Well said, I find it ironic that for 8 years all we heard about was the lack of leadership of president Obama. Yet with the largest failure of leadership ever displayed by an American president in the entire history of the country, we’ve not once heard a peep out of those same twats that harped on Obama. The sheer incompetence displayed in the last 3 months (and frankly 3 years) from Trump is nothing short of astonishing. It’s amazing to me how completely and entirely the GOP leadership has sold their soul to satan himself, because their complete lack of courage and morale decency is on full display for everyone to see.
Well, sometimes the call of the unemployment line is tempting, but I'd rather not at the moment. Inefficiency at work has repercussions too.
I have no idea what you do, but that is absurd if they would fire you for inefficiency at this moment in time. If that’s the case that puts more perspective on things and I can appreciate your circumstances more and I meant no offense in my last post.
I'm definitely not offended, I have definitely gone back and forth on it a lot. There are a lot of factors to think about.
Completely understand, I too work in an industry that is deemed essential and unfortunately the decision was made for me. I have to physically go into work, fortunately we have reasonable policies in place to attempt to isolate exposure for employees. Anyway I wish you the best of luck with whatever decision you end up deciding on.
I, "think" my employer has done a great job staying in front of it and I'm in a good position where I can be distanced from people most of the time. So to that extent, I feel good about it. My boss really, really wants engineering to be all hands on deck, he's made that pretty clear. I think if we were a bigger company the decision would be much easier were a "small-ish" company though and most of us are single points of contact. Also were essential because of our government DoD contracts (and a few other things), they've talked about moving all our engineering efforts into helping automate the manufacturing of health equipment if that happened I'd be thrilled.
He famously said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose his base. It may be that the only way he can lose his voters is by literally killing them.
Don't like the guy, but thats an absurd comment considering this virus doesn't discriminate. We all should be a bit more careful and humble during this time.
It's looking very likely that the US will have the most deaths of any nation other than (probably) India. Five minutes of reading about this contagion will tell you it has an exponential spread, and the earlier you attack it, the safer you are. Trump did everything he possibly could to delay acting on this threat to America. Even he now admits 100k+ Americans will die from this. Mostly old people (who were his most devoted demographic). It didn't have to be that way. If he raised the alarm a month earlier, we'd be talking about a couple thousand dead at most. The deaths of a lot of his own voters are on his hands.
Have to confess I have become a bit paranoid, every sneeze or headache I think oh shit. But so far Lucia and I are fine.
Crazy, surreal times we're living in. I'm working from a friend's home. I'm healthy, safe, and well. I'll tell you what, we have the worst administration ever in place to handle this shit. Unfortunately, it's going to get worse. A lot worse. My son has asthma. Now if MFs can stop licking doorknobs, and toilets maybe we won't all fucking die... If this isn't a case for Guaranteeing healthcare to every citizen as a right, I don't know what it is. It's also funny to me how these billionaire corporations need bail outs now that normal people don't have money to spend. Reinforcing the fact that the economy trickles UP not down. Why does socialism always have to bail out capitalism when it fails?
i have insomnia. It's due to my screwed up schedule because I've got dialysis early in the morning three days a week. yesterday I took a nap and slept four hours. I do this nearly every dialysis day. The time before I slept 5 hours and would have slept more but my wife woke me up saying I was going to have a late dinner. After those long naps I get up early like I did this morning around 2 AM. I'll have a light breakfast and then want to nap some more. It's a dog's life and I'm supposed to be retired. Where's the retirement? Oh, that's right, NEVER.
Stay The Fuck Home.....if you can I was able to call ALL of creditors, and basically unloaded about 5k a month until this shit calms down. Be safe and stay inside. If not for you, for others who are more vulnerable
So if we arent testing people in the ER that likely have it and still have 190k confirmed US cases what is that actual number? Probably at least a couple million.
Hey D, Good to hear from you man. Stay safe. Asthma is no joke, especially with this virus. I have asthma too.
There is no doubt in my mind that your number is probably closer. But even if they don't test you, yet they still diagnose it, it still reflects in their numbers. But again I think most are like me...they have it and need to isolate, but will be fine in a week or two....although I probably just jinxed myself.
