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Covfefe-19: Do What Now?

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Slap Shot said:
Wasn't there a story out not long about suggesting the majority of CEOs are sociopaths?
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21%

(P)sychopathic behavior in the general population is about one in a 100. What’s a little disturbing in this study is that not only are 21 percent of corporate executives psychopathic, but so is the same percentage of prison inmates.

Also disturbing: this isn’t the first time researchers have noted psychopathic tendencies among senior executives. In research also reported by The Telegraph a few years ago, a psychologist warned of a growing number of “triadic persons” in the workplace who combine three types of dysfunctional personalities among white-collar workers: psychopath, Machiavellian, and narcissist. Such people, he warned “have a dangerous, yet effective mix of a lack of empathy, self-centeredness, deviousness and self-regard which can propel them to the top of the organizations.”
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I've never read a better description of Dump.
 
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Kepler said:
find something for you to do that's insanely horrible but necessary or just push you out the airlock, because there's no changing you.
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Of personal interest: what's the most horrible job to hold in 2020 outside of enslavement by another person (including as VPOTUS or cabinet member)? Sometimes if I'm having a rough day I think of these guys (see 10th pic down). What's even worse?
 
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geezer said:
Of personal interest: what's the most horrible job to hold in 2020 outside of enslavement by another person (including as VPOTUS or cabinet member)? Sometimes if I'm having a rough day I think of these guys (see 10th pic down). What's even worse?
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I keep this link on my desktop at work. Whenever I feel the least bit sorry for myself I click it.

Slavery never ended. It was just optimized under capitalism.
 
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geezer said:
Of personal interest: what's the most horrible job to hold in 2020 outside of enslavement by another person (including as VPOTUS or cabinet member)? Sometimes if I'm having a rough day I think of these guys (see 10th pic down). What's even worse?
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I would rather do that than be Trump's ballwasher.

At least that's an honest living.
 
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Rumor going around down here we are all stuck after midnight but no real facts to back it up.

Oh and my gf used to work with sociopaths in her old job and they are everywhere. Most are decent people but yeah they are all over the place.
 
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WisconsinWildcard said:
Speaking specifically of the testing in Cleveland which is the only place I have more knowledge than just internet "knowledge", the vast majority tested are those with signs or known exposure to a Covid-19 patient with a priority for those in health care. This is not a representative sample but honestly I could propose reasons for both under and over estimation with this when applied to the general public to try to estimate overall prevalence.

I agree that broader testing at this point is essential, however I just do not think the capability is there yet from what I am seeing when the rubber hits the road. I personally have no control over that so I try not to worry to much about that and am just trying to give some context to some of the numbers that are being thrown around. The testing will help us model better however the fact remains that "common sense" precautions are still quite high yield and in our control. Wash you hands. Don't touch your face. Limit public exposure as much as safely possible. If you are sick, stay the **** home regardless if it is Covid-19 or not.
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We are ramping up drive thru testing here. I had to call the info line (manned by an OR nurse who told me they are all OR nurses because they have shut down the OR for the most part). Mass Docs show, once again, they are more interested in protecting their turf than in providing timely and appropriate care. Only physicians are allowed to fax an order to get the test. So they will let us declare people dead in places they don't feel like going (long term care, homes) but they want to be able to keep us from doing something that allows people to be tested. W T F
rufus said:
I would rather do that than be Trump's ballwasher.

At least that's an honest living.
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I now have an image stuck in my head and there is not enough disinfectant available to wash my brain.
 
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Kepler said:
I keep this link on my desktop at work. Whenever I feel the least bit sorry for myself I click it.

Slavery never ended. It was just optimized under capitalism.
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Those are the people I was thinking of with the slavery exception (along with Liam Neeson's daughter et al in that one movie). What about work that people willingly stick with?
I met a guy in Panama whose job it was, for 30 years, to try to identify human remains (as a US Army contractor). That dude was telling me how much he could find out from like, a piece of arm or a torso... he was suffering deep inside.
He also had some amazing photos of what jaguars do to people. Really makes you think twice about going into the jungle.
 
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Holy crap. My company is now making their own sanitizer for internal use to protect the rest of the supply chain because the commercial supply chain for it has completely frozen or has been claimed as part of emergency declarations. We're modifying existing processes to produce it.

This is fantastic news. Supply chains are starting to evolve creative solutions.
 
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I've got a 20 pack (partial) of 3M N95 masks sitting here next to my desk for woodshop work. After reading about the doc in CT who drove 3 hours to fetch 10 of these, I'm wondering if I should steal them and send them to someone as a donation, wait for the virus to hit locally, or hide them for my actual job. I've had a couple people eyeing them up, possibly with ebay in mind.
 
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Minnesota had over 100,000 new unemployment applications this week. Previous all-time record was 36,000. Over 85% of these people have never applied before.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This question was a set up for him to go "rah rah, we'll overcome this and will be stronger for it, blah." Instead, he went on an insane rant about how Peter Alexander (whose co-worker just DIED from COVID-19) and Comcast (which our child president called "concast") are bad.</p>— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1241046233432670208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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