You stupid twat. Of course I care for my friends & family far more than you. And by your comment that feeling is mutual. Just spent a 1/2 hour looking for total US death rate in 2020 so far. Can't find anything on a national level. The CDC mysteriously stopped counting in March, which is concerning. Best I could find was the data for New Jersey. New Jersey, one of the hardest hit States, showed that death rates went back to normal around June/July. https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/documents/2015-2020 Deaths by Month and County of Residence.pdf Can anyone find the actual total deaths in US so far? Not opinion pieces. Not excess deaths. Just the actual death total this year.
What? When did they start attacking them for putting in measures and do you mean the other side? Some random person on twitter? Nevermind don't answer this is not the right place.
I know a bunch of people in the restaurant and hospitality industries who have lost work due to the pandemic. I don't know anyone in the airline industry right now, but it looks brutal from the outside. Higher education has been hit hard, but I've bored y'all with that already. Mrs. B-Bob and I still have jobs, but I had a hefty pay cut. More kids (understandably) are staying on the sidelines instead of "attending" half-ass versions of college online. The good news for me selfishly? It's made me branch out and start doing some consulting that I had no idea even last year that I could do. Nice for an old fart to figure out he has marketable skills. Going to have to keep up this dye job though. (Sorry, not sorry.)
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Excess-Deaths-Associated-with-COVID-19/xkkf-xrst/ 2017 2,751,037.00 2018 2,839,076.00 2019 2,852,588.00 2020 2,371,537.00 Here are the number of death. you can go to the data above and look at the observed number. If you extrapolate an extra 3 months to 2020 data you will see we have way more deaths than the last few years.
Marketing total deaths as some indicator that Covid-19 isn't an issue doesn't make sense. We haven't self quarantine ourselves in other years so other deaths from transmissible illness or transportation deaths may have dropped this year to offset the increase from Covid. Same reason you don't compare nba stats from the 60s to today. Basically different rules.
Except the data shows we are going to have about 10% more deaths this year. I was responding to Fatty's thread asking for the data. The data is on the website I posted.
"Thousands of scientists and health experts have joined a global movement warning of "grave concerns" about Covid-19 lockdown policies. Nearly 6,000 experts, including dozens from the UK, say the approach is having a devastating impact on physical and mental health as well as society. They are calling for protection to be focused on the vulnerable, while healthy people get on with their lives." https://www.bbc.com/news/health-544...Je8dZ2gKQ_gGP0VEHXk2an0P8lNJm4Y3RHta9VysK-kSo
my wife lost her job. before 9/11 in the summer things were starting to slow down..once 9/11 hit lots of companies were able to finally pull trigger on layoffs that would have come. end of 19 felt same and through first of year there was this feeling it needed to improve. for my wifes job the virus was enough of an excuse to eliminate her position and similar throughout usa..there were 12 others in my wife role and kept 3.my wife could have stayed on with lower salary in meantime. due to virus she chose to be home and with kids. we are now on one income. unless you sell cruises or own a roller rink this all feels a lot like a dilution...lowering of pay and overall downgrade to clean people off the books. im hearing many get laid off during virus having government pay their salary during this ..then rehiring at a lower rate. the short term blip in sales or action..even for a few quarters of stagnation is being recouped in years and years of lower projected salary. you make too much and you might need to be careful. say what you want about world ending if biden ...truth be told this course correction and overall adjustment against the worker has taken place under trump. if you fancy yourself a fat cat trump guy you should be loving this cost of good sold reduction and labor cost correction.high five!! in a few quarters when sales are up again you will still be paying your staff pennies ebitda schwing
Yep, what sucks is he finally chose to get out of the kitchen/chef lifestyle (horrific hours, mediocre-to-ok pay, don't get home until 3AM, industry leads to drink and drugs, etc...) and got a great "regular" job that he loved...and they loved him, sent him all over the US to learn from their equipment suppliers (he said the guys in Wisconsin who made walk-in-coolers was the craziest 4 days he'd had in a while), he was doing commercial kitchens just like he was when he opened restaurants.... And then COVID. ****.
Oh that's right. You're an O&G guy too. Yeah man I hear you. It's tough on the industry now and with COVID-19, doubly so. No job loss for me and I hope to keep it that way. We laid off 10% of the company about 3 months ago. No further layoffs thus far.
Look for Roscoe to keep avoiding this question as do other Trump supporters do when they're confronted with things they can't answer...spout some other topic and deflect. All too familiar with this behavior with bigtexxx.
Oh I work for a company based in WI, too. They drink...A LOT...ALL OF THE TIME. Going up there is typically a test of endurance.
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Luckily my fulltime gig has been pretty much unaffected. Company was already ahead of the curve when everyone started working from home. We had been doing it part time for years now, so switching to full time wasn't really a big deal for anyone. My side-hustle has been devastated though. Only 3 gigs since March. Lucky for me, I don't really depend on that income but I know a lot of freelance musicians who do and I feel really bad for them because the last 6 months have been BRUTAL. The good part is that I get to spend a lot more weekends with my family now. And most of our gigs were postponed until 2021, so the backlog will be a nice financial windfall next year!
My wife (Geophysicist) was laid off over the summer, along with many others at her company. It has been tough for her because she just got her career started in that field, and now there is a lot of uncertainty regarding where O&G is headed in the future. There really is not very much available right now and open positions are scarce. She keeps searching and applying, but is also using this time to study data science in case she needs to abandon the O&G career path and do something else.
She took a short online certification class for Python. I'm not sure which one she did but there are several out there, many free. She's now looking into a longer online class from a university (Rice has one) for a more advanced certification.
'Geophysicist' sounds so dang cool. I hope her foray into data science pays off. A friend was a mechanical engineer but recently went the data science route (online Masters from, like, a university in Indiana). Not sure if he was completely dissatisfied with being an engineer or if simply likes data science more, but yeah.
