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Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Blazin
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That was last week, this week is 3.169 . Might not be enough to rally on, we need MORE!
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The restaurant company I work for had to dump inventory at the start of this. I picked up a stack of 18oz bone in ribeyes at cost 
Only have two left though
Only have two left though
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chaos
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Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
Recruits who have survived COVID-19 are disqualified from joining up.
www.militarytimes.com
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Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
Recruits who have survived COVID-19 are disqualified from joining up.
Top U.S. General: Proposed COVID-19 Recruiting Ban 'Has Not Been Approved'
The interim guidance — which recommends disqualifying applicants who have been hospitalized with the disease — is still under review, according to Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
www.npr.org
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popsicledeath
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There is a ton of incompetence everywhere in life, even in the military, but overall baring people/conditions from joining the military is one of the few things they've done pretty well, especially considering the immense public pressure to let anyone and everyone join just to be nice to them and/or fund their gender transition surgery.
Considering what we know (and more importantly don't know) about long term health issues with COVID-19, I don't see it as necessarily being incompetent for them to look into not taking recruits who have tested positive, especially while we're still in the middle of the outbreak.
Being cautious about putting the military, and thus tax payers, in a position of being responsible for a bunch of recruits with unknown potential health issues in the future? Doesn't seem particularly incompetent.
And a pox on your house for making me defend the administrative aspects of the military.
Considering what we know (and more importantly don't know) about long term health issues with COVID-19, I don't see it as necessarily being incompetent for them to look into not taking recruits who have tested positive, especially while we're still in the middle of the outbreak.
Being cautious about putting the military, and thus tax payers, in a position of being responsible for a bunch of recruits with unknown potential health issues in the future? Doesn't seem particularly incompetent.
And a pox on your house for making me defend the administrative aspects of the military.
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TheBeagle
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Please explain how barring entry fir those who have been diagnosed with a novel virus who's long term effects are completely unknown is a display of incompetence? Are you also outraged that asthma sufferers are also disqualified?
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chaos
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Dude, cautious is one thing but "lifetime ban" for any person who ever had coronavirus? A year from today, how many people do you think that would be? Right now, that's almost 1.5 million so what, 20 million? More? Are they going to start medboarding anyone who is active duty and tests positive? What about reservists? It is a pretty complicated decision that will have huge impact on readiness.
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iannis
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it might be bro science but he's not wrong. Regular exercise is about the biggest thing you can do for health. I guess eating is more important.
It's not the equipment that gets gross usually. that stuff isn't hard to clean. It's the mats. Those get filthy fast.
iannis
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I would thinI it gets quietly reversed or ignored as the fact of how unwieldy it is becomes apparent.
It may also just be an excuse to downsize.
Noodleface
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Sure but is shutting down gyms killing people more than corona? I've got a hard time believing that. I know the importance of exercise
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chaos
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I actually looked through the list of disqualifying conditions, it's huge, as you would expect. I didn't see anything else comparable to that, a disease that is disqualifying even after being cured. Luckily it looks like they aren't doing it, but if it actually got sent out to the MEPS then it was on some phase of the approval process.
You know no one is trying to downsize the military, this is America. If anything we will just start paying China to fight for us.
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TheBeagle
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Do you honestly think in two years it will still be a lifetime ban? It wasn't that long ago that there was a lifetime ban of gays in the military.
ZyyzYzzy
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It'll take 2+ years of staffing a memo to rescind it lol
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chaos
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Alex
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One of my best friends is a pilot in the Air Force. He's approaching 15 years and is retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. When he notified his CO he asked him what it would take to keep him in the force and his response was "massive systemic changes in how the American military operates". I rofl'ed really hard when he told me that.