Finally, someone gave me the W. We’re going to run with that for as long as possible

Repeat after me: The government arbitrarily classifying your business as essential or non-essential is the DEFINITION of a non-market condition.

And guess what? The government, at least in PA, only targeted or enforced their mandates on businesses granted special licenses to operate by the state. Bars, restaurants, salons - if you didn't need a license to operate from the health department, you could say "fuck off" to Tom Wolf. The hardware store in the town near me never closed, never required masks, and never limited occupancy. The hair salon next door? Closed for months under threat of losing their license.

>Both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines have been approved through regular channels at this point.

At this point? how about in 2021 when the government was trying to mandate them? And if your answer is yes, then why aren't ALL vaccines approved and rolled out in under a year?

>This is the sort of crackpot shit I'm talking about.

Are you giving information contradictory to the PA department of health or the CDC? Are you saying a bandana, gator, or steelers-print cloth mask prevent you from catching or transmitting covid?

>had we just ignored the pandemic and done nothing at all, things would have turned out better.

Uh, yeah... they would have turned out better because the things the government did didn't work. So doing nothing would have had the same results without the drawbacks of the government interference.

>The great majority of Pennsylvanians saw no more onerous government restrictions than restaurants being closed for a few months and kids learning from home. Comparing your "plight" to interment is some incredible self-satire.

If it was so hands-off and reasonable, why have they stopped? Why are there no mask mandates? Why did they change "fully vaccinated" from the first two shots, to the first two shots plus up to date on boosters, back to just the first two shots? Why, with only about a 20% uptake of the bi-valent booster aren't there vaccine and booster mandates, today? According to google, 569 people have died in the US from covid in the past 7 days. At this rate, it'll be another 9/11 before Easter!

I'm perfectly content being the crackpot.

Shutting down businesses, fining business owners who stayed open, requiring an emergency vaccination that did not go through the standard channels for approval, limiting travel based on vaccination status, requiring PPE that was proven to not work, printing trillions of dollars to smooth over the damage done by the previously listed policies... yep, totally the same as not eating at Applebees.

They also interred Japanese Americans during WWII. Just because the government did it before doesn't make it right, then, nor does it make it right, now.

Kinda says a lot about "state power" when millions of us just ignored them.

Hey, if you want to minimize an unprecedented overreach of the government in the face of mild adversity, be my guest

I’m talking about when there were restrictions, obviously

LoL, ok buddy. Wish in one hand, shit in the other

Cool, and if it doesn’t work, just keep doing it?

You can call it garbage, but look at how well their tactics worked. Poorly. In my area, covid was over in may of 2020

The government should provide the data they have available and let people do whatever they are comfortable with. It was 100% an overreaction

I’m like 90% positive this is two bots ragging on each other

What’s the deal with “contracts” for employment? I’m retired now, but I never signed a contract for a job. Especially not for a job making 14 bucks an hour

Maestro’s Sauce Co in Washington, PA https://maestrossauceco.com

I have nipples, greg, can you milk me?

I read the Wikipedia page, but I still don’t get what the point of this is. Anyone have a real world example of how to use the belt system?

I don’t understand how your comment is relevant to what I said

The vast majority of what you “recycle” doesn’t get recycled… so people stop doing it because it was a facade

There’s a farm in Tyrone that produces some of the best American wagyu I’ve ever seen. Spring Lane Farm

As was intended… I don’t owe any Idahoans the time of day

It sounds like you’re a true american

That makes sense. That’s not too far from where I live. I might head over that way this week and see what wonders await in Morrisville. Thanks

I live outside of waynesburg (sycamore) and I’m not familiar with any Morrisville. I live in Morris Township, but I don’t know about Morrisville. Regardless, if the guy came from Tennessee, he’d hit southwestern PA en route to the Philadelphia area Morrisville, so it’s not like he drove from New Jersey to Waynesburg and then had to go back.

I don't know who any of those people are. They may as well be random photos. Some of them look like AI-generated people

Cool, I just looked at one and it said it doesn't pay more than 100 bucks for an account. I'll check around.

how do I sell it? I'm not really attached to it