Yup. Walk into a Walmart and you and your friends can leave with thousands of dollars in electronics each. A house? Some used stuff that you’ll have trouble pawning once it’s reported stolen.
They’re in it for easy pickings. You’re not going to get shot at in a Target, but you might if you try and loot a house in Burnsville.
I had a front row seat to the Minneapolis riots. The problem with coming to the burbs is there’s nothing to loot. And if they looted and burned down the strip mall a mile away from me it would be.... fine? We’ve got another one a mile in every other direction. They’re not gonna go house to house on half acre lots and try and burn them down, they’d be way too spread out. And even if they went to rich neighborhoods, it’s way easier and productive to raid a target than a person’s house. I’m not concerned. Worst that I see happening in my suburb is some graffiti.
My parents fled socialism to come to the US and it didn’t even last a generation. They’ve already made plans to leave again within the next decade.... I’m comforted by the fact that at least they have experience doing so. I can’t raise my future kids in this :(
I agree but it depends on the location. I just got a phone alert in MN that there’s a wind chill of -50 tomorrow. My furnace is gas, but that’s cars won’t even start weather. I wouldn’t have much faith in Minneapolis pulling through.
I haven’t seen anything except a blanket “this dollar amount” forgiven as ideas presented. But I don’t think that sees the grey areas of the issue. Someone who took out $20k 15 years ago and had already paid $25k but still owes $15k? Dear god just let them go. They paid the 20. We don’t need to profit off of students like that. They’re 18 years old when they sign for this.
Interest going forward doesn’t help those who already have the interest on there, but it will help future students. I’ve for sure appreciated the frozen interest this year, but that doesn’t lower the balance that’s still double my tuition cost.
They COULD just not forgive the principle at all and lower the damn interest rate. I took out $110k for grad school and it had doubled by the time I graduated 4 years later at 6.8% interest. I'm thrilled to pay the $110k. The other $100k in interest?? Robbery. A house loan is half that percentage. Why are we punishing graduate students?
I was born with a dislocated/deformed elbow. Not all of us could enlist even if we wanted to. I tried, they wouldn't take me.
My brother is a vet, I get it. But him having zero debt and me having six figures doesn't give him an excuse to be an ass. I pay just as much in taxes as you do.
In my experience it works, 1000's of years of medicine says it works. I gave you a study I could find, everything else is just case studies. I'm sure there are more, but I'm not wasting hours trying to pacify a random person on the internet. Try it or don't, it's no skin off my back.
It 100% does not CURE anything. It's symptom relief. Western medicine can't cure asthma either.
If you'd rather give a magical pill with a dozen side effects than try a natural method 1st with zero, then by all means do so. But I'm not that kind of doctor and I won't apologize for it.
In a quick search all I can really find are case studies. Again, research isn't typically done on alternative medicine because you need someone to fund the research. And basically no one makes money if we say that cupping helps asthma (and then people use less inhalers). Same reason we're not treating COVID with vitamin D and C and Zinc. http://www.journaltcm.com/modules/Journal/contents/stories/061/2.pdf
My best rebuttal is that cupping and acupuncture have basically no risk, no side effects. It's worth a shot, and if your insurance doesn't cover acupuncture then a (suction, not fire) cupping set runs $20-30 and could be done by a 10 year old. Conversely, albuterol? The side effects listed are: headache, dizziness, sleep problems (insomnia), cough, hoarseness, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth and throat, muscle pain, diarrhea, bronchospasm (wheezing, chest tightness, trouble breathing), especially after starting a new canister of this medicine; nervousness; shaking (tremor); headache; chest pain and fast, pounding, or irregular/uneven heartbeats (palpitations); low potassium (confusion, uneven heart rate, extreme thirst, increased urination, leg discomfort, muscle weakness or limp feeling); or dangerously high blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision, buzzing in your ears, anxiety, confusion, chest pain, shortness of breath, uneven heartbeats, seizure).
https://www.rxlist.com/albuterol-sulfate-side-effects-drug-center.htm
It will probably be my life’s work to try and translate and merge the languages of Chinese medicine and western medicine. I admit, I haven’t mastered it yet. I can easily explain it to you in Chinese medicine terms, but I know they mean nothing that way. I can confidently say things like Kidney yang deficiency = hypothyroidism, but other things are not so cut and dry. It’s late and I have to work in the morning, but I’ll try and remember to crack open a textbook and see what I can find.
In my state we're here: People age 45-64 years with one or more underlying medical conditions listed below. People age 16 or 18-44 years with two or more underlying medical conditions listed below. People age 50 years and older in multigenerational housing
Where the medical conditions include obesity and diabetes, soooo they should have plenty of people to stick the shots in if people were clamoring.