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#1201 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 321 weeks ago
Mitch, since the Senate passed the houses COVID bill that requires employers like you to provide paid sick leave for any of your employees impacted by the virus, how will that affect your business?
#1202 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 321 weeks ago
I posted an article from someone with impeccable credentials and he said what I've been saying for weeks. That's pat on the back worthy for sure.
Dude, no one can get more passionate than I can. But you're arguing about "owning" people. I'm bored too, but c'mon. Some poster(s) have made it clear they want chaos to hurt Trump. They're despicable. Don't be like them.
#1203 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 321 weeks ago
Can you all knock it off with the insults? None of you are epidemiologists, so you're just parroting what you want to believe or what someone else with a platform is saying. Instead of patting yourselves on the back and making shit partisan, go direct that energy towards your family and friends in a positive way.
#1204 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 322 weeks ago
Italy’s been hit so hard because its population is among the oldest in Europe. It also has many high population densities with a disproportionate amount of said elderly.
We have 4 cases in my county as of this post. I got a pedicure and went shopping today. No milk, bread, pasta, toilet paper, or soap/sanitizer. I got breakfast at a diner and bought a new car yesterday. Had dinner for a week event at a restaurant Friday night.
CNN is preaching hysterics and talking about how much life has changed, but short of being inconvenienced at the store, it’s life as usual. I just wash my hands a bit more often than I normally do.
#1205 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:Does anyone actually watch the press conferences, or is getting sound bytes from CNN, Trevor Noah, or John Oliver sufficient?
I can't listen to trump...he's a buffoon.
I hate his speaking style too, but I'd rather listen to all the experts who talk after him, than some smug pundit playing clips to get laughs, and has an audience who somehow thinks they're informed.
#1206 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
buzzsaw wrote:mitchejw wrote:You said that you don’t think I know shit about health care...I’m a Dem and based on your most recent posts you seek to think Trump has done more than Obama (or anyone)...
I don’t see it that way....in fact, I feel as though public services are how we show each other as Americans that we are in this together....and as this is coming to a head, it’s another example of how we aren’t.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The economy, which is so precious, supersedes everything.
So...I didn't say it? Is that what you're saying?
You’re saying Trump has done more than.....more than....more than....
You say it over and over again...
It isnt acceptable to me that you turn a blind eye to this and repeatedly reject my point of view but tolerate Trump and his approach.
You say it to me every time you rebuke a my point of view and I consider myself the only Democrat on this board.
No one cares how you "feel". It's about facts. And how previous contagions were handled relative to currently. The previous administration did jack shit when H1N1 occured, which killed 12.5k Americans. CNN wasn't running hysteria ads. I'm not interested in blame games either. But you don't get to post your "Fuck Trump" mantra, accusing him of doing dick, when he objectively has done more than the previous administrations did for pandemics that were far worse than Covid presently is. The past few weeks, they've been working behind the scenes and just announced signifcant testing reforms that are better than any nation in the world. Can Italians or any European walk into their local drug store or supermarket and get tested? Is there any sign that will happen soon? Cause the President with his staff and the CEOs of the largest pharmacy and supermarkets just announced that's how it'll be done here, with the two largest testing labs in the country fully in support.
You said this country deserved this, it deserved hundreds of thousands if not millions of dead because they don't agree with you politically. Meanwhile your preferred candidate was on record this week saying he wouldn't prevent anyone from entering the US. You're off your rocker.
#1207 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
Does anyone actually watch the press conferences, or is getting sound bytes from CNN, Trevor Noah, or John Oliver sufficient?
#1208 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
So Americans are going to be able to go to Wal-mart, Walgreen's and Target to get tested for COVID. I can't think of a more efficient and available way to do testing in the majority of American communities.
#1209 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
The reality is the world is learning what the military has breathed and lived for decades - plans sound good on paper. All the experts can signoff on a plan and pat themselves on the back, but without actual practice and training to deploy and execute plans, the plans are worth the same amount as the paper they're printed on. CDC is reporting an expectation of 1.6 million fatalities due to the outbreak, but if you consider they have also said that 70-150M Americans will be infected, and give the WHO's projected 1% mortality rate, you're looking at 13M-50M fatalities. I hope it's not that bad, but we still have assholes testing positive and then hopping on a flight. How many of you would submit to martial law and forced quarantine versus how many of you would protest in the streets about your "rights"?
But America deserves this, because they didn't vote Democratic in 2016. Truly despicable.
#1210 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 322 weeks ago
Pa has a law on the books from 1955 that prevents them from sharing any diagnosis information, making tracking infections and reporting them with detailed information illegal. Yet somehow this is Trump's fault. And Pelosi is dismissing the House for a vacation.
