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Friyay 287: Hall0ween blue moon approacheth (pg. 3)
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| Zoso |
| Speaking of the good ole US election, this is the first time in my 43 years that I can recall worrying about a fundamental piece of our system of government: the peaceful transition of power. I really hope we get our heads out of our asses and vote the ass clown Cheeto out of office, but even if we do, I fear the worst. I hope I am wrong. I hope it's just a bad feeling and my usual "you worry too much" personality trait kicking in. But at this point, nothing would surprise me. I feel like I'm literally watching what was once a superpower nation fall apart in real time. It's going to take us decades to repair the damage we've done in the last four years, and that's assuming we elect not only a President willing to do it, but a Congress as well, and all at the same time. |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
Can you Gun? |
I could...until Obama took mine. :( I do, however, possess a claw hammer and a box of .22 hollow point rounds! |
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| Ted Promo |
| You should try to be able to Gun. |
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| Swamper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
I feel like I'm literally watching what was once a superpower nation fall apart in real time. It's going to take us decades to repair the damage we've done in the last four years, and that's assuming we elect not only a President willing to do it, but a Congress as well, and all at the same time. |
Covid didn't break America - it brought to light the many cracks in the armour that have been decades in the making. Neither Biden nor Covid disappearing will magically fix those prevailing ails. I don't say that with any pleasure since a prosperous Canada requires a healthy USA.
These two are great reads:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...-davis-1038206/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...est-165-million |
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| OrangestO |
Good news is I fixed my boiler and feel super proud about that. Bad news is we're in another lockdown.
Too bad it includes schools. I guess full-on daddy daycare continues.
Thank goodness they're keeping the little kiddo gyms open though. I'm taking him on my own for the first time this week.
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
Covid didn't break America - it brought to light the many cracks in the armour that have been decades in the making. Neither Biden nor Covid disappearing will magically fix those prevailing ails. I don't say that with any pleasure since a prosperous Canada requires a healthy USA. |
100% agree.
My fam in the States have gone mad. Both sides of the vote. I'm Polish and European from now on lol. |
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| Zoso |
I fully agree that COVID didn't break America, and I most certainly didn't mean to imply that it, alone, was responsible. I also agree that our problems are likely decades in the making, especially our highly partisan politics, based off an almost fanatical devotion to one of two parties.
Thank you for the links. I will likely read those tomorrow when the wife is working her 12 hour shift and I need a break between cleaning/house chores. Got mostly outdoor work done today. I can't believe how green the yard and pastures still are! Lows in the 20s (F) tomorrow and Monday night, though, so the green is short lived.
This afternoon, after mowing my walking loop:
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| Zoso |
Wow. Just...wow. From that article in The Rolling Stone: "When the Japanese within six weeks of Pearl Harbor took control of 90 percent of the world’s rubber supply, the U.S. dropped the speed limit to 35 mph to protect tires, and then, in three years, invented from scratch a synthetic-rubber industry that allowed Allied armies to roll over the Nazis. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years; the record was a ship built in four days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. A single American factory, Chrysler’s Detroit Arsenal, built more tanks than the whole of the Third Reich."
Those stats are mind boggling. I can't help but think that, even if required by the most dire necessity of survival as a nation and a people, we couldn't get anywhere close to that today. |
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| planetaryplayer |
| yesterdays frost killed just about everything except the kale |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You might be in the anti-lead for now, Marcus, but I suspect winter will put us northern hemisphere nations back on the podium of catastrophe. Although I believe Belgium are already the undisputed champions of per capita deaths. |
Not quite just yet. According to the FT, Belgium is bad, but Peru is worse on cumulative deaths and the Czech Republic is by far the worst according to the 7-day rolling average. The second Belgian wave is dwarfing the first one though, much to my surprise so I wouldn't be surprised if they take back the top spot by the end of the year.
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
What's really annoying is we're still doing almost as badly as Brazil and we've been through a lockdown. By now the Overton Window on deaths has shifted so much that a sizeable percentage of the country would probably bite your hand off for Brazil's death rate if it meant less restrictions. |
I've just done the maths, and a spike in 11% (assuming we remained steady) would be enough for our countries to have the same death rate.
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Wait, whatever happened after the lockdown? I thought things never really returned to normal in England, yet you guys are catching up with us? |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
Covid didn't break America - it brought to light the many cracks in the armour that have been decades in the making. Neither Biden nor Covid disappearing will magically fix those prevailing ails. I don't say that with any pleasure since a prosperous Canada requires a healthy USA. |
That's pretty much our relationship with Argentina. We've been letting them down every single time :p |
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