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1 minute ago, UND1983 said:
Without those billion dollar companies that, yes, are run poorly apparently - where do people work?
Why are there only two options? Why do we just accept horribly run companies as necessary? Why do we need to bail out airline companies a decade after doing it last time? Because they took advantage of the help offered. It was "me first" to them and their shareholders.
The cruise companies that flag their ships outside of the US to avoid paying US taxes don't deserve a bailout to keep them afloat.
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6 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
So the government should just print a bunch of dollar bills and pass them out like Easter candy? Why didn’t we think of that sooner?
Fortunately, there are plenty of other ways to provide for people in a time like this and none of them involve billion dollar payouts to companies that have shown they don't care about their employees.
It's incredible how predictable the responses from the Fox news watching contingent are.
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4 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
I’m confused, southpaw. On one hand, you want me to stay at home for like the next decade to help “flatten the curve” and on the other hand, you are mocking a $1,200 payment from the federal government for doing exactly what I’m told.
The next decade? That's cute. Stop acting like a couple months is forever.
I'm mocking the $1,200 because it's a one time payment that doesn't even cover rent or mortgage for a lot of people. It should be more and it should be regular until stores and restaurants are open again.
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16 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Why would anybody go back to work when they can get nearly as much or more than they were making before?
It's very telling that your first reaction is to claim people are going to abuse the system. The true American way... me first.
You know there are requirements to collect unemployment? Those wouldn't disappear. Just as the $600 a week isn't forever, neither world additional monetary support.
I can imagine this scenario playing out "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to accept just a fraction of your salary, despite losing your job through no fault of your own. But there's someone who normally makes $13 an hour and under this system, they'd actually make $14. So instead, we will screw everyone else. "
Remember, the boogeyman is just a story, not everyday life.
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11 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Entitlements are the answer? That will really get the economy up and running.
You may want to double check who pushed through the $600 a week bonus for all unemployed workers.
What you call entitlements, I call support for people who lost their job due to no fault of their own.
I know who pushed through the $600 and that's the point. Without them, there would have been nothing extra as evidence by those officials saying the extra should be taken away. It's still not enough but that's how compromise works these days.
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Curious if Perunovich had been suspended for that horrible hit from behind, if that would have affected voting. That was textbook suspension worthy in the NCHC.
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19 hours ago, UND1983 said:
Do you want this to get as bad as the models say it's going to and to drag out into the fall? Interested in your angle.
No, I want Americans to start realizing significant changes to the entire system need to be made.
In 2009-10, 12,500 people died in the U.S. from H1N1. What did we learn from that? Clearly nothing, as that many people have died from Covid in the last week.
When there needs to be a swift response, many people were lazy to react and the models bore that out. Now that most states are on board, we are going to see those effects in a couple of weeks. The ones that acted quickly are already seeing their numbers flatten.
The US system isn't designed to care for the average worker. MM loses his job, and that sucks, but what support does he have when that happens? The government shut things down, so the government should provide for those impacted.
We are all going to get a $1,200 check. Those who lost their jobs will get unemployment and an extra $600 per week.
How can the often self-proclaimed "greatest country in the world" only manage to help Americans with a tiny sum of financial support? The small businesses that have had to lay off employees and may not survive this, are getting road blocks left and right.
Corporations that spent millions using the 2008 bailouts to buy back their stock are getting bailed out again, because why? Do we really need to save another horribly run airline that overcharges customers yet gives executives multi-million dollar bonuses each year?
There are thousands of people in Texas trying to get food, while farmers in Wisconsin are dumping out milk because they can't sell it. In what world does that make sense? Only in one where it's always "me first," whether that's an individual who won't bother to stay at home because of "freedom," or a company that lays off thousands of employees because you gotta keep those shareholders happy and you can't dare lose money for a quarter or two, to the politicians who would rather give handouts to the companies that donated to their campaigns than the people that actually do the voting, to the President who is more concerned about the Stock Market and the ratings of his daily pressers than saving the lives of Americans.
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Despite the pandemic, some states are seeing fewer deaths from car accidents and crime: https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/11/michigan-death-down-in-march-despite-coronavirus/5120360002/
Michigan averages 8,500 deaths in March over the last 5 years. This year, they have just 6,000. 259 of those were Covid related.
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13 hours ago, MafiaMan said:
You know what else is shocking? My severance package from Forum Communications.
I'm sure that $1,200 stimulus check will tide you over.
At least someone is out there "buying votes" by offering more than the basic unemployment benefit for those who lost their jobs.
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2 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
On behalf of the 30M+ that will be unemployed in the next 3-4 weeks and the every changing models that got us into this mess please accept my/our apologies.
It's shocking that the models have changed a couple of weeks after social distancing was enacted.
Fyi, your Aids/HIV mortality rate is still lower than Covid.
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It's a good thing this is over and everyone's healthy.
At the start of this thread you said the flu is more of a concern, when was the last time the flu killed more than 1,900 people in the US for 5 consecutive days?
Sicatoka told us to look at the numbers because the rate of death for those under 60 was so much worse for the flu (hint, it's not).
It's good we can see all the posts from when this thread started to see how epically wrong people have been.
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14 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
June could be too late for the Summit as the Summit must do things before adding or it might delay UST one years. A nonDI team must be offered by June 1.
The Summit League has already accepted St Thomas contingent on the waiver approval.
There are extenuating circumstances which would allow them to move up for 2021.
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20 hours ago, Nodak78 said:
supplies are tight but no substantiated claims of not being supplied.
Hospital workers are literally wearing garbage bags because there's not enough PPEs. That's the definition of not being supplied.
Colorado ordered 500 ventilators that the feds seized. The state recieved just 20% of those. The government is taking supplies from the states.
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14 hours ago, MafiaMan said:
Are we Italy yet? I’ve been told it’s any second now. And since I don’t have a job anymore, I have a lot of time to kill waiting.
The US passed Italy today for total deaths from Covid 19, so no, we're not Italy.
We're #1!
If New York was a country, it would have the 6 most deaths in the world.
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32 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Jobless claims at 6.61M today. New record. Roughly 16.5M out of work since this crisis started. Real life lives being destroyed.
Let this soak in...1100 times as many people have lost their jobs vs those that have died from COVID as of this morning.
What's the acceptable number of deaths from this? What actions do you think should have been taken and in what places?
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Germany does know how to do at least one more thing right: every healthcare worker is receiving a free case of beer on their way home from work.
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7 hours ago, as15 said:
They hold their rights for 4 years from draft day, or until after they leave college, the quote I put was from the NHL draft site and their are literally hundreds of examples of the scenario occurring where a drafted player plays a year of juniors after getting drafted and then plays 4 years of college. NHL teams will hold your rights until Aug. 15 after your last year of college, at which point you'd become a free agent.
Exactly. For players who were drafted and played two years of juniors, they could then officially declare after their sophomore year that they're no longer going to be a student. Wait until mid August and they're now a free agent.
However, if they choose to play for 3 or 4 years of college, the NHL team would still have their rights up until August 15 of the last year they play. -
2 minutes ago, Walsh Hall said:
Shh... we have a "medical expert" posting this morning.
Oh wait, that's right @keikla stopped posting in these threads.
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1 minute ago, UND1983 said:
Minnesota has 73,966 deaths to go to reach the fear-based prediction that their super-smart Governor laid out for everyone.
Fortunately, it's over and everyone is healthy now.
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1 minute ago, UND1983 said:
Fear porn is no way to live your life.
I'm not afraid of getting it. I'm afraid of spreading it to someone who is too weak to survive it.
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3 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Maybe not in Germany.
Literally from the Chair of the New York City Council Health Committe:
An estimated additional 180 - 195 deaths per day occurring at home in New York City due to COVID-19 are not being counted in the official figures. "Early on in this crisis we were able to swab people who died at home, and thus got a coronavirus reading. But those days are long gone. We simply don't have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic," said Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee [source]
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1 minute ago, UND1983 said:
It's becoming clear that this is going to go down as the biggest overblown, farce in the history of this great country. Many people said it from the beginning and are going to be proven correct. Yet others are going to be left defending it, saying "what could've been".
I said it last month and I will say it again: this would not have played out the way it did, or anything close, if it wasn't an election year with the most hated incumbent in history on the ballot.
Just shy of 2,000 people died yesterday in the U.S. Factor in it's about a 17 day delay between feeling symptoms and death and the U.S. isn't even close to out of the woods, yet.
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4 minutes ago, UND1983 said:
Would be interested in an answer to this from all those that get their 5G talking points from CNN.
There aren't enough tests for the living, so testing the dead has been put on the sideline. As was posted above, those who die and haven't been tested positive also aren't being counted.
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26 minutes ago, MafiaMan said:
What was “controversial” about it? Are you suggesting that Governor Evers executive order suspending the election was somehow allowable under the Wisconsin Constitution?
Getting back to the 5G topic at hand, instead of you defending any and all Fox News crazy talking points...
Let's say my G6 airplane crashes and I'm taken to the hospital in pretty bad shape. No guarantee I'll recover, but also no guarantee I'll die. Then, while in the hospital, I overdose on sizzurp and die. Which would go down as the cause of death on my death certificate?
All those people that die of the flu every year, do we think they didn't have underlying health issues? They still go down as a death from the flu.
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Not being able to do quick math on live TV isn't the worst offense there is. Stupid, yes but there's lots of stupid people who are good at talking on TV.
And I agree the Kennedy Center shouldn't have recieved that extra funding.