re: If the regulations work, why is Covid taking over California?

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The regulations work when everyone is 100% willing to follow them (i.e. Australia). If everyone isn't 100% willing to follow them, then they just unnecessarily cripple the economy while not curbing coronavirus

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Works great until you get a single case once it’s been reopened and then nobody has immunity and shite hits the fan.

So describe your movements throughout the state lately. I assume you're wearing your mask during all these public interactions. You must be the only weirdo doing so.

Friend,

Seattle has been quite strict (and depressing), and you've seen very steady and relatively low numbers there.

I am grateful you had a safe and joyous wedding celebration there, sharing it with people who took the virus seriously. The fact that you traveled there without needing a quarantine or negative covid test is evidence that there is no real lockdown, as I said. Compare lockdown measures in China, New Zealand, and Taiwan, and see what would have been required of you to go to that wedding.

One problem with lockdowns is if a significant portion of the population is not adhering to strict guidelines all the time, there will likely be spread. Perhaps Californians kept up their lockdown-like behaviors a little longer than other places. But probably not. In my trips to San Fran and its environs, I saw significant numbers of people ignoring mask mandates, ignoring social distancing. It was particularly striking in North Beach, where it felt like 2019 again. I said to Mother as we sat a distance away on a public bench, "I wish these people would be more careful."

I found the behaviors of the average Californian to be little different from those in Louisiana. Mask use in grocery stores was a little higher than Louisiana, but the gatherings I saw were far larger than what I saw in Louisiana. I left my second trip to CA wondering how it was possible that California had not yet had their spike.

Again, I do not think lockdowns will work in America. Would they have worked early on if people truly locked down and we shut down international travel? I think so. But the cat is out the bag, and now I do not see how they will work, especially as mask and distancing fatigue set in long ago.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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So describe your movements throughout the state lately. I assume you're wearing your mask during all these public interactions. You must be the only weirdo doing so.

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How would I know?! I’ve been locked inside for months! Just turn on the news, it’s not exaggerative and oh so accurate.

Newsome showed up at my house and physically dragged me back inside himself when I tried to check the mail!!!

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TulaneLSU

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I just don't get it. If the regulations are working why is Cali opening hospitals in tents?

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It is possible that cum hoc ergo propter hoc is at work. The amount of unaccounted-for variables in the hypothesis is fairly large in number.

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TulaneLSUCoyote

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FIFY.

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I saw significant numbers of people ignoring mask mandates, ignoring social distancing

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None of this happened. Mother won't let you outside of a 250 mile radius of her house. You're barely qualified to comment on the Covid guidelines of Jackson Mississippi....friend.

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I actually do believe you haven't really seen enough to pretend to be an expert on even your own locale.

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Believe what you want, but I have multiple friends on here that are connected to me on socials and can absolutely confirm otherwise.

People have the story they want to tell themselves and that’s that. So just carry on believing what you want and exist in blissful ignorance. You’re not here and it doesn’t affect you so who cares?

You can claim to be the veritable man on the street who is plugged into these nuances of an entire state or even just his entire city, but I'm playing the odds and saying you're a regular dude who does some things around town and doesn't pay attention to these types of things. This is the OT, though, so I'm sure you and all your bros have blogs and vlogs about the mask and ordinance compliance all over the state.