One minor shout-out to former Minnesapolis mayor R.T. Rybak; to date, he is the only DFL politician to come on the Northern Alliance. We had a great discussion. You don’t have to throw plates at each other to have a good debate.
But you can sure throw facts at each other:
I mean, if one has never worked in the private sector, one might think re-opening a long-closed restaurant is a matter of unlocking the doors, logging into the stove and getting avocado onto toast.
Not about getting food in stock, even without supply chain problems, or getting staff to come to a downtown that’s gotten very human-unfriendly, on top of expensive to park in and tangibly less pleasant to take the bus or train to, when employment options in much more amenable, affordable places are also available.
And there’s a real sense – at least, among people who pay attention to the DFL – that the current relaxation of Covid hypochondria is tied mostly to mid-term polling ,and when the “gnu” or “omega” variants come out in mid-November everything will get shut down in yet another frothing, unproductive, business-shredding panic, leaving those “Re-opened” restaurants giving their food away so it doesn’t rot in the freezer. Again.
He does realize his party caused this, right?
Mitch, you need pronouns on your Twitter page.
I’m not sure if they think they did cause this.
Part of being a leftist is never thinking you are ever wrong or thinking there are consequences for your actions.
“HE/HIM”
Anyone remember “He Hate Me”? That guy was a fucking genuis.
It is truly awful to ponder the stupidity of political leaders and “public health officials” who believe that you can turn economic and social activities on and off like a water tap.
See this from NPR:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/whats-driving-rollback-mask-mandates-blue-states
It’s the transcript of a broadcast they did on Monday about why blue state governors are lifting their mandates. We are given three alternatives. The governors’ democratic voters have turned against mandates and school closures, the governors are seeing large-scale non-compliance and are trying to keep pace with actual mask use so they won’t be seen to be ignored, and that they had promised, more or less, to lift mandates as vaccinations increased.
Note that none of these three reasons has anything to do with science.
They then say that the reason the CDC is NOT altering its guidance on masks is because if they lift the pro-mask guidance now, it would be difficult to impose it again if needed.
Again, note that this is not a science based decision. Everyone is aware, or course, that all the politicians and all the “public health officials” continue to claim that their rules and changes to rules are based on “the current science,” not “the current politics.”
The NPR story makes it clear that all of these decisions are intended to guide or alter human behavior. There is a word for that, it is called “politics.” In a democracy, political decisions are made by the people and their representatives, not bureaucrats in lab coats.
Fisch +1
It is truly awful to ponder the stupidity of political leaders and “public health officials” who believe that you can turn economic and social activities on and off like a water tap.
MP, I beg to differ. You can indeed turn the tap off and achieve immediate results – see what one year of Jughead admin did to the country and the rest of the world. But yes, it won’t turn back on so easily, although Trump got spectacular results in a very short period of time despite all the opposition.
“I’m not sure if they think they did cause this.”
Plural they or singular they? ;^)
Yes we skipped a couple of variant names in our Greek naming convention. Nu was skipped because the powers that be thought people would start spelling “new” the wrong way. Then the NBA wouldn’t let them use xi because anything that might possibly be seen as disrespectful to Pooh Bear has to be avoided. That’s how we got the anagram for the Moronic strain of the virus!
I should mention that following the NPR interview I linked to in my 8:35, they did a longish segment of pure covid porn about deer — yes, deer, the four-legged huntable ungulate, passing covid on to . . . deer processing humans?
The NPR reporter seemed disappointed that the infectious disease guy whom she was interviewing downplayed the risk of deer-human covid transmission. She kept pressing him to imagine scenarios where a deer could pass covid to a human.
There has been not a single case of covid passing from a deer to a human being, ever.
Your tax dollars at work.
Blade, was that the XFL?
Yes it was Kinlaw. The WWF of pro sportsball.