COVID-19 - On the Ground

[sdoyel]

gotta keep the hysteria ginned up. it's good for the platform.

Hospitals are overrun. Children are getting more and more sick.

Facts?
Hysteria?

[randylahey]

Plano ISD held an emergency School Board meeting. They quickly got to the point: Temporary Mask Mandate begins Thursday. Why now? Why not the first day of school? Oh well, at least it’s happening…

I’ll go to sleep tonight praying my 5yo didn’t catch Covid from his classmate… Tomorrow I’ll send him right back into the Covid crossfire and play the game of chess because I desperately want my son to have some kind of normalcy. Of course, I (and others wouldn’t have to do this) if it weren’t for you brain dead pieces of shit who are too scared to get a damn shot.

Fuck all of you “because I don’t want to”, “it’s my freedom”, “own the libs!” morons.

Randy, do you have a fucking kid? Ah forget it. You wouldn’t get it anyway.

Try being a parent to young kids right now…

Covid poses almost zero threat to children. The flu kills more every season than covid19 has since the beginning. They don't need masks. If you want to be a good parent teach them its ok to be normal. Dont terrify them with stats from puff piece articles youve read and unnecessary mandates. The world is not ending

[Deleted User 863]

The next stage of this thread will be equally as divisive.

Why is my health insurance so much higher?

But only a small percentage of people got a serious case of covid, why do the rest of us healthy people have to pay for that?

Because apparently health insurance is now a right?

[randylahey]

gotta keep the hysteria ginned up. it's good for the platform.

Only republicans do hysteria bro.


Just forget the last 4 years of never-ending dem hysteria. Those don't count.

The covid situation today still stems from dem hysteria. It wouldn't have been blow out of proportion to this extent if not for the election. The dems used covid and used it well as a tool to the white house. Covid is a lose lose situation for a politician and they used it to get Trump out of the white house. Unfortunately now biden has to deliver on impossible promises he made tho

[Deleted User 863]

Entirely rhetorical question: are the people taking horse ivermectin too stupid to pill-split to adjust the dose?

They probably crush it up and snort it like oxy.

[ousdahl]

The next stage of this thread will be equally as divisive.

Why is my health insurance so much higher?

But only a small percentage of people got a serious case of covid, why do the rest of us healthy people have to pay for that?

Because apparently health insurance is now a right?

Not here it ain’t.

You must have Merica confused with *checks notes* pretty much every other developed country.

[Deleted User 863]

gotta keep the hysteria ginned up. it's good for the platform.

Only republicans do hysteria bro.


Just forget the last 4 years of never-ending dem hysteria. Those don't count.

The covid situation today still stems from dem hysteria. It wouldn't have been blow out of proportion to this extent if not for the election. The dems used covid and used it well as a tool to the white house. Covid is a lose lose situation for a politician and they used it to get Trump out of the white house. Unfortunately now biden has to deliver on impossible promises he made tho

Remember when Dems kept telling us the covid vaccine wouldn't even be ready until this summer or fall? And yet we had it ready to go about 9 months ago....if Trump were still in office i think it is reasonable to assume (yes assume brocoach) that the Dems would have been vocally skeptical of the vaccine and how quickly it got pushed out.

Just really makes you wonder how different this entire thing goes if 1) the election went the other or 2) if it was kids getting sickest at the beginning rather than adults.

The fact that even this is political shows how fucked our country is.

[Deleted User 863]

The next stage of this thread will be equally as divisive.

Why is my health insurance so much higher?

But only a small percentage of people got a serious case of covid, why do the rest of us healthy people have to pay for that?

Because apparently health insurance is now a right?

Not here it ain’t.

You must have Merica confused with *checks notes* pretty much every other developed country.

Health insurance is not the same as health care.

Car insurance is not the same as having a car or drivers license.

[CrimsonNBlue]

The fact that even this is political shows how fucked our country is.

Outside of randy, there's not a poster in this thread making it more political than you are.

[randylahey]

I night be the least political person on here. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean its political. My point this entire thread is people need to be able to make their own choices and decisions. Im anti mandate anti government regulation. Im trying to bring things back to reality and remove politics from it. Stating the obvious that the dems blew covid out of proportion to use in the election is just stating what happened. Did you not watch any debates or anything

[Deleted User 863]

The fact that even this is political shows how fucked our country is.

Outside of randy, there's not a poster in this thread making it more political than you are.

Do you think that is by accident?


(And also, i disagree....our resident super libs have been making it political since the beginning)

[CrimsonNBlue]

Im trying to bring things back to reality and remove politics from it. Stating the obvious that the dems blew covid out of proportion to use in the election is just stating what happened. Did you not watch any debates or anything

Gold.

[PhDhawk]

Only republicans do hysteria bro.


Just forget the last 4 years of never-ending dem hysteria. Those don't count.

The covid situation today still stems from dem hysteria. It wouldn't have been blow out of proportion to this extent if not for the election. The dems used covid and used it well as a tool to the white house. Covid is a lose lose situation for a politician and they used it to get Trump out of the white house. Unfortunately now biden has to deliver on impossible promises he made tho

Remember when Dems kept telling us the covid vaccine wouldn't even be ready until this summer or fall? And yet we had it ready to go about 9 months ago....if Trump were still in office i think it is reasonable to assume (yes assume brocoach) that the Dems would have been vocally skeptical of the vaccine and how quickly it got pushed out.

Just really makes you wonder how different this entire thing goes if 1) the election went the other or 2) if it was kids getting sickest at the beginning rather than adults.

The fact that even this is political shows how fucked our country is.

The vaccines were approved in December when Trump was still in office.

Trump was in office when deals were made and plans were approved for the vaccine.

There is one party that at the moment is anti-science and it started before Trump was elected. I'm saying this as a scientist taking my own political feelings out of it.

I don't think opinions would flip flop. The narrative would've continued as it was, Trump's not doing enough, Trump's not taking it seriously, Trump's not acting quickly enough. The two parties wouldn't just flip their trust in science because administrations changed.

[ousdahl]

In March of 2020 my dad insisted the whole fuss was “nothing more than yet another political stunt by the dems trying to make the president look bad”

but even he has since walked it back.

And all it took, was two of his golf buddies dying from covid last summer.

Not that it’s a real sport.

[Deleted User 863]

I don't think opinions would flip flop. The narrative would've continued as it was, Trump's not doing enough, Trump's not taking it seriously, Trump's not acting quickly enough. The two parties wouldn't just flip their trust in science because administrations changed.

I hope you're right, but i guess we will never know (thankfully).

[jhawks99]

I night be the least political person on here. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean its political. My point this entire thread is people need to be able to make their own choices and decisions. Im anti mandate anti government regulation. Im trying to bring things back to reality and remove politics from it. Stating the obvious that the dems blew covid out of proportion to use in the election is just stating what happened. Did you not watch any debates or anything

630,000 and climbing. NBD right?

[PhDhawk]

Im trying to bring things back to reality and remove politics from it. Stating the obvious that the dems blew covid out of proportion to use in the election is just stating what happened. Did you not watch any debates or anything

Gold.

If politics were removed from all this >85% of Americans would be vaccinated. The numbers would be a lot lower. We'd be wearing masks in places where it was needed. There would be no anti-vax rallies, and protests, and all that garbage.

Hell, we wouldn't even be arguing about vaccine mandates or passports cause we'd all have just done it.

[PhDhawk]

I night be the least political person on here. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean its political. My point this entire thread is people need to be able to make their own choices and decisions. Im anti mandate anti government regulation. Im trying to bring things back to reality and remove politics from it. Stating the obvious that the dems blew covid out of proportion to use in the election is just stating what happened. Did you not watch any debates or anything

630,000 and climbing. NBD right?

Just in the US.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Hell, we wouldn't even be arguing about vaccine mandates or passports cause we'd all have just done it.

Bingo! I said this almost word for word to a friend yesterday. We shouldn't even be discussing this shit at this point.

[PhDhawk]

I don't think opinions would flip flop. The narrative would've continued as it was, Trump's not doing enough, Trump's not taking it seriously, Trump's not acting quickly enough. The two parties wouldn't just flip their trust in science because administrations changed.

I hope you're right, but i guess we will never know (thankfully).

but I think we do know.

Trump was in office during the entirety of vaccine development and even the early stages of it being deployed.

I don't think democrats were Anti-vax and then suddenly flipped after the inauguration.

I don't know why repubs didn't embrace this as "Trump's vaccine". The anti-vaxxing among so many republicans is disappointing and doesn't really make sense. I don't think this many were anti-vax prior