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Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big
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The percentage of high school-aged athletes who will play on any pro team (either in the US or abroad) is minuscule at best. The truth is many high school athletes will not play at a higher level once they graduate and the concern that they're losing games now isn't inherently unreasonable. Think of the last players off the bench who stay on the team because they enjoy the camaraderie and cooperation that comes with being on a team with their friends for 5+ years (assuming they've done so since middle school). Every cancelled game is one less opportunity to be together.
It's something how these doomers want to take the most extreme example and prop it up as the norm yet they're quick to dismiss the opposite extreme as a valid counterexample.
Events where people are packed in tighter than sardines or have reputations for their mosh pit environments probably can't happen viably for now. "Festivals" could be different because the term is more broader. Events that attract smaller crowds and/or take place in spaces open enough to allow for social distancing might still go on if allowed to by whatever regulations govern that locality. Those events having more people packed into an enclosed space might have to deal with capacity limits, or they may decide to cancel this year if those limits would make holding the event infeasible or unprofitable. For example, if an event needs 500 or more in attendance to be viable but they venue's capacity is currently limited to 200 people, the hosts may simply not hold the event. Some may simply pass for now because (as you say) they know people aren't going to wear masks for an entire weekend and they know that enforcement of any required mask rules is futile enough to not be worth the time and resources needed for it.I know everyone is veryabout Summer 2021 but am I wrong in thinking that scheduling concerts and festivals is a futile effort? Do they really think that in a super massive fest like Bonaroo everyone will continously wear masks for 3 days?
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I dont believe a local Renaissance fair can compare to a massive music festival. For example, Summer Camp is on for 2021. Heres a picture of the crowd from 2019:
Also Ren fairs attract weirdos, almost exclusively. Of course theyre dying to wear their cringey plague doctor masks they bought in 2006.
"People adapt" until theyre on day 3 of a drug bender and have lost or vomitted on all their masks.
Apparently NZ is having massive concerts with no masks and no social distancing but they have to scan a QR code to be contact traced. Despite this, they've found ZERO community spread. That doesnt make any sense and they are likely just spreading asymptomatic cases around. But its ok cause some countries get to fudge the numbers in their favor.
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Long enough for a child born in 2020 to be indoctrinated into believing every human being will kill them if they violate the sacred VirusEdicts.
When Will Life Return to Normal? In 7.4 Years at Today's Vaccine Rates
Our new calculator shows how long it will take states and countries to vaccinate 75% of their populationswww.bloomberg.com
>7 years
Fuck everything.
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Have a neighbor who is a schoolteacher, teaches sixth grade. She's been teaching remotely. Very nice lady.
Once the schools reopen believe she and her students are going to be fucked. Unless someone with common sense actually uses it, I see the schools being forced to prepare for the annual standardized testing as soon as they reopen. As it is, getting the students back in the classroom frame of mind/behavior is problematical. These kids are so far behind now it will take up to two years for some of them to catch up. Should the schools be forced to prepare for the standardized testing, all the teachers are going to be able to do is basically teach the test. Glad as hell I have no kids/grandkids in CA public schools.
I like this one. My attitude precisely, but I don't drink coffee.
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I had a dream last night where I was in a crowded shopping mall and no one was wearing masks. It will be a nice feeling to experience that in real life again.
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Some good news. The US Supreme Court has ruled (archive) against the banning of worship services due to the pandemic.
I am not in the United States but it's heartening nevertheless. There are similar court cases in the works in Canada, too. I hope (but do not expect) the worst restrictions might come down soon.
I am not in the United States but it's heartening nevertheless. There are similar court cases in the works in Canada, too. I hope (but do not expect) the worst restrictions might come down soon.
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Train Dodge just found out about the Jews/NWO/Reptilians/Illuminati/Etc.
Welcome to the club TD, but don't worry, it'll all fall apart before this ultimately ephemeral power can be consolidated globally. You'll be living in a dirt hut and dying of common neurotropic (?) viruses before you get a chance to live in a pod megalopolis.
I'd suggest tossing your computer in the garbage and learning how to start a fire with sticks and rocks.
Welcome to the club TD, but don't worry, it'll all fall apart before this ultimately ephemeral power can be consolidated globally. You'll be living in a dirt hut and dying of common neurotropic (?) viruses before you get a chance to live in a pod megalopolis.
I'd suggest tossing your computer in the garbage and learning how to start a fire with sticks and rocks.
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That chain made me sad, except this part that made me really angry.
said twice that Mike Osterholm (our MN guy) was predicting a HUGE SURGE in cases in the next 6-14 weeks.
They're just making shit up now. We can reopen because their MIGHT be a "huge surge" 2-4 months from now. Better keep everyone locked down "to be safe."
I'm not. New York state has basically already announced that large outdoor gatherings for 2021 is cancelled. The Parks and Recreation department has already stated that all permits for 2021 will be denied.I know everyone is very
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That just about hits the nail on the head.
My folks who are boomers and live for the TV - totally addicted to it and get all their 'information' and consensus wisdom from it - they have been all for the lockdowns. In fact, they don't think they have gone far enough. They despise and get angry at all the people 'breaking the rules'. I guess because they are ill and at the end of their life there is more than a little envy there about the young who can still go out and live a little. It's sad, but understandable I suppose. They probably aren't untypical end-of-life boomers either, I would wager.
But here's the interesting bit: they still think there is some kind of fuckeries going on. And as for the vaccine, well, they have recently been offered it by their local surgery, but are really reticent to go ahead and get it done. It's the AstraZeneca vaccine. I'd read that quite a few countries said it wasn't good for older people - EU countries - but recently some study had been done and surprise surprise, it's totes legit fam! Sorry don't have a source for that.
Does anyone here have any info on that AZ vaccine? I could look it up, but if it's like the rest of it I'll just be bombarded with contradictory FUD. I'd be interested in any opinions on it, for obvious reasons.
It's not that my folks are totally unreasonable. But they are still unreasonable. The sort of people that don't react well to logic and common sense in an argument. You know the type. Yeah they are leftys. They see any kind of rational debate as fighting dirty if it hurts their fee-fee's or goes against the party line. It's quite amazing how this has been split along the left/right paradigm isn't it? Even if you don't subscribe to that way of thinking, there's a lot of people seemingly who do.
But even though they are following the party line (whatever that is) they are still faced with contradictions and are as confused as anyone over this. Confused as to exactly what the actual party line may be, even, when they see Corbyn's brother out there protesting the Scamdemic.
Consequently they are doing what a lot of people do when they are caught between a rock and the proverbial - they are thinking for themselves. Even though I had to walk on eggshells over this subject at xmas, they were still a little receptive to some information, dispersed diplomatically of course, by yours truly.
And they should be scared. Because I wouldn't like to see either of them get even a bad flu. I say 'even' but those that know about these things know that a bad flu is no joke, bucko! I'm as concerned about the good old fashioned flu to be honest as I am about this new mutant strain of covid. And after that there will be another mutant strain, and another.
There's real world and pragmatic stuff to be worked out here along with all the theories about where this came from, why the government are shutting the economy down, all the paradoxical and conflicting information from other countries. I mean, all that latter stuff is interesting and whatnot, but it doesn't really change the fact that the world has changed for the worse and it's just an academic exercise really at this point. A valid one nonetheless. But it doesn't answer the question about whether my folks should get this AZ vaccine or maybe wait for another one at a later date.
On another note, I've come across my first case of this happening 'in the wild'. A friend told me about a builder that went to Jersey and was made to take a test there, and unbeknownst to him he actually had covid. He was immediately quarantined in a hotel and given something like 15 quid a day for food, which if you know Jersey prices didn't go very far at all. He did get ill a day or two after the test when he was feeling fine. He's a fit young black guy, and I believe it was two whole weeks he was made to stay in the quarantine hotel. My friend said that when she spoke to him on the phone, he said he was feeling much better, but she was a little shocked at his constant coughing that sounded like that dry raspy whooping cough kind of thing.
As for the economic impact of all this, at a time when Amazon et al were taking over the high-street anyway, well, I think many people are still in the denial stage of grief. It's funny as well the double-think necessary to deal with the cognitive dissonance of it all. My taxi driver had bought the scam, hook, line and sinker, vaccine bs as well about how it's so great and everything is going to be ok now, isn't it? But at the same time when I commented on the boarded up shops that had shut down and won't be reopening, he was pointing out other places that had gone from the high street as well, forever. Even though he was a true believer, he still knew in his heart something wasn't right - his lying eyes told him that much.
People have forged very strong opinions on all of this, and much of that is not based on any kind of facts or supporting information. They are filliing in the blanks where the story doesn't make sense. I've noticed that with a lot of people, with most just thinking it easier not to broach the subject. But I had to believe what my lying eyes were telling me as well. The music shop was practically stripped of all instruments, though it wasn't boarded up, they had those metal shutters. The computer shop was boarded up. I guess they still had a bit of stock left there worth nicking - but even that was decimated. They had installed some kind of traffic light system for entering the shop - you can go in when the light turns Green, kind of thing. And even then they had put the counter at the front of the shop so you couldn't browse, just ask for what you want like you do at the chip shop! Madness, and it didn't really help did it?
The music shop was a decent place to go and buy a guitar and some strings if you had a spare bit of cash. Sure, you could get stuff cheaper on line, but there'll always be a place for shops like that where you can go in and actually try out an instrument to see if it's for you. But how will all of this have affected them? Months of no trade. Those people work on short margins and things are still expensive there for them to make enough to have a decent living.
The computer shop really wasn't offering anything you couldn't get on eBay for a significantly cheaper price. I mean, it's nice to try out a guitar before buying, but a laptop is a laptop pretty much. Well, when you are getting it 50 quid cheaper, it's worth taking that punt. And who wants to pay 20 fucking quid for a certain type of USB cable when you can get them for a few quid on Amazon/eBay? They must have been hit really hard by this.
It was very eerie walking around. A literal ghost town. Had everything but the tumbleweeds.
Pretty soon even more people will be waking up and realising that this wasn't just done for no reason. Well, it was done for a reason, but not the line the govt. have been spinning to people. For now, it's just not making sense to anyone. The disruption to every day life is just not proportional to the dangers being faced.
The cure is worse than the disease.
I'm no economist either, but there has to be a serious knock-on effect of all of this where people have lost their businesses and jobs. I wonder who will come riding in on their trusty white steed to save the day and pick things up at fire-sale prices for cents/pennies on the dollar/pound?
The rich win again.
Now I'm no hater of the rich and I say good luck to them. But when I say 'rich', I don't mean middle class rich, I mean rich 'rich'. Some call them the elites. It's going to be fat city for them. It's all so... convenient. They've set the middle class against the underclass by making out they are a bunch of oxygen-thieving scroungers, they've set the working class against the underclass as well as the middle class against the working class, when now many working class people have to use food banks to feed their families. And of course, now that they are coming for the middle class, even they are having to use food banks as well for the first time in their lives. Soon they will be losing their properties and in a country already facing a housing crisis, well, people will be at each other's throats even more than usual.
I know it's not that bad. Yet. Most people will survive and get by even if with a reduced standard of living.
But there will be repercussions to all this economic shut down of the country.
And just like brexit, we will be getting the unintended consequences along with the rest of it as well.
It's funny how everything has come at once. Or is it? I guess these were once in a lifetime opportunities for the elites, and they just had to be taken advantage of. Who knows who really wins this game at the end of it all.
One thing is for sure. Social inequality just got stretched to a far wider margin, with even the upper middle classes being drawn in to the 'blame game' now. Their lives have changed irrevocably whether they realise it or not, because even they have to piss in the same pot as us 'poor' people. They go to the same pubs, places to eat, take their kids to the same schools (pretty much), go to the same places on holiday (pretty much). All that has been wrecked now. The only people who are a level above all this and far removed from the societal consequences are the super rich - those with fuck you money.
But even though they are following the party line (whatever that is) they are still faced with contradictions and are as confused as anyone over this. Confused as to exactly what the actual party line may be, even, when they see Corbyn's brother out there protesting the Scamdemic.
Consequently they are doing what a lot of people do when they are caught between a rock and the proverbial - they are thinking for themselves. Even though I had to walk on eggshells over this subject at xmas, they were still a little receptive to some information, dispersed diplomatically of course, by yours truly.
And they should be scared. Because I wouldn't like to see either of them get even a bad flu. I say 'even' but those that know about these things know that a bad flu is no joke, bucko! I'm as concerned about the good old fashioned flu to be honest as I am about this new mutant strain of covid. And after that there will be another mutant strain, and another.
There's real world and pragmatic stuff to be worked out here along with all the theories about where this came from, why the government are shutting the economy down, all the paradoxical and conflicting information from other countries. I mean, all that latter stuff is interesting and whatnot, but it doesn't really change the fact that the world has changed for the worse and it's just an academic exercise really at this point. A valid one nonetheless. But it doesn't answer the question about whether my folks should get this AZ vaccine or maybe wait for another one at a later date.
On another note, I've come across my first case of this happening 'in the wild'. A friend told me about a builder that went to Jersey and was made to take a test there, and unbeknownst to him he actually had covid. He was immediately quarantined in a hotel and given something like 15 quid a day for food, which if you know Jersey prices didn't go very far at all. He did get ill a day or two after the test when he was feeling fine. He's a fit young black guy, and I believe it was two whole weeks he was made to stay in the quarantine hotel. My friend said that when she spoke to him on the phone, he said he was feeling much better, but she was a little shocked at his constant coughing that sounded like that dry raspy whooping cough kind of thing.
As for the economic impact of all this, at a time when Amazon et al were taking over the high-street anyway, well, I think many people are still in the denial stage of grief. It's funny as well the double-think necessary to deal with the cognitive dissonance of it all. My taxi driver had bought the scam, hook, line and sinker, vaccine bs as well about how it's so great and everything is going to be ok now, isn't it? But at the same time when I commented on the boarded up shops that had shut down and won't be reopening, he was pointing out other places that had gone from the high street as well, forever. Even though he was a true believer, he still knew in his heart something wasn't right - his lying eyes told him that much.
People have forged very strong opinions on all of this, and much of that is not based on any kind of facts or supporting information. They are filliing in the blanks where the story doesn't make sense. I've noticed that with a lot of people, with most just thinking it easier not to broach the subject. But I had to believe what my lying eyes were telling me as well. The music shop was practically stripped of all instruments, though it wasn't boarded up, they had those metal shutters. The computer shop was boarded up. I guess they still had a bit of stock left there worth nicking - but even that was decimated. They had installed some kind of traffic light system for entering the shop - you can go in when the light turns Green, kind of thing. And even then they had put the counter at the front of the shop so you couldn't browse, just ask for what you want like you do at the chip shop! Madness, and it didn't really help did it?
The music shop was a decent place to go and buy a guitar and some strings if you had a spare bit of cash. Sure, you could get stuff cheaper on line, but there'll always be a place for shops like that where you can go in and actually try out an instrument to see if it's for you. But how will all of this have affected them? Months of no trade. Those people work on short margins and things are still expensive there for them to make enough to have a decent living.
The computer shop really wasn't offering anything you couldn't get on eBay for a significantly cheaper price. I mean, it's nice to try out a guitar before buying, but a laptop is a laptop pretty much. Well, when you are getting it 50 quid cheaper, it's worth taking that punt. And who wants to pay 20 fucking quid for a certain type of USB cable when you can get them for a few quid on Amazon/eBay? They must have been hit really hard by this.
It was very eerie walking around. A literal ghost town. Had everything but the tumbleweeds.
Pretty soon even more people will be waking up and realising that this wasn't just done for no reason. Well, it was done for a reason, but not the line the govt. have been spinning to people. For now, it's just not making sense to anyone. The disruption to every day life is just not proportional to the dangers being faced.
The cure is worse than the disease.
I'm no economist either, but there has to be a serious knock-on effect of all of this where people have lost their businesses and jobs. I wonder who will come riding in on their trusty white steed to save the day and pick things up at fire-sale prices for cents/pennies on the dollar/pound?
The rich win again.
Now I'm no hater of the rich and I say good luck to them. But when I say 'rich', I don't mean middle class rich, I mean rich 'rich'. Some call them the elites. It's going to be fat city for them. It's all so... convenient. They've set the middle class against the underclass by making out they are a bunch of oxygen-thieving scroungers, they've set the working class against the underclass as well as the middle class against the working class, when now many working class people have to use food banks to feed their families. And of course, now that they are coming for the middle class, even they are having to use food banks as well for the first time in their lives. Soon they will be losing their properties and in a country already facing a housing crisis, well, people will be at each other's throats even more than usual.
I know it's not that bad. Yet. Most people will survive and get by even if with a reduced standard of living.
But there will be repercussions to all this economic shut down of the country.
And just like brexit, we will be getting the unintended consequences along with the rest of it as well.
It's funny how everything has come at once. Or is it? I guess these were once in a lifetime opportunities for the elites, and they just had to be taken advantage of. Who knows who really wins this game at the end of it all.
One thing is for sure. Social inequality just got stretched to a far wider margin, with even the upper middle classes being drawn in to the 'blame game' now. Their lives have changed irrevocably whether they realise it or not, because even they have to piss in the same pot as us 'poor' people. They go to the same pubs, places to eat, take their kids to the same schools (pretty much), go to the same places on holiday (pretty much). All that has been wrecked now. The only people who are a level above all this and far removed from the societal consequences are the super rich - those with fuck you money.
I'll be the first to admit though, for all my little rant above, I really don't have a clue what the fuck is going on and what this is really all about. I suppose that's one thing most of us have got in common.
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TL;DR - Follow the money
Big business are allowed to operate with only minor restrictions and small businesses get fined into oblivion for even thinking about reopening.
Even worse, I know at least in California they said that only outdoor dining would be allowed, so small businesses spent six figures to set up places, and then like two weeks later California said LOLJK and banned outdoor dining too. So not only is it illegal for small businesses to be open, but the government got many of them to waste literal hundreds of thousands on false promises.
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If not at first, mods will appear immediately to remedy the oversight.
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The latest bullshit from the county I live in. For some reason I don't believe what they say. Now I always believe "they" are figuring out every possible way to keep fucking people over.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
February 6, 2021, 3:00 p.m.
MONTEREY COUNTY CASES STILL FALLING RAPIDLY AS CALIFORNIA REACHES 7 MILLION DOSES OF VACCINE
There continues to be good news today on most fronts in the war against the coronavirus epidemic, with cases and hospitalizations falling rapidly in Monterey County, as well as statewide. The only blemish on an otherwise encouraging picture is that Monterey County still doesn't seem to be getting its fair share of vaccine.
The county health department reported 1,107 new cases of coronavirus among county residents during the past week — the lowest total since late November. The total includes 183 cases in the Monterey Peninsula, and in some parts of the Peninsula, the numbers are even more promising: During the week, two cases were reported in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Big Sur and Pebble Beach, while Carmel Valley had three and Carmel area (93923) had one. Seaside had 94 cases, Marina 41, Monterey 20, and Pacific Grove had 15. Salinas and the Salinas Valley had 760. Please see our "Cases by Zip Code" table below for more details.
Statewide, 12,394 coronavirus cases were reported yesterday — far below the record of 53,711 cases on Dec. 15. As in Monterey County, new infections around the state are happening at the slowest rate since November.
Hospitalizations also continue to decline, CDPH data show. There are now 109 coronavirus-positive inpatients at Monterey County's hospitals, the state said, including 25 in ICU. On January 15, countywide hospitalizations were 217.
As the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are administered to more and more people around the country, the effect on cases is starting to show up, especially in the nation's senior care facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. That's the kind of news we've all been hoping for.(The news I hope for is Newsom being recalled, the end of masks and being able to use two carts at the commissary again. - JS)
Unfortunately, Monterey County is still lagging in the number of vaccine doses it's getting. According to the Centers for Disease Control, California has received 6,963,500 doses of the vaccines, but the county health department says we've only received a little more than 39,000. By population, we should have about 80,000. Vaccine eligibility in the county is also the same as it has been for two weeks.(They can have mine. STILL going to wait. - JS)
To make an appointment for a vaccination in Monterey County, don't forget to check these websites: mcvaccinate.com, offered by the county health department, and www.chomp.org/vaccine, which is the site for clinics operated by Community Hospital.(Good fucking luck - openings fill in minutes. - JS)
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
February 6, 2021, 3:00 p.m.
MONTEREY COUNTY CASES STILL FALLING RAPIDLY AS CALIFORNIA REACHES 7 MILLION DOSES OF VACCINE
There continues to be good news today on most fronts in the war against the coronavirus epidemic, with cases and hospitalizations falling rapidly in Monterey County, as well as statewide. The only blemish on an otherwise encouraging picture is that Monterey County still doesn't seem to be getting its fair share of vaccine.
The county health department reported 1,107 new cases of coronavirus among county residents during the past week — the lowest total since late November. The total includes 183 cases in the Monterey Peninsula, and in some parts of the Peninsula, the numbers are even more promising: During the week, two cases were reported in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Big Sur and Pebble Beach, while Carmel Valley had three and Carmel area (93923) had one. Seaside had 94 cases, Marina 41, Monterey 20, and Pacific Grove had 15. Salinas and the Salinas Valley had 760. Please see our "Cases by Zip Code" table below for more details.
Statewide, 12,394 coronavirus cases were reported yesterday — far below the record of 53,711 cases on Dec. 15. As in Monterey County, new infections around the state are happening at the slowest rate since November.
Hospitalizations also continue to decline, CDPH data show. There are now 109 coronavirus-positive inpatients at Monterey County's hospitals, the state said, including 25 in ICU. On January 15, countywide hospitalizations were 217.
As the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are administered to more and more people around the country, the effect on cases is starting to show up, especially in the nation's senior care facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. That's the kind of news we've all been hoping for.(The news I hope for is Newsom being recalled, the end of masks and being able to use two carts at the commissary again. - JS)
Unfortunately, Monterey County is still lagging in the number of vaccine doses it's getting. According to the Centers for Disease Control, California has received 6,963,500 doses of the vaccines, but the county health department says we've only received a little more than 39,000. By population, we should have about 80,000. Vaccine eligibility in the county is also the same as it has been for two weeks.(They can have mine. STILL going to wait. - JS)
To make an appointment for a vaccination in Monterey County, don't forget to check these websites: mcvaccinate.com, offered by the county health department, and www.chomp.org/vaccine, which is the site for clinics operated by Community Hospital.(Good fucking luck - openings fill in minutes. - JS)
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There is a resistance to VirusRegime in Southern California. But it is so small and the greater population so complacent that it may as well not exist.
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The super bowl is tomorrow! Time to guess how many cases they will make up. I'm going with 25,000 US wide within the next 2 weeks.
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Isn't Newsom trying to force things to reopen so he doesn't get recalled? Something similar is happening in my state (Washington) where a week ago, the Governor just *happened* to lay out eaiser reopening guidelines. Seems to me both Govs and the Feds want to end this so that people will vote for "saving" them.
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These governors still killed their state economies and put their constituents through needless misery, so fuck 'em. Even if they do a complete 180 and get everything reopened tomorrow, they should still be recalled for their gross incompetence and misuse of their authority (seriously, emergency powers should never be able to last a year).
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Oh I completely agree, though I fear the average person will just see things going back to normal and do their best to forget about what happened. That's what these fucks are counting on.
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