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The Amity City Council Meeting

posted 4 years ago by ccr1633 (1526)
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"Are you going to close the beaches?"
"Yes," says Chief Brody.

The town of Amity, as represented by the attendees, collectively groans in disbelief and despair. Twenty four hours is like 3 weeks! Wah!

Uhh...there's by this time indisputable evidence that there's a shark on the loose that has just gobbled up a young boy. Dozens saw the event itself or the immediate aftermath. Hundreds more were witness to the panic. And these people are clamoring to keep the beaches open???

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Actually, there was still no reason to close the beach. The shark will not climb out on the sand. Many people who go to the beach never even go in the water. People could sunbath and play in the sand. They needed to inform people of the danger and tell them to stay out of the water. Closing the beach was overkill.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

Read the news today!

There's a ranging pandemic, people are dying by the thousands or hundreds of thousands, and some people don't give a rat's ass about all the deaths and the potential for millions of deaths, because it costs their businesses profits. So yeah, I totally believe the local small business people would groan when they were told the death of a child would cost them a few bucks.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17860) 4 years ago

Yup. It's a callous attitude to take but at the same time, the beaches were their bread-and-butter.

[–] MinorityRules15 (963) 4 years ago

Brody was a very woke man for 1975. Parallels to the COVID shutdown of today.

Props to Stevie S. for making such a woke political movie in 1975.....and doing so with all white male lead characters by the way.

[–] Gd5150 (11774) 4 years ago

You’d understand if you ever spent your life building a business that you rely on for your survival.

Hiding under your bed crying isn’t living.

And the latest CDC numbers as of September 1, have confirmed deaths due exclusively to COVID-19 are under 10,000.

Compare that to what science projected. 2,000,000.

San Francisco alone has lost permanently over 40% of their business. Over 1,200. That’s jobs, tax dollars, a living, not coming back. That’s dreams being crushed.

Ad to that the psychological impact of lockdowns and the increase in suicides.

Lockdowns, hiding under your bed, spending your life watching Netflix isn’t living. These small business owners of Amnity Island were survivors. They chose to live there and own their own business because they didn’t want to be working some crappy go nowhere 1970s retail job in some store making someone else rich.

This pandemic was never raging. It was never serious. Death sucks but that’s part of life. Living is not a guarantee. Quint gave his life for the people of the island. I suppose he could’ve stayed home and whimpered like a fuckin pussy, but that wasn’t his style.

[–] YeahLaters (29) 4 years ago

Excellent post. 100% accurate in every way. Life is tooooo short for any lockdown. Especially when it doesn’t work and the threat doesn’t apply for the majority as clearly demonstrated. And Quint was a real man