UndergroundPanther: I really wonder

[dutch508]

Star Member I_UndergroundPanther (2,100 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213597681

I really wonder
Ever hear of the bandwagon technique in advertising? Where hype is created about a product by implying everyone is buying it so you should too,bullshit..

I wonder how many people really are that desperate for haircuts,to go out to eat, to a casino to the movies ,just to pretend all is normal again? How many people don't care they'll risk thier own lives their family and all the people that work at these jobs to do this stuff.

I'd like to know who's unable to function if they can't go to a sit down restaurant?

Because if you ask me the "desperation" routine amidst the cries of open up NOW or else seems like pure bullshit to me.

How much of this is hype?

I'm not including brain dead magats in this question.

 

How many people don't care they'll risk thier own lives their family and all the people that work at these jobs to do this stuff.

You mean like protests and riots and shit?

 

Star Member Mike 03 (11,225 posts)

2. The stakes are much higher here than in, say, selecting a brand of soda

Wuhan, China tried to incentivize going out and acting like everything was normal and it didn't work very well.

I feel sorry for people who are forced back to work. But of the people who are able to choose whether or not to remain on lockdown, I think in that group we'll see self-selection, and that intelligent, knowledgeable folks will make the choice to remain in state as close to lockdown as they can reasonably achieve.

With the economy so uncertain, I'm skeptical of the talking point about "pent up demand." How many people have learned over the last four months that they don't need as much as they thought they did?

 

Brainfodder (2,588 posts)

7. All about the rich needing their income flow?

They don't give a hoot about us, just our money?

Civil society is probably broken?

The stock market so bloated, it's pretty amazing how that toy of the wealthy is being manipulated?

 

[SVPete]

UGP is unqualified to speak of "normal" or "real".

[thundley4]

Brainfodder (2,588 posts)

7. All about the rich needing their income flow?

They don't give a hoot about us, just our money?

Your money? I'm guessing what you call "your money" actually comes from tax payers.

[Mary Ann]

Well, I'm speaking from the People's Republic of Michigan, where Gov. Gretchen Half-Whit-mer botched the lock down, and has botched the reopening. The county I live in has had a handful of cases and no deaths, and our number has not gone up since April 16. Since cases are considered "recovered" if the patient is still alive 30 days after diagnosis, we have not had an active case in our county since mid-May. But--we were as locked down as Wayne County, which has had over 21,000 cases and 2500 deaths, until very recently. I think we were only opened up because she and her doofus husband wanted to go to their up-north cottage over Memorial day.

Half-Whit recently said that her family had been "impacted" too, because her daughter had missed her prom and her graduation. She is having a televised town hall this week, and I want to ask her if she is actually equating missing a prom and graduation to losing a job, a business, a retirement, a college fund, etc.. Dh has advised me not to. He says you can't trust a Karen.

[Delmar]

She is having a televised town hall this week, and I want to ask her if she is actually equating missing a prom and graduation to losing a job, a business, a retirement, a college fund, etc.. Dh has advised me not to. He says you can't trust a Karen.

It's something to think about--you don't want to end up getting the Joe the Plumber treatment and she's just the type to do it.

[Mary Ann]

It's something to think about--you don't want to end up getting the Joe the Plumber treatment and she's just the type to do it.

True that. Generally speaking, I can always count on him to be the voice of common sense.

[franksolich]

I_UndergroundPanther (2,100 posts)
I really wonder.....

.....why the subway cat won't get out and find a job.

[DUmpDiver]

Sorry, UP, but contracting COVID is not a death sentence.  In fact, for those under 60 the fatality rate is extremely low.

[67 Rover]

Sorry, UP, but contracting COVID is not a death sentence.  In fact, for those under 60 the fatality rate is extremely low.

Its whiskers will not fit under the face mask.

[franksolich]

Sorry, UP, but contracting COVID is not a death sentence.  In fact, for those under 60 the fatality rate is extremely low.

The subway cat was born in 1964, making her close to 60.

Also, considering her gross obesity, couch-potatoing, repeated bodily self-abuse and mutilation, and overuse of drugs, I consider her at least moderately high risk.

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

Sorry, UP, but contracting COVID is not a death sentence.  In fact, for those under 60 the fatality rate is extremely low.

If I remember right, the general US fatality rate is less than 1.5% of the infected, and at least 80% of the infected will not even need any major medical treatment.