Same, though, I watch myself for falling into the “It’s hurting the wrong people” trap.
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Too little, too late, too stupid.
These governors seem to think they were elected by reasonable thinking people…Now that’s funny!
But it is.
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So baffling to me. I was raised (70s and 80s) to belt up EVERY single time you get in the car to go anywhere. Parents picked vehicles with safety (and fuel economy - hence the diesel Peugeots) in mind.
It has been a reflex for nearly 40 years, and has saved my life more than once.
Dad was an engineer by trade, and a car guy since childhood. But the reason was he had a car accident in college, an ice cream cone roll crash one winter night that absolutely mangled the car but left him with a few bruises, thanks to the primitive seatbelt. (He later helped design centrifuges.)
I sometimes hop in the car for a second to grab something and can’t get out until I unbelt.
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Also wonder how much higher the casualty rate would be among medical workers who had trouble getting PPE as it was.
Suppose instead that 50% of the deaths were nurses, doctors, PAs, radiologists, pulmonary therapists and EMTs.
How many healthcare personnel are left today in that scenario? How many hospitals have to shut down because they can’t staff them?
It certainly looks as though CDC/HHS and WHO et Al, should have been promoting face coverings of some kind.
But at the time I don’t think it was known that anything short of ñ95(sic) would be effective.(It is)
And it was known that we had supply and manufacturing deficits.
Poor prior preparation established the range of choices available.
The best way to protect medical workers is for the public to not get sick. Even a kerchief reduces transmission significantly.
As for what was known before Covid, in many East Asian countries people wear face coverings during flu season or if they have even a mild cold. Those places have all done better in this pandemic than most places in the West.
I’m a Democrat and didn’t vote for Charlie Baker. He is doing a great job, thorough and thoughtful and based on science and data.
It probably helps that Massachusetts is an overwhelmingly Democratic state, so the culture is supportive.
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By Tuesday they will be back to being against masks.
Depends what some dipfuck says on Twitter, doesn’t it?
They have to get the MAGA to cooperate first. Never going to happen.
Hey, mask deniers…
You know when you go outside…?
You’re just in a bigger room.
Did Rick Scott defraud Medicare out of that mask he is wearing?
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I’ve worked in auto safety for the last 15 years, and now – I know too much. Wearing your seat improves crash outcomes for occupants by a lot. My come-to-Jesus happened in high school, senior year (1974) when a new girl, who turned heads in the hall with her beauty and the air of scandal (she was rumored to have been kicked out of a parochial school), died in a car crash with her boyfriend. That well pierced my bubble of invulnerability. I thought, if God could take that girl, there was nothing stopping him from taking little old me. Wore a seat belt ever since. (My dad was an engineer and a car guy, too. Problem was: he was in love with the slant-six, so a lot of old Dodge Darts in our driveway!)
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