Ignore Your Doctor
 

Just met up with @Ignore Your Doctor to pick up a Perrin Overpipe and Injen Front Pipe. Easy going guy and the transaction was great. We stood around for an hour and shot the shit about our cars and he gave me a ride in his super charged BRZ. Would definitely do business with him again.

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Leave it to Americans to ignore all best practices about social distancing and post about it publicly.

Also, the absolute irony.

Maybe they were both wearing masks while driving around.

Leave it to judgmental people to look for any reason to make others hate each other as much as they hate themselves.

Yay for an unnecessary smart ass post. We know the risks, our state is open, what we decide to do is our business.

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The irony is he's canadian! They're supposed to be the nicest most apoligizininst people on the planet, eh!?

I don't know, besides Tcoat every other Canadian that I "meet" (online) where sarcastic ass holes.

I meet two in real life, one was chill (Chinese-Canadian) the other (white guy) was a sarcastic ****, but nice.

I think it's because they're part of the Commonwealth!!

Just pointing out how selfish it is to disregard best practices in the midst of a pandemic. Everyone should be doing their part to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. To hop in a stranger's car is absolutely insane in these uncertain times.

But hey, what do I know, I only live with a nurse who is seeing all this unfold first hand, and I know that I would never do something so selfish, which could ultimately put her safety in jeopardy.

Sure, I hate myself though!

And in closing, given that your state has 42800 cases, I guess your elected officials are just as short sighted as their constituents with reopening the state lmao

Just angry that their Healthcare system isn't as great as they claim and their currency is weaker.

I've found most Canadians I've met are like Americans with a weird accent lol but this one seems to feel he's superior judging by his "typical Americans" comment[emoji849]

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Congratulations. Get off your soap box. You do you. We are two adults and we decided to meet. No one gives a shit that you live with a nurse. A lot of my friends and family are in the medical field and I'm a first responder that doesn't have a choice but to work. If I'm meant to die, I'm gonna die one way or another. If a car part kills me, I guess it's my time to go.

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A first responder who is that willfully ignorant? What about the rest of your team? Do you not give a flying fuck about their well-being?

I'm gunna call bs on you being any sort of first responder, and you actually are just a grocery cashier trying to put yourself on an even higher pedestal than the media is doing with all you minimum wage workers.

True, our life expectancy in Canada is only 4 years longer than in the US (where it actually went down two years in a row) terrible system.

Canadians are always posting their medical problems on reddit cause they can’t afford to go to the doctor.

I work in my own car for 43hrs a week. And we go to calls regardless of someone's covid 19 status. Once again, get off your soapbox. The world has to go back to doing shit at some point. Sit at home and be afraid, I'm not going to. I take my precautions day to day and I take my precautions at work. But once again, if it's my time to go, it's my time to go. Two adults met in a parking lot away from everyone else to purchase car parts. Get your panties out of a knot. I'm sure you've made decisions more questionable than that in your life. This post was to give a positive review about a transaction with another member, not a place for you to piss on other's decisions because you think you're a better person for staying inside.

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Man I love that quote! It describes most trolls perfectly.

Oh dang your mom is a nurse?












Sorry... I couldn't resist. BTW, I'm just messing with you. ;)

My neighbors are a nurse and fire fighter. Both of them have literally done nothing to isolate. The nurse was furlough because the hospitals are completely dead. My sister lives in a crazy ass neighborhood with a bunch of ER docs and they are all getting severely reduced hours because the hospitals are dead.


I've been following this thing very closely since early December back when most people knew nothing about it. When people started to catch on they were all like, "it's not as bad as the flu". I was the one raging on people for writing it off so easy. Well it looks like they weren't that far off after all. But now the "it's just the flu team" has flipped and is now the "lets kill the economy team".

sham-demic

dude holy cow, this is my first review ever and this thread is a shit show.

We rock, well, Australia does, well, we are doing Covid well.

My opinion on this:
1. Alot of people give no farks about anyone but themselves and have excuses for every stupid thing they do
2. Everyone is a first responder
3. Nurses are cool
4. Doctors are well educated idiots
5. Meeting random people and breaching basic social distancing is Ok if your a "first responder"
6. Here, breaching basic social distancing if your a first responder isn't Ok
7. Maybe infected first responders are to blame for spreading this thing.
8. Are you as smart as a pigeon?

I reckon the timing and your forum name has something to do with it - ;)

DAMNIT I have to try harder!

Hey... I'm a nice Canadian too!... (Is what I tell myself every night before I go to bed. :bellyroll:)

I went to Canadia with work once, got drunk at some cowboy club in Medicine Hat, punched on with some drunk Canadian cow boy, then proceeded to get even drunker with said Canadian cowboy dude and his friends.

Also......whilst speeding in a hire Ram truck a Canadian police car pulled me over, I got out the car and walked up ro his car, a police officer wearing full body armour got out the car, pointed at me with one hand, and his other hand on his side telling me to "get back to your car sir", which I did.

Good times

Canada needs to sort out its leaky border...

I snuck in over the border at about 40,000ft

Was that whilst hiding a barrel and getting rather wet?

Yup, it sure did all thanks to Cole.

As a nurse in new york state and having had colleagues die from this disease it's super disheartening to see people say it's a sham.

That being said it's not realistic to expect everything to shut down forever. People need to pay rent and feed their families. The shut down really should have been used to buy time to come up with a viable plan and bring up production of PPE. A shut down is not sustainable.

A follow up on my neighbors. The nurse has been back to work the past few weeks and yesterday she had a patient with a fever. They did a COVID test on the patient and it came back (3 hours later) positive. So they sent her home early last night and are putting her in a hotel (their expense) to quarantine. She came home and stood in the driveway as her husband packed a suitcase and off she went. She is unsure how long they want her to quarantine or when they plan to test her.

It all comes down to risk management and mitigation. You can put controls around HOW you meet with people to sell/buy parts/cars and those people should follow those.

For those lower risk states (currently) that might be less restriction/masks/etc. We can bitch at people all day about exposing others and all that but at the end of the day people will take whatever risks THEY are comfortable with.

Do tell us about one of your bad times - :eyebulge:

I'm sure you remember what it was like when you were on "R&R" in a strange land.

Fight it or Fark it.

Now THAT brings to mind a back-in-the-day story of the year I worked in Chicago. I was working for IITRI (Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute) located in the South side of Chicago on 35th St. Yep, right across the street from one of the notorious Chicago "Projects" (Stateway Gardens).

I remember my first day at work. I flew in from Saint Louis and took a limo to IITRI. After a long day, the secretary to the VP of Research told me she had made reservations for me at a hotel inside The Loop.

She said to get on the train at the station (about 100 yards away) to go directly inside the Loop. OK, I go to checkout for the day and one of the two armed guards at the exit took my ID badge and asked me if I wanted an armed escort to the train platform (100 yards away mind you).

Even as I looked at the fresh "bullet marks" on the bullet proof glass of the front entrance, I declined their offer. So, dressed in my 3 piece suit and carrying my large carry on, I quickly walked over to the train platform and got on the next train to inside the loop.

Well, I hadn't done my homework very well and hopped off the train too soon and found myself still on the South Side in a rough part of town. I didn't see any cabs so I started walking the few blocks to my hotel. I hadn't gotten very far when a police car pulled up and the officers asked me if I was lost.

I explained the deal and they insisted that I get into the back of their cruiser and they would give me a ride to my hotel. They explained that they had better things to do later on, than to come back and pick up what was left of me - :eyebulge:


THE END

Since there seems to be a lot of canadians in here, do you guys know anything about border crossings now? I'm looking to see niagara falls soon and will cross from michigan and drive east. What about the hotel situation? Would anyone like to meet up in real life or anything?

From what I've seen the border is closed to nonessential traffic until 6/21.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...nother-30-days

Many years ago 60s ( not the muffler) Was heading home across Canada from RPI with an architectural model in the back of the car. Got to the border to Canada and was stopped by a young man. He took me into the interrogation room, and started to grill me about witch government building I was planning to blow up. In there for well over an hour with the same story about my project for design class, but to no avail. Finally an old guy walks in and says "Nice model, you kids from RPI do great work. Was this a full year project?" The young guy made up some story about how I looked suspicious. Got to Detroit and the customs guy asked if I had a nice time in Canada, told him just great.

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@humfrz

That first vacation after all this is going to be sweet. Can't wait to selfishly travel.

I thank you for your dedication.

Some will say "empty hospitals" = sham. I would hope they call it a sham, because an empty hospital was the entire goal of all this stay at home restriction.

My friend's uncle and aunt left for Peru in early Feb. Got on a return cruise in early March, ended up at sea 3+ weeks due to no ports allowing them to disembark. They finally got to Miami, and due to politics and FL being absolute ****wads they got stuck several days while in port.

Both of them got COVID-19 while waiting to get off the ship, his uncle died within 24 hours of getting off the ship. His aunt survived but this should have never happened.

COVID-19 isn't a joke, but as long as we can joke about empty ER beds and unused resources I'll continue to accept it, because the alternative is a lot more dead bodies and very sick people.

Interesting. Very interesting. Glad I stumbled into this shithole of a thread.

That’s really a shame and shows how selfish you are as a “first responder.” Why selfish? For most first responders it ends up just being their job but I’d still support them if they were going through an illness with no clear-cut medical cure. But not only that, if you’re a first-responder you’re likely around many other people throughout your “43 hours”:

* other first responders
* people who share your work vehicle
* people you encounter on breaks because I doubt you’re also eating homemade lunch every single day in your car that you’re already spending tens of hours in per week
* people at the office or other facility you work out of
* people in other facilities or offices you probably need to visit
* people you respond to who may not have COVID-19
* people you encounter in some form outside of work, like when you’re getting gas at the gas station, groceries, food at restaurants, church, the pub

but they are all at risk because now _you_ have put yourself at risk. Fine, nobody needs to care, including you, if you catch it and die but I know myself and likely others do care if you end up asymptomatically exposing even three other people.

And for anyone who does think the point is moot, good thing we do have empty hospitals because it means the lockdowns were actually helping the situation. Funnily enough with places reopening now there spikes again. Interesting coincidence.

I suppose it’s no big deal that nearly 110,000 people have died so far? But thank god you have free will and can do whatever the hell ya feel like doing by meeting random people.