I love how the right got so offended when liberals and the left called detention facilities concentration camps,
It's not a position unique to the right. EVERYONE should be against the abuse and policing of language, buzzwords, memes as a means of news.
'Concentration camps' evokes WW2 imagery. On purpose. They are in no way even comparable, and anyone with a functioning brain knows this.
Besides, Godwin's Law would like a word with you and yours.
which they are for immigrants and migrants,
No. You're a walking lefty meme (or at least your posts are). Which is to say uninformed and unfunny.
Semantics arguments being used as a political cudgel, how typical. Again, evoking comparisons to WW2 over what's happening at the border (
for practically every administration, look out for the return of Stay in Mexico by creepy uncle Joe) is
absurdist.
claiming it's offensive to the Jewish people (who themselves said they were concentration camps),
No self-respecting Jew (omg 'no true scotsman') would draw comparisons in an objective sense, at the very least when it comes to severity and outcomes. Newsflash - there is no Jewish collective that speaks as a whole, so your anecdotal usage of one or two Jews making the comparison is, as usual, laughable. Also, there exist Jews that love to use their heritage as a playing card (something I thought the left is generally against?), and twist things for political aims. Left-leaning Jews could just as easily say they are "concentration camps" as a swipe at the right, or whoever's in office du jour that they want to put political pressure on.
That in no way makes them comparable in the macro sense, severity, outcome, conditions, origin, or optics in any way at all. In spite of how hard you try to draw similarities for political points.
but they have no problem claiming the treatment against anti-vaxxers is like the Holocaust happening again,
No one should invoke Godwin's Law, unless they are doing it ironically. The left seems very serious in their extremist comparisons of EVERYTHING to Nazi Germany however.
So no one that's reasonable, at any level, should be claiming it's anywhere near Holo-levels, because it clearly isn't.
That said, there are arguments about Nuremberg Code violations that were put in place for a reason. It doesn't have to be an 11 on a ten-scale in extreme to still be a problem, slippery slope aside. A '2' on a 10 scale (arbitrary) is still a problem. Govt responses should never even register.
even though anti-vaxxers aren't being killed or mistreated,
Forcing a medical treatment, however benign and harmless you pretend it is, is a form of mistreatment. If even only at the level of principle, let alone necessity, risk assessment, and requirements to do simple tasks such as shop, congregate, be educated, work, travel, vote, etc etc
The left, your ideology, USED to be against such things.
just judged for being okay with putting others at risk.
Judge away. I've probably forgotten more (as a relative layman) than you'll ever know when it comes to The Science (tm) of what's going on here, and no I don't mean getting notes from far-right sources and memes (although that's probably the case for yourself from the other end of the spectrum) (I'm the first to mention covid at all here btw - I was watching it and planning accordingly before it was probably even on your radar). You don't need an epidemiology degree to look at studies, medical journals, and so forth and draw conclusions - including ones that are just common sense (why aren't the life insurance companies freaking out, raising rates, etc., what happened to the flu deaths, why is all-cause mortality comparable to just a few years ago,, etc etc etc)
But shout out to credentialism in advance since that seems to be the go-to, knee-jerk argument. (we both know you won't even respond, directly at least, because cowardice and lack of being informed enough to form a cogent counterargument...)
I'm a pure blood, always will be, are zero threat to you, always have been but for a small blip where I self-isolated, and monitor my antibody levels. Because I hate all grandmas and secretly wish for their collective deaths, of course.
It's hilarious to me that in spite of current trends you and yours still worship the jab so much that you truly believe the absence of one makes you a threat to others. Cult shit. Seriously.
The jab is only for YOURSELF - and the need should be determined on a case-by-case basis. (age, general health, weight, occupation, risk exposure, risk tolerance, negative reactions in the past, lifestyle, family environment, and - omg - yes, even religious exemptions basis)
Oh, I absolutely do. We certainly agree here, but not for the reason you think.
Welp, the current situation is that the jobs are there. Companies at large just can't find workers to fill the positions for a variety of reasons (with the bigger one so far being "I can't take this 7.25 USD/hour during a pandemic bs anymore"). I don't take issue with the government using this type of coercion to force to get people to act on public health issues but the reality right now is that companies and the government have a weak hand here.
Yes, yes. There are ALWAYS confounding factors. Nothing is generally as simple as a singular cause.
- ability to sit on ass now as unemployment has been extended in many areas
- occupational changes during lockdowns
- the Genie is out of the bottle for working remotely
- and more
That doesn't negate that firings put a NEGATIVE PRESSURE on filling job vacancies, or maintaining existing jobs.
It's
almost as if there's a lot going on, unintended consequences are a real thing, agendas abound, not everyone is best served by a one-size-fits-all solution, and that economies are large, complex, and dynamic.
I'm
shocked that you too are OK with coercion from the government.
Edit:
Oh, and a trucking shortage doesn't just materialize overnight. Because that is the one industry vertical that was being discussed. This is a job that can't be outsourced or worked remotely (at least not yet), and is considered 'good-paying' enough to have generally been uninfluenced by the siren's song of staying at home on unemployment instead of continued work. It's also a job that is by default in isolation, so there's no reason to keep truckers home. Many literally don't even have to get out of their truck at this point to do their job.
www.cnn.com
