mazzag said:

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Are you moving to Arizona?

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Bell County Autonomous Zone. Play on Seattle's CHAZ.

c-jags said:

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mazzag said:

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Are you moving to Arizona?

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Bell County Autonomous Zone. Play on Seattle's CHAZ.

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Oops!

Edit to add that would only happen where you live.

Pablo, if people would wear masks and social distance things could stay open. My one outing becauses my dogs toe nails were starting to hit her pads (she has to be at a place with a grinder, they are too tough to cut by hand), half the people in petsmart were letting kids run around and crowd up to me and others who were wearing masks and observing social distance rules. The adults would even crowd by the line of socially distanced people trying to check dogs in for grooming. I had to count 14 days before I could relax. Now her nails are almost that long again.

I priced a come to the house groomer, but now that I have moved to the metroplex they want over a hundred dollars to come to the house and cut her nails. Petsmart throws in a bath for 45. But I will probably pay the ransom for a come to the house groomer IF that groomer will wear a mask and stay distant from me.

I don't think asking people to wear a mask is a HUGE sacrifice but somehow it has become akin to following Satan. Like I said, I used to be on Texags all the time. Now it is once or twice a day and sometimes not that often.

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You talking about that Premier place?

I took my test there six or eight weeks ago when I was sick. Its a nasal swab and took four days to get the results back.

I need to know now.

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Premier doesn't have tests right now. They stopped doing them for a while for a couple reasons....first, the lab they were using to read the tests was taking so long to get the results back (because of volume), it wasn't worth it. People were having to wait a week. Second, their supplier of tests (manufacturer) had an issue with a batch of tests that got sent to someone somewhere and said they had to quit supplying tests for a while. It put Premier in quite a bind.

c-jags said:

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Love you all and hope that we can come out of the other side safe and having made Prog rich in 2020.

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Thanks but even though our stores make more during the bar closures, I'd rather have normal sales with everyone being able to work and provide for their families. I know some neighbors that are really struggling and have so much fear and doubt in their eyes as to where their money for the family will come from. The extra sales mean nothing to me when I see that occurring to good people.

We moved here in Jan 2015 after our company that I was with for 15 years was bought out and we were sent packing. We made a conscious decision to live our lives where two $10 an hour jobs could cover everything. We put a huge down payment on a smaller house by the lake and have no car payments.

It took a little getting used too not having a new truck every three years, no pool, etc, but in hindsight it was the best decision we ever made. It is the only way we are getting thru this since the soldiers are not moving in and out of Hood. I would be a wreck right now if I still had the same expenses I had six years ago.

Minimalist is a mindset, and a liberating one at that.

Agreed, but some of them are young and starting out with little ones.

Prognightmare said:

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c-jags said:

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Love you all and hope that we can come out of the other side safe and having made Prog rich in 2020.

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Thanks but even though our stores make more during the bar closures, I'd rather have normal sales with everyone being able to work and provide for their families. I know some neighbors that are really struggling and have so much fear and doubt in their eyes as to where their money for the family will come from. The extra sales mean nothing to me when I see that occurring to good people.

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It was meant in jest. Of course we want all jobs back, even though I'm not much of a bar frequenter.


Alaska, does your company focus mainly in Killeen? I ask because a friend of mine that is a realtor, has mostly been doing well during covid because of Doctors in Temple/Belton. Was just curious if y'all had a different focus.

Prognightmare said:

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Agreed, but some of them are young and starting out with little ones.

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Oh I understand. I certainly sympathize with them. If it was 2010 and not 2020 I would be right there with them.

I early voted today. Had to use a pencil on the touch screen yet the stylus used to sign in was shared over and over. The doors were Lysol'd down though.

For the record, I was pretty critical of BYBA in the fall for how they handled something. But if any of you see a board member or BYBA or BYSA thank them for their efforts to keep our kids active and on the field. They are not flinching, and neither is the city who owns our park. I wish everyone had their mindset. Be careful but move forward.

What a great use of Waco Police.

Went to Walmart today with my mask in my back pocket. No one said a thing.

Same for Billy at Lowe's In Killeen and temple. I'll kick him in the gut later. comply dammit!

Elective surgeries shut down in McLennan, but not Bell County

https://www.kwtx.com/2020/07/04/local-health-district-confirms-2-more-covid-19-deaths/

Prognightmare said:

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c-jags said:

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Love you all and hope that we can come out of the other side safe and having made Prog rich in 2020.

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Thanks but even though our stores make more during the bar closures, I'd rather have normal sales with everyone being able to work and provide for their families. I know some neighbors that are really struggling and have so much fear and doubt in their eyes as to where their money for the family will come from. The extra sales mean nothing to me when I see that occurring to good people.

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Yet you refuse to make a simple gesture by wearing a mask?

WTH? Seriously? Go to the covid board with "masks work" bs and then ask Little Joe about that crap.

https://www.kxxv.com/news/coronavirus/tejano-music-legend-little-joe-announces-positive-covid-19-test

1) Cloth masks are useless against a vIrus.
2). Our stores have ample room so 6 ft social distancing is not a problem.
3). Liquor stores are susceptible to robberies so insurance options are limited.
4). Masks are usually worn by people that hold up up liquor stores.

I hope that helps.

Mazzag, there are also countless articles in favor of wearing a mask, not to mention recommended by the CDC. The mixed messages are frustrating, no doubt about that, but would you not err to the of caution, especially in high trafficked locations like Lowe's?

Prog, my comment was in reference to your Walmart visit post.

You mean high traffic locations that were essential during the SIP but masks weren't required? Those were the days.

mazzag said:

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You mean high traffic locations that were essential during the SIP but masks weren't required? Those were the days.

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Perhaps they should have been. I believe that knowledge on a subject can evolve.

Prognightmare said:

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1) Cloth masks are useless against a vIrus.
2). Our stores have ample room so 6 ft social distancing is not a problem.
3). Liquor stores are susceptible to robberies so insurance options are limited.
4). Masks are usually worn by people that hold up up liquor stores.

I hope that helps.

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Interestingly, one of the places that has been the most rigid with the rules through all this has been Twin Liquors here in Waco. They are corporate owned, but man they are only letting so many people in the store and yadda yadda. And yeah I think about all the time the mask thing and robberies.

Electrical_Ag said:

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Mazzag, there are also countless articles in favor of wearing a mask, not to mention recommended by the CDC. The mixed messages are frustrating, no doubt about that, but would you not err to the of caution, especially in high trafficked locations like Lowe's?

Prog, my comment was in reference to your Walmart visit post.

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Cloth is a useless sense of security due to the tiny size of viruses. It does more to perpetuate public hysteria that it does offering protection from the virus. Especially with a virus with a 99.6% survival rate.

Prognightmare said:

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Electrical_Ag said:

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Mazzag, there are also countless articles in favor of wearing a mask, not to mention recommended by the CDC. The mixed messages are frustrating, no doubt about that, but would you not err to the of caution, especially in high trafficked locations like Lowe's?

Prog, my comment was in reference to your Walmart visit post.

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Cloth is a useless sense of security due to the tiny size of viruses. It does more to perpetuate public hysteria that it does offering protection from the virus. Especially with a virus with a 99.6% survival rate.

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I understand what you're saying, and I'm not saying it would guarantee the elimination of the virus or that no virus makes it through, but I'll accept the recommendation of the CDC that it helps slow the spread of the virus. If the medical community updates that recommendation I'll evaluate it again. I would rather err to the side of caution and be a good neighbor.

uhhh, what the hell is going on here?

Going to need to activate the 48 hour rule on that one. Not saying it's not true. Just need to see that verified.

Funny story from Saturday night.

Michael and I was at a swim party at a friend's house in Woodland Trails and they asked me to go on an alcohol run. I went to Point 1 in Morgan's Point. We have a young new girl that was working, I've only met her briefly once. As I parked and was walking in she point to the mask sign and told me to get a mask. I walked in and she said,

Her: Sir, you will need to put on a mask.

I told her that if 6' social distancing is available then masks are not required.

Her: "Sir you will put on a mask or I'm calling the police to have you removed from the store"

I smiled and told her there was no way that was going to happen. Then she recognized me.

I know, cool story bro.

McLennan county just announced schools can't open until Sept. 7. Online is allowed, but nothing in person.