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silentsinger

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OFFS, if true this is an abortion.
Flying into the height of madness: No checks on illegal BA holidaymakers | Daily Mail Online

See? This is what Covis has done to us! The fact she's tried to use so many words that are over 5 leters just to keep a roof over her head.

Most of us are in dire straits in lockdown, confined with cabin fever and wanderlust.

We've followed the rules to the letter, only leaving home where necessary and avoiding beloved friends and family.

Yet while many of us haven't ventured past the garden gate since March, a curious phenomenon taunts us: the planes in the sky.

In scenes that have exasperated Britons locked down in their homes for nearly eight weeks – in the country with the world's second-highest death toll – jets continue to streak overhead.
 

Zeph

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Outside of countries who deal with China's outbreaks regularly, who did contain it?
Germany, Denmark, and New Zealand off the top of my head. Each handled it well to varying degrees with success dependent on different variables such as location, size, advanced warning. Island nations obviously have a natural advantage, as well as smaller borders nations. All nations had at least 4 weeks of advanced warning, except maybe Italy, and the countries with the worst death toll have the worst centralized responses. They also tend to have right wing governments.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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Germany, Denmark, and New Zealand off the top of my head. Each handled it well to varying degrees with success dependent on different variables such as location, size, advanced warning. Island nations obviously have a natural advantage, as well as smaller borders nations. All nations had at least 4 weeks of advanced warning, except maybe Italy
But you are aware that the list is fairly short, right? Even at that a country like New Zealand had more time and the opportunity to see what did and didn't work. There's also an issue with simply blaming centralized repsonse when countries vary so greatly in size and population.

and the countries with the worst death toll have the worst centralized responses. They also tend to have right wing governments.
That's an extremely simplified, and in at least a couple cases flatly wrong, opinion to be espousing.
 

FINGERS

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Hahaha. What a bitch.

Trader Joe's can require customers to wear masks if they want.. If people have an issue with that they should shop elsewhere.

I swear I thought she was at traitor Jokes the way the twat spoke.

I thought that was a daft name for a store.

shame there wasn’t another Karen there of the same level of power and experience or higher.

that would have been fun
 

Zeph

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But you are aware that the list is fairly short, right? Even at that a country like New Zealand had more time and the opportunity to see what did and didn't work. There's also an issue with simply blaming centralized repsonse when countries vary so greatly in size and population.



That's an extremely simplified, and in at least a couple cases flatly wrong, opinion to be espousing.
I didn't realize you were expecting a dissertation with sourced arguments for every country. Of course a post on here is simplified, look at the audience here.
 
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Germany, Denmark, and New Zealand off the top of my head. Each handled it well to varying degrees with success dependent on different variables such as location, size, advanced warning. Island nations obviously have a natural advantage, as well as smaller borders nations. All nations had at least 4 weeks of advanced warning, except maybe Italy, and the countries with the worst death toll have the worst centralized responses. They also tend to have right wing governments.

Germany has done a really good job as best I can tell. All the more so since it isn't built on a ton of natural advantage -- ie limited population or island with easy cutoff.
 
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Husband ties off umbilical cord with face mask after wife gives birth in hospital parking lot - CNN


Let's talk about something guys.
If you're in the hospital parking lot and you deliver your baby, there is not a rush to tie/cut the cord. Just take the baby, put it on mom's belly, and keep it warm. Go in the hospital.



With the help of a 911 dispatcher, her husband, David, helped bring their third child, Navi Bond Patrick, into the world.
The final step required tying off the baby's umbilical cord. But they had no shoelaces or ties. So, David improvised, using his wife's hand-sewn protective face mask.
After Navi was safely delivered, hospital staff arrived and took them inside..
Anyone know if 911 is out there walking people through births, telling them to tie/cut the cord, etc? I'm not sure dispatchers do that.
 

ThatOneDude

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Husband ties off umbilical cord with face mask after wife gives birth in hospital parking lot - CNN


Let's talk about something guys.
If you're in the hospital parking lot and you deliver your baby, there is not a rush to tie/cut the cord. Just take the baby, put it on mom's belly, and keep it warm. Go in the hospital.





Anyone know if 911 is out there walking people through births, telling them to tie/cut the cord, etc? I'm not sure dispatchers do that.
I was very very very happy to make the 60 min trip to the hospital and not have to deliver the baby once Mrs. ThatOneDude's water broke.
 

silentsinger

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So much fucking truth to this.

I had 3 interviews lined up this past week. All 3 were no-shows.
Why work when the gov't is kicking you so much extra money?
I wonder how it works unemployment cheque wise. Is it based on cost of living or will someone from Iowa get the same as husband in Silicon Valley where everything is extortionately priced in comparison? Not complaining because it came through so quickly, but it's not even covering rent and medical insurance...we're not poverty stricken just yet.
 

Hauler

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I wonder how it works unemployment cheque wise. Is it based on cost of living or will someone from Iowa get the same as husband in Silicon Valley where everything is extortionately priced in comparison? Not complaining because it came through so quickly, but it's not even covering rent and medical insurance...we're not poverty stricken just yet.
They've loosened the restrictions to qualify and stay on unemployment.

Regular unemployment payment is based on a percentage of what you typically made at your previous job (there is a max that varies by state). But during the shutdown, there is an additional $600/week from the Fed available until July 31- which for most states practically doubles the typical amount people receive - and that is going to folks that were let go because of the virus AND people that were already unemployed for whatever reason.

The intentions for this were good - since unemployment doesn't get you to where you were at when you were working, the extra $600 will get most people pretty close. The unintended consequence is that, other than securing health insurance benefits, the government has removed a need for people to go back to work. Now that the virus has proven to be a non-event for most of the nation, businesses are opening back up but people are claiming "fear of the virus" as a reason to not go back to work.

Tack on the $1200 stimulus money and we've created an unemployment safe haven where people can just sit at home and collect that free money.

That's the long answer.
The short answer is money in Iowa will always go further than money in California. I'm sure you noticed the economical differences from Virginia to California when you moved.
 

silentsinger

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They've loosened the restrictions to qualify and stay on unemployment.

Regular unemployment payment is based on a percentage of what you typically made at your previous job (there is a max that varies by state). But during the shutdown, there is an additional $600/week from the Fed available until July 31- which for most states practically doubles the typical amount people receive - and that is going to folks that were let go because of the virus AND people that were already unemployed for whatever reason.

The intentions for this were good - since unemployment doesn't get you to where you were at when you were working, the extra $600 will get most people pretty close. The unintended consequence is that, other than securing health insurance benefits, the government has removed a need for people to go back to work. Now that the virus has proven to be a non-event for most of the nation, businesses are opening back up but people are claiming "fear of the virus" as a reason to not go back to work.

Tack on the $1200 stimulus money and we've created an unemployment safe haven where people can just sit at home and collect that free money.

That's the long answer.
The short answer is money in Iowa will always go further than money in California. I'm sure you noticed the economical differences from Virginia to California when you moved.
Of course. That was kind of (again doesn't affect us because we aren't entitled to stimulus cheques) my thought process with $1200. $1200 here compared to $1200 in Iowa/Alabama etc is going to last no time at all in comparison. I'm sure everyone is grateful for the handout, but cost of living etc...you get my point.

Husband was earning a fuckload but it's all relative. He wasn't earning as much in Virginia because the cost of living wasn't so high.
 
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