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    laid off?

    So, how many of you have been laid off because of this cornona bs?


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    Working from home. My job can be done 100% remote and I had the option to work from home some even before the corona. So... Overall, I'm considering myself very fortunate to still have a job.

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    Well ... i don't exactly know as i would call it corona bs. It's getting pretty real. The state of Maine is going into lockdown tomorrow. I doubt they will enforce it, but, we are looking at a penalty of up to 1,000.00$ fine & six months in jail for violating the stay at home order.

    If that doesn't " flatten the curve " .... we're likely looking at stronger measures.

    At this point i almost wish i were laid off, but my job is considered to be in essential services. The situation is changing day by day though. I do wonder if there will come a point where they shut down my end of the company and re-deploy me to a different job where i would be more useful. Possibly, working in even closer proximity with the public than i am right now.

    About all i can do is hold turn and try to keep my sense of humor in a difficult situation.

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    I thought I would be worse off, but I have actually had a job every day this week... Knock on wood. My wife, on the other hand, works in healthcare with HealthSouth and has been laid off indefinitely.

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    Well ... i don't exactly know as i would call it corona bs. It's getting pretty real. The state of Maine is going into lockdown tomorrow. I doubt they will enforce it, but, we are looking at a penalty of up to 1,000.00$ fine & six months in jail for violating the stay at home order.

    If that doesn't " flatten the curve " .... we're likely looking at stronger measures.

    At this point i almost wish i were laid off, but my job is considered to be in essential services. The situation is changing day by day though. I do wonder if there will come a point where they shut down my end of the company and re-deploy me to a different job where i would be more useful. Possibly, working in even closer proximity with the public than i am right now.

    About all i can do is hold turn and try to keep my sense of humor in a difficult situation.
    Hills, forgive me if I have asked and forgot, but where in Maine are you? My wife is from Woodland (actually Baileyville, they changed the name because there was another Woodand in the state and there was only allowed to be one)near Calais, down east by the Canadian border.

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    since i'm retired I have been more "laid back" waiting for the FU$$ to clear enough so that I can get out a little bit.

    MetalPhil, are you a oriental female below the age of 30?
    or trying to act like such?

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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    I thought I would be worse off, but I have actually had a job every day this week... Knock on wood. My wife, on the other hand, works in healthcare with HealthSouth and has been laid off indefinitely.



    Hills, forgive me if I have asked and forgot, but where in Maine are you? My wife is from Woodland (actually Baileyville, they changed the name because there was another Woodand in the state and there was only allowed to be one)near Calais, down east by the Canadian border.
    It's all good T. I don't want to get too specific but i'm on one of the islands near Bar Harbor. If you thought Bar Harbor ... that would probably be close enough.

    We've been sort of an undiscovered secret up until the last few years. We're seeing more tourism now. Ordinarily, that would be a good thing for the local economy but this really isn't the best time. We're not equipped to handle a sudden influx of people fleeing the city to get away from the covid thing. We just don't have the medical resources to provide for their needs should they come down ill and require hospitalization.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChildhoodDream View Post
    since i'm retired I have been more "laid back" waiting for the FU$$ to clear enough so that I can get out a little bit.

    MetalPhil, are you a oriental female below the age of 30?
    or trying to act like such?
    Poor old MetalPhil. I hope he doesn't mind being the butt of the joke. It's all in good fun.

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    I scrap fulltime so im not layed off..... I just keep getting a pay cut lol

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    One of the lucky ones to still be working full time. Split my time on site vs. working from home. I will re-iterate what hills said, definitely don't think this is BS. However, not to sound insensitive, I'm okay with thinning the heard a bit, theres too many people in the world anyways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    One of the lucky ones to still be working full time. Split my time on site vs. working from home. I will re-iterate what hills said, definitely don't think this is BS. However, not to sound insensitive, I'm okay with thinning the heard a bit, theres too many people in the world anyways.
    I doubt you'd say that if your wife, mom, daughter or anyone close to you was part of the "thinning".... But .... It's all gunna work out fine. Everything will be fine. We'll get through this as a human race, we just won't ALL get through it.

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    It's terrible to say, but this one seems designed to primarily target those who have lived most of their life.

    I worked in a nursing home for six years doing maintenance. At the time .... it cost about 32,000.00$ a year to pay for the care of one resident. As a basis of comparison .... i was supporting a family of four on 26 k. per year back then.

    It's probably just coincidence, but if you did want to a design a virus that would pick off the weakest non-producers in society and leave most of the rest ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    One of the lucky ones to still be working full time. Split my time on site vs. working from home. I will re-iterate what hills said, definitely don't think this is BS. However, not to sound insensitive, I'm okay with thinning the heard a bit, theres too many people in the world anyways.
    So Andyheim, if you and your family and friends were taken out by this once in a lifetime disaster, you are fine with that so the heard is thinner? Or it is just ok for other people that you don’t know to die?

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    However, not to sound insensitive, I'm okay with thinning the heard a bit, theres too many people in the world anyways.
    This is disgusting and cruel

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    One of the lucky ones to still be working full time. Split my time on site vs. working from home. I will re-iterate what hills said, definitely don't think this is BS. However, not to sound insensitive, I'm okay with thinning the heard a bit, theres too many people in the world anyways.
    You know that there's an EDIT feature where you can change or remove certain comments

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimicrk View Post
    You know that there's an EDIT feature where you can change or remove certain comments
    I have found that people who believe this type of view, are proud of their enlightenment in having this point of view. We are talking about God and life centered, and darkness, death and evil centered. They will do there best to bring others over to their way of thinking.

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    Of course I wouldn’t be fine with it, and this will touch every life some way in a negative aspect. You can call it dark, whatever you like. I simply believe this is one of many actions nature will take to relieve what I believe is the biggest problem of our society, and that is over population. Not enlightened or trying to convert people to my point of view. Clearly this is not the forum for that type of discussion so I got off subject and for that I apologize. Call it what you like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by APA View Post
    So Andyheim, if you and your family and friends were taken out by this once in a lifetime disaster, you are fine with that so the heard is thinner? Or it is just ok for other people that you don’t know to die?
    I don't know about you guys, but i've already made peace with the hard truth that all of the people i know and love are going to die someday. I am going to die someday ... most likely i will be completely forgotten within a few generations. It will be as though i never even existed at all. I'm completely okay with that because that's simply the way of the world.

    All of the other bull$hit is just self importance talking. Ohh ... noes ... MY world has been turned upside down ! I am going to die ! What if I lose my loved one ? What's going to happen to MEEEE ? How am I going to carry on without them ?

    These are the times that show us for our true colors. What kind of man do you want to be ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyheim View Post
    Of course I wouldn’t be fine with it, and this will touch every life some way in a negative aspect. You can call it dark, whatever you like. I simply believe this is one of many actions nature will take to relieve what I believe is the biggest problem of our society, and that is over population. Not enlightened or trying to convert people to my point of view. Clearly this is not the forum for that type of discussion so I got off subject and for that I apologize. Call it what you like.

    Get out of here with your logic based arguments and your acknowledgement that the universe/nature/evolution is a FAR more powerful force than the 8 billion or so self-aware bipeds wandering around on this rock.

    This conversation is supposed to be all about happy feelings and wishing for the best!

    Consider yourself chastised!

    /sarcasm
    Out of clutter, find simplicity. --Albert Einstein

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    It’s upsetting that a corrupt communist government lied the whole time and continues to lie in the name of pride and control. All life is precious and we need to respect that. “Thinning the heard” is part of nature and the world we live in to a degree. That doesn’t mean we have to agree with it or fail to try to stop it.

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    I didn't mean to start any drama lol. I was just making a point. Whatever happens is going to happen no matter what we say here lol.

    It is interesting to see that nature is returning to some areas, mountains that weren't visible before (due to air pollution) are now visible, and a ton of other environmental issues are starting to get better since this quarintine... Just an observation

    Not that that means thinning the heard is good, not that many people have died yet.... But... It does show we have the power (even without dying) to do better at not polluting and such
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