snowman21

What do UFOs have to do with religion? Obama mentioned something like that too, and I don't get it.

It's easy. Look at the dude that created SCAM coin as a joke and suddenly found himself a multimillionaire.

Samsung Galaxy phone can record in 8K and capture 1 billion pixels of image data per second and costs $1000 and can fit in your pocket, but the military which blows $715 billion every year still only has cameras as good as your local gas station security system.

If the aliens are here just visiting over many decades, then so far they aren't looking to do what the aliens in Independence Day did and blow up the planet. If they are peaceful and just visiting maybe they could help us make faster ways to travel or with technology in general that would take us the next 1000 years to figure out on our own.

Probably going to need to keep some around for the rest of the year. Much of last summer saw infection rates below 1%, so despite doing tons of testing the positive rate was at times coming in as low as 0.2% with only about 50 people hospitalized statewide and that was without vaccines. Have to wait and see how much improvement is just the seasonal cycle, and the state is going to be aggressively monitoring to try to get ahead of any localized outbreaks.

What dominoes? Weren't most states already planning on lifting restrictions in the coming weeks?

Last I heard, weeks ago, Lamont was leaving it up to individual businesses to decide, but DPH was recommending we continue wearing masks. Probably not anymore though so as not to be in conflict with CDC guidance.

We still have nightclubs? Thought those things were relics of the '80s and '90s.

What in Connecticut isn't already open?

Why is Mass. so much more restrictive than CT? Or is that just the impression I get from the people complaining on this site?

I should have phrased that better as I understand the vaccine to start declining in effectiveness at the six month mark or there about. So if that's true that there will be a decline at some point, I'd rather just get the max protection when I would need it most which is next fall/winter and not in the summer when we're all outside where transmission is very low. Last summer we had positive test rates well below 1% and as low as 0.2%, so I'm expecting a repeat of that meaning no point in wasting a few months of vaccine maximum effectiveness when the risk is low. Kind of like there's no point in getting the flu shot this time of year.

Well there is some question about how long it will be effective until a booster is required.

Would it be better to get the vaccine now or wait until August or September? If it's only really good for six months, and the summer isn't an issue as we saw last year, maybe it's better to wait to get it right before you'd expect a surge in cases like we had in the fall heading into the holiday season?

Who cares though? If people want to wear a mask for the rest of their lives let them. If you don't want to wear a mask then don't. Isn't that what freedom is all about?

Have you been to a fast food place or grocery store recently? I'd say the older folks well outnumber the teenagers. Why are people in their 40s/50s/60s working there? I assume for the most part out of necessity and not so much because they enjoy stocking shelves and making hamburgers. is the answer for them to simply just go get a job as a plumber or web site designer to earn a real livable wage?

You are going to pay to make up the difference between their wages and cost of living one way or another. They can either make it on their own through wages or they will fill that gap with your tax dollars.

Things are still closed in Massachusetts?

Could you walk down your street with no clothes on?

Nah the classic CT way would be to commission a study for $10 million, then do nothing, revisit the issue 5 or 10 years down the road and repeat the cycle. Is there a more conservative "liberal" state than CT?

Maybe the girl doesn't want your herpes or HPV?

The federal government isn't going to do anything like that, and state governments can already require proof of vaccinations for things like enrolling your kids into public schools, so the precedent for the government doing that is already there. A company requiring a vaccine probably wouldn't be great business, but it is their choice. That's called freedom.

The problem is not a government mandate, but a societal one. If airlines won't let you fly or stadiums won't let you in without your digital certificate proving vaccination, then what? At some point there are things we have to do that we don't like but are required to participate in a modern society.

No one ever paid attention to those stickers. Interesting idea at first, but after a week or two largely ignored, and stores at that time were more concerned with disinfecting carriages and checkout lines. I'll be curious to see how many businesses continue with the precautions in a month from now like restaurants with the plastic dividers, gyms with all of their PITA rules, etc.

Out of context it's weird, just like people in their cars by themselves windows up mask on. Then I realized I'm that weirdo because I am going to more than one place and don't feel like taking it off and then having to put it back on and adjust it etc. in between stops. Same with being outside. Rather than putting it on and taking it off in a public space depending on proximity to others it's just easier to leave it on.

You are being a drama queen. If you want to stay scared because some government web site is slow to update, have at it. If you're pissed about the way your state is running things during the pandemic, move to a different state.