But will they enforce it?

[lenquixote66]

1 hour ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

BS '67

I'll always remember Pres. Gideonse's letter to The NY Times regarding the 1970 editorial congratulating BC on its 40th anniversary of being "the poor man's Harvard." Beyond a polite "thank you," he corrected the NYT: "It's Harvard that is the rich man's Brooklyn College."

 

Enough reminiscing. Back to Oceania.

One more ,please.My friend Norman S .taught music at Midwood from I believe 1966 to 2002.Did you know him ?

[clo]

22 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

There are armed guards at the entrance.

At the entrance to your condo? Wow, I've never heard of such a thing.

[Toofarfromthesea]

23 hours ago, donaldsc said:

 

Stores should hire currently unemployed night club bouncers to enforce their mask rules.  Those people are physically intimidating and are very experienced in dealing with disruptive people.  They won't get or take much guff from old fat men or women who don't want to wear masks.

 

DON

 

But unlike drunks in bars, old fat men and women can afford lawyers to protect them from bullies.

[lenquixote66]

2 hours ago, clo said:

At the entrance to your condo? Wow, I've never heard of such a thing.

We have several prominent residents .

[Flatbush Flyer]

4 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

We have several prominent residents .

And really not uncommon in upscale condo and gated communities across the US -particularly in coastal cosmopolitan cities.

[lenquixote66]

2 minutes ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

And really not uncommon in upscale condo and gated communities across the US -particularly in coastal cosmopolitan cities.

Finally we agree and not just about Brooklyn😀

[Flatbush Flyer]

39 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

Finally we agree and not just about Brooklyn😀

I wouldn't worry about agreeing. Sometimes you're wrong but "to err is human..."

😎

[lenquixote66]

20 minutes ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

I wouldn't worry about agreeing. Sometimes you're wrong but "to err is human..."

😎

I admit to being wrong many times.

[ldubs]

48 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

I admit to being wrong many times.

 

Haha, and if you don't admit it someone will certainly point it out!  😄

 

I have yet to meet the perfect person, outside of Mrs Ldubs of course.  

[lenquixote66]

Just now, ldubs said:

 

Haha, and if you don't admit it someone will certainly point it out!  😄

 

I have yet to meet the perfect person, outside of Mrs Ldubs of course.  

I have been told many times by posters on CC that I am wrong about something and at timex they are right.When Mrs.66 tells me I am wrong about something I will accept her opinion.

[lenquixote66]

1 hour ago, Flatbush Flyer said:

I wouldn't worry about agreeing. Sometimes you're wrong but "to err is human..."

😎

Do you realize that after posting to each other numerous times over a 6 year period we found out yesterday that we are both alum of the same college.😀

[Flatbush Flyer]

17 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

Do you realize that after posting to each other numerous times over a 6 year period we found out yesterday that we are both alum of the same college.😀

small world!

[2wheelin]

28 minutes ago, ldubs said:

 

Haha, and if you don't admit it someone will certainly point it out!  😄

 

But they could be wrong! 🙂

[sfaaa]

5 hours ago, clo said:

At the entrance to your condo? Wow, I've never heard of such a thing.

It's because help is never around when you need it most. There are armed guards in Reno casinos for the same reason.

[Ashland]

3 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

We have several prominent residents .

Good point. Our oldest DD lives in a very upscale area here in SoCal and you actually have to go through two guarded gates to get to her home. Extremely "Prominent" residents 

[ontheweb]

3 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

Do you realize that after posting to each other numerous times over a 6 year period we found out yesterday that we are both alum of the same college.😀

And you wanted to go to the college which I attended. Does that give us something in common, or uncommon? LOL

[clo]

4 hours ago, sfaaa said:

It's because help is never around when you need it most. There are armed guards in Reno casinos for the same reason.

I thought they were there because of the tens of thousands of dollars of cash there.

[slidergirl]

4 hours ago, Ashland said:

Good point. Our oldest DD lives in a very upscale area here in SoCal and you actually have to go through two guarded gates to get to her home. Extremely "Prominent" residents 

"guarded" and "guarded by dudes with guns" are two different things.  The guarded gate I had to go through daily was manned by just a dude.  No uniform.  No gun.  And, that neighborhood had many "high worth individuals" (what they're called in the world of house managers/majordomos).  The other one a client lives in has guarded gate, but no guns.  Has several NBA  folks, a diamond broker, and "A-list" movie stars living there.  No guns.  I guess some places may be more paranoid than others.  

 

The only place I saw armed guards at the mall was in Tel Aviv.  

[2wheelin]

29 minutes ago, clo said:

I thought they were there because of the tens of thousands of dollars of cash there.

And the casino probably considers them a help if anything goes wrong.

[Cruz3r4life]

On 8/20/2020 at 9:20 AM, John Bull said:

 

Yes, use of hand-sanitisers for buffets etc has always been pretty lax.

But that was protection against (comparatively) minor illnesses like norovirus, not something as deadly as Covid-19.

I think you can rest assured that it will be policed rigorously on all cruise ships while Covid is around.

 

But I've never seen anyone un-challenged at the gangway.

A real pain cos as well as sanitising both hands you also need to present your seapass and hold onto purchases & kids & bits & bobs. But the gangways are ALWAYS manned, and I've seen nobody get by without a dose of sanitiser.

 

JB 

 

 

Have you cruised Norwegian?  I have said since this started that they have missed a golden opportunity to do some commercials and whatnot with their "washy-washy" crew, pre-pandemic they have them  in front of the buffet and during popular times I've seen them at the front of the main dining rooms. - I was on the Escape in 2017 and saw 1 of those crew members follow a man in the buffet and stop him to spray his hands after he walked past them and the automatic dispenser.  

 

 

On 8/22/2020 at 4:21 PM, bschmoll said:

I recently read and article about passengers being left at a port of call because they left the controlled excursion bubble the cruise ship had arranged in the port of call. This made me wonder if this is going to be how cruises will operate in the coming months until there is a vaccine. Are we all going to be forced to either stay within the cruise lines bubble? Does this mean that for the foreseeable feature we will no longer be able to walk off the ships, hop in a taxi, and explore on our own? I noticed in some advertising material NCL had sent out that they alluded to this controlled port experience as well. I have a cruise booked in early Dec 2020 and had planned to scuba dive almost every day, but if I am limited to ship excursions this will not be possible and I feel like it's not the vacation I had originally booked. I understand that these are trying times and perhaps even a limited cruise would be better than no cruise, but I probably wouldn't have booked it if I would have known they were going to significantly change the way ports of call work.

 

The only cruise line I adamantly follow about their protocols is NCL since that's what I mainly sail on, but check to see if the cancellation policy has changed.  

 

 

On 8/26/2020 at 1:15 PM, chipmaster said:

 

I just flew and visited a city in the Mid-West, I'd say a very Red state, the compliance for mask on the airplane, airports( two stops ), and even out and about in stores/restaurants/outside  was good, but for their were always a  few people that wore down their mask, no enforcement.... Funny I know the pictures don't represent everything but the theme in the US is always see non-compliance at a higher rate than pictures I see of some other countries and cultures. 

 

US is indeed number #1 in freedom/individualism as well as cases and deaths, hmm a correlation?   

 

Hopefully the cruise lines get the message, no compliance walk the plank!  I have little sympathy for people who can't sacrifice a little for the common group good, simply stupid or selfish, or both.    

 

 

Main 2 problems with mask mandates is that they are stupidly setup:  little children are not required to wear them - those are the little disease carrying vessels that regularly touch their mouths, pick their noses and then immediately touch shared surfaces.  And now govt. officials are putting ridiculous restrictions on it highlighting most people's fears of being "okay" with the original mandates. Look at Texas, the mandate is that as long as there are more than 20 cases of COVID19 in a county the mask mandate is in effect - Harris county (where Houston is located) has a population over 4.7 million, Dallas county population over 2.5 million, Austin county population over 2 million - even with a vaccine those places are likely to never see a period of time with less than 20 positive cases. 

[lenquixote66]

19 hours ago, Ashland said:

Good point. Our oldest DD lives in a very upscale area here in SoCal and you actually have to go through two guarded gates to get to her home. Extremely "Prominent" residents 

A few of our residents can be referred to as extremely prominent .Under normal circumstances my area is referred to by many residents as paradise between April and September.

[Ashland]

5 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

A few of our residents can be referred to as extremely prominent .Under normal circumstances my area is referred to by many residents as paradise between April and September.

Her area isn't based on a few seasons...It's life year round 24/7 behind those gates 

[lenquixote66]

17 hours ago, ontheweb said:

And you wanted to go to the college which I attended. Does that give us something in common, or uncommon? LOL

Well,we have things in common,sort of .Friends of my wife and I who are part time residents in Monticello; HK who I last saw before the pandemic and the guy I knew who was an owner/driver at the Monticello race track.Lastly my HS friend who was a nephew of the owners of the Nevele.

[lenquixote66]

8 minutes ago, Ashland said:

Her area isn't based on a few seasons...It's life year round 24/7 behind those gates 

That is because in So. Calif you do not have seasons.Where I live it can get very cold in the winter months.In the summer months the weather is usually beautiful.

[Flatbush Flyer]

6 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

That is because in So. Calif you do not have seasons.Where I live it can get very cold in the winter months.In the summer months the weather is usually beautiful.

In much of coastal Califonia (despite the obvious temp variations from north to south), the 24/7/365 daily weather report (minus any natural disasters) can get pretty boring: "increasing light flowed by increasing dark."