A few more days, maybe
These people.
It’s not “an abundance of caution” (let alone “and abundance”), it’s what you’re required to do if you’ve been exposed. And it’s not “a few more days,” it’s a total of 14. This isn’t something you navigate by the seat of your pants, it’s a medical issue on which you do what the medical professionals tell you is needed. This casual amateurism is why this twerp’s balloon-head daddy now has the virus.
It’s the ‘back to work’ that amuses me. He has an actual job?
As someone else said – our thoughts are with Covid in this difficult time.
In the next tweet he wants us all to pray for his daddy. No problem, the check’s in the mail, numbnuts.
twiliter, I am perfectly willing to pray for Trump the exact same number of hours I prayed for my sister when she was dying of cancer, or for my mother when she was dying of congestive heart failure. I have already prayed for him that many hours.
With my mother, my sister, I would talk to them, help them with chores or other things, do things they needed. That is what I will not give Trump. My time, my energy, my care. He will receive the benefit of my thoughtsandprayers to the exact same level everyone else receives them.
Me too Ikn. I forget where I heard the quote, and I don’t know the origins, but it stuck with me, so I’ll paraphrase; “Nothing fails like prayer.”
twiliiter, that quote appears to come from Ann Nichol Gaylor, the founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Dan Barker, her son-in-law and current co-president of the FFRF, turned it into a song.
Well, it’s a dandy. Even when well meaning folks offer prayers I can’t help but have that spring to mind. I don’t say anything, out of politeness of course, but I’m thinking it. ;) Sometimes being an atheist/agnostic can be a minefield.
This pray for thing sounds so American. When Boris Johnson got covid the Daily Mail did a Pray for headlines, and it just sounded weird in a UK context. You wish people and their families well.
There’s been some comparison made with Johnson & Trump getting ill. When Johnson got ill it was a big shock to many of us – I lost a night or two of sleep over it, and other people have said the same. It was very early on in the covid emergency and it really brought the fear home. I despise Johnson, and was aghast that Tories had chosen him as leader. Tories are normally pragmatic and don’t tend to choose leaders who are downright disreputable in their private lives and whose public careers have been disasters. I thought the UK was particularly cursed that he should be in charge during such a difficult time – even Theresa May would have been conscientious and dutiful at least. However there was the kind of fear the captain, however awful, had left the ship, and we were veering around in gales. I suppose with Trump the Captain is Ahab.
twiliter #5:
Personally, I’ve always preferred to express it as “nothing is as effective as prayer”. It’s a bit more subtle, I feel, since they sometimes don’t get it.
The pray for thing sounds so American to me, too. We have a lot of cringe-inducing habits that I don’t like.
14 days is the *minimum* amount of caution. An *abundance* of caution would be 4 weeks instead of two, just to be sure.