We could always try to smuggle ourselves into Cuba. I think they’re vaccinating 2 year olds.
All very true but the US at least has free speech, a free press and due process, all of which are absent in China. That’s pretty significant to me.
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I work for a rather large grocery company in the south east, I’ve talked about it in previous iterations of this thread before.
We just got an email that starting effective immediately if an associate isn’t vaccinated they must be masked 100% of the time they are indoors.
starting effected 2/9 they have to provide a negative test each week.
that’s a pretty sudden shift for a company of this size (200k+)
I’m sure lots of other company’s are pushing out the same memo today, too. good step, maybe still not enough but it’s a good step.
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“Human rights” is a weird way to put it (since it’s something the USA is and always has been horrible in). But in terms of civil liberties at this moment, the USA is ridiculously better than China.
China has way more restrictive policies than just enforcing confinement for Covid+ people. Try…making it extremely hard to access any fever-reducing medicines, and banning doctors from treating people with fevers, for starters. Oh, and that little enforced confinement applies no matter what–caregiver, cancer patient, whatever. If you test positive, you’d better have your affairs in order. Hence why everyone is frantic to never present a fever, why the government restricts treatment of fevers, etc.
Nobody ITT would rather be in China right now.
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Just make sure no one is videotaping.
I was going to eat nothing but cuban food in Miami before my trip got cancelled.
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Do eat the yellow snow.
Just imagine how much a hot 19-year-old could get for “send me a jar of your pee and I’ll drink it.”
What do you expect him to do? Drink someone else’s urine?
the fuck I want my cuban food
The posts I just moved weren’t necessarily bickering (sorry CN, your replies just got caught in the crossfire) but they were leading us down the slippery slope to Bickerland so they’re gonezo.
Play nice please.
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I guess USA/Cuba relations are basically bickering over old drama.
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Up next: Bans.
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Guardian Live, 3hrs ago…
Record numbers of people admitted to US hospitals with Covid
A new record has been set for the number of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in the US , with 132,646 currently on wards, according to a Reuters tally on Monday.
The latest figure, which comes as the highly contagious Omicron strain spreads across the country, surpassed the record of 132,051 set in January last year.
Hospital admissions have increased steadily since late-December, doubling in the last three weeks, as Omicron overtook Delta as the dominant variant in the US.
The analysis found that Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin have reported record levels of Covid-19 patients recently.
As global cases escalated in 2021, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, based in Goodwood, West Sussex, booked the highest annual sales in its 117-year history, selling 5,586 vehicles.
No other manufacturer sold more cars for more than €250,000 (£208,000), he said. The Phantom model was the company’s biggest seller but its Cullinan SUV accounted for 30% of 2021 sales.
https://twitter.com/selenasd/status/1480634173123661828
I’m sure they’re getting right on that
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