kungfoodude

The platforms evolved to actually fug with your brain chemistry. It is fuging disturbing. I only keep Facebook around for beer/bourbon related groups. If that vanished tomorrow, so would my FB account.

There would be less than 1% of the human population left.

Twitter is just the continuation of having complete freedom to communicate to the world, while reducing human interaction to it's most disturbing elements. Social media is a net negative. I have literally said that for years. All the way back to the MySpace days. It was cool and fun at one time but it was also really easy to see how it would end up and it fulfilled my expectations and then some.

Perhaps that is the case, perhaps not. Too many unknowns. We'll have a much better idea in 2-10 years. The mask is an inconvenience. People just need to get over it.

Part of that is they are trying to account for lack of full information. Some of it is just they way that study/group/person decided to estimate. That is why I don't really get upset at some of the ranges of estimates based on the best available data. It is what it is.

They way they are counting Rona deaths is not drastically different than other disease outbreaks. I realize we live in an information age but we really are not going to have 100% solid, indisputable evidence of EXACTLY who died from the virus. That isn't reasonable. There isn't some grand conspiracy, it's just that people don't understand how those numbers are gathered and what they sometimes mean. The media doesn't help by being as dumb or dumber than the people they are spraying information to.

Big shocker there. Kids are super spreaders of just about any illness that is easily spread by contact or hampered by simple hygiene.

So, outside the food trucks, just a bunch of insufferable twats, for the most part?

Now the bad news.... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-unemployment-rate-is-falling-but-more-people-are-losing-their-jobs-permanently/

That was literally a direct result of having a Republican super majority in the state. I remember that and saw that whole thing go down. That is really just the tip of the iceberg of what those robbers did to the citizens of the state. I am a moderate but I couldn't be further from the modern Republican party. As corrupt as the Democratic party is, they pale in comparison to the naked disdain the Republican party has for working people and small businesses.

That's cause everyone is huddled together inside to escape the 320 K temps.

I have worn Delta suits, bubble suits, PAPR's......it ain't that bad

We're saying the same thing. We have just normalized insanity.

In fairness we have been fuged for a long time and much longer than you've been alive. Look at it this way, you might just get to tell people you saw the end of it.

I believe that you believe math is fake. That checks out.

If you don't believe in math, sure.

Head in the sand politics at it's finest.

Here is some American exceptionalism for you, the US has roughly 4.3% of the world's population yet 25.7% of the Rona worldwide deaths and 25.8% of the worldwide Rona cases.

Well, they get to go see Jesus though. Isn't that what they all claim to want?

I have never had the flu vaccine. Just had the flu once in my life. I will probably start doing it when I get older and am at a higher risk.

I still believe that a good vaccine is going to lag significantly behind what people's expectations are. Hopefully I am wrong about that.

Mask usage in Detroit/Ann Arbor/Grand Rapids is pretty low. There are still places that require them to enter but the overall usage has dropped visibly in the past 3 weeks. As I said, people are just over it.

The temp checks are only relevant if you are running a fever and that is probably too late.