COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

[tac airlifter]

What in the absolute fuck am I looking at?

[Standby]

3 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

What in the absolute fuck am I looking at?

I think she’s wearing a prop from Pulp Fiction. 

[SpeedOfHeat]

While ridiculous, it's no more ridiculous than the people I see on a daily basis wearing masks outside by themselves. 

My favorite is the people riding bikes or,  ...I saw this a couple weeks ago...., SKIING while wearing a surgical mask.  --"Tell me you have a mental disorder without telling me you have a mental disorder."

It's no more ridiculous than the kid I saw at my son's baseball game two nights ago wearing an N95 while playing CENTER FIELD.  His dad said he wished his son would take off his mask, at least outside, but that "he doesn't feel safe without his mask."  Holy $hit.

It's no more ridiculous than my kids still being mandated to wear cloth masks all day in school, when the CDC has finally admitted (what anyone with a brain knew all along) that cloth masks do nothing.

WLOFMs

[MCO]

2 minutes ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

While ridiculous, it's no more ridiculous than the people I see on a daily basis wearing masks outside by themselves. 

My favorite is the people riding bikes or,  ...I saw this a couple weeks ago...., SKIING while wearing a surgical mask.  --"Tell me you have a mental disorder without telling me you have a mental disorder."

It's no more ridiculous than the kid I saw at my son's baseball game two nights ago wearing an N95 while playing CENTER FIELD.  His dad said he wished his son would take off his mask, at least outside, but that "he doesn't feel safe without his mask."  Holy $hit.

It's no more ridiculous than my kids still being mandated to wear cloth masks all day in school, when the CDC has finally admitted (what anyone with a brain knew all along) that cloth masks do nothing.

WLOFMs

I wouldn’t do any of those things, and I’m against mandates. But who cares if someone wants to wear a mask on their own? I saw it all the time in Japan pre-pandemic and no one cared. I don’t understand the rage it causes. Just like I don’t understand the rage not wearing a mask causes. 
 

Why can’t people just do what they want?

[SpeedOfHeat]

33 minutes ago, MCO said:

I wouldn’t do any of those things, and I’m against mandates. But who cares if someone wants to wear a mask on their own? I saw it all the time in Japan pre-pandemic and no one cared. I don’t understand the rage it causes. Just like I don’t understand the rage not wearing a mask causes. 

Why can’t people just do what they want?

Agree 100%.  It is fundamentally about the mandates.  The rage is because people cannot just do what they want.

We're supposed to, stupidly and for no reason at this point, wear a mask on base.

My kids, likewise, are forced to wear one at school for no reason. 

As soon as the mandates go away, I'm good.  Other people can wear whatever they want.  I know many people will, while ironically claiming to "follow the science," continue masking no matter what.  That's fine.  Just leave me out of it.

My story about the kid in center field is just to highlight the mental impact.  Billy can do whatever he wants.  I just find it sad, and an indication of the larger problem that all the people chanting "it's just a mask, what's the big deal???" aren't understanding.  Billy is wearing a mask because he's developed an irrational fear.  Nothing I can do about it at this point, except advocate for lifting of the mandates so more kids don't think they need a mask... while outside.... and while double vaccinated.... and while healthy with no underlying conditions.

For the people wearing cloth or surgical masks that still think it offers them protection, I actually like it.  It let's me know right away that they're really stupid.  Goes with the "...here's your sign" skit.  So I'm oddly in favor of that sort of self identification continuing. 

Edited February 11, 2022 by SpeedOfHeat

[Waingro]

1 hour ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

Agree 100%.  It is fundamentally about the mandates.  The rage is because people cannot just do what they want.

We're supposed to, stupidly and for no reason at this point, wear a mask on base.

My kids, likewise, are forced to wear one at school for no reason. 

As soon as the mandates go away, I'm good.  Other people can wear whatever they want.  I know many people will, while ironically claiming to "follow the science," continue masking no matter what.  That's fine.  Just leave me out of it.

My story about the kid in center field is just to highlight the mental impact.  Billy can do whatever he wants.  I just find it sad, and an indication of the larger problem that all the people chanting "it's just a mask, what's the big deal???" aren't understanding.  Billy is wearing a mask because he's developed an irrational fear.  Nothing I can do about it at this point, except advocate for lifting of the mandates so more kids don't think they need a mask... while outside.... and while double vaccinated.... and while healthy with no underlying conditions.

For the people wearing cloth or surgical masks that still think it offers them protection, I actually like it.  It let's me know right away that they're really stupid.  Goes with the "...here's your sign" skit.  So I'm oddly in favor of that sort of self identification continuing. 

Except, you were literally just complaining about other people's independent decisions.

"My favorite is the people riding bikes or, ...I saw this a couple weeks ago...., SKIING while wearing a surgical mask. "

Like MCO said, people in Japan have been wearing masks in public long before covid. You're complaining about mandates - yet you seem to feel pretty strongly about what choices other people make for themselves. Odd. 

[SpeedOfHeat]

3 minutes ago, Waingro said:

Except, you were literally just complaining about other people's independent decisions.

"My favorite is the people riding bikes or, ...I saw this a couple weeks ago...., SKIING while wearing a surgical mask. "

You're complaining about mandates - yet you seem to feel pretty strongly about what choices other people make for themselves.

Your first and third paragraphs assert two different things.  The latter is close to correct, just replace "yet" with "and"

I am complaining about mandates, absolutely.

I am not complaining about people wearing surgical masks skiing, biking, etc.  (In fact, I said I was oddly in favor of it.)

People were reacting to the picture of the band member with the hole in her mask, and I felt like pointing out that there are many common examples of mask practices that are equally insane, despite not having a literal hole in the mask.

Does that mean I "feel pretty strongly about what choices other people make for themselves?"  Sure.  I have opinions.  Everyone does.  You'll notice, however, that I never suggest that my opinion means anyone else has to be mandated to do something.  In fact, I wrote "Other people can wear whatever they want."

[Sim]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346

 

Personally, had chest pains for three weeks after first shot. 

 

[Guardian]

Which one did you get?

[dream big]

On 2/10/2022 at 10:04 PM, SpeedOfHeat said:

Agree 100%.  It is fundamentally about the mandates.  The rage is because people cannot just do what they want.

We're supposed to, stupidly and for no reason at this point, wear a mask on base.

My kids, likewise, are forced to wear one at school for no reason. 

As soon as the mandates go away, I'm good.  Other people can wear whatever they want.  I know many people will, while ironically claiming to "follow the science," continue masking no matter what.  That's fine.  Just leave me out of it.

My story about the kid in center field is just to highlight the mental impact.  Billy can do whatever he wants.  I just find it sad, and an indication of the larger problem that all the people chanting "it's just a mask, what's the big deal???" aren't understanding.  Billy is wearing a mask because he's developed an irrational fear.  Nothing I can do about it at this point, except advocate for lifting of the mandates so more kids don't think they need a mask... while outside.... and while double vaccinated.... and while healthy with no underlying conditions.

For the people wearing cloth or surgical masks that still think it offers them protection, I actually like it.  It let's me know right away that they're really stupid.  Goes with the "...here's your sign" skit.  So I'm oddly in favor of that sort of self identification continuing. 

Or the people that take pictures in masks and make it their profile pic.  No one cares about your virtual signaling.

[HeloDude]

3 minutes ago, dream big said:

Or the people that take pictures in masks and make it their profile pic.  No one cares about your virtual signaling.

Well when there’s nothing else that meaningful in your life (friends, family/kids, important hobbies, etc), then many post whatever makes them feel good about themselves…sadly wearing a mask (and showing others that they do) brings a sense of meaning to their lives for those on the left.  They’re basically miserable and that’s a shame.

[BTLFlyer]

This is Biden's America now.  

[ViperMan]

@Negatory @Prozac : Now that we have more data, I would like to close out our conversation from back in late December/early January re: how bad Omicron was going to be, how worried everyone needed to be (i.e. panic, NOW), and what our society's response should have been going forward. The Science™️, is in, and it is settled: there weren't ~15K deaths per day from Omicron. Deaths did not exceed the 4x multiplier cited as panic porn - which is what was predicted for you guys on this very thread, since we knew then from South Africa that it was 70x more contagious than Delta. So I hope this can be at least one data point that you should be careful which "experts" you trust and who you outsource your thinking to. There's my credentials. I should now be more credible than Fauci in your eyes. It turns out out that my non-expert opinion was better than all the other "experts" out there that were cited by you guys.

What's more? The "news" cycle this morning: "We may not have reached the peak, yet, but let's go ahead and drop all the mask mandates." So says Phil Murphy and other democrats (NJ, RI, NV, IL). I'm sure that has everything to do with the fact that it's as deadly as you all said, and nothing to do with the fact that the midterms are pending...yeah, couldn't be. I'm personally wondering why they're not sticking to the CDC's advice, which is "not so fast" when it comes to dropping the masks. What about the experts!?! LOL. The cognitive dissonance is so loud I can hear it outside their own rattle cans. Our response was and still is almost wholly subject to political calculation at this point. I can't wait for all those Dems to be taken to task on NBC/ABC/CNN/MSNBC next week for 'bucking' the experts as the R's were. I won't hold my breath though.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/02/the-end-of-mask-mandates-sheneman.html

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/02/11/ri-covid-mask-mandate-indoors-schools-planes-buses-colleges/6736653001/

https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/gov-sisolak-lifts-mask-mandate-in-nevada-effective-immediately/article_78ae3250-89cf-11ec-b5e6-470f4b068c75.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-11/did-mask-mandates-work-the-data-is-in-and-the-answer-is-no

CA, WA, OR, and a bunch of other Dem states to follow: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/covid-19-more-states-end-204102454.html

Anyway, now that the data is there to support it and none of us needs to hypothesize (or appeal to the authority of so-called "experts") anymore, I thought it was important to publicly state, for the record, that I was right and you were wrong.

[ViperMan]

55 minutes ago, Negatory said:

I never said there was a guaranteed increase in deaths. I never said that omicron would have a death rate that was the same as delta or higher. I said there would likely be over a million cases a day, and we couldn’t know how that would impact the healthcare system. You said that there was no chance we could quadruple our maximum cases per day and were very wrong within just a couple weeks.

Mkay. I'm glad you never said it directly. I suppose you're unfamiliar with the concepts of implication or multiplication. You did strongly suggest those numbers, however, with the 5-15% death rate you quoted numerous times. Sooooo, 5-15% of 1.0M people per week is 50K - 150K. Since approx 16% of people in the US are over 70 yrs old, that means we should have seen approx 8K - 24K people (only those older than 70!) dying every week. We didn't see that. And many of us knew we weren't going to see that. And the actions our government took during those early weeks of January reflect their knowledge that we weren't going to see that, either. Some on this board are overly disturbed by others' lack of faith. Your numbers were and are wrong.

So sure, you can state under oath that you didn't say it, but you said it.

Anyway. The point is some of us knew this wasn't going to be as big a problem. Many others were running around freaking out and imploring everyone to share in their panic. I just felt like it was worth invalidating some of the previous BS on this thread a little bit more neatly now that we do know for sure.

On 12/26/2021 at 9:02 AM, Negatory said:

Please do enlighten me, how do averages work? And what is your point? Also, remember that I specifically was talking about folks with a COVID death rate from 5-15% when this reply was created, so make sure to include only the ages that that statistic applies to. Show your work.

Oh and if your point is that the death rate for each age is actually lower because there are fewer males than females at those ages, then I totally agree. Thanks, I just figured that would be lost so I just halfed it for y’all.

On 12/28/2021 at 12:44 PM, Negatory said:

Okay, we’ll I’m not okay with a 5-15% and 30% mortality rate for a population that will almost surely get infected with entirely unmitigated spread. That’s where we disagree! Great, we figured it out.

On 12/28/2021 at 12:49 PM, Negatory said:

We just got to 2X on confirmed cases. Probably 1.0M a day if you include unreported literally now. I’m not kidding you!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-tally-us-counts-more-than-500000-new-covid-cases-in-a-day-lifting-the-daily-average-to-a-near-1-year-high-2021-12-28

[BashiChuni]

Viper man for the win. 
 

quotes, facts, science. Nice work! 👍 

[BashiChuni]

Also I’m sure the Russians are terrified of our masked troops OUTSIDE. 

[brickhistory]

Of which we are STILL kicking out around 10,000 of those troops.

Because science...

Which is something that the "didn't say it, wasn't me" brigade strongly support.

[Prozac]

3 hours ago, Negatory said:

Although you are desperate for validation - craving the herd’s approval and being able to say “I told ya so” - you’re not gonna find it.

I never said there was a guaranteed increase in deaths. I never said that omicron would have a death rate that was the same as delta or higher. I said there would likely be over a million cases a day, and we couldn’t know how that would impact the healthcare system. You said that there was no chance we could quadruple our maximum cases per day and were very wrong within just a couple weeks. Standard. Maybe you forget that I used exact quotes from you to prove how incorrect you were. In reality, I see that still bugs you.

Glad the mortality of this virus was significantly lower for Omicron. I am and have been fully in support of removing all mask and vaccine mandates shortly after more data came out (but you don’t know or can’t accept this because you can’t debate a nuanced opinion). Go ahead, check my posts. This is not gonna be the “and then they clapped” moment you wish it would be.

I think Viper and many others have built up a perfect foil in their heads and when someone like you or I present any dissenting opinion, they like to place us in that slot. The truth is most people on all sides of the issue have nuanced views that make it hard to put them into two easy categories: “anti vax” or “fear porn monger”. @ViperMan, fwiw, I will continue to base my decisions and opinions on the advice of medical experts, despite your apparent impeccable credentials as an aviation god, therefore unquestionable expert in medicine, finance, legal advice, and any other subject you choose to pontificate upon. You sir, are going to fit right in with the crusty airline captain crowd someday. 

[ViperMan]

2 hours ago, Prozac said:

I think Viper and many others have built up a perfect foil in their heads and when someone like you or I present any dissenting opinion, they like to place us in that slot. The truth is most people on all sides of the issue have nuanced views that make it hard to put them into two easy categories: “anti vax” or “fear porn monger”. @ViperMan, fwiw, I will continue to base my decisions and opinions on the advice of medical experts, despite your apparent impeccable credentials as an aviation god, therefore unquestionable expert in medicine, finance, legal advice, and any other subject you choose to pontificate upon. You sir, are going to fit right in with the crusty airline captain crowd someday. 

Nope. Just trying to have a reasoned debate/discussion using fact, reason, and logic to best understand and orient myself in this new world we find ourselves in. All while navigating heaps of disinformation spread by those who know better and those who are equipped to know better.

[bennynova]

On 2/10/2022 at 10:41 PM, MCO said:

I wouldn’t do any of those things, and I’m against mandates. But who cares if someone wants to wear a mask on their own? I saw it all the time in Japan pre-pandemic and no one cared. I don’t understand the rage it causes. Just like I don’t understand the rage not wearing a mask causes. 
 

Why can’t people just do what they want?

Yes.  People should do what they want.   
 

I think it causes rage in the current situation when it’s mandatory...yet it’s only really mandatory if everyone is a lemming and follows the rule blindly, with no common sense.  
 

it’s also frustrating to see society as a whole, so afraid because of the lies we are spewed 

[glockenspiel]

On 2/13/2022 at 3:24 PM, Prozac said:

I think Viper and many others have built up a perfect foil in their heads and when someone like you or I present any dissenting opinion, they like to place us in that slot. The truth is most people on all sides of the issue have nuanced views that make it hard to put them into two easy categories: “anti vax” or “fear porn monger”. @ViperMan, fwiw, I will continue to base my decisions and opinions on the advice of medical experts, despite your apparent impeccable credentials as an aviation god, therefore unquestionable expert in medicine, finance, legal advice, and any other subject you choose to pontificate upon. You sir, are going to fit right in with the crusty airline captain crowd someday. 

Which experts?

Nice ad homonym at the end. Total zinger! Always a good call when logic fails.

[pawnman]

On 2/13/2022 at 4:24 PM, Prozac said:

I think Viper and many others have built up a perfect foil in their heads and when someone like you or I present any dissenting opinion, they like to place us in that slot. The truth is most people on all sides of the issue have nuanced views that make it hard to put them into two easy categories: “anti vax” or “fear porn monger”. @ViperMan, fwiw, I will continue to base my decisions and opinions on the advice of medical experts, despite your apparent impeccable credentials as an aviation god, therefore unquestionable expert in medicine, finance, legal advice, and any other subject you choose to pontificate upon. You sir, are going to fit right in with the crusty airline captain crowd someday. 

"You're either with us or you're against us" is always a great method to solve complex problems. 

[BashiChuni]

1 hour ago, pawnman said:

"You're either with us or you're against us" is always a great method to solve complex problems. 

So ironic you just posted that. Oh man

[pawnman]

1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:

So ironic you just posted that. Oh man

Thanks for presenting such a clear example.

"This guy supported legal orders for masks and vaccinations for the military.  That means he wants to lock everything down and arrest all the truckers!  He wants to inject fetuses while they're still in the womb!"

Good work.  Exhibit 6900 in this thread why the country is so polarized.

[SurelySerious]

Thanks for presenting such a clear example.
"This guy supported legal orders for masks and vaccinations for the military.  That means he wants to lock everything down and arrest all the truckers!  He wants to inject fetuses while they're still in the womb!"
Good work.  Exhibit 6900 in this thread why the country is so polarized.

It was likely the flippant and polarizing way in which you have supported those positions to which he was referring, but keep self-generating examples of polarized bs with zero self awareness.