Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Was just at Dulles last night and easily half the people were masked. This is getting serious.

huh. was at DCA last night and saw 1-2 masks.

Was just at Dulles and saw maybe 2 or 3 masks over the course of a few hours

I flew out of National yesterday and saw about 5% of the people wearing masks. That's about what it's been all summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Was just at Dulles last night and easily half the people were masked. This is getting serious.

huh. was at DCA last night and saw 1-2 masks.

Was just at Dulles and saw maybe 2 or 3 masks over the course of a few hours

I flew out of National yesterday and saw about 5% of the people wearing masks. That's about what it's been all summer.

I’m at BWI, concourse D right now. Over the last hour, I’ve seen exactly two people wearing a mask.

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Anonymous wrote:I never believed COVID was serious. I never quarantined in 2020 and continued to live life as normal seeing friends. So needless to say, the answer to your question is no.

You and people like you are the reason why it was so bad before and why it’s coming back with a vengeance.

+1 I don't know about "back with a vengeance," but yes, coming back, because people like that PP are all about themselves. They have zero concept of public health and zero concern for people they don't know, who are more vulnerable than they themselves are. They prefer to fantasize that anyone still concerned or taking any measures is paranoid and living locked in a basement because that makes them feel superior and vindicated. Their self-centeredness is sad.

Oh, give us a break, lady. You only care about yourself and you only take all of these performative measures to be self righteous. So please stop acting like some martyr saint.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked that the school systems are not considering virtual options for at least the beginning of school. It’s going to be brutal and then it’s going to spread rapidly. I wish I could keep them home

We need the government to ban travel, or at least shutdown the airlines.

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Or at least make air travel limited for only essential needs. I think if we can minimize that plus keeping the kids home from school and then everyone stop mingling at stores/restaurants and just do doorsash and instacart, things will get better

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I mean it worked in 2020, right?

That just shows we really need to commit to it this time. Think about everything that stayef open in 2020. Grocery stores, manufacturing, hospitals, emergency services, etc. Shut it all down this time. Nobody leaves their house for 6 weeks.

Amazon could use drones to deliver one bag of rice and one bag of beans to every household once per week.

That’s the spirit! If we all work together, WE CAN DO THIS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never believed COVID was serious. I never quarantined in 2020 and continued to live life as normal seeing friends. So needless to say, the answer to your question is no.

You and people like you are the reason why it was so bad before and why it’s coming back with a vengeance.

+1 I don't know about "back with a vengeance," but yes, coming back, because people like that PP are all about themselves. They have zero concept of public health and zero concern for people they don't know, who are more vulnerable than they themselves are. They prefer to fantasize that anyone still concerned or taking any measures is paranoid and living locked in a basement because that makes them feel superior and vindicated. Their self-centeredness is sad.

You know what I find sadder? Your complete lack of scientific understanding and your tenuous grip on reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I never believed COVID was serious. I never quarantined in 2020 and continued to live life as normal seeing friends. So needless to say, the answer to your question is no.

Lucky you, not knowing anyone who died in 2020, when people with pre-existing conditions, and not a few young adults with no pre-existing conditions, were dying because the viral load of the initial, virulent strain overwhelmed their systems. But you probably also think that those deaths didn't happen at all. Conspiracy theory, right, PP?

You can debate about the current variants and how bad they are or aren't, but your attitude indicates you don't give a s**t about potentially infecting others even back when the virus was clearly killing people, and too little was known yet to do much about it at that time.

NP. Viruses kill people all the time, way before COVID. Heck, you probably infected someone in your life who might've passed away because of the virus you gave something. This is part of being human. And you probably didn't think anything of it.

I'm done with this nonsense. It was useless. If these measures worked, we would've been using them before covid was a thing. They don't work. It's not as if some magical scientific breakthrough occurred in 2020 with virus prevention measure. No. It was the government wanting to look like they were DOING something. Lots of virtue signaling. I'm never playing this game again.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked that the school systems are not considering virtual options for at least the beginning of school. It’s going to be brutal and then it’s going to spread rapidly. I wish I could keep them home

We need the government to ban travel, or at least shutdown the airlines.

+1

Or at least make air travel limited for only essential needs. I think if we can minimize that plus keeping the kids home from school and then everyone stop mingling at stores/restaurants and just do doorsash and instacart, things will get better

+2

I mean it worked in 2020, right?

That just shows we really need to commit to it this time. Think about everything that stayef open in 2020. Grocery stores, manufacturing, hospitals, emergency services, etc. Shut it all down this time. Nobody leaves their house for 6 weeks.

Amazon could use drones to deliver one bag of rice and one bag of beans to every household once per week.

That’s the spirit! If we all work together, WE CAN DO THIS

We are all in this together!!! Shut it down! Let's stop all viruses FOR GOOD this time! THen no one will die! Grandma and Obsese Jan from across the street will live forever! <3

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Florida. If I didn’t read dcum, I literally wouldn’t even know Covid was a thing anymore.

I mean, I live in Minneapolis now- very liberal. You wouldn’t know it was a thing here either. this only exists in DCUM land

+1 I am in Seattle and hardly see people mask.

[Anonymous]

There is a crazy, militant anti-masking and all but covid-denying group on DCUM who I swear spends all day either starting new threads of stalks this website to comment rabidly on any covid thread. It’s pathological.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a crazy, militant anti-masking and all but covid-denying group on DCUM who I swear spends all day either starting new threads of stalks this website to comment rabidly on any covid thread. It’s pathological.

Look at the topic of the thread. The answer si clearly people arent changing behavior, in part because there isn’t a meaningful “uptick.”

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Anonymous wrote:There is a crazy, militant anti-masking and all but covid-denying group on DCUM who I swear spends all day either starting new threads of stalks this website to comment rabidly on any covid thread. It’s pathological.

Look at the topic of the thread. The answer si clearly people arent changing behavior, in part because there isn’t a meaningful “uptick.”

This is a "meaningful uptick."

https://www.reddit.com/r/coronavirusVA/comments/15stdb7/final_virginia_weekly_covid_report_for_august_16/

https://archive.ph/yNBFN

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Anonymous wrote:Too late - youngest kid just tested positive. I really hope it won't be a long-drawn out thing where each family member tests positive one after the other for the rest of the summer. So irritating!!!

We don’t test any more. Then there’s no long drawn out anything. It’s just a cold.

Disagree. We need to be more vigilant on masking and social distance.

[Anonymous]

I was at the grocery store today. I couldn't believe how many mask wearers I saw, then I remembered this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Was just at Dulles last night and easily half the people were masked. This is getting serious.

huh. was at DCA last night and saw 1-2 masks.

Was just at Dulles and saw maybe 2 or 3 masks over the course of a few hours

I flew out of National yesterday and saw about 5% of the people wearing masks. That's about what it's been all summer.

We just flew and our family wore masks. Very few other people did. I don't care what people think of me. I had Covid, it was horrible, I will do a simple thing that may help prevent getting it (even though I realize that masking might not help).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is a crazy, militant anti-masking and all but covid-denying group on DCUM who I swear spends all day either starting new threads of stalks this website to comment rabidly on any covid thread. It’s pathological.

Look at the topic of the thread. The answer si clearly people arent changing behavior, in part because there isn’t a meaningful “uptick.”

This is a "meaningful uptick."

Severity indicators are still at near historic lows. That there’s a measurable increase at all is more a reflection of just how low they’ve gotten. It’s like congratulating yourself for “doubling” your odds of winning the lottery by buying two tickets instead of one.