Been seeing a lot of this over the course of the last several years -- not least when I attended Wrestlemania 31 and associated events now six years ago in the San Francisco Bay Area.
And it has gotten very bad with the fact that, if you want that hot Christmas item (hello, broken PS5!!! Or is it broken XBox Series S -- and that's provided the Amazon driver, etc. doesn't rob you of it!!!), you're basically competing on the six seconds the thing is being sold online with a bunch of bot-infested cottage industries who will gladly sell you back the desired item -- at six times the price on EBay!!!
(Not to mention that, for someone like me, the first reason that I MIGHT eventually want a PS5 was just discussed yesterday and won't be released until June and is probably pointless to me unless the base game this upgrade was based upon is soon PS5 only for it's next section -- probably to be released in 2023 if I'm still alive by then. (Which I fully expect will happen...))
But what really gets my ass, and doubly so because of the coronavirus shit, is a story like THIS ONE that my anonymous friend baseball historian sent me...
There are at least 20 tickets on sale right now for the Dodgers home opener in April against Washington -- which would be Banner Night, because of the World Series Championship. And they are being sold for up to NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS...
The tickets, straight up, do not exist.
They CANNOT EXIST.
California may be one of the LAST states in the country to go big fans for sporting events and concerts and the like -- Taylor Swift had to break the news to her fans today that the cancelled tour she was supposed to have last year (which was to include the first event(s) at LA's SoFi Stadium) will never be rescheduled because the entire music touring environment is unknown...
This is blatant naked short-selling or a complete scam job. And there's really nothing anyone wants to do about it, because (even though scalpers are notoriously unpopular -- much to the pleasure of video-game podcasters like Pat and Ian!!) it seems like we are willing to accept, as a culture, that the entire idea of most buying of tickets (or other big-ticket items such as the above-mentioned new-generation consoles (which don't work!!!)) is to scam the living shit out of the process.
My friend is correct -- if you don't have the tickets, you don't re-sell them.
It goes double when there is almost no feasible chance there ever will be tickets to these games. Last word was about a week ago when the Dodgers hoped for 20% capacity, but there you go.
I mean, HELLO. New variants of the virus, people? Including one that appears to have started in California????
But that's right -- let's forget that the only reason Justin Turner probably tested positive for the virus and exposed the entire team on that fateful Game 6 was that MLB let fans in for the World Series and the like!!!
I said, when this started, that this was going to be 12-18 months largely without sports. That sports have actually morphed into fanless constructs (to save the sports networks, even still that they are losing one anyway!!) as much as they have is encouraging.
But the fact is, and largely because of anti-vaxx/right-wing Covidiots, we are probably at LEAST another TWELVE TO TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS away from anything approaching acceptable to have large crowds at anything.
Because every time we seem to be having a large-crowd event, a coronavirus surge comes shortly thereafter.
29.1 million cases -- some of whom famous. Remember when Tom Hanks and his wife dropped the bombshell on March 11, 2020???
522,874 gone. Almost a 2% death rate.
And yet people want to think we're at herd immunity and all of us who demand masks and distancing should pound sand.
No, Karl Denninger: You and your libertarian friends want people like me dead, and you're too pussy to fire a shot, even though you demand those who believe it necessary to go all in when you will NOT.
Coward.
I don't believe that COVID itself is a hoax, but the masks and social distancing don't help:
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It's all a control test. The social engineers (the same ones who have been fixing games for Tom Brady for 20 years) want people divided and silent. We can't bow to this crap and be scared anymore.
In addition, stores are not allowed to make people wear masks and keep six feet apart. There is no law. They try to say that you are trespassing, but not wearing a mask has nothing to do with it. Trespassing means going in a store despite having a restraining order against you, going in a store after business hours, and causing a disturbance and harassing others. Look up The Healthy American on You Tube.
Yes they can, they just don't have the guts to do it.
ReplyDeleteThe problem being that people have become less and less silent (BLM protests, 1/6, etc.) over the course of the last 12 months.
And no, you can be banged for trespassing (at least in my home state) at any time you have been asked to leave and refuse to. If I have the power to do so and I ask you to leave because of mask refusal and you do not, you are guilty of trespassing in the state of California.
That said, to the larger issue, as I will probably do in my One Year Retrospective on the 11th or 12th: When this thing was in China, I was telling a conservative economic blog that, if they were correct that this was a hoax (or I would extend it down to your theory of a control test, at least IMODO), then this would be used as an elimination of undesirables motif (Chinese Social Credit Scores over there, The Purge-style over here). I think the fact that this has (at least been reported to) hit even and often especially the rich and famous and the like indicates to me this is NOT a hoax and it is to be taken seriously.
However, I _do_ believe that this is a bioweapon which was supposed to be loosed to take out a major country power, perhaps the United States (based on the decided First World, travel, and gathering-based nature of the virus and it's propagation).
Peggy Hall did a video on the trespassing law in your state:
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Yes, and it has a nice little tie to QAnon to it as well.
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