“She likes to: leave me alone”

To the people saying that can’t be an eleven year old’s handwriting: you’re right, Saint West is four years old. That is classic kindy teacher handwriting. And I don’t think I’ve ever read anything sadder than a four year old thinking his mother likes ‘leaving him alone’. Saint may not be shading KKW but I bet his kind…

So Many historical New Orleanian KKKKarens in that clip. SO MANY.

I can’t get over how...... not that old Ruby Bridges is. This just happened. 

bs.  We are seeing rising numbers, and IDs and experts are saying this is all still the first wave.  We slowed it in 6 states, only six met requirements to reopen.  Now it will surge in some states, then come back in the states that are now reopening.  Yes it was meant to break the curve and flaten it, it was also to…

And the part they’re not saying is that opening up and the associated sickness and death will also cause an economic collapse, likely worse than a second lock down. After that, the local and state people will then go, “My bad” and hope we all forget this was manageable but they fucked it all up.

If someone refuses a vaccine and gets the disease it prevents, we’re allowed to point, laugh, and say “serves you right, dumbass, now if you survive, you’ll learn, won’t you? And if you don’t, one less idiot in the world.”

It’s a lose-lose situation honestly. Unless the government wills tep up and pay people enough to actually survive on and cut back payments for EVERYTHING where possible.

Except the cinching back down is not going to happen. Leaving aside the looney federal administration, even most of the best of state and local administrations are so terrified of economic impacts they will keep eliminating the constraints in order to fend of economic collapse.

The other purposes of the lockdowns were to decrease the overall case numbers and allow states or the feds to come up with real test-and-trace policies so that once things re-open targeted quarantines of the exposed could be done effectively. None of that has happened, so we will get more spikes everywhere and a…

It wasnt just to not get the hospitals overloaded but also to control the spread. At least that was the tactic here in Germany.

You want to get to the point that you can trace back the infected so you can limit the areas you have to put under quarantine. That you can test as effective as possible because the area is…

Unfortunately, we have the exact wrong person in charge of the national response. If only we could’ve known that it would be better to have a president who’s smart and good at stuff...

The issue I take with you statement is that no-one had to risk going homeless except for our idiotic policies. It was a choice made for us by the top end of government that has zero empathy or ability to understand how normal people live. The fact that anyone thought a one time $1200 payment would do anything is plain…

“We can’t let people go homeless because they’re out of work (or can’t run their own businesses) because they’re being locked down.”

And yet... had we done what other countries done and froze mortgage payments, credit card payments, car payments, and supplied people with money to live through robust social safety net,…

But it buys you more time to fix the pipe with less of a risk of bursting.

I think my manager put it best today when he said that reopening is “letting the monkey out of the cage, and we’ll never be able to get it back in.” If cases start spiking again in the Fall like the experts are expecting, we already know the fallout from a lockdown situation, and most people (read: idiots, and folks…

hospitals aren’t back to pre-corona levels. One hospital in my system (the biggest one) is already overflowing into a surge state and another is ready to do the same. We’re worse off in “yellow” than we were in “orange”. Granted that was to be expected, but only by people using their brains. The ones actually causing…

Except there was a fix for the pipe: planning and organization that, say, might have allowed to slowly turn off the water, or plan on who would use it certain times so it could be left at a trickle...

I completely agree with that. Opening is needed but not “open the flood gates” opening. Here in MA we’ve been doing it slowly and it’s still very well under control.

But I think that’s the point of how stupid our lack of a national response is. We’re seeing places open up to insane degrees. No longer requiring masks and distancing, even.