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Miggs
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**** yes. I’d estimate he’s 5,000% worse than the normal individual.
Clearly a conclusion you can only reach through biased scrutiny.
Avery
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Even though the Utah case count was not good today, similar to the stock market, look at the trends vs. the dailies.
The weekend count is always lower. A rolling seven day average is a better indication of a trend line.
We are basically almost 14 days out from Mother’s Day and an increase in gatherings sustained will show that we are taking our foot off the gas at the wrong time. Hope it’s an anamoly, but judging by my errands today, decreased masks, packed splash pads and general ‘over it’ behavior means we will continue this slow bleed.
The weekend count is always lower. A rolling seven day average is a better indication of a trend line.
We are basically almost 14 days out from Mother’s Day and an increase in gatherings sustained will show that we are taking our foot off the gas at the wrong time. Hope it’s an anamoly, but judging by my errands today, decreased masks, packed splash pads and general ‘over it’ behavior means we will continue this slow bleed.
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MVP
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Meh.., it’s mostly a term to describe paranoid conspiracy theorists who think Covid is fake and government is out to get everybody via microchiped vaccine. And they were pointing to Sweden as example that no quarantine was needed in order to save economy. When in reality all neighbouring countries did way better. And Swedens lose approach did not save their economy either.
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I could be wrong but I think not wanting to be butchered by police because of your race might relate to safety.
Red
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I’ve been watching a lot of the demonstrations on cable. And I’ve noticed the subject seldom turns to the lack of Covid-19 precautions. Which, face it, the nature of angry and violent mobs pretty much precludes such precautions. But, I would not say “not a word” has been uttered on the subject. I have heard commentators discussing this. We’ll see what opening up, in whatever form, including riots, leads to. Certainly, the pool party in Missouri that became a focus for fear of Covid-19 spread brought the issue front and center. The demonstrations could easily do the same, but, overall, they have not. But, we will see if, weeks or however long from now, if there is an increase in cases in Minneapolis, Atlanta, etc., etc., etc. But, in fairness, I have heard some discussion of these demonstrations and Covid-19. Also, in fairness, the fact that it does not often come up has been noticeable to me. I do think it’s understandable, though, so I do think the tweet saying “it was never about your safety” is a disingenuous argument.
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Issues of systemic racism and police brutality egged on by Trump and his supporters supersede concerns of Covid for many people in this country.
This has been building for a while now. I mean we saw horrendous crimes of police brutality under Obama. Racism didn’t start or end with Obama or Trump. But I do think Trump’s “take our country back” and “MAGA” has pushed the emotions of many to a boiling point to where many just don’t care about covid at the moment. Even right now, the world’s loudest megaphone is practically begging for a civil war right now between his supporters and these protests.
Who’s going to care about covid as long as this is happening?
in some ways I wonder if trump thinks this helps him so it takes the focus away from covid and the economy?
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Red
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Everything you are saying here basically encapsulates the reasoning behind my statement “I do think it’s understandable” (that there has been little mention of these crowds and Covid-19), and the reason I found the statement “it was never about your safety” an inaccurate statement.
If the rates don’t increase, we can blame toppled infrastructure and a dispersement of protestors back to where they came from for the reasons of why rates didn’t increase.
I’m keeping you two weeks ahead of the narrative here and you can bookmark this.
“The cities are in shambles and can’t appropriately test and people don’t feel safe getting tested, and the rest of the protestors weren’t from the immediate area anyway, so another failed attempt to spike the football.” [/2-3 weeks from now]