Posted on 02/11/2021 6:34:49 PM PST by MtnClimber
Yes! Awesome.
Please give me a concrete example of any job in my former home state that pays on average 125K and that subsequently pays 30k in Florida.
I quit my job as a Program Manager for a major defense contractor in Orange County. I relocated to the Tampa Bay area. I found a job here with another defense contractor at the same salary and at a significantly lower cost of living. The net increase in my after all expense monthly income is significant.
The home that I paid cash for here is larger than my home in OC and I kept nearly 33% of the difference in my bank account. Difference? I now live in a beachfront community. Granted, I now need to purchase hurricane and flood insurance where I never had to in California. But, my view every morning, when I awaken and have coffee on my gulffront Lanai, is worth it.
Friends from Maine came to visit a few weeks ago. They were astounded by how open everything was and how most people went about their lives maskless.
I was thinking a teacher. I had a retired teacher from California who made 125K the last year she retired. Decided to go back after a year due to boredom and made 30K. This is in lake county a little more then an hour north of you. They made her start as first year teacher. Prior experience was not looked at. It didn’t matter for them since they were getting the pension from California, but still 30 grand!
Election Reform, if it happens, won’t be a matter of ‘luck’.
You see, the mask serves as a powerful -- a very powerful -- visual reminder of the pure, though well-crafted fiction that everyone is just one cough or one sneeze or one spittle droplet away from certain death! And Americans have so completely bought into this vile storyline that they have willingly sacrificed a year of their children's childhood and have driven the quality of life in America into the toilet ... that's how powerful this fantasy of certain death developed and implemented by the Communist/Democrat Left is and which will be very, very difficult to reverse.
You seem to really be hung-up on the idea of masks as some kind of psy-ops ‘tool’. I think it is simply something that could be suggested, when the PTB didn’t know ANYTHING. They probably still don’t know enough. Masks are just something they’ve been able to put out there as a possible help, in the place of any REAL help.
I think there are a lot of reasons why people are afraid.
When we first heard of this, there was a suggestion that it was a bio-weapon. That’s the only reason why I think that Trump would lock down the country and its economy as he did; nobody really knew anything yet.
There are millions of us who are at risk of dying from this, due to age or other circumstances that make us more susceptible - and I don’t think you can argue that overworked front-line workers weren’t logically concerned, too, not only for their own health, but in fear of overloading their facilities.
Then there are the millions who fear even the vaccine, because of rotten stuff that was done to them in the past.
Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is fine as far as it goes; but it doesn’t go very far. I’m sure some interests have made ‘hay’ out of this - but everyone was afraid, and rightfully exercised caution, in the beginning.
(Frankly, I don’t think we really understand a whole lot about it even now.)
My husband sometimes laughs when we see people alone in their cars with masks on. I tell him that individuals can be afraid of a lot of things - afraid of the disease itself, or of authority or criticism. It does absolutely no good to just make fun of them, call them irrational, or call them ‘women and fake men.’
You aren’t making friends and influencing people by your tone and stance. But I don’t think you care about that anyway.
The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.
2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.
Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake
2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/
Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.
Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.
This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.
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