So here is the situation
Come Monday you are required to wear a mask when entering and place that serves the public
So you pull your mask out of your pocket, don the mask and do your business transaction
The some time later you are required to show proof of vaccination, to conduct business, buy medicine etc.
How can you not be vaccinated, even against your wishes
Twilight Zone???
Will probably happen unless some thing changes
Of course it might be optional for those in power, the same as shut in/lock down was optional
State shutdowns are next. As the virus continues to spiral out of control and number of cases are going up now even in the northern States.
The argument has always been that you cannot have a long economic shutdown. You have it for temporary period of time to get the virus under control.
That means that the government At federal state and local levels do things which who strict the virus from spreading. The number one PROVEN way to stop the virus are MASKS
Yet the same people usually conservative who are more focus on the damage of economic shutdown are the same people who argue against mandatory masks ....mandatory shelter home ...mandatory masks wearing going inside. This perspective this argument is mine said is the essence of stupidity. It is completely irrational.
Only now today 5 months into this did the president wear a mask in public for the 1st time period he has not met with doctor fauci in 60 days. Trump and the White House that he runs reaction to the virus has been a Disaster of a highest water. Americans cannot leave the country because no other country will allow us to go there because of Virus
Make America great? No make America 3rd world country led by incompetent the ministration and people who don't understand basic science
Mark my words. We are about to go into major lockdown once again. The one thing that the country could not afford could not risk is going to happen again. All because far right conservatives nd conspiracy nut cases wont wear masks
Dave,
I agree that President Trump has made some huge blunders with handling the coronavirus.
You noted one of the biggest.........not promoting wearing masks until recently.
His rally in OK, I believe was the dumbest thing that he did in his life, not just the last 3 years but in his life.
Too bad he didn't get impeached and we had Mike Pence running on Trumps agenda.
Cases here in sw IN have been pretty low but went up during the last week, enough so that they just passed an "ordinance" requiring everybody to wear masks.
No penalties or fines for violating but strong encouragement that everybody do it.
There is an argument to be made about how effective a mask may be
Most masks fit poorly and slip down when talking or just naturally
If there is virus material in the air, that is the only reason a mask may help. A mask does not protect you or stop the spread when surfaces etc are contaminated.
So: If there is virus in the air, the outside of your mask is infected
You fiddle with the mask, touch your face and become infected
The only good reason to wear a mask is to slow down spreading virus material if YOU are infected
Most common masks are of poor quality and let virus material escape the mask from a poor fit or poor material
The only good mask is that 95 some thing mask and even then most people fiddle with it, touching, adjusting etc.
How many have access to the best mask available, even if they wear it properly, which is virtually impossible
Not saying a mask isn't a good idea
Just not the answer most think it will be
And of course, so long as we have public demonstrations, the virus will be with us no matter how hard you and I try to act properly
We might slow the spread of the virus but people being people, the virus still wins
So we might slow the spread of the virus [maybe] then re-open.
Rinse and repeat
Be realistic folks. The virus will be with us for a long time and the virus will win, every time
No sign of a vaccine, so that doesn't look promising