ZyyzYzzy
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Sounds like he was at the end of his career, no matter what. So many people just don't brown nose enough to make O-6+
Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience
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It's a little faster nowadays, you get Major in the AF in 10, LtCol usually around 15. Usually still need 20 to retire though unless you qualify for early retirement due to medical or them doing a round of cutbacks.
Back to the topic, I think it being "permanently disqualifying" is an asinine knee-jerk reaction, even if it is waiverable.
My initial thinking was that if you make a virus that could theoretically infect that large a percentage of the the U.S. a permanently disqualifying condition, you are going to limit your recruiting pool so much that it will make it impossible to make your goals with quality recruits. But then I realized that the number of military applicants goes up whenever the economy goes in the shitter...so I guess it all balances out? Good for the military I guess? It's kind of fucked up.
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Unless you are a prepper who hasn't left your shelter, everyone is going to get exposed to it at some point.
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Mist
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Us telecom engineers are safe, they don't let us out of the basement.
Sanrith Descartes
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Having worked with telecom engineers for two decades I can support this decision.
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yamikazo
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MLB tested 5,754 employees (seems mostly a combination of players + front office types). Just 60 of them tested positive for antibodies. Because math, that's between a 0.28% and 1.15% rate of prior infection.
Quick ESPN plug because I haven't taken the time to look up the study.
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Quick ESPN plug because I haven't taken the time to look up the study.
Study shows low rate of virus antibodies in MLB
MLB employees tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in a study run by Stanford University at a rate much lower than other studies done in California.
www.espn.com
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Aldarion
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Like much of the shutdown outrage it's an overreaction to the loss of a trivial preference.
Nobody said stop exercising, they just closed the disgusting sweatboxes where people congregate to exercise in ridiculously close proximity to each other.
Gyms were gross and unappealing before covid. Reasonable people wouldn't want to go the gym right now anyway, and find other ways to exercise.
There are no health risks to missing legs day or whatever the gym fetishists are upset about missing.
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Khane
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Are some gyms cramped with way too many members and no personal space? Of course. Is every gym like this? No. I am a reasonable person and I am ready for my gym to be open and will absolutely go to it when it does (which will hopefully be in 9 days)
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chaos
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Yeah idk, the numbers aren't yet trending down where I live, I'm not rushing out to hit any gyms or restaurants or anything. My wife still orders food and it drives me nuts. We're like kids playing a pretend quarantine game. I don't know if that's the right answer or not but wut do, you only get one fuckup so...
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ZyyzYzzy
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chaos
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Yeah. I just read yesterday that numbers are increasing, but overall % of those tested coming out positive was decreasing. I'm probably worried for nothing, no doubt, but you know how it is, no idea who to bellieve and I have a kid who is supposed to be at risk for complications.This morning I looked at 3 different sources for numbers, all 3 slightly different. Fuckin lol.
ZyyzYzzy
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You should be able to get FOUO stuff from CDC and DoD which will be the most accurate, assuming you still work on Belvoir or whatever.
What are you doing about childcare? We are freaking out because slowly every single camp we were going to utilize is closing this summer. Silver lining is like 5k saved though
chaos
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Nah I got out of the govt stuff except for some light consulting.
No camps or anything this year, we were looking at a couple of things out at the Workhouse Arts Center in Burke but as far as I know everything is cancelled now.
Building a skate park for my kids in the back yard. It's going to be a looong summer.
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Noodleface
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Preschool being closed.for the rest of the year saved me a few grand
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Arative
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Some daycares around here were making people still pay to keep their spots.
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Noodleface
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Yeah Ive heard that but it was the last year for my son so either way I wasn't going to pay. Once the magnitude hit us i knew he wasn't going back
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