CTyankee (56,938 posts)
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I posted earlier on this shocking incident at my local supermarket where I have shopped uneventfully for YEARS:
I was told by a store employee: "You know that Joe Biden raped four women." And he smirked when he said it.
This shocking incident left me nearly speechless. I had asked him about the severe shortage of frozen foods 1.). He started to tell me about supply lines during the pandemic 2.). I said I understood and I am glad that our state (CT) is one of the safest from the pandemic 3.). Then he said to me "You aren't going to vote for Biden, are you?" 4.) and then his LIE about Joe.
1.) Unless this happened between mid-March and Mid-April or so, this shows this story is pure or substantially fictional.
2.) Early in the shutdowns, production and transportation were disrupted to some degree. When bureaucrats' dicta force production or logistics people to stay home, spot shortages happen. Especially when there is a substantial demand surge.
BUT other than sanitizing wipes (whose production is hampered by necessary materials being also used for masks and gowns and there is a huge demand surge for all those products), shortages of various commodities are several months in the past.
3.) Actually, per
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , Connecticut is the 4th worst state in the US in deaths per million population, and only very slightly less bad than Massachusetts. And per
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ETm51GayRjlnoaRVtUOWfkolEeAQZ-zPhXkCbVe4_ik/edit#gid=435667374 , Connecticut is the third worst state when it comes to the percentage of Covid-19 deaths of Long Term Care (=nursing homes) patients (though NY jiggered or jiggers its stats to exclude LTC patients who are taken to regular hospital before dying).
4.) Unless
CTyankee leaves out a
large amount of context in which
CTyankee acted the jackass, this is the point at which his
becomes pure fiction. Absent severe provocation, store employees are not going to get into that kind of argument with a customer while on the job. Because absent severe provocation, such a store employee would all but certainly get fired.
