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    I Called In Sick Today

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    5 hours ago, SuitedAces21 said:

    it's one of those things where i get how personal it can be and i do understand why people are scared. but i also mostly blame the media for that, same as i do this made up trump story. 

    take a look at the headline for this article

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/health/teen-death-coronavirus-wellness-partner/index.html

    then read the article and get pretty far into it before they tell you that this 'healthy' teenager had undiagnosed diabetes and his blood sugar was TEN times the normal level when he got to the hospital with COVID.  think of all the parents who saw that headline and freaked out for no reason. think of all the people they told about the CNN article where a kid who 'took precautions' got sick and died. it's criminal to call that kid 'healthy' in the headline of the article - i'm sorry but one look at the picture and you know that isn't true. it's terrible that he died, but before you make people close their businesses, perhaps ask that kid's parents why there son had this health problem and they had no idea? how about some level of personal responsibility. i have had terrible eating habits all my life and got sick because of it. and it wasn't until i got sick that i lost 80 pounds and have started to eat better and all that. if i had died from covid two years ago when i was still 240 it wouldnt be because of the virus, it would be from the ten thousand cokes and big macs. america is getting hit relatively hard - though i would dispute that for a few reasons as well - compared to other countries because we are a fat and lazy society. the amount of people struggling to walk around is disgusting. my own brother is well overweight, and i have been talking to him about the relative danger. he is probably 290. if he gets this and dies I'm not going to ask other people to change because our parents and i failed him and he failed himself. we all have to live with the choices we make, but you go way to far when you start aking if other people should be allowed to go outside and breathe without a mask. i

    but that is on the individual level. from a macro perspective, this thing is not a population killer. we know who is at serious risk and why, and we needed to advise those people to bunker down for 8 weeks while everyone else goes for herd immunity. if we had done that it would be over by now. instead we're doing a slow burn, which is better than a total lockdown, but still not great. but businesses that are barely hanging on need a chance to survive. one of my clients, his daughter is an engineer and she was just let go. now lucky her she has a huge trust to look to, but most people do not have that. this economic stupidity is going to be felt for years. i can't even imagine the stress on low income families.  i'm more concerned with government interference in our lives than any one individual case of someone getting sick or dying or losing their job. but the totality will be hard to ignore in the years to come. 

     

    Once again, couldn't agree more.

    I Called In Sick Today

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    7 hours ago, The Opulent Gentleman said:

    Yeah Cobalt, get better nephews who don't get sick from Covid, you dope.

    I had a cold two weeks ago, should've quarantined my whole neighborhood for months and not let anyone go to work so they could lose their jobs.

    I Called In Sick Today

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    Couldn't agree with you more on the Covid stuff, Suited. And anytime you say what you said about it there's always some dope like Cobalt who knows someone who's "had a really hard time" with it, then you find out they're just sick. We should be using resources to help those at risk while everything else remains normal for most of the population, instead people's businesses and lives are being destroyed so they may or may not get sick for a week.

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    I Called In Sick Today

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    Essay, have you ever had regular sex on at least a daily basis?

     

    Unrelated: Anyone know the name of the movie where there's a few 30-something married couples, and one of the wives has a rape fantasy, so the husband tries to set up the rape in a parking garage, but she beats him up by accident?

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    On 10/17/2019 at 9:20 PM, brvheart said:

    Things move slower because there are fewer people, but there are several of us that check in every day or two, and several more than check in weekly or monthly.  It's nice to catch up, but things certainly don't move at a fast pace anymore unless something interesting happens to someone or Mexico comes in to post a picture of his dogs.  The other mega thread is still like 4000 pages ahead of us and they haven't moved to the next page in like 5 years.  If you stick around, that will liven the place up!  Tell us about this AMAZING paint product!  Why should I buy it for my home and all my relatives homes?

    You ever wonder when you're rolling paint on a wall why you have to stop rolling in the corner and use a brush? Me neither, but my brother did, so he enclosed the end of a paint roller so you can paint on two sides of a wall at the same time. I guess it's like being the only one allowed to drive in the carpool lane during rush hour traffic, pros love it. So we hawk those now.

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    On 10/13/2019 at 6:56 AM, brvheart said:

    What are you doing in Vegas?

    It was a good place to base my business I started a couple years ago; no state tax, and the location was better for shipping. I now hate this place.

    I Called In Sick Today

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    On 9/25/2019 at 7:09 PM, SuitedAces21 said:

    whenever I watch Leaving Las Vegas, I envy the main character. I wish I was an alcoholic committed to drinking myself to death in mid 90s Vegas, with beautiful liz Shue to love me.

    I've lived in Las Vegas the last year and a half, and all I'm doing is drinking myself to death. No Liz Shue in sight, only wannabe Kardashians around every corner sniffing around for cash. Might be the worst place in the country.

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