Conavirus......

[flowerseverywhere]

Hey, here is a great idea. Daytona nascar weekend is here. The stadium holds 110,000, people, plus food and merchandise vendors, safety security and stadium officials, crews and mechanics for the cars. Of course, many people come from out of state, and the nearby states are almost as virus filled as we are. The infield is packed with RV’s and people are partying like it is 1999. Restaurants and beach areas packed.

I cannot imagine what could go wrong with full hospitals and the consequences of drinking screaming hoards of people having a blast.

[Yppej]

I cannot imagine what could go wrong with full hospitals and the consequences of drinking screaming hoards of people having a blast.

Well if the hoard is of toilet paper the rest of us could run out.

[rosarugosa]

Hey, here is a great idea. Daytona nascar weekend is here. The stadium holds 110,000, people, plus food and merchandise vendors, safety security and stadium officials, crews and mechanics for the cars. Of course, many people come from out of state, and the nearby states are almost as virus filled as we are. The infield is packed with RV’s and people are partying like it is 1999. Restaurants and beach areas packed.

I cannot imagine what could go wrong with full hospitals and the consequences of drinking screaming hoards of people having a blast.

Stephen King couldn't top this stuff.

[jp1]

Stephen King couldn't top this stuff.

Azure he could. He would simultaneously have a hurricane hitting Louisiana which also already has full hospitals. Oh wait…

[bae]

Azure he could. He would simultaneously have a hurricane hitting Louisiana which also already has full hospitals. Oh wait…

Which....is all an elaborate coverup of the heroic ballot-counting commandos.

[Yppej]

Azure he could. He would simultaneously have a hurricane hitting Louisiana which also already has full hospitals. Oh wait…

And a governor in Louisiana who begs people to get vaccinated a couple days before the storm hits, talking about crowded shelters, never mind that it takes two weeks after the final dose for the effectiveness to kick in. It is too late! They are doomed!

But wait! They will wear masks in the shelters. That will save them all, right? All is not lost. No new cases will arise. Any cloth face covering will save them - maybe even lace? No N95 is needed.

[jp1]

Or they could throw up their hands and say ‘masks help but dont offer 100% protection. And since they are brutally uncomfortable and imperfect I’ll just risk death.

And in the meantime those that don’t get to shelters, both vaxxed and unvaxxed, better hope they don’t need a hospital because of all the people who didn’t get vaxxed and have selfishly hogged all the beds.

[Yppej]

Or they could throw up their hands and say ‘masks help but dont offer 100% protection. And since they are brutally uncomfortable and imperfect I’ll just risk death.

No masks = risking death. Let's think of some risky situations then.

After Katrina some people were displaced for months. So how are you going to feed people if you mandate masks? They can go without food for a few days but not months. You can't eat with a mask on. You have to eat outside even if it's pouring rain? Or everyone else stands out in the pouring rain while one person at a time eats inside the shelter? Or everyone is fed via IVs so they can keep their masks on?

What about the big increase in covid in kids that everyone is claiming? The Louisiana mandate exempts children under 5. Other states it's only those under 2. But what does "the science" say? Maybe with dangerous delta babies can transmit too. Should babies be banned from shelters because they don't wear masks, the great wonderful masks that will save us all?

Stay tuned for the next episode of As the Pandemic Turns.

[Alan]

I believe masks can be helpful when the correct masks are worn properly in close proximity to others, but I have little confidence that the majority of cloth or paper masks I see in public do much to protect others. I think they have un-necessarily become a flash point of resistance for some and resentment of those resistors for others.

Personally, I will wear a mask inside any establishment that requires it but if my state or locality goes out of it's way to appease those who resent and mandates the wearing of masks everywhere outside my home, I'll probably join the resistance movement in protest.

[iris lilies]

I believe masks can be helpful when the correct masks are worn properly in close proximity to others, but I have little confidence that the majority of cloth or paper masks I see in public do much to protect others. I think they have un-necessarily become a flash point of resistance for some and resentment of those resistors for others.

Personally, I will wear a mask inside any establishment that requires it but if my state or locality goes out of it's way to appease those who resent and mandates the wearing of masks everywhere outside my home, I'll probably join the resistance movement in protest.

I already didn’t wear a mask outside my home, Walking and working in the community garden when I don’t encounter other humans,because that’s ridiculous. I don’t care with the city mandate says that’s just silly.