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Dreylad posted:walked by a bank and it was packed with old folks wanting to do some saturday banking. The bank tried to space people out but there wasn't nearly enough space. TD announced they're closing branches and limiting hours, so expect that to get worse for the sort of people who do banking in person (i.e. olds)
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Mar 21, 2020 18:04
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Mar 21, 2020 18:08
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Two days ago an old man came in to buy a bike lock. Not for a bike. So he could lock his jacket to a chair in the mall so he could leave it in the food court while wandering around. It was like watching the first steps in a convoluted suicide attempt.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:10
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The sad thing is this demographic actually watches television news and listens to the radio and if the government would just communicate honestly about how the hospitals are going to be overrun and unable to treat everyone then they might be a bit more effective at getting people to change their behaviour.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:13
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I suspect these people are incapable of processing this kind of information. They cannot conceive of themselves as being at risk or creating a problem. They will refuse to change in the face of oblivion because why would they start now?
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Mar 21, 2020 18:15
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Virtual Russian posted:I suspect these people are incapable of processing this kind of information. They cannot conceive of themselves as being at risk or creating a problem. They will refuse to change in the face of oblivion because why would they start now? it turns out it wasn't just the nebulous threat of a (for them) far off climate apocalypse, they're incapable of responding to even a direct threat to their personal well being too
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Mar 21, 2020 18:17
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Helsing posted:I had to go to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up a prescription for an elderly relative and drop it off at their assisted care facility and the number of old people or parents with young children out and about was just awful. I saw a sign taped to the window of my local Shopper Drugmart. They are desperately hiring temporary employees.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:19
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infernal machines posted:it turns out it wasn't just the nebulous threat of a (for them) far off climate apocalypse, they're incapable of responding to even a direct threat to their personal well being too honestly it's a bit reassuring. "it's not you it's me"
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Mar 21, 2020 18:22
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Rutibex posted:I saw a sign taped to the window of my local Shopper Drugmart. They are desperately hiring temporary employees. I suspect retail locations are becoming unseen epicenters of community spread. The grocery store I work at is desperately calling people in because so many employees are out due to sickness and quarantine. It all adds up, you have massive exposure to tons of people, and limited access to hand-washing. My location has a single unisex customer washroom, which tons of employees use, and is impossible to use without touching door handles. The employee washrooms are very inefficiently located, and washing your hands there as much as is recommended would mean you cannot complete tasks on time, and their are more tasks for less people atm. Furthermore, managers are under extreme pressure to work no matter what, its been implied to me that quarantining would be career ending. The store second was working with tons of symptoms. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 18:38 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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Mar 21, 2020 18:31
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Gross; not talking about the symptoms.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:35
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MoaM posted:Gross; not talking about the symptoms. I used to work in grocery stores. If people knew just how filthy the loading docks / backrooms are they'd quit eating.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:36
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wash your produce, folks
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Mar 21, 2020 18:39
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Another Bill posted:I used to work in grocery stores. If people knew just how filthy the loading docks / backrooms are they'd quit eating. I'm guessing you never worked in the dairy section, nothing beats the grossness of a dairy cooler. Also nothing is worse than seeing the meat department guys take a piss and then not wash their hands.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:40
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what's the problem, they're used to handling meat
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Mar 21, 2020 18:40
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Virtual Russian posted:I'm guessing you never worked in the dairy section, nothing beats the grossness of a dairy cooler. Oh heck yeah I did. 
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Mar 21, 2020 18:40
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My favorite thing to do is spill spoiled milk on myself at the start of a nine hour shift.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:42
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Another Bill posted:I used to work in grocery stores. If people knew just how filthy the loading docks / backrooms are they'd quit eating. I worked in a warehouse which sold fresh fruit to elementary schools and every morning I'd cough up gray phlegm from the air quality in there.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:48
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I was either born with a deficiency or was traumatized by an old in the past, because I'm having difficulty seeing how less idiot olds is bad beyond the collateral damage of potentially infecting non-idiot-olds.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:49
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Well you're hand waving away the deaths of tens of thousands of people. If you're looking for where your brain is broken, start there.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:52
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I don't want my grampa to die. 
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Mar 21, 2020 18:55
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I'm also mad as hell because everyone I know is losing their jobs to protect these people, and they can't be bothered to even try to save themselves. It's only going to extend the crisis and so many people are going to lose everything.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:56
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infernal machines posted:it turns out it wasn't just the nebulous threat of a (for them) far off climate apocalypse, they're incapable of responding to even a direct threat to their personal well being too lol knowing what we know now, a Cold War gone hot would have been spectacular.
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Mar 21, 2020 18:58
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Virtual Russian posted:I'm also mad as hell because everyone I know is losing their jobs to protect these people, and they can't be bothered to even try to save themselves. It's only going to extend the crisis and so many people are going to lose everything. Working in grocery, I'm seeing behaviour that under normal circumstances would just be kind of annoying but right now is actively threatening and it's always from these Boomer assholes. Young people stay the hell away from me when I'm stocking the shelf, they'll stand back if they need to ask me a question. These old fucks will get right up in my face to ask me if we have hand sanitizer and then joke about how "crazy all of this is" with the same stupid dopey toothy grin. I just started wearing a bandana around my face at work to try to offer some protection to myself and others and these idiots will saunter into my personal space and start cracking jokes about my appearance. at this rate I'm likely to be sent home for a cracking one of these fools in the face with a can of soup. My mother is a cashier in the same store during the day, at least Sobeys put up plexiglass for their cashiers, Metro is doing loving nothing for ours. She's got the same story as I do, complete with people licking their fingers before handing her their cash. so many innocent people are going to suffer because of this garbage behavior that it's hard to derive any pleasure from the knowledge that a lot of assholes are going to die too.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:08
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Another Bill posted:Well you're hand waving away the deaths of tens of thousands of people. If you're looking for where your brain is broken, start there. The prevailing sociopolitical system has accepted the deaths and reduced quality of life of larger numbers on a longer basis to keep itself going, but that's societally acceptable to the cohort that overwhelmingly votes to keep it that way or doesn't give a gently caress about the externalities. Yet when the shoe is on the other foot, ie: Virtual Russian posted:everyone I know is losing their jobs to protect these people, and they can't be bothered to even try to save themselves. It's only going to extend the crisis and so many people are going to lose everything. I'd rather save my sympathy and efforts for those trying to uphold their end of the social contract. All those inheritances, houses, and pension liabilities could be put to way better use than protecting boomer id from itself.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:11
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I'm back to my store this coming week, not looking forward to it. Going to try to really agitate for organizing. I've been laying groundwork and collecting info, time to really kick it up a notch.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:13
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First confirmed case up here in NWT, hours before we "close" our borders.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:15
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I would think the north would be fairly well protected.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:17
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Frosted Flake posted:lol knowing what we know now, a Cold War gone hot would have been spectacular. I think the cold war is part of what broke them. They did live under impending threat of global thermonuclear war, but in the end the war ended cold, it didn't happen. Probably fed into their feeling of invincibility.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:20
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Yeah my father dismisses climate change by saying he survived the cold war. Which was a disaster that was avoided by doing nothing. He also got back from Venice like 10 days ago, didn't isolate, and went to all the grocery stores where he lives to see the spectacle.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:25
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Virtual Russian posted:I would think the north would be fairly well protected.
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Mar 21, 2020 19:29
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Guest2553 posted:The prevailing sociopolitical system has accepted the deaths and reduced quality of life of larger numbers on a longer basis to keep itself going, but that's societally acceptable to the cohort that overwhelmingly votes to keep it that way or doesn't give a gently caress about the externalities. Yet when the shoe is on the other foot, ie: Just because society can be cold and ugly doesn't mean you have to be too.
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Another Bill posted:Just because society can be cold and ugly doesn't mean you have to be too. That veers into the 'tolerance of intolerance' paradox for me, and I've already decided what the limits to my goodwill are when it comes to deliberately aggravating a pandemic by being a greedy selfish fucker. Surely the generation that's all about personal responsibility will be able to grasp that as their hardened lungs fill with fluid. Guest2553 has issued a correction as of 20:33 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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Mar 21, 2020 20:30
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Lol, my rich neighbors have had like a literal dozen different delivery trucks drop off multiple packages today. It was like this yesterday too. I'm sure they think they are being safe, but they have had direct at the door with an army of delivery people for days now. I'm not kidding, at least a dozen so far today. Virtual Russian has issued a correction as of 20:44 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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Mar 21, 2020 20:33
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I think the old people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop being sick, and if that's not good enough for them then they should quit their special snowflake whining and suck it up.
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Mar 21, 2020 20:37
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Virtual Russian posted:Lol, my rich neighbors have had like a literal dozen different delivery trucks drop of multiple packages today. It was like this yesterday too. I'm sure they think they are being safe, but they have had direct at the door contact with an army of delivery people for days now. at least you won't have to go far to raid them for supplies
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Mar 21, 2020 20:39
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What you're seeing with all these old people is a toxic combination of boomer dementia, old people stubborness, and a decades long campaign by neoliberals to sow the seeds of a dogma that private individuals know better how to allocate capital than government.
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Mar 21, 2020 20:48
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I'm kind of worried the virus chaos is going to be used as a distraction to round up and finish slaughtering the natives as soon as the opportunity presents itself
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Mar 21, 2020 21:09
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 State mobilization of heavy industry is here baby!! But we still had to sell Petro Canada for less than it made that year.
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Are we ever getting Trudeaubucks? (No, we're not)
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