Hate when I’m friendly with someone and then my mind changes one they express some kind of political views. Islamophobia is pretty standard in the Czech Republic but I didn’t expect it from my barber based on past conversations. Was hard to respond to it as he had a razor blade against my throat at the time.
Thing is that he’s the only guy that doesn’t fuck up my hair when cutting it. When I first got here, I went to a half dozen barbers and they were shit at their job. This guy is the one who gets it and I’m not gonna get another half dozen shitty cuts to find someone who agrees with me politically.
There’s this whole genre of sensationalist stories of cops brushing hands/arms against white powdered substances and then overdosing because “fentanyl is just that dangerous.” Of course these stories are all openly being used for nefarious purposes, so yea, it’s really good that experts are publicizing the fact that you can’t overdose unless you put it in your body.
I’m kinda left wondering what happens if a significant portion of “front-line workers” end up out of the workforce due to COVID. It feels like that’s what we’re seeing when literally every business has a “help wanted” or “now hiring” sign out front and is way understaffed.
My wife has 2-3 weeks left in her nursing career. Once the home we’re building closes it’ll be a deal breaker for me for her to take another shift. We don’t need her income financially, and the sheer amount of trauma she’s taken over the last couple of years has been incredibly difficult to even watch happen.
I’m actively rooting for the healthcare system to totally collapse at this point. It’s going to suck for a while after it collapses, but the status quo is straight no chaser evil. I say this as someone who worked retention for a health insurance company for a few months and has been married to a nurse for 13 years. Whatever it costs people they deserve to pay for letting it get to this point without rioting in the street.
This seems pretty abstract. I think you’d be singing a different tune if your wife and children were among those you casually condemn to death.
It’s clear you have strong feelings about this issue, but you are “actively rooting” for my death, along with millions of others (at least) and the profound suffering of countless more. To then turn around and say we deserved what we got (“for letting it get to this point”) is inhumane victim-blaming and borderline obscene.
I don’t have the answers, but there has to be a way to fix/improve healthcare for everybody without destroying the current system and engaging in the sort of decimation you are hoping for.
