Re: Now, From TT grad
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:48 pm
gostangs wrote:malonish wrote:EastStang wrote:There are exceptions to every rule. What was the woman's body weight index? Did she have pre-existing asthma or respiratory ailments? Did she have pre-existing heart abnormalities? Did she have a compromised immune system? Yes, wear a mask as a courtesy to others. I put it in the same category of saying "please" and "thank you". Don't have to do it, but its the respectful thing to do. As far as keeping things shut down. 22 European countries are opening public schools. The economy is built on production and sales, we cannot sustain indefinite lockdowns. Imagine communities like Tuscaloosa, Starkesville, Tallahassee, Gainesville, College Station, or Lubbock without college football. That would be a huge hit to those economies. Imagine those communities if the Universities went to on-line only? They'd be ghost towns. So, shutting down universities and college football is a big deal. For the AAC, not as much, many of the teams are located in major metropolitan areas, SMU, Memphis, UCF, USF, Navy, Temple, Tulane, Houston and are playing second fiddle to pro sports and those cities would survive without college students for a semester.
Here's the hospital news release. You want her to be fat but she isn't. If she had a pre existing condition for immune system she would have had a mask. Self preservation is a mutha-deleted.
https://medicalcityhealthcare.com/about/newsroom/covid-19-patient-discharged-after-79-days?location=medical-city-north-hills
You wanna talk to me about the fit AF, healthy people that I have 2 degrees of friend separation from that died from COVID in their 20s and 30s? We can talk about them too but you aren't gonna like it.
Other countries are opening because they didn't botch the response. We did on ALL sides of the aisle. Japan never closed because they wore masks at such a rate that they had few deaths. Wearing a mask is not a sign of politeness. On the contrary not wearing a mask in public is a sign of disdain and lack of respect for your fellow man. Comparing it to saying please and thank you as if one of the random times you aren't overly respectful to someone they get ill, possibly dead or with long term damage and hardship. Get real. I applaud the governor for finally getting his head out of his nethers and requiring masks.
Get ready for a second shutdown when the Florida Man mentality continues to spread as quick as COVID already is. All because "muh freedoms" when asked to do some real minimum "stuff"(censored lol) that would go a long way to help the economy recover. If people wear their masks and exercise caution then we won't keep prolonging the first wave of this disease like we are and everywhere else isn't.
FYI Further reading on states rights to mandate things in a pandemic: Jacobson v. Massachusetts, U.S. Supreme Court (1905)
By the way - the only European country with a better (i.e. lower ) fatality rate than the US is Portugal. Its debatable who has handled it best measured by the most important statistic.
Actually, that only means that the USA has better doctors. Most European countries have had much lower rates of infection and much lower death totals. Greece with a population of ~10 million has had 194 total deaths. Germany with a population of ~84 million has had 9,160 total deaths. Even if you multiply by the appropriate factor to account for population differences USA still is much worse than many if not most in Europe. France is worse as are a few others I'm sure.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... #countries