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01-31-2022, 01:04 PM #39401
So my government issue COVID tests arrived today. Not a bad turn-around; though they should have done that sooner.
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01-31-2022, 01:05 PM #39402Registered User
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And so you send your sick kid to school because of making money and then they get the teachers and other kids sick and then they get their families sick and everyone suffers all because you (your employer, etc) wanted to keep making money.
See, your kid got sick because someone else didn't stay home, too.
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01-31-2022, 01:18 PM #39403
So you've never sent kids to school with a cough? Or a runny nose? Or a low grade fever?
Or perhaps you don't have kids at all and don't fully understand the reality of what you are suggesting.
And so you send your sick kid to school because of making money
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01-31-2022, 01:27 PM #39404
Cough yes, runny nose yes, documented fever big fat NO! My youngest is in the 12th grade,, Oldest is in college. Neither was ever sent to school with a fever of even 1 degree. Both were sent home immediately when they went to the office sick and a fever was detected
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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01-31-2022, 01:29 PM #39405
If my kids have symptoms of a cold, flu, etc., they don’t go to school. I feel lucky to have a job with flexibility. In past years, and possibly this year, I have taken unpaid leave because of multiple sick kiddo days. Our family is lucky that I am the only one with seasonal allergies.
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01-31-2022, 01:36 PM #39406
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01-31-2022, 02:39 PM #39407
I must be immunocompromised, as is my entire family, because it seems nearly 50% of the days either I or my under 5 daycare kids wake up with a cough or runny nose. Before I had kids in day care I was one of those guys who seemed to go decades without being sick. My doctor friend in Bellingham jokes that her toddler was sick for an entire year after starting day care. We call them snot nosed rugrats for a reason.
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01-31-2022, 02:40 PM #39408Registered User
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For comparison, should we also review the many times that you only post a picture of a sweatshirt as your retort when others are making points to further the conversation, but you don't agree with, so they must be untrue and mocked? Pot, meet kettle. In the same thread
Is it just me or are the Boomers the biggest hypocrites? It's like there is zero inflection to their thoughts and actions and their decades of control is slowly starting to show on a macro level around the globe.
The boomer driven dire state of our economy (a skilled manufacturing economy....Gutted and reworked to a service based economy), wage stagnation in the workforce (Since the 1970's!), outsourcing literally everything important overseas because profits, the crumbling environment, and government debt (with interest) that they willfully foisted onto their grandkids.
Your generation helped create this shitty world as we know it.
RE: The kids. Again, boomers have no idea what childcare is like when both parents have careers. The era of having a single earner household are over for most Americans (see wage stagnation above), because buying a house and living expenses nowadays require both parents to get out there and make ends meet.
If COVID does anything beneficial to society as a whole, make it so that these boomer's ideals die with them.Last edited by Asspen; 01-31-2022 at 03:02 PM.
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01-31-2022, 02:52 PM #39409Registered User
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01-31-2022, 03:14 PM #39410
I, for one, think that Harry is personally responsible for 60years of cumulative sins and missteps of the boomer generation. Very reasonable. I mean, couldn't you have called someone or spoken with the generation manger?
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01-31-2022, 03:19 PM #39411Registered User
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01-31-2022, 03:20 PM #39412Registered User
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Is it wrong to want a world where a guy punching the clock doing skilled work at a manufacturing facility can be the sole breadwinner for a family, purchase a house, and get raises and promotions to stay with the same company for 30+ years? O yea healthcare and 401k included.
God damn you old fucks had it easy.
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01-31-2022, 03:26 PM #39413
OTOH, we've partially dug our own hole. A lot of those guys made due with a 1,200 square foot house and one car. They didn't pay thousands per year for their kids to participate on "elite" sports teams, take expensive vacations or spend hundreds of $ per month for internet, phone and TV.
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01-31-2022, 03:26 PM #39414
I'm a GenX snotnose. But while we are pining, how about a 401K and a pension. Shit, I had one from my first legit job. What was customary and expected workwise has eroded over the years, but most of that has fuckall to do with COVID and even less to do with life-long skier Harry. Except the island bit, we can keep positive people there in quarantine.
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01-31-2022, 03:27 PM #39415
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01-31-2022, 03:28 PM #39416
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01-31-2022, 03:30 PM #39417Registered User
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01-31-2022, 03:40 PM #39418
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01-31-2022, 03:40 PM #39419Registered User
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01-31-2022, 03:42 PM #39420
Enforcement wouldn't be easy--we'd have to subsidize businesses hiring security guards (if they can be found--maybe use the money saved by defunding the police to hire all the out of work cops), but mostly it would be like speeding--your chances of getting caught are low but high enough and consequences bad enough to keep average speeds down. I'd rather spend money "encouraging" people to get shots than to say home from not getting them.
I wouldn't be closing schools or doing much testing. I'd assume that everyone is being exposed. if you're sick get tested and stay home until you're better. Period. That's for Omicron. When the variant as dangerous as MERS shows up things change.
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01-31-2022, 03:43 PM #39421Registered User
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01-31-2022, 03:46 PM #39422
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01-31-2022, 03:49 PM #39423Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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