Conavirus......

[JaneV2.0]

because parachuting sounds about as appealing as being strung to a torture rack. It's like "hey why not try waterboarding if life is so precarious? wouldn't you like to know what it is like to be waterboarded before you die? Wouldn't it be a pity to die before one has experienced waterboarding?". Uh no, no, it really would not. I mean I could see getting into drugs, if one had no concern for consequences, at least that sounds like fun.

Pretty much my take on a lot of extreme sports, and well put.
Psilocybin was fun, and having a renaissance, I understand.

[bae]

All the caution will just prolong the time until we get past this, because eventually everyone will get it and then we'll be done. Yes, no escaping it even in quarantine:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/healt...ion/index.html

Yes, we are being bad bad antisocial people by protecting our 80+ year old neighbors and keeping them from catching Covid now, at a time when medical resources are extremely scarce here, and transport nearly impossible due to the weather.

If we cared, we'd simply put them out on an ice floe and be done with it.

My mistake.

[JaneV2.0]

All the caution will just prolong the time until we get past this, because eventually everyone will get it and then we'll be done. Yes, no escaping it even in quarantine:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/healt...ion/index.html

I sent that link to a couple of friends. I may go back to disinfecting my groceries...

[Yppej]

My daughter and I are having dinner, indoors, with our next-door neighbors tonight. We've all been involuntarily quarantined here for about a week due to the severe weather event, and neither household has seen anyone else during this time. Nonetheless, all parties involved took Covid tests about 30 mins ago.

We'd dine outside, but it is currently 20 degrees outside, and winds should pick up to 30+ knots this evening.

Fun times.

I don't doubt that elites have access to tests that ordinary people can't get (just as the First World has access to initial doses the Third World can't get - thus all the variants). Equity? What's that?

[bae]

I don't doubt that elites have access to tests that ordinary people can't get (just as the First World has access to initial doses the Third World can't get - thus all the variants). Equity? What's that?

**** you.

[sweetana3]

When replies devolve into cursing, it might be better to utilize the "ignore" function on this board. And I wish quotes were not used in replies because it shows me the content I am trying to avoid.

Better for me to ignore this whole topic since it is not really valid what another state is doing when I live in the uneducated Midwest.

[jp1]

I don't doubt that elites have access to tests that ordinary people can't get (just as the First World has access to initial doses the Third World can't get - thus all the variants). Equity? What's that?

I guess everyone with an Amazon account and a credit card qualifies as an elite then.

[jp1]

Yep. A non-vaxxed friend had wanted to go out to dinner after I got back from my FL trip. Cook County (where Chicago is) mandated vax cards must be shown after 1/3 for indoor dining, visiting the gym, etc. I’ll have to show mine when I go back to the gym. So no dining out for her.

I just checked and our county had 461 positives yesterday. That’s roughly one out of every 600 people who live here. In just one day. Multiply that out over a week and roughly one of every hundred residents is infected.

[Yppej]

I just checked and our county had 461 positives yesterday. That’s roughly one out of every 600 people who live here. In just one day. Multiply that out over a week and roughly one of every hundred residents is infected.

Excellent math skills. Now here's another question - what percent of the population do you think have to get infected before restrictions go away?

Say 100% of people are positive - is there any point then to quarantining or masks? What if the positivity rate is 97%? Or 80%? Or 50%?

ETA Here is a current list of positivity rates by state and DC:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...s-july-14.html

[jp1]

Depends on how full the hospitals are. Death rates needlessly go up when hospitals can't effectively treat everyone that needs treatment. Even in a highly vaxxed and boosted county like mine a 25% or 50% positivity rate would likely overwhelm the hospitals. Especially if the lower vaxxed areas of the state had anywhere near that kind of positivity rate since they would be needing exponentially more hospital space than they have and would be trying to send patients here.