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    From what people were saying on Twitter, you can’t get a doctor’s exception. You gotta convince the cop that you need it for health reasons. I’m sure that will go well.

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          Cops in general did. It was the leading cause of death for cops, followed by car accidents from not wearing seatbelts and heart attacks from sitting in their cars all the time.

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              One of my favorite bits is to get mad and call cops pussies when people say cops have a dangerous job because my former job of Pizza Delivery Driver was significantly more dangerous and we weren’t allowed to carry weapons

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                If i remember correctly, being a police officer isn’t even in the top 10 dangerous jobs. It’s jobs like logging, industrial fishing, electrician, and some medical jobs. Yet you never hear about them when they die on the job yet the entire city shuts down if a single cop slips on a banana peel

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                  According to Forbes for the top 10 we’ve got:

                  Loggers

                  Fishing and hunting workers

                  Roofers

                  Pilots and flight engineers (helicopters are the main reason)

                  Steel workers

                  Delivery and truck drivers (includes semi-trucks to UPS to pizza delivery)

                  Garbage collectors

                  Miners

                  Construction workers

                  Electrical line workers

                  Edit: Also with the exception of loggers miners they’re all from either transportation accidents (car crashes, or helicopter crashes for pilots) or falling off of stuff

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          I remember that; wasn’t the NYPD the same guys wearing the ‘I can breathe’ shirts at one point as counter protest after murdering someone? I recall reading someone saying after this came out they donated a bunch of those ‘I can breathe shirts’ to the NYPD during covid, lol

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    So the fact that this will kill people is obviously awful, you should be allowed to wear a mask to protect your health without having to convince a cop

    But also, you should be allowed to wear a mask to protect your identity in public. Anonymity should be a right and if you want to go out in public dressed in a full morph suit to hide your identity that should be allowed.

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      Hey come on, some of us are stuck here!

      I’m a factory schmuck that is completely worthless on paper. I have no idea how to secure another shit job that will be willing to wait for me to find an “apartment” willing to take me in without x months already working at the job.

      But yeah, most people on long Island suuuuuuuuuck. It’s one of the many reasons I want to leave so bad…

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        Yeah damn sorry you’re stuck there. I’m upstate and it’s not much better than. My boss is from Huntington and she sucks. Literally the worst type of Zionist evangelical MAGA freak.

  • I don’t live there, but after seeing how the small business tyrants lobbied and agitated to kill as many immunocompromised people as possible where I live, I decided I would become the kind of person who doesn’t go out and spend money to be social anymore, no matter what happened in terms of the pandemic.

    fuck them all.

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      Remember, ‘stop buying outside food and make it at home’ and ‘stop buying the latest iphone’, but also ‘eat out to help out’ and ‘buy the latest iphone’.

      The comments ‘stop buying avocado toast’ and ‘buy avocado toast’ by the same people are literally only a few years apart, lol

      • one of my friends reminded me of some messaging going around encouraging people to “shop our values” as a stand in for “supporting local businesses”… the local businesses, many of which took PPP loans, fired all their staff, pocketed the payout and then got forgiven… only to turn around and complain “nobody wants to work anymore” when nobody wanted to come back to their shit show.

        to be clear, I do believe in the efficacy of spending money in the local community generally, but a whole bunch of local businesses showed their entire ass during COVID, and so fuck them forever.

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    unfathomable levels of evil, every person who voted for this should be murdered in front of their family

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    That’s my island! Love this place. Full of chuds everywhere you go. Apparently the head Nassau County official is some huge right wing culture warrior guy. Insane place.