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All things at the top of my agenda

DTA is much more vaccine hesitant than me. I have zero concerns getting the vaccine. I hope everyone that wants it and needs it gets it. I just understand his point of view and dont think everyone needs to have the vaccine for us to get back to normal.

This is fun keep going please

I don't get the mask thing and never will, but some people really, really hate them. My mom included (and I think @BuffaloWeather said he did too a couple pages back). EVEN IN the scenario they didn't help physically to stop the spread, I think they mentally help reassure people and that means a lot. And there's really no cost to wearing them. But, there isn't a whole lot of "anti-mask" rhetoric in this thread. @dta1984 has said a couple times he still wears one everywhere he goes. As far as the rest of the scary language... I think people just have to understand that people saying the government should be forcing people to get the vaccine at this point is equally scary to some people. And that's not even political (for me at least). Just for a little color on that-there are things that I LOVE in life that the future of depends on effective communication, rational thought, and science based arguments, because I am in the overwhelming minority of people who participate in those activities. The way you guys talk about some of this stuff using emotional rationalization scares me in the exact same way the anti mask or anti vaccine rhetoric scares you guys, because to me, it sets a precedent that I see as a pathway that could bring an end to my way of life. But, we have to find ways to talk about this stuff where we promote mutual respect and understanding instead of scaring each other when we disagree on something.

I don't think the argument is "better" as much as "as well" as states with stricter restrictions.

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.

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

Interesting read.

There was maybe two or three at work walking around without one, same as before otherwise. I’ve got friends in Dallas that said nothing really changed there since the mask mandate ended. Other than baseball games, of course

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

We care about deaths though, right?

Really, in the end, I think we all just want Covid to be over with (the sane people). Just a lot of disagreements on how to get there and how long to take to get there. I truly completely agree with you that at this point the vaccine is the fastest way there.

You are obsessed with post counts

He’s annoying but you’re gonna get this thread locked with that type of stuff

True!

You don’t like that would be front page news on every media station, especially considering the political party of their governor? If there were evidence there were misrepresentations of deaths, we would know about it.

If you have proof we will be convinced, no? That’s the joke, you don’t have to convince us and you can just pretend like we are the crazy ones.

They don’t. Lauding their faux moral superiority makes them feel important. Why would they want that to end?

Proof?

Just messin with ya, boss. Deep breaths. We will all get through it.

Don't lie, you've never laughed before.

Thank you for providing this-I've asked question 29 about ten times without a response. I don't want to go down the "herd immunity" rabbit hole but I have seen estimates anywhere from 70-90% for Covid. I think we will get there between vaccines and antibodies.

I laughed out loud. Drop your deuces inside of bags people, it saves lives.

A few years ago I was talking about vaccines with a coworker-they were anti vax back when it was a hipster/suburban mom fringe movement to be anti vax. His wife was a nurse at a hospital and one of her doctors was supposedly the ones feeding her the anti vax info. He also tossed out the "my wife is in healthcare" line.

That's entirely my point.