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Ahhhhh, surprise. He's still virtue signaling.
Alas, life goes on.
Nahhh, virtue signaling is what the guys standing behind Biden today did. Or Luke Decock, who still has his twitter account with his mask on, lol. Telling you and 20 other guys who've already made up their minds on a private board is more having fun, than anything.
Hahahaha. Bragging about going out to eat with a mask is TOTALLY not virtue signaling. You do you. Lol.
I'd call it mocking those like you who think its harmful to their development and cry about it endlessly like someone took away their livelihoods with it. Hey, at least you can still make it thru an NC State game now!
The petty tyrants will try to force masks back on outdoor events here eventually, it's just a matter of time.
Well why didn't they do that all summer then? When baseball, soccer and basketball tournaments were going on all over the country? Why did they ever remove them last spring to begin with?
Maybe because things changed?
Look, the masking just doesn't bother me. Now, to your point, if they start making things close. Shutting stuff down or enforcing policies that make games go away, etcI'd be right there with you screaming about over-extending.
Yeah great, but it won't matter because the precedent has already been set if someone somewhere comes up with a scary-sounding "study." That's why it was important to fight lockdowns and "essential business" designations last year.
Just like all of these policies, they start in the blue-est areas and spread to slightly less blue areas once someone enacts them, regardless of community spread or any pretense of science. It's politics, always has been.
Already happening in California.
Edit: Oh yeah, the federal mask mandate ended in the first place because the Biden administration was having a bad week of news cycles, not due to any objective metric.
Requiring masks at outdoor events in LA -- however silly -- is not the same as shutting businesses.
Look, last week, we had people here scared Cooper was going to shut down HS football and make us wear masks to NC State games. That didn't happen.
And I just don' see it as likely....at some point, this current wave will burn itself out, just because there arent enough unvaccinated people to keep spreading. And the next wave will hopefully have even less unvaccinated people to fester in.....
So you're saying the unvaxxed are going to find their immunity one way or the other and finally the greatest political ally of the blues will ironically be less effective and we can stop whining about masks?? Sounds great.
Yes. If all the energy spent whining about fighting mask mandates was spent convincing the unvaccinated, this would eventually become a mostly non-event.
What are we atstill 90% hogging the ICUs and interrupting your livelihood are unvaccinated, right?
So why spend any energy at all on ineffective mask mandates which will further alienate some of the populace you are trying to reach instead of spending energy on vaccinations?
Mask mandates are divisive and have not shown to have had a significant impact. But instead we are going to kowtow to a new breed of germaphobes who need a security blanket instead of focusing efforts in areas that might actually make a difference.
You already have those people in your corner...
Fair question....look, I think mask mandates are silly, other than in particular environments like an airplane. Enacting them, then allowing maskless in churches is even more silly, considering I'm much more tightly packed at my church than I am at Target or HT or a restaurant. I choose to comply because in my mind, it is a respect thing, and if my wearing a mask somehow prevents one person from being impacted, thats a win to me. (and, it causes me no REAL discomfort)
If you want to complain about why ______ implemented a mask mandate, thats fine. But if people REALLY choose not to improve the likelihood of they and their loved ones remaining healthy by getting a vaxx becaue the government told them too.....well, holy crap, how stupid is that?
The only I realistically think is reasonable there would be for black people who were scarred by Tuskegee. But some of the folks I know who are still holding out have no valid reasoning like that --- they have had nearly perfect upbringings living in relative luxury (compared to any previous standard of living in the US or world), access to pretty much anything they could ever want, and have never been "harmed" by government actions....even if Fox, Rush, and others have told them differently).