Life is good when Djokovic gets his visa cancelled and sent to a hotel where COVID cases had been soaring.
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I have to throw cold water doubt on this. This reads like a parody trying hard to go viral.
Sheeet. Do people expect people to wear iron masks everywhere they go out? Hard to eat or drink with those things on.
This hypocrisy bit is more than tiresome. People seem to be labeled as either hypocrites or virtue signaling with zero margin between the two.
(I won't even touch that AOC, whom I normally won't defend, was visiting her mom in Florida for the holidays, but people be acting like that's hypocrisy too and she should have locked herself in NY Castle.)
Hey, we get it if you think the politician irritates you and every fart they make is an affront to your existence. But letting you know... this is all just a political play for entertainment. And you've been goaded as a pawn of the masses to be roused up and distracted by nonsense.
Sheeet. Do people expect people to wear iron masks everywhere they go out? Hard to eat or drink with those things on.
This hypocrisy bit is more than tiresome. People seem to be labeled as either hypocrites or virtue signaling with zero margin between the two.
(I won't even touch that AOC, whom I normally won't defend, was visiting her mom in Florida for the holidays, but people be acting like that's hypocrisy too and she should have locked herself in NY Castle.)
Hey, we get it if you think the politician irritates you and every fart they make is an affront to your existence. But letting you know... this is all just a political play for entertainment. And you've been goaded as a pawn of the masses to be roused up and distracted by nonsense.
The problem is AOC lives her life lecturing and shaming the masses like she is the Queen of Sheba. So of course people are going to give her shit when she looks like a hypocrite, right or wrong. It's the same story with clowns like Al Gore who fly around on jets all day lecturing us on climate change. I mean, they're politicians after all, so nobody should take them seriously to begin with.
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She should go back to being a bartender so the common folk can more easily fuck her.
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Who knows... it could be. 
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She should go back to being a bartender so the common folk can more easily fuck her.
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No way thats real 
I can't believe two years into this we are still fucking up people's lives for what most people is a flu, which we have vaccines for, as is not going anywhere and the majority accept it
God I hate politicians in this country...
I can't believe two years into this we are still fucking up people's lives for what most people is a flu, which we have vaccines for, is not going anywhere and the majority accept it
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ch...icron-wave-spurs-more-disruptions-2022-01-05/
You can keep dismissing the health care system as expendable. But at some point, a lot of people are going to pay for that in ways having nothing directly to do with Covid.
And people are way too into hyperbole, calling themselves prisoners of lockdowns even when they are merely told to put on a mask indoors. Total pantywaists to minor inconveniences of any real import.
AOC was voted for her tweets as a foil to mirror the likes of a Boebert or MTG. The sad part is that she was voted in because these are the games we play now instead of actual politics: posturing, hypocrisy finger-pointing, cries of virtue signaling their supporters, etc.
This is all a performative political game on both sides. And I think Sean Illing at Vox captured this right ... not just for conservatives but for all people weighted towards cultural wars and political grievances ... when he wrote:
"What the GOP has done is create a cultural grievance machine that functions as a laundering device for corporatist economic policies."
But it's not just the GOP. Democrats are equally guilty.
But if you expect Al Gore to show up in a donkey cart and shabby Christ robes to speak to billionaires and global politicians at Davos, you're too focused on image and not on message. And we humans use image as grounds to dismiss messengers as a way to avoid listening to the message. It's an aversion technique.
You can explain someone like Greta Thunberg as a reaction to that. Pick the most humble person you can think of -- an autistic kid with a temper who arrives by boat -- and people will still slag you for being ignorant in life, being a girl, not being in school, showing a temper, etc. So that's not a solution either. When you don't want to listen to the message, you berate the messenger.
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I know enough people in the industry to know how f'ed it is. The Great Resignation is cute when it's your cashier or stock boy at The Gap. It's a whole different thing when it's your mom's ICU nurse.
As it is now, even with the restrictions we've experienced in the past, health care systems are bleeding competent staff ... some of which are straight up going into mental health scenarios. So people are going to die one way or other ... at the hands of a bad draw from a weakened virus or at the hands of a crumbling health system under pressure.
At the way things look now, the virus probably has 1-2 good years left in it. The health care systems around the world will likely take much more than that to recover in any reasonable way.
As it is now, even with the restrictions we've experienced in the past, health care systems are bleeding competent staff ... some of which are straight up going into mental health scenarios. So people are going to die one way or other ... at the hands of a bad draw from a weakened virus or at the hands of a crumbling health system under pressure.
At the way things look now, the virus probably has 1-2 good years left in it. The health care systems around the world will likely take much more than that to recover in any reasonable way.
Too bad they fired so many healthcare workers for being unvaccinated, eh? 
Hospitals.
That's even before Covid. Throw in unvaccinated health care workers, and it's as if you're actively trying to make people sicker.
I'd try to find some way of keeping people out of the sick care system for that long ... whether that's giving people tests, distributing vaccines, developing treatments for the infected, funding time off for front-line workers, improving flu shot distribution, subsidizing farmers markets so people have more options to eat healthy and not be obese/sickly ... and restrictions.
It's a balancing act. Kids not at school, and parents with kids at home, are their own disease. But saying "f#$% it, let the health care workers burn out and the whole system collapse and we'll start over because freedom" isn't a responsible answer either.
