World Health Organization Appeals to World Leaders: STOP USING LOCKDOWNS- MAKES POOR PEOPLE POORER

I live in California.
Gruesome Newsom did make a state mandate, but a mandate is not law, and he does not have the authority to make laws. If the state did make such a law then it would be a totalitarian move and against the U.S. Constitution.

Costco's CEO has posted on their website that there are exemptions for people who don't wear a mask for health reasons, which includes you and me and everyone else who chooses not to wear one. Also, if they prevent you from shopping you can file a number of complaints against them.

I was concerned at first about shopping with no mask especially because everyone else was wearing one, but quickly realized that most of those people didn't want to wear one either!

The most draconian place in this town is trader joe's. The last time I was there the manager came out and tried to discuss the issues with me for 10 to 15 minutes, while I kept reciting the codes and laws he'd be breaking by refusing to let me shop there. As a crowd was growing around us, he finally waved me into the store. I haven't been back there since, because they are absolutely bonkers inside, spraying everything with toxic hand sanitizer including the carts and the food! My friend observed them spraying and saturating their pumpkins with their toxic hand sanitizer! I won't ever shop there again unless and until they come to their senses.

Gyms are public accommodations, and they're breaking the law by refusing service and discriminating against people who won't wear a mask.

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dunes runner wrote:

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appleswan wrote:

It's not about trust, it's about passing a discerning eye over everything you see.

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Well that's good, but you're getting your information from sources, so you're not using that discerning eye.
I have no idea who Tony Young is and don't care. However, I do know who Joe Biden is and what his policies are.

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appleswan wrote:

It's clear you have no idea what to think and have rejected everything.

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Oh I know what to think and I do. I believe in the truth, which is very important to me.
Therefore, I reject anything that doesn't make any sense, and even more, anything which isn't the truth.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economics in the West, but the harshest impacts may yet be felt in the developing world. After decades of improvement in poorer countries, a regression threatens that could usher in, both economically and politically, a neo-feudal future, leaving billions stranded permanently in poverty. If this threat is not addressed, these conditions could threaten not just the world economy, but prospects for democracy worldwide.

In its most recent analysis, the World Bank predicted that the global economy will shrink by 5.2 percent in 2020, with developing countries overall seeing their incomes fall for the first time in 60 years. The United Nations predicts that the pandemic recession could plunge as many as 420 million people into extreme poverty, defined as earning less than $2 a day. The disruption will be particularly notable in the poorest countries. The UN has forecast that Africa could have 30 million more people in poverty. A study by the International Growth Centre spoke of “staggering” implications with 9.1 percent of the population descending into extreme poverty as savings are drained, with two-thirds of this due to lockdown. The loss of remittances has cost developing economies billions more income.

Latin America had seen its poverty rate drop from 45 to 30 percent over the past two decades, but now nearly 45 million, according to the UN, are being plunged into destitution as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In Mexico alone, COVID-19 has caused at least 16 million more people to fall into extreme poverty, according to a study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

https://quillette.com/2020/10/19/the-coming-post-covid-global-order/

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A nation consumed in fear wrote:
Costcos here won't let you in without a mask (they'll pursue trespassing charges if you refuse to leave).

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This requirement does not apply to children under the age of 2 or to individuals who are unable to wear a face covering due to a medical condition.

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appleswan wrote:
So you don't talk to anyone else, read any books or journals, or learn any history? How can we be sure WWI happened? None of us saw it with our own eyes.

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appleswan wrote:We learn from each other but need to acknowledge the perspective each of our accounts come from. The alternative is to be isolated and disconnected from reality, a prisoner.

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Way to stick it to the guy probably barely making a living wage! You’ve never worked in the service industry have you?

In America you can ban anyone from your property for essentially any reason! USA USA USA!

Costco making exemptions for children and low IQ shoppers is mere generosity on their part.

Businesses are public accommodations and as such are not allowed to discriminate against people with health conditions, and people who do not wish to restrict their breathing and get sick.
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Business, due to being public accommodations, must also abide by Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

WRONG. Do you know what "reasonable accommodation" means.

You cannot force someone to bake the cake, bro.

You are the enemy of FREEDOM in this great country!!!

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dunes runner wrote:
Businesses are public accommodations and as such are not allowed to discriminate against people with health conditions, and people who do not wish to restrict their breathing and get sick.
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Business, due to being public accommodations, must also abide by Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Yes I certainly do, and I know what freedom is too, which you don't.
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Freedom means you can shop without being discriminated against, because you're the wrong ethnicity, because you're not white as snow, because you're not wearing a sheet, because you're not wearing a mask or a diaper on your face, because you don't believe in a fairy tale that's not real and that doesn't exist, or simply because you don't want your breathing to be restricted while you're shopping.

Another example of what the sociopaths support:

https://twitter.com/mmjblair/status/1302314517934866439

That's exactly what you're trying to do, so you must have meant to respond to yourself.

The pro-lockdown psychopaths all sing from the same hymn sheet. The most recent talking point against the rational voices pimp the fear of "long covid". The frightening boogyman to keep us all in fear. Did you know that there are long term widespread and severe long term effects of lockdowns which are conveniently ignored by the "long covid" crowd. I'll list a few. Feel free to add your own.

On Life Expectancy even conservative estimates show we’ve lost 100X more in years of those impacted by lockdown and reduced life expectancy than years lost of those who died before their time of C19 (some estimate1000X).

Increased TB spread
Increased TB deaths
Increased long "TB"
Increased measles
Increased cancer suffering
Increased cancer deaths
Increased poor diabetic outcomes
Increased heart disease
Increased depression
Increased suicide
Increased hunger
Increased child mortality
Increased substance abuse
Increased poverty
Increased gender based violence
Decreased levels of education
Increased inequality
Decreased life expectancies
Increased HIV deaths

Hahaha they deleted my comment calling you a whiny liberal!! LRC is a bit soft these days.

The business owner's private property rights trump your needs to enforce your lifestyle on them. There is no constitutional right to shop at a big box store... get over yourself.

Let's grant you your authoritarian fantasy for a moment and image that your unverified "medical condition" meant your "lifestyle" was wholly protected under the ADA - sorry bro - with curbside pickup, delivery, Amazon, etc. - the questionable "reason accommodation" standard of the ADA would still not does not grant you the right to trespass on the business owners property.

Stop trying to turn the grand old USA into the EU.

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dunes runner wrote:
That's exactly what you're trying to do, so you must have meant to respond to yourself.

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I don't know, but I imagine it makes you feel terrible.

Apparently that hurt your feelings and caused you to whine even more.
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I have never claimed anything under the ADA, so you're consistently wrong again.
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Suffice it to say that the box stores know the rules, regulations, and the Constitution of the United States much better than you do.
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You're welcome to go and argue with them if you want, because I don't care what you think.

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Allen53 wrote:
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economics in the West, but the harshest impacts may yet be felt in the developing world. After decades of improvement in poorer countries, a regression threatens that could usher in, both economically and politically, a neo-feudal future, leaving billions stranded permanently in poverty. If this threat is not addressed, these conditions could threaten not just the world economy, but prospects for democracy worldwide.

In its most recent analysis, the World Bank predicted that the global economy will shrink by 5.2 percent in 2020, with developing countries overall seeing their incomes fall for the first time in 60 years. The United Nations predicts that the pandemic recession could plunge as many as 420 million people into extreme poverty, defined as earning less than $2 a day. The disruption will be particularly notable in the poorest countries. The UN has forecast that Africa could have 30 million more people in poverty. A study by the International Growth Centre spoke of “staggering” implications with 9.1 percent of the population descending into extreme poverty as savings are drained, with two-thirds of this due to lockdown. The loss of remittances has cost developing economies billions more income.

Latin America had seen its poverty rate drop from 45 to 30 percent over the past two decades, but now nearly 45 million, according to the UN, are being plunged into destitution as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In Mexico alone, COVID-19 has caused at least 16 million more people to fall into extreme poverty, according to a study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

https://quillette.com/2020/10/19/the-coming-post-covid-global-order/

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