[CheshireTheCat]

It’s pretty sad when a nation named after frozen water gets it and your nation doesn’t.

[CheshireTheCat]

Have any of you seen any signs of the people in your social milieu having woken up?

[SaveFerris]

The curve must be really flat by now

[SoCal Pubbie]

The media’s having a lot of fun with this sign posted by Ellen’s in Texas. You have to mask up to eat there:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/tdna227739

[mission9]

“15 days to stop the spread” Became 15 days to get the infection into nursing homes, and thereby supercharge the fear mongering.

[BenLurkin]

[CodeToad]

I once heard there were 80,000+ FReepers, maybe more. Not to diminish the loss of FReeper terart in any way, but you’d think since we are a slightly more ‘mature’ crowd there would be a few thousand gone by now. I mean, the covid fear freaks make it sound like everyone is dying from covid. We haven’t seen massive deaths or even very many in the FReeper population.

[poinq]

You just can’t tell anyone...

The virus is going to happen no matter what we do.

We have lots of ways to treat the virus now to make it less serious.

Vitamin D and losing weight makes you over 5 times less likely to have a serious reaction.

Vaccinations work for a short while then are less effective.

The vaccinated still get the virus and still transmit the virus.

Children never need to be vaccinated. They get few symptoms and they rarely pass along the virus. After vaccination they are not better off.

People who have already had the virus get no benefit from the vaccine. But they are more likely to have a bad reaction to the vaccine.

This is not small pox. Small pox killed most of its victims, it was easy to see and trace. And was transmittable only when pox showed up. So a vaccine stopped transmission of the disease.

[Vendome]

What’s going on in Texas?

[LSAggie]

In Jackson County, MO (Kansas City area), the stupid is strong.

Th County Executive announced late last week that he was reinstating the mask mandate Monday morning (Aug.9).

This is after a Saturday Garth Brook concert attended by 74,000 people, and the tax-free Back-to-School shopping weekend (Aug 6-8).

Not a great sense of urgency, but a dang fine display of power.

[CodeJockey]

The Chinese are very capable. They have engineered a very intelligent pathogen. All out attempts to thwart it will only strengthen its ability to survive and thrive.

As it appears we are now finding out.