Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[El Chupacabra]

That's the humility part from him I was talking about. I'm still in favor of anyone calling the whole thing bullshit to sign a waiver stating that they if they contract the disease, they waive the right to healthcare and hop on a bus out to the middle of the Nevada desert to hang out with everyone else who thinks it's the flu.

Gofundme to bus Austin to Austin, NV?

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Rather Trumpian

Me or Austin?


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[XXX-er]

Me or Austin?


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Austin of course, he went full on trump this AM

you sir were merely correct

[Benny Profane]

Sadly, I don't think anything will change.

I think it will. The How Will We Pay For It argument is now moot.

[Stikki]

40,000 applicants for the overnight stocker positions

May not necessarily be indicative of actual demand. State unemployment rules often require a certain number of job search activities per week to comply with benefit eligibility. Not sure if those rules have been lifted or modified for the time being but many of those applying may be doing so just to receive benefits.

[concretejungle]

Got some backcountry bro virtue signaling and accused of not being a skier.

In their defense that might be related to the fact that you tele.

[Danno]

In their defense that might be related to the fact that you tele.

lol, well played

I'm a man without a (ski) home. People give me shit for never making tele turns, and other people give me shit for being a tele skier.

[Bunion 2020]

As to why there are no vaccines to other coronaviruses, well they were developed or put into development for Sars1 but that was rapidly eliminated from the population, hardly anyone catches Mers so it wasn't worth the development either past academic labs. Of the other 4 coronaviruses, the 2 that have been around prior to 2000 rarely caused disease serious enough to merit vaccination and the other 2 discovered since 2000 also rarely cause serious enough disease outside of immune compromised populations to have them added to a vaccination program.

So what you are saying is, there was no money in a Corona vaccine. Low demand.

Kind of like how we have our asses hanging in the breeze over testing for anti-bodies or infections. No money in testing for something that may never happen so why spend the development capital.

And that is a great reason why a fully market driven system breaks. We are really great at reacting and eventually coming up with solutions to the next challenge. We really suck at recognizing that challenge and preventing it from becoming a challenge.

By we, I mean humans.

RE: Austin or anyone else here. Maybe lighten up on them a bit. This is a great place to vent or float your 1/2 baked theories or ideas or even fears. Give a little bit. (sorry listening to Supertramp channel on Pandora.

[glademaster]

People give me shit for never making tele turns, and other people give me shit for being a tele skier.

And they're both right!

[XXX-er]

Does anyone think this virus will affect how the populace and politicians address health care? Or, will it be - “nah, b, we good...”

I mean, we have so many private entities rushing forth to provide testing and contact tracking, it’s hard to choose from among the many low cost reliable options....

how you gona pay for it ?

I've trolled a lot of Americans on the HC file and I don't think they wana collectively pay for that other guy over there who is overweight or genetically inferior

[Stikki]

We can get screwed economically in a relatively controlled fashion that preserves the integrity of our food supply and essential services and mitigates loss of life; or, the economy can crash even harder in a chaotic fashion that threatens the very fabric of modern existence, and millions of people die on top of that.

Yep, just the trucking industry alone could send us into a crisis. Every item in a grocery store arrives via truck, what percentage of truckers falling ill for weeks at a time does it take before shelves are bare?

[dunfree]

Yep, just the trucking industry alone could send us into a crisis. Every item in a grocery store arrives via truck, what percentage of truckers falling ill for weeks at a time does it take before shelves are bare?

truckers for stores were relatively isolated ime & could get by with good PPE (yes, it’d be a problem, but they individually don’t contact many people).It’s things like, oh, pork slaughterhouses as an example, having to close because the workers are all getting sick that’s the risk. Or distribution warehouses. Things that can’t work or work well short staffed before things really backup. And these rolling covidouts pass through the country for months.

Reservations were down 70% for restaurants pre-c19 in many citys, and cancellations way up, just prior to the restaurant closing. Tough to run a restaurant long term like that.

[skiballs]

. Give a little bit. (sorry listening to Supertramp channel on Pandora.

Ha, been playing the good 12 string songs, that's one of them.

[schuss]

I have empathy for Austin, but at the same time those looking to help are tired of helping then getting our faces pissed on while those we helped yell "yeah, take that libtard". Would be nice for people to wake up and see how complicit they are in at least some of the situation.
You're not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, you're another guy working to get by the best you can, just like most people. Start working to make reality better for those folks.

[Kinnikinnick]

I wasn't talking about just throwing money at Austin, though maybe that is what should happen.

There are certainly other mags needing help who perhaps haven't been so vocal. I was talking about trying to coordinate more than just a one-off help one person, but rather a more organized way of helping some of the mags needing help.

The thread referenced above, https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ferral-network, is certainly a good start, but it seems like we could probably gather up a pretty good fund and be able to help people out on an ongoing basis. Or is that too ambitious?

Like this.

Maggot fund could be lets keep maggots fed.
Grocery only credit ....?


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[The SnowShow]

Wow, Polis, the Jewish, gay governor of CO was just asked by some asshole Grand Junction reporter about how his stay-home order compares to elements of Nazism, (which apparently GOP Minority leader Patrick Neville said) those orders led to a "Gestapo-like mindset.” Polis fought back tears.

[AdironRider]

I have empathy for Austin, but at the same time those looking to help are tired of helping then getting our faces pissed on while those we helped yell "yeah, take that libtard". Would be nice for people to wake up and see how complicit they are in at least some of the situation.
You're not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, you're another guy working to get by the best you can, just like most people. Start working to make reality better for those folks.

Are you serious? Austin hasn't even asked for help let alone called anyone a libtard, as far as I can tell, ever.

There is some grade A gaslighting going on right now in this thread.

[wooley12]

Wasn't it Austin that said dead brown babies didn't bother him if it meant that his wait in rush hour traffic was shorter? Pretty sure it was Austin. Sounds like Austin.

[hutash]

I doubt it. It doesn't sound like him, as much as I disagree with a lot of what he has posted in the past he seems like a decent person. Wrong, but decent.

[MontuckyFried]

Wasn't it Austin that said dead brown babies didn't bother him if it meant that his wait in rush hour traffic was shorter? Pretty sure it was Austin. Sounds like Austin.

WTF is wrong with you?! Damn...

[The AD]

Wasn't it Austin that said dead brown babies didn't bother him if it meant that his wait in rush hour traffic was shorter? Pretty sure it was Austin. Sounds like Austin.

That sounds right out of Skoug's playbook to me.

[MontuckyFried]

I would have greater empathy for Austin if he weren’t so gleeful in his push to reopen the country at the expense of human suffering and loss of life and clear lack of desire to understand this problem. If he lacks the ability to understand he should have the humility to defer to people who do.

Ok, ok. After having a nice hike in the woods with my little ones (GASP! The HORROR!), I had some time to do some reflecting and realized that perhaps I was a bit too harsh earlier. Just a bit of venting that perhaps went overboard. Been tough to weather this particular storm. Especially after getting repeatedly kicked in the nuts since shit went down in Big Sky for which I'm STILL paying for.

The truth is that what I want is for those of us who can work with minimal risk to ourselves and others to be ALLOWED to work. I've flown combat missions. Done my time in the Middle East. I've worked sucky, dangerous ass work in the oilfields. I've been around the block so to speak. I'm not afraid of the disease, but I'm also in a minimal risk category. I am 0% worried about that. However, I understand the need not to want to make things worse for others either. All I ask is that we ease back into things sooner than later so that those of us who want to take that risk can get back to business and get our economy back on track, as well as feed our families without having to depend on others or our utterly inept government.

Are you serious? Austin hasn't even asked for help let alone called anyone a libtard, as far as I can tell, ever.

There is some grade A gaslighting going on right now in this thread.

Thank you! And also a very genuine thank you to all the mags who despite our differences would be willing to help a brother out. That said, Adiron's right. I'm not looking for help here. We're not starving and (for now) I can tell the banks and my creditors to kindly fuck off. All I want is to get back to working. Even if it means working night shift at the local factory, which I'm still pushing for. We'll all get through this I know. At least for once in my life we're all unemployed together. Somehow that feels better. Haha.

[MultiVerse]

Such an inscrutable disease, this COVID. In Switzerland alone, COVID-19 has been twice as likely to kill patients in French-speaking cantons of Switzerland than in German-speaking, and more than twice as likely to kill patients in Italian speaking cantons than in French ones.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...036979200.html

[Core Shot]

Wasn't it Karen that said dead brown babies didn't bother her if it meant that her wait in rush hour traffic was shorter? Pretty sure it was Karen . Sounds like Karen .

It’s always Karen.

[wooley12]

WTF is wrong with you?! Damn...

There's a thread here someplace. Combat fatigue. No I didn't serve.