It’s the denominator, stupid

Billy Ocean

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Nearly 400 employees at a Missouri pork plant tested positive for COVID-19. None of them had symptoms.

How many examples of this do we need?
 

Billy Ocean

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We’re hiring our nanny back tomorrow

she lives with her dad, who is a nurse

we were concerned about the risk but are ok with it now
 
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$kully

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We’re hiring our nanny back tomorrow

she lives with her dad, who is a nurse

we were concerned about the risk but are ok with it now
I'm thinking about bringing my housekeeper back soon. Seeing if this May 15th thing sticks or if it gets pushed. Been paying her the whole time. I'll give her the option to push it if she has childcare issues or isn't comfortable coming out yet.
 

Billy Ocean

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I'm thinking about bringing my housekeeper back soon. Seeing if this May 15th thing sticks or if it gets pushed. Been paying her the whole time. I'll give her the option to push it if she has childcare issues or isn't comfortable coming out yet.
yes, it’s time to be practical

this thing is going to be around for a long time
 
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MitchellC

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Compare Sweden and Michigan - both have populations of 10 million+-

Sweden voluntary social distancing, open economy vs Michigan draconian shutdown measures.

Michigan: 43,754 cases, 4,049 deaths, 4,394 cases per M, 407 deaths per M

Sweden: 22,721 cases, 2,769 deaths, 2,250 cases per M, 274 deaths per M

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Of course its even worse if Sweden is compared to NY, or even US total with NY included.

The blowback and recriminations are going to be deafening as reality sets in among the populace.

As the people awake from their collective trance, they will have to cope with the aftermath of the worst policy decisions ever made in our nations history.

Its almost hard to believe it actually happened. We are waking up to a multi trillion dollar loss that bought us nothing. It was just flushed down the toilet.

100s of millions of lives disrupted, a 250 year history of sacrosanct civil rights brutally abused, along with 10s of millions unemployed.

Not to mention millions more whose savings & lifework were destroyed as a result of arbitrarily being deemed "non essential" by executive decree.

This insane mania will be studied and analyzed for centuries as an object lesson in the dangers of goup think led by ambitious tyrants with no oversight or balancing powers.
 

the janitor

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I'm thinking about bringing my housekeeper back soon. Seeing if this May 15th thing sticks or if it gets pushed. Been paying her the whole time. I'll give her the option to push it if she has childcare issues or isn't comfortable coming out yet.
I hope you're going to tip her extra since it's been over a month and your doormat has probably been on pornhub at least 7 times by now
 

$kully

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I hope you're going to tip her extra since it's been over a month and your doormat has probably been on pornhub at least 7 times by now
hahaha

I've been paying her not to come since early March. We've been doing our best to clean the place in her absence but it's gonna need a deep cleaning. I don't feel to bad if it needs a lil more love than usual since I've been paying her the whole time.
 
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Billy Ocean

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I went to the bank today and the UPS store

lt felt good

i wore a gray wool/linen sportcoat, a red university stripe cotton oxford shirt, Cotton British khaki chinos, and natural leather color quoddy bluchers
 

Random Guy

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The only reason she found out she had it is they swabbed everyone in the nursing home.
Glad she’s feeling well!
Curious to know if she’s been moved away from people who tested negative in order to minimize spread, or if that’s not realistic or possibly not deemed to be useful at this point

Glad she’s doing well
 

afoaf

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I would be freaked out if I had family in any sort of assisted living situation right now

my grandma and auntie are both quarantined solo with support delivering provisions
to their doors
 

casa_mugrienta

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Glad she’s feeling well!
Curious to know if she’s been moved away from people who tested negative in order to minimize spread, or if that’s not realistic or possibly not deemed to be useful at this point

Glad she’s doing well
Good question. I doubt it. I'm going to have to ask.
 

hammies

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Found out last week my great aunt has it

92 y/o

No symtpoms
Careful being around her. She might have no symptoms but she can give you the virus and put you in the hospital for a week, or kill you. Not likely but the risk is real. Covid is funny that way.
 

Billy Ocean

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It’s pretty stupid that the bank teller can hand me a brochure about some BS non-essential interest bearing account but I can’t go to the beach

she looked like she had mad cooties