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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

and the spread through coming to work sick as many can’t afford not to.

In March of ~~2019~~ 2020 I said this would change nothing about how businesses run, and within two years we would be back to sending people in to work sick. What I didn't predict was the CDC actually changing fucking medical guidelines to benefit business instead of following the actual timeline it takes from infection to no longer spreading COVID.

It fucking sucks so hard being right. It was like overnight from "You're heroes!" right back to "You're lucky to have a fucking job! You should be thankful to me for keeping you employed!"

No one in corporate America gives one fucking shit about our lives. Why aren't more Americans ready to fucking strike over it? Probably because they're fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

A huge chunk might be stupid, but a vast majority of workers have no union protection, are one accident/car trouble/missed paycheck away from homelessness, AND have their healthcare tied to their job. Its a hurricane of fuck you that the ultra wealthy have created aimed at the working class.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In March of 2019

Ah, so COVID happened a year earlier in your timeline

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao, yeah, wrong year. 2020, of course. Please forgive my misspeak/type.

[–] FrickAndMortar 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It sure fucking FEELS like we’ve been dealing with this for 5 years LOL

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

2020 the year that lasted a decade

[–] arin 1 points 9 months ago

I do wonder what 2029 would look like

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean in a month and a half it'll be 4 years

[–] morphballganon 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I heard a theory that covid was around in Europe for a few months before it was officially recognized.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

late 2019 it was on the radio about a flu in China. I remember christmas eve 2019, talking with the guys at the parts counter about all this, wondering if they would close the border, the date is clear in my memory becuase i needed an important vehicle part in order to get home for christmas. They did, a couple months after the flu arrived the following year. I was so fucking mad that they didn't do a hard January closure, instead of a half assed patial closure 6 months late that literally solved nothing, prevented nothing, angered and inconvenienced people in two neighbouring countries that both had the fucking flu while thousands upon thousands of "essential" people just carried on. The whole thing was quite literally fucking retarded. Later there was proof it was in Italy early summer 2019, that's not a theory. Samples from water treatment plants.

[–] arin 1 points 9 months ago

WTF summer 2019 was very early in the timeline

[–] arin 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Same as USA, people in my office were coming in with walking pneumonia getting everyone sick in January 2020 and this was a tech and health company (works closely with hospitals and health insurance)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This is how we out the time travelers.