How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Dancien]

Pretty glad I don't suck at sustenance hunting at this point.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Official stuff from NAS Pensacola, time for some good old WWII styled propaganda posters!

 

[Dancien]

Analysts Say Nearly 1 In 5 Wendy's Locations Out Of Beef

The coronavirus crisis has put a huge strain on the meat industry, which has warned of shortages in the coming weeks.

www.huffpost.com

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Where's the beef?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Once the meat packers die or refuse to risk their mostly minority lives, meat plants will either close or scale back production so workers can have safe work conditions, which means high prices, probably permanently. Fine, we eat too much meat anyway. I was vegetarian for years, I know how to do that.

What I don’t buy is the “new normal” that involves upsurges in deaths. The GOAL is to save lives!

Wtf is wrong with people.

HOLD MY BEER

 

[Rose Karuna]

Pretty glad I don't suck at sustenance hunting at this point.

Yes! A very useful skill along with gardening as well.

Otherwise you might have to resort to eating your neighbors like Alex Jones. Increasingly Desperate Alex Jones Says He Will Kill and Eat His Neighbors
Really makes me glad I don't live in Austin and I'm seriously hoping he doesn't move to Florida.

 

[Dancien]

Eating the rich is on the list.

 

[Rose Karuna]

HOLD MY BEER

This is exactly what I was talking about in another post. If you're weaker, poorer or any color other than white, a large faction of people in this country don't even classify you as "regular folks". WTF?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol

 

[Cristiano]

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Where's the beef?

Congrats, you could be a headline writer for the Huffington Post:

 

[Dancien]

TIL people still read HuffPo

 

[Caete]

I am arguing with some people who do not want to wear masks right now. Demographically they are not conservatives but do seem entitled types.

It is the "you can't tell me what to do" mindset. I encountered this when I worked at a chemical plant right out of high school. The company policy was no facial hair of any type as the respirators need to seal to save your life in case of a leak. As part of the Safety dept, we had the fun chore of telling these chemical engineers who were making 200K plus a year that needed to shave to save their lives. Amongst the polite replies we received, "company can't tell me what to do" "no girl is going to tell me what I can or can't do" "I've had this beard since ..." It sucked. Personally I couldn't care if they sufficated for the sake of the beard but any incident investigation would hold the safety dept at fault for failing to enforce policies {almost impossible to do in the good ol boy network) and open not just the company but the safety manager legal responsibility. My boss had ulcers the whole year I worked there an pretty much until he retired about 12 years later. I left after a year of this crap as I only want my own stupidity to impact my job performance and not the bearded brotherhood of ineptitude.

 

[Caete]

Toronto Police now ticketing Feline Canadians who are just trying to do their essential jobs... #felinelivesmatter

 

[Dancien]

Governor of West Virginia is so over this shit.

 

[Clara D.]

Eating the rich is on the list.

I'd rather yeet them instead.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Yeah, who knows where the rich have been?

Seriously, my biggest concern is, if we end up having a revolution, that it won't be the rich that get killed, but the ones fortunate enough to not yet have gotten screwed....

 

[Dancien]

So Governor Abbot is doing a live thing. He spent 20 minutes trying to justify the murder of Texans. That's what I am calling it now. Murder. Says our positive test rates are good enough that he'll be opening the state more. He said a positive test rate of 7.25% was good enough. Every major county in Texas has a positive rate well above that. He also said that the CDC plans to test 2% of the population in each state a month. And that between now and June 1st we're supposed to get only 750k tests.

I'm so fucking over this timeline.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Governor of West Virginia is so over this shit.

So far we only have 50 confirmed deaths for the entire state (2 in my county). I have a difficult time believing those figures, tbh. I just assume that a lot of people are sick and dying, but since access to health care in this state is so terrible, they're not getting counted. Either that or meth use repels coronavirus.

I've received two email notifications from my dentist letting me know her office is opening back up and ready to re-schedule all missed appointments! Now I like my dentist -- she's the best I've ever had and would recommend her without reservation to everyone -- but I'm not opening my mouth to get my teeth cleaned, no matter how vigorous the hygiene control. If I had a painful tooth abscess, then I'd call; scraping a little tartar off my teeth, no. The risk-to-reward ratio isn't anywhere near acceptable. I'm probably not the only lost patient, so there goes her practice into a financial tail-spin.

 

[Pamela]

So Governor Abbot is doing a live thing. He spent 20 minutes trying to justify the murder of Texans. That's what I am calling it now. Murder. Says our positive test rates are good enough that he'll be opening the state more. He said a positive test rate of 7.25% was good enough. Every major county in Texas has a positive rate well above that. He also said that the CDC plans to test 2% of the population in each state a month. And that between now and June 1st we're supposed to get only 750k tests.

I'm so fucking over this timeline.

I watch Adler’s daily chat sometimes, and am very grateful he gets it, as I think most big city mayors in Texas do.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

it won't be the rich that get killed, but the ones fortunate enough to not yet have gotten screwed

Anyone doing well enough to have a house and a nice car, but can't afford a private army.