COVID-19 Part IX -Vaccine Time

[westofyou]

I couldn't be more proud.

He grew up in a trailer and works in a coffee shop and doesn't look at other people as sources of contamination.

Unlike.

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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

- Kurt Vonnegut

[Stray]

If you look at the numbers suicide has been increasing exponentially in this country for over a decade and nobody said a word. Now, all of a sudden, it’s a major issue.

It’s good people have noticed, but I wonder if anyone actually cares or if it’s just being used as ammo by COVID-deniers.

Agreed it's been overlooked for too long. And it's not just suicide, it's suicide with pain killers, drugs and alcohol too. People are killing themselves deliberately or with a slow death at an alarming rate. Find an old manufacturing or labor ran town in nowhere America and you'll find an addiction riddled area. I grew up in one in Northern Kentucky.

But I think the suicides spiking from Covid aren't necessarily that same crowd. People in need of help who aren't getting it, extroverts locked up, depressed kids stuck at home, etc. Not saying there isn't an overlap, but I don't think it'is that big.

Both need way more attention tho.

[Rojo]

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

- Kurt Vonnegut

I'm sorry, so other people are our enemy?

Because germs?

Were you raised by Howard Hughes?

[Stray]

Nightly reminder that if you aren't paying small businesses and their employees you're stealing their money and giving it to big biz with lockdowns. Wal-Mart and Amazon are killing it. Maybe that was the idea all along.

[Rojo]

Wal-Mart and Amazon are killing it. Maybe that was the idea all along.

Yeeeep! Just like I think TARP was to consolidate big bank control over small banks.

[Falls City Beer]

Nightly reminder that if you aren't paying small businesses and their employees you're stealing their money and giving it to big biz with lockdowns. Wal-Mart and Amazon are killing it. Maybe that was the idea all along.

You know their lawyers and lobbyists are working overtime to ramp up lockdowns. Never let a disaster go to waste.

[RedTeamGo!]

Nightly reminder that if you aren't paying small businesses and their employees you're stealing their money and giving it to big biz with lockdowns. Wal-Mart and Amazon are killing it. Maybe that was the idea all along.

Yes yes, wal-mart and Amazon are behind a global pandemic. Riiiiighttttt.

[RedTeamGo!]

You know their lawyers and lobbyists are working overtime to ramp up lockdowns. Never let a disaster go to waste.

Prove it.

[RedTeamGo!]

Certainly you're not going to do it, no matter what "the man" says.

What exactly have you done to “fight” it other than scream into the void online? You keep bringing up Europeans taking to the streets and saying Americans are weak. Which street have you taken to?

[Falls City Beer]

Yes yes, wal-mart and Amazon are behind a global pandemic. Riiiiighttttt.

No one is saying that. It’s called disaster capitalism. When disaster strikes, move aggressively to see your preferred policy changes enacted while countervailing forces are still reeling. It’s taking advantage of an upturned status quo.

[Bob Sheed]

https://youtu.be/2Wz7KvLFgYQ

Dave Chappelle stopped by the Rogan podcast the other day. To me, this clip sums up the current state of trying to problem-solve our way through this pandemic.

"En masse, it seems like we are rewriting our social contracts"

"People are forced to take stock of their lives. Do you like your house? Do you like who you are with? Do you like all of these things you have accumulated? "

"Forced reflection." Pretty deep stuff.

[Stray]

Yes yes, wal-mart and Amazon are behind a global pandemic. Riiiiighttttt.

???

[Falls City Beer]

???

It’s a favorite maneuver of the center. Misrepresent the hell out of non-centrist position because it’s “crazy” and everything that isn’t centrist is “crazy.” So how could you *possibly* believe that plutocrats are doubling down in a crisis?

[BernieCarbo]

It’s a favorite maneuver of the center. Misrepresent the hell out of non-centrist position because it’s “crazy” and everything that isn’t centrist is “crazy.” So how could you *possibly* believe that plutocrats are doubling down in a crisis?

Yes, exactly. I don't now how it was in PA, but during the initial stay at home order, it was proposed that independent wine and spirits stores have to close while Kroger could still continue to sell. That didn't do over very well, and I don't think it was malicious, but it's obvious how lowly regarded small businesses are looked at. Can you imagine the killing that Kroger would have made?

[Falls City Beer]

Yes, exactly. I don't now how it was in PA, but during the initial stay at home order, it was proposed that independent wine and spirits stores have to close while Kroger could still continue to sell. That didn't do over very well, and I don't think it was malicious, but it's obvious how lowly regarded small businesses are looked at. Can you imagine the killing that Kroger would have made?

I think people love small businesses. I think corporations want absolute, entire control.

In PA—well Philadelphia (can’t speak to the whole state)—everything except major chains were shut down (even WalMart had/has limited hours). We supposedly “did it right.” And, well...