Furmanoid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:07 am
The Jackal wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:06 am
apaladin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:04 pm
Forget studies just some common sense. More mask wearing than ever and cases are still high. They don’t work. The issue is they need to stop all the senseless useless testing that is holding everything back. Stop the obsession with cases and concentrate on the ill. Carry on with life! Life has never been “safe” and never will be.
You realize this mentality is why we are even dealing with the possibility of no football, don't you?
You see it as advocating to play. I see it as the reason we may not.
I may misunderstand, but I think you mean that grumbling about masks has kept the pandemic going and stopped football. I haven’t asked this for a few weeks, but are most people in Greenville STILL not wearing masks? Where I live most people realize they aren’t really going to stop the pandemic but damn near everybody wears them anyway where appropriate. Even at MB a couple of weeks ago everybody wore them when indoors. There were strict rules everywhere I went. Where is all this football ending mask resistance? Maybe Greenville is an outlier with near zero mask usage, but it’s hard to see how even that could stop football everywhere.
Everywhere I go mask use is up about as high as is reasonably achievable. Distancing is on the decline probably because of the masks. That’s probably a net reduction in safety. But our hospitals easily weathered the peak so maybe none of it matters much.
Exactly - my study of the science derived that masks have virtually no scientifically validated effect to decrease the spread of the virus, but instead included a lot of non-validated, tangential studies suggesting that there could be some benefit to certain types of masks if properly fitted & properly worn, followed by stern recommendations/ warnings / regulations from public health officials to wear something covering your face.
And, almost everybody (very few exceptions - and, with some measure of implicit bias, FUBeAR speculates most of the exceptions reside elsewhere) I see in mostly conservative (far) North Fulton County, GA is wearing them as directed. That observation moves to EVERYBODY (though many more, improperly) as one moves to North Fulton & ITP, ATL.
It’s convenient to take a couple of examples of chronological-only adult morons from social media and/or kids (who, despite the shock this will be to those that don’t have them, are NOT going to wear them nor socially distance when their ‘virtue’ is unscrutinized) and ‘lay blame’ on the legion of conscientious government-mandated-mask-objectors, such as FUBeAR, et al.
I been wearin’ my dnag mask for 4 months, thank you, to all of self-righteous finger-pointers; as have a very high percentage of my right-thinking, yet compliant, brethren.
But y’all still ain’t bringing me no Football.
So, #FUATT - the freakin’ viri itself (and maybe the CCP) and the broad-based response to it, (and, probably the Grinch) stole Football from us all.
Speaking of “all” - that’s who among us is gonna catch the ‘rona at some point. And, we’re lying to ourselves about a vaccine. Work on treatment, medical capacity, socially distance to slow (not stop) the spread to assist in managing medical capacity, shield the vulnerable as much as possible, and PLAY BALL. Come to think of it, to paraphrase Dr. Ernie Banks, “Let’s play (life) too!”
