UncommonGrackle

Studies show that most people are not solely motivated by money, or at least there are more important factors to staying with an employer, or choosing to leave an employer. I think you probably need a “strong offer” to get them there, but life isn’t as mercenary to most people as popular culture might have you believe. results may vary on an individual basis but over the population it’s pretty well documented

I have a slightly different take on CHF’s comments about needing more and better athletes. I think it’s absolutely necessary, ESPECIALLY because of we message board fans. The great wailing and gnashing of teeth when the team gets beaten by a team that should beat them is already unbearable, in his first year. The fact that we need to be reminded is dumb, but it’s there. As for our current players, hey. That’s tough to hear but they already know it. And they know by this point in the season what it takes to win. And rah rah speeches and telling them how handsome they are ain’t enough to put them over the top anyway. everyone remembers how disgusting it was to hear “great week of practice, we’re gonna get better” every week while getting our teeth kicked in. Saying “hey we’re gonna go out and get more athletes and compete for championships” sounds a lot better to me.

I want the last few hours back. The worst part was it was so close I couldn’t look away, but I always knew LSU would win. From the kickoff to them kneeling, I never doubted it. I kinda hate both Harsin and Gus for that. I used to watch auburn football optimistically. Now, even when we win we lose.

I’m a fully vaccinated person who listens to my doctor and advocates for others to do the same. I am not against you. I understand your frustration. My wife, mother and best friend are in healthcare. I know how triage works. I know how insurance works. I understand how transplant lists work. I know that procedures can be denied. I also know that hospitals don’t boot heroin addicts, COPD, DUI wreck and gang war victims out to die in the street. There are those in this thread advocating for unvaccinated to not be treated or to even seek treatment. Again, I get the frustration. It seems that some people are putting themselves and others at risk through their behavior after being informed of the risk and then taking up resources. All I’m saying is if a segment of the population who does things we don’t agree with are left entirely on the outside looking in for healthcare why stop there. Maybe we make em sign a legal document, you can do whatever you want, no vaccines, heroin is legal, juggle chainsaws whatever but don’t call us when it goes bad.

He did say something similar but what I understood was chronic drug users aren’t competing for treatment because they don’t require the same resources as a covid patient. If he was suggesting they outright reject alcoholics, drug users, the morbidly obese and others some might characterize as undeserving of resources im gonna have to throw a flag.

I wouldn’t vote to deny people medical care on the basis of whether or not they’d been vaccinated, but I’d be willing to compromise as long as others who ignore major health recommendations are similarly sent to the back of the line. I think refusing treatment to drug users, chronic alcoholics and those injured in the commission of felonies might set Darwin back to work in our gene pool.

My guess would be in 5 years vaccination rates are higher but masking and social distancing disappear nearly entirely even as people continue to get sick and die. I base this prediction on: observed behavior since the pandemic and the fact that throughout human history we’ve willingly accepted proven risks of illness and injury and death simply as a fact of life. I don’t think covid will ever go away, just like the flu and the common cold haven’t. I think eventually the energy and collective will for mitigation that requires constant effort and deprivation seeps away.

What is being seen here is the decay of trust. The United States (for the most part) used to be a high trust society, meaning you would help your neighbor and trust they would help you, you trusted your job to pay you money, you trusted the bank to hold your money, you trusted your money to be worth something, you trusted the police if you needed help, you trusted the doctor if you were sick and you trusted the mechanic if your car was broken. This trust was influenced by shared ethical values and a general identification with those around you as fellows. Now, there are a lot of factors eating away at trust, some valid some not, some deliberate some not, some avoidable frankly some not. Social media eats away at trust because studies confirmed that what most drives engagement tends to be anger, indignation and fear. Algorithms are used every day to bring more extreme content to more people. Remember clicks and views and shares make money. “Traditional” media does the same thing for the same reasons ($$$) since fear and anger bring engagement there must always be a new fear, whether it’s valid or not. The intense politicization of our society erodes trust because of our inherent tribal nature, someone’s espousing of views that oppose our own makes us feel attacked and simultaneously makes us discount anything else that person espouses. Certain philosophical and political viewpoints themselves erode trust, some violently so. A two party system fosters mistrust and tribalism. It is popular (and perhaps reasonably so) to be hyper critical of and mistrusting of ALL of our institutions now, and such criticisms and highlighted shortcomings erode trust (though it’s frequently deserved). The medical field is now getting a taste of a common refrain from the American citizens, who now no longer trust and feel qualified to naysay doctors, lawyers, teachers, cops, judges, climate scientists, researchers, lawmakers, farmers and any and every government agency. Some of this, again, is earned but usually only in the micro where the mistrust is in the macro. Someone as old as I am has seen sharks, killer bees, murder hornets, SARS, lard, natural sugar and Ebola all be the next thing that will kill you. Ive seen plastic shopping bags be adopted wholesale because they were better for the environment than paper. Ive seen eggs go from deadly to healthy to deadly and then healthy again. Ive seen ads for cigarettes from doctors and smoking sections in restaurants. Ive seen medical recalls for hip replacement, stomach mesh, birth control, a few dozen medications and baby powder. Ive seen OxyContin prescribed by the fistful by trusted doctors for wisdom teeth removal. Hydrocodone cough syrup for a respiratory infection. Ive seen the media shill for tough on crime and the war on drugs, against tough on crime and the war on drugs, for the gulf war, against the gulf war, for the war on terror and against the war on terror, for immigration and against immigration, fear an ice age and global warming, fear sugar and fear corn syrup. I was taught the food pyramid for a balanced meal. I’ve seen news reports on incidents I had first hand knowledge of be incorrectly reported specifically to be unnecessarily inflammatory. I’ve seen the resurgence of yellow journalism and sensationalism where quiet retractions of corrupted facts often give way to no retractions at all. For the record I got the vaccine back in February. I said all that to say two things: one, those who express reluctance to get a vaccine simply don’t trust that the links to data are reliable. They (and please admit it, logically) see a (to them) unheard of medical technology that they know no human has had for longer than a year or so and they specifically mistrust someone who will promise them it is safe long term specifically because making that promise makes the promiser untrustworthy. Bear in mind that most people don’t fear death, they fear novel death. People eat fast food, consume massive amounts of sugar and processed food, embrace obesity, text and drive, drink alcohol, use drugs, live in Flint, Michigan, and gleefully trash the environment for convenience and money. As people grow more and more used to covid-19, fewer people will be willing to undergo any amount of inconvenience to mitigate risk. Two: get used to it. We are in a spiral. Making us hate and fear each other is good business for media companies and it’s good politics for politicians. Outside of those deliberately corrupt but huge influences there are dozens of factors that make us trust each other less and less and less.