WhitinsvilleWX

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

See I’m not a flops person. Hate them. Only time I’ll wear them is to the beach . I love sneakers everyday all day 

Ha. Sone liken some don’t. I live in the things. I wear Chucks and chinos to work. I have 5 colors. I wear Brooks when I need to walk a lot. Not a huge runner. My knees suck.

19 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Definitely a few sheet rallies there.

Lol. Wouldn’t go that far but it’s pretty red out here. That’s one reason I like it out here. No lefty wing nuts. 

9 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

I wear shorts and a hoodie almost all winter long… unless its insanely cold. 30s? Shorts 

Same with my wife. It has to get to low 30’s before she puts on long pants and shoes. She has every color of old navy flip flops they make. 

10 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Jeans in this new climate are basically mid November to about mid Morch. Other than that you can wear shorts and long sleeves / jacket and be warm 

For sure. I hate shoes and socks too. I have everyday flops, Sunday flops, etc. If I didn’t  have to wear shoes to work I’d live in them.

9 minutes ago, hammerz_nailz said:

Likewise

Good god that looks awesome. 

1 minute ago, natedizel said:

Some might say thats a trump rally around here

In southern Worcester county? Absolutely.  

9 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Best season. Especially on a Friday or Saturday night with the fire pit going and some cold Sam Octoberfests. 

I wear shorts and flip flops up to Halloween. And I have been known to keep the flood on occasion with jeans into November. 

On a weather note. I’m outside in line with shorts and flip flops. It’s close to having a hoodie would feel pretty good. 
I actually enjoy shorts, flops and hoodie season. 

This is a mask report for Fujiwara 
 

Im at the ice cream place in Whitinsville. Lined up outside. At least 100 people out here and not a mask in site. 
Im sooo encouraged there’s people who are sensible. 

16 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Good post. Sometimes I worry you have turned into an hysterical Karen over COVID but posts like this restore my faith.   

Lol. No I’m not hysterical. Im an advocate for vaccines, but it’s not the end all. I’ve said on numerous occasions that we need to go about our lives and not worry about it.  I said that over a year ago and still maintain that’s the case. 
 

2 minutes ago, natedizel said:

The vaccinated can still cause a new varient since they infected. Vaccines will never beat the virus. Everyone including yourself will deal with the virus the rest of your life. The sooner you accept it the easier life will become.

It’ll finally become a background disease like everything else. Deaths have already uncoupled. A lot of the common cold  virus’ are coronavirus’ and this will be no different. If it weren’t for social media and 24/7 cable news, this would be a minor blip. Sure, lots of death, but there’s been death before and will be again. 

5 minutes ago, hammerz_nailz said:

  ...followed by heart disease, cancer, and premature death.

I’ll go happy. 

7 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

At one point, the UK was averaging about 6 covid deaths per day.  They are averaging around 70 now.  Even after adjusting for population differences, our low point did not get nearly as low as theirs.  The UK is a bit more vaxxed than the US.  Tough to say exactly how high deaths will peak at here other than we will undoubtedly fare worse than the UK even after accounting for population differences.  US average daily deaths are already near the current UK average when adjusting for population.

The point is deaths are uncoupled. The overall minutia you like to wade in mean shyte. 

3 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Maybe if you could smoke or drink the vaccine, uptake would be better in the United States 

Vape it

I just defied the CDC and ordered a medium rare ribeye at 110 grill along with my gin and tonic.

10 minutes ago, Jonger said:

Execute the unvaccinated 

What method? 

14 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

I think the 7 day deaths number will have to rise but maybe 15% next week, bc while  half the new cases are from unvaxxed, I believe it’s a younger average age of that group , However I would like More clear data at the average age of the unvaxxed positive cases

 

 

I dont think the deaths will go up that much. The UK tells us what will happen. In the past, about 3 weeks after a spike the deaths started to rise pretty fast. That didn’t happen in the UK. Their spike started the last week of  May and peaked out july 21. Roughly 7 weeks. The deaths never did make much of a blip.

If we follow the same trajectory, we’ll peak out in mid to late August with little change in mortality. 
The UK still spiked out in spite of fairly strict masking and business restrictions. Really goes to show what a lot have been saying all along. Mitigation has little effect on a respiratory virus. Vaccines help,  but it’s a lot of peaks and valleys will occur despite “mitigation measures”. 

8 minutes ago, WeatherX said:

We can also keep ****ing around and be talking about this for the next 20 years as a national issue. Mask mandate, vaxx mandate needs to happen.


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Lol

And Fauci said on This Week that masks shouldn’t be a choice. 
 

The best thing that the Biden admin  could do is to get rid of this guy or at least keep him off TV and send him back to his lab in Bethesda. 
He’s at best a divisive disaster and at worst just an old fool.

7 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I'm open to suggestion ..

I'm not sure I get it/understand the connection between vaccinated population atoning for un-vaccinated population ?   can that be explained to me. 

I'm curious what other points of view are on that specific ( sort of ..) morally ambiguous responsibility. Vaccinated are those that have done their part to ensure macro safety; to mandate them in order to protect those whom by their own election ( in the vaster majority ) refuse, is an imposition.  I'm sure there are those that are Kumbaya about it all and are willing to do so.. .but, ( imho - ) masks are not part of the biological imperative of human existence.  So which is the greater imposition ? I guess I'm tipping my hat as to my own attitude/answer to the question with this ending question.   

Granted there are rare exceptions, where one may not be able to take a vaccine - those individuals are excessively remote compared to the vitality of the whole, and because of their small numbers ... they/that really should not present any kind of logistical challenge in managing their safety.

So...just if we can exclude those exceptions - I'm not sure anyone vaccinated should be required, either by ethics or logic, to do anything. 

I’m not sure why the narrative for the immunocompromised is different. My mother has had lupus for years. She watches it during flu season. She never expected that people would cater to her, nor even be aware. Same with my brother in law. When he had a bone marrow transplant for his AML, he masked up when he went out. Didn’t worry about other people around him. 

3 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

We are doing the rapid antigen tests.  Was that a good idea?   Both countries allow them

Oh yea, much better IMO 

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I’m wearing it in stores until I get my negative tests and of course in airports.  When I’m away I will need to wear it indoors in stores etc.  

if I were traveling in your situation I would think about it for nothing else that I do not trust the PCR test. It can pop a positive if you inhale a couple of particles. 

2 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

So far Lamont has held off re-issuing mask mandate, however it's "recommended"  I'm not wearing one until it's illegal to not do so.

If it’s mandated here anywhere, they’ll have to ask me to leave because I’m not doing it anymore. 
Exceptions are work since they pay me, and airlines because I need to fly next week. 

Just now, PhineasC said:

Desperate thrashing to keep the narrative going now. 

If I led my life according to the CDC, I wouldn’t enjoy a medium rare porterhouse, either. 

More mixed messaging. 
This morning Collins said that the main reason behind recommending vaxed people mask in areas of high spread  is to protect those who are un vaxed. UH, no sorry. I’m not wearing a face diaper to protect people who refuse a vax. People who have refused them don’t want one and dont care. I have little compunction to alter my lifestyle for people who voluntarily refuse something.