I blame the media for blowing this all up. I still dont know of anyone @ a personnel level that has been sick or tested positive.
I'll stop here.
I'll stop here.
Covid 19 flare up then subsides.
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I think it is a perfect analogy. I go fishing on a small boat a LOT and I wear a life jacket at all times. And since I am SCUBA certified you would think I would be so confidant about my abilities that I could forego the life jacket. But the reality is that things in your control can get out of control very fast. There may be no time to find and don a life jacket. Or on your way over the side you bang your head or dislocate your shoulder reaching in vain for a hand-hold. Whenever you hear of a drowning it is always the same- "No life jackets were worn". So if you want to fish with me you will wear one or you stay ashore. Hopefully you will never need one- but if you do- I am confidant you will not become a statistic.
Life jackets are still a choice. So nobody can realistically mandate those either. Sure, it's your boat, your rules, because you're the captain, but I can just go on someone else's boat or go get mine if I choose not to. No big deal. What's it worth to wear one or not? I don't mind wearing a life jacket, so I'd do it personally. Probably would have more to do with what beer you had in the cooler than a life jacket. 🙂
My biggest issue with all this is the idiot Monday morning quarterbacking going on. They all bellyache so and so didn't do this, they did this when they shouldn't, blah blah...ok, Mr. Smartypants, where the f*** were you when all this sh*t started? Don't hear a peep out of your dumb azz until after some people actually try sh*t that either works or doesn't. And some of the ones that are complaining about what didn't happen early on were railing against it at the very time it was being decided. So all those A-holes can DIAF as far as I'm concerned. Useless. Be part of the solution, or you are part of the problem. I want my MTV...wait...no, that's not it. I want my vaccine!
Rhetorically speaking, you can mandate crap all you want, but in the end, it's the personal choices that win/lose the day. I see it all the time. There's been a mask mandate for people going into stores and stuff around here for a while now. Personal choice of the shop owner. They can ask you to leave if you don't wear a mask, and they're supposed to call the law if you don't comply. That ain't happening. The governor is using his "emergency powers" clause to do all this, however, it only has a 60-day time frame. But then they say they're considering extending it another 60 days. Hmm. That's not in the rulebook. So, then, how in the f**k is there a 60-day limit to your power grab if you aren't going to honor the limitations? I do admit, the Governor here is kind of letting each community decide that for themselves, so I guess the real ire should be at the county council.
I'm used to the masks, I don't care. I used to work in a clean room environment so a single stupid mask is nothing to me. Some people choose not to. So what? I don't give a flying fig. You can say something to them if you want, but then you're close enough to them if they sneeze or cough, you're going to likely get nailed with Covid if they're contagious. I simply avoid them as much as possible. I don't want to get the virus, regardless of who's doing what. I'll decide if I want to risk something. My constitutional rights didn't end when the virus appeared. Criminalizing not wearing a mask is a last resort method because you lack the persuasive abilities to sway people into concluding on their own it may be good for themselves and humanity without forcing the issue. IMO, if you're not going to arrest rioters and looters and hold their feet to the fire, F**K you about trying to write me a ticket or whatever for not wearing a mask. Get your priorities straight first, d*ckwads.
And Streetbu , the 1.5% death rate was those in South Carolina that aren't in nursing home/senior care facilities. I'm not sure what the national death rate is or compared to other states. So far that's tracking about where I thought it would end up around here, in the 1 to 2% range after the surge in spread. Still too high, but what you gonna do? As the spread slows, that's all you're doing, is slowing it down. Until we get a vaccine, nothing will stop it unless every single person holes up and stays away from every other single person for a few weeks. Or everyone gets infected and obtain herd immunity. Of course, then we'll have no economy, but hey, we can stop the virus...until that one A-hole from Europe, etc., flies in undetected into the U.S. and starts it all over again. So it's either herd immunity or vaccine. That's your choice.
However you choose, do it in whatever manner suits your safety limits.
My biggest issue with all this is the idiot Monday morning quarterbacking going on. They all bellyache so and so didn't do this, they did this when they shouldn't, blah blah...ok, Mr. Smartypants, where the f*** were you when all this sh*t started? Don't hear a peep out of your dumb azz until after some people actually try sh*t that either works or doesn't. And some of the ones that are complaining about what didn't happen early on were railing against it at the very time it was being decided. So all those A-holes can DIAF as far as I'm concerned. Useless. Be part of the solution, or you are part of the problem. I want my MTV...wait...no, that's not it. I want my vaccine!
Rhetorically speaking, you can mandate crap all you want, but in the end, it's the personal choices that win/lose the day. I see it all the time. There's been a mask mandate for people going into stores and stuff around here for a while now. Personal choice of the shop owner. They can ask you to leave if you don't wear a mask, and they're supposed to call the law if you don't comply. That ain't happening. The governor is using his "emergency powers" clause to do all this, however, it only has a 60-day time frame. But then they say they're considering extending it another 60 days. Hmm. That's not in the rulebook. So, then, how in the f**k is there a 60-day limit to your power grab if you aren't going to honor the limitations? I do admit, the Governor here is kind of letting each community decide that for themselves, so I guess the real ire should be at the county council.
I'm used to the masks, I don't care. I used to work in a clean room environment so a single stupid mask is nothing to me. Some people choose not to. So what? I don't give a flying fig. You can say something to them if you want, but then you're close enough to them if they sneeze or cough, you're going to likely get nailed with Covid if they're contagious. I simply avoid them as much as possible. I don't want to get the virus, regardless of who's doing what. I'll decide if I want to risk something. My constitutional rights didn't end when the virus appeared. Criminalizing not wearing a mask is a last resort method because you lack the persuasive abilities to sway people into concluding on their own it may be good for themselves and humanity without forcing the issue. IMO, if you're not going to arrest rioters and looters and hold their feet to the fire, F**K you about trying to write me a ticket or whatever for not wearing a mask. Get your priorities straight first, d*ckwads.
And Streetbu , the 1.5% death rate was those in South Carolina that aren't in nursing home/senior care facilities. I'm not sure what the national death rate is or compared to other states. So far that's tracking about where I thought it would end up around here, in the 1 to 2% range after the surge in spread. Still too high, but what you gonna do? As the spread slows, that's all you're doing, is slowing it down. Until we get a vaccine, nothing will stop it unless every single person holes up and stays away from every other single person for a few weeks. Or everyone gets infected and obtain herd immunity. Of course, then we'll have no economy, but hey, we can stop the virus...until that one A-hole from Europe, etc., flies in undetected into the U.S. and starts it all over again. So it's either herd immunity or vaccine. That's your choice.
However you choose, do it in whatever manner suits your safety limits.
A large part of why NY/NYC is doing well now is that so many were exposed to it there, the herd resistance/immunity thing is real. One reason why the numbers keep gradually going down nationwide, probably between 10-20% of the population has had it whether they know it or not. It's a linear thing, the more who've had it and can no longer get it/spread it, the slower the (remaining) spread is. It's not going anywhere, even if/when there is a vaccine so many won't trust it or take it, there might be a flare up or two again but nothing will compare to the March/April situation in regards to deaths and ICU numbers, etc.
So you're going to keep wearing a mask for the rest of your life? And you were wearing one before this all started too right?......
If covid fails to infect the protesters, and came from China, it is working even better than anticipated.
Also seems to be cleansed with fire, at least on the west coast.
srsly politics is no
Friendly observation: there's a certain level of irony posting about "armchair QBs" when you're doing the same thing for the "other team." NOBODY has a clue what to do. I keep throwing out "uncharted territory" bc its true. The science CHANGES with observations and analysis, that's how its supposed to work. If one thing doesn't work when it should, then we stop doing it and do something else. Why are some people getting it and the hordes that should be getting it aren't? good question. Don't think it has much to do with "freedom" though. Maybe we should keep researching it and adjusting our response accordingly. If there was a simple monolithic biblical "do this" back in April then we wouldn't even be talking about this still.
Rights and responsibilities go hand-in-hand, too. Just because "its your right" doesn't mean you HAVE to. Maybe you just put on a ****ing mask and not be a douche about it bc there are other people in the world. This all blows over the worst thing that happened was we all look a little silly.
But that's just me I guess.
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