We are going to see a lot of trespassing arrests from stores who keep mask wearing in their policy. Some people just don't understand that stores can make dress code policy as they see fit.
thats what we’re doing in our schools. We’re still requiring it out of an abundance of caution. CDC said “may” not “shall” and we’re a private business anyway. I’ve taken great pleasure in personally explaining our policy to anti-maskers. I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and outdoors whenever possible even after I get my vaccine, just because the risk to society isn’t worth the minor, and I mean very minor, annoyance to me. Hopefully a lot of people feel this way. Where I live, I believe many will. But you‘ll for sure see idiots thinking that they can disregard a business’s policies. same shit with those 30.06-30.07 signs, essentially the ones disallowing carry of concealed or open carry firearms even if licensed. If there’s one of those signs properly displayed on the business’s main entrance, it holds the force of law. Same thing as someone at the business telling a customer “you are no longer allowed on this property.” People get trespassed by those all the time. And it’ll happen with masks now too.
I like to search "Anti mask Karens" on youtube. I'm sure I will have a whole lot more videos to watch in the coming days.
so here's something cool and terrifying: go into your phone, into pictures, and sort by month or week. Then go back to late february 2020 through today. Someone needs to do a documentary of just straight pictures from the pandemic.
What changed on yours? Been 4 hours since the second shot. Hopefully I'll sleep through any funky shit.
from not taking it seriously and joking about it, to oh shit this quarantine is gonna suck, to it actually sucking, to like “well, I guess this is life now”
I'm really curious about how this whole Fauci statement of "don't wear a mask if you're fully vaccinated" is going to work out. I have to think that all the anti-vax, anti-mask types will just say "hey, I'm vaccinated" and walk around in public like they're pulling a fast one over on people. But then a shit-ton of them will actually get COVID, and will plug up the ICU's.... probably worse that the first few waves, if I had to guess. I'm not sure how that's going to play out...
I am back working Covid, but on the economic front, so trying to figure out how to spend the asinine money to get things to a new normal. The requests flowing to the feds has trickled down to a minimum now, and we expect to be out of the vaccine business (or at least, our footprint will be greatly reduced) in the coming weeks, so FEMA can focus on hurricane/tornado/wildfire season. From inside the bubble, we are projected to have 700,000 deaths by September. (584k now) So, it's kind of slowing down, but far from over. The fear that the hospital systems will get overwhelmed is gently subsiding, as we expect outbreaks to be what they were in the beginning: hyper localized, and hopefully contained quickly. There is some concern that as things "normalize", there will be new exposures, for example from folks getting elective surgeries they postponed, or vacations. At this point, the risk is less of a resource crunch (hospitals being overwhelmed), and more of a risk of not being able to respond quick enough to isolate and contain, or it hitting a "critical artery" such as an airport, or it hitting a "desert" where it's difficult to get resources, testing, and support (rural communities, mostly). The issue in the meat processing plant in North Dakota last year is a solid example of what we're trying to avoid now: isolated rural area, an outbreak causes broader supply issues, politically...adversarial, local resources/countermeasures are sparse, and not a ton of health resources, so everything has to be flown in. Texas is gonna Texas, so I am sure there will be tardery that makes it worse than it has to be. It's not over, and until we get some good guidance on booster vaccines, it will continue to pay to be cautious. The CDC is still caught in a political trap, hence the guidance on masks. Not to mince words: we need people to get vaccinated, it's the best chance we have of being done with this bullshit. However, the vaccine is not the only countermeasure needed, and we're seeing increasing reluctance, which is extending the pandemic. You're going to continue to see some whacky incentives to get folks vaccinated, and I hope when the dust settles some folks are crucified for spreading misinformation about the vaccine. The fake vaccine card issue is one that drives me absolutely fucking bonkers: we spent trillions and couldn't be bothered to digitally backup this shit? We howled for a blockchain start up to make us offers to avoid this, and yet here we are.
I fully expect that to be the case. And you know, I am at the point with those people that I just think, fuck it, let them have their way. If they get sick, they can find sympathy between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary. I am probably staying home instead of my usual night at our lodge having a few drinks. Because I know unless Cuomo decides to go along with the CDC guidance today the bitching about having to wear a mask when up and around will be way more than the usual. And I don't want to hear it. "Well, we didn't have to at ______ up the street." "Fine, go back there then."
Before the pandemic, it was 70% my dog, 20% hiking trails, and 10% interesting microbrews that I was sending to my father in law. After the pandemic it was 70% my dog, 20% hiking trails, and 10% interesting microbrews that I was sending to my father in law... except the backgrounds of the beer photos are now exclusively outdoors.
Before, 60% new baby, 30% dogs, 10% food I cooked or garden. After, 85% baby, 12% dogs, 3% food I cooked or garden.
Yeah, I can't say that the pandemic really changed anything like that for me... except for the occasional dinner out, or friends over. The pictures are still the same things.
We didn't lock down - we didn't even switch to "work from home." So my only experience with the pandemic is that it has become harder to get someone on the phone and material has quadrupled in price. Oh, and 2020/2021 will be an indistinguishable blur in my memory for any kind of touch point or important event.
That's what I was thinking. I scrolled through mine to see if I could tell when the lockdown started and got to my pics from SEMA 2019. So, I guess not.
I can tell when it started, because I was in Tokyo and took pics of the air testing guys going through the offices looking for aerosoled COVID, while watching the news with the quarantined cruise ship in the Tokyo port. But after that, nope... run of the mill stuff.
No more masks in Michigan for the vaccinated. Of course, since the same people who refuse to get vaccinated are the people that will have no problem pretending to be vaccinated... it'll probably be a mess in numerous ways. I'm already sick of fighting with people mad that someone isn't wearing a mask or mad that they have to wear a mask. But, my vaccinated ass it rather looking forward to not wearing one all summer in a 90 degree greenhouse.