Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

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Arative

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popsicledeath said:
www.seattletimes.com

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.
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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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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.
 
popsicledeath

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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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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.
 
Burren

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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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And don't forget the double standard of fines and punishment: you'll get in trouble for having a family or social gathering on your own property but you're 100% OK if you go protest, loot, and riot in groups of hundreds.
 
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Alex

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The protests made us forget about COVID. It was the catalyst that made things kind of turn back to normal here in Cincinnati. It's like COVID was never thing when you cross the bridge into Kentucky.
 
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Borzak

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Hospitls in Baton Rouge that got some of the overflow from new Orleans which is about 45 minutes away ...that they had gone 10 days without a virus patient on a ventilator. The curve is defeinetly flattened.
 
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Lanx

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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.
 
Borzak

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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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Mostly black people from what everyone has been saying, for more than one reason.
 
ransomvik

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It's been 2.5 weeks since the riots essential protests here in Minneapolis and the paper is reporting very few positive tests. This thing is OVAH, on to the next manufactured crisis.
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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I guess they didn't dox that Wuhan scientist after all. But then, everyone knew they didn't. 133 days.

 
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Lanx

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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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and i was right
www.ksnt.com

Positive coronavirus case found from downtown Topeka protests

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Shawnee County Health Department confirmed Thursday a protester in the county tested positive for coronavirus. Health officials said the person was at the downtown T…
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takes two weeks to incubate, and this bitch probably spread it to who knows how many ppl,

you know what they did in the end? they had a dance off (cuz this was a few blocks from me)

i didn't see any joggers really, cuz where they held the protest was in the good part of town, it's too far for the joggers to drive all the way west
 
Sanrith Descartes

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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.
 
Cutlery

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ransomvik said:
It's been 2.5 weeks since the riots essential protests here in Minneapolis and the paper is reporting very few positive tests. This thing is OVAH, on to the next manufactured crisis.
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Very few? Sounds like a SPIKE!
 
Sanrith Descartes

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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.
 
Khane

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Was the last time you were in Florida when we still used 3 letter state abbreviations? What a geezer.
 
Sanrith Descartes

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Was the last time you were in Florida when we still used 3 letter state abbreviations? What a geezer.
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History matters. I'm not one those remove statues and forget where we came from type of people.
I hail from the F, L, A.
 
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Alex

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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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Same experience for me coming to Cincy from SF. Still some precautions are being taken with spaced out tables and such, but at least practically everything is open. I'm staying until mid July and I bet SF still won't be what Cincy is like now.
 
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Alex said:
Same experience for me coming to Cincy from SF. Still some precautions are being taken with spaced out tables and such, but at least practically everything is open. I'm staying until mid July and I bet SF still won't be what Cincy is like now.
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There is this absolute sense of a return to normalcy that is hard to understand for people not living in totalitarian states right now.
 
Kithani

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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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Last time I flew through Houston I couldn’t find an airport bar that was open due to coronachan, it was a god damn travesty.
 
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Qhue

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The last time I had to get blood drawn for a physical (8 ish months ago) I signed in on a filthy looking clipboard using a pen that was, somehow, sticky and waited on a bench for an hour before getting escorted in and then waited another 15 mins while the phlebotomist finished her story about lunch to her coworkers.

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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Alex

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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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A number of restaurants here are trying to be as hands-off as possible and it's resulting in a nice efficient experience. All menus are simple QR codes and payment is handled the same way. Pay when and how you want. It's really easy to divide and pay checks if you have a group. Hope that sticks around. Of course servers will still expect a 20% tip even though a portion of their job isn't even relevant anymore.
 
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