I wonder how long the "hospitals are overwhelmed" spiel's gonna age when people see more of these tiktok videos emerge after these lockdowns ans new normal bs ends
Here in Michigan, it may be more difficult to sell citizens on the "hospitals are overloaded" narrative because the state stopped paying rent today to maintain its two Greater Detroit overflow facilities that barely took in any patients even when COVID was more rampant this past Spring than it is now despite talks of a relentless second wave.
The state has decided to not renew its contract with the Suburban Collection Showplace to maintain space as a potential COVID-19 facility in 2021.
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Numbers from my county are still down even with a brief increase in case numbers on Monday/Tuesday (presumably unrecorded cases from the weekend) and there's only been two deaths in the past week. Anyone who looks at those numbers and thinks COVID is on an upswing again here is beyond reason.
I am tired of everything being shut down. You can't even eat indoors. You have to sit outside in the cold because some 90 year old deathfat could die if you cough on them.
In my area, some downtown restaurants received local permission to block off seldom-used roadways to expand their outdoor dining capacity. In one smaller city, though, the streets being blocked off are portions of the main north-south and east-west roads going through its downtown. Locals love it and want those roads blocked off indefinitely, but it has to be a nightmare for drivers unaware or who use/need those roads for the most direct route to their destination. Why those restaurants couldn't have used to adjoining side streets is beyond me
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Do these types of made up stories work on anyone other than the most gullible?
It probably helps that the younger generations are being indoctrinated to question nothing, #BelieveAllWomen, and otherwise accept what they're being told at face value when anyone with critical thinking skills would be pressing X to doubt as emphatically as possible. On a more serious note, stories such as this one make me immediately think "What details were conveniently left out?"
So basically the baby boom we had at the end of WW2 are starting to die (baby boom would equal a large amount of people dying 70 years or so later). Good to know the death rates haven't changed, just how they're reported
In my county, roughly 75% of the COVID deaths are from the 60+ age groups. Obviously, this doesn't hold true everywhere, but it's consistent with the idea that seniors and those with health complications are the most likely to die from COVID.
Incidentally, the number of cases where the person had an unknown gender has decreased from 39 to 2.
So this idea that the country is more racist in 2020 than at any point in our history is just baffling to me.
While there probably is some degree of racism (it will never totally go away), the truth is Oppression Olympic types now consider any behavior they dislike to be racist. It's akin to the SJW microaggressions that allow them to deem anything others say and do as triggering or problematic. It's hard not to be labeled racist when the SJW and snowflake crew are ready to deem anything one does or doesn't do to be racist just because they say so.
You can't just up and fire 60% of workers in just about any industry.
Too bad the people most fervent about cancel culture don't grasp this and simply don't care. I'd love to see what they'd do if their favorite coffee house or electronics store had reduced offerings because 60% of the workforce was gone for whatever reason. (
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Lol at "we don't want to quarantine anyone who doesn't need to be" because yeah that is the big fucking concern here. How is this not a business related human rights abuse?
My hypothesis is that the athletes believe, right or wrong, that getting COVID and the possibility of reduced lung capacity as a side effect is serious enough that they're willing to go along with this -- especially if the players union actually agreed to this. I'd expect them to raise the most objection if any over this program, but perhaps they believe it would be bad optics for them to do so. Still, it looks like there are still players that aren't following the NBA's regulations; I believe James Harden was recently caught being out of his hotel room when he shouldn't have been and couldn't give a valid reason for that and missing the nightly bed check.
Agreed: The police have no business enforcing any mask mandates.
Throughout the various restrictions here in Michigan, many local and county police departments -- especially those in bluer parts of the state -- made it clear they wouldn't enforce mask/capacity restrictions as a primary offense for reasons that boiled down to either or both of: (1) We don't have the manpower to investigate the complaints, most of which prove to be frivolous or unfounded, or (2) If COVID is as serious and contagious as governmental officials claim it is, why should officers risk their lives enforcing executive orders that only carry civil penalties. Regarding point two, some police departments chose not to pull anyone over this Spring for the most minor of traffic offenses out of fear of contracting COVID during traffic stops. With that in mind, they certainly weren't going to actively look to confront unmasked people if they didn't have to.
Real talk, how do you intend to make it through the next year? Not insulting your opinion. I just feel the same way, so I gotta ask: What keeps you going?
If all goes as planned, I'll officially become my own boss for my current job and I'll be starting a part-time job that pays well should it work out. I also have a chance to dabble in an old hobby again for the fun of it.
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Not sure if it was posted here yet, but someone in Wisconsin intentionally removed 57 vials of COVID vaccine from a refrigerator, causing them to go bad and be discarded.
I get people having legit concerns about the vaccines, but this seems like the wrong way to handle that if that turns out to the be reason behind this action.
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