OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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  1. Minstrel

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    But not your wife. Woooow. You laid out your priorities pretty clearly!
     
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    Might benefit me if she stops going, they cancelled my vasectomy, condoms are selling out, so Its come to this.
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    This got very real, very fast.
     
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    Disagree. 22 million jobs lost. We have a shelter in place. Until we can properly vet new immigrants, it would be foolish to allow any mitgration.
     
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    yeah I go to the dentist too. So do my kids. It’s great. But people itching to get back to the dentist is one example of not seeing the big picture, to me.
     
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    Depending on whose numbers you use anywhere from 33-50% of US agriculture labor is legal and illegal foreign labor.

    That's a huge portion of that workforce to remove right before May.

    Many in that workforce have already been vetted and granted work visas.

    To not allow them to work is not good for our farmers and economy.
     
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    False equivalencies are great. Yeah I want to go to the dentist, but that doesnt mean I cant see the bigger picture or that Im placing above anything else. That narrative was just filled in for me, I didnt say it.
     
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    Then if they have visas, they shouldn’t have any problem. The same ban on China allowed citizens and green card holders to get “repatriated” back into the country.

    and if they are in the Country, they should be fine. This only applies for new immigration.
     
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    what false equivalency? You made a comment that you hope people can go to the dentist soon because it’s good for your health. I just said it’s way down the list and we can take a year off. Which we can. The big picture is who cares about the dentist we have a freakin pandemic going on. Things *like this* will be our undoing. I need the dentist, I need to see so and so, I need a haircut, I need to fly, I need to be in my office. I get all of it but it’s why this bitch is going to continue for longer than we want. If everyone bucked up for six months we’d be better off. Instead it’ll be two months and people will need to go do stuff and we’ll be dealing with this for many more months.
     
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    Trump: shit I’m Fucking this up and even my idiot base is figuring it out what should I do

    NO MORE IMMIGRANTS. Whew. Crisis averted.
     
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    Those are the same exact people. Dead on.

    it’s another example of how many stupid people there are in this country
     
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    Ok this is your argument. I say I want dentists and patients to be able to do their work safely soon. You say, they can go a year (totally arbitrary number you’re just throwing out btw you have no idea), and that me saying I want to go the dentist means my priorities are off, because I cant see the big picture. You tend to think saying I want to go the dentist is the same as being unable to recognize there are other important matters. I didnt say, its priority one, two, three, four or any thing like that. I didnt say we should be protesting the stay at home stuff so we can go to the dentist. You have simply built up an argument I never once made. So that you could get to the narrative you want too, which is that apparently the thought of needing dentists will doom us all.
     
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    If we’re on lockdown for 6 months the economy will be totally fucked. We can’t wait that long.
     
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    The economy is already super-fucked. The longer its closed, the exponentially worse its going to be. It just isn't sustainable to keep things closed.

    I will say this. This is the greatest opportunity in a generation to become wealthy.
     
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    And if we open too soon we are even more fucked.
     
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    Or really poor.
     

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