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I'd just like to point out that neither myself nor any of my fellow nurses, fellow advanced nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers ever swore an oath that we would lay down our lives for

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Welp, it finally happened. I snapped in public today. I went into work for a bit this morning because I’m trying to figure out the safest way to host physicians we are recruiting given our CV-19 sit

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I don't really know what to say anymore tbh. What happened last night is hard to put into words for anyone who hasn't worked in a hospital healthcare setting. Just unreal. Everyone is getting fucked.

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11 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Stupidity is only one part. The real problems started when stupid people were told that they are special snowflakes whose rambling voices deserve to be heard and whose stupid fucking opinions are just as valid as the measured, studied advice of experts. 

 

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21 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Have you ever worked retail?  There are lots and lots and lots of stupid people.  I think most of us underestimate just how many and how stupid because most people here come from a relatively small population segment, middle to upper middle class college educated Texans. 

 

I have, and I agree.  I just don't remember them all being this angry all the time.  In my admittedly flawed memory, even the majority of the not so smart folks were still polite, still relatively gracious.  Now they are all just damn angry and constantly offended.

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It's stunning how inept the average American is at discerning differences between various data sets.

Outdoor activity + crowds + masks = relatively low transmission

Indoor activity + crowds = higher transmission, especially if masks aren't nearly universal

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3 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

I have, and I agree.  I just don't remember them all being this angry all the time.  In my admittedly flawed memory, even the majority of the not so smart folks were still polite, still relatively gracious.  Now they are all just damn angry and constantly offended.

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Gah . . . can you imagine being a pilot or a flight attendant?  "Come back to work, virtually guarantee the fact that you will get sick, or you're fired."

My stepdaughter is an "aesthetician" -- she does lashes for wealthy women.  It's tedious, detail-oriented work (that pays well).  It puts her in direct face-to-face contact with the client.  Her lash studio reopened a few weeks ago, and she was offered the opportunity to return.  She refused.  Now, she can't accept unemployment because she would have to lie on the question about "have you received any job offers since you were furloughed?"

"Well, yeah, I received an offer to jump off cell towers with a bedsheet, and and one that will probably ensure I'll get sick.  Guess I'm out of luck."

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Not sure I'm completely getting it, but maybe I should have clarified.  It seems with the advent of Limbaugh and right wing "news" outlets, the less intelligent have some sort of continual 'anger' that is always on display.

Now, if you're saying electing a black man as President increased that anger and sense of misplaced outrage, I agree.  Otherwise, I'm not getting the joke.

 

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Not sure I'm completely getting it, but maybe I should have clarified.  It seems with the advent of Limbaugh and right wing "news" outlets, the less intelligent have some sort of continual 'anger' that is always on display.

Now, if you're saying electing a black man as President increased that anger and sense of misplaced outrage, I agree.  Otherwise, I'm not getting the joke.

 

I think what is being said is that, they behaved themselves for the most part while he was in office, and probably would have  continued to do so had anyone but Trump been elected.

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I think what is being said is that, they behaved themselves for the most part while he was in office, and probably would have  continued to do so had anyone but Trump been elected.

 

Ah, damn I'm slow.  Perhaps I will read a bit more and post a bit less today.  Thank you, that makes sense as well.  This continual outrage thing is starting to wear on me a bit.  Outrage over haircuts, masks, immigrants, MS-13, whatever.

edit:  not that there aren't reasons to be angry, it just seems there is a real constant anger that is misplaced in its direction.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

Not sure I'm completely getting it, but maybe I should have clarified.  It seems with the advent of Limbaugh and right wing "news" outlets, the less intelligent have some sort of continual 'anger' that is always on display.

Now, if you're saying electing a black man as President increased that anger and sense of misplaced outrage, I agree.  Otherwise, I'm not getting the joke.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I think what is being said is that, they behaved themselves for the most part while he was in office, and probably would have  continued to do so had anyone but Trump been elected.

No, I think MC got it right the first time.

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11 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I think what is being said is that, they behaved themselves for the most part while he was in office, and probably would have  continued to do so had anyone but Trump been elected.

When Obama took office, Facebook usage was 5% of what it was when Trump took office.  Those people were already pissed, we just didn't know so much about it.

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21 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

Not sure I'm completely getting it, but maybe I should have clarified.  It seems with the advent of Limbaugh and right wing "news" outlets, the less intelligent have some sort of continual 'anger' that is always on display.

Now, if you're saying electing a black man as President increased that anger and sense of misplaced outrage, I agree.  Otherwise, I'm not getting the joke.

 

That anger was there long before Rush.  He just capitalized on it.

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2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Your anti-masks dipshits. HOLY FUCK!

The cause of almost every problem in this country is utter fucking stupidity. Have people always been this stupid or did it start with Fox News?

 

fuck your goddamn autoplaying video

 

2 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

People have always been stupid, Fox News just made it cool. Stupidity that should be illegal is very legal and very cool. 

 

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

Stupidity is only one part. The real problems started when stupid people were told that they are special snowflakes whose rambling voices deserve to be heard and whose stupid fucking opinions are just as valid as the measured, studied advice of experts. 

and fuck both of you for quoting it.

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15 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Yeah, I don't get this either. We have nearly 10 million cases of infection, and people making lots of scare porn based on n of one anecdotal reports and cases, whether that relates to re-infection or lung transplants or whatever. 

I think it's some doc in MN or somewhere up north who is relating those n of ones to the fact that people can and do get the flu each year by coronoviruses, therefore he concludes that ALL coronaviruses are known to NOT elicit sustained immunity. I think by now the medical field should stop believing shit about coronaviruses not named SARS-Cov-2 should apply to the latter. That's the myths begin and spread faster than the virus itself.

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1 hour ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

 

I have, and I agree.  I just don't remember them all being this angry all the time.  In my admittedly flawed memory, even the majority of the not so smart folks were still polite, still relatively gracious.  Now they are all just damn angry and constantly offended.

Based on my own personal experience, old white guys and fat White women are much angrier nowadays than they used to be. 
 

This angry old white guy in the neighborhood literally ran full sprint at my car the other day telling me to SLOW DOWN! Now I admit I was going 5 mph over the speed limit on a busy road, but shit, if the dude had tripped he would have face planted into my right side door. The next day some other old white dude told me to slow down even though I was 2 mph under the speed limit. 

Then a week or so ago was at the Y waiting  outside for my turn to swim laps when this pasty fat bitch with her kids absolutely refused to wear a mask or get her temperature taken or of her kids before entering. Caused a huge scene.

Trump America. 

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Based on my own personal experience, old white guys and fat White women are much angrier nowadays than they used to be. 
 

This angry old white guy in the neighborhood literally ran full sprint at my car the other day telling me to SLOW DOWN! Now I admit I was going 5 mph over the speed limit on a busy road, but shit, if the dude had tripped he would have face planted into my right side door. The next day some other old white dude told me to slow down even though I was 2 mph under the speed limit. 

Then a week or so ago was at the Y waiting  outside for my turn to swim laps when this pasty fat bitch with her kids absolutely refused to wear a mask or get her temperature taken or of her kids before entering. Caused a huge scene.

Trump America. 

 

The anger that has been brought on by social media in the last 10 years doesn't see sides just sheep. Lots and lots of sheep. 

Being positive is lame, it's sooooo much cooler to be an asshole and yell and scream about shit. Even when you have no idea what you are talking about or finish a rant with "I saw it on FB, twitter, Fox, CNN, etc." 

Mindless sheep.  

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2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

Stupidity is only one part. The real problems started when stupid people were told that they are special snowflakes whose rambling voices deserve to be heard and whose stupid fucking opinions are just as valid as the measured, studied advice of experts. 

The room should have been filled with laughter during each of those comments. It's time we stop catering to the dumbasses and start ridiculing them to their faces.

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17 minutes ago, HoffaJimmy said:

The anger that has been brought on by social media in the last 10 years doesn't see sides just sheep. Lots and lots of sheep. 

Social media is literally tearing the fabric of our society apart. It's a tool for psychological manipulation, whether intentioned or not.  We are not a resilient people. 

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