re: Coming back to Louisiana sucks after 5 days in freedom loving Florida

I spent some time in various more rural parts of Louisiana this weekend. While everywhere had mask signs on the door, I felt right at home going in without, there weren’t many to be seen. Employees or customers. Not many Honor Code fans to be found either.

Did they die though?

Florida might have its share of trash but it's one of the better run states in the country.

quote:

---

Try visiting Colorado. Those freaks wear masks outside, everywhere.

---

I live in Colorado and can confirm. No one has said anything to me about not wearing one outside. But if they do, my response will be to show me where the CDC recommends wearing them outside with no one else around me for more than a few seconds as I walk past them. Other than people wearing masks outside, I don't feel as if the government is overly restrictive. They at least try to act with some logic and reason which is more than i can say for the government of my previous home (NOLA)

No, I believe that would be California's Governor that is the laughing stock of America.

quote:

---

How many? I honestly don’t know.

I know of a few that have opened back up.

---

Confirmed: 50% of restaurants will never be back.
Estimated: 75% of straight up bar-only businesses will never be back.

That makes up a HUGE part of New Orleans economy and job market.

To your credit, you are consistent.

Many are not. They will say that while they disagree with mask requirements, a private business has the prerogative to make their own rules. Then they recoil in horror at the suggestion that a business should have the legal right to discriminate in the basis of race.

[quote]Early on in the pandemic you could make this argument because there just wasn't enough information regarding the effectiveness of mask wearing.

There has now been enough time and observational situations to show that mask wearing has an effectiveness. It shouldn't be the only safety precaution you take, but to argue mask are "useless" is just ignorant.
---------------------------------------

Yeah, that's not true. Hand washing/hand sanitizer and social distancing do more to curb transmission than anything short of a vaccine. People's behavior in those regards has changed since March. That's why spread of the virus slowed. People know you can't just be in everyone's face, hugging, shaking hands with anyone... and not washing your hands. Face masks look cool and they make you feel like they're doing something, and maybe to a minimal extent they provide some sort of protection... but acting like they provide 100%... or 50% protection... or even 25% protection... is not scientifically proven.

There are literally multiple scientific, peer reviewed and published studies before COVID that prove porous cloth masks don't do much anything to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.

I keep hearing about this supposed new evidence of their effectiveness. But where are the published, peer reviewed studies with the data? What percentage of protection do they provide? 50% effective? Even 25% effective versus not having one? Even an estimate of the degree of protection would be useful. No one can tell us. But Karens and libs are acting like they're 100% effective.

Pope Fauci and his minions can only say... "oh, hey guys. face masks work now." Prove it!

Then there's what these right-wing Trump supporter QAnon whackos (sarcasm) at the Oxford University Center for Evidence Based Medicine have to say about them, along with many other qualified scientists and health experts out there. But we have one little midget and a handful of douchebags in this country with a political agenda informing the media and public. Sad.

LINK