Ohio Barbarian

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One of which was that working people had gotten too much money during the pandemic from the stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment, therefore inflation is a good thing because it’s forcing them to spend that money in the economy.

The same people were lamenting the younger generations’ failure to go into massive debt and spend spend spend! Or…[Read more]

What do I know about this stuff? Next to zilch.

Maybe they got too many Christmas orders at once or something. Who knows?

No camera in the area? Sorry, can’t investigate that.

Not that they’d tell us if they could help it.

I suppose Bezos just can’t help himself, dedicated capitalist that he is.

What will the fearmongers do now? Oh, that’s right, call for more lockdowns, more restrictions, more mandates. This story will be seen as misinformation by them.

Alpha and Delta variants, anyway. I should say I have some allergies in Ohio; in Texas, I was allergic to most of the local flora.

Perhaps Belgians think new restrictions are unnecessary. Perhaps they are right.

If a mostly unsymptomatic variant of Covid supplants older, more dangerous ones, then this thing just becomes a mild common cold. This may be a very good thing.

With everything going on in and around Ukraine, it is in Russia’s interests to be on good terms with the two most populated countries on the Asian continent. It also meshes nicely with the Chinese trading initiatives which are potentially very beneficial to Russia and Europe; for the current US Empire, not so much.

Anyone hospitalized? Anyone DIE because one of these horribly irresponsible selfish Scandinavians went to a party and the hospital didn’t have room?

I don’t know. Those little details are never mentioned. Infection rates don’t matter if there are few symptoms. But that info’s not good for fearmongering or for clicks.

I have no problem with immigrant labor as long as the immigrants want to do it and are paid a genuine American living wage. I know, that’s not going to happen, and sometimes people just need work that needs to be done, and these folks who are willing to do it, so one thing leads to another.

It’s kind of difficult to stop. I wonder how many…[Read more]

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