So what happens with the next virus?

~~Leo656~~ · 09-16-2020, 11:41 AM

As for "Do I know anyone who got it", no, not even on FB, at least not among anyone I speak to regularly (although a few claim their relatives had it).

Closest it's gotten to me was, my mother-in-law said that her 90-something aunt had gotten it and was perfectly fine in a few days with no lingering ill-effects. Which does nothing to make me trust the official narrative any more than I do (or don't, as it were).

Again, the reason SOME people are non-compliant and/or don't take this situation at face value, is because what we SEE with our own eyes is the exact opposite of what MSNBC is telling us what's going on. Maddow and Fauci can tell me that the sky is pink, and they can even throw numbers at me to "prove" it, but meanwhile, I look out my window and the sky is blue. I'm gonna take these people seriously? Why? Their Words are not My Reality, so until that changes, giant shakers of salt for every single thing they say. They're the ones benefiting (and in some cases profiting) from this situation, why should I trust them?

As for the bit about making masks in a factory for $12 an hour, Andrew, I completely feel you on that. I wasn't getting rich at my old job because I wasn't working in 8-hour shifts, BUT my commission rate was around $30-40 an hour. I am NEVER going to make that again, thanks to this bullsh*t. I could make more in three hours than the guy mopping the floor at Walmart makes in an entire goddamn day AND I could make my own schedule, more or less. Kiss it goodbye, all gone, never coming back. All because SOME people MIGHT die.

Meanwhile, I lost a good job once, long time ago. Got pneumonia, doctor said I needed a week off. Went back to work, the owner said I should quit. Didn't like that I was out sick for a week. Told me he couldn't fire me for that BUT if I stayed he would make sure to invent a reason to fire me. I reminded him that legally, I could call out sick with a note, especially for something as severe as pneumonia.

Y'know what he told me? "Note or no note, people can't stay home and just decide they don't feel like going to work because you've got a stuffy nose. So you got pneumonia. 'Oh, you could've died.' SO WHAT? People die every day, that's the risk we all take whenever we leave the house. All you told me by staying home all week was, you didn't need this job badly enough to deserve it."

So, I quit. And while I still feel that he was an asshole in that situation, fundamentally, he's right. We can't lock ourselves up and get paid to stay at home because we're scared something bad MIGHT happen.

And frankly, if *I* was expected to risk my own life by going to work even though I could've gotten sick and keeled over dead - and believe me, this wasn't the last time I was in that situation - then everyone else has to, too. It's only fair. If I had a nickel for every time at ANY job I was told, "Sick or not, get your ass to work or else!" I could buy a car with those nickels.

But oh, NOW suddenly it's all the opposite. When it was ME, I was expected to go in and earn my right to breathe whether I was coughing up blood or not because "That's The Way Sh*t Works". NOW, people aren't even sick BUT they might get sick so NOBODY can go to work.

It's nonsense.

The only thing whatsoever that makes me believe in a God, is that SOMEONE has spent the last 38 years manipulating events for the sole purpose of screwing with Me and Me Alone. Nothing else makes any sense.

09-16-2020, 11:41 AM	#26
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	As for "Do I know anyone who got it", no, not even on FB, at least not among anyone I speak to regularly (although a few claim their relatives had it). Closest it's gotten to me was, my mother-in-law said that her 90-something aunt had gotten it and was perfectly fine in a few days with no lingering ill-effects. Which does nothing to make me trust the official narrative any more than I do (or don't, as it were). Again, the reason SOME people are non-compliant and/or don't take this situation at face value, is because what we SEE with our own eyes is the exact opposite of what MSNBC is telling us what's going on. Maddow and Fauci can tell me that the sky is pink, and they can even throw numbers at me to "prove" it, but meanwhile, I look out my window and the sky is blue. I'm gonna take these people seriously? Why? Their Words are not My Reality, so until that changes, giant shakers of salt for every single thing they say. They're the ones benefiting (and in some cases profiting) from this situation, why should I trust them? As for the bit about making masks in a factory for $12 an hour, Andrew, I completely feel you on that. I wasn't getting rich at my old job because I wasn't working in 8-hour shifts, BUT my commission rate was around $30-40 an hour. I am NEVER going to make that again, thanks to this bullsht. I could make more in three hours than the guy mopping the floor at Walmart makes in an entire goddamn day AND I could make my own schedule, more or less. Kiss it goodbye, all gone, never coming back. All because SOME people MIGHT die. Meanwhile, I lost a good job once, long time ago. Got pneumonia, doctor said I needed a week off. Went back to work, the owner said I should quit. Didn't like that I was out sick for a week. Told me he couldn't fire me for that BUT if I stayed he would make sure to invent a reason to fire me. I reminded him that legally, I could call out sick with a note, especially for something as severe as pneumonia. Y'know what he told me? "Note or no note, people can't stay home and just decide they don't feel like going to work because you've got a stuffy nose. So you got pneumonia. 'Oh, you could've died.' SO WHAT? People die every day, that's the risk we all take whenever we leave the house. All you told me by staying home all week was, you didn't need this job badly enough to deserve it." So, I quit. And while I still feel that he was an asshole in that situation, fundamentally, he's right. We can't lock ourselves up and get paid to stay at home because we're scared something bad MIGHT happen. And frankly, if I* was expected to risk my own life by going to work even though I could've gotten sick and keeled over dead - and believe me, this wasn't the last time I was in that situation - then everyone else has to, too. It's only fair. If I had a nickel for every time at ANY job I was told, "Sick or not, get your ass to work or else!" I could buy a car with those nickels. But oh, NOW suddenly it's all the opposite. When it was ME, I was expected to go in and earn my right to breathe whether I was coughing up blood or not because "That's The Way Sh*t Works". NOW, people aren't even sick BUT they might get sick so NOBODY can go to work. It's nonsense. The only thing whatsoever that makes me believe in a God, is that SOMEONE has spent the last 38 years manipulating events for the sole purpose of screwing with Me and Me Alone. Nothing else makes any sense.