Conavirus......

[ApatheticNoMore]

Lots of conflation between whether a mask mandate stops covid and whether masks stop covid though. These aren't the same claim. Just because masks are mandated doesn't mean people aren't gathering without masks. It doesn't even mean there is enforcement (and you can't enforce every private gathering), it doesn't even mean there has been widespread communication (look yea I know about it, but how much communication going on in multiple languages? I've heard not enough)

So in all likelihood we have no idea how much masking is going on in cases of covid transmission, we simply WON'T have it through contract tracing as contract tracing is almost unbelievably ineffective here (some countries manage but really not happening here), we do have studies on masks blocking particles though. I will continue wearing N95s to protect myself from all the other people who can't wait to infect me at the grocery store or something. Yea you aren't going to.

[Tammy]

Concise and fair summary of the pandemic throughout 2020:

https://lifehacker.com/a-timeline-of...020-1845968286

[JaneV2.0]

That is a terrible thing to say.

And utterly inaccurate. But you have to consider the source.

[LDAHL]

And utterly inaccurate. But you have to consider the source.

There is no shortage of gloating commentary over this guy’s death. You’d need a blind spot the size of Jupiter to miss it.

“Yay freedumb”?

[Yppej]

I am not the only one who finds covid restrictions unconstitutional.

In Vermont a town is planning to sue the governor:

https://www.vpr.org/post/reporter-de...tions#stream/0

I hope they have better luck than those who filed suit in Massachusetts:

https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus...-pandemic.html

Meanwhile people are so worked up in New Hampshire the governor had to cancel his inaugural address:

https://www.wmur.com/article/chris-s...celed/35097969

I am betting if these 3 Republican governors run for re-election they will all get primaried from the right.

[frugal-one]

And utterly inaccurate. But you have to consider the source.

Yeah, as if anyone would be grave dancing. Disparaging comment.

[frugal-one]

There is no shortage of gloating commentary over this guy’s death. You’d need a blind spot the size of Jupiter to miss it.

“Yay freedumb”?

That is not gloating but reiterating the guy did not take precautions such as wearing a mask or staying away from large gatherings. He took his cue from the president ... restricting his "freedom". Most people would now agree this was not in his best interest.... or anyone's for that matter.

[ApatheticNoMore]

And someday we'll have a pandemic much worse than covid-19 which is not good but not the worst we could have gotten. And maybe someday soon due to a lot of unsustainable factors (climate change etc.). It might be more like the Spanish flu in it's death toll. And those who have sue-ed states if they succeed (but they mostly don't and that's cause for hope) will have dismantled any ability to fight it. Because really they can't think through the impact of laws not just on the present pandemic which may not effect their precious selves, but on the future and possible pandemics that may occur then, some like the Spanish flu which kill not primarily "disposable old people" but young people etc..

[jp1]

There is no shortage of gloating commentary over this guy’s death. You’d need a blind spot the size of Jupiter to miss it.

“Yay freedumb”?

One person's gloating is another person's pointing out that stupid behavior begets stupid prizes.

Yay freedumb is SD and ND not implementing any of the recommended restrictions to keep people safe and ending up with way higher death tolls than everyone in the Republic Party's favorite punching bag state, California.

Yay freedumb is not being outraged at a federal response that was at best ineffective and at worst oftentimes actively harmful towards limiting the spread of this disease.

Yay freedumb is invoking the Defense Production Act not to increase production of PPE or ventilators or anything else to actually help the pandemic, but instead to use it to force meat packing workers to go to work in unsafe conditions.

Yay freedumb is the republican's repeated efforts to insert into every pandemic relief bill an elimination of liability for employers who don't attempt to provide a safe working environment for their employees.

Yay freedumb is finding the federal government's failed response to this pandemic acceptable because one belongs to a political party that believes government never does anything right, and then looking at other people's rightful rage at this and not believing it to be rage but instead joyful gloating. Dead people are nothing to gloat about. But for some of us they are something to be enraged by when those deaths could have been prevented.

[bae]

I am not the only one who finds covid restrictions unconstitutional.

Where did you go to law school? Same place you got your medical degree?