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Saw a sign today that my local chain sandwich shop is closing 'temporarily due to staffing shortages', and every place has a Now Hiring sign. Local grocery has a person sitting in a chair by himself, a stack of resumes to be filled out next to him. Apparently in person interviews are available for several hours a day during the week. Anecdotal stuff but sure everything's going fine in the States right now, yup. Edit: Terrible snipe
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Chunky Salsa posted:Saw a sign today that my local chain sandwich shop is closing 'temporarily due to staffing shortages', and every place has a Now Hiring sign. Local grocery has a person sitting in a chair by himself, a stack of resumes to be filled out next to him. Apparently in person interviews are available for several hours a day during the week. we have lost the protestant work ethic
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Jan 7, 2022 11:52
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My guess is that Walensky will be announcing that they’re sending out covid tests, so that the million people who catch covid tomorrow will be able to own a test next month when they arrive. If I were a cynic, I would suggest that sending out tests that can’t be reported as positives to health authorities might be a move to make the number of cases look smaller.
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Jan 7, 2022 11:55
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Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3 million in India, far more than official counts show
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Jan 7, 2022 11:57
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Helith posted:We’re also facing food shortages too as so many people working on the food supply lines are sick or isolating. Apparently in the Whitsundays (popular tourist islands for non Aussies) there's only one restaurant still open and the tourists are pissed lmao
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Jan 7, 2022 11:59
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Topo Chico Debarge posted:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3 million in India, far more than official counts show i’ve just been assuming 4 million ever since summer it’s just one of these things that will never know and will be an asterisk in Wikipedia
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Jan 7, 2022 12:01
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I just went on a beer run. The first 24 hour convenience store had a sign saying the system was down, which is the guy’s move every night when he’s working by himself and wants to get some stocking done. The second 24 hour convenience store was simply closed. As I walked back to the first one to try my luck, I saw a security guy and a cop both doing the important work of kicking a homeless guy out of the doorway of a vacant storefront. The way I see it, those pigs should get a real job selling me cold ones.
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Chunky Salsa posted:Saw a sign today that my local chain sandwich shop is closing 'temporarily due to staffing shortages', and every place has a Now Hiring sign. Local grocery has a person sitting in a chair by himself, a stack of resumes to be filled out next to him. Apparently in person interviews are available for several hours a day during the week. Only one restaurant? There's like 20 with the same sign within 5km of me. And that's with like 20% of shops permanently closing due to lockdowns.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:09
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Apparently in the Whitsundays (popular tourist islands for non Aussies) there's only one restaurant still open and the tourists are pissed lmao All my old cuts and burns ache for the unfortunate creatures stuck working that kitchen. I’m picturing a line of ten thousand vacationing Americans all informing the American behind them that it’s actually considered rude to tip in this strange land, all of them agreeing that this is a better system. The line stretches into the ocean and across the sea floor and none of them even die, so powerful is their lust for service.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:11
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Only one restaurant? There's like 20 with the same sign within 5km of me. And that's with like 20% of shops permanently closing due to lockdowns. I mean we could have a back and forth of the various places I've noticed that have closed in my area, but that shop stuck out to me because it's a national chain, along with the grocery. Again just an anecdote
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Jan 7, 2022 12:15
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gradenko_2000 posted:
llmao up to 0 days! haha why would you even type that lol
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The hosed up thing about having the roni is, despite generally feeling fine with minimal symptoms I'm starting to psych myself out. I can't tell if I'm having actual symptoms of fatigue or if it's just depression over the hosed up situation. I think the kids got me and my wife sick. I'm going to feel really bad if despite all their various symptoms this past couple of weeks I've gotten them sick too. At least they aren't part of the plague happening in the school district right now lmao. That's definitely well over 10% out in isolation at each school aside from maybe the HS: 
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HiHo ChiRho posted:The hosed up thing about having the roni is, despite generally feeling fine with minimal symptoms I'm starting to psych myself out. I can't tell if I'm having actual symptoms of fatigue or if it's just depression over the hosed up situation. take baby aspirin so you don't get a stroke. good luck
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He’s emphasizing the N/A.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:37
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Is “walk by you” a phrase? It sounds like either total nonsense, bad translation, or one of those things that evangelicals decide sounds cool.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:42
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So I think I realized that the health care system will not collapse. It is a self correcting issue. People will just die from easily treatable conditions until census gets back to manageable condition.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:46
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Lmao. This is like pledging your allegiance to a lukewarm glass of milk.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:49
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Only one restaurant? There's like 20 with the same sign within 5km of me. And that's with like 20% of shops permanently closing due to lockdowns. People forget because it seems like a century ago but there was a pay shortage, aka "labor shortage" before Covid hit, every single restaurant around town had a "help wanted" sign on it because the turnover was getting out of hand.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:Only one restaurant? There's like 20 with the same sign within 5km of me. And that's with like 20% of shops permanently closing due to lockdowns. Until recently with an unvaccinated 6 year old I had no choice but to exclusively order online (even before Omicron I had no intention of changing that behavior). Since they started using online ordering there's never been a problem with any order and my preference for it has largely become a requirement these days. So much so that when I go to a website and don't see online ordering, I almost always punt and look elsewhere. To circle back to actual Covid, the one restaurant we takeout more than others (and for reference, we only take out once a week) announced that due to the increased number of Covid cases in our county (not the usual "worker has it") they are going back to takeout only for a week or two. And a regular patron it doesn't affect me at all.
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Asproigerosis posted:So I think I realized that the health care system will not collapse. It is a self correcting issue. People will just die from easily treatable conditions until census gets back to manageable condition. Exactly Too big to fail
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quote:Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 7) — The Department of Health maintains its stance against mass testing even with the recent alarming rise of fresh COVID-19 infections. local authorities pulling a Jen Psaki
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Local restaurants have started to raise their prices which is going to be a death spiral of customers leaving those businesses, which lowers revenue, oh poo poo better raise prices again to counter the loss of foot traffic.....
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Hadlock posted:Infected with moderate covid, 5 days bed rest then back to the mines, slaves Political milds
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Chunky Salsa posted:Saw a sign today that my local chain sandwich shop is closing 'temporarily due to staffing shortages', and every place has a Now Hiring sign. Local coffee shop/cafe near me is very active on social media about the issues they are having with staffing. Seems that there may be a solution to the consistent issues they're having, just can't put my finger on it
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icantfindaname posted:Anybody have a link to the study with the rats where they all died?
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Exodus1984 posted:Local coffee shop/cafe near me is very active on social media about the issues they are having with staffing. Seems that there may be a solution to the consistent issues they're having, just can't put my finger on it $2.33/hr for servers is enough for ever and ever!
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Egg Moron posted:Exactly https://twitter.com/dril/status/387760174401732608?t=TsvEFJBMbwq8QHlS0pogBQ&s=19
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China made its Hong Kong people attend a state hoopla then they all caught COVID https://twitter.com/InsiderNews/status/1479337726658945026 😷
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gradenko_2000 posted:
holy fuckin poo poo thats evil i had a weird mix of a totally normal and fine childhood blanketed over very early childhood trauma, leftist from an early age even though i was really dumb about it for a decade, and I've been following this thread since this iteration, internalized there's always more and its always worse and dehumanize yourself and face to devastation a long long time ago. all that led me to totally expect the absolute worst possible outcomes and this demon cracker nation to always chose number over life or anything resembling decency. we've clearly never cared about average people the world over, here included. so i haven't really crack pinged to much of anything so far in this thread, or climate collapse, or [number]. thats all to be expected because capitalism, of course we chose evil. and honestly this thread called this werks or months ago too. but this? i fuckin felt this. we're the baddies Can't wait for this nation to burn.
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So what happens to counties dependent on globalization for exports etc when the us onshore/near shores manufacturing? If we moved electronics manufacturing back to Japan and the us, the economy of Vietnam would probably collapse What's the ten year outlook for all this? Another Arab spring, but worldwide? loving up globalization is going to push a lot of already marginal people into poverty
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Loving that the CDC cut the quarantine period in half to keep the economy going.Hadlock posted:So what happens to counties dependent on globalization for exports etc when the us onshore/near shores manufacturing? If we moved electronics manufacturing back to Japan and the us, the economy of Vietnam would probably collapse This is not as simple as building factories in Japan and the US. Part of the reason these factories were off-shored in the first place was labor costs, another was regulatory costs (environmental regulation). Communities are not just going to open their arms to giant production facilities like these when they learn how dirty they are. Exodus1984 fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Hadlock posted:So what happens to counties dependent on globalization for exports etc when the us onshore/near shores manufacturing? If we moved electronics manufacturing back to Japan and the us, the economy of Vietnam would probably collapse Vietnam benefits from downstream operations of manufacturing. In addition, its meritocratic core profits from substantial operations in real estate and finance.
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Hadlock posted:So what happens to counties dependent on globalization for exports etc when the us onshore/near shores manufacturing? If we moved electronics manufacturing back to Japan and the us, the economy of Vietnam would probably collapse I think the *producers* of stuff for export will have a much easier time of things than the consumers. All Vietnam gets from selling electronics to the US is dollars, if they don’t import very much and just hoard those dollars losing the business is not that big of a deal. I guess you need some to but oil but I don’t think they are importing very much food, all the Asian developmental states have historically been very agriculturally protectionist and conscious of food self-sufficiency. Applies even more to China. Third world countries without a developed/export sector like India or Arabs or much of Latin America will continue on as before just with more misery for the urban masses. But they are pretty miserable to begin with. US and Europe though are going to have a very bad time. Countries relying on international services are screwed, especially tourism. I think economic depression for places like Canada and other small internationalized countries, and a great leap backwards to Brazil levels of development with miserable underemployed surplus masses of population for US/UK is most likely. EU countries will be some combo and maybe a few will even try to suppress the virus even icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Hadlock posted:So what happens to counties dependent on globalization for exports etc when the us onshore/near shores manufacturing? If we moved electronics manufacturing back to Japan and the us, the economy of Vietnam would probably collapse the US isn't going to re-on-shore its manufacturing. Capitalist logic makes this impossible until/unless the political economy significantly changes
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Exodus1984 posted:This is not as simple as building factories in Japan and the US. Part of the reason these factories were off-shored in the first place was labor costs, A pretty substantial amount of manufacturing is automated now, I forget the statistic but the us still manufactures the same total dollar amount, they just use far less labor to do it
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Hadlock posted:What's the ten year outlook for all this? not so good
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Hadlock posted:A pretty substantial amount of manufacturing is automated now, I forget the statistic but the us still manufactures the same total dollar amount, they just use far less labor to do it I don't disagree. But, companies are always going to base any decision to bring a factory back to the US, and automate said factory on how much it costs to do it. Robots are not cheap.
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I literally cannot find a way to get my daughter tested that would get results in a reasonable amount of time. Rapid tests have been sold out for a week (and probably wouldn’t be accurate). Pretty much everywhere says they won’t get more until around the 15-20. PCR testing schedules are all blocked so you have to wait in a 5+ hour line to get results in 5 days if you are lucky. I have coworkers who got tested on Monday and do not have results. The kid is still showing no symptoms and was masked the whole time so gently caress it I guess. Great country. Would recommend.
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gradenko_2000 posted:
These things are always really funny to me because they read as punishing people for getting vaxed
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