"Opening up" means risking your life

[Anonymous]

We’re opening up y’all. Stay home if you want to.

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Anonymous wrote:We were told to shut down in order to flatten the curve. As a nation, we complied.

Now, it seems, many governors have moved the goal posts. The curve has been flattened in most places around the country. The hospitals were not overwhelmed, we had an overabundance of ventilators, testing is up across the nation, and the spread has slowed. Yet, places with few or no cases are still being locked down in an unreasonable fashion.

We cannot wait for a vaccine or cure to open up. It is not feasible to the well being of most Americans.

We have learned how to protect ourselves. We have learned to wash our hands, maintain appropriate distance, and wear masks. But, crazy restrictions are still in place. Closing beaches is crazy. Evidence has shown that this virus does not spread easily outdoors and in heat.

And, as for masks.....

If they don't work, why are people being forced to wear them?
If they do work, why aren't more places opening up with limited restrictions?

so true, we flatten the curved to spread out the infections and hospitalizations. we did that. time to open up.

if suddenly some people want to stay home forever and live in a protective bubble where you can't even get a physical, get your teeth cleaned, get a cancer treatment, or get your kids back on track with education, well THAT is selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, you can open up the country and still keep people safe. It’s not a binary solution.

So what is your plan to protect people? More than 80,000 people are already dead.

Wear a mask, wash your hands, vote straight republican, and hold China accountable. That’s how you keep people safe.
Now open the damn country up.

Damn straight!

Wow. Now there's a campaign slogan.

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Anonymous wrote:Open up. There’s no legal justification to enforce a quarantine.

Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states.

Invalid, particularly at the governor level, to lock down a state.

Incorrect again. You really can’t be bothered to check for yourself? Or you think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh are trustworthy authorities on the law? And medicine, and public health? You’re the sheep they depend upon.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/publications/youraba/2020/youraba-april-2020/law-guides-legal-approach-to-pandemic/

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, you can open up the country and still keep people safe. It’s not a binary solution.

So what is your plan to protect people? More than 80,000 people are already dead.

Wear a mask, wash your hands, vote straight republican, and hold China accountable. That’s how you keep people safe.
Now open the damn country up.

Damn straight!

Wow. Now there's a campaign slogan.

For morons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MD total deaths for those under 60 are only 202 and you can bet many of those are folks with serious preexisting conditions

time to reopen like most of the rest of the country

Eeek!

Data on elderly and sickly again. No, doesn't make for good fear mongering headlines. Get out those infection counts instead, and look! Bumland, WI went up 100% in one day! From 2 infections, to 4! All asymptomatic but we'll not say that...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re opening up y’all. Stay home if you want to.

Opening up is fine, but these losers who are packing into bars and having big parties and refusing to wear masks indoors are going to end up ruining it for everyone. No sense of moderation or self-control. It's like they think it's cool to be an inconsiderate jackass.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re opening up y’all. Stay home if you want to.

We will!

And to those of you choosing to go out: please don't be an a-hole by putting other people unnecessarily at risk. Wear a mask if you are asked to. Stay 6 ft away. Don't be a jerk to those who are risking their lives so you can get your nails done. And please don't ask for a COVID test or medical care if you or your loved ones get sick because you were in a hurry to get out there.

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I honestly think that maybe we have to completely reopen and then close again. Then we might get enough PPE and tests for the next opening. Sad, but might have to happen to convince people. The only way to get rid of this thing is to go to the "box it in" phase where we do tracing and isolating. Some places are ready with the tests and tracers all set up. Most are not. The virus might well be "everywhere", but we have to stomp it out and the only way to do that is to start testing and tracing if we fully open. We might get through the summer okay with everyone outdoors, but it will come back in the fall. Now is the time to have a lot of tests and trace.

It's simply not true the virus is "everywhere" as an earlier poster claimed. Were it "everywhere" there would be many more sick and dying of covid19.

It would not have spread so far and wide in the US had our Dear Leader not denied the disaster and refused to listen to scientists who clearly predicted the extent and potential damage of the pandemic.

Most Americans are not immune to this virus. There are millions of Americans it can and will kill if its spread is not controlled.

If people on Kentucky and Florida want to "open up" not social distance, not wear masks, not wash their hands, they can only do so in total isolation from the rest of the uninfected Americans who do mot wish to contract this disease.

Of course, that's not what the open up crowd want. They want me and my family to put ourselves at risk too, and that is not a risk I am willing to take.

what are you talking about? If you're not at risk hang out with others who want to. If you are at risk or have severe anxiety, don't hang out with anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re opening up y’all. Stay home if you want to.

Opening up is fine, but these losers who are packing into bars and having big parties and refusing to wear masks indoors are going to end up ruining it for everyone. No sense of moderation or self-control. It's like they think it's cool to be an inconsiderate jackass.

It’s all they know how to do. It makes them feel powerful, in a world where they are increasingly irrelevant.

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Of course, that's not what the open up crowd want. They want me and my family to put ourselves at risk too, and that is not a risk I am willing to take.

This is the part that makes me so angry. Lots of the idiots protesting don't want to go back to work themselves. They want ME to have to go back to work and risk MY life and the life of my kids and my parents so that they (protesters) can get a haircut or a beer.

much easier and safer to stay home on the dole.

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Anonymous wrote:Living life always has risks of life - car accidents, lyme disease, drowning, heart attacks, fatal falls, flu, murder, novo viruses from China.

Move on and figure a way not to wreck the economy for the next 3+ generations.

Everything you list is voluntary, avoidable or has a treatment. COVID-19 is none of those things.

As you were saying?

Most viruses have no treatment. Most viruses harm the elderly and comorbid worse.

Move on and figure out a way not to wreck the world's economy, student education, mental health, fiscal status, livelihoods, businesses, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re opening up y’all. Stay home if you want to.

Opening up is fine, but these losers who are packing into bars and having big parties and refusing to wear masks indoors are going to end up ruining it for everyone. No sense of moderation or self-control. It's like they think it's cool to be an inconsiderate jackass.

How so? Elderly and sickly aren't supposed to be taking in visitors, especially healthy visitors who are back in society.

If YOU are at risk, then get a doctors note and stay at home indefinitely if you want. Maybe there will be a vaccine or treatment some day, maybe not.

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Of course, that's not what the open up crowd want. They want me and my family to put ourselves at risk too, and that is not a risk I am willing to take.

This is the part that makes me so angry. Lots of the idiots protesting don't want to go back to work themselves. They want ME to have to go back to work and risk MY life and the life of my kids and my parents so that they (protesters) can get a haircut or a beer.

much easier and safer to stay home on the dole.

Your priorities are so strange. Don’t come crying when your loved ones die... just kidding you DGAF about anyone. Lol! It’s all me-me-me. Just like Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, you can open up the country and still keep people safe. It’s not a binary solution.

So what is your plan to protect people? More than 80,000 people are already dead.

Wear a mask, wash your hands, vote straight republican, and hold China accountable. That’s how you keep people safe.
Now open the damn country up.

Damn straight!

Wow. Now there's a campaign slogan.

Not as punchy as "You First!"