Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

popsicledeath said:

Washington’s unemployment fraud may have hit $650 million; state recovers $333 million

Efforts to root out the fraud continue to slow legitimate benefits for tens of thousands of out-of-work people in Washington, Suzi LeVine, ESD commissioner, said.

www.seattletimes.com

The governor closes everything, floods the umemployment office with new claims. In the chaos they get ripped off for 650 million dollars. And the scammers help make the system even more overloaded, causing delays in claims processing for the people who legitimately need those benefits.

I don't know if this is happening in other states, but I'm not surprised it's happening in Washington that prides itself on having a benefits system with the least barriers possible. Illegals can get licenses (with mandatory question about registering to vote). The state does mail in ballots that election officials have admitted it basically an honor system. Poors can get replacement ID cards for $5 with a voucher, even with a temporary in-state address, and then qualify for long-term benefits since having an ID means they're a resident.

It's been like a month since I filed for unemployment and haven't even gotten a response of any kind except that I had to fax/email copies of my license and social security card to verify my identity, which isn't something they apparently bothered doing until 650 million was stolen.

Maybe I'm reaching, but I feel that culture of Washington state making all the benefits and social programs as permissible as possible so they don't cause too much trouble for illegals and poors led to this colossal failure that nobody will be held accountable for.

Meanwhile, my girlfriend's heart transplant team is at the University of Washington Medical Center and locals out there are sending out memos encouraging people to attend protests and politicians are saying some things like protesting for BLM is more important than the stay home order. I tried to talk my girlfriend into telling her doctors she's been following the lead of UW and seattle area politicians, so has been going to protests, but she doesn't think trolling is nice (but somehow loves me).

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Arative said:

So are her doctors recommending she go to protests? Seems like a good way to get sued out the ass when she catches the rona.

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popsicledeath said:

No, they definitely aren't. We're in "aggressive isolation" for the foreseeable future. I was referencing that the area is so hypocritically liberal there was a memo going around from University of Washington healthcare workers and professors encouraging people to go to the recent protests, despite the fact that UW has been the source of all the models that have scared governor's into putting states in lockdown. And nurses seem to have collectively switched from preaching about people staying home, to preaching about people needing to get out and protest. Experiencing Covid on a direct doctor-to-patient level has been completely different from the propaganda and chaos in the news and in the healthcare industry in general.

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Lanx said:

i'm telling ya'll, ppl gonna come into the hospitals over the weekend now that the 2 week riot incubation period is over, or those looters went back home and infected grams.

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Sanrith Descartes said:

I just arrived in S Fla. I feel like I fled a totalitarian regime (NY) to freedom. No mask Nazis, I am going to enjoy a sit down meal in a restaurant and its mostly normal here. God I miss Fla.

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Sanrith Descartes said:

So, I have found one positive from Coronachan. I'm sitting at the airport right now and holy fuck being able to just walk thru TSA with no one in front of me is surreal. I did observe that the screener are bored and thus take a real long time while x-raying my backpack. The whole airport experience is like buying out Disnleyland for a day and having the place to yourself.

Also to limit contact, they automated the process of checking bags (you use your bording pass to print out your checked bag tag and put it on yourself) so basically bag checkers/porters will have a problem getting their jobs back when this is over.

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Qhue said:

Today I arrive and check in via app while sitting in the parking lot, they text me (under 2 min wait) when its time for me to come in and I walk directly to the station, sit down in front of the woman who already has the vials prepped and she draws my blood. Quick walk back out to the car and its all over. Total elapsed time < 5 mins.

Maybe we needed something like this to knock free some of the barnacles and get the ship back into shape.

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