• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Way less than 300 million. The entirety of the West Coast had 50% occlusion or less, and as XKCD pointed out last week, that isn’t even noticable.

    I’m only pointing this out to point out that they are bitching about a fraction of the country, and less than a percent of the so called economy.

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        7 months ago

        and so, spent money to travel and presumably stay someplace and eat food which actually might be a net gain to the economy given (we assume) the days off work were PTO time that would have been taken anyway?

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          7 months ago

          I 100% agree with the post and the comments. But we stayed at my MIL’s house and ate mostly BBQ from her deep freezer meat supply. I took PTO, my husband did not. The only real gain was Quality of Life, which I have absolutely no guilt about.