Anybody want a Corona?

[verb_to_trust]

Shut up B

The people in power keep reminding us of this "not proven to stop transmissibility" for a reason. Some of them rather enjoy the lockdowns and disruptions to normal life.

Gavin Newsome is really gunning hard to be the next Bachelor.

[spike]

Shut up B

The people in power keep reminding us of this "not proven to stop transmissibility" for a reason. Some of them rather enjoy the lockdowns and disruptions to normal life.

why?

[B]

Shut up B

The people in power keep reminding us of this "not proven to stop transmissibility" for a reason. Some of them rather enjoy the lockdowns and disruptions to normal life.

Shut up simple_schoolboy

[spike]

Shut up B

The people in power keep reminding us of this "not proven to stop transmissibility" for a reason. Some of them rather enjoy the lockdowns and disruptions to normal life.

Shut up simple_schoolboy

no he must tell us why

[verb_to_trust]

Let's just do the thing where we drop it and when simple schoolman and I are proven right a few months from now nobody says anything.

[simple schoolboy]

Shut up B

The people in power keep reminding us of this "not proven to stop transmissibility" for a reason. Some of them rather enjoy the lockdowns and disruptions to normal life.

why?

In Weingarten's case, this might just be a bargaining tactic with the Biden admin: bailout local school districts or we'll make things painful for you.

Some people like being petty scolds and enjoy that power. Puritans might have traded their Christianity for whatever this new faith is, but they didn't give up the rest of Puritanism.

[spike]

Agree that a weird underlying Puritanism continues to exist in the US, but suggesting a radical and influential enough demographic of such thinking is out there handing down economically crippling lockdowns is Qanon level conspiracy theorizing.

[verb_to_trust]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

[Peeps]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

[verb_to_trust]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

What jumps out at you as the most successful intervention by a governor so far?

[Peeps]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

What jumps out at you as the most successful intervention by a governor so far?

i just think most if not all the governors are desperately trying to give their people the best chance for survival with as few as complications as possible and they arent looking to shutdown businesses just to piss people off

maybe im a little naive

[simple schoolboy]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

What jumps out at you as the most successful intervention by a governor so far?

*scientifically supported intervention

LA county admitted they had no scientifically based justification to shut down outdoor dining, they just wanted to discourage people from leaving their homes.

[wease]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

What jumps out at you as the most successful intervention by a governor so far?

i just think most if not all the governors are desperately trying to give their people the best chance for survival with as few as complications as possible and they arent looking to shutdown businesses just to piss people off

maybe im a little naive

Come to TN. I have a bridge to sell you...

[Peeps]

like i said i may be a bit naive

[verb_to_trust]

I don't interpret the flailing most governors are doing with worrying about safety as much as trying to save face somehow politically. Where is the hard evidence restaurants drive the spread for example? Or schools? It's not really there but if you're playing politics you make the move to restrict them because the deaths are coming anyway and you can't give them an excuse to come for your head.

[E.H. Ruddock]

What is going to happen in 5 years when a virus comes out of China with a 50%% death rate and very high communicable rate? Will all of the anti-mask, anti-shutdown folks just not believe it and go out and die? I feel like even if some of these precautions for COVID were "overdone" that they have already done harm in my scenario above. Or, I guess I should say the people that think this is all a government conspiracy have harmed themselves if the above scenario ever happens.

[verb_to_trust]

If a legitimately scary virus breaks out I'm just going to kill myself because it's very clear society will collapse anyway based on our comical response to covid.

[McParadigm]

The lockdowns are just political hackery. It's not part of some grand scheme.

you mean like the grand scheme of trying to prevent the spread of the disease?

What jumps out at you as the most successful intervention by a governor so far?

1 in 500 South Dakotans has died of covid. If every state had suffered losses comparable to that, the national death toll would be approaching 700,000.

By comparison, one out of 1,800 people in Washington state have died of covid. Apply that nationally, and you have fewer than 200,000 dead.

Whatever else you want to say about it, mitigation is not without consequence.

[verb_to_trust]

There are only 500 south dakotans total though

[McParadigm]

There are only 500 south dakotans total though

If anything, getting owned that hard by a disease that mostly transmits via close indoor contact in a 70,000 square mile state with fewer people than Columbus, Ohio in it is a testament to how much they fucked it up.