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Pax: Do I need to wear a mask? I'm triple-vaxed. Just got a booster this week.

Me: Oof. No worries. Let's hope you don't have a blood clot or heart attack during the ride.

I wonder if the lack of a mask mandate in Florida means COVID has killed or hospitalized all Florida Uber drivers. Any Uber drivers in Florida still alive? Sure, they're safe while on masked rides but they have to leave their cars sometime, no?

Then cancel when you get to a surge or suitable area. This stops the annoying pings and it pisses off pax by making them wait even longer! FU, Dara!

To make it easier to cancel on shit rides?

Uber's bullshit reason for taking away upfront trip info in California is that drivers have a low acceptance rate.

If I'm on the road for 10 hours, at least 9 hours and 30 minutes of that is on rides. Yet there are so many trip requests that I can shitcan the crappy ones and take only decent ones instead.

The number of trip requests far exceeds the number of drivers, such that even if every driver took request after request without being choosy wait times would still be excessive.

The solution is not to screw over drivers. The solution is to bring back trip info, the multiplier, multiplier surge, and returning driver bonuses, so more drivers get back on the road.

Don't fall f

Let's make their changes backfire!

Imagine spending $10k, $20k, or over $30k to buy a car for rideshare and then having your income slashed without notice.

Around $5k is the max you should pay for a rideshare car. Don't waste a penny on pax comfort. If the car is clean and has four doors, that should be sufficient. If legroom is tight, just move up the front passenger seat. Most rides are solo pax anyways.

If a cheap car isn't comfortable, get a cushion or lose some weight so you can fit inside of it easier.

Don't get screwed like MR_PRESIDENT!

[https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/mzyjpu/bought_used_tesla_3_for_uber_because_surges_were/](https://www.reddit.com/r/uberdrivers/comments/mzyjpu/bought_used_t

Most pax who offer a "big tip" in exchange for stopping at a liquor or convenience store have no intention of tipping. If they were serious, they'd hand you cash upfront or ask if you wanted them to grab anything for you while inside.

Here's how to foil those cunts:

Pax: Can we make a quick stop at the liquor store? I'll give you a nice tip.

Driver: Sure.

Pax: I'll be back in a couple minutes.

Driver: (As pax opens door to exit car) Hey, can you grab me some (insert item) while you're in there instead of that tip?

You've now put them in a tough spot. Either they buy you something, or they're exposed as a piece of shit. If they don't bring anything back for you, you can 1 star them with

Considering that 78% of people hospitalized for COVID were overweight or obese, should Uber Pro offer gym memberships or exercise equipment discounts?

Among 148,494 adults who received a COVID-19 diagnosis during an emergency department (ED) or inpatient visit at 238 U.S. hospitals during March–December 2020, 28.3% had overweight and 50.8% had obesity.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm?s_cid=mm7010e4_w

Edit: I'm not overweight and exercise regularly.

If you're an obese driver, it's time to cut the carbs and hit the treadmill. Masks are not going to save you.

Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm?s_cid=mm7010e3_w

**Edi

Perhaps Uber should have weight limits for drivers:

Being obese not only increases the risk of infection and of complications for the single obese person, but recent evidence indicates that a large obese population increases the chance of appearance of more virulent viral strain, prolongs the virus shedding throughout the total population and eventually may increase overall mortality rate of an influenza pandemic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7130453/