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Rich and Powerful Jump to Front of Line for Tests

jdkee 7y ago
Time for the guillotines.
- deleted 7y ago
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ericzawo 7y ago
"Shit rolls downhill" and the policy makers are to blame for this. I expect we're going to see unprecedented examples of modern inequality play out on American media this summer.
- dexterdog 7y ago
  Yeah, it's only going to happen here.
jostmey 7y ago
If you test an entire basketball team, you might have a false positive. If you test all of the senate, you might have two false positives. Whenever I hear of rich, famous, and powerful people being diagnosed with this disease, I imagine them jumping to the front of the line out of their selfish self-paranoia of being sick
Gustomaximus 7y ago
This hoarding ventilators needs to stop now. Far worse than buying hand sanitiser. If every ventilator could save a life a week type thing this is nuts. They should put serious consequences like 50% of your wealth and 10 years on jail if you hold, or get someone else to hold a ventilator without directly needing it.
- jostmey 7y ago
  I think manslaughter charges would be appropriate
- godzillabrennus 7y ago
  Except the ones making the rules are the ones with the money to do this. If nothing else we are getting to see firsthand how selfish and inept our government has become. I wish John Edwards had run in 2020. His testimony in front of congress was awesome and he seems very smart. The democrats Reagan.
hendzen 7y ago
At a time when the entire system of capitalism is under existential strain, you’d think its prime beneficiaries would be able to temper their worst excesses. Alas, of course they won’t.
jjcm 7y ago
The hoarding of ventilators is what we should be mad at, not them paying to take the tests. Anyone can spend a couple hundred bucks today and get a grad student at your local university to run a RT-PCR for you. Kits are readily available online, you just need a little know-how. The CDC even has instructions for how to run them up online: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
op03 7y ago
In a hyperconnected world, people with certain psychological Traits and Needs are going to keep causing a lot of unintended consequences. Their behavior gets amplified. Especially if they have a lot of energy and are well networked. And its not just the rich. You can find certain combos up and down the social food chain. Its like watching radioactive material going critical and starting chain reactions. Where this is useful to society and where its dangerous, can these days be mapped out with much more sophistication, since we have everyones behavior history and psyc profile. Maybe like in sports, where we understand what trait combos are needed for offense, defense etc and when things need to change up, we seriously need something like that. Right now its just mass madness with bad combos getting deployed at the 'wrong' time, in the 'wrong' situations etc...
RickJWagner 7y ago
Bloomberg. Hmmm, wasn't there a rich guy by that name that recently exerted some wealth privilege?

Time for the guillotines.

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"Shit rolls downhill" and the policy makers are to blame for this. I expect we're going to see unprecedented examples of modern inequality play out on American media this summer.

dexterdog 7y ago
Yeah, it's only going to happen here.

jostmey 7y ago

If you test an entire basketball team, you might have a false positive. If you test all of the senate, you might have two false positives. Whenever I hear of rich, famous, and powerful people being diagnosed with this disease, I imagine them jumping to the front of the line out of their selfish self-paranoia of being sick

Gustomaximus 7y ago

This hoarding ventilators needs to stop now. Far worse than buying hand sanitiser. If every ventilator could save a life a week type thing this is nuts. They should put serious consequences like 50% of your wealth and 10 years on jail if you hold, or get someone else to hold a ventilator without directly needing it.

jostmey 7y ago
I think manslaughter charges would be appropriate
godzillabrennus 7y ago
Except the ones making the rules are the ones with the money to do this. If nothing else we are getting to see firsthand how selfish and inept our government has become. I wish John Edwards had run in 2020. His testimony in front of congress was awesome and he seems very smart. The democrats Reagan.

hendzen 7y ago

At a time when the entire system of capitalism is under existential strain, you’d think its prime beneficiaries would be able to temper their worst excesses. Alas, of course they won’t.

jjcm 7y ago

The hoarding of ventilators is what we should be mad at, not them paying to take the tests. Anyone can spend a couple hundred bucks today and get a grad student at your local university to run a RT-PCR for you. Kits are readily available online, you just need a little know-how. The CDC even has instructions for how to run them up online: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

op03 7y ago

In a hyperconnected world, people with certain psychological Traits and Needs are going to keep causing a lot of unintended consequences. Their behavior gets amplified. Especially if they have a lot of energy and are well networked. And its not just the rich. You can find certain combos up and down the social food chain. Its like watching radioactive material going critical and starting chain reactions. Where this is useful to society and where its dangerous, can these days be mapped out with much more sophistication, since we have everyones behavior history and psyc profile. Maybe like in sports, where we understand what trait combos are needed for offense, defense etc and when things need to change up, we seriously need something like that. Right now its just mass madness with bad combos getting deployed at the 'wrong' time, in the 'wrong' situations etc...

RickJWagner 7y ago

Bloomberg. Hmmm, wasn't there a rich guy by that name that recently exerted some wealth privilege?