Red Mosquito

scrub12 wrote:

Less doctors and more Pillow salesmen please.

I looked a bit through this thread and there's a pic of Biden and Harris on a videoconference with their task force. So refreshing.

But they probably didn't get much done. I bet most of the time was spent with "you're on mute"

blueviper wrote:It's going through my work currently. Two out for positive tests. One is quarantining because husband has it. One lady is out awaiting her test results.

9 teachers out at my school (we are bringing groups of kids in 1 day a week to keep cohorts small and separate). My co-teacher is positive so I am out for two weeks. The hard part for the school is covering for all of the teachers out with covid or on quarentine.

Hatfield wrote:

blueviper wrote:It's going through my work currently. Two out for positive tests. One is quarantining because husband has it. One lady is out awaiting her test results.

9 teachers out at my school (we are bringing groups of kids in 1 day a week to keep cohorts small and separate). My co-teacher is positive so I am out for two weeks. The hard part for the school is covering for all of the teachers out with covid or on quarentine.

Sorry to hear that. Where I am they just set a tentative return to school data of mid-January, but made the health metrics thresholds so stringent there is little chance of hitting them. So now all the parents (+200k enrolled students) have to decide what to do about childcare on the albeit slim chance their kids go back. Seems better to just say 'no school in 1H2021'.

scrub12 wrote:

I mean, I guess you can give it a shot, but don't you think you should throw in at least one Republican politician who barely passed biology at a state college like 50 years ago?

Wait two weeks

verb_to_trust wrote:Wait two weeks

occupancy rates seem flat right now as well but thanksgiving and christmas might strain things.

BurtReynolds wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Wait two weeks

occupancy rates seem flat right now as well but thanksgiving and christmas might strain things.

Illinois ran over 100 thousand tests today

What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

spike wrote:What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

Lots of people have said wear a mask at the federal level. People are either going to decide to comply or they won't. Do you expect the national guard to be deployed on the streets enforcing mask compliance? Where the federal government has actually failed is leaving any relief legislation in gridlock because every single one of our leaders are just partisan hacks at the end of the day.

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

Lots of people have said wear a mask at the federal level. People are either going to decide to comply or they won't. Do you expect the national guard to be deployed on the streets enforcing mask compliance? Where the federal government has actually failed is leaving any relief legislation in gridlock because every single one of our leaders are just partisan hacks at the end of the day.

And then they get together and party without any masks and spread a bunch of covid, leaving it up to us plebs to beat the virus. Solid messaging!

look on the bright side:

The global collapse following the super effective lockdowns will also make millennials want to have kids even less than they already did.

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

Lots of people have said wear a mask at the federal level. People are either going to decide to comply or they won't. Do you expect the national guard to be deployed on the streets enforcing mask compliance? Where the federal government has actually failed is leaving any relief legislation in gridlock because every single one of our leaders are just partisan hacks at the end of the day.

And then they get together and party without any masks and spread a bunch of covid, leaving it up to us plebs to beat the virus. Solid messaging!

What do you do about it though? Make it a NaTIonAl MAnDatE? People will either listen or not listen. Daddy government doesn't influence what people will ultimately decided on the matter.

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

Lots of people have said wear a mask at the federal level. People are either going to decide to comply or they won't. Do you expect the national guard to be deployed on the streets enforcing mask compliance? Where the federal government has actually failed is leaving any relief legislation in gridlock because every single one of our leaders are just partisan hacks at the end of the day.

And then they get together and party without any masks and spread a bunch of covid, leaving it up to us plebs to beat the virus. Solid messaging!

What do you do about it though? Make it a NaTIonAl MAnDatE? People will either listen or not listen. Daddy government doesn't influence what people will ultimately decided on the matter.

You start by getting away from politicizing it, and back towards it being a simple measure that’s been scientifically proven to curb the virus spread.

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

spike wrote:What’s the point of looking at the country as a whole when it’s current leadership is not involved in any universal guidance, assistance, or enforcement of any meaningful mitigation efforts?

Lots of people have said wear a mask at the federal level. People are either going to decide to comply or they won't. Do you expect the national guard to be deployed on the streets enforcing mask compliance? Where the federal government has actually failed is leaving any relief legislation in gridlock because every single one of our leaders are just partisan hacks at the end of the day.

And then they get together and party without any masks and spread a bunch of covid, leaving it up to us plebs to beat the virus. Solid messaging!

What do you do about it though? Make it a NaTIonAl MAnDatE? People will either listen or not listen. Daddy government doesn't influence what people will ultimately decided on the matter.

You start by getting away from politicizing it, and back towards it being a simple measure that’s been scientifically proven to curb the virus spread.

Some people don't care one way or the other though. You aren't going to motivate them with Post Malone or someone clicking through a powerpoint on mask efficacy.

some people think the cucumber tastes better pickled

Norris wrote:some people think the cucumber tastes better pickled

And what do you do about that? It's a hopeless situation really.

200,000? That can’t be right, can it?

McParadigm wrote:200,000? That can’t be right, can it?

It's probably much higher and we should probably just stop counting altogether. It's pointless.