Coronavirus (lease, hotel, buying)

[stablegenius]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Youre an opinion giver which exactly what the rest of us are. No one deserves credit for anything and people who live for street cred on an internet forum (not referring to you or anyone specifically) need to re-evaluate their pathetic existence.

Not to mention most of these things are 50/50, so if she wasn't right, someone else would have been. It's not that hard to get some guesses right...

Originally Posted by TacoSoup

As the old saying goes, “even a broken clock is right twice a day”

YES

[goodheathen]

What have I gotten wrong? I can't think of any incorrect predictions (not predicting some things isn't the same thing). Maybe LA won't end up firing many people for refusing to be vaccinated.

The point isn't opinion-giving (a waste of time here) or a scorecard, it's to influence behavior. Some individuals here need to modify how they discuss COVID (probably just as importantly elsewhere) and behave offline, and collectively we need to demand better, pandemic-ending policy from government.

[goodheathen]

I'm thinking of one of two common lingering symptoms. The loss of taste and smell from infections, and I'm assuming Omicron also often does that, won't be good for restaurants, including some people who work there. Although I personally want fewer people to dine at restaurants for the months ahead.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

What have I gotten wrong?

Lot's of your guessing is frequently wrong in the present. It has nothing to even do with your predictions. You tend to wonder aloud about something and when someone (usually me) points you right to information about that very thing, you dismiss it and move on to the next rumination.



Does it matter? No. Because this forum and all this is just talk and who really cares. But if you go around insisting you're modern day Nostradamus, you're going to catch flack for it just in general.


If you want recent specifics to your question above, was the J&J vaccine pulled from the shelves as you predicted? Nope.... along with fifty other things you've been dead wrong about.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by citizensadvocate

I heard hospitals are overflowing again. Do we now have to brace for increased restrictions or lockdowns again?

Everyone is war weary at this point. What has always worried me is the possibility that some new thing emerges that really does warrant heavy-handed restrictions and people ignore it because they were conditioned by covid19 and will see it as crying wolf.


Public officials squandered some of the more extreme safety measures on this and the long term effect will be even more resistance to those things in the future. That's not a good thing and is a direct result of ignoring actual science and deferring to the politically-based version instead.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by joosoon

.... along with fifty other things you've been dead wrong about.

Wasn’t there a Paul Simon song about that? “… 50 Ways to Leave Your goodheathen Predictions”

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by joosoon

Lot's of your guessing is frequently wrong in the present. It has nothing to even do with your predictions. You tend to wonder aloud about something and when someone (usually me) points you right to information about that very thing, you dismiss it and move on to the next rumination.



Does it matter? No. Because this forum and all this is just talk and who really cares. But if you go around insisting you're modern day Nostradamus, you're going to catch flack for it just in general.


If you want recent specifics to your question above, was the J&J vaccine pulled from the shelves as you predicted? Nope.... along with fifty other things you've been dead wrong about.

I didn't predict J&J would be pulled. I said it should be or probably should be. Since then the government has recommended mRNA vaccines over it, which means it's probably not buying much of it anymore and its use will dwindle except for example in prisons. Unless J&J comes up with a much better version.

You often misread what I write and use it against me.

[goodheathen]

Looks like no need for restaurant capacity restrictions now, because Omicron is already running off patrons.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/c...171940798.html
I didn't know about the Federal fund, and I don't actually want restaurants to go broke. Since the Federal government has slacked off there, Newsom the former restaurant guy should create a state program. Also, the government should require and fund N95 masks for restaurant employees, so that at least they can stay open for delivery and to-go meals. Edit: government should also do that to make workers feel safer and not cause crucial hiring shortages.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by TacoSoup

As the old saying goes, “even a broken clock is right twice a day”

Unless it's digital and the power is out

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Unless it's digital and the power is out

That applies to everyone hear. This is a digital site.