Sigh.

You better bring wearing a mask when you did that sigh.

I am. It makes me look like the Lone Ranger.

lotta knuckleheads ignore the "wear a mask orders" and local law enforcement have publicly said they won't enforce them...knuckleheads threatened the life of an Orange County Public Health Director who was proposing to mandate masks, so she resigned...

we haven't really practiced EVERYBODY wearing a mask in CA...

then the Gov caved to pressure from the knuckleheads to re-open, and they all jumped into the bars and had parties: no masks and no distancing as was recommended in the re-opening guidelines

and here we are ...with higher numbers than before, and the largest number of infected under 40 (knuckleheads)

TW doesn't wear masks... he sprays everyone he sees... prolly leaves boogers on door handles too... 😟

🤒

watda?

Actually the infection rate in New York is low 1.6% last time I checked. New Jersey is slightly higher. Illinois is about 2.7%. Most red states are high. There are a few outliers there also. Arizona 20.4%, Florida 14.2%, Texas 10.6%. The difference being? Prolly masks are one of the factors. Wear a mask, it will help keep the economy open.

Never understood popo publicly saying they wouldn’t enforce a law. I understand triage and pick battles but to step into the politics up front isn’t their place.

Based solely on the current positive test rate (not infection rate) it looks like NY and NJ were the best states at handling the ‘Rona. (If you ignore all the infections and deaths they’ve already had)

They maybe should have got masks back when we were told to not get masks.

You look at the wrong statistic. The rate of infecting has always been the important statistic. Rate of infection is population dependant. At this point nothing should be ignored. It should be attempted to be understood. But low infection percentage will keep the economy improving. The argument can been made that people don't care. I think Arizona would be a good example of that. Many people do care and will not patronize businesses that they don't feel relatively safe entering. Infection percentage is an important issue in that regard.

I recently heard that CT and RI were doing the best, but I don't know what statistics that was based on. CT, NY and NJ have been trying to match restrictions.

Trump will tell us again we have beat this and it is nothing. A leader speaks many die.

is it a sin for Pence to lie?

It’s not a lie if he believes in it.
Have faith Papa...

George Costanza said it's not a lie if you believe it.

Only if he is in a room alone with the lie and lies with the lie.

That sounds exactly like how they model hurricanes too

Nah, they've been modeling hurricanes and weather patterns for a long time and have a large enough data that these predictions are more accurate.

I find it odd that with all the study, supercomputers, historical data that we have for modeling the weather they still can't tell us with great accuracy as to how much rain we will get next week. Yet with only a few months of data collected over a small percentage of the population the experts have models that they claim predicts what to expect from the virus this coming fall.

I've even heard it said that "...the numbers to me have been surprisingly predictable. Almost vanilla."

And... "This virus is pretty predictable. It is doing what modeling suggests and when variables change it does what you would think. It is pretty vanilla"

And..."This thing is closely following predictable models given how you change variables. It's really weird in this regard. It's really not that difficult to predict what it will do given certain actions. It really is vanilla in the context of how these things usually work."

But it's coming from the experts so we shouldn't dare question them.

Lol...ok. Living in hurricane alley brings a different perspective to the "models" and the 24/7 doom and gloom bombardment when a storm enters the gulf.

And then, after the storm does its own thing. Sometimes the models are pretty much right but quite often they arent.