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Los_Aztecas

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  1. Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't trust promises of future benefits if I just sacrifice now.
  2. I think it depends on situation/company dynamics. One of my close friends is an experienced ME, works in the aerospace fields and is hourly. He makes way more than he would if he was salary because of the obscene amount of OT they pay him. They don't give him the OT because they want to, they do it because he's experienced, good at his job, and his OT is worth more than hiring someone else. Then again his work life balance sucks. Same as me, if I'm working 60 a week I don't have time for much of anything else, but as long as you aren't being frivolous with that money it will pay dividends down the road.
  3. I'm not even really following the conversation and I'm picking up shit better than you. UP YOUR GAME.
  4. Depends if you are salary or hourly. I'm hourly and with incentives + OT pay it makes a huge difference if I work an extra shift or two a week.
  5. I've had more nuanced conversations with Russian bots.
  6. If the vaccination didn't save insurance money they wouldn't pay for it.
  7. What grift? You are not making sense. Vaccinations save money, which I would think you would be for even if you don't care about the human cost of illness.
  8. Most insurances will pay for the vaccine because it saves them money. Hospitalizations are extremely expensive, and vaccinations are proven to substantially reduce risk of severe disease.
  9. I don't know why I'm taking the time to respond, but here it goes. 1) I agree that we shouldn't mandate masks anymore - the vaccines have been out, if you haven't bothered getting one by this point that's on you. To the few that can't because of being immunocompromised, sorry, the mandates won't work because of the Bobs of the world, don't inconvenience everyone else. 2) Masks do work (in some instances). It's been proven. Masks in schools? Dumb. Masks in restaurants? Dumb. Masks to go to the store? They work. And as far as you calling people out for people letting Covid dictate their behavior? You don't know their life, stop being such an insufferable whiny little bitch. Let them do what they do. We mitigate risks all the time in our daily lives. Insurance? Risk mitigation. Wear your seatbelt? Risk mitigation. Eat healthy? Risk mitigation. If you want to mainline Macdonalds, drink a 5th every night, and pop oxy's like they're hot, you do you, I don't really care - you buy the ticket, take the ride. With my former jobs I did dangerous things all the time, but it was my choice - and I always mitigated the risk as best I could.
  10. We had 1 pretty sick one, could have ended up in the ICU, not sure - but nothing compared to original strain or Delta variant. Which vaccines? The original? Definitely been plenty of ICU covid cases in SD county since then. But acuity has definitely fallen in the last year or so.
  11. It's been pretty low key all summer, maybe 1 or so covid admission at a time in a 30+ bed PCU. Last few weeks it's been 3+. Acuity of the patients have been about the same as previous covid cases over the last 6 months or so.
  12. Nursing shortage is so bad right now we're short half the time despite double pay offers. My hospital pays higher than standard rates for the positions as well. It's a good hospital to boot, just the dynamics of the field currently. Can't hire enough quality nurses. The hospital administration could bring in some temps to help alleviate the current shortage, but you are talking crazy rates for subpar (on average) nurses. This is a structural issue that needs to be addressed on multiple levels to improve job satisfaction and increase the nursing pool.
  13. Jeebus. You got a major stick up your a$$ buddy. What about that post showed that I was "outraged". It was just a short tongue in cheek post. As far as my job? Sure I have sick time, but we are always so short you feel guilty using it and hurting the team.
  14. Staying home when you are sick? What kind of cush job do you have?
  15. Inflate our way out of it? Just stop paying it? We got the 11th highest debt to gdp in the world. Debt payments are slated to be 1.4 trillion in 2033, our revenue now is 4.9 trillion and it won't grow much, maybe to 5.5? That's 25%. Right now we're at 15. There's gonna be a reckoning if we don't deal with it.
  16. Wasnt regarding social spending, was because you said you dont want to pay down the national debt. Was saying we have to fix the deficit problem. You said no thanks. We have probably a 10 year window where we can begin to fix it before its going to be impossible. Only reason I brought up kids is because they will be the ones holding the bag.
  17. Gotta pay down the debt eventually. Or just reset. Not sure what the most palatable option is.
  18. Our tax to GDP ratio is closer to Mexicos than Europe. 40 years ago we easily had the highest standard of living in the world, now not so much. Our social programs are not sustainable and we've looted the countries coffers to pay for ponzi schemes and wars. Our Healthcare system is broken. Need more tax revenue, less spending, fix Healthcare. That is just to start.
  19. Yeah that was me in 2020. Not a big Biden fan, but Trump would have been a disaster. I really want a party to actually run on reducing spending and increase revenue, and do it. So many things need to be done. Raise taxes, cut entitlements, reform Healthcare, reduce the deficit and push for meaningful agricultural and water usage reforms and worldwide (hint: developing nations have to be included) environmental reform. I know I probably smoked too much weed and it's a pipe dream.
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