RobertSul

People naturally respond to acute problems more than chronic. The MSM has covered plenty on the obesity crisis over the years, and I hate to trigger you, but the former administration even had an initiative that improved nutritional values in school lunches that has since been scrapped for cheaper, unhealthier replacements. https://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/002312

What kind of childhood would you have if you knew you spread a disease to your at-risk parents (or guardian grandparents), which either directly killed them or severely affected their health for years to come? Do you think cases just hit a wall at that number and stop spreading? If a thousand people are infected, that can easily infect tens of thousands more in just a month. By TEMPORARILY limiting interactions, you’re greatly lowering the spread, and then normal to semi-normal operations can resume again. No one is saying keep kids learning remotely for the whole school year. This isn’t as linear and one-note as you seem to think it is.

Explain your reasoning. There were 1,167 new cases yesterday.

Mt. Tolland is the Mount Washington of Southern New England!

I had a 5th grade teacher who said that a lot (not the weenie part)! With that said, I think if this were to become a 95mph hurricane, it could be called a “close Category 2”.

Hazel lite, 2.5 months early.

He spread enough disinformation that people were undoubtedly affected in negative, irreparable ways. Yes, it’s tragic that he died, but the tragedies his bad advice has generated will never make the news.

At least the wind chill is only 90 degrees!

I understand what you’re saying. It’s a very touch-and-go situation. I think as long as people are wearing masks, having their temperatures taken before boarding, and the planes are vigorously decontaminated, that flying should be okay.

I’m somewhat surprised that Portland’s never had a low temperature over 76 degrees!

Reminds me of the $500 Billion in small business stimulus that had oversight eliminated back in March. People still don’t know where all that money went.

That’s pretty crazy. Do you go out afterwards and just immediately take in a big gulp of air?

Confusion, muscle twitching and loss of consciousness are all symptoms of excessive carbon dioxide. Do you think a surgeon, who’d require surgeon-like precision, would experience those symptoms while wearing a mask for hours on end?

You mean like older people, which Japan has an abundance of?

That would allude to lower death rates, not lower transmission rates. The median age in Japan is 47.3, vs. U.S.A’s 38.2. That’s a big difference. Also: Japan has 149 cases per million, total. USA has 8,571 cases per million, total.

I mean, you’re right that I shouldn’t base an entire website on a few pieces of faulty news (another look shows they don’t believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas), but also the fact that surgeons always wear masks at the operating table lends credence to their effectiveness. There’ve also been many anecdotes of entire floors of hospital staff wearing masks and having a very low infection rate compared with staff on separate floors who didn’t wear masks and had a high infection rate. Also, Japan hasn’t been hit as hard despite how urbanized/densely populated/advanced aged of a country they are - which has been attributable to them being a very mask-friendly society.

Technocracy.news promotes the theory that vaccines cause autism. Hard pass.

People need to wear masks if that’s going to be the case. It’s such a simple thing that prevents spread AND helps the economy. It’d win-win for society. There shouldn’t be a cultural battle about this.

So the Republican governors of Florida and Texas closed all their bars for something that very few need to fear?

Florida and Texas just had to shut down bars; the biggest hospital in Texas is at ICU capacity and they’re expecting it to be unsustainable in the coming weeks, which will lead to more deaths among not-so-susceptible portions of the population who would’ve survived with treatment. If 95% of people wore masks, not only would this get stamped out to the point that hospitals won’t get overwhelmed, but businesses would increasingly attract more frivolous spending among the population. You can’t force people to go out and consume if they feel unsafe. By diminishing the chance of spread, you’re also increasing consumer confidence to spend.

I’m sorry to hear that man. That must be incredibly frustrating for you. If masks only protected the person wearing them, the whole “individual freedom” component would be 100% understandable. But masks protect the people *around* you.

Yeah the one silver lining is that these protests have occurred in the month where UV light is at its strongest.

Crazy that it keeps its tropical characteristics into the U.P. and then strengthens into an extra-tropical storm.

They need to look a little deeper into their Cristobal.

Would much of that translate to the surface?