She just sent me some more texts.
I think the shut downs are confusing and inconsistent so I’m not sure they’re effective. They’re just forcing people to gather in more creative venues instead of discouraging gathering. For example, if we shut down schools, the children have to go somewhere while parents work, which end up being daycares and at home sitters. Same volume of exposure, just different credentials. You can’t have a funeral but can protest, you can’t eat in a restaurant but can eat in a tent with 4 walls outside of it.
Our volumes in my district are rising, hospital bed occupancy is the highest it’s been in the 2 hospitals I support since the start. The issue from the start was the overtaxation of hospitals, not about eradicating the virus. Masking and social distancing appear to be most effective, but I can’t help but wonder if the closures are politically motivated.
We can’t eradicate the flu, why would we think it’s a possibility with Covid? The strain has already mutated much like the flu does seasonally. Grocery stores are jam packed yet we can’t sit in a restaurant 6 feet apart. I agree, feels very political at this point
Yup.
I ate in one of tent configurations last week. It was chilly out so they closed all the flaps.
I mean, what is the bloody difference...
“[H]ospital bed occupancy is the highest it’s been in the 2 hospitals I support since the start.”
Are the hospitalizations due to Covid? Or to people who are in bad shape with other things because they weren’t treated for them all these months?
Or because people are put in the hospital with Covid or suspected Covid who wouldn’t have been hospitalized with the same degree of symptoms last year for the flu when there was no extra money flowing to hospitals?
Masking does not work. I vehemently disagree that masking has done anything to help this situation (I don’t believe there even is a situation).
I’m happy to supply articles, but suffice it to say I pulled all the literature I could find dating back to 1920. There is no evidence that masks work and actually some evidence to suggest they make disease spread worse.
Take off the mask. Breathe free. If you’re worried about getting sick, eat well, get plenty of sleep, and wash your hands.
Your late coming to the party.
This has been political from the get go. Some people are just slower to realize it.
As soon as we pushed through the two weeks to "flatten the curve" period in the spring into more draconian measures that micromanaged every aspect of our lives, I knew this was well beyond health and safety and into the political realm of blame Trump to get him out of office. It was blatantly obvious to me.
Biden's campaign has even said their focus the last two weeks before the election will be to criticize Trump's handling of the pandemic. It's political all right and has been for months now.
And that tack continues in the mainly blues states like California, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, etc, etc, etc to this day. In some cases it has only gotten worse, not better.
California's Newsom has dictated (translated: dictator) detail by detail on how you may celebrate Thanksgiving next month, if you can still call it celebrating. Things like wearing a mask in between bites of food. Holding the dinner outside only. Two hours maximum length. Three families only. If you have a fourth family of kids and grandkids, they have to be excluded. You can go inside to use the toilet but only if the bathroom is sanitized in between uses. No singing, chanting or shouting at all because it promotes transmission of the virus. There's more, but if you don't think this isn't political, you need to wake up and smell the tyranny coming.
The governor of Illinois has effectively closed the restaurant and bar businesses back down except for outside only with freezing temps coming. Who goes out to eat at a restaurant only to have to sit outside in the freezing cold? No one. This is all political.