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This whole thing is about to turn ugly. The virus itself, along with the entire political backdrop at the Federal level and State level, and at each of our individual jobs, depending on what side your employer is aligned with.
 
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Saintaholic said:




This whole thing is about to turn ugly. The virus itself, along with the entire political backdrop at the Federal level and State level.
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Yep. Those trying to keep this apolitical are just fighting a losing battle (and one I'm not sure I see value in any longer). It's all part of the same mess at this point. Can't deny it.
 
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This whole thing is about to turn ugly. The virus itself, along with the entire political backdrop at the Federal level and State level, and at each of our individual jobs, depending on what side your employer is aligned with.
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It's also aligned by how your financial interests align with being shut down. My family will be fine - my business carries on just fine from home (I WFH prior to this anyway), and my wife works in a hospital. However if I were a hotel valet and my wife was a bartender, I'd probably be pretty damned anxious to get things fired back up.
 
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It's also aligned by how your financial interests align with being shut down. My family will be fine - my business carries on just fine from home (I WFH prior to this anyway), and my wife works in a hospital. However if I were a hotel valet and my wife was a bartender, I'd probably be pretty damned anxious to get things fired back up.
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Its seems that most businesses in my area are not taking this serious and are making people come to work. Other than the restaurant and hospitality sector its business as usual. They will say you don't have to come in but in reality you won't get paid and will probably get fired. I hope things get better.
 
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Yep. Those trying to keep this apolitical are just fighting a losing battle (and one I'm not sure I see value in any longer). It's all part of the same mess at this point. Can't deny it.
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Not really, we have a place to go for political discussion. There will certainly be some touching on politics here, but its gonna be limited.
 
I don't know about us being "open". The parks around me are all closed. Down towns were ghost towns. My kids haven't been outside, other than to take the trash out (or the one who had to go to work twice.. the second time was to inventory the closed store). My wife has only been out to go get groceries 3 times in two weeks. I had our first deliveries. She's working from home. I stayed home yesterday. At work today and haven't been closer than 6-10 feet to anyone. We sanitize the high contact areas nightly.

And remember, total lock down by its self wasn't the best answer. Social distancing with approx 25% of people possibly interacting or ignoring it (going off what I think that WaPo article said weeks ago) was a lot better, and 12.5% was best.


Having kids out, and a lot of people working from home, or keeping their distance and better washing habbits will help a lot.

We probably need to adopt the whole Asian mask deal though. Prevent those spreaders from spreading.

A percentage of stupid people will always be there, and so long as we can isolate them after they get symptoms, the damage, while done, won't break out too far.

The focus needs to be on as many as possible staying home and following stricter social interaction guidelines, washing up better, and allowing people who are sick to STAY HOME AND NOT WORRY ABOUT PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE OR PAY THEIR RENT!!!!! (that's the Government responsibility.. with some corporate). Anyone that does stock buy backs after this should be drawn and quartered.
 
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I don't know about us being "open". The parks around me are all closed. Down towns were ghost towns. My kids haven't been outside, other than to take the trash out (or the one who had to go to work twice.. the second time was to inventory the closed store). My wife has only been out to go get groceries 3 times in two weeks. I had our first deliveries. She's working from home. I stayed home yesterday. At work today and haven't been closer than 6-10 feet to anyone. We sanitize the high contact areas nightly.

And remember, total lock down by its self wasn't the best answer. Social distancing with approx 25% of people possibly interacting or ignoring it (going off what I think that WaPo article said weeks ago) was a lot better, and 12.5% was best.


Having kids out, and a lot of people working from home, or keeping their distance and better washing habbits will help a lot.

We probably need to adopt the whole Asian mask deal though. Prevent those spreaders from spreading.

A percentage of stupid people will always be there, and so long as we can isolate them after they get symptoms, the damage, while done, won't break out too far.

The focus needs to be on as many as possible staying home and following stricter social interaction guidelines, washing up better, and allowing people who are sick to STAY HOME AND NOT WORRY ABOUT PUTTING FOOD ON THE TABLE OR PAY THEIR RENT!!!!! (that's the Government responsibility.. with some corporate). Anyone that does stock buy backs after this should be drawn and quartered.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I thought there was language in the current bill prohibiting stock buybacks for companies receiving bailout money. If it's not in there, it should be.
 
I feel like a broken record. Some politics will be ok in here. Some won't be. Stop the bickering. Stop the political cheer leading. Focus on actions, results, information. Helpful stuff. Anything that gets too deep, may be subject to deletion. By multiple mods/admins and varied political affiliations. No specific politician attacks. No "sides" attacks.

There has been a lot of posts deleted.

I'd also suggest this. Stop having commentary about the discussion and just have the damn discussion. "is this now allowed" "well, since we are allowing this, let me add this". blah blah blah. It's all unhelpful and many of us aren't in the mood to deal with this tripe. We have a bigger issue here folks. Focus on the bigger issue please.

EDIT: Additional Statement. If you find yourself arguing back and forth about something, take it to PM.
 
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I live on a State route outside of town. We're officially on stay at home orders but the traffic out front is steady and has been all day. I think what they consider essential hasn't been drilled down enough if this many people are out driving around.
 
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I live on a State route outside of town. We're officially on stay at home orders but the traffic out front is steady and has been all day. I think what they consider essential hasn't been drilled down enough if this many people are out driving around.
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I'm an accountant and I'm considered essential to my employer. So here I'm in a cubicle around 10 other people working on financial statements.
 
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