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  2. Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update

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    1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

    Yeah you enter liberal shitholes 

    I mean I think it's a tad more complex than that. I think there is just something inherently difficult about having that many people living in one place and the places themselves being extremely diverse in terms of not only people but neighborhoods, types of homes, and types of establishments in the area. Couple that with the need for more and more complex infrastructure than less dense areas and you have a recipe for things to not necessarily work efficiently and for the free market to make things spicy. 

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  3. I like trains!!! Train thread...

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    Amtrak named a new CEO. 

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/amtrak-names-a-new-ceo-ahead-of-federal-infusion-of-funding-11639593002?mod=hp_lead_pos11

    Big Takeaways: 

    1. Amtrak is getting $22B from the federal government. It also will have access to an additional $44 billion in grants, with government and private sector partners, aimed at improving and broadening U.S. passenger rail service.

    2. First order of business with the cash is pay off the new trains they just ordered from Siemens at a cost of $3.4B. Which works out to around $46.5M per train. 

    3. They seem to have a well laid plan for how to spend money now that they have it but it was not detailed in the article. 

     

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  5. Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update

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    Just now, toast21602 said:

    It’s true of everywhere. Every city, state, country, township, municipality, county, etc. have their own regulations making them their own islands compared to others. 

    Philly and other cities kind of stand out as islands though. I would say that most places are just parts of an isthmus or perhaps a tightly spaced archipelago. If you travel from Scranton through Harrisburg and down to the suburbs of Pittsburgh there realistically won't be too much change that you encounter, but the second you cross the Hudson into New York or City Avenue into Philadelphia things are different. Not saying it's bad, but it's noticeable. 

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  7. Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update

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    Philly is implementing a vaccine mandate for indoor dining and drinking starting January 3. I wonder if the date of the mandate has anything to do with maximizing revenue in the city during the holidays and not causing trouble/losing patrons for the Mummer's Parade. 

    On the news last night someone mentioned that once this becomes the rule Philadelphia will be "an island" because it's surrounded on all sides by counties without vaccine requirements. I wonder if people who live in the suburbs will be more likely to stay in the suburbs to go out to eat or drink rather than deal with the mandate. 

  8. Blue Mountain - COVID-19 Update

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    4 minutes ago, NMSKI said:

     

    He does a better job of hearing all sides of an issue than most other media.  He had Sanjay Gupta, and now this guy.

    I find it funny that to be a good liberal people have to hate Rogan.  I'm right in the middle politically, and from what I've listened to I think he's pretty damn fair and encourages critical thinking rather than blind ideology.  However - people who are too dumb to think critically are dangerous because they will hear him say something and just blindly follow along.  He's a comedian, not a doctor. 

    You hit the nail on the head. He's a dude who, through a crazy roundabout way on a podcast, gets to talk to anyone he finds interesting and lays it all out there. The guy had Bernie Sanders on for 3 hours and loves him now. He gets high as a kite and wears a space suit with other comedians. He sits down and has deep conversations with philosophers. Sometimes he talks to scientists/doctors and sometimes he talks to guys who have seen UFOs. He's an equal opportunity chit chatter and at the end of the day if you have the time to sit down and listen to 3 hours of people talking you'll probably learn something. The whole concept of the show is a long form conversation, not a bite size interview or sound bite machine. 

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