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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I’d like it if public health were slightly less prized than freedom. Information about how masks can help, people working closely with the general public or patients all day should wear them, and everyone else should get the choice.
Yeah ...me too.
Unplanned pregnancies?
After securing a supply for himself, his family and convicted felons in prison, Our Dear Governor Sisolak advised pharmacists in my benighted state that if they dared fill a new HCQ prescription, they could lose their license.
Today it was reported that he just got diagnosed with WuFlu...
What's that word? Schadenfreude, is it?
People like me for example...
Fear not, hippies. Yeshua died for you so you can have eternal life as well. Whether you believe it or not.
Uh-oh. Now I went and done it. I offended a bunch of fire and brimstone Christians, too.
Hmmmm. Maybe I should delete that second paragraph before I accidental
I got three out of four, and I was feeling kinda bad....for an entire afternoon.
You still there?
ROTFLMAO
They got appointments with online doctors.
Examples include “SpeakWithAnMD” and “Teledoc.”
IOW, the masks don't prevent the spread of the virus.
But, I suspect there's a chance the release of this weapon was not a mistake and that early word got out near Wuhan about the nature of the weapon. There were towns near Wuhan where citizens tore up the roads so people could NOT escape to their communities. If those early reports are true it supports the idea that 'word of mouth' (which is the only way to communicate safely in totalitarian hellholes) was active and frightened.
Also it seems odd Chinese thugs would research and steal ideas to create a somewhat mild flu like disease for a bio weapon unless it was part of a one-two punch strategy.
I better put my fireproof underwear on. I have a feeling I will be getting flamed shortly.
The “case load” or number of positive tests is going up. And fear is going down, because as we get more data, we recognize that almost no one who is healthy dies of it.
Do you know what happened in 1968 and 1969? I was in college and graduated in 1969. Woodstock happened in the summer of 1969. Over 400,000 people attended.
Do you know what else happened during those two years. The Hong Kong flu killed over 100,000 Americans. There was nothing in the media about it. No masking, no social distancing, no lockdowns. Very few Americans even knew it existed.
Americans know the risks that exist in life and are willing to take those risks to exercise their freedoms.
Too many people nowadays have turned to sheeple and cower in their homes, worried about a virus that has a slim to none chance of killing you.
Unlike people in past pandemics who have lived their lives and moved on.
Mild cases likely would not lead to long lasting life time immunity. Considering that the majority of people who contact the virus get a mild case that argument for masks is faulty. But even a gradual build up of the immune system’s resistance to the virus is a good thing and does help build community immunity. Just as happens with certain strains of the flu.
The one size fits all approach to reducing the spread does not work and can be harmful to people who are not at high risk. There is no reason to wear a mask unless A: you are interacting (for more than a few minutes) with a person who is high risk and you cannot maintain a safe distance and/or B: You are high risk or live with a person who is high risk and you are in a crowded situation where you cannot avoid close contact with lots of different people. The same rules of precaution would apply to other respiratory viruses.
Be wary of reports of cases surging that do not show an increase of COVID caused deaths in low risk populations. That shows the reporting is an attempt to keep us in line. As for increase in hospitalizations I think it may be that doctors as a precaution are admitting those who are at very high risk even if their symptoms are mild. Much like an older person who tests positive for pneumonia after going to the doctor for a “bad cold” may be sent to the hospital to keep it from getting worse.
We’ve known this for many months, but masking does get frightened people out of the house where they participate (albeit, unknowingly) in its spread and in building widespreac immunity ... but the personal, societal and economic downsides of masking America far outweigh this purely psychological benefit of masking.
Surging cases.
LOL.
Casedemic.
Tell us about the DEATH rate.
I think you’ve got a good plan
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