I told you the MBAs were going to push back against working from home, and hard. This is only the first shot in the propaganda campaign to come.
Within two years, most of the “work from home” gains will be reversed. Sooner if there is a vaccine before that time.
I think the biggest mistake we made is telling Americans that wearing masks is to protect other people. Know your audience!
— Jenni Konner (@JenniKonner) June 26, 2020
No, the biggest mistake was spending two months lying about the efficacy of masks, saying that they didn’t work, all the while many “progressives” claimed wearing a mask and social distancing was racism.
This was the root of the problem.
The problem is not re-opening; the problem is all the inaction, incompetence, and intransigence prior to that.
Was talking with a friend of mine about another no-win bind for men.
If you help a woman out with anything, you’re assumed to have ulterior motives, no matter your actual reasons or that you happen to be a decent person. However, if you don’t help a woman, you’re then deemed a cold and uncaring bastard.
Of course, women have tons of no-win binds, too! I’m not saying they don’t. But these no-win situations for men aren’t often discussed.
There’s been more than few times I’ve not helped a woman when I could have because I didn’t want her or anyone to question my motives.
Great advice for dealing with cancel culture:
Here are my 10 rules, on how to deal with cancel culture! I'm in no way a mental health professional, but i feel that these are solid & foundational rules, in how to deal with a crisis, or outrage mobs.
Cancel culture needs to end NOW! It starts, with these rules! pic.twitter.com/NQiruD4Gm0
— BlackSageD Sony Still Censors Japanese Video Games (@BlackDGamer1) June 28, 2020
Very similar to what I deduced myself.
Twitter Bros told me to eat meat, lift weights, and get sun.
My doc told me none of these things.
I was sick then. I'm healthy now.
— andrew (@apdonovan1990) June 28, 2020
Doctors and their advice have been co-opted by various industries, so most of their general advice is wrong to only accidentally correct. Their specific advice (which is not usually doled out to civilians) is typically correct. So, they can tell you the merits of using fibrin and cyanoacrylate adhesive to seal arterial sutures, but for diet and nutrition advice they are actively harmful.
One of the most valuable twenty-first century skills is knowing enough to know when to depend on experts and when to ignore them completely.
My wife grew up thinking that having water/ice dispensers IN THE FRIDGE DOOR was a life goal.
I grew up thinking if you had a basketball hoop with a clear/plexiglass backboard, you were rich.
What are some things you thought were indicators of wealth when you were a kid?
— connectpoliticditto (@cpoliticditto) June 27, 2020
Having matching plates and silverware and owning knives without rotting wooden handles from the 1940s.
I think there’s some merit to this idea, though it’s more a matter of seizing an existing opportunity.
I’m starting to get the idea that some governments (okay, just about all of them) are instrumentalizing Coronavirus (however dangerous it is) to reinforce and strengthen austerity. This isn’t the end of austerity but its final victory as most societies are ruthlessly third-worlded.
The plutes will never fail to take the opportunity to hoover up more wealth if they can. In the US, Fed “stimulus” combined with de facto austerity for states and municipalities will mean that more and more of the nation is owned by the super-wealthy. This wasn’t a necessary outcome but it’s the one that occurred and is occurring. I don’t see anything standing in the way of this trend; in fact, I expect it to worsen as we’re only in the first year of the two- to four-year long Pandemic Depression.
There is not likely to be a New New Deal.
So: bad times ahead, most likely.
It’s a sign that feminism has won a bit that we are making romantic disappointment into a near crime. So, in a way, it’s hopeful. Those who have power inevitably misapply it, and this is no exception.
Women I think experience more romantic disappointment than men while men experience far more upfront rejection. Which letdown is seen as worse mirrors who wields power. It makes a lot of sense in that light.
imo:
* all businesses reopen
* no customers inside
* masks when inside/interacting
* pickup/personal shopper/outdoor service
* businesses can use sidewalk and/or parking however
* make part/all the street itself for pedestrians— alice maz (@alicemazzy) June 26, 2020
I think this is ok, but probably most of the super-spreader events occur at non-business gathering places such as private parties, church services and the like. This would help with restaurant spread, though, which is not nothing. But I bet these days not a lot of spreading is happening in restaurants so I’m only guessing a 10% case reduction or so.