MrSilverMaC

Two weeks ago my company sent out a questionnaire to each employee asking if we were vaccinated. Dude in my department making at least somewhere between 110-130k (in phoenix, which is equivalent to about 160k in d.c money), not counting bonuses, will suddenly be leaving his position next week. No two week notice. I don’t know for sure but assume the two are related. He is the only one out of a group of 10 of us.

The issue with Dems isn’t messaging. It’s that their platform asks you to aspire to give a ****. Give a **** about your fellow man, the environment, animals, beautiful places. The Republicans appeal to the lowest common denominator. It’s easier to not give a ****. Their platform of preying on the intellectually lazy appeals to a population dominated by the intellectually lazy. they win because they aren’t trying to fight human nature. All they have to do is make you believe someone will take what is yours and they’re halfway there.

I’m curious who the scapegoat will be if it goes south for anyone. I doubt people that deep into qtardism/trumpism/denial will own up to the role they played. I’m sorry for your wife. Those are people she cares about regardless of their politics/ideology.

Maybe I’m misreading what Shannon Watts is saying above, but there is no such thing as being a felon in one state and not being prohibited in another state from owning a firearm. Unless Illinois reinstated his rights and she isn’t aware of the restoration or doesn’t understand how buying a gun works. That’s either a failure in judgement by Illinois, a failure by the ATF, or the “private party” loophole, not Idaho. In any case, assuming the rest of what she wrote is correct, that guy was a ****bag and should’ve been prohibited from owning a firearm for exhibiting obvious aggressive predatory tendencies.

Holy ****. How’s your wife taking it?

I hate the braves with a passion, but generally only because of how good they were in the 90’s and very early 2000’s. All I remember as a kid was them beating the Dodgers for the west every year and their ridiculously good pitching staff. I hate the astros with a passion for being cheating, unrepentant, scumbags that stole a w.s from my team. …. Go braves….

I expect the cops, firefighters, and military personnel being terminated over their refusal to get vaccinated to be the bedrock of the wave of very deadly domestic terrorism I expect in the next few years. The longer our federal and state governments take to address the radicalized far right in earnest, the worse it’ll be.

I mean, at least the Dodgers suspended him and will likely cut him after the year is over. The vast majority of Dodgers fans/players want him gone like 6 months ago. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sun-Bonds-Tells-Court-Barry-Beat-Her-Often-3018220.php how long did giants fans turn out to cheer baseballs most notorious cheater and first ballot all-world asshole? Sf’s front office sure was Johny-on-the-spot cutting such an obvious scumbag and team cancer…

Epic game 131 years in the making.

So the giants are the guys wearing Dodger stuff?

Now that is a reason to recall his ass.

I feel like that article doesn’t outline just how bad it’s been in just the last few weeks. Of the 100k over the last 3 months they are writing about, 52k have died in just the last 4 weeks. In my head I keep going back to the article you posted with what appears to be a Flawed University of Washington model, and my initial response. Thank god it hasn’t been as bad as I feared but it’s been way worse than they predicted. The 28 daily average, according to the JHU tracker, has crept up to ~1864. At that rate we’ll hit the 730k mark they predicted for December 1st by Oct 17th. Just 15 days from now. If this rate holds til the end of the year we will be just under 870k by December 31st which is 90 days from now. I don’t know that it will, but I see at least 2 more likely spikes; Halloween and Thanksgiving. The thanksgiving one might be real bad if people insist on hitting malls and other stores like everything was ok. That would push the number even higher.

Today is exactly 28 days since the article with the UW model predicting just under 100k additional people dead by the 1st of December. We were supposed to peak at 1500 a day in mid September. In just 28 days, according to the jhu tracker, 48,974 people have died. A daily average of ~1750 people a day. At that pace it will be just under 160k by December 1st. It’s possible that the cases taper off and the rate goes down. I really hope so. But reading the tweets and article about ivermectin/nebulizing peroxide/hospice above I think it’s more likely the case count goes down while the death rate goes up due to people not going to the hospital and a thinning of the anti-vax/right wing base. We’re probably all the way through the Labor Day spike, but Halloween and colder weather are just around the corner. If the current average holds we’ll reach the forecasted 100k by Oct 25th.

Yeah, total including covid makes way more sense. It’s still an incredible number though.

That can’t be right. That’s 4x the number I have seen them report for their total covid deaths including 2021. Not that I’d put it past them to purposely under report their 2020 numbers for trump’s sake. Maybe they mean all other deaths + covid? Even that is an incredible number.

To take an even longer view, Johns Hopkins has a running 28 day death total. The average for the last 28 days is at 1549. That’s a jump of almost 70 just from the average yesterday.

I though this was hilarious in one of the responses: “You’re a racist baby and Branch Covidian”

Maybe you’re right. It’s completely possible that working in phoenix skews my perception of the situation. I really hope so. But what I’m seeing is that Texas hasn’t peaked yet. I’m not sure the south in general has. Arizona hasn’t even entered the conversation for this spike even though the dip**** running the state has handcuffed the cities and won’t let them institute mask mandates, won’t mandate it himself, and has done the same to our schools in imitation of Florida and Texas. I don’t know about California’s large cities, but their rural areas are feeling it. We have labor day next Monday which I’m sure will result in huge gatherings, and I promise all the “christians” will be rarin’ to have their Halloween parties and send their kids trick or treating. To me, 100k seems like wishful thinking. As horrible as that sounds.

That seems like a very conservative model to me. December 1st is about 100 days away and given that the average has been over 1k a day for at least the last two weeks, I believe, hitting at least 100k is basically guaranteed. With the lemmings showing no signs of reigning in their suicidal urges, that average is going to climb to over 3k, and maybe 4K, a day at some point in the not too distant future. The holidays are their extra justification for traveling around the country to gather in large maskless groups and be a spike unto itself. Just going off what I see in Phoenix every day, I’d say we’ll be lucky to not hit 200k +. maybe 1/10 people I see there wear a mask in any given situation. I’m really starting to believe covid is the gop leaders’ way of combating climate change.

You try to wrap what you say in a clever cloak of “reasonable”, but the problem you are running into here is that guise has been played out by better trolls. You’re getting the blowback you’re getting because people here who have done their part by wearing masks, quarantining, and getting vaccinated are tired of losing people and having their lives turned upside down due to ignorance, willful or otherwise. That last part of what I quoted, for me at least, is exhibit “a” that you’re a bull****ter. Dip**** morons on the right always trying to attribute the massive increase in deaths across the world to something other than covid. “They were fat”, “they had a weak immune system”, “they were old”, and whatever other stupid convenient **** you can grasp at. Sometimes it’s supposed to be a joke, sometimes serious, but always blaming on anything else other than covid. The number of people lost will be ONLY 700k-800k (if we’re lucky) by the end of the year and somehow trumpies, incels, anti-vaxxers, russian trolls, religious terrorists, and general idiots will find a way to attribute that extraordinary increase in death in anything ranging from arthritis to Zika. But keep trying to play the “offended innocent” role you’re working on, I’m sure everyone will start to believe you’re just a “good guy with a few questions” any post now.

Florida is America’s syphilitic penis, so it seems pretty fitting. They should make it their official state animal.

https://apple.news/ARCk-Oe3KQ-e1ZjCBxFYbDw MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule. A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data. As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the devastation wrought by the pandemic, the research raises urgent questions about the risks of attempting to simply return to the pre-pandemic ‘normal.’ In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources. The controversial MIT analysis generated heated debate, and was widely derided at the time by pundits who misrepresented its findings and methods. But the analysis has now received stunning vindication from a study written by a senior director at professional services giant KPMG, one of the 'Big Four' accounting firms as measured by global revenue. Limits to growth The study was published in the Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology in November 2020 and is available on the KPMG website. It concludes that the current business-as-usual trajectory of global civilization is heading toward the terminal decline of economic growth within the coming decade—and at worst, could trigger societal collapse by around 2040. The study represents the first time a top analyst working within a mainstream global corporate entity has taken the ‘limits to growth’ model seriously. Its author, Gaya Herrington, is Sustainability and Dynamic System Analysis Lead at KPMG in the United States. However, she decided to undertake the research as a personal project to understand how well the MIT model stood the test of time. The study itself is not affiliated or conducted on behalf of KPMG, and does not necessarily reflect the views of KPMG. Herrington performed the research as an extension of her Masters thesis at Harvard University in her capacity as an advisor to the Club of Rome. However, she is quoted explaining her project on the KPMG website as follows: “Given the unappealing prospect of collapse, I was curious to see which scenarios were aligning most closely with empirical data today. After all, the book that featured this world model was a bestseller in the 70s, and by now we’d have several decades of empirical data which would make a comparison meaningful. But to my surprise I could not find recent attempts for this. So I decided to do it myself.” Titled ‘Update to limits to growth: Comparing theWorld3 model with empirical data’, the study attempts to assess how MIT’s ‘World3’ model stacks up against new empirical data. Previous studies that attempted to do this found that the model’s worst-case scenarios accurately reflected real-world developments. However, the last study of this nature was completed in 2014. The risk of collapse Herrington’s new analysis examines data across 10 key variables, namely population, fertility rates, mortality rates, industrial output, food production, services, non-renewable resources, persistent pollution, human welfare, and ecological footprint. She found that the latest data most closely aligns with two particular scenarios, ‘BAU2’ (business-as-usual) and ‘CT’ (comprehensive technology). “BAU2 and CT scenarios show a halt in growth within a decade or so from now,” the study concludes. “Both scenarios thus indicate that continuing business as usual, that is, pursuing continuous growth, is not possible. Even when paired with unprecedented technological development and adoption, business as usual as modelled by LtG would inevitably lead to declines in industrial capital, agricultural output, and welfare levels within this century.” Study author Gaya Herrington told Motherboard that in the MIT World3 models, collapse “does not mean that humanity will cease to exist,” but rather that “economic and industrial growth will stop, and then decline, which will hurt food production and standards of living… In terms of timing, the BAU2 scenario shows a steep decline to set in around 2040.” … more at link. sorry for any crappy formatting, it’s pasted from apple news.

You could buy nice busts of Lincoln, Grant, Tubman, and Douglas and donate it to the city. I hear they have a recent need for art depicting civil war heroes.

I agree with it being an I.Q test, but I also think it’s a test of our humanity. That being said, I don’t think it’s necessarily that I’m more caring. Maybe just looking at it from a different perspective. I guess where I’m coming from on this is that the most gullible/dumbest among us have been purposely mislead for the benefit such a small, malignant few. People who most likely would have otherwise gotten vaccinated and been safe have plugged their ears and behaved like idiot kids. But their behavior didn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s the result of decades of misinformation. If the scenario was different and their choice wasn’t due to political stupidity, I would find it much less difficult to be empathetic. I feel bad for old people who fall victim to dumb scams, I’m just having a hard time feeling bad for these people. Regardless of why they’ve chosen the beliefs they have, we’re still losing people, and most of them leave a hole in someone’s life that will remain forever.

When I read the quote below, I feel like I am failing the test of being a decent human-being. I am having such a hard time not thinking they’ve earned where they are at instead of reserving judgement, let alone feeling compassion, for their situation. I’m sorry I feel that way. I’m sorry that the country is so divided that empathy for them is a struggle for me. I’m mad that their willful ignorance puts people I care about at risk. I’m mad that people who know better would rather lie and make the situation worse to further their ambitions than to admit an inconvenient truth. We’re about 1k deaths away from having lost more people to covid than the top 4 wars in our history combined. 606000+ dead Americans. 4 million+ world wide, and these people are surprised to find out it’s real… That it’s not some elaborate ****ing hoax that somehow the Democrats managed to convinced the entire rest of the world to join in on. If only someone had told them it was real, they would have gotten vaccinated… God help me, please.