Huge lines to early vote today in Broome County. Good sign for Republicans?

[Kaz]

4 hours ago, The West Sider said:

More people in one place in long lines waiting together for extended periods of time? Makes perfect sense to me.

No different than gatherings of 'peaceful protesters' rioting, looting, and setting buildings on fire.

[M_Sable]

On 10/27/2020 at 10:11 PM, PeteMoss said:

The truth as you perceive it.

 

Whatever Pete.  How about you provide us all a clear and accurate description of what the philosophy of "socialism" is both in its original form and in the context of today. You certainly know that a number of the most long-standing programs in the US are "socialist" by nature.  The US and most of the nations of Western Europe are social democracies that to a greater or lesser degree have adopted some elements of the philosophy (US examples being social security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, unemployment insurance social services, etc.).  It's not useful when used for the purposes of name-calling and fear-mongering.

[PeteMoss]

6 hours ago, M_Sable said:

Whatever Pete.  How about you provide us all a clear and accurate description of what the philosophy of "socialism" is both in its original form and in the context of today. You certainly know that a number of the most long-standing programs in the US are "socialist" by nature.  The US and most of the nations of Western Europe are social democracies that to a greater or lesser degree have adopted some elements of the philosophy (US examples being social security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, unemployment insurance social services, etc.).  It's not useful when used for the purposes of name-calling and fear-mongering.

Why don't you write it up based on your scholarly background so that you can inform us, the peasants in the streets.  

Why do you even lower yourself to converse with the unwashed?

[M_Sable]

4 hours ago, PeteMoss said:

Why don't you write it up based on your scholarly background so that you can inform us, the peasants in the streets.  

Why do you even lower yourself to converse with the unwashed?

I'm not going to waste any more of my time on the matter if you can't rise to the challenge.  Nobody is being elitist here. It's a matter of calling out bullshit when I see it. If you're going to fling labels around, at least have some idea of what the terms mean. That's all.

[binghamtonian]

5 hours ago, PeteMoss said:

Why don't you write it up based on your scholarly background so that you can inform us, the peasants in the streets.  

Why do you even lower yourself to converse with the unwashed?

Let's be real, you can't do it because then you'll realize that so many of the programs you support are socialism in practice. Democratic Socialism works very well in many countries, countries with higher standards of living than the US.

[thomas]

America is a hybrid country. No reason to take a meat cleaver to it by the far left or far right. Everybody has a complaint. IMO Trump is an Independent Conservative. He needs 4 more years to drain the Swamp some more, get the economy roaring, and produce even more results for minority opportunity. Think positive.

[DanCooper]

Covid is spiking in the area. Don’t wait to vote! Hours are now extended.

[PeteMoss]

They are testing more.  That is causing an increase in positive cases.

[Pio Renteria]

We will be shut down soon.

[Kaz]

I've driven by the Endicott library at least 6 times since early voting started last Saturday (different days and times) - today was the first time the line wasn't at least 1/2 way up the block...but it was still all the way to the sidewalk. Anybody know if it's been like this at the other polling places? Pretty impressive turnout this year.

[binghamtonian]

22 hours ago, PeteMoss said:

They are testing more.  That is causing an increase in positive cases.

That's not how it works. At all.

[binghamtonian]

55 minutes ago, Kaz said:

I've driven by the Endicott library at least 6 times since early voting started last Saturday (different days and times) - today was the first time the line wasn't at least 1/2 way up the block...but it was still all the way to the sidewalk. Anybody know if it's been like this at the other polling places? Pretty impressive turnout this year.

At the library downtown yesterday there was a short line at 9am, then they let everyone in, not much of a line most of the day. At Taste of NY there was no line in the middle of the afternoon, you could walk right in with no wait, it was that way until polls closed at 6.

[PeteMoss]

32 minutes ago, binghamtonian said:

That's not how it works. At all.

That is exactly how it works.  The more you test, the more you discover asymptomatic cases.

[PeteMoss]

Since I haven't seen stories about polling places being looted or set on fire, I'm assuming most of the early voters are Republicans.

[Kaz]

1 hour ago, PeteMoss said:

Since I haven't seen stories about polling places being looted or set on fire, I'm assuming most of the early voters are Republicans.

I think that comes when the outcome isn't the one they demanded.

[Nyrfan]

3 hours ago, PeteMoss said:

That is exactly how it works.  The more you test, the more you discover asymptomatic cases.

so you are saying that asymptomatic cases can not infect others?  I didn;t think it worked that way

[Bingoloid]

4 hours ago, binghamtonian said:

That's not how it works. At all.

It's sort of how it works, but we also had a bad run with the positivity rate - the percentage of tests coming back positive. There are 44 Broome County patients listed as hospitalized at this point, up from 2 or 4 when our local mess started.

 

[PeteMoss]

1 hour ago, Nyrfan said:

so you are saying that asymptomatic cases can not infect others?  I didn;t think it worked that way

No I am not writing that.

[Nyrfan]

8 minutes ago, PeteMoss said:

No I am not writing that.

ok good - cause it is the asymptomatic ones we should want to find since they are the "silent" spreaders

[ginger]

BC voicers have parsed the semantics of communism, socialism etc a million times...it's boring now. 

[Independent]

Voted at the Broome County library  two days ago with no waiting at at in and out in 10 minutes. 6  to 7 people were working they were doing a fine job too.

[binghamtonian]

On 10/30/2020 at 3:41 PM, PeteMoss said:

That is exactly how it works.  The more you test, the more you discover asymptomatic cases.

Those people are still have it, whether they're tested or not. It's more indicative of our undercounting of positive people because of those that are asymptomatic or those that are sick, but don't get tested.

[thomas]

Who sent the hospital ship? Who sent the ventilators and PPE? Who had Javits Center converted into Covid hospital? We need each and every last vote. Do not get discouraged.

[PeteMoss]

Visions closed their Bethlehem PA office for the rest of today, Nov 3rd.

Anybody know what is going on?