No One Is Social Distancing

MAAAAARRRRRYYYYYY!

At least they're wearing masks!

R2 no they are not

Where do you live, OP?

R4 I was just watching CNN and they are showing video from today - no one is taking this seriously

In my LA neighborhood it has been very quiet. The few people walking around are wearing masks.

In Pottersville the bars are already open again, pixies!

I watch live YouTube cams around the country and no one seems to be wearing masks. I do see them around my neighborhood though in LA.

People are sick of social distancing, because they have no attention span. Some are doing it deliberately to show their support for Trump, others because they thinking God will protect them. Trump wants to open everything up, since the economy is the only thing he has going for it. If there is another outbreak and an economic downturn, he will blame it on the Dems. The only thing you can do is take care of yourself, because masks and social distancing will be gone by the end of June ( unless there is another outbreak).

i think it's just because it's Summer time.

People are used to coming out from hibernation in their homes, and breaking free. And Memorial Day weekend has always been the kick-off to Summer, so it's not really surprising.

I guess everyone thinks that the warm weather will solve everything.

When it starts getting cold again, people will move back indoors and start social distancing again. Just watch.

[quote]In my LA neighborhood it has been very quiet. The few people walking around are wearing masks.

Everyone is at the beach.

OP you don't see the ones who are distancing. My brother tempted a garden party the other day and he said he felt horrified, said hello and left. Nobody was distancing. Well, duh, bro. But you get my point. People who are distancing are not out and about being filmed in mod scenes.

mobbed scenes

The majority of people are still staying home but that doesn’t make for “exciting” TV.

R14 So the ones out and about are idiots?

The ones out and about for non-essential activities are indeed idiots, yes.

[quote] Some are doing it deliberately to show their support for Trump

Lol! In NYC?

Believe it or not, R17, not everything is about NYC. People not social distancing in the epicenter of the virus are merely assholes, most with no political agenda.

Where I am in Brooklyn mostly everyone is wearing masks. You get the occasional idiot in a small store that doesn't. The parks are somewhat crowded, but not as bad as other places I've seen.

I’m on the UES and the vast majority of people wear masks on the street. Everyone wears them in stores. Sometimes people will pull them down if no one is nearby. I do. I haven’t seen a single altercation, but I don’t go too many places.

Social distancing from 400-lb jabbas isn't really an easy thing to achieve, dear human wanderers.

It’s fine with me. The more idiots that let themselves get sick, the longer I get to work from home.

R22!

"No One Is Social Distancing"

Lie.

Troll.

I went to Home Depot Sunday for flowers. The store only allowed a few in at a time. We were all waiting in line at 6’ distances, all with masks. Inside, it was more of the same. I did frequently pass people at closer than 6’, but everybody had masks, which the store required, and people were mindful of the social,distancing, for the most part. I felt comfortable m which is saying something.

I’m still running off the tank of gas I bought in Feb in preparation for Armageddon. I might fill up again tomorrow. Now, if I can only get a haircut this week!

Idiots in my building set up a barber shop right outside my window. No masks, no social distancing, just about 40 Mexicans and one barber. If they'd been in the hot sun I wouldn't have been so worried, but of course they weren't, and they were leaning against my windows and leaving their shit on my air conditiojner so I sweltered with it off until half an hour after they were all gone.

It's now believed it was just a particularly bad flu season that the world overreacted to, and a lot of sick and/or old people died- per usual.

Conspiracy theories include that the Liberal Media used it to crash Trump's beautiful economy.

I agree, R26. Those roving pop-up Mexican barbershop gangs are just the worse!

People just aren’t that scared anymore. At this point, the CDC estimates the death rate is 0.3%.

The original purpose of the shutdowns was so the hospitals wouldn’t get overwhelmed. Well, here in Washington, the hospitals are so underwhelmed that UW medicine just furloughed 4,000 hospital workers.

At this point, the threat of this virus in Washington is starting to lose credibility.

I live in upstate NY and all the tourists from NYC and NJ have overtaken my town. Groups of people without masks. So I'm just staying home and hope they all die.

Same in my neighborhood, R6. Everyone is wearing masks/social distancing.

I had It in late-Feb. Bad, but not hospital-bad. A couple times since then I've had experiences where I had a dry cough and felt over-heated for a few days (including last week). I feared It was coming back again. But now I wonder if there are different-but-similar strains out there, and I'm contracting them.

There's such a stigma that people often suffer in silence, for fear of being ostracized, quarantined... or fired/furloughed from their jobs.

I believe that most people now have been exposed to one or more of the strains, and their bodies all reacted differently to it.

No, R15, they're stable geniuses, the kind you find in horse boxes.

I wanted to go to a local park this weekend but then I remembered all of the crazies that are trying to buck the safety measures so my family stayed inside. My parents wanted to get out, but I put my foot down and told them I'm not going out to be amongst the mob. Thankfully, these people are helping the herd immunity process. At some point we either need a cure or will need to start the herd immunity process. People can't stay like this for the rest of the summer.

But doesn't "herd immunity" mean death and survivors? Yuk.

Obviously a lot of people are already "immune" to it or the whole planet would be rotting corpses. Probably a genetic immunity from way back.

I was driving around in LA today, and I was surprised how *few* cars were on the road. A lot of people (at least here) are still socially distancing. The media always reports on the bad behavior and not people boring-ly carrying on as usual.

I am social distancing and wearing a mask. Stay the fuck away from me.

It was so quiet in Boston today. Midday and all I could hear are the birds chirping. No city noise at all. So, people are not going about their pre-pandemic business.

Is corona over now? I really don’t hear it talked about. Should we still be quarantining? It doesn’t look like it with all these protest marches.

All masks do is prevent your SPRAY from sailing into the air if you have Covid-19. Or had it, and may still be contagious.

A silly paper/cloth mask isn't going to screen-out microscopic viruses, esp. if you're in a high viral load area like a theater, stadium or public transport.

I read that it usually enters through your eyeballs anyway- and no one is covering those.

Speak for yourself!

Here in N. Fl its about 50 - 50 . Usually its the white trash and older whites who refuse to wear masks or social distance. We were in BJ's today and this herd of white trash ,sans masks,walked by mother and I and thought theyd be cute and start acting like they were coughing because we were wearing masks. Even the small kids were fat slobs. Long story short,it got ugly and store security escorted them out. I was all manner of "faggot" and "asshole" dont ya know.

[quote]I read that it usually enters through your eyeballs anyway

I don't know where you read that, but there is no credible medical/scientific source making that claim today.

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Mama's mussy is hissing like a kettle at Julio's photo!

The protesters are definitely spreading the virus. Especially the overweight black people, who are more susceptible.

Julio V. Torres can poz me. PLEASE!

Op go to bed.

Plandemic

Scamdemic

Schiessedemic

[quote] The protesters are definitely spreading the virus.

Funny how no one's talking about that.

Why are they not R51? Or anybody have any theories? It’s like the virus disappeared all of a sudden.

Rachel Maddow is talking about it👍

At first about 25% of people were wearing masks here in my suburb of Cincinnati. Then it went to about 50% Right now it's about 75%. Many cancelled Memorial Day plans. Summer vacations have been postponed. I don't see kids in the grocery stores anymore.

I know two students at Miami U. who were exposed to the virus at one of the parties in Oxford, Ohio on graduation weekend. I know of a University of Missouri student who had Covid and went to that infamous pool party at the Lake of the Ozarks while he was infected. If these college students are not careful, colleges and universities will have to shut down in-person classes for the fall. They are trying their best to reopen safely in the fall, they can't guard against stupidity.

I wanted to invite one friend over for brunch on Saturday. Do you think it’s a bad idea?

I'm covered in Jesus's blood, so I don't have to worry.

[quote] Rachel Maddow is talking about it

Chris Hayes talked about it tonight and every night. Most everyone I’ve watched on CNN and MSNBC over the past week has at least mentioned it, as have all my local media outlets. It’s just taking a back seat to the protests themselves.

R55: Have both of you been tested? If not, will either of you be around old/vulnerable people after brunch - before being tested?

[quote] I wanted to invite one friend over for brunch on Saturday. Do you think it’s a bad idea?

It is if he has the virus.

(59) You should be fine. Your friend would tell you if he were showing symptoms.

OK r77, aka..cousin Stuart!

R60 has apparently been asleep the past 10 weeks, since we’ve known from almost the beginning that roughly one-third of carriers are completely asymptomatic.

[quote] I wanted to invite one friend over for brunch on Saturday. Do you think it’s a bad idea?

Will he mind being asked to wear a mask in your house?

Are you able to be 6 or more feet apart, or eat outside at 6 or more feet apart?

Do you have a half bath which he can use that is away from your main sleeping and kitchen quarters?

We have seen a friend a few times in the last few weeks, always in a public park or public area where no other people are, and we've distanced and worn masks.

It's time to move on and get on with our lives. Those that cant make it oh well, we have overpopulation problems anyway.

They should have ended the quarantine and put everyone back to work. Would have prevented a lot of the bullshit destruction that’s happened. Misguided, psychotic destruction. That has zero connection to the guilt of some asshole cops.

True, R66, but you're not supposed to say it.

People in Boston are social distancing. I think you have to wear a mark inside stores, by ordinance.

I walked to my local CVS today and it had been looted Sunday night.

I have to remind myself to add 5 minutes to any trip for suiting-up in gloves and mask, etc. Still adjusting to that.

Social distancing was the upper middle class virtue signal of the spring.

Summer 2020's is posting a black image on your Facebook and humblebragging about all your sweet, delicious priviledge and how guilty you feel about your career success and expensive belongings.

R69, yes to all of this. Even better if you can find a way to plead for civil rights while shirtless and hot.

Speak for yourselves, R69 & R70.

R71 I don't have the money, but I bet you do.

R30 - Southern and Eastern Europeans are the worst...agree with flight restrictions and using takeout instead of dining in restaurants, no masks except for the highly educated, barbershop and salons and dentists are ok, but stores need to stay closed. They talk about the virus while dancing, kissing and no masks.

Social distancing and mask wearing were political bullshit, the new bullshit is protests and riots. The TV lies to you.

Social distancing and mask wearing were driven by science, protests and riots are driven by emotion. You don't have to watch TV to figure that out.

R74, how is it “political bullshit”? The recommendation was not made as a political statement. If there were subsequent objections to them by the toddler-in-chief, and he tried to make it political to suit his own agenda, that doesn’t make it so.

Science has now turned on a dime and decided that mass gatherings of people are acceptable if they have a good reason. Covid-19 spares the good of heart I guess.

They're "risking their lives" to protest racism.

Without Fauci, Birx, charts and graphs, Americans are on to the NBT, the protests.

Television shows us what we are to regard as important.

So many social rat fucks! Worse than a summer in the tourist traps of the Mediterranean. And cheaper. Gawd! Deplorable. This will be a long summer.

R68 why the hell are you wearing gloves?

[quote]Science has now turned on a dime and decided that mass gatherings of people are acceptable if they have a good reason.

I am very uncomfortable with members of the medical establishment maintaining that protests against police brutality may be worth the risk of acquiring COVID-19. But they're not denying science -- they acknowledge that the risk is very real.

Any stats yet?

R81, you don’t wear gloves? I thought they were were recommended? Especially when touching public handrails, shopping carriages, etc., which are never cleaned.

The medical professionals, who I think should know best, are the most cautious in my city, and that tells me that gloves are a good idea.

R83 - Too early. Give it a week or two. I hope this does not shutdown things again for 4th of July.

Gloves don’t afford you any special protection, they can be contaminated as easily as your hands can be. Some people find that wearing gloves keeps them more alert about not touching their face, however, so that is worthwhile.

I’d probably wear gloves if I used public transportation, but I go bare handed and keep sanitizer in my pocket and in my car.

R86: Yep! Gloves also remind me to wash my hands as soon as I walk in the door - as well as everything those gloves touched.

I'm a contact tracer and yes, cases are going up, across the board.

I am taking all the precautions and always wear a mask when out. However, especially in LA, the genie is out of the bottle now with the mass protesting. We can still not sit on the beach. Even though things are "open", most everything is still closed even prior to the protests. Life is so grim, I would like to just wear a mask at this point in the new shitty normal and sit in an outdoor bar with a drink. We all know masks are fairly effective. It's up to everyone to protect themselves at this point. Life has to go on now in some fashion.

George Floyd's memorial in Brooklyn today. So much for social distancing.

R90 Reminds me of all the people who didn’t even get a funeral Let alone a nationally televised one.

R91, And if life were fair we wouldn't be watching this one.

R92 Haha ridiculous. Using a martyr to shut up the dissenters.