Yowee! Damn near every one of the moron anti-vaxxers posting in that thing started out denying they’re anti-vaxxers. That display of an incredible lack of familiarity with even the most basic bit of science taught in elementary school made me shudder.
If you say anything along those lines, they will call you a coronadoomer and your comment will get downvoted to -60 points. 
That’s a badge of honor, according to that crowd, isn’t it?
Ignore him. All you need is a quorum. We’ve been meeting via WebEx since March. Tuesday will be our third Webex meeting.
How to conduct our required, annual meeting is tricky, though. It looks like we’re going to miss it.
I like your style.
I don’t think anyone mentioned in this thread the story of this unnamed guy, who refused to wear a mask in Costco, “because [he] woke up in a free country”. The Costco employee who confronted him took the customer’s cart away and told him that he was not welcome in the store.
I got this email from a distant relative of my late mother’s yesterday. He is a card-carrying trumpanista and was a Hillary hater from the get-go (“You libruls believe the sun shines out of her ass!” :mad:) We’re not in touch much and when we are, the conversation can’t go anywhere near politics. However, the content of this email was completely over the top and blew my mind. Those of you who have friends/relatives in this camp will no doubt recognize the themes. :rolleyes: (All misspellings and formatting are his.)
“I don’t understand how many people don’t see, or want to believe, what is happening around them.” Right. :rolleyes:
No mention of the disease, the need for safety, the fact that people in his age group (late 60s with multiple health issues) are especially at risk. This rage directed at attempting to keep people safe is waaaay beyond my comprehension. The leap from “I’m depressed over this lockdown” to an accurate description of uneven (and sometimes illogical) application of lockdown rules to Scripted Socialist Agenda and “It’s a political tool and our rights are being destroyed” is as wide as the Grand Canyon in my world view. Do people like him believe that the 1.5 million people who have CV are mistaken, lying? What about the 328,000 who have died? Are they not really dead?
“One World Socialist Government”??? Holy fuck. :smack:
I’m not going to reply, although I’ve been dying to ask him one question up until yesterday when I got this rant. Now there’s no need to, because I can surmise the answer. The question: "Do you REALLY think Hillary would have been worse?
Oh, this HOA thing is such a clusterfuck. One guy reluctantly agreed to a in-person meeting as long as everyone wore masks, because he’s high risk. Then Mr. Phone Meetings Are Too Inconvenient announced rather aggressively that he didn’t have a mask. I offered to bring extras, we’ll see how this goes down.
There’s no way we can open the pools. Frankly, I’m not particularly concerned about the COVID risk - I’m more concerned about homeowners getting into confrontations over social distancing and other rules ( new rules setting time limits and limiting guests and children).
If 7 people can’t work out the rules without confrontation there’s no way to make the rules work for an HOA as large as ours, which covers about 350 single family homes and 500 rental apartments.
Our president just did pretty much the same thing during his visit to that Ford plant. Kept his mask in a pocket.
This is from a Reddit thread. This happened in Canada.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/go1870/neighbour_is_purposely_trying_to_catch_covid_from/
I’m not at all surprised. This is why the idea of “immunity passports” (prior to a vaccine) is absolutely unworkable. If they introduce immunity passports, what this “crazy person” did starts to look perfectly sensible. If an immunity passport allows you to get back to a much more normal life when everyone else can’t, and your chance of dying yourself is small, many people would think it worth the risk to deliberately infect themselves. And, of course, any efforts to then self quarantine while they are infectious would not work perfectly, and there would be a spike in unintended infections too.
The school I teach at had a “drive through graduation parade” A bunch of teachers stood around with signs so kids and parents could drive through real slow and everyone could wave and see each other. A super-safe way to honor the gradates and give them at least a little bit of a ceremony.
After they drove through the “parade route” they apparently all parked and jumped out of the car to hug each other and take pictures. Which I understand in a lot of ways—months ago they were abruptly cut off from each other–but lord, it sort of undid the whole point of everything we’ve given up.
If you read that Reddit thread, it’s mentioned that the neighbor woman has a small child, so she’s risking exposing her child to it.
That’s hilarious.
That’s hilarious. There are nine of us, and the reason we use Webex is because we’re almost completely affiliated with the same employer, who uses it as our remote meeting platform of choice. Working for the same employer also means that we’re highly engineering-oriented (we’re problem solvers), and share a lot of ideology (don’t be a crappy HOA). The downside is we all work full time, so progress can kind of be slow. Given that Commons maintenance and snow plowing eats about half of our $95 per year dues for 376 homes, financial constraints make things kind of slow, too. But at least we all get along!
Yes, this is unquestionably dangerous and selfish even if you live alone and try to isolate yourself, because you can’t know exactly how long you’re infectious for, you can’t possibly be certain you’re only risking your own health - you might need to be hospitalized. But immunity passports (without vaccination) would create a much stronger rationale for deliberate self-infection, would encourage reckless behavior on a widespread scale.
Trump’s promise of ‘Warp Speed’ fuels anti-vaccine movement in fertile corners of the Web
More covidiocy…
Well, this is a case of a wrong movement gaining a sheer/veneer of rightness to it. If the Covid vaccine is rushed, then indeed it could be more hazardous than a normal, well-vetted vaccine such as the season flu shot.
The benefits of the Covid vaccine still outweigh the risks, of course, but now they suddenly have something scientifically legit they can tout.
Some people are absolutely determined to be contrary no matter what. It’s part of their identity. They think it makes them superior.
Expert opinion and common knowledge are anathema to them.
I used to be contrarian, before it became so mainstream. Now I’m one of the few conformists.