I have a confession to make. I did sperg a lot about COVID from the very start. I got myself banned from multiple forums, and made an ass of myself on here, and so forth. But the honest truth is that I was afraid.
My parents are in their sixties, in a susceptible age group. My coworkers and many of my IRL friends are older folks, too. Based on what I saw happening in Wuhan and the epidemiological reports I was seeing, I thought a couple million people were going to die in the US. I thought I was going to lose a lot of friends and family to this disease.
I am honestly relieved that it turned out to be less severe than I thought.
@Drain Todger - No hard feelings here, fam. This whole COVID thing has been a giant clusterfuck, and I think nearly all of us have been fearful or scared of something COVID-related at some point over the past six months. The fact you're willing to realize you sperged out too much and want to be more grounded moving forward says a lot and puts you one up on anyone who would rather double down on the sperg outs and ignore any sort of facts, logic, and reason.
Like you, I have parents and others in my circle who are in vulnerable categories. I also knew two people that died from COVID: one was a college classmate and another was someone I knew from a side hobby. When shit hits close to home, it tends to make someone more anxious. While I'm glad to see that COVID wasn't nearly as devastating as originally predicted, I'm frustrated by the lack of a clear timetable for my state -- and many others -- to eliminate restrictions as the rate of hospitalizations/deaths drop to negligible levels.
I certainly don't blame anyone for continuing to be uncertain the the face of the scientific community's utterly chaotic response as they grapple with their own deep-seated politicization.
It's very frustrating to see the experts not sharing the facts and data being used to justify extended lockdowns and dismissing any questions with a "Because I/we said so" reponse, and that's when they're not dismissing pointed questions and constructive criticism as being too political.
Guy was more concerned with "GFYS"-ing me over and over.
Cant even say tell me to go fuck myself properly. What a tool.
It's easier to call names and label someone than it is to offer any sort of logical or emotional refutation, unfortunately.
Mask laws and quarantines aren't about power. They're about something much, much stupider. Just like taking off your shoes at the airport, they're about Doing Something™.
It's a similar "Because we can" thing. I've seen airport luggage screeners run the luggage through the scanner a second or even a third time when there's no lines simply because they can do so and know that the person waiting can't complain without it looking bad for them.
The """"second wave"""" is basically them cracking the whip at the air to frighten us into submission.
I've heard people claim the second wave came in May -- conveniently right after most states started to open some signficant number of businesses back up. To hear talk of a second wave again now makes me wonder if they can keep their
narrative story straight for a change. (
, I know).
ASU President Michael Crow sent photos to the health department of alleged incidents that appear to show customers not abiding by face mask and social distancing guidelines.
This sounds more like the behavior of a tattle tale than someone truly concerned with public well-being.
Golish says guidelines can be confusing and feels businesses have been left to fend for themselves.
Conflicting information and directives have been one of the biggest frustrations out of all of this. As orders get revised, updated, or rescinded, it's not uncommon for there to be ambiguities and vague areas that leave normies scratching their heads as they figure out how to proceed to avoid the threatened penalties. Meanwhile, government officials have no sense of urgency to clarify these conflicting points and -- worst of all -- don't think to consider the unintended consequences of simply enacting order after order without regard for potential conflicts in terms of the laws being enacted and their enforcement.
I would recall this motherfucker if I live over there.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of lefties in New York that are perfectly fine being under lockdown until everyone gets a vaccine, so there's no chance of a recall. Although people are starting to finally realize what an asshole this guy is, but not nearly enough.
I've also seen Democrats that might not necessarily vote regularly come out of the woodwork to vote in support a fellow Democrat and against the recall. Also, it's worth reiterating that even in the event of a successful recall, there's no guarantees that the successor will be any better in terms of political ideology.
Believe this online school stuff is just crashing and burning, overall. Talked with son in TX this morning and he described the clusterfuck at grandson's school. These kids in 1-12 may need as much as two years to catch up.
From what I read today, Detroit Public Schools have only seen 78% of their students either attend in person classes or log into online lessons. It raises the question what happened to the other 22%? Sure, some of that number may be people without access to technology and a reluctance to attend in-person lessons, but how many are students simply playing hooky because their households don't prioritize education?
Added: I'll wait until a ChiCom Flu vaccine has proven itself to be safe before I get it. Have NO intention to die as someone's guinea pig.
I'll voluntarily take a flu shot for the first time this year before I'd even think about a COVID-19 vaccine that has been rushed into production without adequate testing and analysis.
Anyone else have a similar story?
I'm not sure if this is too much of a tangent, but I've had to order some items online and initial confirmation e-mails seem to have later than usual "promised delivery by" dates. I'm not sure how much of this is due to the fact packages delayed by COVID issues have priority over new deliveries by the shipping companies and USPS, but I suspect it's a factor to some degree.
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