Texsox

It's not safe to go anywhere. Any interactions with other people are unsafe. From delivery drivers, to health care workers, to the person that pumped gas before you and now you're grabbing that nozzle. Just stay home if you can. Those posts are a great reminder, but I doubt they are real based on the time line. But who knows.

Covid-19 claims beloved Chicago dispatcher: 'His pride was going to work' https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/29/us/covid-claims-beloved-chicago-dispatcher/index.html

I'm keeping my Biden Unity sign up until after the inauguration or my HOA complains.

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Holy shit we've been here a long time.

Sad moment today. I stopped by a garage sale to look at some woodworking tools that were advertised. The owner lost his job as a bartender and is losing his house. The guy was thankful his kids are all grown and out of the house. I felt like an ass but what he was asking for the tools was triple their value, in one case more than a current new one. I made an offer but he refused. I hope a more generous person or an ignorant buyer finds his sale. Thank you senators for not coming together with a bailout for individuals.

I saw a sticker on a car that said Trump 2020 Make Liberals Cry Again I'm wondering if part of his appeal is having "your guy" so hated by the other team. Policy wise he wasn't that crazy *based on conservative ideals*. What set him apart, and drove most of us crazy, was the rhetoric that we found so offensive. It's not on the same level but there were plenty of Bulls fans cheering a Rodman rebound that booed him pretty hard when he was wearing a Piston's Jersey. He's a dangerous adversary and I hope he finds an outlet away from running again. I made the mistake of wishing he'd get the nomination four years ago.

You'd really last even longer if you put on a different sock puppet. I can image greg776 as less reactionary and more introspective. Perhaps even posting a more in depth thought than the surface panic of greg775. Actually I'd personally really enjoy that. But it's difficult to kill off a character.

That would be so awesome to watch as he's being evicted. I image the sheriff tossing his stuff on the curb. Fortunately our country is stronger than one man regardless of position.

I know.

Presidents shouldn't nominate for vacancies in their final year. Let the voters decide. This could be a long thread if we start playing name the hypocrisy.

I believe serving in the military now comes with a path for legal status. In the past you had to die and it would be granted posthumously.

Trump did say if you want federal help you had to be nice to him. Illinois wasn't nice. Until we know how many and which manufacturers are up and running it seems like speculation.

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.