SomeguyfromTakomaPark
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Yeah, maybe some totally unrepresentative sample of jackasses on Twitter, but no one in this forum, so why do you have to constantly beat that drum? Are you one of those culture warriors who had a fit of rage and hysterics when the Indian was taken off the butter box? It seems like you really like this stuff.
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I tend to agree, it’s time to give it the old yeller treatment.
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This is largely a dynamic that exists in your head and is the part of your schtick that gets tiresome. Everyone is rooting for covid to go away. If Georgia does great, I’ll be very encouraged.
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I’d be interested to know if social distancing is possible in the sorting facilities, maybe @dailylurker can speak to this.
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So we just give up and say you’re on your own delivery workers? Get your own PPE and hope your employer takes it seriously?
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The way to keep these businesses humming is to make sure that employees are safe. Arguing against removing liability is not “demanding more regulations”.
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This is why not making liability protection for companies a number 1 priority is a good idea. If you remove the liability of having safe work environments employers will have no motivation to deal with situations like this.
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I do agree schools will probably make some changes and unions will probably push for protections. I’m guessing you’re against that?
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Why would nothing have changed? I can think of a lot of reasons why the risk could be lower in August. Continued impact of social distancing, possible effects of warmers temperatures, more widespread testing and contact tracing.
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It’s also possible the strain on NY’s healthcare system explains some of the difference as compared to CA. Since NY’s hospitals we near or over capacity it’s possible the care, on average, wasn’t as good.
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Correct. Hey we actually agree on something!
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Those are case fatality rates with the Spanish flu, so if you wanna compare that you need to compare it to case fatality rates of covid, which are also quite high. I’m not sure how instructive the comparison is though because of how much medical care has changed over the last 100 years. ETA: current case fatality for covid is 5.7%
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Only 14% percent positive in Maryland, good sign, also the hospitalizations are down again!
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Those are deaths...
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This graph illustrates our problem very clearly. Unless you’re China (data caveat) you don’t come off the plateau very quickly.
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I don’t really have a dog in this fight tbh. If we open up soon, I’m game for that. If we stay closed for a while longer to be cautious, fine by me.
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Hahahaha you still waiting for the Larry hogan covid swat team to carry you off in the middle of the night?
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It’s hard to even follow what his argument is anymore. It’s basically an amalgamation of all the worst takes tied up in one bundle.
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Hahaha I really actually do think this is funny. I hope you keep worrying about this a lot cause it’s great from an entertainment standpoint.
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It’s cute. Go ahead and keep worrying that Larry Hogan’s secret old bay gestapo is gonna pull you from your home and send you to a fever center. Hahaha I crack up just thinking about it.
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Hahah I love that you think the governors (!!) are going to parlay a public health emergency into an excuse to play authoritarian. Larry Hogan is gonna start locking us up for no reason lol.
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It is known that the virus spreads through close contact. I saw dozens of protestors in close proximity in the Michigan statehouse screaming with no masks on. If you know of some basic science that suggests that this wouldn’t spread the disease you should share it. But you don’t because that science doesn’t exist, you’re just spinning everything to fit your agenda.
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It’s actually an interesting question. We don’t value human life infinitely. One example I came across was that if we valued human life infinitely the speed limit would be 10 mph everywhere because that would eliminate 30-40k traffic accident deaths per year. But we don’t. The price of those lives is the convenience and economic benefit of driving fast. There are more examples like this of course.
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I don’t buy this. Your whole argument is framed incorrectly. You’re comparing the current economy to the pre pandemic economy. The pre pandemic economy would’ve been gone by now with or without policy decisions like stay at home orders. The idea that the economy would be humming along and all those under 40 year olds would be doing great without stay at home orders is pure unadulterated fantasy of the highest order.
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You’re right it does seem like you are pretty confused about all this.
