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justforyou
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justforyou
6y ago
>> but given what we saw with the Occupy Movement Care to elaborate?
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6y ago
>> Lockdown at this point is just theater. Wildly irreaponsible and unqualified statement. Please stop being part of the problem.
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6y ago
Monetizing compassion and kindness! Very enlightened work.
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7y ago
This is an actual legit emergency.
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7y ago
>> why would this be on your online storefront if you don't have the inventory for me to actually buy? Twofold: 1) They're betting that you'll still buy something once you're surrounded by merchandise. 2) This allo
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7y ago
Even better, you can reserve items to pickup at Home Depot online which are not actually in stock. Website quantities are not tied to point of sale, and are instead manually enteted by staff when they have the opportunity/bandwidth. (O
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7y ago
Conspicuously absent from all these armchair "normal risk" discussions is the impact of living the rest of ones life marred by complications (such as painful glass like lesions in the lungs) after surviving.
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7y ago
>> At that point I'd be calling for the store manager, and if they didn't tell that person to leave, I'd be calling the cops. Particularly if someone was spit on; under current circumstances that amounts to reckless neg
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7y ago
Because a significant portion of the population and political establishment refuses to face the reality of the situation, and by doing so has created incredibly fertile conditions for spread of the virus.
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7y ago
Comparing this to the flu is a non-starter for participating an an intelligent discussion about this.
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7y ago
That's a drastic oversimplification. Most alternatives which have been tried were either both with extrememe ideological prejudice and in wildly different social and technological enviornments. Malthus does not stand up to scrutiny.
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7y ago
Symbolic acts such as the labeling in question are how many laypersons interpret. and react to the severity of a crisis.
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7y ago
Admittedly, America dropped the ball, tripped over it, and broke it's nose. However, lets not forget that the WHO was also wildly irreaponsible by not declaring this a pandemic sooner.
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7y ago
Serious answer: If you're that concerned, disinfect the DVD.
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7y ago
You know a handfull of people at the org, and were downplaying problems at the CDC last month. The CDC slept on this during critical periods, and employees at the CDC did not step up and whistleblow when there was a chance to have a meaning
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7y ago
Anothet example of CDC dragging its feet during the same time period. https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor...
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7y ago
>> Twitter is upset that Bloomberg paid people and not Twitter to do the ads. You are ultimately correct, even if downvoted.
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7y ago
The CDC has finally issued a level 1 travel advisory for Hong Kong as of February 21st. That's what I call "dragging feet."
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7y ago
January 24th is quite late to the game relative to what we've known publicly for quite some time. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/archives.html https://www.cdc.gov/media/rele
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7y ago
I'm curious as to what exactly "some time" means for the 12 people that you know. Is it greater than 4 weeks?
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7y ago
>> There are people claiming that the slowdown in China is due to underreporting, but as far as I can tell that's pure speculation. Occams razor is useful here.
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7y ago
http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/601997O/respirator-compar...
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7y ago
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...
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7y ago
The CDC has just had its budget cut by 16%, is still forbidden from using the terms "evidence-based" and "science-based", and has dragged its feet long enough that containment is very unlikely at this point.
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7y ago
Good thing you aren't hiring developers anymore. Sounds like it distorted your perspective.
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7y ago
So now that person likely thinks that the reason they did not get hired was because of talking about Bukowski. Also, why did you even mention the enthusiasm for literature bit to HR?
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7y ago
Companies that are that concerned about PR spin their situation with actual PR.
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7y ago
Sounds like you met a very particular HR archetype and they likely took delight in the games they played with you. You're better off knowing about those sort of HR depts than not.
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7y ago
Fortune favors the bold.
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7y ago
>> The page isn't working for me so I can't confirm this I don't know how I feel abouy a company that sends mixed messages about the shelf life of their products and can't manage to consistently serve a blog post t
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