Coronavirus Thread VII: Jagged Little Pill (READ OP)

[The Black Forrest]

So mask mandates should be permanent?

New variants cannot be stopped. Nothing we do can prevent this. What part of this do people not get?

There's a lot of stuff we can do to detect and control the spread of dangerous variants. We should be focusing on getting vaccines to the developing world and helping them with things like testing/sequencing.

Where are the mods? You are talking sense and that is not allowed here.

[San Lumen]

Its what you implied.

Its not worth trying because its impossible.

When did I ever imply that? All I meant was for them to remain in place until new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are under control, which they aren't right now.

It's impossible with that attitude.

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

[The Black Forrest]

When did I ever imply that? All I meant was for them to remain in place until new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are under control, which they aren't right now.

It's impossible with that attitude.

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

Yes. Does stating the obvious embolden your position?

Masks are dropped when the pandemic is over.

Is that hard to understand?

[Untecna]

When did I ever imply that? All I meant was for them to remain in place until new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are under control, which they aren't right now.

It's impossible with that attitude.

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

This might be a shock to you, but all viruses can be defended against with safety measures. That's why we stay home sick when we get colds.

[San Lumen]

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

Yes. Does stating the obvious embolden your position?

Masks are dropped when the pandemic is over.

Is that hard to understand?

What defines over?

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

When did I ever imply that? All I meant was for them to remain in place until new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are under control, which they aren't right now.

It's impossible with that attitude.

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

Do you want people to just drop dead in the streets because that's hellua immoral, and yet I can find no other motivation for this attitude other than craven egotism or pure sadism.

[The Black Forrest]

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

This might be a shock to you, but all viruses can be defended against with safety measures. That's why we stay home sick when we get colds.

Never mind the plane is a nice inclosed incubator. One really flu sick person and many will catch it…..

[San Lumen]

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

Do you want people to just drop dead in the streets because that's hellua immoral, and yet I can find no other motivation for this attitude other than craven egotism or pure sadism.

Never said that and you failed to answer the question.

This might be a shock to you, but all viruses can be defended against with safety measures. That's why we stay home sick when we get colds.

Never mind the plane is a nice inclosed incubator. One really flu sick person and many will catch it…..

Ok. So masks forever on planes then?

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Do you want people to just drop dead in the streets because that's hellua immoral, and yet I can find no other motivation for this attitude other than craven egotism or pure sadism.

Never said that and you failed to answer the question.

You have no "questions" that are not just incredibly annoying whinging.
So what is your endgame SL? 10k Americans drop dead in the streets every day so you can sit in a chair in some Broadway theatre?

[The Black Forrest]

Yes. Does stating the obvious embolden your position?

Masks are dropped when the pandemic is over.

Is that hard to understand?

What defines over?

When you can explain endemic; you will know.

[San Lumen]

Never said that and you failed to answer the question.

You have no "questions" that are not just incredibly annoying whinging.
So what is your endgame SL? 10k Americans drop dead in the streets every day so you can sit in a chair in some Broadway theatre?

Broadway is open and has been for several months now.

[The Black Forrest]

Do you want people to just drop dead in the streets because that's hellua immoral, and yet I can find no other motivation for this attitude other than craven egotism or pure sadism.

Never said that and you failed to answer the question.

Never mind the plane is a nice inclosed incubator. One really flu sick person and many will catch it…..

Ok. So masks forever on planes then?

Yesssssss. Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever………..

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

You have no "questions" that are not just incredibly annoying whinging.
So what is your endgame SL? 10k Americans drop dead in the streets every day so you can sit in a chair in some Broadway theatre?

Broadway is open and has been for several months now.

So whence the bloody accursed problem that you have us all suffer under then?

[San Lumen]

Broadway is open and has been for several months now.

So whence the bloody accursed problem that you have us all suffer under then?

I am asking why we still need masks on public transit. Why not just let the mandate expire?

[The Black Forrest]

So whence the bloody accursed problem that you have us all suffer under then?

I am asking why we still need masks on public transit. Why not just let the mandate expire?

Oh because there is a pandemic going on.

[San Lumen]

I am asking why we still need masks on public transit. Why not just let the mandate expire?

Oh because there is a pandemic going on.

Why on public transit only at this point? What point does it serve when everywhere else has dropped it?

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

So whence the bloody accursed problem that you have us all suffer under then?

I am asking why we still need masks on public transit. Why not just let the mandate expire?

Because 22,094 people died between 27 Feb and now and y'all had 47 thousand new cases yesterday.

[San Lumen]

I am asking why we still need masks on public transit. Why not just let the mandate expire?

Because 22,000 people died between 27 Feb and now and y'all had 47 thousand new cases yesterday.

The CDC is no longer focused on cases. Other countries have done this too.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Because 22,000 people died between 27 Feb and now and y'all had 47 thousand new cases yesterday.

The CDC is no longer focused on cases. Other countries have done this too.

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[Vassenor]

Because 22,000 people died between 27 Feb and now and y'all had 47 thousand new cases yesterday.

The CDC is no longer focused on cases. Other countries have done this too.

So how do we define when the pandemic is over?

[San Lumen]

The CDC is no longer focused on cases. Other countries have done this too.

Yes this is called https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/cont ... rmat=1500w

Ok so you know more than the CDC now or they are wrong to you? What happened to listen to the experts?

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Yes this is called https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/cont ... rmat=1500w

Ok so you know more than the CDC now or they are wrong to you? What happened to listen to the experts?

Weren't you the one shouting that we should kill the experts if they disagreed with you?

[San Lumen]

Ok so you know more than the CDC now or they are wrong to you? What happened to listen to the experts?

Weren't you the one shouting that we should kill the experts if they disagreed with you?

I never said anything of the sort.

[Antipatros]

Because 22,000 people died between 27 Feb and now and y'all had 47 thousand new cases yesterday.

The CDC is no longer focused on cases. Other countries have done this too.

Not true. They're less focused on cases, but cases are still a metric in how they calculate community levels.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html

[Deblar]

When did I ever imply that? All I meant was for them to remain in place until new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are under control, which they aren't right now.

It's impossible with that attitude.

What is the point of masks on transportation when its been dropped everywhere else?

This might be a shock to you but all viruses mutate. Covid is no different from any other pathogen in this regard.

Controlling the spread, duh. Just because it's been dropped everywhere else doesn't mean that masks should be dropped completely.

That doesn't justify not trying to limit the spread of COVID.