Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Remember, correlation goes one way. You can be struck by lightning while on the roof, thrown to the ground, suffer massive internal injuries and a severed spinal cord and die from Covid, but the vaccine is invariably safe and effective.

 

Strange that you left out the part that less than two weeks before the alleged "stroke", Foxx had an emotional meltdown on set, demanded 4 people be fired and acted like such an erratic arse that several were threatening to quit...causing yet another halt to the filming of the movie that has had multiple stoppages. But yeah, let's make up a bunch of -ish about a vaccine with ZERO evidence.

Well done by the propaganda masters.

What Happened to Jamie Foxx? Experts Slam Hoax He Had Stroke From COVID Vaccine

 

Don’t you know, though? We’re the ones falling for the propaganda! Cause, reasons.

 

At last check, I’m the only one on this thread that doesn’t believe in deadly unicorn dander.

 

Oops! NYT Accidentally Admits Face Masks Were Garbage During COVID

 

While I am open to the possibility at this point that most face masks were of limited utility with Covid, I think from the beginning it was always said it was more as a preventative measure to keep you from spreading it, not so much as a filtering device to keep you from getting it.

Covid would bind with water molecules and could be projected via sneezing or coughing. It is possible the mask could prevent some of those water molecules being expelled.

I suspect the masks had more utility with the original variants than the highly transmissible Omicron variants.

 

Variant of what ?

 

Likely so, but don’t you agree the need to wear a mask in a car driving alone or on a beach where nobody was within 100yards of each other did not exist?

 

This is where Americans really show just how flipping stupid they are, falling for this garbage over and over and over and over again, and why our pandemic response was doomed. Americans are STUPID.

Someone tell the idiot writing this, who clearly failed basic high school physics, that Coulomb's Law is real, and it did not cease to be true because anti-mask idiots said so. Also, van der Waals forces are real. They did not cease to exist because anti-mask idiots said so.

You do not need to have the pore size of an N95 mask, or KN95 mask smaller than the size of a virus particle, because the droplets carrying the virus particle are attracted to the fibers in the mask. They do not fly through like some people want to believe because they either failed high school physics or never got that far before dropping out in the first place.

Folks, this stuff really is not that difficult.

The Physics of the N95 Face Mask

 

Since when did anybody ever say you needed to wear one in a car alone?

In retrospect there was probably some selective hysteria in some cases, but it is pretty off putting that what we are talking about post Covid is people being inconvenienced for wearing masks, losing “freedom” due to vax mandates, and some shutdowns. What isn’t being talked about is a million lives lost, some of them preventable, the additional economic costs partly due to our intransigence and the terrible toll, to the point of trauma, this took on some of your fellow health care workers.

We are a society full of selfish babies.

Also with bird flu jumping to mammals and a 50% death rate among humans, are we taking about that? Nah.

 

We were lied to about the masks, from the start. We were lied to about the vaccines, from the start. A lot of manipulation from big pharma and government. What a fun time.

 

While I can not cite any specifically saying one should wear a mask alone in the car, the news ran clips of people doing it all the time.
It was suggested to wear them outside on the beach, hell I even recall a “scientist” from Cali I believe saying it could get into the ocean if people went to the beach and then get aerosolized that was in defense of locking down the beaches. Utterly stupid.

 

Poor poor victims. You had to wear a mask. You had to get a shot!!!

 

All BS.

There were definitely people wearing masks “alone in a car”. But nobody ever recommended that. Occasionally you’d see it. I would always assume Uber driver or delivery driver.

As I recall the reason for “locking down beaches” had nothing to actually do with the beaches, it’s because if the beaches were opened people would go to the bars and such that line the beaches.

I thought locking beaches was stupid, overall. Although I thought not completely crazy in certain very crowded spots (some CA beaches do get pretty packed). This all broke out around spring break time, so it was just very bad timing for the disease to break out for the “beach traffic”. It hit during peak spring break, and that was when they still knew little to nothing. We all probably saw the image of that person arrested for going to the beach. Despite thinking it was dumb to shut the beach - that the cops chased him out of there didn’t bother me. I was actually on the side of the cops. Why? Because that guy was not a special snowflake with special privileges none of the rest of us had.

 

Not accurate.

The bars in California were closed.
How could people go to a bar by the beach if it was closed?
There are arguments here based on some “expert” saying covid could be mixed in with salt spray and travels miles as a justification. Completely ridiculous.

 

You’re all missing the point. If there was indeed a deadly pathogen circulating in aerosolized form, it made perfect sense to panic and act like utter fools.

 

Not all bars followed orders, and you are citing one random expert (or kook?) that stood out. I’m not saying that guy doesn’t exist, but I’ve never even heard that as an explanation. So how could it have been driving policy? I *did* hear the arguments about crowded beaches (and specifically recall the “outrage” about college spring breakers partying it up in March ‘20… which I’m pretty sure is what actually drove beach closures).

As I said, i thought the beach closures were stupid. There were a lot of dumb things going on at the start of the pandemic. Some people overreacted inside and outside of govt. Others laughed and said a covid death would be rarer than a lightning strike. Who was proven to be dumber?

 

All who believed in viruses overreacted.

 

You see ? No virus necessary to get shingles. Just the stress of having to hang around cis men …