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3 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

This is a thread is for coronavirus but thanks. 

But if your opinion is “guns don’t kill people,” the only logical conclusion is “masks don’t make you sick.” And vice versa. My opinion is masks don’t make you sick, so I can only logically say guns don’t kill people.

Just now, dta1984 said:

Not sure if you're aware, but last March the message was to not wear masks..  

Okay fine, let’s split hairs. April. Is there really a difference between 12 vs 13 months of knowing something?

1 minute ago, dta1984 said:

Yes it will be , he called me out without checking his facts.   It's well documented about masks and infections.  We are not arguing over opinions.  

You didn’t answer the question, I compared it to something else that is very well documented but I’ll bet your opinion differs on that one.

29 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Yes, it's on the person to know the information regarding washing and changing them out. You may be giving too much credit to people who have never worn a mask before and don't know that. 

Never worn a mask before? Have they been in a cave since last March?

32 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Stop it, I am not going to spoon feed you articles that show the masks can cause infection.  Is it rare?  Yes, but captain know it all @Malacka11 acted like the statement was totally false.   

“Captain know it all.” It’s going to be another day of mud slinging, I see. Can you simultaneously say masks cause infection but guns don’t kill people?

76 already. I don’t see any way we fall short of 80 today.

Edit: except for afternoon clouds and a north wind.

1 minute ago, dta1984 said:

Weird, I thought I "verbatim" said masks cause infection.  Which is interesting because they in fact do in some situations.  

They don’t in some situations. People who don’t know you’re supposed to wash them, despite this not being a new concept, cause their own infections.

7 minutes ago, Ahoff said:

We're definitely not having "permanent" 80s at all.  If we make it to 80 in the next few days, looks like it will be awhile before we're there again.

Truth be told, we don’t really have permanent 80s any time of year. My recency bias is showing after last summer, when we reached our first 80 a month late and our last 80 a week early, but had nearly wall to wall 80s and 90s in between. Most summers give us modest cool downs that are much appreciated.

3 minutes ago, OSUmetstud said:

I dont really care as to which states it is. It's more about allocating vaccine resources to those places where infection is surging because it saves more lives. 

I agree with that. Allocating vaccine shouldn’t be based on red state/blue state politics, it should be based on who needs it the most. But there is a narrative among people of certain political persuasions that  states with more lax restrictions are handling the pandemic better and fewer people in those states are getting sick, which is indisputably false. The virus is equal opportunity when it comes to infecting people.

8 minutes ago, OSUmetstud said:

 

So 22% of our nation’s population accounts for 44% of covid infections. Not good. But hopefully certain people take note of the fact that Florida is one of those states.

Not ready for permanent 80s yet, but looks like we’re headed into another cool period after this week.

HRRR suggests low 80s today, and looks like we have 3 shots at our first 80 between now and Saturday. Slightly ahead of schedule, average date for that is 4/19.

6 minutes ago, schoeppeya said:

There isn't anybody in here claiming to be experts in virology. The guy who keeps posting about "virology" and "science" hasn't posted a scientific reference since I have been following this thread. Again, you are for some reason obsessed with making it seem strange that people are talking about Covid in a Covid thread, while you are also hanging out in the Covid thread. Go talk about weather if you feel so strongly that's what everyone should be doing here. In case you haven't noticed, its the biggest thing doing on in the world right now and for a lot of us, our lifetimes. People are going to be talking about it on any of the normal platforms they visit in any place that is designated for them to do so. It would be weird if they didn't. 

Anyways. Scheduled for the vaccine May 21st. 

Fair enough, and all valid points. I certainly would say of the people in this thread with opposing viewpoints to mine, yours are the most reasonable and logical. The “face diapers” and “snow shovel in Barbados” guys are making you all look bad. And unfortunately spending a year on Facebook and Twitter during a global pandemic sometimes makes it hard to separate the “your face diaper is useless” types from the reasonable people with reasonable concerns.

Edit: social media is the devil. At least on a weather forum we all (with the exception of a few that I’m still on the fence about) have a common interest.

14 minutes ago, schoeppeya said:

Everybody here has been through the exact same number of global pandemics 

So if “number of global pandemics survived” is directly correlated to one’s knowledge of virology, is “number of thunderstorms survived” a valid measurement for one’s knowledge of meteorology?

12 hours ago, schoeppeya said:

Imagine scolding someone for posting about coronavirus in a thread titled “coronavirus”. You’re here too, posting, you know. 

You got me. Back in the winter, when I was afraid to leave my house because of covid, I was on a Zoom call with a friend (well, let’s be real, an acquaintance, because I have no social skills or friends), who said “I post a lot on on this forum called American Weather because I’m cool. I know you don’t give a rat’s a** about weather, but they have this coronavirus thread where you can spout your hardcore pro-vax drivel. You should check it out!” And the rest is history.

13 minutes ago, schoeppeya said:

You are obsessed with post counts 

It’s relevant when the vast majority of someone’s posts on a WEATHER forum are in a thread about coronavirus.

Good lord. Step away for a couple hours and someone with 11 posts and someone else who felt like going on a tirade against “liberals” hijacked the thread. There’s a reason I’m sticking to discussing covid here and not talking about things like Greg Abbott not throwing out the first pitch at the Rangers’ home opener because he’s salty about a decision that doesn’t even affect Texas. But hopefully a fair number of those 40,000 fans are vaccinated.

51 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

MDT hit 80 tomorrow? 

The models really seem to deny yinz a legitimate shot at that. We’ll get there in Pittsburgh, hell we’ll be close to it today.

6 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said:

There was a pretty rockin' stretch from late January through the first three weeks or so of February this year. 2007-'08 is still my favorite winter though, despite the occasional torches/thaws. My interests definitely lean toward the "sustained storminess" rather than the "sustained cold/snowpack" column. I was going to UW-Green Bay at the time but spent the long winter break with my parents in Stoughton.

Forgot that was the winter with the extreme January warmth that produced that EF-3 tornado in SE WI.

29 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Ok, yes, it's your opinion.  I am not denying the task force saves lives, I did say maybe.   It's just not the same as some of your other examples who do in fact save lives.

Again, that’s your opinion that any of those examples are more heroic than any other. It’s subjective, not objective.

3 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Seems like you're triggered.  A covid taskforce saves lives?  I mean, maybe, but that's stretching it.  The other examples of heroes are not stretching it and are factual.  

Factual? No matter who you’re calling a hero, it’s an opinion. Whether it’s a soldier, a paramedic, a firefighter, a policeman, Sully Sullenberger, the passengers of Flight 93, the guys who got Bin Laden, your grandfather, a teacher, Obama, Trump, a covid task force, whoever, it’s nothing more than an opinion.

3 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

Ok "investigate" but, heroes?  Man come on.  I really hope you're just trying too hard here.  This isn't "everyone gets a participation trophy.". There are actual ones who put their lives on the line who are "heroes." 

Do they save lives? Yep. Then they’re heroes. Also, I don’t know why this suddenly morphed into participation trophies in your mind. You’re all too quick to use buzz words that you think will “trigger” people with opposing viewpoints, even when it has nothing to do with what is being discussed. That’s what trolls do.

1 minute ago, OSUmetstud said:

The dumb argument was that you literally cant get that vaccine in the US lol. I'd still suggest that if it were the only vaccine available and you were in area of high community prevalence of the virus, it would be safer to "take a chance" with that vaccine than to take a chance with the virus. That complication is considerably more rare than the covid death rate of people our age. 

The anti-vax crowd suddenly cares about the people of Africa and poorer regions of the world, despite never having thought of those people once in all of their previous decades on earth.

5 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

This got buried quickly.

Also there are three other vaccines that don’t have that potential issue.

A coronavirus thread on a weather forum. What could possibly go wrong?