Who here will lose it if lockdowns and masks returns? (legal, regular)
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I don't know anyone who isn't sick of wearing a mask, myself included. However, as Covid takes hold, I think we're going to see more and more businesses require them. Just today I saw that Savannah has re-imposed their mask mandate and that several health care providers, including Mayo, are wanting to require vaccines for their healthcare workers. I just now saw a story about an Atlanta restaurant who will not serve unvaccinated patrons. It's probably going to become more prevalent, mask and vaccine requirements.
I'll choose not to patronize those establishments that require masks. Other than the places I have no alternative like doctor offices, hospitals, airports, I'm vaccinated and done wearing a mask.
We are never going to get out of this. I just know schools are gonna be half day/remote come September with all the hyper protocols in place that make in person instruction unbearable. I really feel bad for our children and how we are screwing them over year after year. They are never getting this time back.
Seeing lots of "mask families" out there. Wearing masks outside with their young kids in New Jersey. My problem with them is these people although small in number, are very emotional, opinionated, make a lot of noise... and are the ones who will put pressure on everyone else (politicians, school boards, etc) to make everyone comply with their insanity.
So the states shouldn't react to the current surge in he virus, they should juts ignore the ICU's filling up.
Yes. We all have to die sometime, whether you accept that or not.
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Originally Posted by Goodnight
Who is "they", your state governors? How do they win, is restricting businesses and schools some sort of win.
“They” win by the mantra of modern life: cover your posterior. Safety-measures of various sort are costly. They inhibit business and drag-down economic growth. Nevertheless, they proliferate, a kind of tax. Why? Because the alternative is law-suits or other abjectly dreadful consequences. Being fearful, we accept lower economic growth, less privacy, less individual primacy, more indignities and more maladies of various sort. Rather than to be prosperous, efficient, happy or free… we all aim to “cover our posteriors”.
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Originally Posted by Sunbiz1
I see government doing pretty much anything they please these days, self-serving government; we the people have unfortunately allowed more and more control to.
Yet, nobody is in charge.
This is an important point. The creep and proliferation of modern government is rarely about rapacious individuals personally grabbing more power, though some governors or their “health advisors” are prominent counterexamples. The real malady is the self-propitiating growth of the State itself.
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Originally Posted by 12-stringer
Unfortunately, a lot of them are getting put into morgues because of their own idiocy.
News flash: we're all going to end up in morgues eventually. Deal with it.
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Originally Posted by TheWiseShopper
Love the attitude. It's amazing when you think about it.... Nobody wanted to stay at home during the lockdown, nobody wanted to wear masks and now nobody wants to get vaccinated.
So if we shouldn't be mandated to do any of those things, how do you expect we end this pandemic?
We don't. We accept it, just as we accept the flu.
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Originally Posted by trobesmom
Again, doesn't matter what you or I say or think. What matters is Delta is spreading and businesses are now taking measures.
I'll make every tractable effort to patronize those businesses who are NOT "taking measures", and avoiding those that are.
It boggles my mind that anyone could even utter this phase at this point. Covid "took hold" last spring, and possibly before. Now, it is over. There are vaccines for it. It is an endemic virus with strong and predictable seasonal swings.
What it looks like you might mean is permanent biosecurity restrictions will take hold, which I think could go either way. Ostensibly it's still up to the people just how much this stuff worms its way into our lives.
Misinformation.
If everyone would get vaccinated COVID-19 would be a rare diagnosis.
You are posting MISINFORMATION. Nearly all new cases are among people who are not vaccinated. It is the people who are not vaccinated who are the ones pushing us to new restrictions. Your post makes a statement like it is common when it is not.
If I understand correctly, they are not in many cases keeping track of cases among those who have been "vaccinated". So of course the statistics are skewed the way that you have said.
Many show no difference between Ivermectin and placebo. Some show modest differences, a few show more significant difference. But none of these studies show ivermectin to be anywhere near as efficacious as the vaccine.
I can't believe most people here don't care either way. This virus is making people nuts. How can people not mind wearing a mask? It's uncomfortable and looks so stupid.
Why are you worried about a group for whom this virus is rarely more than cold-like and who are not large spreaders of the virus? You’re not. You’re probably worried about the very slight chance they’re going to come in contact with you, and that your vaccine isn’t really going to protect you. And you shouldn’t. Vaccine means IF you get it, it will be mild for you, too.
Excellent observations and very good advice.
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