https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1285345634652958721
I agree with everything this Riverman has said. Willing to be wrong, but that pretty much exactly sums up how I feel.
The people dying will skew towards the old in the underprivileged. Meaning some people will know several people that die, and many people will know no one that dies. What you were talking about would be more true if it were truly a random sampling of the population that was dying
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That’s a good point that I hadn’t fully thought through.
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4 people in my family already had COVID-19
Mild symptoms and recovered fine but it still shook others in my family a bit.
Even a near miss regarding COVID-19 will get most people thinking.
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Now…imagine being a woman on your job sites. Or playing poker all night in a parking lot.
Gives you an entirely different perspective on the conversation, eh?
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I have two daughters (wife too, but she can handle peeing on her own - my daughters can too now, but I’ve had them since before they could). I’m quite familiar with the problem of not being able to pull over and pee in a bush.
in other interesting sociological and public health side effects of the pandemic:
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Also, 12 years in and I’ve never seen a woman construction worker. Back in the day when I advertised for solar installers and had hundreds of responses, I never once had one from a woman (other than a couple mothers asking for their sons). The only female I’ve ever done any professional solar installation work with is nanodaughter.
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which, was, of course, one of the underlying points of my post 
Peeing isn’t that big a problem - at least before covid. You drive to McDonald’s or something. I’ve never been reluctant to do that or asked anyone with me to do anything other than feel free to leave whenever nature calls. Long term construction sites almost always have porta-potties.
eta: like I said, I don’t think I’ve pee’d in a bottle since I had a van and that’s been a while.
eta: Ok, I’ll pee in a back yard everyone once in a while depending on a number of circumstances.
In 23 years I’ve worked with 4 women on construction sites, all of them coworkers during my brief stint as a PM for an architecture design/build firm that was very non-traditional.
Those jobs all had porta-potties.
Those jobs also expected me to do structural steel erection with crews of inexperienced architecture interns, which usually involved me doing everything while they stared in terror at the crane flying in beams. The buildings got built and nobody got hurt. *flex*
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Maybe stories about scaring young men with your stiff erections should go in another thread…
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I just explained that some of them were women.
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I’ve had her help pull wire and she’s going to help me haul debris at that bathroom I’m sorta doing. She’s been on a couple roofs, but I’m really too scared having her on the ladder and those were easy ladders. Thinking about her climbing up a 2-story ladder makes my heart skip a beat. I hope that’s being a parent and not sexism, but she’s a little on the sometimes-she-falls-for-no-apparent-reason side and most people are not good on a ladder. Back when I interviewed people, some of the interviews were on a roof and the first impression on the ladder disqualified some people.
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U over estimate people and I think u lean towards the naive on this matter. Will the virus hit a point where we have 10 planes of white people under 70 dying should be your thought process. That’s their tipping point. People are immune to covid talk at this point.
There are 3 categories:
Hoaxers and freedom saving anti maskers
Diligent aware people like those itt. I put people that are going on w their lives but taking the simple precautions mapped out for them seriously in this category.
And then there are the people that are immune to any covid and just wanna stick their heads in the sand like an ostrich. That person will typically wear a mask w u, but won’t in the presence of a freedom fighter. They are sick of being sold. The right has succeeded in bombarding them w misinformation that their brains have over heated. It’s a similar concept to where a big law firm buries a sole practitioner w useless paper work slowing a lock case down.
Lastly, did u once have a bad experience at a chain restaurant lol. I notice u post about deplorables at Chilis. Red Lobster , TGI Friday’s etc . Misses Mike and I look forward to that part of your posting. Stay safe and tell your wife THANKYOU for everything she does.
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For how long will they stay shaken? Are they taking any more precautions than b4?
BiL is now my closest (relationship wise, not locationwise) relation to get the Covid. My wife is really worried about him.
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