re: There's 'mounting evidence' Louisiana's coronavirus restrictions maybe weren't 'justified'

Oh bullshite! That’s crap! Muh impeach pie!
MAGA!!!!!!!

And, then there was logic....

K, put my kid to bed and still feel goaded into responding despite your trying to paint me into a chicken little lockdown guy.. so here we go:

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I can’t think of a single reason for you to post that emotional BS outside of trying, in your own pussyfooting way, to scare people against the idea of having a choice.

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Just another idiot posting their story on an open forum. No ulterior motive or purposefully trying to fearmonger. I can see your POV but I seriously don't think that hard before posting shite most of the time (it probably shows in my post history)

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And when you announce to the world that you’re a hypocrite that isn’t going to abide by the rules you want everyone else to be governed by in 3 weeks, I’m going to point that out.

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Please do. Considering I don't want a lockdown.

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Seems like you should be far more educated than the sheep that only get their news from the places you claim you don’t.

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I generally post on other boards mostly, and I stopped reading most COVID threads besides the daily numbers and graphs, but for some stupid reason I decided to open this one and post in it and now look at us.

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And as the 3 of you continue interacting with the real world over the next 3 weeks, there will be an even greater risk of you being an asymptomatic carrier. In fact, the only logical choice in this situation is to go see him immediately, when you have the lowest risk of being asymptomatic and you know the spike you’re so worried about hasn’t happened.

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Solid point. Nothing to say other than you are right.

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Firstly, there is absolutely going to be an increase in cases. There will be more people tested. That is irrelevant. The only thing relevant is the hospitalization numbers.

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I would expect an increase in absolute positives as testing increased but if things are largely staying the same shouldn't %positive same the same or even decrease as testing increased? I'm probably wrong here in some way so this is a legitimate question. ELI5.

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And there it is again, the pussyfooting. ‘I know the numbers look really good right now, like they have for several weeks. But there is still a chance this thing could kill millions.’

How long has Georgia been re-opened? What do their numbers look like?

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1) Strawman. I am not saying anything like that. I am just trying to evaluate personal risk. Am I pussyfooting? Sure. Call it what you want. I want to feel certain.

2) Georgia's numbers look fine. It looks like we'll all stay fine through phase 1. I'm not denying it. I'm just trying to be cautious when visiting at-risk family.

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It's definitely needed. We need to evaluate the initial response as part of our plan moving forward. I'm partial to reopening while quarantine particularly vulnerable people and those who wish to remain quarantined. I also want to see N95 mask production ramped up so that we can wear those if we so choose


What I find incredibly disingenuous is people who say something along the lines of "I knew this would be a nothing burger all along! Hoax! Scam!" despite there was literally no good reason to believe it was going to be nothing back in March and early April. Hell, we are about to cross 100k deaths in the U.S. in May despite lockdowns. This is not a nothing burger, and we still don't know if we will have a 2nd wave when temps come back down in fall/winter. It's easily the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu. We've had as many deaths worldwide from it in 6 months as Swine Flu did in a year.

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It may have been needed in the early beginning while we figured out who was dying and who was recovering but the window for that need was short.

We should have quarantined the high risk populations (elderly, underlying conditions and immune-compromised) while allowing the healthy population to keep the country running and develop herd immunity.

I love how most people think it’s only nurses that work in hospitals

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Don't disagree, though there's a caveat that we largely know next to nothing about immunity or how long it may last.

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there’s that pussyfooting again.

‘Someone said something indicating this thing isn’t really worth worrying about. Let me passively throw in some comment to remind everyone there’s still a chance millions will die.’

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Tigers4Lyfe

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That's a caveat because there a chance immunity won't last long enough to be meaningful for herd immunity, and all that means is we should have contingency plans in place

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If immunity doesnt last(small chance), its time to rip the bandaid off and open up fully and those who will die from it will die. That sounds callous, but thats the only true option. We cant stay locked away forever. Because if immunity doesnt exist, locking away saves ZERO lives.

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And, then there was logic....

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I'm glad you brought logic up. Now try using some instead of basing everything off your emotions.

A vaccine seems completely unrealistic and I honestly find it fascinating so many people are pretending its possible

Imagine how filthy rich someone would be if they made a true effective vaccine for flu. Yet it hasnt happened

I just dont see how its realistic to think magically they will have one for covid-19