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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

bym051d said:
How many pre-pandemic workers aren't reentering the workforce because they're dead? I bet it's < 800,000, but way more than 1.
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Somehow Donkey Deac Doug has missed the 1 million articles about COVID and the economy that mention how parents and caregivers have to stay home with their children because schools and daycares are closed all the fucking time. It’s fucking Occams Razor, not some bullshit conspiracy of clever welfare hillbillies. Mom can’t afford to work for tips at the fucking diner or 12/hr at the call center anymore because now she has to stay home with her kids. Not that complicated.
 
Actually counting deaths in the prime workforce age something like 250,000. Adding in excess mortality you are probably at closer to double that. Add in the idea about guest worker and immigration essentially shunted by the pandemic that’s over a million workers right there just waiting to be exploited.
 
Why do white rural Americans think their rural is the only type of rural and no one else (including people who grew up in rural America) can understand it?
 
PhDeac said:
Why do white rural Americans think their rural is the only type of rural and no one else (including people who grew up in rural America) can understand it?
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I’m so out of touch here on the sprawling outer edge of Winston-Salem on the border of Davidson county
 
PhDeac said:
Why do white rural Americans think their rural is the only type of rural and no one else (including people who grew up in rural America) can understand it?
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I mean he’s a middle aged highly educated lawyer cosplaying as an in touch rural American because he listens to Q104.1 New Country while driving his pickup truck to a six figure job all while complaining he can’t get anyone to clean his houses soooo
 
bym051d said:
How many pre-pandemic workers aren't reentering the workforce because they're dead? I bet it's < 800,000, but way more than 1.
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Most of those were fat and lazy and driving up the corporation's healthcare premiums.
 
i am still waiting to hear how my ~$300 a week stipend is enough money to live off of beyond child tax credits which don't put food on the table.

the idea that's somehow a fulfilling amount of money is pretty insulting, tbh.
 
PhDeac said:
Why do white rural Americans think their rural is the only type of rural and no one else (including people who grew up in rural America) can understand it?
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Agree; same thing applies if you substitute "black" and "inner city" for "white" and "rural" in your sentence. End of the day, we're all just people with many shared plus many individual experiences.
 
Also, amazing how nonplussed you all are making the argument that a few hundred dollars a month from the government for a year has completely fucking wrecked the working class labor force, forever! Think about how ridiculous that is, and how cruel you are to demand that all those burger flippers come back and fix your treats for you. Jesus. All around it’s a ridiculous argument, but the implications from your resentment are gross.
 
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The amount of money that many of you would spend on a ski vacation or extending your back deck has apparently(hypothetically) freed people from terrible low paying dogshit jobs that they apparently hate, and you are? mad at the government about it?
 
DownEastDeac said:
Agree; same thing applies if you substitute "black" and "inner city" for "white" and "rural" in your sentence. End of the day, we're all just people with many shared plus many individual experiences.
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Except "inner city" is basically code for predominantly Black neighborhoods. Maybe "urban" would be a better fit for your argument.
 
TenaciousKory said:
i am still waiting to hear how my ~$300 a week stipend is enough money to live off of beyond child tax credits which don't put food on the table.

the idea that's somehow a fulfilling amount of money is pretty insulting, tbh.
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You get food stamps too.
 
TenaciousKory said:
i am still waiting to hear how my ~$300 a week stipend is enough money to live off of beyond child tax credits which don't put food on the table.

the idea that's somehow a fulfilling amount of money is pretty insulting, tbh.
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Whoa transferring to Pitt brb
 
TenaciousKory said:
dude when I heard Columbia grads made 35k a year (!) it was a vibe

but it's also 35k in NYC so i guess not as big money as I thought
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much more than the $400 i make a month.

the biggest benefit to clemson is they took my tuition down from $11k/semester to $1100 semester because of my GA
 
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