IMO they heard I had puts and were like FUCK THAT GUY!!!
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That’s incredible
Feeling really discouraged.
Everywhere else in the world (other than a few outliers) is handling this pandemic ok while a good portion of our country, including people I know, refuse to be inconvenienced enough to wear a mask.
Schools are about to open up, killing children, teachers, staff and family members as well as causing long term damage to even more kids.
We are trying to deport foreign students if their college goes remote.
With nobody watching, I’m sure the kids in cages and other border atrocities are just as bad or worse than ever.
And 40% of our country is cheerleading all this along and talking about “muh freedoms” and “constitutional rights.” We are the country in the world that doesn’t, as a whole, care about others. We have a huge % that is simply selfish and self-centered. And if our constitution and our political and judicial system allow all of the cruelty and the bullshit and the justification for all of this, then how is it a good system?
It just feels hopeless and I feel like 40% of my country lives in a different world and just have completely different world views and basic sense of decency from myself. I don’t know how we ever bridge that gap and any conversations my wife and I have with these people go nowhere as they are unwavering in their beliefs that they mainline from Fox News and Facebook. It seems futile to even talk to them and I know they won’t change their minds. How do we move on, especially knowing we have such hard problems like global warming, our medical system and the need for UBI as jobs get more and more automated? We can’t agree on if a pandemic is real or a hoax so how can we agree on those other things? What is the future going to be like for my kids and future grandkids given where we are now and the issues we have to face sooner than later (really we are way behind on all 3 of those above issues and it gets harder to solve every year we kick it down the road)?
It just feels so hopeless because 40% of the country thinks just so completely different from me, from science, from compassion and general well-being, and from reality.
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A friend of mine just sent me a picture of a line out the door of a bar as he drove past…
He lives in Houston.
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Feeling like 40% of the country lives in a different world is a step up from feeling like 80% of the country lives in a different world.
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I’ve been struggling with this too. Add in the fact that without any election security in place Russia (or the GOP) could straight up rig the votes and hand the future over to the nut jobs. Half of the country wouldnt bat an eye if Trump somehow wins by 5 million votes as they truly believe the “silent majoroty” is a real thing.
This pandemic has probably accelerated some really big changes, and we have to sweat it out to see which way they go. Not fun.
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I don’t have any good answers and shit is scary, all I know is step 1 is god forbid a second Trump term
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Atlanta Public Schools just announced a 2 week delay in school starting and that the first 9 weeks will be 100% virtual. Hopefully that’s the first of many many districts in spiking locations to go virtual before school starts.
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Definitely. But I’m afraid it goes beyond Trump.
Pandora’s Box has been opened and too much shit has been normalized. I mean we have epidemiologists saying open schools because “only” 5% of kids will be hospitalized.
And then a million non-pandemic things have been normalized. Trump didn’t just shift the Overton Window, he moved it to another zip code and put his name in big letters on it.
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Yeah it goes beyond Trump. I do think my dear senator has done a significant amount of damage on this front.
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Billion dollar companies aren’t run by people trying to do the best by their company. They are run by people doing the best by themselves.
As with politicians, understanding this makes everything else make more sense. They aren’t stupid. Just selfish.
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Same day. The responses are fantastic
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Is there any analysis out there estimating the magnitude of total covid positives that have just not been tested vs those that have (and thus been recorded as an official case)? I imagine it’s far lower than it was during NY peak times given the flow of time and greater testing capacity but I’d be curious if anyone had (or had a source) that had made estimates?
Most definitely believe they’re doing best by their company.
Disney is also really expensive. Who is going to shell out $500 for a family of 4 to go wear masks in 90+ degree heat while maybe getting a deadly virus?
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I think this may be upthread but always need to highlight these winnars
Plus he is literally the reason why there likely won’t be any of beloved Bama football this fall.
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1281959760078737408?s=21
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Dumb people. There’s a few in American.
Pornography. There’s some of it on the Internet
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