How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

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We haven't even begun to grapple with how we "flubbed" this pandemic from the start, including intentionally "playing it down" when we knew it was deadly (and airborne). There have been hundreds of thousands of needless US deaths, untold suffering, economic loss and loss of trust arising from this "original sin".
Hello; Good that you are finally on board about how Dr. Fauci fumbled at the start of the process.
 
Thanks to this ****ed off real estate market due to landlords not getting paid for a year they decided to jack up the rent from 925 to 1400. That has basically priced me out of housing. So now I need to get a car to live in for the amout of time it takes the homeless programs to cut thru all the red tape and actually help me a twice over cancer survivor on disability get into affordable housing.

If anyone wants help

Hello; I am not a landlord nor do I have close friends who are landlords. I do get the reason why the rents will need to be raised. Unless I am very wrong the landlords have had to pay mortgages, insurance, property tax and maintenance costs during the pandemic. Some how they will have to raise funds.

While I understood the idea behind the moratorium on evictions, I did wonder about the overall consequences. This is something I have not followed closely.
 
First, ya gotta tell the truth.
Because nobody knows the future!
You cannot mislead people just to make them comply/agree/pay.
Not and get away with it for very long.
Once something easy you never saw coming, hits the bricks?

I've seen sociologists say that over 25% of the public can easily be persuaded to believe/say/do some total nonsense. (This forms a large motivation in our consumption-centric society.) So it is tough to consider any public poll as evidence of anything but bias and ignorance.

I do think people will all eventually take some covid vaccine or other. But many will wait to see when (not if) more side effects will appear.

Of course the vaccines can go "stale". If large batches expire unused it will be costly.
Too bad we have such costly criminal influence in the health care/products industry.
 
Thanks to this ****ed off real estate market due to landlords not getting paid for a year they decided to jack up the rent from 925 to 1400. That has basically priced me out of housing. So now I need to get a car to live in for the amout of time it takes the homeless programs to cut thru all the red tape and actually help me a twice over cancer survivor on disability get into affordable housing.

If anyone wants help

Jesus, sorry to hear this...
Two of my college age grandkids are going thru this too. I've been fixing up their car so it's legal and safe and now it looks like they may be living in it.
 
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Hello; I am not a landlord nor do I have close friends who are landlords. I do get the reason why the rents will need to be raised. Unless I am very wrong the landlords have had to pay mortgages, insurance, property tax and maintenance costs during the pandemic. Some how they will have to raise funds.

While I understood the idea behind the moratorium on evictions, I did wonder about the overall consequences. This is something I have not followed closely.

If landlords can't pay taxes, their property will be sold off. Big investment firms are buying up these cases across the nation at tax auctions.
Then the bulldozers arrive.
 
The Delta variant now accounts for more than half of the new COVID cases in the United States —52%. Almost all of the new cases — 99.7% —are among people who have not been vaccinated.

 
Yes...but the number of people who are fully vaccinated and still get the bug is miniscule...yet you can bet good money that the anti-vaxxers will point and shout "See? See?? WE TOLD YOU SO!!!"

Being killed because the house you are in collapses onto you is exceedingly rare, but it does happen. Clearly, the only way to stay safe from this horrible death is to not go into houses, ever. Staying outside exposed to the elements should obviously be completely safe...right? Except it's not.

Vaccines are like that; they're the lesser...far, far lesser...of two evils, the other being the virus itself.
 
Possible but very rare. And, importantly, people who are vaccinated and get COVID very, very, very rarely needing to be hospitalized or dying.

People who aren't vaccinated are getting and spreading COVID like crazy, overwhelming ICUs and dying.

 
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