I don’t disagree with what you or @ImperfectPixie are saying. An echo chamber of misinformation is dangerous if people act on it. I just think sometimes there’s not much you can do to stop that. Challenging people only makes them dig in more. It’s a no win situation.
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We need to do a better job as a country making sure people have the help they need. This isn’t going to end any time soon and will only get worse. The government is just so broken right now. It’s heart breaking to see people suffer."Today, we received an update from Local 362 union President Eric Clinton. When asked for an updated number of Cast Members that remained furloughed when compared to mid-August, Clinton said that there has been no change."
"As highlighted by the Orlando Sentinel’s Gabrrielle Russon, Cast Members stake out spots as early as 4am to collect free groceries from a food bank – the same food bank that furloughed Cast Members are volunteering at. The line for the food bank would grow to 2 miles by the time Magic Kingdom opens its gates a few miles to the west. And the line is getting longer every week due to federal unemployment benefits expiring over a month ago, organizers say."
Zero Unionized Cast Members Recalled in Last Three Weeks as Food Bank Line Stretches for 2 Miles
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that’s funny... I know a dozen of very skilled people applying for the same 30 openings at various jobs... that 1 million other Floridians are applying for... yet... nobody has been hired
The history lesson happens to be correct.
They obviously didn’t mean that only 6% of deaths were covid-19... so why the mad rush of anti maskers (and other ummm.... like minded citizens) honing in on this (obviously) unimportant separation of covid vs covid+comorbidity deaths? I’d like to think although we differ in opinions they are at least smarter than that...
"Today, we received an update from Local 362 union President Eric Clinton. When asked for an updated number of Cast Members that remained furloughed when compared to mid-August, Clinton said that there has been no change."
"As highlighted by the Orlando Sentinel’s Gabrrielle Russon, Cast Members stake out spots as early as 4am to collect free groceries from a food bank – the same food bank that furloughed Cast Members are volunteering at. The line for the food bank would grow to 2 miles by the time Magic Kingdom opens its gates a few miles to the west. And the line is getting longer every week due to federal unemployment benefits expiring over a month ago, organizers say."
Zero Unionized Cast Members Recalled in Last Three Weeks as Food Bank Line Stretches for 2 Miles
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You’d be surprised. The big guy in charge retweets them, which he deems official policy.
Anyone think the CDC needs to come out and clarify the 6% thing... or are they too ‘infiltrated’?
Exactly. People were saying my husband should go work at a grocery store while furloughed so we didn’t have to use government money... and although the $875 a week was less than what he makes as a cast member + his second job... he was supposed to go work for $10/hr making MUUUUCH less while exposing himself to a potentially deadly virus? Nah. He’s good.
The risk is always getting laid off permanently. Same risk for the majority of people on furlough I imagine.
A good real life example. There are also many workers who work 2 or more jobs to make ends meet and if those jobs are mostly in the restaurant and hospitality industry (housekeeper by day, bartender or waitress part time at night) they aren’t made whole by the less than $300 a week they get from FL unemployment. Even with the extra $600 which has been gone for a month now they may have still been struggling to get by. I doubt too many people are choosing to not work and then getting in line at 4am for food. If there was a job to be had most would prefer to work.
I doubt anyone was surprised by that information. I think the deniers were just trying twist the information about comorbidities into the narrative that these patients were actually dying of something else, but being labled COVID-19 because of a test result. This line of reasoning has already been amply demolished multiple times in these threads, so no point in repeating it again.
Exactly. This is the biggest piece of non-news since this all started. We’ve heard from the start that pre-existing conditions put you at much higher risk for serious infection and/or death. That is proved out with the stat that 94% of deaths from Covid have a co-morbidity. The narrative that only 6% of Covid deaths are really from Covid is a complete misunderstanding of the meaning of co-morbidity either from ignorance or more likely intentionally. Then you get idiots tweeting and re-tweeting it and away it goes. The fact that Twitter has removed the original Tweet which came from a conspiracy theory account for violating their policy is irrelevant. Once the tweet was re-tweeted the damage is done and people continue to believe it.
