Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Deebased]

Simple: Because we value human life above kids being in school and the economy.

Feel good answer but it ignores the ramifications of stress, poverty on both quality and longevity of the kids life.

Its near term gain vs long term harm.

Make that decision more succinctly

Should we as a nation exchange 2 years of life expectancy for a 8 year old to keep grandpa alive for 2 more years.

Given our national focus on quarterly earnings, concentration of wealth in the elderly and their utility to the powers that be as a voting block the selected strategy is obvious.

[XXX-er]

72% of Covid deaths in the US are 70+; average life expectancy in 1950 was 68.14. Why do you prioritize diminishing the lives 10's of millions of kids education, Small Businesses, middle class families etc. for the benefit of boomers the vast majority of which have already achieved their life expectancy and are well within 12-24 months of their return to dust.

#stoptheboomerflu

Logans Run, maybe some tweaking of the age restrictions but same concept

and BTW Soylent Green was set in 2022 < 2 years away

[MultiVerse]

The Fed is the problem. They create these huge bubbles with artificially cheap debt and then bailout the big corps when it crashes. The big corps know the Fed will be there to bail them out so why bother with sound business practices? The sound businesses are the ones that get punished in this system.

The banks should have been left to fail on '08 and the airlines should be left to fail now.

There's little moral hazard in a pandemic, the '08 Great Recession was caused by tight money, and bubblemongering is an intellectual dead end.

[riser4]

Logans Run, maybe some tweaking of the age restrictions but same concept

and BTW Soylent Green was set in 2022 < 2 years away

Then they are gonna wanna answer this question right quick: can you get ratflu from food?

[4matic]

Maybe they should reduce any bailout/subsidy by the amount they've dedicated to stock buybacks in the preceding 2 years. Dividends are ok because that's the incentive for investment in the company.

Dividends are cash they aren’t smart enough to use efficiently for growth

[Deebased]

Logans Run, maybe some tweaking of the age restrictions but same concept

and BTW Soylent Green was set in 2022 < 2 years away

Never saw it but if its a good read, I'm game.

[seano732]

Trump has spent the morning sending a series of tweets that say 'LIBERATE VIRGINIA', 'LIBERATE MICHIGAN', etc......In other words, he is actively inciting citizens of this country to violate their state's stay at home orders...I can't even.........

Oh and Desantis is opening the beaches in Florida.......MAGA!

[BigDaddy]

Logans Run, maybe some tweaking of the age restrictions but same concept

and BTW Soylent Green was set in 2022 < 2 years away

Watched Logans Run again a couple months ago... was a trip. Did not know SB was set in 2022, tho.

[The AD]

Should we as a nation exchange 2 years of life expectancy for a 8 year old to keep grandpa alive for 2 more years.

Are you saying because that two year old might starve to death or be harmed irreparably due to economic downturn? Obviously that's where the government needs to step in to protect people. It shouldn't be a zero sum game.

[XXX-er]

In the novel Logans run the age restriction was 21,

but for the movie they changed it to age 30 and then yer done

Soylent green was the recycling of human bodies to feed an overpopulated world


up here we just put the old people out on an ice flow

[Mofro261]

Trump has spent the morning sending a series of tweets that say 'LIBERATE VIRGINIA', 'LIBERATE MICHIGAN', etc......In other words, he is actively inciting citizens of this country to violate their state's stay at home orders...I can't even.........

Oh and Desantis is opening the beaches in Florida.......MAGA!

Time for a health worker strike. Open eveything up, close all the hospitals. Free the oppressed and let them fend for themselves when they get sick.

[char_]

That is one dangerous dogwhistle he is blowing on.

[klauss]

self service ventilator stations, with bidets

[garyfromterrace]

Trump has spent the morning sending a series of tweets that say 'LIBERATE VIRGINIA', 'LIBERATE MICHIGAN', etc......In other words, he is actively inciting citizens of this country to violate their state's stay at home orders...I can't even.........

Oh and Desantis is opening the beaches in Florida.......MAGA!

Fuck oh dear, this is playing out like a dystopian novel. You guys down there are so fucked (ie in trouble). Sorry eh.

[The AD]

MASA! (Make America Sick Again)

[kathleenturneroverdrive]

To appeal beyond his mouth breathing base has literally nothing but the economy to run on for reelection. That's it. If it's gone he's fucked. He's a cornered animal.

[skiballs]

up here we just put the old people out on an ice flow

Ha, the guy that rents my cottage was just telling about how the Eskimos do that. Dude is a vice council for the state Dept, he has some interesting stories to tell.

[rideit]

I could care less if my wife has an abortion or any other woman.

But the choice to terminate one physically and physiologically dependent ball of cells by its caregiver and the choice of terminating another physically and physiologically dependent ball of cells by its caregiver is one and the same.

72% of Covid deaths in the US are 70+; average life expectancy in 1950 was 68.14. Why do you prioritize diminishing the lives 10's of millions of kids education, Small Businesses, middle class families etc. for the benefit of boomers the vast majority of which have already achieved their life expectancy and are well within 12-24 months of their return to dust.

#stoptheboomerflu

Can anyone else smell the cognitive dissonance?

[DBdude]

Nah I'm amused by a 55 y/o man thinking smashing some bird a decade or two younger than him is a laudable feat.

Only a toddler would believe that this quarter isn't already the new normal until 2021 or 2022. The second wave in Q4 is a virtual lock unless we follow the NZ model. fully closed borders, ban air travel and mandatory social distancing coupled with nearly impenetrable international borders.

Me I'm good with it, let's do some national isolation and get kids back in school

my friends are my age cunt

[DBdude]

I could care less if my wife has an abortion or any other woman.

But the choice to terminate one physically and physiologically dependent ball of cells by its caregiver and the choice of terminating another physically and physiologically dependent ball of cells by its caregiver is one and the same.

72% of Covid deaths in the US are 70+; average life expectancy in 1950 was 68.14. Why do you prioritize diminishing the lives 10's of millions of kids education, Small Businesses, middle class families etc. for the benefit of boomers the vast majority of which have already achieved their life expectancy and are well within 12-24 months of their return to dust.

#stoptheboomerflu

don't kiss your momma

[Deebased]

Can anyone else smell the cognitive dissonance?

Yeah the scent is quite strong in this thread.
Quite easy to point out the skunk cabbage; much harder to quantify why its offensive to you.

[Dantheman]

Can anyone else smell the cognitive dissonance?

Deebs is just shitposting while on work release from PoliAss.

[toast2266]

https://www.statista.com/chart/21408...oors-outdoors/

infograhic - "Americans Spend Less Than 8 Percent of Their Time Outdoors"

thought it was interesting that despite all the reports of stir crazieness, most do not go out except to go back in somewhere else.

But that's out of a 24 hour day. So 8% is around 2 hours spent outside. That's actually more than I would have expected.

[Name Redacted]

What the fuck is the holdup for testing? Especially antibody testing? Seems like that'd be a good way to start to open the economy.

[Deebased]

my friends are my age cunt

So an even less inspiring "feat" to hang your loin-cloth on.

Color me surprised.