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Spotted on social media: I thought it might have been an 'Obvious Plant'-style fake product but it looks like it's real. BeastOfExmoor posted:I've literally never known someone prior to this year who was a straightforward right wing American who distrusted vaccines. They've all been either in the left wing or some weird combination that's hard to categorize (Supported Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders types). Same with the "OMG FRANKENFOOD" folks. Honestly, most people think they are "pro science" but very willing to disregard things they don't like. Reminder that Trump has been an anti-vaxxer for a long long time: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/449525268529815552?lang=en ........ and tens of millions of Americans are taking cues from him in regards to pandemic responses. He was also a massive factor in the anti-mask anti-lockdown movements. Conspiracy theorists lean towards anti-vaxx pretty heavily just as a matter of course and there's a lot of them on both sides of the political divide but QAnon has been super popular recently and many of those people also seem to have bought into 5G/vaccine microchips. naem posted:labor laws are usually enforced with fines and legal fees etc, some companies just factor that into their budget (Walmart) Opioid manufacturers also tried to calculate the potential occurrence of "events" such as overdoses or addictions and offer "rebates" to their client companies to offset their losses. Can't make an omelet without crackin' a few eggs!  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/mckinsey-purdue-oxycontin-opioids.html
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Sooo what's actually stopping them from firing all the pregnant/gay/black/disabled employees and just going 'durhur at-will'?
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Because most lawyers and judges are not morons. It's pretty hard to go "it's just a coincidence!!!" when you've just fired all your black employees.
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Astrofig posted:Sooo what's actually stopping them from firing all the pregnant/gay/black/disabled employees and just going 'durhur at-will'? It costs money to hire new people.
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Let's check in on Turkey again and see how things shook out after their bump:Mithaldu posted:Let's hope it's a china situation where there's a big bump up for a little while due to backdating, and then it settles down again. Yeah it's not looking like it  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/turkey/ Their covid deaths had been surging for months and finally overtook the first wave a few weeks back even though their reported cases had pretty much plateaued since May, I guess they finally ran out of excuses
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Facebook Aunt posted:Welp, unsubscribed. It's not much, but apparently all 'influencers' really care about is numbers. Dammit I liked him.
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xtal posted:Or you use the vaccine early and in 5 years end up with a Children of Men infertile future, hence the dilemma. I'm not seeing the downside?  
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Atopian posted:Mithaldu has said it better, but yeah. This is probably a moot point for me because I'm a healthy (well, 'healthy') non-essential adult so I probably wouldn't be able to get a vaccine in the first six months even if I wanted to. https://www.newsday.com/business/coronavirus/vaccine-covid-19-cdc-ny-priority-sequence-meeting-1.50078513 quote:Phase 1: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-03/covid-vaccine-australia-uk-when-get-it/12946148 Of course that's assuming that the vaccines aren't stolen by 'bad hombres' before they even get to me https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1334183251733327874 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Hahaha liquid gold. That's underselling how valuable this stuff will be on the black market.
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Oops, my vaccine dealer cut their supply so now I am only immune against baking powder 
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Facebook Aunt posted:Welp, unsubscribed. It's not much, but apparently all 'influencers' really care about is numbers. I don't get why people are surprised. Surely he's extremely obviously a huge piece of poo poo at first glance? Is his persona on his youtube channel like night and day from what's on display here? Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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lol there’s gonna be a ton of fake vaccines produced in god knows where that are just water in a vaccine-looking bottle and unsuspecting poor people are going to buy them We live in hell
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LA has gone into shelter-in-place lockdown https://twitter.com/KTLA/status/1334350629720875009 E: okay there's a TON of exemptions on this, it's pretty useless https://www.lamayor.org/sites/g/files/wph446/f/page/file/20201202%20Mayor%20Public%20Order%20Targeted%20SAH%20Order_1.pdf Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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AHH F/UGH posted:lol there’s gonna be a ton of fake vaccines produced in god knows where that are just water in a vaccine-looking bottle and unsuspecting poor people are going to buy them The current (soon to be former) President of the United States is absolutely going to slap his name on a "Nutritional Supplement" that "kills all viruses, including the china flu". Prepare yourself for a bunch of morons getting kidney failure from TRUMPLEMENTS.
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drat now I wanna preemptively patent that name just to piss him off.
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A Fancy Hat posted:TRUMPLEMENTS 
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Jabor posted:Even with at-will employment, you're still not allowed to fire someone for an illegal reason. And yet a lot of employers do. At will was created so that you can shrink your workforce whenever necessary without a reason. It's when employers give a reason because they feel justified in their horrible opinions that they get in trouble. Example: your bigoted rear end can fire gays as much as you want. The instant you say you are firing people because they are gay you're breaking the law. The amount of employers who still self-own themselves because they need to get in a sick burn is hilarious.
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Congratulations on reaching one 9/11 a day!  xtal posted:Or you use the vaccine early and in 5 years end up with a Children of Men infertile future, hence the dilemma. What's the dilemma? It might literally save the planet.
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Looks like we're back to 9/11 a day: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55170329  In my local news, they lifted a ton of restrictions today. Gyms, swimming pools, retail, everything is open again. Masks are required but I don't see this being enough when everyone crams into pubs and restaurants again. Really dumb IMO when it could've been suppressed further to let everyone actually enjoy Christmas, but instead I suspect the numbers would be back to scary heights by then.
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So one of the vaccines is going before the FDA next week, the 10th. ....what are they doing until then? Are they prepping things or is the FDA going over the data right now? Seems odd to wait so long with 3000 people dying a day.
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Highest single day deaths for the US yesterday. Probably caused by catch up from the holiday, but we might see over 3k soon.
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wilderthanmild posted:Highest single day deaths for the US yesterday. Probably caused by catch up from the holiday, but we might see over 3k soon. It doesn't even look like a crazy spike, it's just a smooth continuation of the weekly increases that were already happening 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Let's check in on Turkey again and see how things shook out after their bump: 
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Sorry this is late but for the dude who is considering putting a hold on PT, as someone in that field it depends on your diagnosis. In the first wave we had anyone that wouldn't experience severe decline just stay home, and the same applies now. If you're not in an initial passive phase post surgery or a neurological patient you'll most likely be fine not coming in, especially considering it sounds like you have a pretty bad clinician working with you if sessions aren't being advanced every time.
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arbybaconator posted:I lost my grandfather to covid today. He was 75. Diagnosed last Wednesday. He mostly fine until this morning when he was taken to the ICU and put on a respirator. He died 12 hours later. Dang and my condolences, fellow goon. One thing I try to get across to people is what if an emergency happens where you have to help parents or grandparents? All of a sudden you have to start weighing all your choices against helping a family member in need. Be smart and be safe everybody.
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Welp, my household has it now. Thus far nobody's experiencing any symptoms but it sure sucks to know that we're compromised.
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Astrofig posted:Sooo what's actually stopping them from firing all the pregnant/gay/black/disabled employees and just going 'durhur at-will'? They usually do it during layoffs.
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canyoneer posted:Welp, my household has it now. Thus far nobody's experiencing any symptoms but it sure sucks to know that we're compromised. On the plus side (?) you don't have to worry about getting it between now and when the vaccine becomes available anymore
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The Epicenter - a very well-written piece in the NY Times about part of the March outbreak in NYC.
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Is it crazy to hope that this will be pretty much over by next summer? That would be nice, I think it would be a fun one
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yeah i'm bored of covid, bring on the next pandemic already
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Is it crazy to hope that this will be pretty much over by next summer? That would be nice, I think it would be a fun one it'll be over in every sane polity and they'll be diggin those mass graves in the insane ones uhh, bad news wrt which column the usa is
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Is it crazy to hope that this will be pretty much over by next summer? That would be nice, I think it would be a fun one
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sweet thursday posted:
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sweet thursday posted:I rate Trump's covid response a solid 9/11 Trump rates it a 9/11 but I rate it a 4/19.
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Here's a handy tool for calculating where you stand in the line for a vaccine (if you're in the US) and how many hundreds of millions of people are ahead of you: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/03/opinion/covid-19-vaccine-timeline.html I'm in Australia where we've officially adopted a vaccine rollout plan of "Wait and see how the countries that are rushing into it go before we start vaccinating our own people" and even then I'll probably be almost last on the list E: https://twitter.com/roto_tudor/status/1334534101265682434 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Is it crazy to hope that this will be pretty much over by next summer? That would be nice, I think it would be a fun one Ignoring that a lot of people won't trust the vaccine, assuming regular uptake of the vaccine, everybody in America will probably have gotten it by late August 2021 I don't think it's realistic to assume that medical first responders will all have immunity before March 15 You need 70% to reach herd immunity, although with an actual federal response and increasing number of vaccinated persons, there's a good chance that contact tracing will actually work by March and going to restaurants might not be a death wish any longer Talked to my friend in Texas, apparently they still allow indoor seating at restaurants? Holy poo poo
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