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Have Millions of People Died/Disappeared?
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[quote:Happy in Nature:MV80OTA3Njk4Xzg5NzI2MTg1XzVGNkRDQzZG] [quote:Space Junk:MV80OTA3Njk4Xzg5NzI1NTc4X0IzRjhBQjJG] [quote:Happy in Nature:MV80OTA3Njk4Xzg5NzA0MzQ5XzI5MjM4MENE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 74177971:MV80OTA3Njk4Xzg5NzAzNTQ1X0I5Q0Y4OEVE] [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=T34jwcHOncY[/youtube] [/quote] This and the NYC video are eerily apocalyptic with the lack of people. [/quote]As a Seattle resident, I can tell you that this is pretty much normal. The driver took a route southbound along the waterfront (Alaskan Way) that is extremely pedestrian-unfriendly, especially on the landward side of the street (left of the screen). On the right, you can see groups of tourists walking around the waterfront attractions. And who is driving all those cars? People! If this video was shot in the summer of 2020 or 2021, there are a lot fewer tourists due to Covid. But the time of day (approaching sunset, so anywhere from 7:30-8:30 PM, depending upon what day it was shot) would explain why there aren't a lot of pedestrians, either on the waterfront or in the 1st Ave/Pioneer Square area the driver loops around and comes back northward on. Downtown Seattle, for the most part, isn't the most happening place at night. There are pockets of nightlife, such as up by Pike Place Market (which is near the art museum and symphony hall), and there are bars and restaurants that stay open late, but after business hours the streets down where the driver was tend to empty out. People who live downtown go home to their apartments/condos; commuters leave. Come back in the middle of a business day, and it'll be full of people. Pioneer Square has a full-time homeless camp occupying it (you can just see some tents on the right side of the screen as the driver passes a small park), and there are mentally ill and/or drug addicted criminal homeless people all over that area. It looks quaint in that video, but it's rough. Very few people venture down there outside of business hours, unless they're either young and dumb, or really street-smart and can handle it. That late in the day, with sunset approaching, most people who are downtown will start to avoid it. So the lack of people on the streets on a late summer's evening is absolutely no surprise, is hardly apocalyptic, and is not evidence for massive depop already underway. If TPTB are going to start a depop campaign in Seattle, you'd think they'd start with the hard-boiled chronic homeless infesting it, but nah, those street-shitting motherfuckers are thriving. [/quote] Thank you. I have never been to Seattle. [/quote]
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How are so many places understaffed when unemployment and eviction moratoriums are gone?
I don’t believe that many people are suddenly hiding now because of CoVid and not working just waiting to get evicted. Even fast food is paying $15 an hour in states where it’s not the mandatory minimum wage - and heroic grocery store workers stayed on the job at the height of the fear pandemic.
Why would all those people not be working now? What are all these mysterious ‘better jobs’ they left for?
Are the supply shortages really because so many people are MIA?
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