A failure to beat the coronavirus has a chilling effect on economic activity.
Just look at the extraordinary difference in the return to restaurants in Germany and the U.S. https://t.co/8OMCTwLsok pic.twitter.com/NigrpXSxmt
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) August 2, 2020
That’s about what I expected to see. See my post here from February 29.
I am better than your fucking forecasters with useless credentials.
If I have not alienated myself from a community, it probably means I have not thought about its claims hard enough.
what’s the dumbest thing that’s ever been mansplained to you?
mine is one time I was driving and my husband let me know our home was “up ahead on the left.”
— Priscilla (@itsPKav) August 1, 2020
I wish someone would mansplain this stuff to me, as I am terrible with directions.
I have literally driven past my own house before (many times) because, as I said, I am fucking terrible with directions.
Please always mansplain to me where I need to turn, because if you don’t tell me I will probably miss it.
True, but for me hugging was denormalized when I moved to New York from California. Y'all have no idea how huggy Californians are (used to be). My life was a damn hugfest growing up in Southern California, and I liked it. https://t.co/AdC6KGsA6x
— Kenneth Folk (@KennethFolk) August 2, 2020
The “progressives” were already de-normalizing hugging as “harassment” and the pandemic is going to make that far worse. So much being lost that idiots seem to be cheering on.
Is it just me or is it kind of weird how many “progressives” seem to be enjoying telling people how bad and naughty they are for not wanting to be stuck at home for years?
What this post is discussing is related to (though not quite the same) as something I’ve thought about a lot in the last few years — and that is how very readily people forget events and stats of affairs that occurred in their own lifetimes.
They remembered when people could easily find a local job if they wanted one, even without a staggeringly expensive degree and massive debt. When you didn’t have to move far away from your family if you didn’t want to. When you could afford to raise family on a single breadwinner’s salary. When you could buy a house in your 20s. A time when there weren’t quite so many boarded up storefronts, panhandlers, food banks, or people living in their cars. When small local businesses thrived instead of just Wal-Mart and Amazon. They told these stories to their children as if they were describing some sort of long-vanished and forgotten culture, even though it had existed within their own lifetimes.
This is puzzling to me. Extremely so. I’m 44, and I recall things and ways we used to be that people who were also there claim “never happened.” I know they are wrong, very much so, but how do people forget so much so easily? I need to understand this and just don’t.