Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Great Barrington: live, moving, health)

[porterhouse]

Originally Posted by rach5

With the migration home of college students...Expect Omicron to be unleased all over the US in the next two weeks, just in time for Christmas gatherings.

You were just predicting Armageddon after Thanksgiving (for the second time). Now it’s Christmas (for a second time). Oh yes, I forgot about the dire influenza warning. Do you see a pattern here? Just wait 2 weeks…

You can always travel to South Africa for Christmas if you are worried. After all cases are plummeting there and hospitalizations are low compared with previous waves.

[rach5]

Originally Posted by porterhouse

You were just predicting Armageddon after Thanksgiving (for the second time). Now it’s Christmas (for a second time). Oh yes, I forgot about the dire influenza warning. Do you see a pattern here? Just wait 2 weeks…

You can always travel to South Africa for Christmas if you are worried. After all cases are plummeting there and hospitalizations are low compared with previous waves.

Well - I was correct about the Thanksgiving spike, which anybody not living in a cave or off-grid would know. Doesn't mean that things can't still get worse.
I have read that the South Africa data drop is due to a data reporting issue. https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/st...86665280516097 We'll see soon enough.
They think in a couple of days, Omicron will be more than 50% of cases in Denmark. Denmark is already imposing new restrictions: "The new restrictions include closing primary schools from Dec. 15 and restaurants and bars from midnight on Friday. They also encourage Danes to work from home and cancel social gatherings such as Christmas parties" https://kfgo.com/2021/12/08/denmark-...-restrictions/

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by porterhouse

You were just predicting Armageddon after Thanksgiving

It’s more like Gotterdammerung here in Bristol County. Florida Man, north. The plague of the unvaccinated and unboosted. An unvaccinated 74 year old neighbor just went off in an ambulance. Jabbed, boosted, and with an N95 mask and hand hygiene, my perceived risk is pretty low.

[Space_League]

Christmas in Florida this year

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by bostongymjunkie

But if it were a video showing what appears to be police brutality I think your response would be different. I've seen a ton of video footage directly by people at the protests nationwide, not media. In contrast you're talking about a few protests. I don't see either as solid proof of anything but it's quite apparent that there was quite a bit of non compliance with masks and social distancing and the "medical professional" mixed messages are my issue. The existence of the article supports this. Example, does this photo look like social distancing? And I see a lot of masks and a lot of bare faces. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/healt...rnd/index.html
The life and death thing is a red herring. You didn't save any lives, in fact some of the protests resulted in dozens of dead.

This is what I was referring to. From last June.

“The vast majority of the folks who participated in those demonstrations were wearing masks or face coverings of one kind or another,” the Republican governor said. “In many cases, they were moving, which I think made a big difference. And of course, they all took place outside, which we all agree is a far safer environment than indoors.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/...e-coronavirus/

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by tribecavsbrowns

They were about death, for sure. Pretty good-sized body count across the multitude of gatherings, but the real legacy is that the national homicide rate went up significantly immediately thereafter.

Thanks for calling the human activities that were stolen from the people in the name of "public health" "frivolous," though. You have revealed exactly who you are.

Is that what Newsmax is telling you? Right after the latest "caravans of brown invaders" story.

[htfdcolt]

Well, looks like my employer is either thinking the Jan 4 mandate will stand, or is contemplating following it regardless. They just asked us to upload our vax certificates by the end of next week.

Last sentence in the communication:

"If you fail to complete the questionnaire in full, you will be deemed as unvaccinated and subject to policies and procedures applicable to unvaccinated employees."

[tribecavsbrowns]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

Is that what Newsmax is telling you? Right after the latest "caravans of brown invaders" story.

I live in a plurality-black city by choice, so I think your level of understanding of who you're talking to is the same as your level of desire to get into a fact-based discussion about crime rates before and after George Floyd: zero.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by tribecavsbrowns

I live in a plurality-black city by choice, so I think your level of understanding of who you're talking to is the same as your level of desire to get into a fact-based discussion about crime rates before and after George Floyd: zero.

This doesn't belong in a coronavirus thread.

Good for you on the above, but if you read carefully, my statement is more about Newsmax and the typical fearmongering that comes out of them.

[tribecavsbrowns]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

This doesn't belong in a coronavirus thread.

Good for you on the above, but if you read carefully, my statement is more about Newsmax and the typical fearmongering that comes out of them.

Why not? Is it because it's a fact?