D&D and the rising pandemic

Hussar said:

I said this before, but, so much of the anti-masking movement is an offshoot of how western cultures have made expertise a bad word. Doesn't really matter what the issue happens to be. If you have years of experiences and education, you don't know anything. But, you're an average guy on the street with zero experience and education? Oh, hell, you know everything there is to know on the topic.

Doesn't matter if it's climate change, social issues or now Covid, it's the same story over and over again.

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This is sadly true.

Real effect of 2020. Skipped this phase when younger. The recycling bin.



Recycling a lot more.

Garthanos said:

herbalism etc

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There's herbalism, and then there's herbal medicine.

Umbran said:

There's herbalism, and then there's herbal medicine.

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The Mormon Witches I am talking about are related by marriage and do cupping and a whole slew of wildly weird woo woo... the most sane of them is just a trained massage therapist (which has scientific foundation and is not woo)

Imaculata said:

One of my D&D friends seems to have fallen so deep down the covid conspiracy rabbithole, that he has severed ties with us, unfriended us on social media and Steam, and left our D&D group. All because we told him he was wrong. In his last message to us he proudly proclaimed to be part of the resistance, and that he'll refuse any and all measures against the epidemic. This happened just today as I'm writing this.

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Well then, Good Luck to the dumb ass.

Imaculata said:

One of my D&D friends seems to have fallen so deep down the covid conspiracy rabbithole, that he has severed ties with us, unfriended us on social media and Steam, and left our D&D group. All because we told him he was wrong. In his last message to us he proudly proclaimed to be part of the resistance, and that he'll refuse any and all measures against the epidemic. This happened just today as I'm writing this.

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I'm sorry for your loss.

Imaculata said:

One of my D&D friends seems to have fallen so deep down the covid conspiracy rabbithole, that he has severed ties with us, unfriended us on social media and Steam, and left our D&D group. All because we told him he was wrong. In his last message to us he proudly proclaimed to be part of the resistance, and that he'll refuse any and all measures against the epidemic. This happened just today as I'm writing this.

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I have lost some friends in this way. Not during this time-frame mind you, in the past. More due to religion and then hypocrisy.

While it does initially suck, I think it is something you can grow to appreciate. Cutting stuff out of your life like that can really reduce some stress. I know my friend was hard to deal with near the end, and caused us a lot of additional stress. Once he cut himself off from everyone, things were less tense and we could breath and have fun again without having to worry about odd rantings.

I feel like this may make me sound like a jerk, as he was a friend, but really it is good to be rid of that drama.

Meanwhile, in COVID land... been seeing a lot of email come through of people who work onsite testing positive. Pretty sure I work in a different building, and as of yet have cleared every weeks test with negative. Just interesting, noticing the increase even here were we try to be cautious.

Hussar said:

I said this before, but, so much of the anti-masking movement is an offshoot of how western cultures have made expertise a bad word. Doesn't really matter what the issue happens to be. If you have years of experiences and education, you don't know anything. But, you're an average guy on the street with zero experience and education? Oh, hell, you know everything there is to know on the topic.

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Oddly, the job world in the US seems to have gone the exact opposite: many places refuse to hire anyone that isn't an "expert". The growing trend is that you need to be certified to do a large number of basic jobs. And more places than ever refuse to do job training - they will only hire experienced workers. A lot (but not all) of the "job shortages" you read about aren't cases where there aren't people who want the job, its that the company/industry/government have very strict hiring standards but refuse to give pay that matches.

Deset Gled said:

A lot (but not all) of the "job shortages" you read about aren't cases where there aren't people who want the job, its that the company/industry/government have very strict hiring standards but refuse to give pay that matches.

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Someone forwarded a listing to me the other day that was looking for candidates with master‘s degrees. Pay was $15/hr.

(I predicted that position would be empty a while...but with the job market being as nasty as it is right now, someone might see that as a life preserver.)

Dannyalcatraz said:

Someone forwarded a listing to me the other day that was looking for candidates with master‘s degrees. Pay was $15/hr.

(I predicted that position would be empty a while...but with the job market being as nasty as it is right now, someone might see that as a life preserver.)

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In parts of the research world where postdoc work is common, it's not uncommon for PhDs to earn similar amounts. For them, at least, it's generally considered to be part of their education. Still kinda hard for some of the serious academics to live through, though.