The U.S. Has Flattened the Curve. Next Up Is 'Squashing' It — and That's Not Going Well

Time ^ | APRIL 27, 2020 | Chris Wilson

[mmichaels1970]

Flattening the curve = drag this on until the election is over

Drag this on until the country is over.

[rfp1234]

Masks are for placebo effects only. They remind people to stay the heck apart from each other.

[going hot]

Brother,

Always good to know with whom you are dealing.

[dp0622]

Yes it is.

[mmichaels1970]

Masks are for placebo effects only. They remind people to stay the heck apart from each other.

I see people constantly fiddling with their masks. Hands to mask, to face, to item on grocery shelf.

[rfp1234]

Religion and country are crucial. The WWII Generation had something to believe in, for which to make sacrifices.

Today’s youth? Who knows what the heck they believe in. Hope and change won’t cut it.

[Big Red Badger]

Yup,
Snowflakes under
Their bed can just
Stay there.
I’m living My Life.

[rfp1234]

Not just that, they have to take off the mask every time they pick up their iPhone, otherwise Face ID won’t unlock the phone.

[Big Red Badger]

This Isn’t the First,,,?
.
Is to me.

[dp0622]

I agree completely. But this board is made of mostly 60 and 70 somethings with some 50 something year olds like me thrown in.

Too many of those are terrified and not acting at all like they should be.

Perhaps they’re real last very tough generation wass the ones born in the teens and twenties of the 20th century.

Popeyes life has gotten so easy for all of us that many just got soft.

I am not remotely as tough as my father. He was born in 1920. he had me late

[suijuris]

Well it doesn't work for me. I am in my mid sixties. I work full time and am quite healthy and active. If your scared...then stay home. The decision is mine to make.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Masks are largely nothing but virtue-signaling. They help if you feel ill and are going to cough or sneeze (somewhat block the trajectory of your stuff). They help keep you from inhaling droplets from a nearby sneezer or cougher. But, by and large, they don’t do a lot of good.

[mmichaels1970]

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[Big Red Badger]

Thanks for those
Points,DP.

[suijuris]

Mask ... the latest fashion accessory for sheep.

[DannyTN]

Nobody thinks that I'm aware of. And they don't have to be N95 either. But if everyone wears one here's what happens:

• When the asymptomatic people talk or cough or sneeze, their mask will stop most of the particles with their own mask.
• Some more particles will be stopped by the second person's mask.
• If you do get it, you breathed in a lot fewer particles than you would have, and that likely translates to a milder case.

  Since nobody knows whether they are asymptomatic or not, everyone needs to wear a mask.

[lightman]

Masks are for placebo effects only. They remind people to stay the heck apart from each other.

aka obedience training.

[BradyLS]

A flattened curve by design doesn’t squash. It extends the time the virus has to work through a population and very gradually tails off the way it was flattened to begin with.

This was brought to my attention: If having survived a case of Covid-19 doesn’t grant you immunity for wave two, (i.e., “you can catch it again”) as some fear, why would a vaccine for it work?

[dp0622]

My God how many errors in that post! when I get tired I should really really proofread :-)

I’m not even close to as tough as my father was. Maybe three divisions below :-)

I didn’t have him for a long time. He died when I was 14 but 14 years was enough to see what a real should be like.

I miss the mark in many categories. Not sure why. Well this was an off-topic post LOL

[null and void]

As is the decision I make because of my nonagenarian mother.

It does change the calculus a bit...