DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A PLACE TO LAUNCH FOR ROCKFISH STILL OPEN

What's a BOD?

Stupid

Yes, that meme is stupid. Going fishing doesn’t mean you don’t need to go grocery shopping. All it means is that you’re gonna spread the COVID that you acquired
In the Santa Rosa Costco to everything your dirty mitts touch on the way to your out of town fishing trip.

To go on an out of town fishing trip (or any non-essential activity) is selfish and the act of someone who thinks that they are too good for the rules that literally everybody in the state is being asked to temporarily abide by.

I friggin love Halibut fishing. I dream about it all year. I have prime halibut tides for my favorite spots marked on my calendar months in advance. Halibut are currently biting. Am I halibut fishing? Fuck no.

I work in an environment, that at times looks too damned close to that picture of people shopping. And is now considered an essential service.

But in your mind, getting out on my own, or with my two sons, in an isolated area well away from everyone else is selfish?

IMHO, you can go eat a BOD.

Others opinions may vary.

It’s selfish (and a clear disregard for the SIP order) if and only if you have to travel to get to the aforementioned secluded spot. I didn’t make up the definition of selfish, nor did I make the SIP order, so perhaps your anger is misplaced.


self·ish
/ˈselfiSH/
 
adjective
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

What's a BOD?

Bag of Doritos.

Wow, ScottThornley! Blast from the past

Stupid

Yes, that meme is stupid. Going fishing doesn’t mean you don’t need to go grocery shopping. All it means is that you’re gonna spread the COVID that you acquired
In the Santa Rosa Costco to everything your dirty mitts touch on the way to your out of town fishing trip.

To go on an out of town fishing trip (or any non-essential activity) is selfish and the act of someone who thinks that they are too good for the rules that literally everybody in the state is being asked to temporarily abide by.

I friggin love Halibut fishing. I dream about it all year. I have prime halibut tides for my favorite spots marked on my calendar months in advance. Halibut are currently biting. Am I halibut fishing? Fuck no.

I work in an environment, that at times looks too damned close to that picture of people shopping. And is now considered an essential service.

But in your mind, getting out on my own, or with my two sons, in an isolated area well away from everyone else is selfish?

IMHO, you can go eat a BOD.

Others opinions may vary.

It’s selfish (and a clear disregard for the SIP order) if and only if you have to travel to get to the aforementioned secluded spot. I didn’t make up the definition of selfish, nor did I make the SIP order, so perhaps your anger is misplaced.


self·ish
/ˈselfiSH/
 
adjective
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

So, it's all well and good to drive to the local trailhead and hike (exercise is defined in many locales as an essential need) and allowed under SIP. But it is selfish to drive to a put in and go for a paddle? It's perfectly fine for me to purchase gasoline to go to work, but selfish to use that petroleum to take me to the beach, where no one will be anywhere me and my potential cooties?

Sorry, but I reject your morality and will just use my own.

Wow, ScottThornley! Blast from the past

Yep Paul, it's me. A lot older and fatter, but I still use my T160   Poor bastidge hasn't been used since last Fall.  How's your work treating you? IIRC you were in healthcare? NICU if not mistaken

Stupid

Yes, that meme is stupid. Going fishing doesn’t mean you don’t need to go grocery shopping. All it means is that you’re gonna spread the COVID that you acquired
In the Santa Rosa Costco to everything your dirty mitts touch on the way to your out of town fishing trip.

To go on an out of town fishing trip (or any non-essential activity) is selfish and the act of someone who thinks that they are too good for the rules that literally everybody in the state is being asked to temporarily abide by.

I friggin love Halibut fishing. I dream about it all year. I have prime halibut tides for my favorite spots marked on my calendar months in advance. Halibut are currently biting. Am I halibut fishing? Fuck no.

I work in an environment, that at times looks too damned close to that picture of people shopping. And is now considered an essential service.

But in your mind, getting out on my own, or with my two sons, in an isolated area well away from everyone else is selfish?

IMHO, you can go eat a BOD.

Others opinions may vary.

It’s selfish (and a clear disregard for the SIP order) if and only if you have to travel to get to the aforementioned secluded spot. I didn’t make up the definition of selfish, nor did I make the SIP order, so perhaps your anger is misplaced.


self·ish
/ˈselfiSH/
 
adjective
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

So, it's all well and good to drive to the local trailhead and hike (exercise is defined in many locales as an essential need) and allowed under SIP. But it is selfish to drive to a put in and go for a paddle? It's perfectly fine for me to purchase gasoline to go to work, but selfish to use that petroleum to take me to the beach, where no one will be anywhere me and my potential cooties?

Sorry, but I reject your morality and will just use my own.

You mistake a general principle for MY MORALITY. It isn’t about me or my morality, it’s about what the state is asking all of us to do. But hey, do what you want. I’ll be exercising within 5 miles from my home and not taking my germs outside of my immediate area.

I hear shelter cove is nice this time of year.

What's a BOD?

With the gummy variety it's clearly not as awful as it sounds.

Wow, ScottThornley! Blast from the past

Yep Paul, it's me. A lot older and fatter, but I still use my T160   Poor bastidge hasn't been used since last Fall.  How's your work treating you? IIRC you were in healthcare? NICU if not mistaken

Wow, good memory, over 10 years since NICU, now mostly PICU & some CVICU, most recently PICU/COVID  And it’s been a little crazy but so far not out of control, knock on wood We will see in the coming weeks

Hopefully the old blue T160 will get some water time this year, the stealth is temporarily out of commission Glad to see you hung on to yours Was getting a little portly myself but last two years my son has me out surfing 1-2 times a week or more whipping me back into some kind of reasonable shape

Nice to see a familiar and friendly voice here

What's a BOD?

Bag of Doritos.

Bag of donuts

Board of Directors?

Zombie slang?   

The virtue signalling going on in the bay area is deafening. It is far beyond the needs of the quarantine.

This is a virus. A bad virus, but a virus. Much like some of the worst years of the flu, which is not to be underestimated. That is why we are being cautious. That is why, fortunately, despite that it is more contagious and has a higher mortality rate than the average flu, it has killed roughly one eighth of the seasonal flu. And that is good. So let's build on that. 

But it's a virus, not the zombie apocalypse. Not even ebola. Not even smallpox. If you can go somewhere, not interact, not touch anything other people might touch, and be far away from other folks, call it good. Probably better not to declare it now that we have politicized the quarantine. The righteous are everywhere.

Be safe, folks. And lay low.

I, of course, will not be out fishing for halibut, far from everyone.

Out.

Sigh.

They aren’t virtue signaling. There are multiple problems with that that should be called out.

Virtue signaling is a pegorative term these days and clearly how you I tended it.  It is designed to stifle discussion for a person by being dismissive about a platitude or other hollow act. That is the definition of an ad hominem argument. It is also hardly a hollow act if that person is also practicing the behavior they are advocating, which from my anecdotal observations they are.  Those breaking the SIP order, either legally or in spirit, are by and large the exception and not the rule. There are pictures of empty streets and shuttered businesses filling the news and social media pages. I’d have to guess compliance is over 80%, which is pretty impressive.

We can be alarmed at how quickly people are willing to -even begging to - give up personal liberties, both their own and others, and how dubious the claims of those actions actually stopping or slowing the spread of the virus may be, but let’s attack those directly and not dismiss them in a convenient ad hominem. That’s just lazy.

The virtue signalling going on in the bay area is deafening. It is far beyond the needs of the quarantine.

This is a virus. A bad virus, but a virus. Much like some of the worst years of the flu, which is not to be underestimated. That is why we are being cautious. That is why, fortunately, despite that it is more contagious and has a higher mortality rate than the average flu, it has killed roughly one eighth of the seasonal flu. And that is good. So let's build on that. 

But it's a virus, not the zombie apocalypse. Not even ebola. Not even smallpox. If you can go somewhere, not interact, not touch anything other people might touch, and be far away from other folks, call it good. Probably better not to declare it now that we have politicized the quarantine. The righteous are everywhere.

Be safe, folks. And lay low.

I, of course, will not be out fishing for halibut, far from everyone.

Out.

Sigh.

They aren’t virtue signaling. There are multiple problems with that that should be called out.

Virtue signaling is a pegorative term these days and clearly how you I tended it.  It is designed to stifle discussion for a person by being dismissive about a platitude or other hollow act. That is the definition of an ad hominem argument. It is also hardly a hollow act if that person is also practicing the behavior they are advocating, which from my anecdotal observations they are.  Those breaking the SIP order, either legally or in spirit, are by and large the exception and not the rule. There are pictures of empty streets and shuttered businesses filling the news and social media pages. I’d have to guess compliance is over 80%, which is pretty impressive.

We can be alarmed at how quickly people are willing to -even begging to - give up personal liberties, both their own and others, and how dubious the claims of those actions actually stopping or slowing the spread of the virus may be, but let’s attack those directly and not dismiss them in a convenient ad hominem. That’s just lazy.

Completely agree

The virtue signalling going on in the bay area is deafening. It is far beyond the needs of the quarantine.

This is a virus. A bad virus, but a virus. Much like some of the worst years of the flu, which is not to be underestimated. That is why we are being cautious. That is why, fortunately, despite that it is more contagious and has a higher mortality rate than the average flu, it has killed roughly one eighth of the seasonal flu. And that is good. So let's build on that. 

But it's a virus, not the zombie apocalypse. Not even ebola. Not even smallpox. If you can go somewhere, not interact, not touch anything other people might touch, and be far away from other folks, call it good. Probably better not to declare it now that we have politicized the quarantine. The righteous are everywhere.

Be safe, folks. And lay low.

I, of course, will not be out fishing for halibut, far from everyone.

Out.

Sigh.

They aren’t virtue signaling. There are multiple problems with that that should be called out.

Virtue signaling is a pegorative term these days and clearly how you I tended it.  It is designed to stifle discussion for a person by being dismissive about a platitude or other hollow act. That is the definition of an ad hominem argument. It is also hardly a hollow act if that person is also practicing the behavior they are advocating, which from my anecdotal observations they are.  Those breaking the SIP order, either legally or in spirit, are by and large the exception and not the rule. There are pictures of empty streets and shuttered businesses filling the news and social media pages. I’d have to guess compliance is over 80%, which is pretty impressive.

We can be alarmed at how quickly people are willing to -even begging to - give up personal liberties, both their own and others, and how dubious the claims of those actions actually stopping or slowing the spread of the virus may be, but let’s attack those directly and not dismiss them in a convenient ad hominem. That’s just lazy.

*mic drop*