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Special “it’s just the chicken pox, bro” edition of “It’s just the flu, bro”.

Chicken pox is relatively benign for children but is more serious if you are older. There have been four ways of handling the chicken pox: 1. Ignore that it exists 2. Seek out the virus for your children so that they get infected, often at a chicken pox party. 3. Try and hide from the virus and avoid it. 4. Get vaccinated. Pre-vaccine, it was options 1 and 2 that were the most popular and option 2 was often seen as the best option for families to protect their children long term. The thinking was to get the disease now and avoid difficulties as an adult. Avoiding the disease permanently was thought to be near impossible and could lead to a riskier exposure later in life.

There are clear similarities between the chicken pox and coronavirus as it relates to being more serious if you are older and less serious if you are younger. So one could easily make the case that government closures of schools and elimination of youth sports has the effect of increasing deaths due to CV long term. Why are Dem governors, who have the most draconian lockdown rules, trying so hard to kill children with these mandatory lockdown rules?

This similarity between CV and chicken pox should be emphasized in the media, among health experts and among right thinking politicians. Perhaps Corona parties are the key (reportedly already happening in some spots)?

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+1418 DEAD
+28,179 New Cases
96,354 TOTAL DEAD

Did parents that did not have chicken pox in childhood send their kids to these parties?
How do those kids who grew up and experienced a shingles outbreak view those parties now?

You go 'rona!!!

Digital Media

Vice has reduced salary for top staff earning more than $100,000 per year and halted retirement benefit-matching. Additionally, some top executives have been furloughed and hit with a 20-to-25 percent pay decrease. CEO Nancy Dubuc has taken a 50 percent pay cut. More than 155 employees both domestic and abroad are reportedly set to be laid off.
Vox Media has furloughed more than 100 employees for three months. One of its newsrooms, Curbed Atlanta, will cease publishing for the same duration after its editor was furloughed.
BuzzFeed has reduced employee pay, shut down its morning news show AM to DM after Twitter revoked funding, and furloughed a handful of staffers due to depressed sales.
The Hill is reportedly implementing pay cuts for all employees. This includes a 1 percent reduction for those earning less than $55,000 per year and reductions up to 10 percent for management and senior roles.
Cheddar has permanently shut down its Los Angeles studio amid company-wide layoffs.
Bustle Digital Group has laid off six percent of employees (roughly two dozen staffers) while those still with the company earning more then $70,000 per year will take a tiered pay cut.
G/O Media has laid off 14 employees, or just under 5 percent of the company’s workforce.
TheSkimm is laying off roughly 20 percent of its staff, or about 26 employees.

Magazines

Valence Media is cutting up to 30 percent of The Hollywood Reporter‘s newsroom and pausing its weekly magazine production. Layoffs are also reportedly ongoing for Billboard.
Meredith, the publisher behind People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, has cut pay for about 60 percent of staff until Sept. 4 due to slumping advertising revenue. Roughly 2,000 employees will receive a temporary 15 percent salary reduction while another 750 employees, including Meredith’s top-salaried executives, will take pay cuts ranging from 20 percent to 40 percent.
Time Out has suspended print editions in a number of major cities.
Conde Nast is laying off about 100 employees in the U.S. In addition, a similar number of employees will be temporarily furloughed while a smaller number would now operate on reduced work schedules. Pay cuts throughout the company are also ongoing.
Fortune has laid off around 10 percent of staff, or 35 employees globally, while executives have taken a 30 percent pay cut.
Maven Media Brands, which entered into a long-term agreement with Authentic Brands Group to license and operate the Sports Illustrated media business in June 19, has cut 6 percent of the outlet’s editorial staff in an effort to reduce costs.

Newspapers

Gannett instituted furloughs and other cost reducing measures in response to a plummet in advertising revenue connected to the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes scheduling unpaid weeks off on a rotating basis for employees earning more than $38,000 per year. Executives have taken a 25 percent pay reduction and CEO Paul Bascobert has forgone his salary.
California Times, parent company to the LA Times, has shuttered three community newspapers and laid off 14 staffers.
The Los Angeles Times has furloughed 40 employees and introduced pay cuts for senior manages to mitigate losses tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Post has reportedly furloughed up to 20 percent of the newsroom for varying lengths of time.
New Orleans’ popular trifecta composed of The Times-Picayune, Nola.com, and The Advocate have temporarily furloughed roughly 10 percent of its staff, or about 40 employees. All salaried employees and full-time hourly staff have also been reduced to working four days a week, resulting in a twenty percent pay cut.
Tribune Publishing, which oversees the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, and The Virginian-Pilot, has rolled out permanent pay reductions and furloughs. Those earning $67,000 annually or more will see salaries cut from 2 to 10 percent on a sliding scale. Executives will also be taking pay cuts. Non-union employees earning between $40,000 and $67,000 per year were required to take three weeks of furloughs over the next three months.
The San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly have reduced hours and pay for staff.
The Dallas Morning News have instituted pay cuts. These include a 3 percent base salary reduction for those earning $45,00 or less and an 8 percent base salary reduction for those earning $45,001 or more.

So as LoJack was here already recall that Thursday and Friday are often the highest days in testing. What LoJack fails to tell us is that the positive rate is far below 5%

The despicable and detestable LoJack and his ilk
Andy Jackson
ExdemMoM
Travis McGee
Danny TN (only objectionable. Occasionally makes good points)

Are among the all time Fearpers. I am announcing a charitable organization today. Since they hate our country so much and want us to live under abject tyranny.... if they renounce their citizenship i will match whomever to send them one way first class to live in China.

Or another other tyrannical regime we deem appropriate with the conditions thst the government they move to have the absolute authority to deny citizens of natural rights

More good 'rona news!!!!

The Atlantic to lay off 68 employees, cites decline in ads

San Francisco, May 22 American public affairs and cultural magazine The Atlantic which dates to 1857 is set to lay off 68 employees, constituting about 20 per cent of the outlet''s total workforce, due to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decision was announced by Chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, David Bradley, in a memo to staff, Deadline Hollywood reported on Thursday.

I’m 66. In my childhood it was all about number 2. :)

I think you have a stalker, big guy.