Texsox

It's America so there will be a way, legally or illegally to buy your way to the front of the line same as you could buy your way out of the draft. After wealth and privilege, medical providers, first responders, food production and distribution, child care providers including educators, and finally our military. Perhaps register through your employer.

You didn't ask me but . . . Documented low wage workers collect more in benefits than they pay in taxes through the Earned Income Tax Credit plus qualifying for other benefits. When someone takes that job, but doesn't qualify for those benefits, taxpayers benefit in a way. Therefore there is a built in tax advantage in not wanting to fix this issue. It's also a nice issue to campaign with every once in a while. Additionally and specifically to a critical industry agriculture, we depend on migrant workers to feed this country. The US has become a net importer of human food products. Many of our imports are fast food proteins and seasonal produce from the south while our fields are frozen. I propose a guest worker program similar to what was used during WW2. Document the guest workers, offer a scaled back benefit program, and a long term path to citizenship. Directly tie the number of workers to available jobs like the H1B visas. We also need to make the system easier and cheaper. Currently economically it makes more sense economically to come here for a mid to higher income job. It seems backwards to me. We spend a lot of time and money protecting the lowest wage jobs while filling our software companies and hospitals with high wage immigrants.

In the absence of strong laws being put in place and enforced, people have to use common sense and be responsible. Just because it is allowed doesn't mean you should do it.

Thank you for that perspective.

I believe the question is do you want to be 1st in line, 100,000 in line, or 10,000,000 in line? I suspect everyone has their own comfort level. I'll gladly step aside and allow you to jump ahead of me. We'll both be happy.

The modern manufactured food chain makes us very vulnerable. Forcing people to work in unsafe conditions is inhumane and wrong. It doesn't matter if the factory makes tires or chicken parts. Home gardens are non existant or too small for practical food production. People deplore hunting while buying tomahawk ribeyes from the grocery store. We've placed ourselves in a very vulnerable condition.

Then why don't we fast track everything? Is our regular process overregulating drug companies? Drugs and treatments do seem to be available in other countries first.

As I wrote they shouldn't have been working. How does that translate to I think it was fine how it was handled? It highlights how vulnerable our food supply is.

Lucky me, as a teacher I can be first in line. I have serious concerns when I worry politics and profits were a bigger push to market than science.

Horrible. Yet, how many of y'all are ready to hunt your own meat? This really highlights how vulnerable our food supply is. They shouldn't have been working, yet there would be riots in the streets if Tyson and the rest shut down.

This is an amazing stress test of our democracy and a glimpse of what ultimately will end our run as the greatest large country on the planet.

So the past three weeks to get back into a little golf shape I've been bringing my 8 iron to practice and hitting a few shots between coaching. I was sitting on a par three that was playing about 148 to a back right pin. No way this old man could cut an 8 148 yards but I thought I would take a couple shots as groups came through. First shot comes up predictably about 25 feet short. I told my guys to just leave the ball. Second shot is about two feet from the first. I try not to laugh. I'm happy to just get the club square on the ball with decent compression. Third shot hits off one of the balls. I've never, in forty five years of playing, hit three shots in a row that close. I walked up to the green with the kids explaining how consistency is the key to scoring, trying to act like that's normal. lol.

Side note. Ranger Creek Brewery and Distillery (beer, whiskey, and vodka) hired my improv group for a show. Really cool setting, great people, it was a good show. I've always enjoyed their beers, and I picked up a bottle of their bourbon but haven't had a chance to try it yet.

Greasy, isn't an old tree scratchy for toilet paper? It is a cleaver repurposing scheme but I doubt it will catch on. ?

Google Surveys earns you credits at the Play Store.

Why? Trump pulled in more votes than any other Republican candidate. He's polarizing to the extreme but if Biden has a lackluster three years I'd run Trump back out there. I don't see another GOP star of that magnitude. If the Dems were smart they would hold a couple years of Hillary Clinton style hearings about Trump. Just get the public so tired of hearing his name the sway votes in battleground states will stay away.

Eventually we'll get Covid 19 to every rural area. It just takes time and commitment. I'm picturing the novel I am Legend. There will be the last person on the planet that we'll need to infect. Covid fatigue is really hitting me. I'm dreading going into work today knowing I'll be wearing a mask for nine hours. Sanitizing desks every 45 minutes. Seeing people but not talking to them. Using hand sanitizer so often I start worrying about OCD.

Was two ply toilet paper created for those people who are too lazy or stupid to double over one ply?

While the American public will complain about gridlock we actually want it. Hence states going for senators from one party and a president from another. My hunch is we worry extremists in either party will get their way. As a liberal there are folks to the left of me I don't agree with, usually over fiscal matters. Most Republicans I know distance themselves from the social extremists in their party. In reality I believe both parties show some constraint. Trump didn't get everything he campaigned on even with having the votes necessary.

I have a few questions, but I jumped out, the affect of wind in the outdoor settings. If I'm downwind of someone doesn't the distance calculations change? It seems in theory we're could help protect people if we tried to have a strong crosswind. The ideas of buildings being designed to mitigate disease transmission is fascinating. What would be some things we could observe?

Balta, details please.

The difference is between firing the person who is a detriment to the organization versus trying to hurt advertising sales, which hurts other employees, in the hope it hurts the team enough so the team does what they should have done in the first place and fired the person. One is direct and punishes the person who did something wrong (people get fired all the time for non criminal reasons), the other is indirect and harms people not involved in the original situation.

No he wasn't. He was giving very obvious examples of times when I would support an economic boycott. I wasn't understanding his other examples so he needed to exaggerate it enough for me to understand. I believe I am being consistent in favoring the workers. In the example he gave a boycott would help end the exploitation of workers and I would join the cause.

Exactly. One lesson though is he didn't crawl out of a hole. He was a famous reality TV star. Being famous gives people credibility today that I'd down right scary.

So true. In the past week I've been two degrees away from Covid patients with three different scenarios. Waiting to see if the person I was near comes down with it is a lot of stress.