More like: All the water is draining out of the harbor for some reason, lets all run out and see the seabed!
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This is late stage capitalism, especially when healthcare is delivered via capitalism. Once you see the writing on the wall that you’re going to be severely impacted financially, that has to drive most of your decision making because all future health/safety outcomes are going to be severely impacted by your resources or lack thereof. This is less true outside USA#1 with new-fangled socialized healthcare, so it may be less of an issue in Australia. You guys have more of a hybrid system right?
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Shitting on Al Gore, an activity that brings literally everyone other than Al Gore together 
Only if you add up an infinite number of them.
Nobody would want to hear that sound.
I agree this is the first wave
Especially given that it keeps changing hot spots so most places have gotten hit hard once.
But also I agree that a wave needs to go down to a low enough level before the next one.
Wow, we are really fucked.
What y’all have done has been amazing and allowed you to have a more normal life. Why wouldn’t they want to snuff it out so they can go back to normal? They want to pull a USA and drag it out for years?
If people who saw how great keeping it down won’t sacrifice for a little bit now to save the future, then there is no hope that society won’t take that marshmallow now every time it can.
Even with more testing people aren’t gonna get tested and have to miss thanksgiving or Christmas.
Those get togethers are happening no matter how bad the pandemic is at the time.
“Hey grandma, sorry I pozzed you, but if I got tested I might have missed out on the pumpkin pie! Happy COVIDgiving!”
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Government are introducing new covid laws from Monday 14 September - pretty tough if you’re a family of 6 like we are…
What are the new rules on socialising?
In England, the limit of six people from multiple households starts on Monday.
It will apply both indoors and outdoors, and to all ages.
So, gatherings in private homes, venues like pubs and restaurants, and in outdoor spaces like parks will all be affected.
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Well I mean my state has admittedly not been allowed outside more than an hour a day for like 3 months so it’s been extremely restricted. But yeah I’d say world is fucked for covid-22 or whatever the next pandemic is.
Yeah somewhat hybrid system. Surgeries very heavily subsidised, dental/physio/psychological fairly subsidised and GP can be free if you go to certain practices or are a pensioner/disabled. Most people still have private health insurance and you have to if you earn over 90k otherwise you pay punitive taxes.
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I could see why that would be rough, but if it frustrates you just remember you’ve got five other people under the same roof you get to socialize with every day, and that’s a blessing.
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Yeah this is the clear winner. We can change if need be, but perfect for next thread.
1541 cases in the Czech Republic on Saturday. This triples the weekend total record. Either we are very much fucked or they ran the weekday load of tests.
Over the last 2 weeks, only Spain and France top the number of cases per 100,000 in the CR.
In some stations, people are waiting hours just to take a test and wait then up to a week for the results (was 1-2 days during the first wave). I mean you could pay out of pocket for a test that takes less than an hour to give you a result but it’s prohibitively expensive.
Even CNN reported about us
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lol, in all seriousness, not me. If he had won my family would have been at an inaugural ball 
His father and my dad’s side of my family were friends and worked together in TN back in the day.
Oh, and we’d also not be in the world of shit e’re in now.