That could be another deciding factor. Our staff is constantly juggling coverage for teachers that have been quarantined.
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That could be another deciding factor. Our staff is constantly juggling coverage for teachers that have been quarantined.
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This thing is concerning. Going back to the early stages of this thing, we were hearing horror stories that never developed. I knew no one seriously effected aside from my family. Today, I know a lot of positive people. A girl I’ve been friends with since second grade has been on a vent for more than a week. Otherwise healthy non-smoker, 48 years old. We are entering very difficult times and our “President-elect” is actually a lying, cheating, do-nothing moron, owned by special interest globalists—— he is exactly what the media tried to label Trump to be.
I don’t know about you fellas, but I am going into full protect the family mode. And the one neighbor I have that proudly supports Biden is now the last person alive I’d lend a helping hand to... also the first place I’d go to liberate anything my family may need if I don’t already have it. These globalist want to tear this country apart and from my personal feelings at this moment, I’d say they have done a fine job.
I don’t know about you fellas, but I am going into full protect the family mode. And the one neighbor I have that proudly supports Biden is now the last person alive I’d lend a helping hand to... also the first place I’d go to liberate anything my family may need if I don’t already have it. These globalist want to tear this country apart and from my personal feelings at this moment, I’d say they have done a fine job.
We bought a Chromebook for K in anticipation of lockdowns. Trying to ready my organization for it as it couldn't have come at a worse time. The hospital my wife works at is getting pounded right now, but yet, no one prepared us for this. Where was DeWine this summer talking about Vitamin D and C, lowering sugar and alcohol intake, and other known preventative measures? Silence. We were setup for failure.
They don't give a shit about you. They only see end goal and are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that. Protecting you or preparing you doesn't fit those goals.
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Once again "the light at the end of the tunnel" is another f ing train
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That's because the hard truth is there's not much that can be done. Everything like masks, closures, etc only delays the inevitable and doesn't eliminate the issue. In my world, I deal with Risk management, to me everything is a calculated combination of impact and likelihood. Risks can never be eliminated and can only be mitigated, transferred, or accepted. It's the last one that our government seems to ignore the most. Masks, closures, all of that mitigates impact by lowering likelihood. The trick is understanding risk appetite. The point where a risk becomes accepted. If I went to my board and said "here is a risk that if realized will cost us 200k, but I have a mitigation strategy that will cost us 500k to implement, I wouldn't be in the room very long. The trouble is the government has no skin in the game. People's businesses, livelihoods, wealth, careers, etc are of zero concern to them, therefore it doesn't matter if their mitigation strategy exceeds what we see as an unacceptable cost. While people's safety and lives are always the first concern there is an acceptable loss limit there also. We understood this when planning D day, when we bombed Japan twice, when the Russians had to contain Chernobyl. Sometimes there is an acceptable loss of life limit to assessing the cost of mitigating risk. This sucks, people will die, how much of our country are we willing to destroy to mitigate some of that is the question.
And not an easy one to answer, or what I feel will be answered soon. Feels like the majority that prefers safety over liberty will only learn after it is too late.
I'm 37yrs old, I can't believe its already the year 2020 and I can't believe we are living thru this, just like 9/11, its too surreal. If feels like Y2K was just yesterday and a Bush or Clinton was president. Its scary to think a portion of my childhood in games or sifi movies is real life.
I'm 37yrs old, I can't believe its already the year 2020 and I can't believe we are living thru this, just like 9/11, its too surreal. If feels like Y2K was just yesterday and a Bush or Clinton was president. Its scary to think a portion of my childhood in games or sifi movies is real life.
My fear is that they have figured out how to make our own personal place of safety (our homes) the train cars.
Ever since I saw the first commercial that said "the new normal" my gut didn't agree with this at all. My mind went back to WW2 and how easily they rounded up all the Jews. Go back and look at pictures. The people that are getting on the train cars aren't scared, they don't look concerned. Wonder why? Because they where told that this is what's best for them. This is whats going to keep you SAFE. I don't think covid is fake, and my mom is a prime candidate to go down if she gets it. She is already battling congestive heart failure and has trouble with being short of breathe. I don't want to see her die, but I also understand that we can't shut the world down just for the safety of a few select people.
Either way I think we're in for some historic times, just not the good history we like to think about.
Ever since I saw the first commercial that said "the new normal" my gut didn't agree with this at all. My mind went back to WW2 and how easily they rounded up all the Jews. Go back and look at pictures. The people that are getting on the train cars aren't scared, they don't look concerned. Wonder why? Because they where told that this is what's best for them. This is whats going to keep you SAFE. I don't think covid is fake, and my mom is a prime candidate to go down if she gets it. She is already battling congestive heart failure and has trouble with being short of breathe. I don't want to see her die, but I also understand that we can't shut the world down just for the safety of a few select people.
Either way I think we're in for some historic times, just not the good history we like to think about.
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Ask the Japanese Americans forced into internment camps. I’m sure they were doing it “for the good of the nation” and didn’t feel like their rights were being violated at all
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I have no idea on how to find this number out, but I'd like to know how many working Americans that got sent home after the first lockdown have never made it back to work?
Hope you are feeling well
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Thanks guys. So far doing well. The weekend into Monday so far was the worst for me. My wife is about a day behind and doing ok. She really has to watch herself with chronic asthma, taking all her breathing treatments and meds. Just a good bit of a cough and low energy for both of us. Boss was bugging me about picking up my computer yesterday so I went over and got it. I was whipped after that. Did a little work today but said fuck it and rested up some more.
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Back then Americans were united in stopping the spread of communism, socialism, Marxists, etc. The difference today is, those people are already here.
People were patriots regardless of politics, they had a work ethic, they provided, they raised pretty good families. Today those same conservative, white, Christians are demonized, persecuted, and chastized on a national scale. They are called racists, bigots and accused of not being "woke", reperations and apologies are demanded from them for something they had no part in. They today are still conservative, patriotic, working men who pay taxes and want to raise a good family. Yet at every turn a large portion of this country tries to destroy them and run them down. Those same people have said that we should close the country and destroy the livelihoods of the working people. The enemy that Americans united against back then, lives amongst us today.
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