Posted on 08/14/2020 2:39:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
1) When the economy contracted, employment declined most for the working class and poor. At first, a $600 boost to unemployment benefits more than offset this loss income-wise for many, but the boost is expired now. Meanwhile, jobs for the well-to-do barely declined and have fully rebounded.
2) Kids’ math learning shows exactly the same pattern. Those in the richest neighborhoods are doing fine — maybe even improving, thanks to being tutored by highly educated parents and hired help — but the picture is very grim down the income scale...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Here’s the other 2 of the 4:
3) Suicidal ideation is way up. The CDC reports that a quarter of 18-t0-24-year-olds, when surveyed in late June, said they’d seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days. In a different survey in 2018, only 11 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds said they’d seriously considered suicide in the past year.
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4) Social distancing increased domestic-violence calls by about 6 percent, per a new study.
Locking down was the right thing to do early in the pandemic, especially in the hardest-hit areas. But as restrictions drag on and many schools refuse to reopen, policymakers should pay much closer attention to indicators such as these.”
5) my wife prefers I wear a mask when having sex.
Wait, what? You’re still having relations with your wife? Lucky. Whats the secret?
Wait until November 3rd, ½ of the country will be on suicide watch.
Yes my opposition to this has always been because of the extreme human suffering.
It is frustrating when the pro lockdowns treat me as though I don’t care if people suffer and die. It is because I care so deeply that I oppose the lockdowns.
Small things like requiring temperature checks at airports or having hand wash stations etc I don’t oppose.
How many deaths have been lock down related?
THAT’S the number they’ll never expose.
The political Pandemic’s main effect brought on by the Lying Left: expand and extend this as much as possible - as the Left always does in hoping for chaos and tragedy to advance their dream of World Totalitarian Government.
I would hope that 1/2 of the country will go to active resistance if, as I expect, the election is a vast massive fraud by those who would destroy the USA.
“Small things like requiring temperature checks at airports or having hand wash stations etc I don’t oppose.”
Exactly.
My chant the past three months has been “Quarantine the sick, Protect the vulnerable, everybody else be careful.”
This isn’t the black death but it is worse than the normal flu.
Does anyone have the exact numbers in the actual suicide spike—not just the polls?
Indeed you are correct. My comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
national review? Never mind.
“I get no respect I tell ya. I’d tried to quit smoking.
My wife and I agreed to smoke only after sex.
‘’My wife’s up to three packs a day’’.
“I still got the same pack from 1995’’.
Rodney has been gone a few years but, damn, I still miss him.
“No respect I tell ya’’.
“When I was a kid my parents left me on the beach’’.
I asked a cop to help me. I said “Do you think we’ll ever find them?’’
He said “I dunno kid, there’s a lot of places they can hide!’’.
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