This does create a self inflicted Slowloris attack on the server hosting the image, so this site is probably more susceptible to the hug of death than most
> Slightly tangentially to your comment, I believe that people tend to vote based on the fact they believe they either are, or will soon be, part of the one percent.
As quoted in A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright:
> John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. This helps explain why American culture is so hostile to the idea of limits, why voters during the last energy shortage rejected the sweater-wearing Jimmy Carter and elected Ronald Reagan who told them it was still “morning in America.” Nowhere does the myth of progress have more fervent believers.
Socialism/Anarchism has serious roots in the United States. See the history of the underground railroad, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and actual gun battles against the militias of the bosses (Pinkermen), workers opposition to the first world war and their jailing for anti-war propaganda (anti-war doesn't mean anti-revolution, on the contrary), etc..
At some point of course a lot of people are gonna think a 0.001% to become a millionnaire and 99.99% chance to stay a wage slave all your life is better than great chances to be detained, mutilated or assassinated by the police or a militia.
The irony of how little May 1st means in the US today, is that May 1st as the international day of labor demonstrations stems in part from the AFL announcing to the First International that they planned to pick up demonstrations for the 8 hour day again, in part in commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre.
So in large parts of the world organised labour annually takes part in demonstrations as a direct result of the commitment of US unions.
Look at the death rates for people under 45...it's like 1 in 10,000. In some cities and for certain age brackets, you're more likely to be murdered or commit suicide than to die from Covid. The car accident fatality rate is roughly 1 in 10,000.
Yea, sorry, but I have to call anecdotal bs on these claims. Every person in the news I've seen that claims long term problems are obese individuals looking to make excuses. Other "damages" are so random and all over the place, it smells like correlation rather than causation. You know when someone might say they have head lice and your head gets all itchy suddenly, then you think you might have lice too. Theres a whole lot of that going on when it comes to relating other health problems to Covid. Dont forget, it's super sexy right now to be a covid survivor. People get a whole lot of attention for it.
For a forum that loves to call out anecdotal bias all the time, when it comes to Covid, everyone here jumps on the fear bandwagon of the news and on really poorly done studies with only a few dozen participants or epidemiologies.
> Every person in the news I've seen that claims long term problems are obese individuals looking to make excuses.
You should watch a more diverse media, then, because there are more than a few fabulously fit people who are no longer able to compete, or even continue, their sport.
Anecdotal and it sounds more like they have tiny heart syndrome flaring up. Part B, again, it's sexy to "Oh my goodness, my life is so difficult now since I survived covid. Look at me, I'm a covid survivor, my life is so altered." It's all cherry picked cases that the media are throwing out there. Cherry picked anecdotes, something in any other HN topic would get you lambasted.
Vast majority of people who contract this illness don't even show symptoms at all. That's what's weird about this disease. It seems to affect the elderly disproportionately but for younger people and people with no risk factors, the risk is exceedingly low that one will experience SARS at all.
If you're not affected by covid-19 but something else you'll still have a problem if the hospital is overwhelmed due to covid-19. I've noticed various countries in Europe where they delayed various hospitalizations. Similarly, various people avoided going to a hospital while they usually would go.
How many people will have permanent problems (despite surviving) due to covid-19 is still unknown AFAIK.
Did they delay or avoid hospitalization because the hospitals are overwhelmed, or because treatments/diagnostics to their conditions were deemed non-essential or elective?
What are you talking about? What drowning? The clinical picture hasn't been that different compared to previous years with outbreaks of respiratory illnesses. In fact in some countries the death rates have actually been lower. The only reason this year we are talking about it is because for some reason it became a huge media thing. There was no reason previous years to not talk about respiratory illnesses. They have always been serious thing and people are dying each year from them. They have always been dangerous to elderly people and people with other illnesses. I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe all of a sudden.
