Community Chat

[manny2]

---

@alicedee wrote:

---

@denisemb wrote:

Nope.  Sorry.

Don't mean to be offensive, but tend to look for humor in ALL things.  Especially if it's self-depreciating...

"I can't buy this thing, I'm wayyyyyy too gassy!"

---

Well  I can post the streaming of her funeral here for you if you need some more chuckles.

---

@alicedee We are all sorry for your loss, but nobody is making fun of anybody lost to this virus. You are grieving, so rather then post such inappropriate comments take a break.

[manny2]

---

@Anonymous032819 wrote:

Oh, good grief!

It was tongue-in-cheek!

It's okay to laugh!

---

@Anonymous032819 You are right. It is OK to laugh. It does not diminish the loss.

[QueenDanceALot]

---

@denisemb wrote:

---

@QueenDanceALot wrote:

The way I look at it is, making fun of yourself during a time that's hard for many people is fine and others may smile or laugh in recognition, but making fun of  people who are concerned or worried or downright frightened (while you insist how brave and unconcerned you are) is just not funny.  It's mean.

---

Still trying to see where I insisted how brave and unconcerned I am.  You have no idea.

This was a thread about a human in a hamster ball, not one where a poster was expressing their sorrow at the loss of a family member to coronavirus.  I apologized and expressed my sympathy if you read further.

I tend to respond to threads appropriately in the manner they are portrayed/presented.  Hamster ball = humor.

---

@denisemb 

You can stop trying to figure it out because I wasn't referring to you.

You thought it was funny, OK.  I didn't.

[Trinity11]

---

@manny2 wrote:

---

@alicedee wrote:

---

@denisemb wrote:

Nope.  Sorry.

Don't mean to be offensive, but tend to look for humor in ALL things.  Especially if it's self-depreciating...

"I can't buy this thing, I'm wayyyyyy too gassy!"

---

Well  I can post the streaming of her funeral here for you if you need some more chuckles.

---

@alicedee We are all sorry for your loss, but nobody is making fun of anybody lost to this virus. You are grieving, so rather then post such inappropriate comments take a break.

---

Speaking of inappropriateness. Your response is disgusting, rude and insensitive.

[KKJ]

It has gotten where no matter what is posted there are those who will jump on it and twist it to make it something personal against them.  Just stop!  Guess no one can laugh or joke anymore lest we be labeled cruel horrible people. Think we  ALL should step away from these forums for awhile!

[stevieb]

---

@noodleann wrote:

I liked the OP's post. I took it at face value.

I went to the website visible in the image and saw all kinds of bubbles. Trouble is, I don't think they're feasible as a protective system. I don't care if the OP meant it as a sendup; I'll consider the potential of any device, however absurd. 

I've been working in the back of my mind on some kind of space helmet type of thing with a portable air supply that would give you your own air for, say, 90 minutes and prevent any outside air from getting in. You would breathe freely and your exhaust would be filtered, so if you were an asymptomatic carrier, you wouldn't be spewing the virus in your wake. Someone will devise something along these lines.

What we are doing right now to deal with this is outrageously crude. I know it's the best we can come up with under the circumstances, but it's shameful that we should be reduced to using the home sewers of etsy to source gear to protect one another from a potentially lethal virus. And don't bring up the bandage-rollers of WWII; this is completely different.

Two yardsticks and a bandanna. That's what we've got. We have to come up with better ways of coping than this ridiculous pseudo-solution.

---

@noodleann  You've absolutely nailed it. It's ludicrous that all the experts have to offer still... is wash your hands, keep your distance and, if it makes you feel safer and more virtuous, make it about a fashion statement and don a cutesy fabric mask that isn't really doing much good... And please, I'm so tired of the WW2 analogies... This is not 1945... Though for all the progress being made, it might as well be...

[stevieb]

---

@KKJ wrote:

It has gotten where no matter what is posted there are those who will jump on it and twist it to make it something personal against them.  Just stop!  Guess no one can laugh or joke anymore lest we be labeled cruel horrible people. Think we  ALL should step away from these forums for awhile!

---

@KKJ  I don't know that we all should, though that might turn out to be the only option, since there are a handful who really do need to take a break but who are singularly incapable of walking away from any discussion of this topic, however remotely related the subject matter...

[lynne6was7]

People are using these bubbles. Just last night, on Inside Edition, there was a feature about a father who uses a bubble so he doesn't bring the virus home to his son who has cystic fibrosis. Personally, I think I am too claustrophobic to use one.

[alicedee]

---

@manny2

---

@alicedee We are all sorry for your loss, but nobody is making fun of anybody lost to this virus. You are grieving, so rather then post such inappropriate comments take a break.

@manny2 I never said anyone was making fun of someone lost to the virus.  My comment was about joking about a serious situation that is costing thousands of lives.  I apologized to @denisemb for my sarcastic remark to her, and I believe we are good.

I don't see a monitor sign in your signature.....it's not your job to tell posters to "take a break."  I shall post when and where I wish.  If a moderator has an issue with anything I post, he/she will let me know.

---

[FrostyBabe1]

---

@stevieb wrote:

---

@KKJ wrote:

It has gotten where no matter what is posted there are those who will jump on it and twist it to make it something personal against them.  Just stop!  Guess no one can laugh or joke anymore lest we be labeled cruel horrible people. Think we  ALL should step away from these forums for awhile!

---

@KKJ  I don't know that we all should, though that might turn out to be the only option, since there are a handful who really do need to take a break but who are singularly incapable of walking away from any discussion of this topic, however remotely related the subject matter...

---

Or finding a way to turn any thread, no matter the topic, into a discussion of the virus,  while demanding that everyone must conform to their way of thinking and acting, and tagging those who don't with the tiresome,"selfish" emotional blackmail tag. A good, long look in the mirror would be beneficial. A break would be even better.