Dealing with COVID-19 in your hometown

[Will Guide 21,362]

@Dragon_Zhang

Right now I'm doing the weekend sign spinning job, with contact with other people being kept to a minimum. I've been doing my job since the end of July and so far no terrible effects are happening.

but maybe someday I'll be given the announcement to go safely back to work at Disneyland in California

[Lucky Bolt 35,070]

Honestly I'm glad I live in an area where masks and other ridiculous restrictions are not mandatory. I still go out and about just as much as I did before, if not more. I never followed lockdown lol., not that my town ever really went on a lockdown. I don't even worry myself about getting covid. Just getting really sick and tired of events and things being cancelled. 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,668]

My town is small and I don't get out much, but when I do I still try to remember to wear a mask and I have a bottle of hand sanitizer in my pocket at all times. Pretty simple stuff, not that hard to do. My county has only had like maybe 6 total cases but I won't take any chances. Willful ignorance is exactly why this has gotten completely out of hand in the first place. 

10 minutes ago, Lucky Bolt said:

masks and other ridiculous restrictions

I don't get how wearing a simple mask in a store and not getting super close to other people are both "ridiculous restrictions" but ooooooooooookay. Clearly a lot of people must agree with you though, with the whole "US leading the world in COVID cases and deaths" thing. 

[Splashee 28,566]

7 hours ago, ExplosionMare said:

I would dodge people anyways cause some people are really nasty but nowadays I get panicked if I bump into someone 

Okay, I actually dodge people anyways as well. It is just easier to blame it on the covid-19 😷

[Megas 27,742]

I always leave home with a mask, with the exception of going to work(if I forget to bring one), namely because they give one at the door and is required. Unfortunately there's still too many stupid people and businesses here. Gamestop only allows 9 people in the store at a time, yet there are people who feel the need to bring their entire families everywhere, and people can't even enter the building because some people just can't leave their families at home and feel the need to bring their families of six everywhere. Then there's also the fact that there are still people who don't want to where masks, and not everyone enforcing it. My town makes it a requirement, and Places like Best Buy and Gamestop still makes them a requirement but then there are places like Target still lollygaging about it, I still see a few people walking around the store without a mask and it's frustrating

[EpicEnergy 23,222]

Where I'm at we wear masks, social distance, and use hand sanitizer a lot.

[ToastedScone 397]

I'm still having to go to school and though I personally keep my mask on PERMANENTLY, a lot of my peers aren't so careful. I'm personally trying to be as safe as humanly possible but it feels like everyone around me isn't, rendering my attempts to lower cases so I can see my GF again completely moot. Not to be a negative Nancy, but I cannot STAND these anti-mask, anti-Covid people; I just want to see the one person I miss most.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

On 9/15/2020 at 10:33 PM, Lucky Bolt said:

Honestly I'm glad I live in an area where masks and other ridiculous restrictions are not mandatory. I still go out and about just as much as I did before, if not more. I never followed lockdown lol., not that my town ever really went on a lockdown. I don't even worry myself about getting covid. Just getting really sick and tired of events and things being cancelled. 

at least you're thankful for your freedoms there in florida (here we kinda went full retard and in the west of scotland we're in near complete lockdown)
I've been forced to follow some restrictions thankfully I was elegible for an exemption card, cause otherwise I could get fined up to 10k pounds (around 13.350 US Dollars), though my mum and step-dad are quite strict with following the restricitons (but they like the government and think it can do no wrong, i mean atleast they let me leave the house to go out with friends)

Like we're all (reasonably) healthy, and just don't go out of your way, when it's a new strain of the flu

[Cl0udChaser 3,006]

I live in a small town area and I don't leave the house very often. Some stores you don't need to where mask.

[Envy 6,178]

My town's board just rejected a mask mandate by a wide margin. For shame. The people in my town can not even be expected to take the most minor of precautions to care about other people. I'm so sick of this, it's so disgusting. It will not be anywhere near okay until we're all vaccinated, and how many of these anti-maskers also won't get the vaccine because "personal freedom"? **** them. Seriously. Care about other people for once in your ****ing life.

Edited November 25, 2020 by Envy

[Jesse Terrence 2,969]

People in Mexico are dumb as fuck regarding Covid. I even predicted the first 2 regrows with precision (October for the first, which happened, March for the next one, which has already been predicted a few days ago by the country's health secretary).

You see, religion is a thing that drives a lot of people around here, and that makes it really hard for health authorities to keep these imbeciles on place. Churches don't want to close as they should and you can see weddings and messes happening everyday. People also believe the virus is a lie and understimate how severe can the desease be. Then there's how normie and plain stupid people is and how they go all "but muh vacations!" and they YOLO and go to crowded beaches. Is like if they couldn't stay home for a couple months. FUUUUCK. They have goddamn netflix and some even bought ps4s, how can't they just stay home using all that digital entertainment?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,989]

 

On 11/25/2020 at 10:39 AM, Jesse Terrence said:

You see, religion is a thing that drives a lot of people around here, and that makes it really hard for health authorities to keep these imbeciles on place. Churches don't want to close as they should and you can see weddings and messes happening everyday. People also believe the virus is a lie and understimate how severe can the desease be. Then there's how normie and plain stupid people is and how they go all "but muh vacations!" and they YOLO and go to crowded beaches. Is like if they couldn't stay home for a couple months. FUUUUCK. They have goddamn netflix and some even bought ps4s, how can't they just stay home using all that digital entertainment?

Mexico are lucky that masses are still being held, here in Scotland churches have been banned from opening, no masses from MARCH
I hope that the lord protects countries and regions that were anti lockdown

[Jesse Terrence 2,969]

11 minutes ago, Sherbie-kun <3 said:

ok, even changing it to have the cases from 14 days ago (which would be 858.012 total cases, not 234k) it's still around 2%

and still a 0,08% death rate of the whole population

Mexico are lucky that masses are still being held, here in Scotland churches have been banned from opening, no masses from MARCH
I hope that the lord protects countries and regions that were anti lockdown

Ah, blinded by religion, are we?

You ask too much from the product of the collective imaginary.

You see, is masses where most people get the virus (in this country, at least). Wouldn't surprise me if this was one of Yaveh's sick jokes, though. Let's remember genocides seem to be a leit motif in "God's plan".

Mexico isn't lucky about having the biggest enterprice in the world dissobeying basic health measures, imo.

Edited November 25, 2020 by Jesse Terrence

[DubWolf 17,305]

Disappointed in it all, but a minor bit of impressiveness that my city is 7th place in my state in cases even tho it's the 4th largest  (behind even El Freaking Paso). Go us... ish.

Without saying anything out of hand, things would be better if we had more local power that wasn't stripped away.. Thankfully yes, there's a mask mandate (a pretty decent, lenient one but still falls short). Some restaurants need to be trimmed much more. 25% tops. There's the argument I read in a recent article that people will "decide with their wallets"...

Unfortunately, while I do like the idea of personal choices, your freedom ends where someone else's starts. You think all those nurses are happy that they have to deal with so much death? So many people flooding the hospitals? Shortage of PPE? Medical workers have died being exposed to it so long. They can choose to quit (what a very realistic choice). I'm sure people who chose not to be careful enough won't be happy dealing with the consequences when there's not enough people there to take care of them (there already isn't). They don't get to decide who to help based on their choices; they just do. They have to. No freedom there, just because some people couldn't.

Nevermind the death rate; hospitals are objectively past their limits. Just see El Paso. Things are not in control.

Ranted a bit  . Tried to be objective.

Edited November 25, 2020 by WWolf

[BornAgainBrony 2,398]

3 hours ago, Sherbie-kun <3 said:

Florida has a less than 2% death rate of all cases, and out of the ENTIRE population of florida, a death rate of... 0,08%

America also had one of the lowest death rates in ww2, with around 300k

countries with restrictions have had a higher death/cases ratio, so no, it's not in the best interest
and most countries that had the worst restrictions seek control of the people  (of couse not all, but definetly the overall majority)

On average, the deaths in the U.S. from the flu each year number somewhere between 20-60K.

U.S. deaths from COVID-19 has already surpassed 200K, and we haven't even seen what it does in winter.

[ToastedScone 397]

13 hours ago, ToastedScone said:

I'm still having to go to school and though I personally keep my mask on PERMANENTLY, a lot of my peers aren't so careful. I'm personally trying to be as safe as humanly possible but it feels like everyone around me isn't, rendering my attempts to lower cases so I can see my GF again completely moot. Not to be a negative Nancy, but I cannot STAND these anti-mask, anti-Covid people; I just want to see the one person I miss most.

Only a few hours after this post, there was a confirmed case in my year and we're all quarantining for two weeks...irony is an odd thing

[SparklingSquirrels 21,348]

I don’t keep track of cases but I’m so glad I got an essential job (cashier); it’s been doing wonders for my mental health. I get to talk to strangers and my coworkers all day and even get paid to do so  

[Will Guide 21,362]

So far I have yet to meet anybody who's affected by COVID-19.

if anything the problem with my family right now is that my stepmother broke her arm because the bathtub is too high for her to climb in and she tripped. And dad has been forced to stay home all month long to help her. 

And thankfully my weekend job involves sign spinning, where thankfully not many people come close to where I stand for 5 hours on Saturday and Sunday. And I always been sure to carry around hand sanitizer and wear my mask. When I'm done with my mask I put it in the space next to my car seat so wherever I drive in my car I have my mask nearby

[Rainbow Cloud 18,246]

I live in a small town in the North West of England though haven't really been keeping track of the cases in the town I live but I don't really go into the town or the shops much and would wear a mask if I did. For exercise I mostly head out into the countryside where there's less people and more open space. The area I'm in (Eden, Cumbria) was in Tier 1 of the restrictions in England (the least bad one) before the country was put in national lockdown again and will be in Tier 2 when the lockdown is released on the 2nd December, though hardly any areas are going to be in Tier 1.

Edited November 26, 2020 by Rainbow Cloud

[Tao 7,917]

We have had a spike in MI and also in the city I call home,  given still a lot of ppl are acting like covo is not a real thing.  I've been having coworkers getting it and etc.

[Megas 27,742]

On 11/25/2020 at 9:24 AM, Sherbie-kun <3 said:

 

Mexico are lucky that masses are still being held, here in Scotland churches have been banned from opening, no masses from MARCH
I hope that the lord protects countries and regions that were anti lockdown

There's plenty of examples of preachers actually trying to be responsible with this stuff. Usually holding mass via Zoom, or even having outdoor mass with everyone in their cars. Unfortunately those are the exception and not the norm, with most not even bothering following guidelines

[Fluttershutter 2,504]

Well I know I'm asking for trouble but I had an incident and I'm filled with impotent rage at the moment so I wanted to put up a quote from the New England Journal of Medicine:

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We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I've been fine with the whole COVID thing. I barely left home before the world ended, so I'm used to it.

[zerox 1,135]

It's been about a month since the start of the lockdown. Not essential stores, restaurants, fitness, schools are closed. Public transportation has been suspended, leaving your municipality without a good reason is also forbidden.

Edited November 29, 2020 by zerox