Who here gets the virus first?

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  1. wl704

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    But I don't see many businesses truly to have been forced to close, there are some. I do see most as businesses that couldn't innovate or respond quickly.

    As an example, there is a small local restaurant that is done more business now than they were pre-pandemic. How? They scrambled to rework their web page, order system, take out & delivery. They have a good product, but exceptional throughput, rewards (incentive to continue to repeat business) and quick fulflment/turnover in their parking lot.

    Yes, Amazon is crushing it, but if argue that was the terms pre-covid. But etsy small businesses are also seizing the opportunity...
     
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    Oh Peter and Paul are too busy arguing about ideological differences to notice and Sam is laughing all the way to the bank.
     
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    The closer I get to the 26th the more I dread it. Kinda pissed I have faithfully avoided exposure and now I have to wade into the swamp of higher probability. I am only going to help escort undisciplined dogs and move patio furniture. My siblings owe me big time for the sword I am falling on to indulge my parents, that being said I highly doubt I will have 2 parents for 5 years in the future. Sucks.
     
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    I've went nearly 11 months now without contracting it. I wear masks where mandatory and nowhere else.

    I have yet to contract it even after being exposed twice to known positives. It's not the flu, but it is the flu. Flu is pretty much non-existent this year. Covid has taken its place, know what happens when Covid disappears? Yep, flu will once again become prevalent.

    I wear a mask when needed(mandated), it does not protect me nor you, I don't care what anyone here or the CDC says, read the damn precautions on the packaging. It does not protect against transmission of corona viruses, it says it in black and white right on the packaging.

    Retaliatory response is, "It protects you from droplets due to a cough or sneeze".

    My Response is, "If a MF'er in this day and age comes up on me and starts coughing or sneezing, his/her mask better have a clotting agent in it as well".

    Yes I said "her" in that response, I don't differentiate sexes when safety/well being is in question.

    Live your lives people, take the same precautions you would to avoid transmission of any communicable disease. This one happens to be distancing and congregating.

    If 12 people get together in a 10 or more person banned setting, yet no one has the disease, then no one will get infected. Period.

    Use common sense, it is the number one most qualified preventer of becoming infected. Guaranteed.
     
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    Yet under that idiots plan, they would be taxed for excess profits when all they really did was revise their marketing plan.

    A YOY change in "pofitability" is not an indicator of "excess profits".
     
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    My sentiments. Very well could be top line growth or cost reduction.
     
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    Yup. Yet someone wants to penalize Innovation
     
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    So little Tony Fauci just admitted AGAIN that he has been misleading people about what it will take to achieve herd immunity. First the mask lies, now herd immunity lies, all for our own good?
     
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    https://tennesseestar.com/2020/12/25/commentary-the-fauci-who-stole-christmas/

    “Every WuFlu down in WuFluville liked Christmas a lot…

    But The Fauci, who lived in a very busy home-based TV studio north of WuFluville, did NOT!

    The Fauci hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

    (The Fauci also hated Easter, high school graduations, weddings, summer vacations, restaurants and bars, churches, college football games, Thanksgiving, and every venue of happiness and human interaction.)

    Now, please don’t ask why.

    No one except public health “experts” and Chris Cuomo quite know the reason.

    It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.

    It could be, perhaps, that his homemade face mask was too tight.

    But I think the most likely reason of all,

    May have been that his insatiable lust for appearances on “The View,” features in glossy fashion magazines, and his unchallenged dominance over 330 million WuFlus in WuFluville made his heart two sizes too small.” ...

    good article at link ^^^
     
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    Just got a message that I am scheduled for the Vaccine tomorrow, good timing as planned on cat hunting the last week of January and into February....this way I can get the booster before I leave. Surprised they getting to some of us so soon, I actually think the are even delineating based on level of care for staffing because most wont see any for several weeks.
     
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    Once this covid crap goes away, I'm gonna find some crazy concert to go to and drink myself into oblivion. Don't even care if I go by myself
     
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    That was such a stupid interview. Yeah I lied to you bc I knew you wouldnt accept the truth. How f'ing dumb....and a lie. Or a half lie. Some kind of lie. Media trumping up Fauci like he is loved throughout America to get back at Trump. The media behaving like juveniles.
     
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    There was 2 counties close to me that made big news about getting the vaccine, they both ended up only getting about 40 some odd doses. I'm assuming for health care workers.

    My mom works at a nursing home and said they're supposed to get it here in next week or so. And the local hospital is giving it to employees same time frame. I'm guessing the virus will be a after thought before anyone outside of the health care field gets it. But who knows.

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