What’s worse is that if a rational conversation can’t even be had about this, how in the world can you have discussions about more nuanced topics?
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You’ve hit on it. Belief trumps (!) reason: couple that with power, political or civic, and here we are.
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Well, that escalated quickly. At least 4 cases as of now- in the whole country. So they shut shit down.
Meanwhile, in Florida, doubling down on death and dumbererer:
Florida Sheriff Orders Deputies And Staff Not To Wear Face Masks Florida Sheriff Orders Deputies And Staff Not To Wear Face Masks : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
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Oh shit. You beat me to it. Bravo!
Can you be sure you will never be closer to anyone than 6 feet once you leave your mask at home? No? Then wear one or bring it with you. As I saw elsewhere, imagine you have no trousers on but you want to wait as long as possible before putting them on…treat a mask the same way by putting it on when someone can see more of you than they should. Remember, it’s to protect others from you, not you from them.
I get far too many sheepish apologies, here in month 5 of the pandemic, from people who live in a city of 600,000 people and should know it’s entirely likely they will see someone closer than 6 feet. And every one of them I see means one more day the rest of us have to wear the damn things.
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And visitors to the sheriff’s department are also forbidden to wear them, according to the article.
I had my first mask harangue the other day. Some stranger started yelling at me some crazy hypothesis that when an American wears a mask, the Muslims win. Apparently there’s a conspiracy theory circulating that the mask requirement is something that al-Qaeda cooked up to make everyone wear niqaab.
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At some point, complete lunacy and pure unbridled insanity was embraced fully, and soon they will be incapable of rational thought ever again.
These people believed Hillary was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a DC pizza parlor’s basement.
That alone is fucking nuts, but the place HAD NO BASEMENT.
If they can believe that- there is literally nothing they won’t.
They’re so stupid, belief in QAnon should be classified a malignant communicable neurosis formally in medical journals. You can’t manufacture this level of stupid- I’m convinced it’s literal brain disease because nothing else comes close to explaining it
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lead/arsenic/heavy metals poisoning from idustrial/agricultural/frakking pollution to the water supply?
brain rot due to the reversal of water and air protection to further push industry/ag/fossil fuels to greater and greater destructive practice has to have real consequences, does it not?
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Let’s just say if we could actually demonstrably prove that, the ramifications would be fascinating and horrifying for all of history.
This has been the single strangest and most frightening year I have ever seen alive
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Absolutely, but I suspect if the son is still associating with that human, that would be a difficult situation. I’m reasonably sure the yelling fool would be even more abusive to his own family.
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True, although I’m having great difficulty imagining anyone that’s not an entitled angry white person like this fool yelling at people in public like this. (That said, it seems like a better option would be for the store to deal with him, with the best case ending in a ban.)
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Fair point, though there’s assholes in every demographic.
I’m just saying that no matter what the problem is, “calling the police” is always gonna be my dead last option - non-humorous pun fully intended.
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I wonder what the conversation was once Big Daddy settled down, and had his brain back in order.
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That assumes he ever did, and had. Which is far from certain.
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There are a lot of deniers here in KY, sadly, because we have been so very lucky with the numbers. That said, we broke over 1000 cases a day this week. Reality will be setting in soon.
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One of the people I supervise at work is, despite being reasonable and rational in most other ways, a COVID denier. His stated position is that he doesn’t believe all the statistics being reported. I haven’t dug deeper on why he doesn’t believe 150,000 Americans are dead because I am his manager and work is not really the place for that. But it disturbs me to no end and I have to change the subject when he brings it up.
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The few coworkers I have who are like that believe it is simply that listing covid-positive on your death certificate means you get counted as a covid death, regardless of why you really died. Run over by a car, suicide, died of cancer, whatever, they think all the normal deaths are being counted as covid deaths if the person tests positive.
P.S. I work at a hospital.
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Ugh. The dark thing about that is that (as you no doubt know) COVID deaths are being underreported for that reason. Comorbidities like COVID-triggered cardiac events resulting in death are not being counted as COVID deaths, from what I’ve read.
Also thank you for working in a hospital. Folks like you are the heroes in all this.
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I know a guy who lives on a pot farm up on salt sprin Island off the Vancouver coast.
He doesn’t believe covid is real. Although he’s not left the farm in literally 40 years. So I feel he really doesn’t have a position of understanding the world in general.
Found a pot farm when he was 20, and never left.
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Not even for Twinkies, or Funyuns?
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