Posted on 11/14/2020 8:41:55 AM PST by springwater13
Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be.
What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed so much of their lives to avoid being infected by the virus.
“I’m not going out and looking to catch it,” he said, sitting at a cluttered desk in his auto repair shop in the tiny eastern Nebraska community of Elmwood. “I don’t want to catch it. But if I get it, I get it. That’s just how I feel.”
Plenty of people agree with Rice, and health experts acknowledge those views are powering soaring COVID-19 infection rates, especially in parts of the rural Midwest where the disease is spreading unabated and threatening to overwhelm hospitals.
It’s not that people in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and elsewhere don’t realize their states are leading the nation in new cases per capita. It’s that many of them aren’t especially concerned.
Wayne County, home to 6,400 people in southern Iowa, has the state’s second-highest case rate, yet its public health administrator, Shelley Bickel, says mask-wearing is rare. She finds it particularly appalling when she sees older people, who are at high risk, shopping at a grocery store without one.
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Always the case rates now. Not the death rates.
And ask Elon Musk about case rates!
Because libs get so giddy when the rate goes up and more people die and they demonize affective treatments, I would make sure my doctor was a Trump supporter.
BS. The whole mask thing is an attempt to dehumanize and stoke fear in the population. Just wear your mask... and get used to it, because the burqa is next.
Indeed. If you get it, chances are very good (exceedingly good) you will get over it in a week or so and then you’ll have immunity.
People have lost their damn minds.
Nobody cares. The media has wrung all the care out of us.
If I ever meet someone in my circle who actually had COVID I would get them one.
No one I know had/has it.
I contend MASKS MAKE PEOPLE SICK!
As a veteran and COVID survivor, this virus is overrated. If you’re old, fat, have diseases, and a crappy disposition then yes, be careful. In other words, do the same thing you do if your kids have the sniffles and you’re planning to see Peepaw and Meemaw.
Overdosing on Tide Pods?
As the virus turns. It makes me so furious.
No, we haven't. Some states reopened bars. No masks, loud talking in close quarters. Recipe for transmission.
There are currently two easy ways to get COVID: go to a bar or get it from your household. Church choirs and call centers were two other ways but those are mostly curtailed.
Overdosing on hysteria?
Don’t wear a mask unless you want to get sick.
If it’s really as dangerous as The Almighty Statists wish us to believe, there wouldn’t be a single still living person in any homeless camp.
There.
Fixed.
Nobody said that it would.
Virus Gonna Virus.
How did they get HCQ?
Watch it buddy...
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