Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Richard Hakluyt]

I do think that the pandemic is a massive rebuke to our current arrangements; there may be a massive leftward swing in future years.

[Tamas]

A lot of the stuff on my sisters' timelines at the moment is about the plight of the truckers in these days, and that hotels, restaurants etc. should offer them free stuff for the services they provide.

I'm not sure about the free stuff but we need to think of our truckers as key workers and do what we can to keep them healthy and on the road. Food supplies could be at risk if too many truckers are ill.

I'm agreeing with your sisters; only been in lockdown a few days, am I losing it already  ?

I think Syt's point there is that his sister is usually rabidly against any kind of "handout"

[Eddie Teach]

I do think that the pandemic is a massive rebuke to our current arrangements; there may be a massive leftward swing in future years.

Let's hope.

[The Larch]

A lot of the stuff on my sisters' timelines at the moment is about the plight of the truckers in these days, and that hotels, restaurants etc. should offer them free stuff for the services they provide.

I'm not sure about the free stuff but we need to think of our truckers as key workers and do what we can to keep them healthy and on the road. Food supplies could be at risk if too many truckers are ill.

I'm agreeing with your sisters; only been in lockdown a few days, am I losing it already  ?

I think Syt's point there is that his sister is usually rabidly against any kind of "handout"

Except for the military, who deserves every single handout imaginable. 


Over here truckers are amongst the groups that are getting recognition/thanks, you see many pieces about roadside bars/restaurants that cater to them for free these days. And it's quite correct that they get this recognition, if logistics failed the lives of those quarantined in the cities would be nightmare territory.

[Syt]

I hope this crisis will lead to a reevaluation of what jobs are and aren't critical for society, and what goods and services are really necessary.

Probably won't happen once people can go to the pub again and sports are back on TV, but it's a nice thought.

[Syt]

[Duque de Bragança]

I do think that the pandemic is a massive rebuke to our current arrangements; there may be a massive leftward swing in future years.

Hopefully not the no-border twitter leftist idiots then.

[Duque de Bragança]

Movie recommendation.

[mongers]

I hope this crisis will lead to a reevaluation of what jobs are and aren't critical for society, and what goods and services are really necessary.

Probably won't happen once people can go to the pub again and sports are back on TV, but it's a nice thought.

Yes and unfortunately yes also.

[Syt]

Duque, can you confirm?

[Razgovory]

Germans really shouldn't be sharing tweets from Alt-Right assholes.

[Habbaku]

It's Breitbart--you can assume it's fake.

[11B4V]

What he said

[Oexmelin]

It's unfortunately worse than that. It's got a kernel of truth in it, twisted in service of a hateful ideology. Shelter-in-home orders have been difficult to enforce, and in some banlieues, it's taken the guise of the usual resistance to police controls.

[Admiral Yi]

Sometimes you need to be skeptical about your skepticism.