COVID-19 & US healthcare system

[Black Aeronaut]

Plasma for food money... Fucks sake... BA, anything someone over in Australia can do to toss some help your way?

Not much, I'm afraid.  What we really need over here is more income earners.  Fortunately, two of my brothers finally moved back home.  (In case you never heard, I have five of them, plus a sister, and I'm the oldest of them all.)  One of them is going to start looking into jobs just as soon as he's settled back in.

The other....  *SIGHS*  He's convinced that he can do some kind of freelance work doing custom world builds for authors and dungeon masters.  In a ways I can see it - designing entire worlds and even solar systems and galaxies isn't exactly easy.  But not many people are into that kind of gnitty gritty detail and usually kinda make it up as they go along.

I'm gonna go back to delivering for Papa Johns, because fuck Uber - they just shortchanged me for the second time on a mess someone made in my car.  (Their support people may not exactly read from a script, but I'll be damned if they don't have cue cards to go by.  Let me tell you, I've been extremely vitriolic with the support people.)  It's a shame because everything else about Uber is okay-ish.  The market where I live is pretty decent, and the earnings are good as long as I'm putting in the hours.  But when they "reimburse*" you only $80 for a job that cost $150, or only $150 for a job that costs $300?  Yeah.  I'm done with them, and I'll make damn sure people know why.

* - This isn't even any sweat off their backs - it gets charged to the customer that made the mess.