3. "My wife and I just talked about this yesterday." In response to Reply # 2
We'd been sorta trying for a baby for like the last 6 months (in other words she's off birth control but we aren't at the point of closely monitoring her ovulation schedule) ... and now we've decided that we'd better chill for a bit lol.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Fri Mar-20-20 07:50 AM
12. "2 and 4 year old. We just pulled them from daycare" In response to Reply # 6
and I’m going to WFH starting on Monday.
Another coworker who has a baby on the way already started WFH.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
11. "mental health is definitely taking a HUGE hit" In response to Reply # 7
this shit man.. and the kids will suffer the most. the adults that have kids at home.. who don't know how to cope in a healthy manner - take their aggression/frustration out on the kiddos ___________________ Nas >>> your favorite rapper's favorite rapper
10. "perhaps child abuse - alot of parents cant handle kids at home" In response to Reply # 0
some kids escaped home life to be at school. this is whats fucking me up the most the kids who went to school to escape the abuse at home ___________________ Nas >>> your favorite rapper's favorite rapper
15. "Given the situation, without a kid, why stay in this country?" In response to Reply # 13
I think if we didn't have a kid we'd be heading towards a split. I see myself moving into survival mode and my wife is moving much more into wishing things were normal mode.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Fri Mar-20-20 02:55 PM
16. "Damn.. that’s tough" In response to Reply # 15
Where would you go?
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
27. "There’s not a single country we’re doing better than" In response to Reply # 24
It just hasn’t gotten as bad for us yet Think of it like everyone is driving off a hill that leads to small wall, but over that wall is a cliff If you hit the brakes early enough you hit the hill, then you may ding on the wall you keep your car too Now to have hit those brakes you’d have to have prediction powers because this was a new virus and there was nothing to say that or how it operated
Second option you hit the brakes later and you crash hard into the wall, it sucks, people get hurt, car is broken and people without seatbelts may be launched from the vehicle. This is the analogy of a pandemic that no human body has experienced and some people are gonna die regardless of what’s done. It just happened to be too late to help them.
Third option is that you accelerate towards the hill, you accelerate down the hill, you hit the wall and the vehicle flips into the air and you have no idea how bad things are gonna get. We’re at option three. We’re too big, too populated, too disjointed to do this without effective central leadership and the folks at the top are flying through the air pushing the brake pedal mid air because they believe it’ll slow things once the car hits ground.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79554 posts
Tue Mar-24-20 09:36 AM
28. "When I read people talk about leaving the US" In response to Reply # 24
I kinda smh because where will you go?
Who the fuck wants Americans right now besides tourist destinations that stele suffering?
It sounds great to say but when asked more questions I think most people me like the idea of moving more than actually moving.
My wife said Canada if Trump is re-elected. She HATES cold weather. But it sounds good to say... lol.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
30. "At different times in my life I wanted to move to Istanbul, Dublin, Toro..." In response to Reply # 28 Tue Mar-24-20 10:12 AM by MEAT
And nearly any of the West Indies. America.com was part of it but also just the pointlessness of all that I was going with my life. I have strongly felt that if I’m not in healthcare, social welfare, or developing life saving tech then I’m not doing anything of value. With that mindset there’s not much difference between doing menial work in another country and what I do now. And I’d rather do it in places where the food and air are less poisoned and white supremacy infrastructure isn’t a constant to the degree that it is here.
It’s not hard to find better than America when you hate America. Like right now today people are adapting eugenic style mindset into common language during a pandemic. And it barely is a blip outside of the most vulnerable. This country is gross.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
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