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I only want to add this to show the general election match up in that poll.

96583UP wrote:surprising to read that hospitals are doing poorly financially through all this

one would think busting at the gills with customers would be good for business

i guess a lot of people aren’t paying?

Hospitals need to do surgeries to make money, not admit people they can't help who have a virus.

knee tunes wrote:RS, your situation sounds rough. If you are a truck driver though, can't you in the long eventual run find work closer to your family? I mean, now is probably the time when everybody holds their breath and waits for it all to pass so I do mean eventually

The cost of living in chicagoland near my job, a certain area which is surprisingly good for the price, is the same as where my family is living downstate. Strictly hazmat pays much more than regular dry van hauling. There's no hazmat work downstate. There's a power struggle going on bewteen her and i about where to live. I want to be in chicagoland because its what is best forvthe family. She wants to live downstate. Not only is there no hazmat there but driver's pay there in general is so low.

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Simple Torture wrote:Just got some really bad news about the one person I know who has the 'VID. If, as we're expecting now, there's going to have to be a grieving period, it's going to be weird as fuck to do it over Zoom. I feel like it started tonight, and it was just surreal.

Sorry for your (imminent?) loss. The fact that people literally can't be there in person for those lost/suffering is the worst and scariest part of this whole thing. I can't imagine having to sit home while someone I know is dying.

i struggle with this thought too. heartbreaking.

I can't imagine it. Sorry to hear of this.

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Sad to hear so many personal experiences with COVID in this thread.

I'm almost positive my mom had it back in early March, shortly before things started shutting down. She works in a hospital.

She was in the ER for several days with a respiratory infection and the only thing that seemed to help her was breathing treatments. They didn't issue her a test at the time because she didn't fit the profile (which I believe then only meant that she hadn't traveled.)

Next week her hospital is giving their staff antibody tests, so that will be interesting to see. However, the tests aren't specific to COVID-19 antibodies.

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This is fucked up.

Our town is having a nice Pro-Trump, open ‘Merica back up rally today. The ONLY businesses in town that have closed are nail shops, haircut places, spas and gyms. Every other business in town has decided to stay open so I’m not sure what these people are even protesting.

wease wrote:Our town is having a nice Pro-Trump, open ‘Merica back up rally today. The ONLY businesses in town that have closed are nail shops, haircut places, spas and gyms. Every other business in town has decided to stay open so I’m not sure what these people are even protesting.

Dear Leader says to protest... doesn't matter if their cause is real or not. We've watched a religion form over the last few years. Still can't get over it.

Would bet money that the people protesting own the nail salons and are protesting their inability to force their employees to work.

Rob wrote:We've watched a religion form over the last few years. Still can't get over it.

*death cult

Rob wrote:

wease wrote:Our town is having a nice Pro-Trump, open ‘Merica back up rally today. The ONLY businesses in town that have closed are nail shops, haircut places, spas and gyms. Every other business in town has decided to stay open so I’m not sure what these people are even protesting.

Dear Leader says to protest... doesn't matter if their cause is real or not. We've watched a religion form over the last few years. Still can't get over it.

People need to work - the economy needs to be saved, it's that simple. Collateral damage is a small price to pay

Piers Morgan is a dope, and this won't change a single mind. However, he's a Trump fan, and I do think it's possible that we're underestimating the political damage this can do to Trump. The 46% who voted for him are not ALL fanboys. We are only at the "end of the beginning" of corona, as they say, and Trump is moving in the wrong direction.

McParadigm wrote:

Rob wrote:We've watched a religion form over the last few years. Still can't get over it.

*death cult

Would prefer if the death cult focused on their own deaths, though. Hurry up and Jonestown yourselves

wease wrote:Our town is having a nice Pro-Trump, open ‘Merica back up rally today. The ONLY businesses in town that have closed are nail shops, haircut places, spas and gyms. Every other business in town has decided to stay open so I’m not sure what these people are even protesting.

I need a haircut pretty bad.