Covid-19 Discussion (moderated)

Florida's doing it all over again. https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-booster-warning-florida-surgeon-155352238.html

COVID not that bad y'all

Easy for YOU to say,....you survived it.

I can't take the vacation, it gives me night terrors.

@reb would say that hog needs a wash

But we interviewed those that didn't and they refused to comment.

wow, you are really dense. you're talking about population size with texas and florida while ignoring that they had few mask mandates and lockdowns compared to other states. then, you immediately go to economic impact while knowing nothing about economics. this is similar to 2008?

as far as the covid vaccines, read up on them prior to spouting off. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/17/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-protect-against-infection-transmission/6403678001/

you need to read a lot more. in another topic i saw you wrote you think 97% of what is learned in school is useless. you are the poster boy for that 3rd percentile.

finally, i live in florida, and destupid did almost all the wrong things. it was easy for him to mandate schools stay open because his kids were homeschooled. he appointed a surgeon general that said people don't need vaccines. he said kids exposed to covid had to go to school-no quarantine. he threatened to fire teachers who were pro-mask. this stuff is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg about how he is completely dimwitted and an authoritarian.

as i wrote, read more.

reb says a lot of things best taken with a grain of salt.

No, he just made sure beaurocrats couldn't force kids to not be able to breathe fresh air. I have no respiratory issues and even the lightest masks gave me trouble breathing within 1-2 hours. Nice job not refuting the rest of my points. 97% of school is indoctrination into nonsense like you are spouting now. Kids have a right to a normal education experience in person and not more staring at screens for 10 hours a day. Mental Illness and suicide rates have surged since 2020, with many youth mental health cases now overloading ERs in major cities. The pandemic joblessness was worse than 2008. There was a case of 9 year old crying on a live zoom class cause both her parents were laid off and could only afford 1 meal a day. Starving kids and ruining their one chance at a good education and social development to save grandma is beyond selfish. Everyone had their own responsibility to be careful. Imposing insanity like kids not being able to see their friends or siblings for months and ridiculous quanrantines/turning college dorms into a prison was dead wrong. I'm very socialist but may vote for DeSantis if he runs. Airlines also were out of control with the mask nonsense. Oh and aren't you one of the trans supporters in OD? "Science" lol Insanity like this is why cops were arresting people in the UK for sitting in the park, but don't do a thing when climate t e r r o r i s t s block ambulances these days. What other horrors did DeSantis do? Oh that's right, banning all the LABCXYZ++ themed books targeting 4 year olds? I can't stand most republican values but Florida is one of my top ten states to move to from NY.

It would be hard to pack any more anecdotal hearsay into one post. Have you got backup for any of this stuff?

The alphabet-intolerant stuff is done, or you won't be posting here. That extends to any/all other groups you would like to disparage, btw. This is not the thread for it.

Political asides/allusions need to remain Covid-related and definitely not turn into the focus of any posts, as well. That applies to everyone, of course.

Then go ahead and block me, cause pushing that stuff on kids is anti-science, deranged, child abuse. Can't claim you are pro-science when you dismiss decades of modern genetics.

Nobody that I know of is pushing anything on kids, and most certainly not here on the forums. If you have specific cases of abuse you are aware of, I suggest you report them to your local authorities, but again, this not the thread.

i included a link about covid. just one to see your response. i doubt you read it because you don't appear to even have read me about just a few of the things destupid did.

on the economy, since you are the one comparing it to the great recession, i am requiring you to show how the downturn during covid was as bad as then.

on education, in one breath you have stated 97% of it is nonsense. i can't be bothered to copy/paste what you wrote in the other topic, but you basically wrote it is useless. now you want all kids to go to school. all the time.

few believe a hypocrite.

Sick kids should not go to school, and that should be the case with all colds, flu, stomach viruses..etc not to spread them. The hypocrisy is that with those many abusive parents say "tough it out this is the real world it's just a cold", yet with covid everyone freaks out, despite colds/flus often causing worse suffering. School is mostly useless, but if you are going to waste 5 hours of a kids life a day, at least let them have the classroom experience (which even many kids said they preferred over zoom lunacy). This was not the slightest bit of concern for kids health, it was all about not giving it to grandma and grandpa/not overwhelming the hospitals. If anyone cared about kids health, they would make school start at a later time allowing them to sleep later, and have their mental health issues addressed (only 1 in 5 youth get needed mental health care by their parents). Society shouldn't be shut down for healthy people. I gave the reason the economy was horrible then, record unemployment, catastrophic damage to struggling small businesses, millions of which had to shut down (including my favorite food place next to my old college, thanks). Denying this is totally ignorant. Also, you are forgetting even those states did initially shut down everything, they just didn't drag it out endlessly like NY and California, and said "enough is enough" and reopened earlier. Comparing it to going to school in a hurricane is absurd. Talk about "changing topics" lol. Personally, I think keeping everything online was just because the teachers were too lazy to show up in person, and this was there excuse. But again, by the time these states decided to reopen, the fanatic states were on day 1,000 of "15 days to flatten the curve".

whats this abt

It's adult talk. You wouldn't understand.

What is it our endgame person doesn't get about someone having a disease and yet being asymptomatic and spreading it everywhere? By day two or three of spreading a virus, the kid suddenly seems sick and the parents keep him/her home. Meanwhile, bunches of other kids are spreading the very same germs for two or three days...etc until tons of children, parents, teachers, known associates and total strangers are starting to spread and develop symptoms. So just saying to keep your kid home is not really going to do the job.

He's a covid tyrant. Trump supporters are covid tyrants. Don't wear the masks,....don't get the shot,.....because your infringing on my rights. https://www.yahoo.com/news/kemp-desantis-campaigns-reject-trump-115507808.html

I get that perfectly. What I don't get is why people don't understand that even if there's a virus going around you can only take precautions within reason. You can't make little kids wear an uncomfortable mask on their face for 6-7 hours straight 5 days a week. There's no way to know if someone is asymptomatic unless you test every single day which is also ridiculous. You people have no sense of boundaries. I literally spray the gas pumps with lysol so you're saying this to the wrong person. I'm as much of a Democrat as you can get, but they went too far with this. Yeah, you are infringing on people's rights by forcing them to inject stuff in their body or wear something that makes it harder to breathe normally. You people are just entitled, germophobes. What about a kid/baby's right to see normal faces, have a normal school experience, not to damage their vision by looking at screens 10 hours a day. Focus on finding a cure instead, same for the common cold and flu, not just live irrationally and obsessively for years.

hysterical old woman