A quick story. So, my city, the restaurants are now take-out only, making you wait in the parking lot for them.
All of them say that they're making absolute bank, $30 in tips in an hour is typical now.
Sure, we're all using gloves and such, we kept a decent distance from each other, but the absurdity...
They found coronavirus in 6 Amazon warehouses, did you hear about that? 6 different warehouses.
I've worked in Amazon warehouses.
The aisles are narrow. You're going to brush shoulders. Period. Especially in areas like book sections.
In an Amazon warehouse an item goes from the intake, to the stock crew, to the pick crew, with some items having a HIGH turnover
One person in an Amazon warehouse has it, they all have it. And their families. And possibly the people getting those overnighted packages.
But it's not deadly. Even with our obesity, even with how fucking lazy we are, the United States is one of the healthiest nations in the world.
If we had a single fucking iota of sense, we would have simply locked down the elderly who were most at risk of complications, and stepped incredibly carefully in caring for them and delivering necessities.
And this was all it took to lock everyone else down in pants-on-head-retarded quarantines.
We're having fights over fucking toilet paper.
TOILET PAPER.
FUCKING.
TOILET PAPER.
Do you want to know why we have Democrats and Republicans leading us?
Because our population is so fucking stupid we engage in bitter battles over TOILET PAPER.
I went into an asian grocery store. Chocked full of rice, noodles, steamed buns, fuck, EVERYTHING you could possibly ask for in terms of staples. No line.
Because when a crisis hits, we fight over fucking toilet paper in Walmarts.
Very easily.
Next time anyone in the government wants to get anything to happen, they just have to spin up another crisis, get the media to breathlessly report, and its a blank check.
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