COVID - good news is it will all go away

[hnt4life]

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Praying all goes well for you and yours, Jason.

**Trigger Alert **

I have lost 5 high school classmates (1979) and two family friends. Mrs45 and I have been through multiple exposure scares, testing, and isolation.

I've had it with all the F'ing know-it-alls on both sides of this. If you live in BumF^ck, ID , population 10, and you feel safe, good for you. But stop telling the world you know anything about pandemics, because you don't.

All of you blocking the streets with your signs denigrating wearing masks (and vice versa) have too much time on your hands. Go fishing or something.

Wow! Who is triggered? Did these classmates of yours die as a direct result of not wearing a mask and catching covid? If the average age of your classmates was around 59, they had about a 0.014% chance of death from covid. I am neither an epidemiologist or a statistician, but your statistical class size would be around 35,750 folks given the current total U.S. infections. There is a serious anomaly here that you may want to bring to the attention of the CDC.

Seriously man, take a breather from cussing out random folks. Might also do you some good not to assume all folks from small towns are know nothing rednecks who dont have access to information or have a right to an opinion.

I leave blame and politics out of this, except for China. I also pray for our President and First Lady.

 

[hnt4life]

With how low this man is willing to go, i have to think he is doing this for the sympathy vote. Will they now think about taking this seriously? Now that the President has it. The 210,000 people who have died so far don't matter.

Buddy, you contradict yourself within your first two sentences. Who is the "they" that you claim are not taking this seriously? And why do you say the people who have died from covid don't matter?

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Buddy, you contradict yourself within your first two sentences. Who is the "they" that you claim are not taking this seriously? And why do you say the people who have died from covid don't matter?

not getting into the fight here, just explaining lol.

He's saying that 200K dead is a lot, but many people didn't take all that death seriously, but now that the leader, pres Trump, has contacted it people are more likely to take it seriously. It's almost like 200k dead doesn't matter in the eyes of many.


Side note, not positive who "they" are, but reading the context I would say it's easiest to describe them as the anti masker groups who have doubted the validity of the virus. Again, just me reading context.


Rainer, correct me if I'm wrong but that's how I read your words.

 

[Deleted member 38069]

Buddy, you contradict yourself within your first two sentences. Who is the "they" that you claim are not taking this seriously? And why do you say the people who have died from covid don't matter?

Rainer is the local troll from Canada who takes pop shots at America any chance he gets. Its best to ignore him.

 

[noharleyyet]

Rainer is the local troll from Canada who takes pop shots at America any chance he gets. Its best to ignore him.

...damn straight, thank you.

 

[Bigjay73]

Rainer is the local troll from Canada who takes pop shots at America any chance he gets. Its best to ignore him.

Blocking him works even better

 

[MTGomer]

Obese, old people are susceptible to and at the highest risk for COVID.

If you’re 70+ you should avoid crowds.

We have known this for 7 months. None of this should be news just because the pres has it.

It doesn’t matter what your job title is.

 

[Rainer]

not getting into the fight here, just explaining lol.

He's saying that 200K dead is a lot, but many people didn't take all that death seriously, but now that the leader, pres Trump, has contacted it people are more likely to take it seriously. It's almost like 200k dead doesn't matter in the eyes of many.


Side note, not positive who "they" are, but reading the context I would say it's easiest to describe them as the anti masker groups who have doubted the validity of the virus. Again, just me reading context.


Rainer, correct me if I'm wrong but that's how I read your words.

You are correct Sir

 

[hnt4life]

Rainer is the local troll from Canada who takes pop shots at America any chance he gets. Its best to

Ok. Thanks for the heads up. I was having a hard time interpreting his socialist drivel translated from French. I dont really know about blocking people. Never have, and I dont know how. I like to respond to comments like his to hopefully get other people to question the standard narrative.
Given the personal situation I'm in, I have had a kind of unique outside view on this whole pandemic. I see very little pushback or questioning of things that seem very commonsense when it comes to the mask situation and "social distancing." I will not sit by in any situation and let someone denigrate the United States when it is the U.S. that has done more to advance prosperity, freedom, and health around the world, in 244 years, than any other nation on earth. Besides, if I block him, I might miss his invitation for a barren ground caribou hunt.

 

[MTGomer]

Even though tourists have mostly gone home and there’s a mask mandate, Montana’s numbers are as high as they’ve ever been.

Google “correlation between air quality and Covid transmission and fatality rate” There’s a lot of science and medical opinions to read through that point to a relationship.

Sure has been smokey.....

 

[406dn]

Even though tourists have mostly gone home and there’s a mask mandate, Montana’s numbers are as high as they’ve ever been.

Google “correlation between air quality and Covid transmission and fatality rate” There’s a lot of science and medical opinions to read through that point to a relationship.

Sure has been smokey.....

My observation is that the mask mandate is taken as seriously as the posted speed limits. I recently got home from a bird hunting trip and hardly anyone was wearing masks in the various businesses I stopped in.

 

[Nick87]

Can the mask mandate really be enforced?

 

[schmalts]

Can the mask mandate really be enforced?

Depending on the state and what the state Supreme Court says, looks like it. Others states not. On a side note, yes I take COVID seriously. My wife is an RN who gets to work occasionally with infected people. We also know more about it now than March But really, some reality is how come people who are overweight, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension are so pissed there is no magic pill to cure corona, but make little to no effort to fix what is the 3 biggest things that kill you without and even more when you get the virus. In many of the cases of people with the 3 deadly underlying condition there's a cure. Healthy diet, and exercise. And before you jump on me, I did say most., many, some whatever... not all people can beat those problems. Yeah it kills Healthy people too, but so does a lot of other things. I beat cancer, a nasty type. Blamed it on chemicals from being a mechanic, being 30 pounds heavier than I am now, and living on a diet of carbs and meat and zero exercise. I changed everything that I blamed cancer on. Time a lot of other people do the same. How many people would have died from the virus if more people didn't work on killing themselves slowly before they got the virus. It's a shame doctors can't do more to force people into fixing themselves instead of throwing pills at them. I know this for sure, im sure many here have tried tactfully telling an obese spouse they are not doing themselves any good. That usuallygoes well... Sorry for the rant... tree stand hunting is boring.

 

[runningmt]

Can the mask mandate really be enforced?

Wearing clothing is enforced, not sure why this would be any different

 

[Dave N]

Wife and I are going to get tested in the morning. Found out late this afternoon that a co-worker tested positive, knew the results Wednesday, and CAME TO WORK THURSDAY! Pissed off barely describes it. Still, our boss should have been able to give us a heads up about it but upper management always falls back on that pesky HIPPA law. Now we're a couple more days behind. Hope the swab doesn't ruin too many brain cells, I need all I can get!

 

[Nick87]

Wearing clothing is enforced, not sure why this would be any different

So your saying if I dont wear a mask its indecent exposure? I'm not against or for wearing a mask I was just curious how it legally stands but that is a piss poor comparison.

 

[MTGomer]

Our local health dept bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to spend time unannounced in small businesses looking for mask and social distancing violations. You don’t get in trouble. The business owner does. Regardless of what I personally think or don’t think of masks, I don’t want to be the final straw that bankrupted yet another business over Covid.

@schmalts makes a good point too.

1 pound lost a week since the beginning of this would be about 30 pounds. 30 less lbs would set a whole bunch of people up for a better, healthier life, regardless of if they got Covid or not.

 

[JLS]

But really, some reality is how come people who are overweight, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension are so pissed there is no magic pill to cure corona, but make little to no effort to fix what is the 3 biggest things that kill you without and even more when you get the virus.

Very fair point. Our health habits in this country are abysmal, and cost us a ton of money and lives, and quality of life for that matter.

 

[matt0550]

I leave blame and politics out of this, except for China

This exactly!

 

[noisy]

Our local health dept bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to spend time unannounced in small businesses looking for mask and social distancing violations. You don’t get in trouble. The business owner does. Regardless of what I personally think or don’t think of masks, I don’t want to be the final straw that bankrupted yet another business over Covid.

I don't report them, but I don't spend my money there either. A local tire shop has lost thousands of my dollars I will need to spend on tires because of their anti-mask foolishness. F*ck them if they don't care about the community.