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Thankfully it seems all the churches are closed today.
In an emergency situation hording bottled water when you don't need it leads to people who need it not having it. It's not that hard to understand.
I won't blame them when we were still being "encouraged to go out despite the coronavirus" by the president himself a week ago. It's no wonder people don't take it seriously when the people in charge just seem to have woken up 2 days ago.Fair enough, but still completely, utterly, irresponsible. Last week end is still terrible.
Toll booths should be free. Passing money and cards around is an enormous transmission vector now.
Stuff like this seems a bit overdramatic considering how many extremely deadly pandemics humanity has already been through. This is going to kill a lot of people, but it's not like it's the plague which may have taken out over 20% of the world's population at the time. Society will make it through this.I think the worst part is that there is no light at the end of this tunnel. Like i dont even know if society as we know it will still exist if there is an end to all of this
Strange, Walmart is completely dead today. Have the panic shoppers finally hoarded their fill?
For christ's sake, I'm not criticizing people for buying bottled water.
I'm telling you that saying things like "I'm not a savage, I won't drink tap water" won't help you at all, because for some of us it isn't a matter of taste or being a savage.
It's almost like the supply chain in connected and if people horde it in one place, other places will have less of it.Don't need it? Bottled water is no Toilet Paper, it is a staple food.
Either:
- tap water is safe to use and drink, and any scenario where a person needs access to water has it available in form of tap water, People buying bottled water have no impact on that.
- tap water is not safe: everyone is in the same boat, they need water for their everyday need and they have to buy it in the store. There are no masses of people hoarding bottled water, it is just the reality of "just-in-time delivery" Stores run out of drinks, but you can buy other beverages or wait a day for them to restock it.
Stuff like this seems a bit overdramatic considering how many extremely deadly pandemics humanity has already been through. This is going to kill a lot of people, but it's not like it's the plague which may have taken out over 20% of the world's population at the time. Society will make it through this.
Stuff like this seems a bit overdramatic considering how many extremely deadly pandemics humanity has already been through. This is going to kill a lot of people, but it's not like it's the plague which may have taken out over 20% of the world's population at the time. Society will make it through this.
Then I am sorry. The savage remark is an in-joke from my office between coffee drinkers and coffee haters.
It seems like French governement will announce total lockdown in a few hours. ?
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Lots of people in Cali are about to freak out because of our stupid crazy temperature changes. We just had weeks of summer weather and now we are heading into a week of rainy winter weather and I already have a runny nose.
I'm trying to see the positive in this pandemic right now, and the more I think and read about it, the more I think this has the potential for systemic change.
The way it looks right now we should expect 60-70% of the populations to get infected. If we want to spread that load on our healthcare system so they can keep up, this will mean months, maybe even years of considerable economic shutdown.
This means that our economic system will pretty much collapse and basic necessity will require us implement a wide array of social system ranging from healthcare, to sick leave, to basic income, to childcare programs etc.
At the same time a lot of industries will simply go bust and require public investments to be revived. A huge opportunity to undo the mistakes of the past and re-nationalize many industries, which will then allow us, on a global level, to make the necessary investments and restructurings that are required to combat climate change.
One of the major reasons political science finds as to way necessary change hasn't occured over the past decades is the prisoners dilemma. A game theoretical concept refering to the fact that every country acting first(invest in green energy, end fossil fuels etc.) is going to suffer a huge disadvantage compared to all the others who don't act. So no one acts.
This massive health and financial crisis now puts basically the entire world into the position of overcoming the prisoner's dilemma by using this crisis as the point in time to make the necessary reforms to set us on a rational path for tackling the problems of the 21st century.
Like in Naomi Klein's shock doctrine. But this time we don't spread even more neoliberal fiscal policy, but undo all this shit again.
Seriously, I think this crisis, as terrible as it is, is also a huge chance for us. There won't be another opportunity to enact widespread systemic reforms as good as this one for at least 2-3 decades.
They're not really storming it like it's the apocalypse, they're just storming it like they may not be able to leave the house for several weeks and they don't want to run out of food. This wave of panic buying is only slightly more intense than what would happen before major hurricanes where I grew up in Florida lol. Like, I don't want to underplay the severity of what this will bring because we're in for some rough years ahead, but it's far from the end of the world. Human history has a lot of rough years.sorry things just seem so fucking dire. And people storming grocery markets like its the apocalypse isnt making me feel any better lol
My friends in Colorado were doing this exact same thing. I'm in LA and I've stayed inside since Friday morning. Well except to walk my dog. I read we are tracking ahead of Italy in terms of infections.I'm really worried about St. Patrick's Day - I know some have been partying this weekend, but I imagine Tuesday night some will be out there partying and increasing the rate of spread. I've tried to convince my circle of friends to stay home as much as possible, and encourage them to tell others too.
The problem is this is a public health concern where everyone needs to play their part. It's not being taken seriously enough by some, so government ought to step in and enforce a shutdown of non-essential places. With the exponential spread, it's like one bad apple can spoil the bunch, and each of those other apples in the bunch have their own bunches they will end up spoiling, and so on...
The landscape is going to change drastically in the next ~2 weeks, where many citizens and those in power will regret the current decisions being made.
Yep. And one of the Apollo 13 astronauts was replaced with an alternate because they thought he MIGHT be getting sick (though he ultimately didn't).NASA WOULD CANCEL THE MOON LANDING IF THE ASTRONAUTS GOT SICK, YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER!
My wife and I have tried. It's not working. One responded this is what the global elites wants to harm trump (????)
Eww gross
Is this all districts in erie county or just Buffalo? My mom is a teacher at Clarence and last I heard from her they are still open.My kids school district in Buffalo area is closed until further notice.
In Germany we are already debating nationalization of several industries. (And idea brought forward by our minister of economic affairs and energy, a member of the center right CDU, Merkels Party)Unfortunately none of that will happen unless everyone in charge straight up die. I get your line of thought but there's way too much money involved.
You have the US trying to straight up buy/poach the lab/vaccine from Germany, we ain't changing.
I hope.. It's necessary.
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It seems like French governement will announce total lockdown in a few hours. ?
My kids school district in Buffalo area is closed until further notice.
In Germany we are already debating nationalization of several industries. (And idea brought forward by our minister of economic affairs and energy, a member of the center right CDU, Merkels Party)
My point is that there will simply not be a way around these measures. They question whether we want to go back to the system we had before once the crisis is over. Or if we keep iterating on the system we had to build.
They need to.
Here's Paris today despite the recommendations to stay at home:
Is this all districts in erie county or just Buffalo? My mom is a teacher at Clarence and last I heard from her they are still open.
Should I continue to order food as normal to help support local businesses and my stomach? Before they're locked down entirely?
(SF bay area)