exNavyOffRec
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When I first say that I was like WTF????
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That's another check in the column for "Why we Live in a Simulation"...
You know that place that never went into lockdown.
ABMD
Bullets don't fly without Supply
Here's a head scratcher.
Ordered take-out on Friday from a local bar/restaurant with indoor seating and outdoor seating. Sign on door says masks are required if you're picking up food and no more than 2 guests inside for carry-out. I open the door with my mask on, like a sheep, only to see tables of people INSIDE spaced 2-3ft apart not wearing masks. People at the bar shoulder to shoulder talking, no masks. Meanwhile, myself and the other carry-out customer weren't less than 6ft from anyone, yet somehow we were required to wear a mask. ?
Ordered take-out on Friday from a local bar/restaurant with indoor seating and outdoor seating. Sign on door says masks are required if you're picking up food and no more than 2 guests inside for carry-out. I open the door with my mask on, like a sheep, only to see tables of people INSIDE spaced 2-3ft apart not wearing masks. People at the bar shoulder to shoulder talking, no masks. Meanwhile, myself and the other carry-out customer weren't less than 6ft from anyone, yet somehow we were required to wear a mask. ?
This is why we aren't Sweden
Would you mind telling us, in detail, why we aren't Sweden?
GroundPounder
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Although Sweden didn't come down hard with mandates, their voluntary compliance was and is better than ours. Swedes did more than the government asked. We do less.
Good article, although from mid-July, which is like last century in Pandemic time.
Some states, especially in the South, began easing restrictions in late April. But many people seemed to take “bars and restaurants can reopen with capacity limits” as “back to normal!” An entrenched culture of “don’t tell me what to do” just about ensured the opposite of Swedes’ placing greater restrictions on themselves than the government did. And that’s what happened.
The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall 'catastrophic' for Covid-19
The next few weeks will show the consequences of being the accidental Sweden, but without the guardrails that kept that country’s #Covid19 case count from exploding.
www.statnews.com
The virus ran its course there, just like it’s doing here now. Government restrictions had little to do with either example.Although Sweden didn't come down hard with mandates, their voluntary compliance was and is better than ours. Swedes did more than the government asked. We do less.
Good article, although from mid-July, which is like last century in Pandemic time.
Some states, especially in the South, began easing restrictions in late April. But many people seemed to take “bars and restaurants can reopen with capacity limits” as “back to normal!” An entrenched culture of “don’t tell me what to do” just about ensured the opposite of Swedes’ placing greater restrictions on themselves than the government did. And that’s what happened.
The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall 'catastrophic' for Covid-19
The next few weeks will show the consequences of being the accidental Sweden, but without the guardrails that kept that country’s #Covid19 case count from exploding.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
1) The most densely populated city, Stockholm, ranks with Atlanta, which is 37th in the US.
2) Swedes are actually following a lot of social distancing guidelines. The national government just isn't strictly enforcing them.
Despite these two facts, Sweden's population fatality rate is 14% worse than the US.
Austin-Powers
Powers By Name, Powers By Reputation
Target rich environment in Pensacola
This perspective makes so much sense to me. Exhibit A, the meme game on this very thread:
“Those who had more sexist attitudes were far less likely to report feeling concerned about the pandemic, less likely to support state and local coronavirus policies, less likely to take precautions like washing their hands or wearing masks, and more likely to get sick than those with less sexist attitudes,” Reny told me. “What I found is that sexist attitudes are very predictive of all four sets of [aforementioned] outcomes, even after accounting for differences in partisanship, ideology, age, education, and population density.”
“Those who had more sexist attitudes were far less likely to report feeling concerned about the pandemic, less likely to support state and local coronavirus policies, less likely to take precautions like washing their hands or wearing masks, and more likely to get sick than those with less sexist attitudes,” Reny told me. “What I found is that sexist attitudes are very predictive of all four sets of [aforementioned] outcomes, even after accounting for differences in partisanship, ideology, age, education, and population density.”
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