Posted on 05/09/2021 8:57:26 AM PDT by george76
Good article and I agree with just about everything the author wrote.
One interesting observation about our little town here on the San Francisco Peninsula. All of the local restaurants (and there are MANY) in our downtown moved to outdoor dining a year ago. The city granted them permission to use the diagonal parking spots on Main and State Streets for dining, so many of the restaurants built nice raised platforms surrounded by planters, barrels, and fences; installed outdoor heaters; planted hedges and flowers; hung banners. With this transformation, the downtown looks different and better in so many ways than it was. On Friday and Saturday nights, the outdoor dining places are packed! And they are quite busy on the other nights of the week as well. The whole place has a festive, European feel which is really nice.
The thing that absolutely cracks me up is everybody dining and drinking is maskless for an hour or two, yet they dutifully don their masks for a 30 second stroll down the sidewalk to their parked car a dozen yards or half block away.
The belief in the magic face amulet is astonishing. Somehow dining, drinking, talking and laughing temporarily end the fear, but it resumes as soon as they depart the safe zone. People are nuts.
No statistical difference in covid infection rates between mask- wearers and non-mask- wearers.
Masks are political theater; Americans should be ashamed at how long it has allowed politicians to perpetrate such a fraud.
It’s going to be interesting to see what fraction of people are still wearing them in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 2 years. California is the worst.
And a lot of federal government money. That's another difference between 2021 and 2020. About another year worth of spending?
Key phrase.
“mixed messaging”
I think the consistent message is “obey, unconditionally”. Not mixed at all.
It wasn’t about a cold virus going around. It was SOLELY to stop America’s turn to Trump and MAGA, and to kill the economy and our culture.
This was done to install a command economy and an authoritarian society.
Everything else is hype and bullshit.
Face diapers as a trend... I’m old enough to remember when going braless was the trend.
Sigh...
And tube tops right after that.... *sigh*
Northeast U.S. isn't far behind.
“It is exactly that kind of behavior that is going to delay our growth in getting back to normal. “
He just doesn’t get it. There is no INTENT of getting back to normal. This was an overthrow of our government and culture and a power grab.
The sooner guys like this realize that, the sooner they can understand what is happening and stop looking for signposts that we are headed back to “normal”.
Mixed lies
Trish Regan said that this China virus is another impeachment scam against Trump all over again.. like the fake Russia - Mueller witch hunt..
Then, Fox Business ( RINO Ryan ) pulled her show
That and, "Let's hate Trump".
Same thing in Italy and the rest of the world?
Yes, I do that. Why? Not because I think it does any good. I think it's ridiculous. I do it so that the petty dictators who run my city and state allow me some semblance of a normal life and allow my favorite eateries to be more or less open.
Of course it's stupid. I'm a hockey fan. The team plays the game with no masks. The players take their breathers on the bench with no masks. But the reserve goalie and the coaches wear masks. Why? So that the morons peddling this as "science" let them play the game they love.
We have LOTS of petty dictators here in California, but none have them have accosted me for going maskless outdoors. I’ve had two Karens (one woman, one guy) bug me, once at the beach and another time on a hike. The woman at the beach was going apoplectic and I thought she might have a brain aneurism right there on the spot. She screamed “Where are you from? Go back there!” I calmly replied “Right here in California for nearly 50 years.” That was fun.
I think it’s a LONG stretch to think that a small handful of people going maskless on the sidewalk is going to cause the Powers That Be to cancel outdoor dining.
Ain't "science" grand?!
But, I have two kids in the restaurant biz. If health inspectors find unmasked people away from a table in a restaurant, it's the restaurant and employees who pay the price, not the customer. I want my kids to keep their jobs
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