I haven't changed my behavior at all, despite being vaccinated. still masked indoors, still only doing take out/groceries. still only hanging out with one set of vaccinated neighbors once a week, outdoors. when they dropped the mask requirement I was and still am incredulous.
maybe this spike is an anomaly. I hope it is. but goddammit, just finish this thing. don't open up too fucking early, or it's all for shit.
If it's a n95 mask that actually restricts the flow of air then yeah it does
That reduces oxygen uptake slightly, but even wearing a normal mask increases heart rate about 8-10 bpm when exercising which is a cool albeit small increase in the actual effectiveness of the exercise
The real fun starts when you wear a full on gas mask and some larp gear then start jogging. Shit really sucks. But good for you.
Chapo used this as their excuse "The CDC said it was fine" despite previously criticising CDC for deferring to the will of the government.
she posted the graphs with 7 day average
Yes but that's the thing, if you don't use the average things get weird, the data is very very bumpy.
If liberals weren't complicit, the first step to solving the pandemic would be purging the CDC of everyone who worsened the pandemic. Then strip them of their professional credentials and put them on trial for whatever the worst crime that could be assigned to almost 200 9/11s under their watch is. They are irredeemable and a just society would invent an entirely new way to punish them on an atomic level.
Hmmm yeah the US government punishing people severely based on what it believes is valid scientific opinion, sounds like an amazing idea.
When I worked as an EMT and a medic and a nurse for the US government, if one patient died under my charge due to my negligence I'd be in a brig for decades. They've killed 594k minus the normal expected deaths from the virus existing in the country. If a nurse or an EMT or a doctor had any hand in causing 594k~ deaths, or hell let's just round it down to 100k to be very charitable, would you say their punishment under any legal system would be severe?
That valid scientific opinion is the result of trying to preserve their own careers regardless of the science at every stage of the pandemic. At least by my standard they get a formal trial instead of just putting them in a stadium surrounded by the families of COVID victims. That's preferable, pure democracy, but I want a legal precedent for negligent mass murder like the Nuremburg trial set for intentional mass murder.
the people who should be shot are in the presidential administrations & state governorships.... the people rubber stamping their decisions on pain of firing are just cowards
And if those cowards don't face consequences, what encouragement do they have to ever stand up to the state and federal officials actively encouraging people to downplay the pandemic? If nearly 600k dead due to their cowardice carries no price and protects their pension, then why would they do their jobs better next time? The legal, moral, and professional bar is now set at their COVID response and all of those cowards are going to be in higher positions when the next pandemic comes for you. They'll just be cowards we enabled.
Pain of firing versus pain of X hundred thousand people drowning in their own blood. Tell me which is more painful and I'll tell you if you're wrong.
your expectation is that a gaggle of fed & state employees would throw away job security, pensions, benefits, etc. and get blacklisted from government employment for no material effect. don't get me wrong, i'd respect them a fucking lot and if they were really loud about it they might've shifted public opinion a bit, but they weren't going to save lives.
in the revolution we'll make no excuses for the terror but i don't feel like punishing the structurally powerless and craven while the rotten edifice still stands
So like am I the asshile here? We stopped wearing masks at work because everyone's vaccinated that's going to get vaccinated... thought that was fine
Its likely any of the upcoming spikes will be mostly from the anti-vaxxers getting got.
Not sure if that will be a good or bad thing if/when the next variant of COVID pops up that doesn't give a crap about our vaccines.
So... I guess a tiny bit asshole :shrug-outta-hecks: but not so much that you should beat yourself up about it... I guess.
Idk I still wear one going to the store n stuff mostly because I have no idea what anyone's policy is
Glad you said it. I'm dying to take my mask off at work. Hope the boss gives me the greenlight this week. I don't see the point of not changing behaviors if you are vaxed and the local case rates are lowering dramatically (my city has about 1/10 the new cases it had less than 2 months ago).
Where my shocked dinos at? Here they are! :shocked-dino:
I am once again posting SARS-CoV-2 incidence and vaccine escape :deeper-sadness:
But maybe I’m just being a doomer, as people have said to me in the past :shrug-outta-hecks:
