Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

[MichVandal]

Denialist and Proud Boy dies of COVID. Dude claimed he was "naturally resistant. "

https://snbc13.com/aaron-laigaie-mt-baker-proud-boys-co-founder-has-died-of-covid19-death-obituary/

A few days ago, I tried to go through the math of the death rates- man the data is hard to get that is clean and easy to use. At least the CDC data.

But the in your head math: 20% of the population isn't vaccinated- so call it 66M people. And based on what I can see, the annual deaths is somewhere around 100-120k of that population. Extrapolate that to the whole population, that's 500-600k dead every year. Which is to say that COVID is right there as the leading cause of death for the unvaccinated.

Not quite as bad when it was 700-1000k in the dark days. But it's still really, really bad. Easily so bad to warrant massive amounts of regulation or research for other causes of death.

Not sure if that's accurate or not- but interesting.

 

[ticapnews]

A few days ago, I tried to go through the math of the death rates- man the data is hard to get that is clean and easy to use. At least the CDC data.

But the in your head math: 20% of the population isn't vaccinated- so call it 66M people. And based on what I can see, the annual deaths is somewhere around 100-120k of that population. Extrapolate that to the whole population, that's 500-600k dead every year. Which is to say that COVID is right there as the leading cause of death for the unvaccinated.

Not quite as bad when it was 700-1000k in the dark days. But it's still really, really bad. Easily so bad to warrant massive amounts of regulation or research for other causes of death.

Not sure if that's accurate or not- but interesting.

But what we'll hear from the government and corporate media is "No one wants to work anymore," not "The person who used to do this job is dead."

 

[MichVandal]

But what we'll hear from the government and corporate media is "No one wants to work anymore," not "The person who used to do this job is dead."

Well, it's not as if the former isn't true. I didn't want to work anymore and quit.

Although that's been in the works for 25 years for that specific time.

 

[Handyman]

But what we'll hear from the government and corporate media is "No one wants to work anymore," not "The person who used to do this job is dead."

Both are true.

Where the media will be wrong in is forgetting about all the conservative deaths in the 2024 election. I believe after the midterms the GOP was lamenting about a million less votes than they were expecting and can't seem to figure out why. The media seems confused as well...by my count it will be even worse in 22 months or so...

 

[Kepler]

Where the media will be wrong in is forgetting about all the conservative deaths in the 2024 election. I believe after the midterms the GOP was lamenting about a million less votes than they were expecting and can't seem to figure out why. The media seems confused as well...by my count it will be even worse in 22 months or so...

"Stay the course."

 

[MichVandal]

Both are true.

Where the media will be wrong in is forgetting about all the conservative deaths in the 2024 election. I believe after the midterms the GOP was lamenting about a million less votes than they were expecting and can't seem to figure out why. The media seems confused as well...by my count it will be even worse in 22 months or so...

Comes back to the question to the conservative media- why are you killing your viewers? That's literally what is happening. The more right the viewer is, the more likely they will die based on what the news is telling them.

An incredibly funny point is right wingers (like Musk) getting the vaccine, reporting how crappy they feel, and telling their minions to NOT get vaccinated. So you go and keep yourself alive, and then make sure the people who worship you die in the exact way you just protected yourself to. What kind of reporting is that?

 

[Kepler]

An incredibly funny point is right wingers (like Musk) getting the vaccine, reporting how crappy they feel, and telling their minions to NOT get vaccinated. So you go and keep yourself alive, and then make sure the people who worship you die in the exact way you just protected yourself to. What kind of reporting is that?

Lucrative.

 

[dxmnkd316]

An incredibly funny point is right wingers (like Musk) getting the vaccine, reporting how crappy they feel, and telling their minions to NOT get vaccinated. So you go and keep yourself alive, and then make sure the people who worship you die in the exact way you just protected yourself to. What kind of reporting is that?

Also funny because that's your workforce, dubmass! Keeping everyone in your company productive is incredibly important. The most important thing to the P&L.

 

[ticapnews]

Well, it's not as if the former isn't true. I didn't want to work anymore and quit.

Although that's been in the works for 25 years for that specific time.

Newsflash: We never WANTED to work; it was required for our continued existence. A more correct way of putting it is: No one is willing to do the job for the poverty wages you're paying.

Lots of pizza and fast food places around here were begging for workers at $13/hour. Amatos offered $17 to start, plus medical, life, 401(k), paid vacation and profit sharing. Guess which one was able to hire people and has remained open throughout the pandemic and is now flourishing?

 

[MichVandal]

Lucrative.

For how long? Your viewership is declining because of your reporting.

 

[Handyman]

For how long? Your viewership is declining because of your reporting.

Viewership will be declining at some point anyways because The Olds are not getting any younger.

ticap,

My buddy had a pizza place and paid the best he could. Dunkin Donuts came in and offered his managers more money than he could afford, better hours (because of how short the workday is) and benefits a small time shop can't offer. That is why he had a pizza place. He wasn't paying crap wages either...he just can't match corporate run stores.

Now, we can all applaud the corporate behemoths or even just larger stores Darwining out the mom and pop shops that probably can't afford to do what the big stores can but in the end that hurts local economies more than it helps. Many of the same people who are happy about all of this are the same people who bitched as Walmart destroyed communities for decades doing much the same business practice. Homogenization destroys character and makes communities less for it. Not to mention it destroys competition...

It is not cut and dry. Not every place that pays lesser wages is doing so to screw over the workers.

 

[MichVandal]

Viewership will be declining at some point anyways because The Olds are not getting any younger.

True, but this is increasing the rate of decline by quite a bit. And instead of trying to put ads out there to make their viewers live longer, it's the opposite. The actual encouragement to increase their threat of death.

Fox should sue the FCC to allow smoking commercials. And then encourage their viewers to smoke. And then possibly tell their viewers to "stick it to the man" and intentionally not wear seatbelts as well as throw away bike helmets. It would have a similar effect, and I'm sure they can make even more short term ad money.

Just looking this up, but some of Faux News shows have only 3.5M viewers (and that's a huge amount, relatively speaking). And even if only half of the dying have cable to watch (and they probably do, else who is telling them how bad vaccines are), 50k is just under 1.5% of their viewers dying. Probably some massive wrong assumptions there, but the idea....

 

[MichVandal]

Now, we can all applaud the corporate behemoths or even just larger stores Darwining out the mom and pop shops that probably can't afford to do what the big stores can but in the end that hurts local economies more than it helps. Many of the same people who are happy about all of this are the same people who *****ed as Walmart destroyed communities for decades doing much the same business practice. Homogenization destroys character and makes communities less for it. Not to mention it destroys competition...

Universal health care coverage for the economy. And job security. And real hope for the small business opportunity.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Universal health care coverage for the economy. And job security. And real hope for the small business opportunity.

UHC would require corporations to actually fight for employees instead of tethering them to "Well, do you want to take a chance you get hurt?"

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

UHC would require corporations to actually fight for employees instead of tethering them to "Well, do you want to take a chance you get hurt?"

I hate that acronym for universal coverage for…reasons

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Fox should sue the FCC to allow smoking commercials. And then encourage their viewers to smoke.

Taking up smoking to own the libs has literally been a thing since Limbaugh.

 

[Handyman]

Tucker was whining about it the other day. Cause Libs love weed which is becoming legal which means it is bad that nicotine is not just allowed to kill people!

 

[Kepler]

Taking up smoking to own the libs has literally been a thing since Limbaugh.

 

[walrus]

Newsflash: We never WANTED to work; it was required for our continued existence. A more correct way of putting it is: No one is willing to do the job for the poverty wages you're paying.

Lots of pizza and fast food places around here were begging for workers at $13/hour. Amatos offered $17 to start, plus medical, life, 401(k), paid vacation and profit sharing. Guess which one was able to hire people and has remained open throughout the pandemic and is now flourishing?

Amatos has shut down store(s) around me but they thrive because their food is better and has been for years. They struggle to get and keep help also.

 

[Kepler]

The point is almost all work sucks and the only reason people do it is economic coercion. It took me 40 years to find a job I didn't want to blow my brains out, and I've been incredibly lucky in never having had a dangerous, drudgery, or physical demanding job.

Almost all work is polite slavery. The rich delude themselves. They party atop a mountain of skulls.