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Coronavirus: Miles away from ordinary.

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Juice, Jan 28, 2020.

  1. Crown Royal

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    Just call me Topher

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    You didn’t want him to begin with because he was too short, you fags. But once he starts lighting it up with the Argos you’re like the hot chick who dumped next week’s lottery winner.
     
  2. Crown Royal

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    He also had four incredible receivers to throw to: Heywood Jeffries, Drew Hill, Earnest Givens and Curtis Duncan. All black guys. On a Texas team.
     
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    Flutie played for my mom's alma mater. I was on the Flutie train before any of you syrup suckers.
     
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    A school district about 45 minutes away just announced in person classes will be suspended until October. Yeah, we'll see how that works out when the regular flu rears up.

    So far I have only 4 kids on my route, though still not sure if they're doing all week or only two like the rest of the students. If it's only two days a week it'd be easier for me to pick them up in my damn car.
     
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    Doug Flutie fucked your mom??? I mean....rawr. I get it.

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    Not only did he apparently fuck his mom, he was part of a train on his mom. Maybe Flutie's actually his real dad?
     
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    She played tunes on his skin flutie.
     
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    I vaguely remember this being one of the Republican sticking points for a second round of stimulus, but I don't know where many of the COVID-19 lawsuits ended up/are. This changes a lot of the math for employers, and I can only imagine the shitty cable-tv legal ads resulting from this.
     
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    This was brought up in a Zoom meeting we had for work. From what I heard, if I am exposed to a kid who is Covid positive and have to quarantine, they pay me for the day they send me home. After that, I either have to use my sick time or it's unpaid. Which is kinda bullshit.
     
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    Yeah, that sounds fair to everyone who has kids in public schools. Jesus, dude.
     
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    This is how your board of education treats you? I always thought (hoped) all the garbage stories I hear about the schools are exaggerated. Here they flooding money into the schools to prep for the year, including tripling custodians staffs and (they say) major renovations. Of course most of the schools here that need renovations are still loaded with asbestos so have fun with that.
     
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    That was my first thought. A big turning point a few hundred miles away in something taken for granted here.
     
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    In their defense, they also paid us to stay home from mid-March until the end of June, and likely will pay us if ( or should I say WHEN ) schools close back down. So I'm not gonna make too much of a stink.
     
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    We have asbestos lawsuit commercials from exposure pre 70s they might as well make an all mesothelioma/cardiopulmonary lawsuit channel. Maybe it’s own network.
     
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    Yeah, we have a ways to go before we get....Canadian.

    Out of curiosity, anyone know what the tax revenue off of our health spending is? That might be one of the more fundamental arguments against universal coverage that no one brings up: how much of our military is paid for by all these middlemen in our health system.

    Along those lines, one of the arguments against expanding Medicare is that it's a payroll tax, so it would make employment more expensive. Logically this begs the question "and private insurance does precisely fucking what now?", but plenty of folks work jobs without insurance....plenty of essential folks. I wonder if the math changes soon because people don't want to risk it for no insurance, and the workman's compensation precedent set by CT catalyzes a reaction of "well, we're on the hook for more than we bargained for with private insurance anyway."
     
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    I think it goes to a discussion about how much money you are willing to have withheld from your paycheck to go to a universal system versus how much money you get withheld for your monthly premiums. In theory with the M4A, you might have more taken per check, but you won't have a massive deductible, nor would you be on the hook for whatever is left over after the coverage maxes out. Annual healthcare spending in 2018 was 3.6 trillion.
     
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    3.6 Trillion taxed at 20% is 760 billion, or our annual military budget. Weird how those numbers work out, isn't it?

    It also buys you a LOT of freedom: to quit your job, freedom from medical bankruptcy, it reduces the need for a LOT of personal injury litigation (someone lawyering up to make someone else pay the bill). Also, I think the actual demand for healthcare services is really distorted here.
     
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    You guys are seeing huge unemployment and are still talking about a system that ties your health care to your job. I find that fascinating.