I can assure you, COVID-19 doesn’t give a shit about your politics.
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Now Memorial Day Weekend.
And Dems were proposing social distancing and PPE-- 75 days ago.
No one on the wear-a-fecking-mask side of the divide thought it political first week of March.
Stupid, stupid Rs.
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I’d expect that, too.
As I have been posting since February, the “masks are not useful, save them for heath workers” line was a complete and total lie when told. But Trump had so badly fucked up the PPE situation that when we got hit, had they said “wear a mask” their would have been (a) panic, and (b) what few masks we had would have been sucked out of the health care system. Without them, every health care worker would have gotten sick and the medical system would have crashed.
It was just another Trump lie, but for a purpose. Unfortunately Trump and his band of incompentents did not use the time to ramp up supplies of PPE.
I have been wearing a mask on airplanes since January, and in stores and indoor places since the first reports of community spread in late February. And I was using hand disinfecting wipes and my phone soap as of early February. So I was an early adopter.
But, I think we need to be honest about what really happened, masks are vital, people were lied to, and like the head start in January/February, Trump’s incompetent group of girfters blew away the time he tried to gain by lying about mask wearing in March.
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This is a good news. It suggests some “compromise” on the issue of reopening the economy, in that it’s a break from “we don’t need no stinkin’ masks.” And indicates that maybe GOPers like Scott may, just may, wish to pay attention to their citizens vs their sponsors. Too partisan??
Not convinced of the lie part. I think there was some issue of masks for public. Or face coverings, which is the less loaded term now. I was convinced by a powerful vid by a NYC ER doc early on who said that great reason to wear a mask is to keep you from touching your face. That convinced me b/c I was pretty convinced that not touching face when possibly exposed was important. Mask, wash, disinfect hands, you’ll probably be okay, he said.
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I was in two stores today. Trader Joes, where the clientele would be expected to be more inclined to wear a mask - and it felt safe there with my 80 year old mom. Home Depot, a different story. Plenty of folks that obviously didn’t give a crap about my, or my mom’s safety. Not going there any more. My local hardware store won’t let you in without a mask. And they enforce the rules. So I’m patronizing places that don’t see masks as optional.
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Branson is getting ready to open and they may not require visitors to wear masks. Talk about a hot spot, you will be able to see the cloud of viruses from space.
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When the Repubs stop supporting law suits from business owners against Dem guvs, I’ll be impressed. Covid-19 is a natural disaster just like any other natural disaster - you don’t sue your fellow citizens because you can’t immediately reopen your business after a major earthquake or flood.
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I have to go to Dallas this week for medical & family business - anxiety squared.
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We are doing the same with local grocery stores. Several of them have been taking the necessary measures to protect their employees and customers. The one we used the most in the past isn’t doing much and we will probably not go back to shopping there when this is over. I hope retailers realize that some significant number of customers will remember how they dealt (or didn’t deal) with this crisis. They can’t survive if the MAGATs are the only ones shopping there.
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Based on what I’ve read, I want to ask why they don’t have a field hospital deployed there?
two-faced Mike DeWine
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Truth seeps in. Gradually. As the pandemic spreads into Republican areas.
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We go to Trader Joe’s about once a week. We go early, because we’ree old enough to qualify for the old people’s hours. The store isn’t very crowded, but even so it’s not possible to stay 6 feet apart, and people don’t. Indeed, I’m not going to wait several minutes for some other person to stop doddering in front of a display of dried fruit before I swoop in to get what I need. (Where I live, wearing a mask is mandatory, and food stores cannot let shoppers in without masks.)
Inevitably, the discipline will fray. A big question will be whether masks are effective enough to stanch the spread of the virus as that happens.
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I say let those businesses know that you won’t be shopping there anytime soon if they are either lacking a mandatory mask policy or not stringently enforcing one. And that includes the business calling out and ejecting, as needed, people who have a mask on but where they forgot to cover their nostrils! I have noted that several times here in San Francisco. If enough people do this the retail businesses may listen. It’s all about money for some of them.
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The judge called the law a “pay-to-vote system.”
Undoubtedly, DeSantis will appeal.
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And this is why we all should be able to get N95 masks, not just face coverings. Since there are people in our midst who will not reliably wear some form of face covering, we need to protect ourselves as well as protecting others. That is where the N 95 masks are superior. Even here in liberal SF I’d say the number of people on the street wearing some form of face coverings is about 25 to 33%.
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