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dhodo said:
They voted again at the meeting last night. Of course, a similar number of people for and against the ordinance showed up to the meeting, several of whom "suggested the ordinance would encourage pedophilia and sex trafficking."
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Is this some ridiculous Qanon crap? Because it sounds like ridiculous Qanon crap. These people do not belong in government. They are disillusioned cultists.
debianlinux said:
We all know politics is self serving and corporate interests these days.
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In our corporate oligarchy, we trust.
 
nolalady said:
Is this some ridiculous Qanon crap? Because it sounds like ridiculous Qanon crap. These people do not belong in government. They are disillusioned cultists.

In our corporate oligarchy, we trust.
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Yeah, that's what I assumed as well. That's all it said in the article I read. Upsetting that the town council seemed to give them the same weight as doctors who showed up based on their votes.
 
The MBTA just released some numbers on Commuter Rail ridership.

In the months of July and August Commuter Rail ridership was only 10% of what it should be compared to previous years. This shows that roughly 90% of commuters into the City of Boston still are not commuting by Public Transportation.

Those that do have to commute a driving, and plenty of parking is available in Boston as a lot of businesses have yet to return to the office.
 
1 Boston area school will start off fully remote learning for the first month.

Not because the teachers and teachers union made any difference in their stance against hybrid learning until minimum safety conditions are met. But rather the action of some teenagers.

Police busted a house party with approximately 30-40 teenagers (high school age). They were all drinking and no masks were being worn. When police busted the party too many kids fled. They were unable to catch them all. Of those they caught, several gave false names. Police were able to identify the kids who gave false names, but were unable to identify those who fled and got away. Several of the party goes who were identified have tested positive for COVID-19.

Because of this, there is a COVID-19 concern and because they don't know who to quarantine the first month of school will be remote learning.
 
www.abc27.com

Federal judge: Pennsylvania’s pandemic restrictions unconstitutional

PITTSBURGH (WHTM) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down are …
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A Trump appointed federal judge has ruled that the restrictions the governor of PA placed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were unconstitutional. According to the federal judge, the governor does not have the constitutional authority to issue stay at home orders, limit the size of gatherings and order non-life-sustaining businesses to close their doors?

What does this ruling mean? It means that if there is ever the need to shut down again because of a COVID-19 outbreak that overflows the hospital system or in the event of a future pandemic PA would not be able to shut down / issue a stay at home order legally again. This may impact other states as well.
 
Yes, Bill. It‘s very weird.

”It’s very weird that some of these communist countries in terms of global good, the public good, they do very, very well. Cuba, even Kerala, which is the most socialistic part of India, has by far the best health system.

South Korea is an amazing story of contact tracing. They thought, “Hey, who has PCR machines?” And they got testing to be free and quick, and they never had long turnarounds on tests. That’s a unique U.S. stupidity, that we let the commercial guys get so rich on these tests that they take backlogs


Anyway, NYMag went a bit sensationalist with the headline. Here is the takeaway:
“So even if 80 percent of all the vaccines get approved and we get all this capacity, to get the eradication it stretches into 2022. You hope it doesn’t stretch past 2022.

That’s a long time. It’s also globally. What about more locally?
We should be able to bring this to an end, in rich countries, in 2021. Then in the world in 2022.“
 
Space Wanderer said:
That’s a long time. It’s also globally. What about more locally?
We should be able to bring this to an end, in rich countries, in 2021. Then in the world in 2022.“
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My fear is it will be rich countries minutes the United States.

Last poll I saw showed 40 something percent of Americans answered they would not get the vaccine once available. Whether they think it's a hoax, are anti vaxxers or think they are getting microchipped is beyond me.

Also, let's not forget that vaccines like this are only free if you have health insurance. Unless the government funds them so that they are actually free, millions of people would have to pay to get one. And I'm sure there are people who can't afford to pay to get one. Best healthcare system in the world my ass.
 
Jan said:
That's best healthcare system in the world for rich people

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Not even, honestly. Dealing with shitty health insurance is actually one of the few remaining equalizers in this country.

EDIT: obviously by “equalizer” I don’t mean that rich people face the same kind of healthcare precarity as poor folks. What I mean is that even people with the fanciest employer sponsored health insurance still have to deal with surprise bills, coverage limitations and various administrative headaches of the type that they usually assume they’re above.
 
Space Wanderer said:
Not even, honestly. Dealing with shitty health insurance is actually one of the few remaining equalizers in this country.

EDIT: obviously by “equalizer” I don’t mean that rich people face the same kind of healthcare precarity as poor folks. What I mean is that even people with the fanciest employer sponsored health insurance still have to deal with surprise bills, coverage limitations and various administrative headaches of the type that they usually assume they’re above.
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Wait till you hear about Concierge Medicine.... it will make you rage with the fire of 1k suns!
 
debianlinux said:
I mean my plan would be pretty okay great if I made 15-20 times what I do which is certainly what my CEO makes.
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Not necessarily. Sure by what you are paying for if you keep the percentage coming out of your paycheck the same. But it doesn't work like that. You still can only get the same group plan everyone else does. So regardless of how much you make, you will get the same plan and it costs you exactly the same as all the other employees.

The CEO won't be on that group plan. They will be on the best plan that the insurance provider has to offer. And for many of them, it's a benefit the company pays for in full and is not deducted out of their paycheck. So they are getting the best healthcare for free!
 
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