Covid- 19 - Second wave

[SlimTrae]

The pandemic has been pounding small cities in Wisconsin like Green Bay, where the hospital was close to being overwhelmed with new cases- uh, its not a minority driven town. The majority of blacks there work for the Green Bay Packers. NFL players.
Democratic Gov. issued a mask mandate. Republicans who control the legislature say the Democratic governor’s efforts to impose things like mask mandates set a bad precedent and they had to limit his power.
Damn, look at the cost to calling him a ruler and forcing a mask which they somehow thought was akin to the denial of freedom.

By mid October, Only 16% of the state's largest hospital beds are available. Are all these people being bussed in by George Soros to pretend they are sick?

1. the rallies of the prez caused spread.
2. Major colleges and universities in Wisconsin opened up their doors for in-person learning- the very people who demanded it- were the very people that demanded home schooling under President Obama, please think that over.
3. Some biker rally aka Sturgis motorcycle rally a while back- was traced to small town bike riders who went unmasked, then infected their loved ones. The argument again became the numbers. Politico or no fact checker can prove 250,000 spread it, it is a nonsensical question. We only know many caught it. So pro prez supporters use the lack of proof of 250k as a reason to continue to look at this from a partisan issue.

Now I don't know how the animal called mink got infected with it, but I would think killing 12 thousand of them just to make a political point is a moot point. Yet the cases are in Wisconsin and Utah.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousan...sin-fur-farms/

Coronavirus outbreaks are devastating mink populations in the U.S., first in Utah, and now in Wisconsin. Over 12,000 mink have recently died from the virus, prompting dozens of farms to enter into quarantines.

a week later across the ocean:
More than 1 million mink will be killed to help contain a series of Covid-19 outbreaks on Danish farms
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/world...rnd/index.html
The Danish government has ordered the country's mink farms to cull over 1 million mink due to a series of Covid-19 outbreaks among the animals.


Bill Kaplan: Trump rally amid COVID-19 tsunami
The prez spoke at a massive rally in Janesville. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 63,575. So lets say it is 85k today....guess what that means? A small town may get decimated. Wiped out because of their political beliefs.

To all the first responders out there in a winless battle. I hurt for them. No matter how hard they try, their detractors aren't the spiritual, the learned, the sensible aka many different kinds of people. It is one group. One demographic. Those who see the world as either Conservative or haters of freedom.

[El Kabong]

A lot of my issues with COVID and how it's covered stem from the lack of consistency & the moving of goalposts.

First it was do we wear masks or not & the experts, THE EXPERTS (not Trump) were split on it Dr. Fauci included.

Then it's ventilators, gotta have 'em! So Trump made it happen and now we've got an excess of them.

Then it's lockdowns & flatten the curve....we're still in this stage and first it was about hospitalizations & space available in ICUs and keeping frontline medical workers (EMTs, Doctors, Nurses, et al) healthy & available for action. Now it's about infection rates.

The next thing was testing. We test A BUNCH! And due to that obviously we're going to see more cases, it's the law of large numbers. But what we haven't seen and this is very important is a mortality rate that has kept up with the amount of people who have caught COVID.

I look forward to there being no real flu season this year...this COVID bullshit is going to hang like a cloud over all of humanity for a bit and it's like at absolute worst 98% survival rate?



The lockdowns seem arbitrary and punitive....In my state restaurants can be open but bars can't? So alcohol doesn't keep COVID away but appetizers do? You can go to the grocery store, you can go to the hardware store, but you can't go to Church and kids going to school is quite arbitrary. My daughter is in daycare everyday, my nieces 1 goes to physical school 4 times a week and the other 4 times a month...it's nuts. Granted we're not in a heavy lockdown, but when THAT happened and you felt trapped in your own home, couldn't go to state parks or anything...ridiculous! My family still gets out in nature, we do all the distancing and mask wearing, but it's fucking arbitrary and to deny that or not address it at all is mental.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Whatever asinine and arbitrary decisions made by judges or governors (and youre right, they did change a lot) does not change what is the dangerousness of the virus.

Common sense told most people to wear a mask back in March/April. I don't care if fauci or whoever said don't wear masks at the beginning. I didn't listen to that, I knew when I heard that bullshit that it was panic-control for the sheeple. It's obvious. Common sense. Wear a mask, blocks spit and airborne droplets, common sense.

But then the stubborn ones started with "oh , b b b b b but the pore sizes of the mask!" Anything..... ANYTHING to get out of having to wear a mask. I didn't care if they said at the beginning it wasn't necessary. Clearly that was bullshit. Duck and cover. Yeah trust your government. How did that work out? Duck and cover. Yeah that'll stop the gamma rays! Don't worry. We got it all under control! No need for masks! I mean who would believe that a mask wouldn't help at the very least when walking among crowds ??

Panic control by politicians .... Only a sheeple falls for that.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

So woefully short on masks, embarrassing! Scared they they'd run out is what it was! So "oh don't wear them! Stop buying masks, people!"

Remember that gem

Common sense. Why do we cover our mouths when we sneeze or cough? THE HUMAN HAND CANT BLOCK ALL THE SALIVA SPRAY, RIGHT? it's common sense ANY BARRIER will help. A mask.WAY BETTER THAN A HAND OVER THE MOUTH.

then idiots had to politicize it.

If I wear a mask u r a Dem
If I don't, u r a Repub.


Only in America.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

If Trump had said from the get go THIS IS DEADLY. BE A RED WHITE AND BLUE PATRIOT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AND WRAR A MASK, all the Trump supporters would wear a mask and all the Dems would not.

This is my point.

Americans are idiots. This country is fucked.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

[El Kabong]

Amazing coincidence it being so close to election day and all...I know NC has set a record for number of infected and they're calling for more.




Call me cynical but I can't help but think COVID & the absolutely INSANE polls are desperate attempts to suppress votes & voter enthusiasm. I already voted, I would have crawled across hell itself to vote this year.



Not saying COVID is a lie, not saying don't protect yourself, just saying the marketing doesn't match the reality from MY perspective.