Posted on 04/02/2020 6:00:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
BTTT
This is good, but misses the biggies.
1. Bureaucratic sloth, inneptitude and power mongering. The biggest looser in this is the DC bureaucracy. They have proven they are worthless, obstructionist, and sent home to “telecommute” utterly irrelevant to solving real problems or delivering real things.
2. The CCP is still a communist imperialist threat.
3. The democratic party who are first and foremost shills for #1 and #2.
Kaslin, thanks for the post. I agree good things will come from this pandemic. I have reconciled with my son who is at home with us.
8. Independence from China.
Making our own drugs and basic emergency supplies should be a priority.
We need Senate hearings about Chinese influence in our state and national politics. Swear people in and find out if they’ve taken Chinese money and if they are under Chinese control.
When IPhones broke and stores were closed a whole generation freaked out.
I’ve been working at home for three weeks. We’re on 32 acres in the sticks with lots to do on our property so it’s been no big deal. But I decided yesterday we needed to do another costco run, so we did.
It was exactly the same as any other costco run. In fact, the crowd was the same size as normal (the number of customers in the Louisville stores here is MUCH smaller than in the Seattle stores and, especially, our closest store when we lived there - Tukwilla).
However, there were minor differences:
1. there was a thin, clear plastic shield between me and the cashier.
2. they didn’t touch the card. They scanned it through the plastic.
3. At the liquor store section, they just had me take my own receipt from the cash register and they never touched the bottles. I put them on the counter, they scanned them with a hand scanner, and I took them off.
4. They created a pathway from the main lobby entrance to the store entrance so people had to come in through a single file pathway.
5. No free samples.
I think Costco will never bring back free samples and was probably looking for a way to eliminate that nonsense. This was a godsend to them for that. And the plastic may stay. But honestly, it was really just like any other trip.
The only change this thing has had to my life is that I avoid a 150 mile 3 hour daily commute. I’m good with that.
I bet they did.
#5 is a lost cause for a majority in this country, especially when they have to purchased the latest and greatest electronic devices. Most have just run up huge credit card bills, and I am waiting for that to be one of the next bailouts, one again teaching people they can be wasteful with money and somehow get away with it.
*once again
Bigger than that:
1) Relocalizing our important supply chains.
2) Removing and keeping out illegals.
I intend to read the article at a later time, and I wanted to see the comment in my listing, as a reminder, without bothering anyone else.
Now I’ll have this large, clever graphic image on my page, too. How kind.
I think online schooling is huge, can be instituted for a minimum of 50% of courses, allowing teachers to retire and saving million in every community for buildings.
School taxes, the biggest component of local taxes can be cut in HALF.
I’m not sure of what, exactly, the events will be, but I agree that #5 is quite a reach.
Leaving cities. What hell holes.
Which Costco, East or Central?
We’ve been avoiding ours (Central) because of bottleneck fears.
I just heard where Costco is going to limit it to two people per family. I’m in the Seattle area. It will be SO nice to shop without the Chinese family with grandma and grandpa and 5 kids clogging up the aisle at the tasting stand and spitting out their avocado dip into the garbage can.
I hope the cultural shift that does NOT occur is that we all become a nation of cowering germophobes.
This is a 100 year event. Sad, tragic, but unavoidable. This sort of thing happens on a regular cycle.
Normally he takes me to Fort Campbell, Ky to the Commissary, but now he can not go with me in the store as he has no ID, other than his drivers license. He could get an Assistance Card, but he doesn't want to wait in line. (He's very impatient.
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