pot meet kettle sir.

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Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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What is your prediction?

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After Biden's "no federal solution" comment, we move to focusing on deaths and hospitalizations and because treatments are better, there's fewer deaths, and Biden claims that as a victory.

Calling my shot that "cases" don't make headlines anymore. Businesses get told by CDC to focus on hospitalizations instead and we're back to normal a few months before midterms.

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Doubling down on my called shot above.

NY Gov said today they need to differentiate between hospitalized because of covid and hospitalized with covid. They're starting to walk back the fear propaganda.

Imagine if you could overdose on RonaFear (TM) like you can overdose on Fentanyl. We'd be ushering in a new golden age instead of dreading OSHA mandates

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Sure. But you've made several comments about it. From obviously hyperbole about weeping for them to more serious comments about worrying about their future. My point still stands. Is it stupid? Yes. But the fact is these kids generally are going to be setup for more successful lives than most. Will they be snowflakes? Probably. But that has nothing to do with a damn mask.

When I see kids wearing masks I just roll my eyes and go on with my life. Same as I roll my eyes when you post about it.

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I think you underestimate the mental damage being done to this generation, and the likely lasting affects from it. JMO. 1(covid insanity) + 1(crackhead parents) will always be more than 1. Meaning just because there's one wrong out there potentially even worse, doesn't mean any other wrong should be worried about any less.

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Well genius, that's because you don't catch covid if you're sitting down and eating/drinking. Anyone with a brain knows covid is an ambush predator that strikes while you're walking along unsuspectingly. Go be a knuckle dragger somewhere else. This thread is for scholars only.

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The whole restaurant deal still gets me on how it kind of reprogrammed a part of society and their thinking. Back probably 9 months ago, I had coworkers that I felt were very smart as well as logical folks stand in our lobby as four of us left the office for lunch suggest we really should all four drive separately to the restaurant. I questioned this and even said something about all masking up on the ride over if they wanted and that didn't seem to phase them until I almost had to do an illustration with chalk on the driveway. We would be sitting a little 4 top table for an hour, unmasked, talking and laughing and you think the ride over is high risk? Two hour before this we would be unmasked in a conference room together and everyone was a-ok with that. Mind numbing.

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My company threw their annual Christmas party. Masks recommended but not required. Dinner, appetizers, and drinks all allowed. 175 total people, 90% of which without masks for 3 straight hours.

But we weren't allowed to shake hands, because science???

I'm tired of it all. There shouldn't be a damn thing different about the way we act, the rules/regulations now, as it was in December of 2019. NOT ONE DAMN THING

Chipotlemonger said:

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Sazerac said:

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My neighbors spent 3 hours on Christmas morning with their 2 young kids getting tested - zero symptoms mind you - so they could go to grandparents house for the afternoon.

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This thread is becoming just an echo chamber of shaming people. You don't know their family.

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After putting up with what we've had to for the last 2 years? They deserved to be shamed. Hypochondriacs like that are what is prolonging this (or even started the insanity to begin with)

There are very, very few select people that need to take any more precaution than they did during flu season 2018 or 2019. I would be 99% that these people are just weirdos, and have no real reason for doing that. If they do, then I apologize to the very select few that have a situation that calls for it.

beerad12man said:

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AgCPA95 said:

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Well genius, that's because you don't catch covid if you're sitting down and eating/drinking. Anyone with a brain knows covid is an ambush predator that strikes while you're walking along unsuspectingly. Go be a knuckle dragger somewhere else. This thread is for scholars only.

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The whole restaurant deal still gets me on how it kind of reprogrammed a part of society and their thinking. Back probably 9 months ago, I had coworkers that I felt were very smart as well as logical folks stand in our lobby as four of us left the office for lunch suggest we really should all four drive separately to the restaurant. I questioned this and even said something about all masking up on the ride over if they wanted and that didn't seem to phase them until I almost had to do an illustration with chalk on the driveway. We would be sitting a little 4 top table for an hour, unmasked, talking and laughing and you think the ride over is high risk? Two hour before this we would be unmasked in a conference room together and everyone was a-ok with that. Mind numbing.

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My company threw their annual Christmas party. Masks recommended but not required. Dinner, appetizers, and drinks all allowed. 175 total people, 90% of which without masks for 3 straight hours.

But we weren't allowed to shake hands, because science???

I'm tired of it all. There shouldn't be a damn thing different about the way we act, the rules/regulations now, as it was in December of 2019. NOT ONE DAMN THING

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you poor poor soul.

Chipotlemonger said:

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Sazerac said:

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My neighbors spent 3 hours on Christmas morning with their 2 young kids getting tested - zero symptoms mind you - so they could go to grandparents house for the afternoon.

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This thread is becoming just an echo chamber of shaming people. You don't know their family.

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The Executive Branch of the Federal Government is an echo chamber, supported by big-tech and the corporate media, shaming the unvaccinated. Don't play holier-than-thou.

People that are still scared, despite being triple-vaxxed and showing zero symptoms, in the face of a virus that has a 99.7% survival rate, especially when the latest strain is the nothing-est of all nothing burgers, are unlikely to earn much respect from people who have been preaching caution and healthy, earned skepticism, all while being ridiculed by those who are epitome of San Francisco fart sniffers.

If you don't think wearing masks has a negative impact on child development, you haven't been in a school the last 2 years. Talk to a teacher about where kids are since covid. There's a reason many private schools dropped that and many families left public schools over it.

It's not the only driver of development issues in children since Covid started, but it is an important one.

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The beauty of America is (in theory) everyone gets to have their own opinions and lead their lives accordingly.

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Except that idiots cry to have their opinions dictate policy that is enforced on everyone else.

cone said:

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what's the practical difference between orange and red?

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how fast my eyes roll as I carry on with my life with business as usual.

cone said:

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what's the practical difference between orange and red?

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They change the signs on the beltway from "Stay Home, Stay Safe" to "Death Imminent"

RK said:

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not sure much of anything beyond companies who base their office/home policy off the county codes.

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This is the biggest problem by far. Many will blindly follow for cya purposes.

cone said:

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anecdotal but people are coming in with bad colds, feeling like ****

but not coming in dead man walking, O2 sats in the 60s

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And that's a giant problem.

The Western World has grown too comfortable and can't handle anything that moves them out of that security blanket of a comfort zone. Thus, you have every Tom, Dick, Jose, and Karen showing up to the ER wanting the doctors to cure them in a day and get them installed back in their comfort spot. They simply cannot handle even a mild illness.