DAMN! Look at the boardwalk in Ocean City MD

what the fuck!

That terrifies me. The desperation and stupidity. The callus disregard they'll have when they bring COVID back home to sicken and kill others.

It’s that particularly American brand of selfishness on display. Much of this country doesn’t believe in the common good.

And that's Hillary country, too. Surprising.

We're going to see posts like this all over the media. These will be going on everywhere all across the country. Get over the outrage, because it will make no difference. People will go out on this holiday weekend. Governors knew that they would, so they opened up, despite their best instincts. There is no way people are going to stay at home, and no " stay at home" order will stop it, unless there is strict enforcement, which is impossible. So, we don't need numerous posts with fake outrage ( of course it's in ______; those people are assholes). You knew this was inevitable, so stay at home if you want to avoid it. We will pay over the next few weeks, but there is nothing anyone could do about it.

a bunch of lonely old scolds up in here

It isn't even that nice out--cloudy and 60 degrees for a high today (Sunday).

I hated places like that before Covid. Let them all die from it.

I just don't want them returning and spreading it to their community and families. They are idiots.

The hysteria is strong in this thread.

Wow, this really depressed me to see. We’ve learned nothing and have no concern for anything but our own immediate gratification. This will go on forever.

I no longer believe anything good about my fellow Americans after 2016 . I never dreamed how deeply ingrained selfishness and stupidity were in our culture. This scene (and 1000s like it) doesnt surprise me at all . Not anymore .

[quote] And that's Hillary country, too.

Actually, no. That is deplorable central. I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and it is decidedly NOT liberal. The eastern shore and western Maryland (all of the rural parts) are redder than red. The populated urban/suburban areas in Maryland are the ones that make the state generally go for Democrats.

Ocean City is always mobbed with people, the gays and the wealthier people go to the beaches in the north, like Rehoboth. So OP's picture is no surprise to me.

I stopped fretting, cursing and trying to shame idiots who are daring the odds. Selfishness has been confused with "freedom." Freedom they use as a license to abuse, are truly not eager to share with anyone not like them and happy to curtail or rip from others not in their image. This nation is sick with self. Who knows, they may be right. We'll see where the chips fall. That's going to a boat load of GoFundMe pages.

You can’t tell how much space there is between groups when the photographer uses a zoom lens. Almost all these crowd in pandemic photos are misleading.

R15 = DJT

Correct r13. The eastern shore of Maryland is Trump country, that is a red part of the state.

There are plenty of wealthy tacky people in OC, too. Once, I turned 20 I never got he appeal of OC.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are even stupider than that."

Ocean City has webcams of the boardwalk and the beach

Sick fucks

Imagine the kind of person who would willingly go to a place like this under normal circumstances. That’s bad enough.

[quote]a bunch of lonely old scolds up in here

A lot of ignorance, also.

The Chicago Lakefront is still closed.

Don't worry. God has them covered.

The actual webcams aren't as crowded

Look at the smirking adults in R25. Unbearable. They will be sorry, no doubt, when the little girl with the sign dies from the corona.

I wouldn't do it, but people have been cooped up for weeks and it's the first weekend of summer... I get it. Again, I wouldn't do it, but I get it. At least they are in the open air.

“Momma? Mah chest hurts when ah try ta breath. Am I gon’ meet Jesus soon?”

Summer doesn't start until June 20 R28

I know that R30, but must people consider Memorial Day weekend as the official start of summer. You know that. Don't be that guy.

The one good thing I will say about Ocean City is that the food is good--Fries cooked in peanut oil, pit beef sandwiches, saltwater taffy, and pizza so greasy it slides off the plate. I wouldn't eat like this all the time, but it is fun to indulge every once in a while.

We do need to lose a lot of human life For the sake of the earth so I guess these people are volunteering?

I know nobody likes a tattletale, but obviously the gays on Fire Island aren’t taking it very seriously.

Just imagine how bad shit will get during the july1st and July 4th weekends in North America

R34 is being a Cindy Brady.

They're all going to die. The sooner, the better.

I yearn for empty churches from coast to coast.

R32 types fat.

[QUOTE] Just imagine how bad shit will get during the july1st and July 4th weekends in North America

“Yesssss....yesssss....”

People follow their leader, who is too busy golfing to give a shit about this.

A competent President would have gotten on TV and told the country to use common sense. A competent President would have implemented a series of measure to follow.

Continue to be outrage and Vote for Biden come November.

It didn't and doesn't have to be like this.

R26, it's overcast, and while the crowd aren't as bad as the photo, they are not comfortable.

Growing up in Central PA, Ocean City MD was known as the "Redneck Riviera". Major Terrible Tangelo country.

[quote] The hysteria is strong in this thread.

Somebody cough on r10, please.

Because of the poultry processing industry, the Eastern Shore (notably the town of Salisbury) is one of Maryland's biggest COVID-19 "hot spots." It would take just one Perdue worker's family to spend this weekend in Ocean City to infect dozens of people.

Wicomico County has 867 cases. I would worry more about the visitors my the DC area, Philly and New York.

Wicomico county has 867 officially recorded cases, with 22 deaths, occurring a small population: 832.4 cases per 100K. Among the highest rates in the nation. It's adjacent to Ocean City.

You would be suicidal to go "Danny Shore" now.

Shall we put a 2 week timer on this thread?

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r47, absolutely.

No, R15 is right - there's no way you can tell from OP's picture how far apart those people are.

This video from Missouri, on the other hand, is pretty unmistakable.

And a timelapse video of yesterday. It doesn't look quite as bad as the photo in the op. It's not great,but clearly the photo in the op is compressing the image.

Yes, some of these type of photos can be deceiving. But it’s not just how far apart they are. It’s also about wallets and credit cards, menus and door handles, toilets. You get the idea. There is NO way these people aren’t spreading this fucking germ even if they all stand TWELVE feet apart. If they’re willing to go in big crowds unmasked I bet they aren’t too particular about sanitizing everything they touch.

And we’re ALL bored. We ALL want to get out. EVERYONE is depressed and claustrophobic. Who isn’t? I obey the rules not because I’m PARANOID. I obey the rules because I’m an ADULT.

This message needs to be flown overhead.

It's also not nearly as nice a day. HOWEVER, maybe those people who had cabin fever just had to get out for a day and got it a bit out of their system. Of course, what they might have gotten into their system is a different story.

I just clicked on your link, R51, and watched as a woman walking toward the camera came within inches of two people walking in the opposite direction (she had to step to the side to avoid walking right into them; so no, they were not together), with the woman's facemask visibly pulled down to under her chin. I don't know if the couple walking away had masks on or not, but the upshot is that if one of the three of them are COVID-19+, the odds are about 1 in 5 that at least one of the other two is now positive as well.

Other people were similarly within close proximity; it doesn't take getting out a measuring tape or calculating the distance by examining the street features in comparison to see that few people in the camera's view were practicing anything close to social distancing.

What gets me is that if the crowd is any indication, the weather is not pleasant on the boardwalk this afternoon. They're bundled up and wearing hoodies. I could understand it slightly more if it was brilliantly sunny and warm, but what's the point of going to the beach — at the height of the pandemic — if it's not? Merely to go outside? Jesus, go stand in the middle of your street, the park, even the vacant lot down the road if you've succumbed to cabin fever. You really don't need to risk your health, let alone everyone else's, just to get out of the house.

nobody wants to comment on the crowded Fire Island Pines beach? Full of gay men?

R55 it's an openair boardwalk in sunlight and not church.

Democrats need to move on from a message of resistance tomone of rebuilding. --- Rahm Emanuel

I'll comment, r56. If you are referring to the photo at r34... it's clearly compressed.

[quote]Just imagine how bad shit will get during the july1st and July 4th weekends in North America

July 1st is a Wednesday.

An old college friend now in Chicago called to get my NYC update (he admitted that today's NY Times published death toll inspired him to call). He said how many people in his residential area are ignoring basic health precautions, and that one of his neighbors with a balcony is hosting a party (20something white straight broholes and Beckys) all in close proximity, sipping cocktails and none wearing masks. He's keeping his windows closed.

plague rats, they should be drown

No one tells **ME** what to do!

Every time one of these photos is posted, it's funny to hear the pearl clutchers sheik over folks out and enjoying themselves.

And like it's some Republican thing, Everybody is out. So get used to it.

On the East Coast, as of tomorrow, it's going to be in the 70s and 80s all week.

Whether you approve or not, people are not going to be sitting at home.

Enjoy your cuppa COVID, oblivious R63!

Let them all get sick. I don’t give a fuck about these idiots anymore.

A lot of people enjoy making “liberal elites” upset. They will risk death to own “libtards.”

President Dipshit and several governors doesn't take it seriously, so deplorables take that as their cue to do what feels good and fuck everyone's feelings. Nothing we can do now except try to protect ourselves.

R64 What I wrote is the truth. Every word of it.

I didn't say that I'd be out there with them.

One thing you learn in life is that you can't control others.

You are responsible for your own health.

Meanwhile, 90% of the people I see in my Manhattan neighborhood are wearing masks. Even the homeless people. Has anyone seen the photos of that hotel pool in the Ozarks?

Let’s hear more about how New Yorkers are spreading Covid, though.

More photos to shriek at! This time NYC.

I just finished writing a letter extending my condolences to a friend whose mother died last week of covid-19.

But your corn dogs. But her email.

I live in a suburb of Denver, and our restaurants opened up yesterday. My partner and I have been debating going out for a cocktail, but we will probably wait until next week when the weather is nicer and we can sit outside. We can’t do this lockdown shit forever. I will still wear masks and socially distance 99% of the time, but I just want to sit in the sun , enjoy a martini, and talk shit about the other customers for ONE day. He goes back to work next week anyway. I feel like we are fighting a losing battle.

Welcome to Missouri!

Lol, r25. We should all walk around naked with signs saying “God had got me covered!”

R70, what do you see wrong with your picture?

If you look in the background, New York City streets are NEVER that empty.

Oh, please, r74, not all of us.

Just the hotties.

R75 The New Yorkers have left the city to go infect other places.

Missouri's governor held a press conference on Friday to ask people to be aware of the virus and to exercise social distancing during the long weekend. Now look at R73. These people aren't listening to their own Republican governor.

Oh dear, the lengths people will go to in order to be on the front page of the New York Times!

It looks like we are going to pass 100,000 deaths from the virus on Tuesday. I see a big spike in positive tests in mid-June all across the country, all because these people who flaunt safety at big events are all over the country.

Most of my friends and family changed their plans for the weekend so they would avoid the crowds. Lots of people are. Personally, I have gone to a nearby park and read a book on a park bench yesterday and today. I'm still entertained; there are lots of guys running or walking on the paths surrounding the park who are barechested. Most of them are with their wives. I can still dream, can't I?

I’m so proud of my country! Spend those middle class cointhottas girlssss!

[quote]I see a big spike in positive tests in mid-June all across the country, all because these people who flaunt safety at big events are all over the country.

Perhaps you meant "flout safety."

[quote] Missouri's governor held a press conference on Friday

Did he mention this cunt?

You just have to look after yourself and stay away from as many crowds as you can.

Enforced lockdowns for everyone were to prevent the vulnerable. I have been abiding by lockdown myself, but if you’re a fit and healthy person under the age of 50 (and probably more like 70 but let’s pitch it lower), then your risk of serious health issues or death is extremely low.

If you’re not living with or visiting elderly / already sick relatives or friends, then people screaming how you might pass it on to someone vulnerable, probably isn’t going to land.

[quote] but if you’re a fit and healthy person under the age of 50 (and probably more like 70 but let’s pitch it lower), then your risk of serious health issues or death is extremely low.

Complete and utter bullshit. No one knows how the virus will affect them.

Here’s just one of many examples:

Or this guy

Yes, R82, I meant "flout safety."! Thank you. Things happen to the 60-year-old mind.....

Fine. Let this happen. In 3 weeks when we have 5000 deaths a day maybe the naysayers and protesters will STFU if they haven't kicked the bucket.

I hoped covid-19 kills all of them in all of these pictures. The survivors will be back in November and again in January with their guns. They will be just as belligerent as they are now. But far more dangerous. So let's hope the virus gets them before they can cause further damage.

[quote] Things happen to the 60-year-old mind.....

Not to mention the body.

Trust me, I know.

Of for crissakes its a telephone lens, people. This has been explained to you multiple times. And yet the media GOT CHA again. SHREIK! OUTRAGE!

Look. Nobody is catching Covid outside in the summer heat. It’s just not happening. Infections are way down everywhere. People are not staying inside all summer, and they’re not wearing masks outside. Nothing to worry about.

People may sound like lonely old scolds, but if you have problems breathing or know anyone who does and want to keep them safe, best not to worry about exhibiting your flaming beauty at the beach for a bunch of chubby morons...

Oh, and a telephone lens? Whew...

[quote]Complete and utter bullshit. No one knows how the virus will affect them.

True, but that can be said for any illness. I think some of you are seizing on outliers and are ignoring basic common sense because you're so scared. The truth is, most people who get this thing are not going to die.

You’re right, r96, most are not going to die.

That doesn’t mean you may not go through hell and possibly spend weeks or months in the hospital, as the two I pointed out. There’s a wide swath of sickness between nothing and death.

Or you may have no symptoms at all.

But why take the risk when you don’t know?

Oh for fuck’s sake R72, just go out for that drink. And have a few. And don’t wear your mask while you’re drinking.

Dumb rednecks gonna redneck.

Why are you surprised?

[quote]But why take the risk when you don’t know?

I'm not taking the risk, other than going to the grocery story and Target once a week. But I'm not going to waste my energy on being upset with people who have decided to make different decisions about their own personal health. I got my mask on, I'm staying 6ft away. As long as you got you covered, why worry about anyone else?

Has everybody COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that one of the reasons for isolating and social distancing was to keep our hospitals from being overwhelmed? That still applies, so all you people saying it's fine, most people will survive, need to keep this in mind.

And don't get me started on the long-term effects of covid-19, like lung scarring. So even if you survive, you may have long term health issues.

[quote]Has everybody COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that one of the reasons for isolating and social distancing was to keep our hospitals from being overwhelmed?

NO hospitals are overwhelmed. New York City was the only place that got out of control, and that’s long over now.

I totally agree with one of the comment in the link- this generation of Americans are truly the most spoiled people on earth. Most never really got to experience hardships , experienced war firsthand, or any major calamities.

R102 That is not true.

R104... please identify which US hospitals are currently overwhelmed. I’ll wait...

[quote]Most never really got to experience hardships , experienced war firsthand, or any major calamities.

What in the hell does that have to do with anything. Some of you are going completely over the top.

Patriotism in the US is currently very sick and on a ventilator. It was more obvious when I was young that we not only looked out for ourselves, but others around us, even strangers. The repercussions thoughtless people can initiate can affect people far and wide, especially to the doctors and nurses who become involved in saving sick people's lives. Some of us, more deep down than others, realize the seriousness of going out and having fun, thinking only of their selves, and not others in the community. Pointing out people who go against warnings and common sense is really a great idea to keep us informed of what we may encounter going out, and reinforce the warnings to ourselves, lest we become too relaxed.

R102 The healthcare workers are stretched to the limit. Maybe my terminology "overwhelmed" was a bit dramatic, I will concede that. But just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't. We're only seeing the beginning of spikes in red states that have reopened the last couple of weeks. I wouldn't be so cavalier in your attitude, but that's just me. By all means, go crowding onto a beach or swimming pool this weekend and let's talk again in 14 days.

But then they get back to their work buildings and become mask Nazis.

DC has the saddest most pathetic vacation spots on the east coast. Compare Ocean city to Cape Cod or Cape May.

R102, they were not overwhelmed because most people stayed inside. But it’s not too late to screw up our limited success in controlling things...if people change what they are doing for the worse, then things can still get bad, worse than the first time. Not sure what is hard to grasp about that concept. I heard Cuomo say that projections were based upon 50% of the population following the guidelines, but a lot more than that ended up complying...this time. But it’s not like it’s over, at all.

[quote]please identify which US hospitals are currently overwhelmed

The mayor of Montgomery, Alabama on Thursday:

“Right now, if you’re from Montgomery and you need an ICU bed, you’re in trouble. If you’re from central Alabama and you need an ICU bed, you may not be able to get one.”

Kentuckians hang an effigy of the governor.

Make that Kentucky Republicans. These thugs are not representative of the entire awful state.

I guess we’ll find out two weeks from now, but I bet things don’t get worse after this holiday weekend. The curve has been successfully flattened and you don’t hear about many deaths anymore. I think we had fewer than 100 here in NYC.

We’ve passed the peak and should be slowly moving on. There’s no reason to rush, but we shouldn’t be sheltering in place any longer when the worst is behind us.

[quote] NO hospitals are overwhelmed. New York City was the only place that got out of control, and that’s long over now.

No, it’s not long over. One of the sticking points for NYC not meeting the governor’s metrics for opening is not having 30% of hospital beds available and not having 30% of ICU beds available.

We are doomed.

The stupid is strong. Too strong. And it will kill us all.

The lockdown was to avoid a surge in cases -- to flatten a curve that never came in most places because the models were off. The lockdown was never meant to exist in perpetuity and may not even have happened in most states if the models weren't so far off in the beginning. Even NY at its worst wasn't anywhere near what the Imperial College model predicted.

[quote] but we shouldn’t be sheltering in place any longer when the worst is behind us.

Nobody told you to “shelter in place.” This isn’t WWII. You could go out, go to the park, take a walk, go for a drive, go to the supermarket, etc. The idea is to avoid large crowds.

And if we all pour out onto the beaches and into the churches, the worst will be ahead of us instead of in the rearview mirror.

R115 needs a little history lesson:

Took my cat to the vet today (illicit peeing & pooping) and they’re still observing lockdown. We sat in car & they took cat inside & we talked to vet on the phone.

[quote] Even NY at its worst wasn't anywhere near what the Imperial College model predicted.

Yet you don’t think the “lockdown” as you call it has anything to do with that?

[quote] We’ve passed the peak and should be slowly moving on

“We’re having a second peak right now.”

- Republican governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, yeaterday

The graph was made for some of you morons...

Yes and no, r122. The no...The Imperial Model was way off and was revised downward just days after the dire prediction of 2 million dead. The yes...the lockdown did flatten the curve in the NY metro area. It did what it was meant to do, which was to flatten the curve so NY (and the country) could reopen. It was not something to exist in perpetuity. It was always understood there would be cases of covid once the country reopened as flattening the curve was meant to spead out covid cases over time.

Somewhere along the line people went to two different extremenes: one group refuses to practice social distancing and the other refuses to allow people to live the new normal.

R110 No one from DC vacations in (south) Ocean Shitty. Washingtonians and wealthy Marylanders vaca in North OC, Fenwick Island, Dewey Beach or gay-friendly Rehoboth. Now you know.

Fascists scolds having their daily circle jerk.

When I lived in DC, everyone vacationed in Hilton Head (Republicans) or South Beach.

[quote] The curve has been successfully flattened and you don’t hear about many deaths anymore

You are such a dumb cunt I can't even fathom the depths of your stupidity and willingness to infect and kill the people in your community and every other community. Dumb cunt doesn't even come close to describing the maggots eating at your brain.

Hundreds of innocent Americans died of Covid-19 today, and yesterday, and the day before that and the day before that. Hundreds more will die tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. We'll get spikes from those morons running around without masks or social distancing like dumb cunts.

It's still contagious. We still don't have adequate PPE. We still don't have adequate Testing. We still don't have adequate treatments.

ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED YOU DUMB, MAGGOT-INFESTED CUNT? Just curious.

How wide do you some of you think boardwalks are? Those people are cramped. Don't give me that telephoto lens shit.

R129, every state is reopening. You'd better adapt or it's going to be a long, miserable 18 months for you.

It is not “complete and utter bullshit” that the risk for healthy young adults is extremely low and when you cite individual exceptional deaths rather than stats, then you prove the point. We can all cite exceptional cases.

The pattern has been repeated all over the world wherever the virus has been seen. Referring to the statistical outliers this does not change the fact.

This does not mean a person should be complacent or that the virus isn’t awful, but it does mean that some people are taking calculated risks, like they do every time they get in a car.

Full disclosure, I have had and recovered from suspected COVID-19. It was an extremely unpleasant bug, the fever in particular was like nothing I have previously experienced and the cough lasted weeks, the sore throat was terrible. As unpleasant as it was, I don’t think most people are going to put their entire lives on hold indefinitely to avoid that level of illness (which is all it will be if not less for 95%+) and the lockdown will not hold much longer. The focus should be on protecting the most vulnerable.

North Carolina has done minimal testing and is now opening the outer banks. Y’all go to the beach, make sure to stop at your mega church’s service on the way!

Holy shit I’m glad I don’t live in the south.

DC folks go to the Outer Banks

Why do people need to gather in the first place? I’ve never enjoyed being surrounded by large groups of humans.

You’re different

Meanwhile, back to reality...

"The Coronavirus is Deadliest Where Democrats Live"

R125, the reason to lock down and "Flatten the curve" was not so we could re-open. It was to prevent medical services from being overwhelmed.

Further, that time was supposed to be used to get universal testing & contact-tracing in place, while businesses (with govt assistance) reworked to make it safer for people to be in them (social distancing, plastic barriers, contactless functioning and payment).

NONE OF THAT HAPPENED.

It's adamantly NOT safe to re-open unless all that stuff that didn't happen happens.

We're going to see a second wave that makes everything we've experienced so far seem like a walk in the park.

R137, are you idiots really that stupid?

Democrats live in big cities with higher population densities. Your idiotic post is just another "correlation is not causation" logical fallacy.

Further, it's the rural areas that are experiencing the biggest issues right now. It doesn't take much to overwhelm small rural hospitals (especially given the GOP has forced many of them to close by refusing to expand Medicaid under the ACA).

Go fuck yourself for trying to politicize this even further, dumbass.

Covid-19 has killed more than twice as many Americans in less than 3 months, than the Vietnam War did over the course of 20 years.

It's like having 9/11 happen every other day for two full months.

And some of you are dismissing this. All those lives lost.

And if, like the Florida spring breakers who left no trail of the virus in their wake, they & their loved ones don’t end up being infected, who’s laughing at who?

Like the reported numbers are even close to the actual truth.

Or the churches, r41?

[quote]And some of you are dismissing this. All those lives lost.

I don't think anyone is dismissing it. But I also think you need to take into account the demographics of all of those lives lost. I'm not saying that anyone one life is any more or less important than any other. But I do think you need to take that into consideration. Some of you are closing in on the hysteria stage with this thing and you're just the flip side of those liberate/open up morons. There is a happy middle ground.

[quote] But I also think you need to take into account the demographics of all of those lives lost. I'm not saying that anyone one life is any more or less important than any other. But I do think you need to take that into consideration.

That’s exactly what you’re saying.

What R138 said. We completely shut down for two months and the federal government did nothing during that time. Precious time was wasted while our leader, the orange blob, held daily rallies/press conferences that were a waste of time, telling us to drink bleach, shove a flashlight up our asses, or take hydroxychloroquine. "What have you got to lose???"

Now we're flinging open the doors to everything in most states. What could possibly go wrong??? But because a few posters on here claim to have had the virus and recovered, it's no big deal. Don't be fooled by what they say, be safe and use common sense. The least you can do is wear a fucking mask in public and practice social distancing.

[quote]was not so we could re-open. It was to prevent medical services from being overwhelmed.

Um, no shit. Once the curve was flattened the country was to reopen. The shutdown was never meant to continue in perpetuity.

[quote]NONE OF THAT HAPPENENED

It did where I am.

Just a reminder that several states opened back in April. Armageddon hasn't happened.

Rahm Emanuel: It's time to move on from a message of resistance to one of rebuilding.

R146 you are correct that the federal government didn't do anything for those two months, but you're forgetting that it left everything up to the states.

The Atlantic: America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further

The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.

Prevention is physically rewarding in the long term, but not emotionally rewarding in the short term. People who stay home won’t feel a pleasant dopamine kick from their continued health. Those who flock together will feel hugs and sunshine. The former will be tempted to join the latter. The media could heighten that temptation by offering “disparity in spectacle.” Fringe exceptions like anti-lockdown protests and packed restaurants, she says, are more dramatic and telegenic than people responsibly staying at home, and so more likely to be covered. The risk is that rare acts of incaution will seem like normal behavior.

In 2 weeks, expect a resurgence of covid-19. What fools we mortals be.

I love when the white devils are careless. I can't wait to move in when they are all dead!

This is for the moron at R137:

Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016

This comment from OP's link says it all:

"I’ve said it for months. Americans are an extremely undisciplined and spoiled people. As a country, we haven’t been through any real hardships in generations, compared to others.

We are used to getting what we want, when we want it. And the coronavirus era is no different."

[quote]Um, no shit. Once the curve was flattened the country was to reopen.

Uh, no. That's now how it works, and not how it was planned.

[quote]The shutdown was never meant to continue in perpetuity.

Anyone thinking the shutdown would last only two weeks was a moron. And yes, it shouldn't continue in perpetuity, but unless and until there's universal testing and contact tracing, and businesses and public spaces are retooled for social distancing, and everyone agrees to wear a mask when in public around other people... it is the ONLY option. The fact that all that time was SQUANDERED by Trump and Republicans is the reason this is dragging on, and the reason so many are dead, and so many more will get sick and die.

R147, it didn't happen anywhere in the United States. You're a lying moron. Fuck off.

Opening too soon, without proper precautions in place, is how you get a worse second wave.

The redneck Lake Ozark bar, Backwater Jacks, with that packed swimming cess pool is furiously deleting comments from its facebook page calling them out for being stupidly irresponsible. It's fun to check.

[quote]"The Coronavirus is Deadliest Where Democrats Live"

Because these areas have large minority populations.

(R121) I hope your cat gets better. What's his/her name?

As a country, we haven’t been through any real hardships in generations, compared to others.I

^^^ Oh, hon.

“I see dead people”.

It is way too soon to go back to carrying on like things are normal. It's totally irresponsible.

Hope you all enjoyed your day.

R154, EVERY. SINGLE. STATE. IS. REOPENING. EVERY. ONE. GET. USED. TO. IT.

The moron at R154 actually thinks we were going to wait around for "universal testing and contact tracing, and businesses and public spaces are retooled for social distancing, and everyone agrees to wear a mask when in public around other people..."

Not happening. And look at Europe with borders open and tourism encouraged.

r5, r163, r164, (too lazy to read them all)...

We hardly knew ye.

R154, I live in Pennsylvania. We are ahead of your state, apparently. Sucks to be you.

Pennsylvania is still pretty locked down. No restaurants are open, no hair salons, no gyms, no pools. Masks are mandatory.

Sucks to be you too, r165.

Depends on where you are, r167.

Well, that’s something to be proud of...

R170, yeah it is. Look at the numbers for the Western half of the state and the try to justify keeping shit closed. Allegheny County is the hardest hit with about 1800 cases in total. That's 1800 since February.

Hillbillies gonna hillbilly...

[quote]Not happening. And look at Europe with borders open and tourism encouraged.

Yeah, maybe take a look at some of their testing and contact tracing regimens, never mind their FAR lower infection and death rates.

Dumbass.

Who the fuck is the idiot moron at R163, and who the fuck are the idiot morons 'W&W' that aggressively stupid post?

St. Louis County in Missouri asked all residents who attended the pool party at the Lake of the Ozarks to self-quarantine for fourteen days. People can be identified in the video footage. I wonder how aggressive they will be about this.

Specialists from the American Office Managers Association are reviewing those videos as I type this.

Meanwhile, California is up to nearly 3k cases today.

R173 There is no unified European testing and contact tracing regimen which the EU would need as lockdowns end, border restrictions ease and international travel resumes.

R175 The pool party was at Backwater Jacks bar. They released this weak, lame response today and the comments on their facebook page are mostly dumb American flag emojis, thanks for defending "freedom," and calling the critics "Karen's" (the critics who aren't deleted). 🙄Pretty typical redneck, red state, jingoistic bullshit.

Can't wait for the second public shaming of these morons when their local public health department traces the inevitable outbreak to that nasty pool.