RobertSul

Bingo. Any justification is good justification, no natter how weak.

Exactly. It’s like linking a thesis written in the 1600s about how the sun revolves around the Earth and using that to support a claim. It’s disingenuous.

We’ve been through this already. Masks were limited and had to be reserved for those who needed it most. If everyone thought they needed masks early on, medical staff wouldn’t have enough and would succumb to COVID, bringing about unstaffed hospitals that would fail as sick patients were piling in. Why are you clinging onto 6 month old information in a 7 month long pandemic?

The reasoning is extremely relevant - how can medical staff tend to patients if they themselves are not protected? What isn’t relevant is you clinging to an outdated situation as an excuse for the current one.

Which state governor has a strong influence on the actions and thoughts of 50-60 million people? I’ve never seen people try so hard to deny responsibility and accountability to the office that should be held to the very highest standard of both.

Masks were needed for frontline medical staff. If they were overcome with COVID, who’d have attended to the influx of patients? Please use critical thinking skills and trust of experts, the world is laughing at us. "I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs.” - Dr. Fauci

Having the most influential political party leader not calling it a hoax, not saying it’d be over in April, not making fun of people who wore masks would’ve been a great start.

How can people wear masks if there are no masks? People were saying they were needed for medical staff early on to prevent hoarding.

During March and April when there was a nationwide shortage on masks (and paper towels and toilet paper).

They’re supposed to take a bullet /for/ the President, not /from/ the President.

Metadata shows these were taken 10 minutes apart in different rooms, probably to give the illusion of working “late into the night”.

Again, optics. “Working hard for the American people.”

That would’ve been easily caught by anyone editing it, and there’s no one who’d think that wouldn’t have caused a lot of speculation. Call me crazy but it’s possible he doesn’t have COVID. You can pay and/or influence the right people to lie when you’re arguably the most powerful person on earth; not to mention the vague, sometimes contradictory details that are coming out. Oxygen levels “below 94 but not in the low 80s?” Medications taken are prescribed for patients with severe symptoms, and yet he’s well enough to address the nation, go for a ride and even might be discharged as early as tomorrow? Attending physician, who only sees one patient all week and that’s the President, didn’t know whether he’d been on oxygen? Trump loves his optics which makes him a good entertainer, but we need transparency through the veneer for a functioning government that most people can trust.

It means that sometime over the next 6 months, an undetermined amount of rain and snow will fall over a large geographical area where rain and snow fall. Reminds me of the old George Carlin line, “Tonight’s Forecast: Dark.”

You’re right about balance. But back in April, there were shortages on masks, ventilators and tests, and we knew a lot less about the virus then than we do now. Yes, the potential ceiling for a very high death rate decreased, which can be attributed to the increase in supplies, mask-adherence and medical knowledge involving treatments.

If stealing your neighbor’s milk saved your neighbor’s life, you’d want that to be tied up in litigation? “Oh geez, stealing my neighbor’s milk today will save his life tomorrow, but let’s litigate into next Friday and I’ll make my decision then..” Your neighbor’s dead by next Friday. Now multiply that by thousands.

Have you considered that if all states took Michigan’s approach, our president would have had a much, much lower chance of contracting COVID?

Man, and you go through the shortest length of time between last and first snowfalls of anyone. Congrats on your first snow of the season!

Are you the Assistant to the Regional Manager of the South?

That makes more sense. In other words, 100 times deadlier than what was posted.

Considering out of the 7 million confirmed infections there’ve been 200,000 deaths, which leads to an infection fatality percentage of 2.8%, I don’t think those numbers you posted are related to COVID.

I remember O’Hare being in a pretty built-up area. Romulus feels as though it’s basically in the middle of a big field.

Looks like the Arctic is having a hernia.

Dude, I totally understand your passion about all this, but you gotta take a deep breath and let the North vs South stuff go. This isn’t as cut-and-dry as that, and there are certainly contributing influences outside of the political realm (climate for one - Southerners DO spend more hours in the relatively dry indoors during the hot summer). I concede that reopening early had a sharper effect on the curve in places, and urban areas are taking more precautionary methods since a communicable disease will naturally spread faster in high density places, but you gotta look at the breadth of this situation with a more open mind.

Michigan is the only state east of the Rockies whose NWS offices haven’t issued a single tornado warning this year.