If only there was a win sticker here....
The number of people who are completely willing to swallow this 1984 "we have always been at war with Eastasia" horseshit without a second thought makes me think that they were right the first time around and masks are too complex for 90% of the population. The scariest thing about 2020 wasn't the virus, it was witnessing how completely the media can control vast swathes of the population even when they completely contradict themselves and change their messaging 180 in a 3 month period.
PL, but I don´t give a shit. I work with elderly care, and you would expect people to at least be able to learn how to use a mask. They´re not, and that´s basically it. Whether it´s inability to follow instructions or they just don´t give a shit, doesn´t really matter if efficiency is the main concern. For the record, I´m on the not (really) giving a shit team.
My local hospital has a policy that in the wards, you have to wear a PPF3 mask that fits snugly around your face. Certain outpatients were being asked to wear them even before covid, but back then it was advised rather than enforced. If you turn up now wearing a crumpled bit of cloth that's been washed 3 times since you got it last March, you'll be asked to take it off and put on a real one. And obviously, you're only supposed to wear it for 2-3 hours while you're in there and throw it away when you leave.
My guess is that there's not going to be much of an uptick, if any, same as with other states that have removed restrictions. Aside from the obvious overall decline with the end of cold and flu season, any uptick will likely be low due to people continuing to stick with their existing habits, whether due to fear for their own safety or just plain inertia.
When this whole thing was getting started and masks began to be mandated, I remember laughing to myself anytime I saw someone with a mask below their nose or otherwise improperly worn. It boggled my mind that people could fuck up something that simple and apparently still think they were safe.
They said this about Florida and Georgia too. The media screamed for a few weeks and went OMG REPUBLICANS KILLING GRANDMA MUH SPIKE MUH SECOND WAVE and then once it turned out there was essentially no spike the media shut up and stopped caring and pretended they never said anything.
It's ultimately up to businesses on what they do. A lot are not opening up to full capacity because of the scamdemic but this will probably help morale (my work is still going to enforce masks and capacity is going to be worked up to 75% in the upcoming weeks). My county did away with the mandate as soon as Abbott announced that starting the 10th, it would no longer be mandatory at state level. It takes roughly 21 days to form a habit and the mask shit has gone on for a year. Meanwhile, my squirrel brain continuously forgets that I need to wear one at work and other places.
Is it far-fetched to think it's a blessing in disguise for the Palestinians if they don't get the vaccine?
It's Jews whining about anudda shoah, must be a day ending in "Y". Even if they have a point that making Jews (including literal Holocaust survivors) lab rats for an experimental vaccine is pretty questionable.
It's a lot easier to make people shutdown society over a novel virus, even if it's a nothingburger, than it is for people to shutdown society in pursuit of some lunatic scheme for countering climate change. But pretty sure accelerationism on climate is the goal of the elite because you know they're salivating every time they read reports about climate change causing mass famine and war all over Africa and the Middle East so they can get their billion-plus army of refugees ready to use as the final step in reducing the world to serfdom.
Now the argument is "well Texas is newsworthy/more important because its the second largest state!", but Florida is #3 with a difference of only 6-8 million.
nightmare scenario: masks become aesthetic and cool in like 20 years after/if people stop wearing masks and they come back as some sort of ironic pandemic-chic fashion statement
At least theyre now admitting they are gonna directly need to destroy people’s lives to to do this instead of pretending its a mild inconvenience.
The absolute worst was when Biden said "I don't want to defund the police, TRUMP does" and when I pointed this out to some acquaintances they started arguing with me.
