Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

Yeah I didn't even look at that thread...

It's somewhere between this one and the one in D1...

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

Someone on gpl is suggesting China engineered it . Yikes

If you're referring to my post, THAT WAS A JOKE, AND SAID SO IN SAID POST.

If not referring to me, carry on.

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

Another poster: You are assuming that their [China] own people won't rise up and make a change.

Me: They tried, and that's when China created the virus, to shut down the protests! It just kinda got outta hand.

KIDDING. DO NOT TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY. THAT WAS A DARK HUMOR JOKE.

This is my exact post/reaction. Just to make it clear.

[WeAreNDHockey]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

YOu know, I was thinking about how this COVID-19 battle is playing out and it struck me in a conversation with a friend last night, these doctors and nurses are doing more than anyone has ever done for our country.

We know the grim statistics on COVID. It's very infectious. 50-100% more contagious than influenza. But it also hides in your system for up to two weeks. You can't know if you've caught it and are already contagious. Symptoms progress fairly slowly and significantly overlap with other common seasonal RSVs. Many people who get it describe it as the most sick they've ever been. It takes weeks to recover. 10-25% are hospitalized. 2-6% are put in the ICU requiring invasive ventilation, which can cause injuries itself. Depending on an infinite number of factors, the overall CFR of 1-4%.

These doctors and nurses are going into battle without adequate PPE. They are risking their lives every day knowing the statistics and seeing every day what their future might hold.

I can’t remember who made the point to me a couple of weeks ago that hospital workers (whatever their equipment shortfalls) go into a situation prepared/trained for the potential for communicable disease. Police don’t, at least not typically.

— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) March 26, 2020

But something else struck me that makes what they're doing particularly courageous. More so than the police and even soldiers, who receive such patriotic adoration in this country. Deservedly so. None of them are risking their families' lives by going into battle or responding to a call. They don't have to worry about putting their wife on the battlefield or having their kids in the car when they get a call for a robbery. These doctors and nurses are doing just that. With something they can't see and don't know if they have it. They're wearing garbage bags and handkerchiefs knowing it's entirely inadequate and likely exposing them. They could die from this, 50 plus already have in Italy. But they're also risking their families lives. But they go in, sacrifice their bodies every day to the point of collapse. Pictures of doctors and nurses who have worn their faces raw, bleeding, from PPE having to wear it for such prolonged periods.

That is some next level courage there.

We put up grand monuments to our soldiers who went into battle and died. Maybe it's time to put one up for those who went in and died for the nation on our own soil.

Inadequate praise though it may be, I say we replace all of our hollow military honors at every sporting event and replace them with honoring the healthcare pros who have been working tirelessly to save people. Often while risking their own lives.

[rufus]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

They will talk about h1n1 and how Obama let people die...been doing it on Twitter for over a week.

Fine by me he is handing Michigan to Biden...

No, they'll say, he's perfectly within reason to be saying this. Why should he go out of his way to help them if all they're gonna do is talk **** about him?

The worst part about this is how Trump is treating this as 50 separate countries he has to help, not all part of America. Like, they're not even Americans. And if you want help, you need to come begging to me and kiss my ***. Like its The Apprentice, and the states are all contestants, battling each other to come up with the winning plan.

It's truly disgusting is what it is. Be proud, Republicans. Killing Americans to own the libs.

And without that leadership from the top down, there's no central knowledge base to refer to, each state on their own is going through the exact same steps, one by one, figuring out the most effective methods and implementing them. And once one does figure it out, the virus pops up in the next state, and that state starts the process all over again, wasting valuable time and resources until they figure it out too.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

If you're referring to my post, THAT WAS A JOKE, AND SAID SO IN SAID POST.

If not referring to me, carry on.

Not referring to you at all! It’s someone else on there.

[The Rube]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

Not referring to you at all! It’s someone else on there.

Gotcha. It's all good.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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NEW from The New York Times Obits desk: Those We've Lost. Lives of the victims of the coronavirus. https://t.co/oxgEhOVU9h pic.twitter.com/k6YDm1VoUB

— John Schwartz (@jswatz) March 27, 2020

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

If you're referring to my post, THAT WAS A JOKE, AND SAID SO IN SAID POST.

If not referring to me, carry on.

I assumed she was talking about Grovetown Scotty.

[state of hockey]

I assumed she was talking about Grovetown Scotty.

Probably. What a nutter.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I assumed she was talking about Grovetown Scotty.

Yes, that one.

Earlier today someone argued there is no gender pay gap on that thread. Bastion of intellect

[joecct]

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Interesting. You'll hate it -- but you shouldn't.

https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/th...upposed-to-say

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

Yes, that one.

Earlier today someone argued there is no gender pay gap on that thread. Bastion of intellect

Here's a good response someone posted...

The wage gap isn’t real. It’s just that men tend to go for higher paying jobs like doctor, engineer, and CEO while women tend to go for lower paying jobs such as woman doctor, woman engineer, and woman CEO

— Wentzylvania�� (@putmeindoug) March 21, 2020

[state of hockey]

Here's a good response someone posted...

The wage gap isn’t real. It’s just that men tend to go for higher paying jobs like doctor, engineer, and CEO while women tend to go for lower paying jobs such as woman doctor, woman engineer, and woman CEO

— Wentzylvania�� (@putmeindoug) March 21, 2020

Valid.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Here's a good response someone posted...

The wage gap isn’t real. It’s just that men tend to go for higher paying jobs like doctor, engineer, and CEO while women tend to go for lower paying jobs such as woman doctor, woman engineer, and woman CEO

— Wentzylvania�� (@putmeindoug) March 21, 2020

That’s clever. I bet the usual two idiots will respond arguing and it gets thread shut down