Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

sure

 

The problem is the Joe Sixpacks I've talked to who KNOW THEY KNOW what the answers are.

 

I think a lot of that is natural pushback to the other side acting like the AIDS ribbon mob from Seinfeld.

"He's not wearing the ribbon!"
"He's not wearing a mask!"

You'd get better traction if you'd take Col. Jessup's advice: "You gotta ask nicely."

What drives me nuts about these "XXX tested positive OR were exposed" is that they almost NEVER break down the two parts. How hard is it?

259 tested positive and another was exposed is a hell of a lot different than 1 tested positive and another 259 were exposed.

 

Yep, proving people didn't want to wear masks in 1918 really puts the nail in the coffin about a hypothetical discussion re: WWII.

Bravo, BTE.

 

Are some on this board advising Rand Paul?

 

It wasn't really meant as a "WWII-era" remark. It was a reference to an idea we perpetuate that some previous generation --- or many generations way back --- was less selfish, more willing to sacrifice for the greater good yada yada yada.

I mean, these were people who didn't want women to vote and would not let blacks marry whites. I hesitate to look to them for moral clarity on everything, Greatest Generation notwithstanding.

 

Or, or I'm pointing out that the things we're being asked to sacrifice are miniscule compared to what other Americans were asked to do. If deeply flawed Americans can do what was required to fight the war, why can't we do some comparatively simple things to stamp out this virus?

 

Or maybe there was a major event in the nation that happened after 1918 - maybe a Great Depression - that caused them to change the nation's collective attitude about individualism?

 

There's a reason that we called them The Greatest Generation. I suspect that the descriptive term for this one will be more like "The Most Selfish Generation".

 

I just got a press release from the Texas Comptroller. Sales tax revenue in July was almost $3 billion, 4.3 percent • more • than July 2019.

I honestly don’t know if that’s good or bad.

 

Related to @Twirling Time's post. I'm working part-time in a local outdoors store. Normally, the store would be swamped on tax-free weekend with parents and college kids buying new backpacks from The North Face and Patagonia tee shirts and Chacos or running shoes.

It was a ghost town on Saturday. There were several large stretches where there were more employees than customers.

That said YoY sales are way up and people are spending stimulus money and their DisneyWorld money locally.

 

For earlier months the numbers were ...

April, down 9.3% from 2019
May, down 13.1% from 2019
June, down 6.5% from 2019