There were mandates.
What caused the government to take action?
If you get injured and go to the hospital, are you at the hospital because you are injured or because you took action that brought you there? I mean, your injury didn’t transport you there. But, what will the doctor ask you?: so, what brings you here today? Will you answer your car or the injury?
Or ex-cons.
Most of the roofers around here are white guys, but they look red like cooked lobsters so you might get confused.
By we I meant US. And we have plenty of white roofers but I meant jobs in that tier. We have some Americans who will work in the feed lots, farms, true tough jobs. But not nearly enough to meet demand. Because people would way rather be paid less and be happy at a job than be paid more for a really hard job.
Some of the shitty jobs I worked when I was younger you couldn’t pay me enough to do day in and day out for a career. Even as a money hungry strong teen some of them I only did one job and said fuck that.
it is not hyperbole; it’s plain old bullshit
Well it appears that there is hope for us here in NYS. The Governor is releasing guidelines for gym re-openings today due to the fact that the pressure became so much from the class action lawsuit. I’m sure the restrictions will be absolutely outrageous, but whatever. My immune system has navigated Kung Flu successfully so far.
Looking back, I don’t know how I did some of the shitty jobs I did. Maybe knowing that it was temporary helped me get through.
One of my uncles dropped out of high school. My father got him a job working with him doing construction. It was the summer and obviously very hot and humid. My uncle lasted one day. He told my father he didn’t know how they could work in that heat and that he was going back to school.
Came across this article today:
May explain some of the delusion. Exponential growth can be hard to wrap ones brain around even in good circumstances.
Its why people fail to invest money. They dont understand how compounding interest works. Same principle.
Finally! Took them long enough…
One of the worst offenders in this regard is an actual Nobel prize winner, dr. Michael Levitt who despite being wrong on literally every prediction in the last six months still has a large following in the anti-mask anti-lockdown echo chamber.
Also, Epstein’s article from less than six months ago is well worth a read, not least for staggering arrogance and a complete failure to understand basic math, not to mention a massive underestimation of the death toll.
And this right here is why it’s important to have subject matter experts. Levitt is an absolute beast in protein conformation and structural biochemistry–one of my core fields of study in grad school. He has done extremely important work in systems computational biochemistry (read: in silico modeling and theoretical chemistry) --which was NOT one of my core fields.
He sucks terrible ass at epidemiology, infectious diseases.
Smart guy, does not need to be at the head of the class for this.
Maybe so…
…but imo that ^^ still makes him a shit ton smarter than a bunch of interwebz “experts”, who have oodles of anecdotal evidence at their disposal.
You’re not wrong lol
He’s making one wrong prediction after the other, all of them in with absolute certainty. I don’t know if it’s his age of his ego, but he keeps doubling down time after time which to me doesn’t seem like the smartest thing to do, especially since many people listen to a Nobel laureate.
708 deaths in Israel so far.
That’s from March, what’s he saying now?
Fauci lovers still think he’s the man, and that Sixty Minutes interview on masks is a cliche by now.
add: not to mention the predictions of a 3 to 4% (correct me if I’m wrong) possible death rate
Still wrong.
You’re missing my point.
I played your game, and googled it myself.
Here’s what I found from an August 2 interview -he says he’s right:
TSD: What do you predict to happen in the coming months regarding COVID-19 in the U.S.?
ML: I think it’s going to end up with less deaths than what I thought. In March, I thought there would be a total of 220,000, but there will be less than that. Right now it is around 155,000 in the U.S., and I am expecting it to end up under 170,000 or maybe 175,000.
My useless opinion? Who’s right or wrong won’t be known for years, and by then the spin will still make it extremely difficult to “know”, in spite of whatever you find on the webz; or hear/experience anecdotally.
Well this is already looking like an extremely optimistic position that will almost certainly be wrong. We’re sitting about 175K deaths today and over 1 k deaths isn’t a rare sight at all. I guess it matters what is meant by coming months I don’t know if that is 2 or 6 or what. But it seems like a pretty safe bet to assume we’re going to hit 200K in the coming months. I hope not of course, but with schools and stuff opening the potential for an explosion in cases exists. And that’s on top of the not rare 50K days we are already having.