“Our half-assed attempt at accountability didn’t accomplish the goals we never established or measured.”
Well I mean without a consolidated NatID there aren’t very many viable ways to actually index that kind of stuff
They could have been a plastic card with rfid tags or even just a qr code that directs to the CDC site with a name, picture, and vax status. It doesn’t need to link to ssn number or driver’s license number.
I’m gonna keep mine and pull it out when I want to revisit the time I got on 95 in New Hampshire the day after they announced everything is shut down.
Just me.
Normally, it’s thousands of cars.
Just me, lol. I was laughing my ass off and just kept saying, “No way, man. No fucking way.” That was so wild.
I just remember gas being 1.99 and thinking how crazy that was.
And they were still bullshitting us at that price. They hit negative numbers. Were paying oil barrel buyers to store it. Negative prices.
Mid to late 90’s in Georgia (US) when I heard OPEC would start limiting barrel sales. We were at $0.63/gallon. Knew I’d never see that again. The days of pocket/couch change road trips.
Crude isn’t RBOB. Converting crude oil (which went negative) into automobile gas (which didn’t) is a process that takes time/work, and not everyone has the infrastructure to do it. Crude also loses the ability to convert to RBOB in time, so if you buy and can’t convert or use it otherwise in time, it’s wasted money. Crude went negative but RBOB didn’t, and auto gas companies were making only their usual profit off of it at the time.
Yep. Essential healthcare worker here. Spent every day feeling like I was living in an apocalypse movie during my commute. Normal 30+ min commute was 22 minutes.
Los angeles freeways were empty! It was beautiful. Everyone on them were flying at 80mph with zero accidents.
I lived in a major city at the time, the sidewalks were insanely empty. I was the only person for 3 blocks at one point, blocks that are usually absolutely packed. When everyone started coming back, and I lost my peaceful big city… >:[
Yeah, it was eerie. I was “essential” and driving in during what would normally be rush hour and only seeing two cars the whole way was wild.
Same here. I was alone on the 405 by LAX. It was surreal.
Oh man, I can’t imagine. I live in the south. Learned to drive in Atlanta. I can’t even imagine
Learned to drive in Atlanta.
Having driven in Atlanta, all I can say is I’m sorry.
When I was 15 and learning to drive my dad lived in Atlanta. I went there for a visit once and he had me drive there, and everywhere for the whole week. My first experience driving on an interstate included going 90 around the perimeter full of other cars going faster than me and requiring getting from one onramp and moving over 4 lanes to get tot he next exit in half a mile. It was terrifying and I definitely cut waaayyy too many people off driving into town and I’m shocked I didn’t cause a wreck. That was always his teaching style, just throwing me into the deep end. It’s still burned into my brain as one of the most dangerous things I’ve done (And that’s a long list). But, when I had to go into my drivers ed class the following school year I was the only one who was at all comfortable on the interstate and one of the best drivers in the class.
I don’t recommend teaching things that way and I’d never do that with my children, but damn was it effective since I didn’t die. Not dying was probably a close call though.
The motorways of Atlanta are comically bad. Everyone is cutting eachother off and going 40+ mph over the speed limit, traffic jams galore. If you have to go somewhere that’s 5 miles away in Atlanta, it is going to probably take you 30 minutes at best, but most likely an hour.
That’s how driving on 90 or Route 9 east into Boston was. Normally a nightmare but on Route 9 I’d hit green lights the whole way.
1 hour commute turned into 15-20 minutes
I lamented mine already. Its value will go up ten years from now.
Laminated?
Lamented, yup
They lose their value if you laminate them. You wouldn’t laminate Action Comics #1, would you?
You might lament doing it though and that’s valid
Wouldn’t undamaged laminated comics be worth more than unlaminated damaged ones?
You know … you have a point
an obviously important step in the Illuminati plan to keep tabs on everyone.
I brought mine with me when I got the latest booster, and the pharmacist said that she hadn’t seen one of those in a long time.
Brought mine too, realized it was full, so the pharmacist offered me a new one. It only has two slots for boosters, which seems ridiculously optimistic now.
I brought mine to my booster two weeks ago, and the last spot was still empty (I couldn’t get the first shot for like six months after it was available). The woman giving the shot didn’t even mention it, and I forgot about it until I’d already left.
Maybe I should have asked for it and then for a free ice cream or something.
I threw mine out long ago. I live in a deep red state, and nobody ever asked for them anyways.
I filled mine up a while back and just use the one on my phone wallet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wait, no prize for a full card? WTH, you sure?
The prize is not getting horribly sick or dying of COVID. I got it once in the very beginning pre-vaccine, and it was 12 days of the worst misery I’d ever experienced. No thanks on a repeat of that!
I’m going to still keep mine in my medical bag along with my other meds since I’m immune compromised. Just in case, etc.
I’m flying to Ireland in March for a batchelorette party and my friend was putting the tickets on her card. She asked for my covid Vax card, and I was like: do they still require that??
They don’t.
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How messy is your wallet that you don’t know?
My wallet consists of my health card and drivers license. Everything else is via Google Pay, and I’ve not carried cash in Canada for over a decade and a half.
The hell you carrying around?
Do you not encounter places that take cards but don’t have Google Pay technology yet? That happens here in the US. That’s why I carry a card with me.
Nope. Canada has had tap to pay for as long as I can remember. When Android Pay rolled out, nothing really changed. We just tap our phones instead of the physical card now.
He’s George Costanza.
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At one point people couldn’t even go to a sporting event without one. Now it’s, “Just kidding.”. Idiots
I wasn’t allowed to eat in the food court at the mall with my daughter and we both had ours.
But because I don’t carry my government issued ID with me at all times (I have my vaccination stuff in my iOS wallet and my daughters in a PDF and pay for shit using my watch) the security guards wouldn’t let us sit down to eat.
It was perfectly fine for us to sit on a bench in the mall and eat though. It was perfectly fine for us to stand in line to buy food, too.
Just not good enough to present a vaccination card without a government issued photo ID to sit in the food court. I don’t know how the security guards expected me to have a government issued photo ID for my daughter though, maybe that was just a requirement for people 18+
So ridiculous.
“These policies could have saved hundreds of lives but it inconvenienced me a tiny bit so I will not stand for it!”
If you think government overreach during covid ‘inconvenienced’ people a ‘tiny bit’ you’re crazy.
My wife lost her job 3x, 3 different jobs, all because the government kept shutting down businesses.
Even my barber lost his business, I donated to a go fund me he put up to try to save it, but it wasn’t enough.
Because he stepped out in his own and took the risk of starting his own business (dude had 5 kids and he and his wife both ran the barbershop together) but hadn’t been in business for two years or whatever, the government shut him down and didn’t pay him anything.
He still had to pay rent on the space though, he still had to pay his loans to get the business up and running. I hope he’s recovered somewhat financially from that, but he never returned to that business.
Maybe he killed himself, I sure hope not, but people surely did.
So no, government overreach didn’t ‘inconvenience’ people ‘a little bit’
It hurt a lot of people.
And yet you were complaining about eating on a bench rather than a table because you forgot your ID. No lockdowns, no shuttered businesses, just you eating in a less comfortable place than you could have eaten if you’d carried your license.
If that’s your take you missed his point.
His point was obviously that’s it’s stupid that he couldn’t eat in the food court but could eat at a bench in the exact same mall.
Did you not read any other post in this thread? Someone made fun of him for being inconvenienced for what he saw as a silly requirement and he countered with business owners committing suicide for shuttered businesses during lockdowns, notably not the restriction he was complaining about.
The point is that they’re lying and that story never happened. We literally all got haircuts during COVID. I don’t know if maybe this person lives in a bubble where these lies are propagated and unchallenged or something, but I very clearly remember two years ago, when the government wasn’t raiding barbershops.
I’ve met these people in real life. They’ve told these lies so many times in their echo chamber, they get confused when normal people call out their bullshit.
My barber, my small town famous bakery and at least one restaurant in town all went out of business.
There is nothing hyperbolic or untruthful about what I said.
I didn’t say that ALL barbers went out of business, or ALL bakeries either.
But mine did. I even posted a link to the stats in Canada for small businesses closing forever due to the governments restrictions.
Grow up
Sometimes I think people purposely miss the point
C’mon man. Why do you have to lie like this? Everyone has a barber that didn’t go out of business, so we obviously know they survived. Do you see an epidemic of long haired people walking around searching for their missing hair salons?
All these small businesses could get PPP loans to pay their salaries. These loans were forgiven as well; fucking free money for every small barber. In fact, it was so easy to get this money plenty of people claimed to be “barbers” and defrauded the program. All you had to do is sign up for it. No proof was needed.
If your guy went out of business with free money coming in, he’s pretty bad at business.
Are you trying to convince me that small business owners didn’t go out of business due to government shut downs?
And you call me a liar, give me a break
Https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cfib-survey-1.5882059
New experimental estimates of monthly business openings and closuresNote show that in April 2020 alone, more than 100,000 employer businesses (13.6% of active employer businesses in February) closed. These business closures contributed to 30% of job losses that month.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2021003/article/00003-eng.htm
I think most rational people understand it was more than an inconvenience. But weighed against the fact that some areas literally had to bring in refrigerated semi trailers to store dead bodies because there wasn’t anywhere else to put them, and how much worse it could have been without some restrictions, many people think it was a reasonable temporary trade-off.
deadly virus shows up
“Gotta be the deep state plan to ruin us!”
Nope, just governmental incompetence as usual.
No conspiracy needed. Government is simply incompetent. Which is why you shouldn’t have them making decision that effect your life as much as we allowed them to during covid.
But lemmy users just love to put big daddy government in charge of everything they can think of. Idiots
The thing is, ten years from now, people are going to actually believe your lies. That’s the scary part. These days? We all know the government didn’t shut down your barber, grow the fuck up.
Honestly, you don’t know shit. And I don’t even think you believe the stuff you’re saying.
The only other explanation is that you’re a child, which is probably also true.
So we are just making shit up now?
I swear you people forget that we all lived through this shit too. It wasn’t that long ago.
Are you like a paid user to shill bullshit? Or are yo undoing it for free?
