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Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:43 pm to ChunkyLover54
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but what are others you experienced in this shameful time?
Karens in our neighborhood complaining on Nextdoor and threatening to call the police on children playing outside
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:44 pm to Scruffy
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Probably 95% of those bitching in this thread were 100% on board with shutdowns.
The big COVID thread was very illuminating.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:44 pm to Mo Jeaux
2040 future thread
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:44 pm to OMLandshark
The first 4 months of 2020 were just so weird for me.
I remember January when it hadn't come here yet, all the speculation of what was happening in China, it killing 5-10% of people, the OT thread of that guy trying to get back to the states from China. At the time it just felt like this far away thing and maybe it wouldn't be a big deal here.
My wife and I were home hunting in March of 2020, and one weekend had her grandparents with us. Grandfather and I go into an Academy to kill time while they shop elsewhere. I'll never forget the bare ammo shelves, and 12 person line at the gun counter. An old lady came up to us asking if we could help her find ammo for her revolver she hadn't used in 5 years. Was such a surreal moment.
I traveled for work and was driving back home from Kansas the night the OKC/Utah game was cancelled due to the player testing positive. Came in the next day to be told to get ready to work remotely because everything was going to shut down and just couldn't believe it.
The first week in late March working at home was weird, my wife's job was shut down, so she's watching Tiger King while I work, and watch markets tank. We're waiting to close on our house, and the week before rate lock markets are in free fall (Bill Ackman saying hell was coming), rates shot up, and I almost bailed on it because it looked like everything was about to tank and we were worried about not being able to do it. Thankfully we just made a decision that we would make it work one way or another and still closed. Daily they would show Cuomo's conference for NY (lol people thought he was gonna be president), all these news reports of cases and deaths and not gonna lie, at the time it sounded really bad.
I had a 68 year old grandmother who lives alone, and I remember spending 5 hours scouring stores to find toilet paper so she didn't have to leave the house. I finally found a store where the manager had kept a stock in the back, and after explaining he went back and grabbed a couple for me to take to her. Having to wait outside to go in while some dude keeps track of how many people are going in/leaving. 6 foot tape markings, I remember asking a guy what the hell this was supposed to do and getting a shrug in response.
We closed the house the day oil went negative, never imagined I would see $-40 prices. The world just seemed insane. We had also gotten a new puppy a few weeks back and we couldn't even go to dog parks. We would see online posts of local businesses that couldn't open having to close, or pleading for people to order online, and thinking how wrong it was they couldn't operate but walmart down the road was "essential".
Our house is in the country so honestly, after we didn't really see as much craziness like in OKC. You still had the distancing but people weren't at your throat over things. We finished moving our stuff around mid-May, and by that point I was over the lockdown stuff. We never went extreme like LA but you definitely had people who would freak out in public on you. I lost a couple of work friendships over my desire to move on by the summer.
The summer was crazy, and I definitely had a feeling like you were watching the country come apart with the riots.
Looking back, I still would have supported the original 2 week shutdown we did, based on the information that was available at the time, but good lord it went so far after that. As soon as it became apparent most people in decent health were at low risk we should have moved on and isolated those truly at risk as needed. I still know people who won't leave their house, and its sad to see the decline in life quality for those people, and mental health (especially with kids). We really did damage to people that I don't think is really understood/seen.
I remember January when it hadn't come here yet, all the speculation of what was happening in China, it killing 5-10% of people, the OT thread of that guy trying to get back to the states from China. At the time it just felt like this far away thing and maybe it wouldn't be a big deal here.
My wife and I were home hunting in March of 2020, and one weekend had her grandparents with us. Grandfather and I go into an Academy to kill time while they shop elsewhere. I'll never forget the bare ammo shelves, and 12 person line at the gun counter. An old lady came up to us asking if we could help her find ammo for her revolver she hadn't used in 5 years. Was such a surreal moment.
I traveled for work and was driving back home from Kansas the night the OKC/Utah game was cancelled due to the player testing positive. Came in the next day to be told to get ready to work remotely because everything was going to shut down and just couldn't believe it.
The first week in late March working at home was weird, my wife's job was shut down, so she's watching Tiger King while I work, and watch markets tank. We're waiting to close on our house, and the week before rate lock markets are in free fall (Bill Ackman saying hell was coming), rates shot up, and I almost bailed on it because it looked like everything was about to tank and we were worried about not being able to do it. Thankfully we just made a decision that we would make it work one way or another and still closed. Daily they would show Cuomo's conference for NY (lol people thought he was gonna be president), all these news reports of cases and deaths and not gonna lie, at the time it sounded really bad.
I had a 68 year old grandmother who lives alone, and I remember spending 5 hours scouring stores to find toilet paper so she didn't have to leave the house. I finally found a store where the manager had kept a stock in the back, and after explaining he went back and grabbed a couple for me to take to her. Having to wait outside to go in while some dude keeps track of how many people are going in/leaving. 6 foot tape markings, I remember asking a guy what the hell this was supposed to do and getting a shrug in response.
We closed the house the day oil went negative, never imagined I would see $-40 prices. The world just seemed insane. We had also gotten a new puppy a few weeks back and we couldn't even go to dog parks. We would see online posts of local businesses that couldn't open having to close, or pleading for people to order online, and thinking how wrong it was they couldn't operate but walmart down the road was "essential".
Our house is in the country so honestly, after we didn't really see as much craziness like in OKC. You still had the distancing but people weren't at your throat over things. We finished moving our stuff around mid-May, and by that point I was over the lockdown stuff. We never went extreme like LA but you definitely had people who would freak out in public on you. I lost a couple of work friendships over my desire to move on by the summer.
The summer was crazy, and I definitely had a feeling like you were watching the country come apart with the riots.
Looking back, I still would have supported the original 2 week shutdown we did, based on the information that was available at the time, but good lord it went so far after that. As soon as it became apparent most people in decent health were at low risk we should have moved on and isolated those truly at risk as needed. I still know people who won't leave their house, and its sad to see the decline in life quality for those people, and mental health (especially with kids). We really did damage to people that I don't think is really understood/seen.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:45 pm to Scruffy
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Probably 95% of those bitching in this thread were 100% on board with shutdowns.
You always say this in these threads and its never been true
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:46 pm to Salmon
quote:You serious?
You always say this in these threads and its never been true
Most switched once it lasted for months, but almost every person was on board with starting shutdowns.
There were very few people who wanted nothing to do with them in entirety.
Go read the mega thread again.
There was near unanimous support for the initial lockdowns.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:48 pm to Scruffy
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You serious?
Yes. Absolutely.
You always conflate people that argued with you about the length of the lockdowns or the actual death rate of COVID or other things as "100% supporting the lockdowns"
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:48 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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blaming the big bad left for everything is just absolute horse shite.
I think it stems from how Covid played out after the first few months especially after a certain candidate said that if he were in office no one would have died.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:48 pm to Scruffy
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Probably 95% of those bitching in this thread were 100% on board with shutdowns.
Outside of the supply lines as I point out and some states not allowing people outside (I disregarded that throughout), fell for the 15 Days initially. Was redpilled by April. Nothing wrong with saying you were fooled, but my mentality to all these fricks that did this to us:
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:49 pm to Salmon
quote:What?
You always conflate people that argued with you about the length of the lockdowns or the actual death rate of COVID or other things as "100% supporting the lockdowns"
My argument is always that nearly everyone supported the initial lockdowns, and it was a horrible idea from the beginning.
Everything stems from the “15 days to flatten the curve” bullshite.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:50 pm to OMLandshark
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Outside of the supply lines as I point out and some states not allowing people outside (I disregarded that throughout), fell for the 15 Days initially. Was redpilled by April. Nothing wrong with saying you were fooled
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:51 pm to NawlinsTiger9
My take is he really didn't want to do it because he saw how it was going to effect reelection, but then was convinced reelection was going to be harmed by not shutting down. Hence when he went along with shutdowns he kept using that "the cure can't be worse than the disease" line. He's also a germaphobe. In any event, he made those decisions and has to live with them.
However, by July 2020 I believe he stated schools should be open. The school issue outweighs about almost every COVID related issue due to it's downstream effects for years to come.
However, by July 2020 I believe he stated schools should be open. The school issue outweighs about almost every COVID related issue due to it's downstream effects for years to come.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:53 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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Took one post who was president during 2020? I forget.
Again, I’m not having it. The Dems almost exclusively kept the country locked down, fought for vaccine mandates and shut down schools. Own it.
Heck, many leftists who are in power are still fighting for covid restrictions!
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:57 pm to TigerinOkieHell
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My wife and I were home hunting in March of 2020, and one weekend had her grandparents with us. Grandfather and I go into an Academy to kill time while they shop elsewhere. I'll never forget the bare ammo shelves, and 12 person line at the gun counter. An old lady came up to us asking if we could help her find ammo for her revolver she hadn't used in 5 years. Was such a surreal moment.
I traveled for work and was driving back home from Kansas the night the OKC/Utah game was cancelled due to the player testing positive. Came in the next day to be told to get ready to work remotely because everything was going to shut down and just couldn't believe it.
The first week in late March working at home was weird, my wife's job was shut down, so she's watching Tiger King while I work, and watch markets tank. We're waiting to close on our house, and the week before rate lock markets are in free fall (Bill Ackman saying hell was coming), rates shot up, and I almost bailed on it because it looked like everything was about to tank and we were worried about not being able to do it. Thankfully we just made a decision that we would make it work one way or another and still closed. Daily they would show Cuomo's conference for NY (lol people thought he was gonna be president), all these news reports of cases and deaths and not gonna lie, at the time it sounded really bad.
I have a very similar story. Closed on my new condo on the day of the OKC/Utah cancellation as well. Was at the sports bar celebrating being a first time homeowner and that's when everything changed. Granted it made the first three weeks of Covid better than most had it being so busy with moving. I stupidly basically refused to be on the same floor as the person installing my washer/dryer. I went two fricking months without physically touching another human being, and by May my friend group and I finally had a grasp of the virus and said frick it.
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Looking back, I still would have supported the original 2 week shutdown we did, based on the information that was available at the time, but good lord it went so far after that. As soon as it became apparent most people in decent health were at low risk we should have moved on and isolated those truly at risk as needed. I still know people who won't leave their house, and its sad to see the decline in life quality for those people, and mental health (especially with kids). We really did damage to people that I don't think is really understood/seen.
Based on whose information? Ours or Fauci's? From ours, then yeah assuming it's true, then I would have at the time again (never again though). Fauci had information that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin could fight this disease, but it'd interfere with everything he was trying to do in doing an emergency vaccine protocol. Trump should have listened to his instincts and not that genocidal little elf who was intentionally misleading him.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 12:57 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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And for the record, I’m not even blaming Trump for feeling that way - nobody in the world batted 1.000 on COVID - but this revisionist history and blaming the big bad left for everything is just absolute horse shite
What will forever crack me up are the idiots on the left that called Trump an "authoritarian", then said he didn't do enough to stop COVID. After Trump went opposite of "authoritarian" and allowed local leadership to determine their actions based on "science", we saw Democrat leaders do plenty of irrational and evil things, all for the sake of power and control.
So yeah, that authoritarian Trump allowed leaders to show us who the real authoritarians were, and they didn't hesitate to take it up several notches.
Then Biden was "elected" and started the mandates. I don't need to say more to those who have brains.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 1:01 pm to Scruffy
And the reason I always went outside was because read Vitamin D was great for your immune system and go out and exercise. Lost two belt sizes between March and May going out exercising around the park. But no, Fauci said simply to stay locked in your homes, don't go outside, don't exercise, don't take vitamins that build up your immune system, and mask up at all times. He is the single most destructive American in the history of the United States, and frick Trump for not firing and quite frankly prosecuting him.
This post was edited on 10/25/22 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 10/25/22 at 1:01 pm to OMLandshark
Yep, the "follow the science" groupies. Damn fools.
Posted on 10/25/22 at 1:03 pm to Scruffy
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My argument is always that nearly everyone supported the initial lockdowns, and it was a horrible idea from the beginning.
Salmon was a huge proponent of following authority and being a good little citizen.
He actually believed if we obeyed it would end quickly...
Posted on 10/25/22 at 1:03 pm to Jumpinjack
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Yep, the "follow the science" groupies. Damn fools.
I was the one who actually followed it. Like I was an information nerd on this from March-May and read up on what would actually help you with Covid, not the bullshite Fauci was spewing. When they say "Follow the Science" they actually mean "Shut the frick up, Listen to Dr Fauci, and Do as you're fricking told!"
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