Anyone else see coverage of this?Anyone a member of this FB group?Anyone want to set up info desks at their next protest to educate them on how pandemics work?
4/14/2020 2:11:23 PM
if 2016 didn't prove the stupidity of people, this pandemic will surely answer that for everyone.
4/14/2020 2:18:19 PM
I have no idea what type of person showed up to this (ok, I have an idea lol), but I have a shit load of sympathy for people who can’t work right now and are dealing with NC’s broken ass unemployment system and a federal government moving at a glacial pace to release stimulus. Some of these people are trying to make rent and could give a damn about the immuno-compromised. Because our safety net system is shit, relying on welfare to provide for your family is an absolutely terrifying place for most people to find themselves.[Edited on April 14, 2020 at 2:38 PM. Reason : Big shout out to the NC GOP, Mcrory, and Cherie Berry for destroying NC UI]
4/14/2020 2:33:49 PM
We could always just make the immunocompromised stay home and give everyone else the choice of whether or not they want to risk it. Its one thing to try to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed i get that but its not happening so the government is actually forcing public health guidelines onto the general population involuntarily. Hospitals are at 10% capacity which means this thing is being drawn out way too long. Now they are saying we might have to do this until 2022 which is just not acceptable. Its getting out of hand.All beds needed713bedsAll beds available7,125bedsBed Shortage0bedsICU beds needed165bedsICU beds available567bedsICU Bed Shortage0beds
4/14/2020 2:55:28 PM
Things i saw on WRAL's coverage:-A dont tread on me flag-white people being white as fuck-An old man driving a Scion xB, wearing a Go Burrito shirt, making big shrugging motions in front of the cops and a camera, as if to intimate "i dont know why you guys are telling us to disband" (was inaudible on broadcast)(see above)-Signs with the words "tyranny" and "constitution" (see 2 above)-One woman wearing an NC State shirt (cringe) being arrested AFTER everyone had disbanded. I think she wanted to be like Jane Fonda (personal opinion)
4/14/2020 2:57:36 PM
Sounds about white.
4/14/2020 3:20:12 PM
4/14/2020 3:29:54 PM
I know that people following guidelines is why its not happening but I don't know if the government FORCING people to follow guidelines is why its not happening. Its not one or the other. I think there is a middle ground that can be found.
4/14/2020 3:32:40 PM
4/14/2020 3:54:24 PM
Our neighbors belong to this group.
4/14/2020 4:10:16 PM
^^Not everyone. These people obviously wouldn't.
4/14/2020 4:34:40 PM
Christ, not only was it an NCSU Shirt but full on red shoes and socks. Old lady looks like she just walked out of a pep rally, SMH
4/14/2020 7:10:25 PM
https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594yikes
4/15/2020 1:01:24 AM
There are plenty of jobs open in NYC if they want to drive around in a hazmat suit delivering random shit.
4/15/2020 7:39:58 AM
4/15/2020 9:08:33 AM
At least some evidence mounting that this is a coordinated GOP campaign. Regardless of its AstroTurf status, it is easy to see quite a portion of the NCGOP starting to openly embrace it. I’ve gotten emails from Dan Forest, Berger, and even my local podunk state senator suggesting either that NCDHHS doesn’t actually have evidence of an emergency outbreak in NC or that the authority for the shutdown doesn’t exist. No matter what happens in the next few months, by October 2020 it’ll be a true fact to the rank and file that COVID-19 was just the flu and the shutdown was big government scientists trying to control us.
4/17/2020 6:09:22 AM
I know there's been a lot of criticism of the God of Economy and definitely some of it is warranted. But one of the sharpest criticisms I have of Everyman in this day and age is we have completely divorced why we pay taxes compared to the levels of government spending. Say government tax receipts in your state or locality go down in 2020 by 30%. States cannot print money out of thin air like the feds can. (This same reality is true for all eurozone states.) State and local government if they operate on the ragged edge either has to increase taxes substantially to make up the shortfall or has to cut a ton of spending or put out a ton of municipal bonds (i.e. heavy debt). The earlier the economy opens up, the less of that hard decision to deal with.Budget discussions the tail end of this year are going to be brutal for anyone without a rainy day fund. My state of Indiana we might be okay because we've been conservative fiscally for a long period of time. Illinois nextdoor however has been brutal financially for years even before this, to the point people and businesses were leaving the state.Disclaimer: I am elected to a Township Advisory Board position in Indiana, the most grassroots political position in our state. Our main job is oversight of the Trustee and approval of the township's annual budget.
4/17/2020 7:41:27 AM
4/17/2020 7:52:27 AM
We're not talking bonds representing 1 or 2 percent of the budget, we're probably talking double digits. The size of these bonds if everyone went that route would be historically huge. And if I had a chance to buy Indiana bonds versus say Illinois bonds, why would I buy Illinois - a state that has been ran horribly financially for a very long time? Places that already had bad finances it's not going to be the silver bullet unless they want to pay high interest. Municipal debt already had a scare in this crisis a month ago.Frankly, every state and local government budget office at the moment should be going through their 2020 budget and classifying everything as "want" or "need", and get rid of all the wants to see where that leaves them heading into 2021 in the event tax receipts crater. I think a 10% reduction in tax receipts if tax levels are left consistent is definitely viable.[Edited on April 17, 2020 at 8:19 AM. Reason : /]
4/17/2020 8:03:23 AM
Until your posts I haven't really viewed the shutdown from the perspective of state budgets. God, this must be killing tax revenue for the state.Still not jumping on the open up train. I can see why people are starting to want this to happen. Anecdotally, I know no one who's gotten this virus and has shown symptoms. These folks see that and it reinforces their idea that it was all some government conspiracy to hurt Trump or to see how far they can control the populace. We are still keeping our daughter at home though while all the other hood kids play together. We feel like in the case of our neighbors, who are flying the Gadsen flag which as far as I can tell, has become a symbol of the reopen movement, are not practicing good social distancing simply because they don't believe this virus is really a thing.But yea, while the feds are handing out money left and right, the states are going to have to do something to make up for all this lost revenue.
4/17/2020 8:23:09 AM
^ I put in the general coronavirus thread this but apparently you can now buy wholesale gasoline in the Midwest for 12 cents a gallon. So that's how much economic activity has gotten shut down.Not really jumping on the open up train either, but one of the consequences of this in addition to people losing their jobs and companies not working is government budgets are going to be a disaster.[Edited on April 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM. Reason : /]
4/17/2020 8:55:47 AM
That's why recovery bills need to include funding for states, especially programs like medicaid. And taxes need to be increased asap on high earners.
4/17/2020 9:03:01 AM
4/17/2020 9:06:22 AM
Isn't the fed going to start buying up the municipal bonds? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-04-13/muni-bond-market-reviving-after-fed-moves-to-ease-cash-crunchThe coverage I saw of the Midwest protest was made up of all obese people that would definitely be incapacitated with the virus.[Edited on April 17, 2020 at 9:12 AM. Reason : A]
4/17/2020 9:10:31 AM
4/17/2020 9:46:45 AM
March ports data for goods shipped.
4/17/2020 9:58:18 AM
4/17/2020 10:09:51 AM
^ Sanders and Warren's legislation have as much chance of being passed in the next 9 months as anything pushed forward by the Republican minority in the House of Representatives. Besides, why does the federal government need to raise taxes? In fact, why do we pay taxes at all to the federal government when they can just snap their fingers and create $2 trillion out of thin air to fund everything under the sun?
4/17/2020 12:20:23 PM
We don't pay taxes to fund the government. We pay taxes to maintain demand for USD.
4/17/2020 1:21:16 PM
btw reporting local traffic is not signal boosting tomi[Edited on April 17, 2020 at 5:06 PM. Reason : la today. garcetti and newsome need to get real]
4/17/2020 5:03:50 PM
https://youtu.be/bfN2JWifLCYSwedish epidemiologist Prof Johan Giesecke, an advisor to the Swedish government and one of the world's most senior epidemiologists.The plan was to flatten the curve, not fail to eliminate the curve entirely. We cannot keep sheltering at home for the next year. Therefore, I suspect too few people are catching it right now for us to end restrictions in a few month and have it do anything but explode again. The plan Sweden is taking is to lock down the old and susceptible for months, flatten the curve just enough to not overwhelm the hospitals, but otherwise maintain as close to business as normal as that allows. Therefore, by the time the at-risk individuals can themselves no longer shelter in place, society at large has herd immunity. This seems to be the only actually logical plan. The shelter in place plan has no means of ending, other than a vaccine, which will simply not exist in any time-frame that makes sense.
4/19/2020 4:58:34 PM
Our main problem with that is that our hospital system was already paper thin to begin with so it doesn't take much to overwhelm it.[Edited on April 19, 2020 at 5:07 PM. Reason : we could go lockdown on if the government decided to do UBI]
4/19/2020 5:06:38 PM
So if we're gonna resume soon but stay distanced and what not what business sectors will benefit from this?[Edited on April 19, 2020 at 9:43 PM. Reason : That aren't already priced in]
4/19/2020 9:42:57 PM
Schools are still going to be closed so parents will still have to stay home just to teach/supervise as they can't do daycare or group babysitting due to continued social distancing. That's a significant portion of the population unable to go back full time if their job does come back. Just from my perspective out at the beach I don't see families traveling from everywhere to come here, and I certainly won't be in a rush to go spend time with them and then go spend a few hours with another group the next day. That's the main source of income still absent. The schools still being closed is the remainder. IMO if/when we reopen things it'll be 2 weeks max before we see an influx of new cases. This won't matter to 30% of the population who still thinks it's all a hoax.
4/19/2020 10:45:48 PM
My family and I have been practicing social distancing the best we can - we don't go out anywhere, we order or groceries online, and we've not let our daughter play with the neighborhood kids. This is why the following pisses me off so much:My father was telling me about a friend of his who has a relative (his daughter-in-law's sister) that lives in Cary. She got sick and tested positive for COVID-19 and is now back at home with some medication. Her husband is a police officer - not sure if it is Cary, Wake Sheriff's office, state trooper, etc, who wanted to get tested due to the proximity of him and his wife. They refused to test him.What the fuck good does all this that my family has done do, if I get pulled over by this guy and get it.Don't get me wrong, we aren't going to change our behaviors, but damnit that is frustrating. Why the hell are we not testing more people????
4/19/2020 10:52:24 PM
Because Trump wants a flare up before election time to suppress voter turnout
4/19/2020 11:32:59 PM
4/20/2020 9:11:12 AM
Like central bank interest rates, Canadian oil prices have gone negative. Or they'll pay you to take it off their hands and store it.
4/20/2020 10:15:27 AM
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1252265152063451137?s=21Lol at this pathetic nonsense.I’m not shedding one ounce of pity of these asses get COVID and die. I just hope they don’t take the time from a doctor that someone else needs.This is parody level. A Trump as Rambo flag on the back of a truck that says “Jesus is my vaccine.”
4/20/2020 12:02:22 PM
they'll probably end up going to a grocery store and infecting a minimum wage worker, who will then infect an entire community
4/20/2020 12:42:13 PM
Not probably, certainly. That’s where my pity is directed.
4/20/2020 1:01:35 PM
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/reopennc-rally-planned-for-tuesday-in-downtown-raleigh/19062732/
4/20/2020 2:16:27 PM
What's the best way to go out there and let them know they got astroturfed? (or other word for fake grassroots)
4/20/2020 2:58:05 PM
And it's started.
4/20/2020 8:31:49 PM
Colorado is planning to start relaxing restrictions next week. I thought we were smarter than this but I shouldn’t have expected too much from a governor who posts on r/neoliberal
4/20/2020 11:12:10 PM
As long as people are wearing masks and not interacting with other people too much, open public spaces that don’t require a lot of support staff SHOULD start to reopen.There’s no responsible way to open office/work environments where people are close to each other or interacting with lots of random people. This is just shifting the burden of coronavirus to the working class so things can be convenient for more privileged white collar workers who can stay home.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html
4/21/2020 1:09:01 AM
^I disagree with pretty much all the 2nd paragraph. But maybe ai have more faith in the human race than I should
4/21/2020 3:45:37 AM
Colorado is moving from Safe-at-Home to Safer-at-Home, not all the details have been released yet but it looks like they are allowing elective surgeries, retail stores to do curbside take out, etc while still maintaining a bunch of restrictions.It doesn't look terrible
4/21/2020 7:08:08 AM
It's highly likely that our neighbor will be heading to the protests today.That makes me a little fearful for my family.I'm definitely pro-opening up of public outside spaces. I feel like they never should have closed Raven Rock. You can certainly distance yourself out there. But to reopen everything? So dumb.
4/21/2020 8:16:34 AM
just stay away for your neighbor, my dude
4/21/2020 9:02:50 AM