Just wanted to commend everyone that called out this bull****. But also do it without breaking the rules of the thread again.
My mother started minding my four year old girl for a couple of hours here and there. The rule was firm and clear, we don't hit. She hit my kid then tried to keep it secret. Afterwards she claimed my kid DESERVED it. She will never see me or my family again.

Of late, I'm guessing because of COVID, people are a bit stressed. People are getting short with each other.

Every other day, someone in here is abusing, being racist, or generally just nasty to another member. It's a waste of our time and resources.

So:
You people are better than this.

Learn some skills on persuasion which doesn't involve sarcasm or abuse.

Understand that once you've lost your cool, you've lost the debate.

Officially: This forum is on notice. Unlike the virus, it might be erradicated sooner rather than later.

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A viewpoint from Mark Manson, an author:

"And just a friendly reminder that no one has any idea what is happening or what we should do about it - Right now, we have two large, complex systems. The first is a virus sweeping through the global population and our combined efforts to mitigate it. The second is a declining global economy. Both systems are incredibly difficult to measure and understand, much less predict. Both are so large and unruly that we struggle to even comprehend them in their entirety. And so far, pretty much everything we've thought about either has been utterly wrong.

We still don't know what the COVID-19 does to the body or its long-term repercussions. We don't know if building herd immunity is even possible, much less worth the cost. We don't know how many people would die if we opened the economy up sooner rather than later, and we don't know how stimulative opening up the economy would be anyway.

We just don't know a damn thing. Nobody does. So, stop acting like you do.

We should reserve judgment about these things.

When I find myself getting sucked into my emotions, or climbing up onto my high horse of judgments, that I remind myself: I don't know a damn thing. And neither do you.

Stay healthy and stay sane.
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