I walked past a restaurant in my neighborhood last night

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Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry to say that I’m not surprised by this OP. Disappointed, but not surprised. Businesses are allowing whatever they can get away with to stay afloat, there’s no enforcement, and so many people don’t care or don’t think they’ll get it or thinking of it as an individual illness and not a public health issue.

What gets me is so much of DCUM insisting that the community spread is from going to the grocery store (masked) or passing someone on the sidewalk that isn’t wearing a mask. Nope, it’s from people living normal lives as if there isn’t a virus.

I agree that what’s driving community spread is instances like these. Unfortunately, however, I do think it impacts how safely we can grocery shop and run necessary errands simply because more people have it. I still have trouble wrapping my head around the likelihood of getting it from someone I pass on the street, but I do feel slightly more at risk grocery shopping these days. I ran into Wegman’s this past weekend and it was packed! Parking lots everywhere look the same as any holiday season. I’ve done very, very little in-store gift shopping this year, and when I do, I’m basically running in to grab the items I’ve already decided on. Lots of people are crowding the aisles just browsing. I can’t imagine feeling that comfortable in a store right now.

You are horrible. You can go into stores because you know what you want and assume the other people you see are ignorant a**holes because they're browsing? By the way, I don't think you're running into a store for a pre-planned Christmas present is a "necessary errand."

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Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?

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In Arlington, you can report non compliant businesses: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/f00c518a06a24102a7ae61fb0090640c

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Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?

To be fair, lots of people around the country are going to bars. In many places, whatever perfunctory restrictions exist aren’t being followed or enforced. I visited my parents this summer in Florida. Restaurants and bars were pretty much back to normal.

Maybe I’m fatalistic, but I predicted months ago that large swathes of the population were going to ignore restrictions as much as they could get away with. And I knew that once younger people starting realizing just how little risk this virus posed to them, they were going to live like this pandemic was already over.

You can see that even public health officials have basically given up at this point. I think if you asked someone like Fauci to honestly tell you if he thinks people are going to change their behavior while we wait for the vaccine to be distributed, he’d have to say no.

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Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?

This is a real thing and has been obvious since March and April. I left my condo in early April for a masked walk after about 5 weeks and it was like every person on the street was over 65. My Boomer parents have been decent, but it took a bit to get them there and they and their friends were way more risky than any of my friends in our 30s. And those were people on lockdown in NYC! Don't get me started on what my friends parents were up to in places like Florida and Texas...

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Murderers, every single one of them.

There is no excuse now, after 300 000 have died and the mode of transmission is well known.

+1 million. How many grandparents and health care workers need to die to get through to these idiots. STAY HOME. Just stay the F home. I’m done with so many former friends who I used to think were decent people. No more.

NP, and I completely agree. I've had it.

agree too
They are just assholes.
There is no excuse.

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I'm over it. I stay home, order take out once a month or so, and get grocery pickup.

If businesses go under because I can't safely go there to spend money, and they don't offer no contact options, that's on all the people out there making excuses to be maskless and not changing the way they live their lives.

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I know. It is like people are all selfish and immature.
The downfall of a spoiled populace, who can't stop consuming even if it means death for some.

Even in Montgomery County (which his well educated and democratic), when I have had to go out (like for a medical appointment or to pick up take out food), the parking lots are SO crowded. Like a normal December. It is scary.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, this is why I have given up going anywhere. Too many people who don't care.

Same.

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It's crazy what people are willing to die for or kill grandma for. I did curbside pickup at a diner yesterday (did not go inside) and the diner was packed. Die for a Michelin 5 star, not a diner! Bleh!

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Anonymous wrote:These places should be shut down again.

If they’re violating mandates, call the police. If enough people complain and report the violators we can make a positive impact.

Who are you people and why are you all so negative? Nastiness and cattiness will not get you far ladies ... even in a pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?

This is a real thing and has been obvious since March and April. I left my condo in early April for a masked walk after about 5 weeks and it was like every person on the street was over 65. My Boomer parents have been decent, but it took a bit to get them there and they and their friends were way more risky than any of my friends in our 30s. And those were people on lockdown in NYC! Don't get me started on what my friends parents were up to in places like Florida and Texas...

So much this. My parents have been pretty reasonable, but my ILs took a long time to act like they should be more cautious and realize that going to 3 different grocery stores in one day was a bad idea (grocery shopping is a big form of entertainment for my FIL). I think my SIL finally got through to them, but it's a struggle, and they seem really ill-equipped to just suck it up and wait it out as best as possible, which is so crazy because their parents sacrificed and survived the depression, and WWII, and polio, etc.

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This is OP. These weren’t 20 somethings having a Christmas party. It looked like a family group. Mixed ages. No one older than 40s or 50s probably and lots of younger folks, but it wasn’t college kids.

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Pretty much everyone is recovering from COVID. People are tired with the constantly moving goalposts and I dont blame them. Now they are saying you should restrict travel and wear masks even after getting the vaccine? It's about control and the sheep are lapping it up.