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This is for party animals and covidiots everywhere.

On Friday, March 6th, DJ Jazzy Jeff was spinning records for a packed house at Whiskey Jacques bar, in Ketchum, Idaho. The annual Black Summit of the National Brotherhood of Skiers (N.B.S.), the largest African-American ski and snowboard association in the world had hosted seven hundred Brotherhood members who had made the journey from their homes across the United States, or in some cases from London, for their forty-seventh annual mountain meet-up.

By the following week, upward of a hundred and twenty-six members of the Brotherhood had come down with symptoms of the coronavirus. Twenty tested positive for COVID-19, and eight were hospitalized, including three in intensive-care units. On March 30th, DJ Jazzy Jeff announced that he was suffering from pneumonia and associated coronavirus symptoms. In the days since, two longtime N.B.S. members, Nathaniel Jackson, of Pasadena, and Charles Jackson, of Los Angeles, who shared a room while in Sun Valley, have died of the illness.

At least twice in March, the covidiot President Trump invoked Idaho as an example of a certain kind of American place: wide open, capable, impervious to a health-care crisis. A little over a month later, "Idaho Ski Destination Has One of the Highest COVID-19 Infection Rates in the Nation."

We all make decision which affect ourselves, our families, our neighbours, or our communities daily. So if you care about any one of those you're affecting, play safe and stay safe.

Everyone in the US can become President Americans say, but not everyone needs to be a covidiot.

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josephr 7 May 5
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Privileged asshole

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Meanwhile, as an NP in hospital medicine, i just got my pay cut because the hospital's revenue is down.

That really sucks and is so counterproductive to everything which makes sense during this pandemic.

@josephr For me this pandemic has really put a magnifying glass on just how few rights workers have in this country.

@Emerald Absolutely true. Workers in Alberta were recently forced back to work despite the fact that out of 2000 workers, over 900 had been diagnosed with coronavirus.

"The union for workers at a southern Alberta meat beef-packing plant that has been the site of the largest single COVID-19 outbreak in North America says it has been unable to stop the facility from reopening on Monday."

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We're all hoping you front-line lifesavers will all get battle pay at some point. While you're risking your lives for low(er) pay, millions of others are streaming Netflix, eating delivered pizza and getting paid to stay home. But after Trump rewards all his cronies with huge tax breaks and lucrative grants and contracts for overpriced materials, there may be nothing left for those who most deserve it. I won't accept anything they recklessly send to me. I didn't earn it.

@Emerald I think we're all hoping that a new understanding of exactly who are and are not "essential workers" will result from this mess. Fair pay, fair insurance, fair employment regulations are far overdue. And we have to get the sack of shit sitting in the Oval Office out of there and into prison.

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Endangering the whole continent!

And the world!

@josephr You're not kidding.

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