I don’t think there is a good way to divide the country in half, but neither can continue as we are now.
…[the agitation] will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half [deplorable] and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.
Not even a soorry?!
Another record high in Japan–355 infections–the first day of 300 or more.
Yea this shit is going on everywhere. Here they are not only petitioning to go back in person but also no masks. #mykidmychoice #unmask
Unfortunately, like everything else so far, we are going to learn this very obvious lesson the hard way. And kids are probably going to be paying for it the rest of their lives.
Nope. I’ve watched too many covid patients die to ever say deserve. I get that this Is largely playing out on world of meters for most of us here, But it’s pretty damn personal to some of us.
This reopen-the-school shit is like a perfect microcosm of why and how this entire thing has been so fucked up. There is a legitimate need to get kids back to social environments, yes–I am sure that this is delaying their growth in some way. But the pressure isn’t due to fucking Republicans caring about kids, that’s all bad-faith bullshit. (Just look at how they treat school funding.) This pressure is because the leadership of this country refuses to pay people money to protect themselves because it is bought and paid for by giant corporations that rely on the labor of the parents of these children as their source of profit. Like so many fucking issues in this pandemic, this would be solved by just giving people some fucking money and increasing the availability of testing/tracing. But instead the GOP has distracted millions of Americans with the shiny object of “MUH RIIIIGHTS” and here we fucking are, pretending that we’re reopening schools for the good of the children when really we’re just going to worsen the pandemic, all so that the parents can return to their bullshit jobs without the hassle of dealing with their asshole kids all day.
Well both the population and land area are much larger than they were back then, that helps. I think those statements were more true in 1860 than they are today, if they still are at all.
Soorry, not soorry.
Hang in there Will. I know you guys are doing a hard thing and also risking your own lives. I’ve heard enough from my wife and seen her break down from both the work environment and also seeing the cases rising and knowing hell is coming to know at least a little bit how bad you guys have it.
I keep coming back to what exactly are we gaining from this whole OPEN FOR BUSINESS bs. The economy is in ruins, businesses are failing anyways and a lot of jobs are not coming back. All for a couple months of bars, cracker barrel and what exactly?
The dumbest and most ironic thing is if we had just stayed locked down another 4-6 weeks the economy would be better, kids might not have to miss school and health care workers wouldn’t be facing absolutely horrible conditions for another 6-12 months minimum.
The country is so brainwashed that they don’t even consider the option that the government could just pay people to stay home to defeat this thing, even though that is what almost every other first world country has done.
Much harder with younger kids. I have a friend with a 5 year old and a baby in an apartment in Brooklyn. Just crazy.
But, the mental health stuff becomes more of an issue once the kids are more sentient. My 15 year old has days where it’s pretty precarious. They had just decided to dedicate their life to theater and worked their ass off to get into this theater school and now they wonder if live theater will ever exist again. And you can’t tell a 15 year old who thinks they’ve discovered their life’s passion that most of us thought that at 15 and most of us were wrong. Well, you can, but they don’t take it well.
Wife was doing a 10-week internship at a medical facility to finish her master’s degree. A couple of weeks before she’s done and two staff members tested positive for COVID. She got tested last week and it came back negative.
Then this week several more patients and staff tested positive, including some who she had close contact with. So, she ended her internship but now we’re sweating bullets. We’ll go get tested tomorrow and then wait 3-4 days for our results.
Sucks because she loved her internship and because she has a job lined up to start in 3 weeks and hopefully this doesn’t get in the way.
Good time to use my ONE TIME!
Even worse than not considering it, we’re actively rejecting it! “OMG can you believe some people are now making more to stay at home than they would make working?!?” YES YOU FUCKING IDIOT THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
That’s exactly the thing we should be doing! And we have the means to do it! Butnahhh free market or bust. Ffs
The only difference between now and March in the USA is that their is enough PPE for Frontline workers.
It turns out Canada is having a day as well 
Cliffs:. 73-year-old man refuses to wear a mask in a grocery, gets belligerent, cops arrive, he leaves in an apparent police chase that’s called off for safety concerns, so they roll up to his house and shoot him
Like fine, fuck it, pay the business owners too. I’m completely resigned to shoveling money to rich people, just give it to regular people too!
BUT SOCIALISM
This is very true at least for now. I do think also back in May/June a lot of hospitals did not have many Covid patients and now they do. My wife’s hospital for example has 40 ICU beds in their system. At the end of May they had zero cases, mid-June they had 5, last week they had 21 and this week they have 36.
As that number rises the stress, risk and horror you face increases as well. When there were only a few cases per shift it wasn’t that bad. When you are literally working in an almost entirely covid ward it is quite bad.
Well not really. We don’t have enough for record outbreaks in multiple states. We are going to be severely rationing again soon.