I was nominated for the “40 Under 40" list in the local Business Journal for my region. A rep from the Business Journal called to tell me I was nominated and ask if I could commit to filling a table at the ceremony (I think it was like $150 a seat) or if I wanted to buy advertising in the program if I were named one…

I think a lot of people won’t go back to the office, or maybe just once a week for meetings or something.

One think I am hoping this pandemic changes is the corporate insistence on face time even when you’re sick. Now that we know working from home is possible, why do you want someone in the office who is sick with anything coming in? I won’t hold out too much hope for that though.

It’s derived from the All Doctors Are Rich fallacy, which pictures a giant money spout from which doctor drink, often and deeply, when they’re not golfing.

And, even after being stricken with the disease himself, he hid his illness from the American public.

Unfortunately, they are infecting everybody else. Just like the one guy with the flu that doesn’t stay home or wash his hands can infect the whole office, their refusal to alter their behavior or wear a mask makes them superspreaders, and once everybody around you is sick it becomes easier to get infected even if you…

If the COVID deniers were the only ones that would die from it, I’d say let them believe whatever the fuck they want...

The fact that anyone thinks hospitals are making money off of COVID is so insane to me. If they’re making money, why are they laying people off?!? I work in healthcare (not patient facing, so at home) and we’ve had our retirement contributions halted, our cost of living raise canceled, no new hires, and our entire…

This has to be the most powerful kind of cognitive dissonance there is: Admitting that you are to blame for your own looming death because you were wrong about something as stupid as political party loyalty is somehow more painful than dying?

Biden may have won but Americans have to grapple with the fact that half the country has basically gone off the deep end and Trump may be gone soon (fingers crossed) but his conspiracy-addled base will still be there for a long time. 

I work in insurance and there is a woman in this very building who does health insurance and spouts that particular old chestnut. That makes me very concerned about the soundness of our health insurance department. 

And the whole “THE HOSPITALS/DOCTORS GET PAID MORE IF THEY SAY SOMEONE DIED FROM COVID!!!” is a fucking joke for people who don’t understand how insurance and reimbursement works. It’s just too bad that COVID’s not discriminating appropriately to take out more of the people who shouldn’t be passing on their genes to…

It’s a mix of value judgments and betrayal.

COVID deniers are very likely to believe in bootstrap philosophy and think that people who get sick from it are “weak” or did something dangerous to get it. They obviously believe that could never be them. 

The COVID deniers also probably can’t believe that the politicians,…

As someone sporting one of these, this whole concept of denying a public health crisis is just madness. I don’t understand how we got from parents rushing to vaccinate their children from deadly diseases while a grateful nation celebrated the scientists who made it possible to how we live now.

Open the thread and read the whole thing.

One of my idiot coworkers was claiming a friend of a friend was killed in a drive by shooting and the hospital listed his death as covid-19. These people will believe anything that fits into the worldview they want to have without any evidence, and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

The evolution of the HIV/AIDS deniers decades ago. See: Tommy Morrison. 

But none of that is unique to New York - every big city has non-chain corner markets, even if they don’t call them bodegas.

Also Target, Walgreens/CVS/Rite Aid/other drug stores, etc.

And if the post hadn’t been “Only true NYers will get this!” that’s what we’d all be doing. Or we’d dive deeper, into one of the few places where even though they’re expensive, they’re one of the few places where you can still be an independent small business owner,  that hasn’t been taken over by huge corporate…