D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

I won't speak for everyone, but:

• I'm not sick of restrictions. In fact, I would like to see them continue--hundreds of people are still dying of Covid daily.
• I don't mind wearing a mask in public. My wife and I still do, and we still wish everyone else would.
• I hope we keep social distancing restrictions for the rest of my natural life. (Seriously, strangers don't need to sit or stand closer than six feet. Back up, random dude standing behind me at the grocery store.)
• I wouldn't notice if every restaurant permanently switched to only pick-up or delivery service. We order takeout 4, sometimes 5 times a week, but we haven't sat down in a restaurant in years.

I think the "everyone is tired of this" attitude is grossly overstated. 1 in 10 people, certainly. 4 out of 5, unlikely. Everybody? Nope.

If course there's people who think differently.

Restrictions here were lifted once polling numbers started to fall. The faster they fell the faster the restrictions were lifted.

You guys never did the restrictions here. Our lockdowns lasted months and they were some of the strictist in the world.

Think Auckland had 3 or 4 lockdowns one if them lasted 4 months iirc maybe longer. And that was the third or forth one.

Cracks started showing though and omicron got out because people stopped following the rules.

And some people couldn't follow the rules even if they wanted to. Homeless and sex workers for example. Sex workers didn't have the paper work to claim wage subsidies and some were caught sneaking out of lockdown cities. That's just the ones they caught.

Trying to find a more up to date one but back in February Covid wasn't the main issue people cared about.

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The most recent one I think Covid was number 8 or 9.

Cost of living, inflation and house prices/rent were bigger concerns iirc.

1 in 3-4k people dying vs other stuff right now that directly effects you.

Context what housing problems USA has now we started on that over 5 years ago. Covid poured fuel on the fire (20% rises in rent/mortgages 20-20-22).

Those rises were on top of 5 years or so of double digit rises. My brother could sell his house and move somewhere cheaper like LA.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’m 54, and my parents are inntheir mid-70s. Dad, as I’ve mentioned, is a MD. So I spend a LOT of time in medical offices of one kind or another.

And despite every last one of them posting signs requiring masking, there is always a number of people in the waiting rooms who do not. And the staff are reluctant to enforce those policies,

 

[Zardnaar]

I’m 54, and my parents are inntheir mid-70s. Dad, as I’ve mentioned, is a MD. So I spend a LOT of time in medical offices of one kind or another.

And despite every last one of them posting signs requiring masking, there is always a number of people in the waiting rooms who do not. And the staff are reluctant to enforce those policies,

No mask here you don't get in the door and the fuzz can be called if necessary. Or they just refuse to serve you.

Retail might have a bigger problem though as that's where most of the BS seems to happen.

Haven't seen it myself but there's anecdotes and media about the asshats.

Usually don't wear mask exercising or walking around the neighborhood then just social distance.

In town on the way to restaurant or whatever we wear them but it's kinda 50/50 outside with everyone else.

 

[JEB]

You were the one who presented this as, and I quote, "The only way to minimize exposure is to NEVER go to any large indoors congregations."

To be fair, that is a good way to minimize exposure. But "minimizing risk" and "managing risk" are not the same thing, the latter allows for a degree of risk but tries to compensate for it. (And both are preferable to the all-too-popular "ignoring risk"...)

 

[Umbran]

And despite every last one of them posting signs requiring masking, there is always a number of people in the waiting rooms who do not. And the staff are reluctant to enforce those policies,

My wife does veterinary house calls. Getting people to wear masks in their own homes is getting harder and harder.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Please don't downplay Covid by comparing it to "con crud".

No one said it was con crud. What we were saying was that mild cases might be indistinguishable from con crud, which is absolutely true. That makes no statement about the relative hazard involved.

 

[Cadence]

I was kind of hoping the new CDC color coding in the US would have worked, with people masking and distancing when it hit yellow, and pretty much staying home at red. Didn't really have much hope though.

 

[SakanaSensei]

I won't speak for everyone, but:

• I'm not sick of restrictions. In fact, I would like to see them continue--hundreds of people are still dying of Covid daily.
• I don't mind wearing a mask in public. My wife and I still do, and we still wish everyone else would.
• I hope we keep social distancing restrictions for the rest of my natural life. (Seriously, strangers don't need to sit or stand closer than six feet. Back up, random dude standing behind me at the grocery store.)
• I wouldn't notice if every restaurant permanently switched to only pick-up or delivery service. We order takeout 4, sometimes 5 times a week, but we haven't sat down in a restaurant in years.

I think the "everyone is tired of this" attitude is grossly overstated. 1 in 10 people, certainly. 4 out of 5, unlikely. Everybody? Nope.

I think you can tell who is “tired of it” pretty easily by mask usage. Here in Japan? Over 95% of people are still taking steps to protect their neighbors. In the west I’ve got no idea other than what I hear from friends, which makes it sound like a different world entirely. I don’t think anyone still actually taking this seriously is out in public without a mask, especially post Omicron rearing its head.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I’m 54, and my parents are inntheir mid-70s. Dad, as I’ve mentioned, is a MD. So I spend a LOT of time in medical offices of one kind or another.

And despite every last one of them posting signs requiring masking, there is always a number of people in the waiting rooms who do not. And the staff are reluctant to enforce those policies,

I'm glad to say I haven't seen that in the doctor's offices I go to--and in at least my GP's office they'll actively tell you to leave if you don't.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think you can tell who is “tired of it” pretty easily by mask usage. Here in Japan? Over 95% of people are still taking steps to protect their neighbors. In the west I’ve got no idea other than what I hear from friends, which makes it sound like a different world entirely. I don’t think anyone still actually taking this seriously is out in public without a mask, especially post Omicron rearing its head.

Japan's probably different to most if the world and had cultural tendencies to wear masks pre Covid.

My theory is most people live in bubbles. Eg "everyone around me does XYZ". XYZ varies by location though.

Bubble living is fine just as long as you're aware of it. My country has been a bigger bubble last two years.