Ah, my friend noticed the same thing but didn't grok that the main character was doing so because of a certain narrow-mindedness. She was just perplexed and pissed.
I look at that as a defense mechanism. It's the only way some can cope with the idea that one hundred thousand people have died of one disease in a few month's time. They can't process it any other way except to minimize it.
I do think that military logistics would have been ideally suited for distributing PPE and ventilators, instead of who ended up being in charge. There are some things that they are good at, and logistics is one.
Remember how the Washington Post completely ignored 100,000 people demonstrating against going to war with Iraq, and front-paged 150 people demonstrating against public health? Good times!
My friend said he had a gift for me when all this is over, my first guess was a hug. That wasn't what he was thinking about but now I get two gifts at the end!
Companies aren't investing in physical offices anyway, it is all open plan bullshit. That may be the primary driver behind the desire to keep working from home.
Hullo there. I was born & raised in a self-reliant community of homesteaders. The community worked because we needed each other to survive. My parents & their peers built their homes, the community clinic, schools, food co-ops, etc. We relied on each other for things like water in the winter when pipes would freeze, a phone or ride when someone was having an emergency, and skills from veterinary to construction to education.The element that she’s describing and which I understand first hand that is absent in our current dilemma is an clear sense of mortal danger. The virus is still so abstract for lots of people people at this point that it can be easily ignored or dismissed. As of right now most folks can get by just fine by shopping online & minding their own business. They’re not scared, they’re bored. It won’t be until people *feel like* their own asses are on the line that they will suddenly realize that being nice to other people is the quickest path to getting the help they need. We won’t see an overwhelming wave of solidarity until the threats (virus, economy) become tangible. Most of the US isn’t there yet.
LOL, I was just thinking, "Maybe I should give that book another chance", and then recalled I was already traumatized by like, page 5 the first time I tried to read it.
Humans tend to be compassionate toward each other. That's where the right-wing process of "othering" cuts to the heart of the human condition. "We're all good (white) Christians, not like (teh Gheys, teh Blaks, the OTHERS."
There is a tiny nugget of truth there, I've noticed that Americans put more value in human life than others. The difference is protecting life 98% vs 99% of the time, but still, there is a difference there. That may be why the whole pro-life vs pro-choice kerfuffle is a typically American thing.
I've worked for a military trained manager in logistics. I hope he is not typical, that guy did not care who or what he destroyed as long as he got to feel big and deliver results. Plus, his extreme desire to act frequently prevented him from getting enough input before making a decision. The first we heard of a plan to remove floors to put in pallet racks was when the floors were already being removed, so we got no chance to tell him that we needed the floor space for pick locations and no amount of bulk storage will compensate for that.
Ah, my friend noticed the same thing but didn't grok that the main character was doing so because of a certain narrow-mindedness. She was just perplexed and pissed.
Dehumanizing people is one way we make it easier to kill them in horrible ways.
I look at that as a defense mechanism. It's the only way some can cope with the idea that one hundred thousand people have died of one disease in a few month's time. They can't process it any other way except to minimize it.
I do think that military logistics would have been ideally suited for distributing PPE and ventilators, instead of who ended up being in charge. There are some things that they are good at, and logistics is one.
Remember how the Washington Post completely ignored 100,000 people demonstrating against going to war with Iraq, and front-paged 150 people demonstrating against public health? Good times!
My friend said he had a gift for me when all this is over, my first guess was a hug. That wasn't what he was thinking about but now I get two gifts at the end!
Companies aren't investing in physical offices anyway, it is all open plan bullshit. That may be the primary driver behind the desire to keep working from home.
I need to re-read it, although not just now.
Hullo there. I was born & raised in a self-reliant community of homesteaders. The community worked because we needed each other to survive. My parents & their peers built their homes, the community clinic, schools, food co-ops, etc. We relied on each other for things like water in the winter when pipes would freeze, a phone or ride when someone was having an emergency, and skills from veterinary to construction to education.The element that she’s describing and which I understand first hand that is absent in our current dilemma is an clear sense of mortal danger. The virus is still so abstract for lots of people people at this point that it can be easily ignored or dismissed. As of right now most folks can get by just fine by shopping online & minding their own business. They’re not scared, they’re bored. It won’t be until people *feel like* their own asses are on the line that they will suddenly realize that being nice to other people is the quickest path to getting the help they need. We won’t see an overwhelming wave of solidarity until the threats (virus, economy) become tangible. Most of the US isn’t there yet.
EXACTLY.
Yup. The anti war protest got almost zero coverage while every tea party pity-fest was given breathless coverage. MSM is such a mixed blessing.
LOL, I was just thinking, "Maybe I should give that book another chance", and then recalled I was already traumatized by like, page 5 the first time I tried to read it.
Where has Wonkette been all my life? I'm loving the COVID-45 coverage and thoughtful articles. And now a book club?????? #yay
Humans tend to be compassionate toward each other. That's where the right-wing process of "othering" cuts to the heart of the human condition. "We're all good (white) Christians, not like (teh Gheys, teh Blaks, the OTHERS."
There is a tiny nugget of truth there, I've noticed that Americans put more value in human life than others. The difference is protecting life 98% vs 99% of the time, but still, there is a difference there. That may be why the whole pro-life vs pro-choice kerfuffle is a typically American thing.
I've worked for a military trained manager in logistics. I hope he is not typical, that guy did not care who or what he destroyed as long as he got to feel big and deliver results. Plus, his extreme desire to act frequently prevented him from getting enough input before making a decision. The first we heard of a plan to remove floors to put in pallet racks was when the floors were already being removed, so we got no chance to tell him that we needed the floor space for pick locations and no amount of bulk storage will compensate for that.