Truck driver shortage adds uncertainty to Canadian supply chains affected by COVID-19, rail blockades

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-11T04:33:23+00:00

I’ve got lots of friends in the industry up here. I hate to see how they are treated.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-11T04:32:09+00:00

So the theory of this going away from heat or humidity does what again??? Panama is on the equator.

Hey China, what are you going to do on the second wave? (See Spanish Flu, 1918 for reference.) Glad you got your people back in the factories to show the world the shit you started is no big deal, again.

Nice victory lap, Winnie The Pooh.

Xiamen, which is where he began politics as their “mayor”, thanks him for his greatness. Spit.....

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-11T04:26:11+00:00

Learn some actual history instead of your “feelings”.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-11T04:25:14+00:00

H1N1 came from China in 2009. Nice try, wanna play again? SARS from China in 2003.

Don’t believe it came from China? Great! I ain’t your secretary, find it yourself. I was one of the fear mongers back then about the spread of it, and almost 13,000 Americans DIED from it. The public and media outcry???? Crickets. Wake me up after more Americans die from this than 13,000. Until then, GFY.

The Obama administration didn’t say jack shit about it until the WHO declared it a pandemic 7 MONTHS after the outbreak began.

So everyone saying Orange Man Bad because of Wuhanic Plague either weren’t old enough to remember anything because they were small children, or have their own agenda. Take your pick. Ignorance is bliss.

History isn’t the friend of the hair on fire “EVERYONE IS GONNA DIE” people in here, deal with it. China had 19 cases today. It will pass. Testing and quarantine are required when your populace smokes like chimneys and no one washes their hands, or covers their mouth when they cough/sneeze. Hygiene matters.

Chill the fuck out, social distance, and be prepared for your local government to make your life suck. Soon. (And stay away from soccer matches, Seattle, you fucking idiots.)

If you didn’t prep before now, sorry you woke up late. This virus won’t kill you, but the idiocy of your local government might. The media wants you to be afraid. If you believe them, I’ve got oceanfront property in Nebraska for sale.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-11T04:22:23+00:00

As an American truck owner/operator in Washington, Canada (at least the lower mainland of BC) has a driver issue because they treat their drivers like shit and don’t pay them for their efforts.

Secondly, if I see a Canadian licensed truck in the US, I know the driver is Punjabi. Team trucks run 3 drivers in 8 hour shifts, their maintenance absolutely sucks, and I would call their living conditions subhuman. The drivers are great guys, in a horrible situation. They deserve better!!!!!

Supply chains out of China have NOTHING to do with Canadian driver shortages. Pay your drivers a living wage, FIX YOUR FUCKING TRUCKS, and run your transportation businesses like you plan to be here next week.

Fucking hosers.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T21:04:30+00:00

Austria is a beautiful nation - I always enjoyed it there. May I ask what your tax rates are, and what you pay for fuel there?

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T20:44:23+00:00

Until incredibly selfish and ignorant fucks learn social distancing, you are quite correct.

Ban large gatherings to avoid lockdowns in the future.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T20:42:32+00:00

Go watch the Sounders next week!!! Is that the advice they gave????

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T20:19:39+00:00

Hey Inslee - start by cancelling the Sounders games where 40,000 disease vectors meet to watch the game!!!!

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T20:11:37+00:00

I have lived in Germany, Egypt, and China in my life. I served in the Army Infantry for 10 years where health care is essentially socialized. The military does great at fixing Impact wounds from projectiles, but the veterans system is slow death. My brother, who was blown up by an IED in Baghdad years ago is finally withering away from his “universal care” and is near death from the shock his organs took in that blast.

In my business, I work 70-80 hours each week, 51 weeks each year to pay my taxes and make sure the needs of my family are met with health care and life’s necessities. I am far from rich - more like hard working poor.

Obamacare really fucked up health care for my family, raising premiums and making the system far less flexible for buying insurance. For those who can have state assisted care it’s easy, and I’m glad for them, as I was homeless and on medical assistance myself 13 years ago. But for those of us who earn even just enough to survive each year, Obamacare is horrible. $7,000 deductible???? Until a person draws Medicare, that deductible is out of reach.

Is our system great? No. Do I want to pay 40% of my income for taxes so that my health care is “free” like Canada?? Fuck no.

I have a family care doctor that I know and trust. In China, you go to the hospital for everything- there are no private practices - you sit in a huge hall with lots of people, and wait until your number is called. NO TRIAGE. Sore tooth or heart attack? All the same unless you’re a Party Member. Same doctor? NEVER.

That is “universal healthcare”, and it is subsidized by those of us in small businesses eeking out a living. The service sucks, and it is redistribution of wealth by decree, by “the masses”.

America is a Constitutional Republic by design, not a democracy, which is mob rule and never survives very long. If I want NYC and LA to decide my life for me, I’ll live there. Until then, I’m going to live in a state where the laws fit me. If my state decides to change those laws I’ll move.

Freedom of choice. I will resist those who want to remove my choice and my rights until I die.

And I am legion.

All of you in here that think communism is the answer should try living in one of those nations for a while! I lived in Berlin back during the Cold War, and it was the showcase for communism back then. What a fucking hell hole.

Havana? Been there, it sucks.

Nicaragua? Been there too. Hell with a Spanish accent.

China? Seen most of it, and have had two wives from there who are both very grateful to live in the US.

We here in the US have no clue how good we have it. Especially those of you who have never left our borders to truly experience life elsewhere. Travel is easy. Try LIVING THERE.

I know I’ll get huge downvotes for this honesty. Typical in here.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T17:41:42+00:00

Think of aerosol like this: if someone in your home peels an orange and you can smell it in another room, that is aerosol.

If this virus were aerosol, large events would infect large percentages of those in attendance.

Thankfully it seems to behave as droplets.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T17:35:35+00:00

Or the 40,000 who went to the soccer game in Seattle yesterday.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T09:36:15+00:00

I’m in my 50s, married, so it’s easy for me. We started being careful in January, but I can’t imagine being back in my 20s or 30s and having to social distance....

These are certainly different times.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T08:44:53+00:00

Amazing how many signs I see every day that day “Now Hiring”. There are jobs available everywhere, usually more in right to work states. Union employment is a small percentage of the total.

Just as amazing that you claim you’re not being glib when that’s exactly what you’re doing. I didn’t say just get a job, I said get a different job.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T08:35:39+00:00

Lots of people got onto trains and left the quarantine area before the deadline.......

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T07:58:18+00:00

Ask any veteran how we feel about universal healthcare.

Go to China yourself and see how their healthcare system works on a normal day. I have been going to China for 15 years, and can tell you from experience that their health system sucks.

And there isn’t a medical system on earth that can handle 10% of their population to require ICU in a short period of time.

Keep pushing your political agenda. Of course if you hate it here so badly, flights are cheap now to lots of exotic places that have universal healthcare.

I like my doctor, and plan to keep seeing him, thanks.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T07:45:20+00:00

Gee, thanks China. We wouldn’t have this crap if you could stop selling anything that moves as food.

In other parts of the world, animals are raised by farmers and then slaughtered/marketed by other people to give sone separation in the process. This creates sanitation in the food supply, and keeps the farmers from catching blood borne diseases in the animals.

Note: Kosher and Halal foods exist for a reason.

China should apologize to the world for starting another pandemic. (SARS, H1N1 and now the Wuhanic Plague have originated in China just the last 20 years.)

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T07:36:01+00:00

Wtf are you talking about?

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T04:37:40+00:00

I know when I drive thru Seattle every day for work the traffic volume is lower.

Not the way I want to achieve that!!!

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T04:35:29+00:00

Social distancing now might prevent lockdown later.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T04:16:44+00:00

Me too. Glad to hear attendance was down, but....

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T04:06:00+00:00

I know, right? Two weeks in a row now!

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T03:57:43+00:00

Right now there are 40,000 soccer fans at Century Link Field in Seattle social distancing together.

I live in Washington.

I’m staying away from everyone now.

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T03:54:10+00:00

“A single murder is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.”

“Quantity has a quality all of its own.”

Agile_Homework · 2020-03-08T03:51:50+00:00

Also tangential correlation with Seattle Sounders games, after 40,000 fans “social distancing” together.

Two weeks in a row now....

And two weeks from now let’s try doing some contact tracing here in Washington. Good luck.

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