Those dudes take down hummingbirds! They ain’t skeered of no Murder Hornets 
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I forget…are you a nurse? If so, you stay safe!
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Women don’t get humor either…
If you’re fat and out of shape, you won’t be fast enough to catch it in the first place.
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Am a nurse. Taking care of covid patients tonight. Just a matter of time…
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I just logged in, more often I view and don’t post and therefore don’t log in.
I have contact with fewer good friends, it is true that a lot of them I saw at events and never knew their exact home addresses of telephone numbers.
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How many guys here are getting off on this idea that doing anything to stop the virus is somehow about now fighting for your rights against tyranny?
Not sure how many. Shutdowns were good until they weren’t. Parents gotta feed their kids. New York, the epicenter of the virus in the United States, left the nursing homes open, and even sent infected bodies back to the nursing homes. I’ve got more I can say but I hope this is enough.
Here? I don’t think very many. At the protests/Trump rallies? Probably quite a few.
I think most reasonable minds arguing for a reopening have accepted that to now be the lesser evil while voicing frustration with the way the shutdown has been handled.
People across the country continue to advocate “sheltering-in-place” and not re-opening any part of the country. That literally makes zero sense. Our economy is tanking horribly, and if people cannot return to work very soon, we’ll have significantly more problems than this low-grade virus. Furthermore, what do they expect “shelter-in-place” to do? It was simply meant not to overcrowd the healthcare systems and hospitals. Anybody that tells you otherwise is a damn liar. As I’ve said before, it kicks the can down the road. What do you think will happen when everybody goes back outside? They’ll fucking catch the virus! Staying inside and avoiding the entire problem does absolutely nothing. Want more people unemployed? On unemployment? Applying for welfare? How appealing.
Yup. I work in one.
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I’m working. That’s all I care about. And I’m saving money on gas. Those people who aren’t working? I refuse to live in their fear.
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Consider yourself lucky. There are plenty of people out of work that do not have the capability of working from home.
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It’s not luck. I am considered essential and my skills are in demand as well as in limited supply.
Why the hell should I care? Why do you care? You won’t even wear a mask to help your fellow citizens. Being edgy and crying about muh rights are more important.
I dunno. Our economy is crashing? People can’t pay their bills? People can barely feed their families? Seems pretty important to me.
Masks have also been proven to be ineffective at best. Food and water are essential for life.
That’s why we should reopen things? To help others?
OK. How about people are getting sick and some are dying as reasons to wear a mask? Hmmmmmm.
And maybe, if more people wore masks and practiced social distancing, we could open things back up sooner. But then you couldn’t be edgy. In short, you’re full of shit.
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Who told you that? Youtube?
This is correct. These restrictive policies were put in place to ensure that the healthcare systems do not get overwhelmed and people die from lack of care. The issues with opening up too early is that there is a significant risk of an NYC-like infection hotspot happening. However if we can find a way to stage openings in a manner that allows us to keep the spread of CV to a managable level, we need to do that. People dying is something to be expected. People dying from a lack of care from an overwhelmed healthcare system is something that we can and should avoid.
My personal opinion is that small lifestyle changes would make a significant difference if implemented universally. Wearing masks in public, social distancing, limiting visits to crowded or trafficked areas, etc… if taken seriously would make a significant difference. Unfortunately there is a large portion of the population that won’t take these very basic, easy precautions (for a variety of self serving reasons) so we need an equal amount of people to follow more restrictive measures so the average is still somewhere in the middle. This has led to restrictive measures across the board, with the knowledge that some people will not follow the restrictions.
Its really sad, but when this whole thing started for me in the first week of March i was at least hopeful that this country (and world) would band together to fight this common enemy. Instead, it has devolved into needless partisanship and nationalism, and this turmoil has been spearheaded and inflamed by the politicians we elected. What ever happened to the politicians of old that spread a message of unity, hope, and achievement? Now its just a message spreading blame. Its fucked up.
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Depends on the period of time. Civil war era had instances of house members brandishing pistols over arguments. Probably some times long ago that people got along, but also some pretty partisan divides too.