That is a true statement, but these folks living in red counties are affected worse than those in blue counties, and this seems largely to come down to taking this seriously and having overall more folks willing to slightly inconvenience themselves to protect others.
And this is despite the early conscious decision in DC to let the pandemic roar in blue areas. Karma is an angry wolf, man.
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I learned a new word today, thanks!
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I donât believe in karma. I believed in justice and the rule of law, maybe. However, not in countries like the US.
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âEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.â
Give it a name; what goes around eventually does come back around.
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It seems like remote work greatly diminishes the monopsony power that many employers now wield. âYou donât like the wages we pay? Thatâs too bad because weâre the only company in town hiring people with your skillset, so itâs us or movingâ. With remote work large employers will no longer have that power.
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True, it is more difficult for some businesses to be the only one in town. Some have been using tech to set up a race to the bottom with wages and gatekeeping. With global competition for IT consulting work, people can easily find jobs for rates that wonât cover their cost of living - even when the savings from doing remote work are considered.
Friends of mine who started tutoring kids ran into the gatekeeper scenario. A few firms dominate that industry online, and get lots of people to register. They make it difficult to attract direct clients, and take a large portion of the proceeds as the middleman. Worse, some get workers to pay a subscription - whether or not they are assigned any clients. The turnover is high, and people can be terminated with little or no cause.
So, companies have been gaming the system for their own benefit for a long time. Asking for a tax, surcharge, or subscription is just adding insult to injury.
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Iâm not too comfortable with any mysticism, so I would say: at some point, people maybe canât take it any more and are going to take our into their own hands to get shit done. To get what they perceive as justice. To get their right.
And do it in a peaceful, democratic, strong and determined way.
Iâm not talking vigilantism here. Thatâs for the bloody fascists.
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Call it the pendulum of history, then. Same result.
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They may be red counties, but they are full of blue people, and for every MAGAT who dies with the best insurance and care, three of us will die without.
It wonât even hurt their communities the way it hurts ours. Theyâll cheerfully divide themselves between the manly survivors and the crippled and dying losers, who will never be mentioned again.
This disease is not, and will never be, a moral agent or a karmic force as desperately as we might want it to be. No disease is. Even gout now strikes the poor harder than the rich.
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some of this is doubtless down to how seriously people take the virus, another part might be the state (hmmm) of healthcare in rural places, especially rural red areas.
when oligarchs pit people against each other focusing on peopleâs beliefs instead of policy is a common tactic.
and this is a perfect example. yes, red states have more anti-maskers. but the death rate differences are also tied to understaffed, underfunded, underinsured rural healthcare.
biden is against medicare-for-all, and he may want to pretend that mask mandates will solve everything. but people will still get sick even with mask mandates. and medicare-for-all would help them survive.
( possibly even: if everybody had access to healthcare, more people would have realized how serious covid is b/c they would have a trusted family doctor to talk to. )
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Nothing to do with karma, everything to do with proportion of people who will inconvenience themselves slightly to protect others. This attitude is more prevalent in blue areas than red, where propaganda carries more weight than science. As always, this will affect essential employees disproportionately.
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I consider these claims somewhat extraordinary, so Iâm not 100% convinced.
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Iâm skeptical, too. Last time we heard this kind of talk, it was shortly debunked.
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Is it true that Americans have to pay to be tested for Covid? Is it true that there is about a weeks wait before you can get a test?
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It depends. There are some free testing programs in certain areas. If you take a test at the doctorâs, you may have to pay, especially if youâre getting a rapid response test. And if one has health insurance, that may absorb any cost. If youâre not insured, youâre more likely to have to pay for it. I donât know about waiting, but if a testing center has a high volume, I can see delays in getting in. Maybe an appointment would be required.
My experience: I got sick last week and wound up going to an urgent care clinic. My exam plus same-day covid test was $50, but that test was a one-to-three-day result test. A rapid response test would have raised the cost to $100. And of course the medications were extra ($105.) I donât have insurance, so the whole thing was out-of-pocket.
Fortunately, I didnât have covid. Itâs just a sinus infection, and the meds are doing a great job kicking its butt.
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