CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) Thread : Fuck em, should’ve gotten vaccinated

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  1. Whammy

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    Some of you may remember me talking about my gym awhile back...they were really diligent about distancing, protocols, etc. And having reduced class sizes.

    Their PPP money just ran out and they’re going under. I’m not the most excitable guy, but this has me really really pissed off. Congress has to get their ass in gear.

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  2. bwi2

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    Don’t blame Congress. It’s not the institution’s fault.
     
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  3. Whammy

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    Can’t help but think we’re in for a roughly rough Q’1 and Q’2 from a virus, economy, and societal perspective. That first stimulus held a lot of people afloat that just won’t be able to be done again without additional aid.
     
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  4. Whammy

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    If McConnell can block stimulus (which is broadly popular) and not face electoral repercussions then something with wrong with the institution.

    I know what you’re getting at, they deserve most of the blame but amazing to me something so broadly popular can be ignored
     
  5. ~ taylor ~

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    you misspelled 'REPUBLICANS.'
     
  6. The Banks

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    Im shocked that whammy is more concerned about businesses than individuals.
     
  7. texasraider

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    Meanwhile the government hasn’t even figured out how to implement forgiveness of PPP loans
     
  8. Josey Wales

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    Sure, I don’t blame the idea of the world’s greatest deliberative body, I only blame the ghouls and conspiracy peddlers who comprise it.
     
  9. cutig

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  10. indeed

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    55k, pretty big case number for Monday reporting. Should be pushing 75k within a week or so. It’s all relative tho, as testing capacity still isn’t enough to ID the actual caseload.
     
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  12. DUCKMOUTH

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  13. Whammy

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    Hey man - know them personally, they also employ a lot of good people. Sucks for the business and the individuals that are about to unemployed in a horrible job market.

    Edit: I'd also mentioned this particular gym many many pages ago in this thread
     
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  14. Roy Kent

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    Go back to the original setup of Congress being:
    House elected by vote
    Senate appointed by State Houses

    Would solve a lot of this. The senators would vote based off how the state would tell them to/ where you have more sway with local representatives or face being recalled from the senate. Also does away with senators never leaving office (but topic for another day)

    In summary, fuck Republicans.
     
  15. slogan119

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    How do you say “fuck Republicans” yet propose appinting senators, which favors Rs?
     
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  16. cutig

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    States appointing senators would be worse
     
  17. ned's head

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    Sucks. I've been paying mine since March with the hopes that everyone else is and they can hold up until things get back to normal
     
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  18. Iron Mickey

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    "the ruling class shits on me, but if I let them choose who shits on me, they'll put a towel down"
     
  19. Lyrtch

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    the growth of minoritarian power and veto points in our government is why

    all slowly expanding over the last 150 years to insulate groups from repercussions
     
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  20. Iron Mickey

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    *doubt*
     
  21. Lyrtch

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    sure if we're being specific the increasing division in this dynamic is increasing
     
  22. Iron Mickey

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    man for like half the country's history only white land owning males got to participate
     
  23. Lyrtch

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    thats what i'm saying, it used to be bipartisan to exclude huge swathes of the population, now its all in one bucket
     
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  24. Iron Mickey

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    framing that as minoritarian power being new/growing seems weird

    edit: dems also invented gerrymandering
     
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  25. Lyrtch

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    i understand this is part of your indict the democrats new third party yay thing so i'll let you have at it

    its silly to ignore the post-Holder world and increasing destruction of VRA mechanisms in the modern era to do it though, or the modern population splits, or endless examples of how its been exacerbated
     
  26. Iron Mickey

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    I'm not even sure how you're connecting those things. Implying that the US is more minoritarian than it used to be seems wrong.
     
  27. Fran Tarkenton

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    this is all barstool fanboy pseudo science about what you "think" though, and largely the kind of shit humanity needs to avoid.

    Listen to the experts. Listen to the people with learned knowledge. They have said being indoors with [x] number of people for [x] amount of time is not ideal. Go with that over whatever feelings you are pontificating about.
     
  28. Iron Mickey

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    also this is so condescending it's almost indescribable, lmao get a grip-- your wife being rich doesn't make you twenty stories above basic discussion
     
  29. Lyrtch

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    ignoring the growth of voter power discrepancy due to population growth at disparate levels increasing in the last 40 years, expansion of the filibuster usage for minoritarian veto points to unseen levels, among endless other retractions of the franchise starting immediately after the civil war, slightly remedied post civil rights era, then backsliding since to try to do whatever this is, is silly
    why else wellactually a largely consensus point, with the addition of wellactuallying the democrats invented it? (which if we're being REALLY pedantic, isn't even true both historically and in modern us times)
     
  30. Jack Bauer

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    :roll:
     
  31. Iron Mickey

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    You aren't nearly as cogent on this as you think you are. Consider trying to articulate your point rather than pretending it's an assumed conclusion and that anyone who doubts it is a rube or a sucker or whatever straw man your'e building despite your repeated and emphatic claims to fair discussion and backing points. You very simply are not qualified to dismiss me as "third party yay," especially in those terms. Sorry.

    I'm sorry if that's what you got from my comment. I don't know what consensus you're referencing. I'd like to see the cites. I'd be curious to see them from something besides journalists. I'm open to discussing the point; you're the one who went nuclear by totalizing and trivializing.
     
  32. Iron Mickey

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    In the interest of the good faith you aren't showing me:

    I see your point about the proportion of population to Representatives, and if I'm reading between the lines, the McConnell Senate method defying the body as whole. But I think "whatever this is" is a reminder that the history of the country is extremely minoritarian by design. If that's dumb, fucking prove it.
     
  33. Lyrtch

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    will hit you with the math on disparate voting power tomorrow, can start by just looking at usage of filibuster charts on the plain ole wiki, looking at voting expansion post-civil war then into redemption to VRA then mass incarceration to post-Holder world. never said it was new, but the expansion post civil war has ebbed and flowed and is in a historically precarious position currently.

    wrong thread for all this though, shoot me a text if you want as i think when you read this tomorrow you might see the "who went nuclear" thing differently
     
  34. Iron Mickey

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    So, the other way to approach this conversation:

    "You're making an historical critique that isn't particularly contentious, but it turns out that there is some argument that despite the extremely factional history of the country, it's worse than you think!"
    [demonstration of quantification and relevance]
    "This SCOTUS case Shelby County v Holder is relevant, here's why"
    [links]
    "So, we really need to be concerned about it now, due to precarious issue X Y Z"
     
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  35. Pasta88

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    This seems a bit harsh and overdramatic. It’s based on reading articles/studies on the topic over the past 6 months, which includes research on how cases are spreading.

    Whether you enjoy any barstool sports content or not, I’m not sure of their relevance to the discussion.
     
  36. Fran Tarkenton

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    Not really. Its not like you have displayed any depth of knowledge to warrant any of us giving you deference on opining what is safe, or not safe. When you have actual trained people itt offering takes that run counter to yours.

    Telling people you *think* it is fine to gather en masse in indoor spaces is poor form. When everything we know about this viral spread says No, No it is not.

    I was just in three airports yesterday, my armchair analysis reached the opposite conclusion of yours...but jmo the safer take is to stay in my lane and tell people to exercise caution and trust the consensus guidelines offered up by the trained/learned community.
     
  37. IV

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    I don’t think this kinda stuff is effective at bringing people to our POV
     
  38. Doc Louis

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    Yeah it sucks but sounds like you're not far from CrossFit downtown Atlanta. You could try going there.
     
  39. Doc Louis

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    And no, Joe Rogan is neither an expert nor a learned individual. He's just a tool with a podcast.
     
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  40. AbeFroman

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    Nm
     
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  41. RavenNole

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    Reason 1000 why Ron desantis fucking sucks
     
  42. CaneKnight

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    This is complete madness. Like what kind of third world country do I fucking live in
     
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  43. shaolin5

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    Believe me when I say I appreciate the effort in keeping people safe. I also admire the ingenuity in place here.
    This year, our little town is having a REVERSE Christmas parade. All of the floats and bands from our 4 high schools will set up in the parking lot of our largest high school.
    Spectators will then drive by in their car, watch the band's play and look at the floats. Santa will periodically buzz said spectators in a helicopter, dropping candy from the sky.
    I'm going to sit on my back deck and watch it all go down.
     
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  45. CaneKnight

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    Need to get these filthy people with funny names out of this country
     
  46. HotMic

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    Me reading that headline:

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  47. RavenNole

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    This is insane
     
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  48. Henry Blake

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...1d77c6-12e1-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html
     
  49. CaneKnight

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    Just another reminder why the white house doesn't care about this disease... Because of who it's mainly killing. Per usual the US never cares if black and brown people are dying.
     
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  50. Emma

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    I was actually kidding but here we are

    DHS: Record 4,591 new COVID-19 cases; deaths up 33 in Wisconsin