Name one NOT OBVIOUS thing you’ve learned from COVID

[jshani]

People will literally put themselves in harm's way just to be contrarian...

 

[Why-Fi]

the culmination of all this traumatic news is a spiritual attack

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Exposed how close the US is being balkanized.

We saw signs of this when states that halfway gave a shyt formed pacts with each other to coordinate a regional covid response. You had the DC, Maryland, Virginia pact lead by Governor Larry Hogan (odd considering that VA Governor Northam is a med doc). NY, NJ and CT led by Andrew Cuomo and Cali, Washington and Oregon led by Newsom.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Americans are sheep. All of this complaining about disproportionate work/life balance, low wages, etc, and they had the power of bringing the shyt to it's knees and nope, they were out here begging for things to open up so they could go back go work, go on vacations, etc. So when the past due notices come for the late mortgages and rent, fukk’em. You had your chance to make a change to the system and you pissed it away

 

[CopiousX]

I realized how unintelligent the American populace is a whole and how much power they have (a lot).

Andrew Yang was absolutely right about UBI even a couple of stimulus checks kept some people out of the whole.

People will get violent over the loss of even the basic necessities. People were almost fist fighting over toilet paper. My wife smartly buys the stuff by the pallet so we were fine but still.

I learned to appreciate my family more and the time I spend with my wife.

Americans are sheep. All of this complaining about disproportionate work/life balance, low wages, etc, and they had the power of bringing the shyt to it's knees and nope, they were out here begging for things to open up so they could go back go work, go on vacations, etc. So when the past due notices come for the late mortgages and rent, fukk’em. You had your chance to make a change to the system and you pissed it away

Word to both of y’all .

I realized this too. But there is also some nuance to our temporary UBI scheme when compared to other nations. It shocked me to learn how truly selfish and incompetent our legislators could be when I saw Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, and the Nordic nations instantaneously give money to their citizens after their economies shut down. No debate or nothing; their leadership saw a Need and immediately filled it. The populace was not held hostage like our US population was.



And this wasn’t even a small amount of assistance given by these other nations. Within 3 months I recall Canada giving out 2500 per month to everyone off of general principle. Now compare that to the $2400 for two whole years the US population got. And it was literally a war to set up the unemployment bonuses in DC afterwards.


@Lucky_Lefty You are so right about people not wanting to change this system that has its foot on our necks. I found it hilarious that the same poor Appalachian, Southern, and Midwestern white people who had lost everything and already had failing economies prior to covid were protesting to not receiving a stimulus. I had a colleague who’s wife had lost her job at Delta and was facing a nasty mortgage foreclosure. And this fool was going on and on about “fiscal responsibility” and the “selfishness of eviction moratoriums” when his household was in literal shambles due to covid. The solution was in front him and he was doing everything in his power to ignore it.

 

[Killigraphy]

How nations have ruled for so long, even under such terrible leaders. People aren't dumb, they're complacent. If you know this, you have a nation under your thumb.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

People are even more inconsiderate than I thought

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

This thread had a lot of promise that died after the first post.

 

[Paper Boi]

my co workers aren't that bad (when I don't have to see them everyday)

 

[ItzRailT]

People will follow whatever the government tells them, people can’t think for themselves and how funny Democratic politicians are funny how they they was refusing the vaccine when trump was in office and now he gon they pro vaccine so much they want to force people to get it and big pharma always wins at the end of the day.

 

[Armchair Militant]

The human race isn’t as advanced as I thought it was.

 

[Paper Boi]

another thing is that caffeine is far less necessary for me to get my job done than I thought it was when I no longer have to wake up an hour/two before work/a commute.

working from home is truly the goat shyt

 

[karim]

Isn’t Pfizer German?

Edit* no it was created by Germans in USA.

Pfizer isn't German, but Biontec, the company that developed the vaccine is. They just did a deal with Pfizer, since they don't have their own profuction facilities.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

I reconfirmed that people don’t wash their ass and would rather beat the shyt out of each other for toilet paper instead of showering

Are u saying u don't wipe your ass clean after taking a shyt
Before u get in the shower?

 

[Strapped]

People are sheep's