uncomfortable reading this. Given how Aboriginals in Australia are treated in some cases, no less, this is tone-deaf.

The systematic and systemic racism must end.

Bookworm and Air, thank you for your solidarity too.
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« Reply #99 on: June 05, 2020, 09:17:06 AM »
One of the BEST things happening during this horrible time in America is how people of many different backgrounds and beliefs are coming together, learning from each other, and having open discussions about very difficult issues. I want RFF to also continue to be a place where that happens.

What is happening in America is people standing together in opposition to a horrendous crime. I am so proud to see our people coming together over this. At the same time, others are trying to use this as an opportunity to promote further dissent and disruption, so research and fact checking is warranted.

And Covid safety is still very much required. If you are going out, be very very careful. Wear the best mask you have. Add an extra layer with a coffee filter (and activated charcoal) if you can find it. Remember your hand sanitizer. If you can, protect your eyes. There is good research showing that droplets into your eyes are very dangerous, just if not more as into your nose and mouth. Wear some sort of glasses and watch for a chance to get something like these. I got mine at an Ace hardware store for under $6. Pic to follow.

https://www.acehardware.com/departments/tools/workwear-and-safety-gear/safety-glasses/23622

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