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Old 04-26-2020, 04:08 PM   #85
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Yup the DW and I were just discussing how the clothing stores are closed but you can still buy clothes at Wal-mart and Target.......Wellcome to the best pre-view ever of Communism in our time
That's a very astute observation. Hadn't occurred to me. No idea why. Wal Mart is an "essential" business but some other clothing store is not??
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That's a very astute observation. Hadn't occurred to me. No idea why. Wal Mart is an "essential" business but some other clothing store is not??
I think it's because they have a pharmacy and groceries (and toilet paper)!

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This is why small businesses all over are scrambling to add something "essential" to their product lineup.

Imagine you own a chocolate store. You're non-essential, and so shut down, while your neighboring Big-Box Store can sell chocolate all day long, because they also sell something deemed essential. Not very fair.

That was the motivation for some states to tell retailers to rope off "non-essential" products like seeds and toys while remaining open. It was based on fairness, but the entire system has become too arbitrary.
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I hope the drive-by clown car of amateur congressional lawyers doesn't come back. It's been making pandemics great again with that silly aaaHHHoooga horn and the kazoo chorus going ever since this thing started. Every time you think they're out of gas the price drops again, and they lurch around with another verse. They're all packed in there together so tight, singing the same song so hard that they don't notice nobody's driving. So along with the noise and nuisance, the uncontrolled car is running over it's own clowns -- red tin-foil hats and orange fright wigs crumpled everywhere. That just can't be survivable.
The clown cars I've seen rolling around my state have all kinds of hats and colors of crumpled wigs everywhere. One thing I've repeated a lot in the past couple months since this pandemic has hit is: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." My town just spent a couple million of taxpayer dollars to buy a Motel 6 for "quarantining" homeless who may infect others, yet let them freely walk away from their rooms to wander the streets and return. A big city not far away has a homeless quarantine center where they SUPPLY quarantined "residents" with 2 beers every four hours, up to 12 beers a day, as well a pot - again paid for with tax dollars. The idea is it gives them an "incentive" to stay at the facility. Not a red hat, or orange wig among those making those decisions. I say: "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, and I'm stuck in the middle with you. . . ."

To stay on topic, this is one reason we WILL return to the way things were before the pandemic, save some small changes because it's what humans do. People want to go about their lives without being bothered too much - especially to fight something most people will never see - a virus - or catch. It's something that happens to "other people."

In my opinion it doesn't matter who's driving or not driving the clown car, if that one crashes, there's plenty more waiting to take it's place.
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How about computer nerds acting like medical professionals. I hope its the end of that.
Must be referencing Bill Gates and his foundation. Was formed in the year 2000.
The primary goals of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the U.S., to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

His foundation recently pledged $250 million dollars developing covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facilities.

Who can name another Republican or Democrat that has stepped up to make this kind of financial commitment?
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