Post-game pizza party - yes / no?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some parents are really pushing to arrange a post-game pizza event for the kids in the next week or two where they all sit together, hangout, and eat. Given previous experiences with these things, they basically end up in giant blobs of kids surrounding whoever happens to have an iPhone as they all share the screen, chomping on pizza and snacks.

Do you think that's a bit too much given the current situation? I'm for the kids having some social life, but just doesn't seem the right time at the moment.

If you are asking this question to a bunch of strangers on DCUM, then you already know the answer yourself.

Thanksgiving is around the corner so please tell the other parents to act responsibly.

People who want to keep indoor socializing should think for a minute about not just the virus but the consequences of further restrictions on businesses and the enormous pain that will cause for workers and families over the winter months.

So this is the fault of the people who want to lead a normal life now? No - this is the fault of our deranged leaders attempting to impose Marxism in the name of the 'flu.

[Anonymous]

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Oh, FFS. we're still going to be in a pandemic in 2024 at this rate.


If we all go inside for a year, this would remain true absent a vaccine. It is not going away regardless of what we do - we are not an island or a smaller country with ironclad borders. The only difference is it would probably move your date further out, perhaps by six to nine months.

That would work fine, since they are predicting a vaccine will be available to the general public by then.

Other than the $12 trillion in debt (that's eight years or so of federal spending) we'd need to incur to go inside )which apparently is money that never needs to be paid out of taxes or future economic growth - yeah right). Along with all the debt that states and local governments would incur to remain functional absent sales and income tax. Sure. That works fine. I am sure I'd give up eight entire years of federal spending and put states and local governments into debt for years so we can all stay inside for a year before taking the vaccine. Does that work for everybody else? I think that is the brutal fiscal calculus that people are either unwilling to discuss or unable to understand. We'll just say that this line of imaginary thinking = that going inside and subsidizing everybody for a year -- comes either from people who don't work for a living or people who can work remotely for a living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some parents are really pushing to arrange a post-game pizza event for the kids in the next week or two where they all sit together, hangout, and eat. Given previous experiences with these things, they basically end up in giant blobs of kids surrounding whoever happens to have an iPhone as they all share the screen, chomping on pizza and snacks.

Do you think that's a bit too much given the current situation? I'm for the kids having some social life, but just doesn't seem the right time at the moment.

If you are asking this question to a bunch of strangers on DCUM, then you already know the answer yourself.

Thanksgiving is around the corner so please tell the other parents to act responsibly.

People who want to keep indoor socializing should think for a minute about not just the virus but the consequences of further restrictions on businesses and the enormous pain that will cause for workers and families over the winter months.

So this is the fault of the people who want to lead a normal life now? No - this is the fault of our deranged leaders attempting to impose Marxism in the name of the 'flu.

Yes, yes it is. You can't lead a normal life right now. Get that through your thick skull. We have had 1 million cases this past weak alone.

We are just months away from a vaccine, we are nearing the finish line. Sorry but a pizza party is stupid right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Oh, FFS. we're still going to be in a pandemic in 2024 at this rate.


If we all go inside for a year, this would remain true absent a vaccine. It is not going away regardless of what we do - we are not an island or a smaller country with ironclad borders. The only difference is it would probably move your date further out, perhaps by six to nine months.

That would work fine, since they are predicting a vaccine will be available to the general public by then.

Other than the $12 trillion in debt (that's eight years or so of federal spending) we'd need to incur to go inside )which apparently is money that never needs to be paid out of taxes or future economic growth - yeah right). Along with all the debt that states and local governments would incur to remain functional absent sales and income tax. Sure. That works fine. I am sure I'd give up eight entire years of federal spending and put states and local governments into debt for years so we can all stay inside for a year before taking the vaccine. Does that work for everybody else? I think that is the brutal fiscal calculus that people are either unwilling to discuss or unable to understand. We'll just say that this line of imaginary thinking = that going inside and subsidizing everybody for a year -- comes either from people who don't work for a living or people who can work remotely for a living.

Buddy, places are open and people are still not going out. At least half the people have voluntarily limited their social exposure significantly. People simply do not have confidence in going out they way they did before. You can't make people willingly expose themselves to unnecessary risks.

We are nearing the finish line with vaccines available this spring. When people have confidence the economy will bounce back, albeit slowly but there is little benefit to jumpstarting the economy when there just isn't the social confidence to back it up.

[Anonymous]

NO