Armed checkpoints appear along Ontario border
(www.americanuckradio.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (26)
sorted by:
Absolutely nothing about this 'pandemic' makes sense. Why are infections used as the metric rather than deaths? Why are some areas having little to no difficulty with this virus? Why is Texas doing so well post mask mandate but states that have locked down for the better part of 2 years never improve?
I'll give you my totally theoretical opinion on Texas (from living in TX) and other states in similar situations. Let me preface this with a couple other opinions to give my perspective--I think masks provide zero value in anything but the most limited and controlled situations and I do think the vaccines are effective, albeit not worth the risk for a large chunk of the population. Also, I live in a middle of the road politically suburban area of a decent size metro.
See the thing in Texas is we barely ever had a lockdown and what we did lasted about a month at best. Even then people were going out and getting take out, hanging out at parks, etc. I rarely saw a mask at any point during the lockdown period. This was roughly April-May 2020. After that, it felt pretty normal. There were some capacity restrictions that spread restaurants around a bit and that's about it. Masks still weren't a thing. This lasted through the end of June. In July came the mask mandate. It was generally well complied with even in the rural areas in my experience. The thing is, it was really just walking around stores, waiting to get seated at restaurants, things like that. We aren't waiting in lines to get in places, no one gives a shit about the one way arrows and crap, it's just put on magic face napkin and go about your business.
Essentially what I'm getting at is outside of large ticketed events and face diapers in some scenarios, people have still been hanging out at restaurants, in their yard, at parks, etc. Particularly the healthy and low risk people. There's no checkpoints on the road, no one cares why you're out, the only thing you will get really is whiny employees at stores over face condoms. These healthy people get the virus, get over it easily, and gain immunity. It's exactly what Martin Kuldorff proposes to deal with this--let the young and healthy build up the herd immunity naturally. Add in the vaccination for the higher risk, and here we are today. In other places, these young and healthy have been locked up for 9 months now.
You guys seemed to handle it exactly how we did North of the Red River. Has it been as weird for you as it has for me seeing people cry about lockdowns the last year and nearly forgetting about a 'pandemic' until you go online or see the news?
The thing is though, according to everything the experts are saying states like ours should be hotbeds of covid but we're not and the states that are shouldn't be. That's the real issue I was drawing attention to.
I'd say sort of on not noticing the pandemic. There's plenty of times it doesn't feel like it, but a couple older really high risk members of my family got it along with the fact that most of my friends have families and I'm on my own, so when it came to social things they picked their family over me and one extra person wasn't worth the risk to them. So in a way it's been a bit rough for me. But yeah, I can walk over to the neighborhood park or whatever and see kids playing on the playground and such and no one even bothers to acknowledge a pandemic.