(11-17-2020 08:01 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote: (11-17-2020 12:00 AM)BatesUAB Wrote: (11-16-2020 08:00 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote: A) The experts didn't have enough information about COVID-19 which leads to...
B) The reason why Fauci said initially way back in February that mask were not necessary. Probably should have just said he wasn't certain if a mask was necessary.
But this is a matter of common sense. Fauci amended his statement about wearing a mask in March. So for freaking 8 months it has been preached and proven that an effective mask helps slow the spread of the virus. If people want to harp on what was said in February and play the "Butt butt butt he said" card then you're that person that will simply look for any excuse not to wear a mask.
It's not rocket science people. You're being asked to wear a mask to prevent spreading this virus to another person; not because liberals want to take your religion, guns, and pro-life choices away from you.
This is garbage.
Insightful and informed response. That is the problem with all this- someone makes a valid point you disagree with, you don't have a good response, so find a pithy gif that blows the other person off as being a tin hat nut who isn't smart enough to understand it all. Go back and sit at the kids' table, the grownups are talking...
Let me pivot away from the failure of the "experts" to some of our reactions to this pandemic. There is so much of what we have done that is absolutely, completely, utterly detached from reality. Case in point:
Back in the spring, when we instituted the idiotic, so-called lockdowns. In my hometown there is a family jeweler. Been in business for about three generations. It's a small place, but a nice place, where pretty much all my family has shopped for 75 years. It's the guy who owns it, his wife, and they usually have a couple of high school girls who work the counter. Go in there at any given time, and there MIGHT be one other person in there shopping. Christmas time is the exception, obviously. This spring the government told them they had to close, you know, to stop the spread of the Wuhan. A mile down the street Wal-Mart is wide ass open, parking lot full, lined up out the door. Now I understand you can't close Wal-Mart because people have to buy groceries. But why was the jewelry store closed? Or the clothing boutique around the corner? I could buy clothes at Wal-Mart, but not at the boutique. Where is the logic in that? There is none, because the decision to close them was detached from reality.
I heard a guy on the radio the other day who is a high school basketball ref, can't remember which state. Said they've got some rule changes this year. To start the game, they aren't going to have a tip-off. Visiting team just gets the ball to start the game. Guess there's a danger of spreading the Wuhan at the tip-off. Now, they haven't outlawed man-to-man defense, so I guess it will only spread during the tip-off.
Nevada allowing casinos to open at 50% capacity, but houses of worship had a maximum occupancy of 50 people, regardless of the size of the facility.
I can do this all day. Look, I'm not here to argue this virus isn't real and isn't dangerous. But it is easier for someone like you to paint me as saying that, because then it is easier to disregard what I am actually saying. A lot of people in this country are sick and f*cking tired of the smug attitudes of people like you who act like you know it all. You don't. And neither do the "experts." And I'll repeat it again- either Fauci wasn't nearly as sharp as he's been portrayed, or he lied to the American public and cost lives. Or more likely, somewhere in the middle.
But my main point here is that or reaction to all this has been a level of hysteria and overreaction. Many things that have been done are the right call. Not having 75,000 people in a football stadium? Good call. Bringing the world's largest economy to a grinding halt? Not so much.