No data for my county. New cases announced here last week but no data on testing that I can find anywhere. I keep hoping that site will offer something but still nada.
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New Zealand would be the people who killed it, though, wouldn't they? Or are they still waiting for a case or two to resolve?
I think they've won, though. At this point they can test anyone coming in and I'm betting demand among would-be tourists is peaking pretty hard right about now. It's been on our list for a while but this whole mess moved it up significantly.
Calling Ronald Reagan a baby boomer might be a stretch. The defunding of the social safety net started with him and he is still the spiritual head of the "government is the problem" movement as it continues under baby boomer leadership. If you think it won't continue once the boomers are dead and gone you're delusional. Greed and a lack of empathy are traits that do not observe generational boundaries. Elizabeth Warren is a boomer, so is little Donald (by a whisker). Generational stereotyping--be it of boomers, millenials, or anyone else, is just lazy thinking.
As far paying into the social safety net in order to be provided for in old age--current Medicare and SS recipients, of which I am one, are receiving far more in benefits than we contributed. We did not pay for ourselves while we worked; we are being supported by those currently working (damn few at the moment.) Those programs have been a third rail since enacted. The pre boomer generation voted to keep them intact when they reached retirement age, the boomers are doing it now, and all subsequent generations will do so when it's their turn to cash in.
Gen-X here and I am not planning on SS being available to me when the time comes, esp if we have to endure 4 more years of rumpelstiltskin.
The next page of the thread is 666
Just sayin
Heads up
999 is the next page for me.
NY had a spike of non-Covid19 deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare
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Chile is changing the criteria for defining covid-19 deaths, increasing the totals now, making things even uglier. No light at the end of the tunnel here....
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Ron Johnson gets the first post on page 666 of the thread.
I gotta find my holy underwear and a roll of tinfoil.
Rapture is near
So now it's hitting the fishing industry? Uff da!
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That’s no trawler; that’s a factory ship.
Same boat that accidentally rammed the Canadian warship HMCS Winnipeg about 5 or more years ago.
edit: and local news says it now 86 positive.
Where the fuck do they find 140 people willing to work on a factory trawler? That would be fucking miserable work. Trips are probably at least week and maybe substantially more. Cold, wet, dangerous and probably pays shit.
Immigrant work force??? Like in poultry factories?
Yeah, more like months. The boat leaves Seattle, sails to Alaska, then drops fish off on the way back. I see that boat, or one of her sister ships here every year (Bellingham Cold Storage is the largest portside facility on the west coast).
Entry-level jobs probably do pay shit, but there are definitely well paying career jobs onboard as well.
Fish from those boats probably leave in the shape of a breaded square.