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Stop saying Lalo is dead because the lab exists in Breaking Bad or explain this to me:

SO! Remember in season 3 of Breaking Bad (yes, this happens in season THREE) when they first start working in the lab? Walt just got Jesse to come back, fired Gale, we see this flashback of Gale helping in the lab…

With me?

I’m just going to repeat myself one more time. All that was in season THREE. Prior to that, we had not seen the lab before and we had not seen anyone make anything in the lab or use it at all. It looked BRAND NEW when Gus showed it to Walt. They made a huge show of Jesse playing around in it like an idiot because it was so new and cool. So NEW AND COOL.

So why is everyone convinced that Lalo has to die, immediately, right now, because “Gus couldn’t have completed the lab if Lalo was alive and they’re using the lab in Breaking Bad, sooo….” Can someone explain this to me please?! I’ve seen various people say “we don’t even meet Saul and Gus until season 2 so it wouldn’t make sense to see anything with Tuco or Lalo.”

Because WE didn’t meet them doesn’t mean that they were dead and non-existent. The way I see it, us not meeting them earlier gives us the perfect opportunity to see things earlier in BB from their perspective. If we DID meet them sooner, then I would understand this argument more, because having Lalo alive could mess up the story. But as it is now, the story would be fine. For example, do we really believe that if Walt and Jesse hadn’t killed Tuco, that Mike and Gus didn’t have eyes on the one Salamanca in Albuquerque? Yeah, no. So I’m not understanding this argument I’m seeing from almost the entire fandom. It seems like a flawed argument.

I’m not saying Lalo has to survive the Breaking Bad timeline, but he can make it significantly longer than people believe. Right?

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THIS IS PATHETIC!!!! governors need to have basic control over citizens and not get bullied out of enforcing SAFETY MEASURES.. relaxing face mask rules because angry people make threats? Ridiculous ‬

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I shared Governor Andrew Cuomo’s post regarding mental health on my LinkedIn page and wanted to share what I wrote about it here as well.

As a mental health advocate and a member of a mental health bar association committee, I very much appreciate and admire Governor Andrew Cuomo’s emphasis on this important issue, especially now. The stakes are high for mental health issues during this crisis, and I am glad to see he has taken this action to help essential employees who may be experiencing unimaginable mental health events.

Mental health already was a subject that needed more attention in the workplace (and everywhere) before the global pandemic, but now more than ever, it is even more crucial. Employers and employees will need to work together on this. Governor Cuomo has set an excellent example here.

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Long Island, NY protest... can’t help but notice the lady to the left not only exposing her BABIES to possibly getting coronavirus but also that man’s flag outfit .... no masks either. Just go home!!!

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I am from New York but today, Georgia’s temporary law change due to the pandemic has my attention. I simply cannot get behind this. Also, in the context of the article and the executive order that Brian Kemp issued allowing this, the current duration of this way too lenient “requirement” to obtain a driver’s license is from May 1st, 2020 through May 13, 2020.

While I understand the impatience people are experiencing with postponements and cancellations of events and milestones, I cannot fathom the need for at least 13 days of inevitable chaos. ‪This is yet another example, in my opinion, of a dangerous outcome stemming from those who choose to battle for the loss of their freedoms instead of placing more value on health and safety..

‪In case worrying about death from the pandemic wasn’t doing it for everyone, now we can preoccupy ourselves about car accidents caused by an influx of people who don’t know how to drive on the streets!

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/04/georgia-drops-driving-test-requirement-for-license-due-to-pandemic?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

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Some light-hearted posts are still permitted.

Ron Swanson preaching the theme of 2020....

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Violent Crime in the name of the Virus

I’ve been combing the media and collecting a lot of news. However, I need stories that are more :

personal to you!

The news has a lot of interesting stories, more personal accounts would be infinitely more informative and intriguing. I want to hear from people who would like to help me create a living document to commemorate this crisis. Please tell me about how this trying time has affected you - legally (changed laws/ rules/ regulations, witnessing different types of crimes, etc) or otherwise.

In the news and on social media I’ve read some of the most shocking stories, along with stories that seem small but really are not, if you give it some more thought. But I want this to be a personal account, and to accomplish that, I’ll need to hear from people I know and people who I haven’t met who are in my various networks. I appreciate any information. Even though I am posting asking for assistance, I did promise to include excerpts of my writing on instances I’ve encountered. Shortly, I will update with a personal anecdote about the impact of social distancing on the way my family is going about celebrating the religious holidays this year. But for now, since I already journaled on this, below, you’ll find a story about a nonsensical crime stemmed by a man’s passion for social distancing, but expressing that passion in the most improper way.

Recently I read about a physician in Louisville, Kentucky who, on April 6, 2020, came across younger girls (teenage) who were at Norton Commons Ampitheater and were not practicing social distancing to his satisfaction.

*please note that I take social distancing extremely seriously and implore everyone to exercise it in the strictest manner, but I still cannot support what happened next.

The physician purportedly chose to take matters into his own hands in an unfortunately way too literal way. He appears to be caught on video first loudly calling one of the girls an expletive word before shoving her; he then aggressively pushed another woman forcefully to the ground, and then he dropped to the ground approaching the last woman and choked her while her panicked friends screamed at him to stop.

The police report demonstrates that the victim of the most violent conduct was a black woman (the only black person in the group of women the physician accosted) and she suffered minor injuries as the man allegedly choked her and impeded her breathing.

*This may come with hate crime implications, though since I don’t know the circumstances, I cannot speak to that possibility; I can only note that it crossed my mind as an attorney.

It is clear to me that this conduct amounts to assault at the very least, but there could be more. Theoretically, he could face felony first degree strangulation, though my impulse was to doubt it would, under normal circumstances, amount to such a high charge. However, I am unsure how much force he was using— some could even argue attempted murder in instances where the force used was exceedingly excessive— and I also can’t speak to the effects the global, emergency scenario amid the coronavirus/ Covid 19 crisis may have on what people committing crimes related to the pandemic may have on the degree of criminal charge. As I also mentioned, there could be a potential race / hate crime issue.

The irony of all of this was that his crime was apparently one of passion, stemming from a physician’s frustration with a group of girls’ failure to comply with social distancing, yet this physician reacted by failing to comply with social distancing guidelines to get close enough to the same girls to violently express that frustration. I don’t think that course of action proved his point in the least. No lessons learned here.

Please comment or submit anything you’ve witnessed or heard about that you believe should be remembered about this period of time. I appreciate any and all contributions.

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I am just starting off with a quick post to get this project moving. I am also providing a few small examples in this post so readers can see that my legal point of view does not limit the topics I’m covering as much as many may expect. Every day I’ve been journaling and keeping track of various changes that arise every day due to Coronavirus/ Covid 19. Since everything that’s happening is unprecedented, it will be helpful and interesting to revisit all the changes and happenings throughout this crisis once it’s finally a thing of the past.

While I have a lot of material based on what I see and hear in the news as well as from people via word of mouth, I want to track the most information as possible and am therefore hoping some of you will contribute information for me to explore. I am looking for information in all aspects of life, so even though I’m looking at this from an legal standpoint, that doesn’t come with many limitations. These “legal” changes apply to almost everyone and all types of injuries and all areas of life. Below are some basic examples; most of my entries on here and especially in my book will be a lot more detailed.

Just about everyone and everything has been affected by legal changes. For example, due to guidelines regarding safety and social distancing, restaurants are 100% closed except for pick up and delivery. Even the way the deliveries take place has changed immensely; when we order food now, the people delivering it are usually wearing masks and avoiding human contact as much as possible. One person rang our doorbell and by the time I scrambled to open the door, the food was left in front of the door and the person delivering it had made it all the way downstairs; I could hear the distant sound of footsteps. While little instances like these of our “new normal” may seem insignificant, they really make up drastic, unprecedented, and unexpected changes in society as we know it, and it’s important to keep track of history in the making.

There are also constant reports of changes in the types of crimes people commit during emergencies like this. It’s unfortunate, but many criminals take advantage of any vulnerability, and this pandemic has created a lot of vulnerabilities. Before the outbreak of coronavirus, nobody would have imagined criminals attempting to make money off of counterfeit tests for diseases, but that’s now the type of activity for which police must prepare in this day and age.

So those are just a few short examples of the type of content I will be covering; even though I’m looking at this from a legal standpoint, food delivery and a new type of crime came up, and there are nearly infinite topics that are relevant. These I hope some of you will submit contributions of anything you may notice.