Dude, cool. I’m from/in SD. I feel like I mention that way too often but it’s just so rare to find others from here online so it feels like the meeting of a kindred spirit when it does happen, haha.
Yup, and I believe they are full or very nearly full. I’m in one of the “largest” towns in the state and our two decent hospitals are completely full. Zero beds left, zero ventilators left, surgeries being pushed back, nurses overworked and understaffed. Not to say this isn’t happening in other places but we are definitely being hit hard.
Sure is.
Some family friends, a woman in her 80s or 90s and her daughter in her 50s or 60s both just got it. The mom had a fever and cough for a week and has pretty much completely bounced back, the daughter (who had no pre-existing health issues) was flown to a larger hospital (probably Sioux Falls), put on a ventilator for two weeks, and when it looked like she was getting better, she was taken off of it and said, “If I get bad again, I’d rather die than be put back on that thing.” She also told her mom over a video call or something that there’s no way she had COVID. She got bad again and died a couple days later…@dt79 - just one example. No intention of proving you (or anyone) wrong or right, just a story that I know I can trust.
I’m not unwilling to be proven wrong because my intent is to get the truth out, not to be right. If I’m wrong, so be it as long as the truth is out.
Now, as I’ve said, these people could be in denial since they know that if they had COVID, they were most likely going to die when they were experiencing severe symptoms simply due to reading about the death toll being reported EVERYDAY in the media.
Which would imply that they KNOW COVID is real, but they’re not willing to accept that THEY HAVE IT.
Which wouldn’t make them COVID deniers.
You know, like people diagnosed with some form of illness that can be terminal if not treated early go through different stages before acceptance. Sometimes, by this time, it’s already too late like what happened to Steve Jobs.
Like Jobs, there are lots of people in Asia who have done the same by seeking alternative treatment because they were afraid of simple operations which could have saved their lives.
One would need to be experiencing sufficient fear for them to go through such stages hence I feel that overstating the severity of COVID is unwarranted, nor should it underplayed. People just need the truth.
The consequences, whether intended or not, results in distrust of authorities, which leads to real COVID deniers. Shit like this doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
The only place I have to wear a mask is at the gym. I do so out of respect for my gym owner. As long as it is somewhere around your head, that’s enough for him. But here in upstate NY, even at my gym, we have had ZERO cases. We are taking ALL the precautions. Now were in one of Cuomo’s Crayola Crayon orange zones. Take one step across the street, now you’re in a yellow zone. Fuckin’ blow me Cuomo you cocksucker. Take your facts and data and shove them up your ass.
I made the exception to wear the face diaper at the gym simply because I would not be able to workout otherwise. Every other place (gas station, grocery store, Walmart, etc.), I do not. They have people requesting you wear a mask…I walk right on by and do not acknowledge.
Sorry, I don’t walk around in fear like you do. You can be asymptomatic with the flu and a host of other viruses as well, yet people did not walk around with masks. I only have to assume that when the government tells you to remove your mask, you will. You will always comply to big government. Remember, they care about you. You no longer think for yourself.
Man steals SUV, calls police for help after running out of gas. The man first called state police, but then changed his mind when he learned a trooper would be responding.
BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man helped police solve a vehicle theft case when he called officers to the scene of his own crime.
According to WTAJ, 20-year-old Daniel Rizza called state police Friday when the stolen vehicle he was driving ran out of gas. Police said Rizza changed his mind when he was told a trooper was responding, saying he didn’t want an officer and hung up.
On his way to the scene, the trooper learned that a car matching the description had been reported stolen earlier that day.
The trooper noted the car’s registration and confirmed it was stolen. Rizza was charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property.
68% sounds high and really, anything over 0% is too high in this instance but it falls in line with the percentage of the country that has been hard core Trump supporters over the last 4 years. It might actually be a little low in comparison which would mean that even some of his most ardent supporters see the truth. Please correct my math if I’m wrong, but here’s how I see it. Trump has had historically low approval ratings as President, but, he’s had about 1/3 of the country that supports him no matter what. In his words, he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and they’d still support him. That’s probably true.
The country is split into roughly even parts Republican (30%), Independent (38%) and Democrat (31%). If 68% of Republicans think the election was stolen, that’s actually less than the segment of the country that has supported him through thick and thin. It looks like some independents and even Democrats who believe the election was stolen make up some ground and the final total from the poll linked is %36 of all voters who feel the election was stolen. This is again, roughly in line with Trump’s hard core support he’s had throughout his tenure.
I’m not saying it’s not a problem because it is. But it was predictable. Even if Trump had conceded already I think there’d be quite a few Trump voters claiming fraud. After all, he said prior to the both elections that the only way he’d lose was by fraud and he’s got people who buy-in no matter what.
