D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

Most people here don't use masks not because we're idiots but because you can't buy them.

Can't really make them either unless you had the materials on hand as supermarkets sold out of basic things. I tied a t shirt around my face but have only gone to the supermarket 3 times in 7 weeks.

Online sales not always an option as they were closed as well early on. If you don't have the right card that's not an option either and the banks are closed.

Things are slowly going back to normal. Hand sanitizer turned up in the supermarket today apparently.

One more death, two new cases. Last couple of days were 0.

Wouldn't be surprised to see numbers trend upwards again if we shift to level 2 next week. Death was same rest home as most of the others.

Found some masks eventually grand total of 5. I don't use them outside but saving them. Don't go anywhere is just easier.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Not all crappy masks...

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Saw one of a woman in a restaurant who had cut a slit in hers where it covered the mouth, so she could eat. Like nobody would notice the slit after the gravy residue framed it.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Saw one of a woman in a restaurant who had cut a slit in hers where it covered the mouth, so she could eat. Like nobody would notice the slit after the gravy residue framed it.

Classic example of human stupidity. Cutting a hole in a mask defeats the purpose of a mask.

 

[Azzy]

Classic example of human stupidity. Cutting a hole in a mask defeats the purpose of a mask.

Intelligence and Wisdom were their dump stats.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

What makes it worse is that the protests are reopening the country before we even reached the peak of cases and will in the long term make us have to quarantine longer.
Stay home when the government tells you to stay home. They're advised by professionals, and know better than you do.
(This pandemic is the perfect reason on why we shouldn't politicize pandemics. It leads to issues with getting help where we need it, and makes people die in a preventable manner.)

 

[ccs]

Stay home when the government tells you to stay home. They're advised by professionals, and know better than you do.

You're going to have to roll a lot higher on that persuasion check to convince me that the US Govt. (current federal lv at least) knows better than I do.

 

[Imaculata]

You're going to have to roll a lot higher on that persuasion check to convince me that the US Govt. (current federal lv at least) knows better than I do.

Pretty much this. Doubt everything this government claims, and use your common sense first and fore most. Because it seems painfully obvious that saving lives is not the top priority of this government.

 

[Hussar]

You're going to have to roll a lot higher on that persuasion check to convince me that the US Govt. (current federal lv at least) knows better than I do.

See, this, this right here, is a MAJOR source of the problem. Look at countries that are doing ok. Japan, NZ, Canada seems to be over the hump, etc. Every one of these countries don't seem to have this giant, "No GUMMINT GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" approach. Nor, do they have these very large anti-science groups who have used religion for the past couple of decades as the beat stick for forcing their agendas.

I'm still frankly baffled why Americans have always seemed to have had this giant hate on for their governments. You are the richest nation in the world and have been so for over a century. You haven't had a war on your own soil for over a century. You lead the world in so many areas.

But, for some reason, everyone wants to blame the government for incompetency. You don't get to be number one in the world if your government is incompetent. It always completely baffles me.

 

[Imaculata]

But, for some reason, everyone wants to blame the government for incompetency. You don't get to be number one in the world if your government is incompetent. It always completely baffles me.

To be fair, how competent or incompetent the US government is, depends wildly on who is currently in office. US mistrust in their own government is not always unjustified. Right now they are stuck with a president that denies science and the pandemic. I think that is fair reason to not trust who's in charge.

Besides, people also judge their goverment by their actions, and/or inaction.

The US is not alone in this. There are minor protests in the Netherlands right now, and big protests in Spain (or so I've heard). Some protests may be justified, if the government has bungled their Corona response.

Also:

You don't get to be number one in the world if your government is incompetent.

Its not just incompetence that fuels protests. The ugly side of capitalism, and the notion that the lives of lower income people are expendable and less valuable than the economy itself, are also perfect fuel for resentment and mistrust. Also, the USA is certainly not number one when it comes to health care, which seems pretty important to mention in this discussion.

 

[Zardnaar]

See, this, this right here, is a MAJOR source of the problem. Look at countries that are doing ok. Japan, NZ, Canada seems to be over the hump, etc. Every one of these countries don't seem to have this giant, "No GUMMINT GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" approach. Nor, do they have these very large anti-science groups who have used religion for the past couple of decades as the beat stick for forcing their agendas.

I'm still frankly baffled why Americans have always seemed to have had this giant hate on for their governments. You are the richest nation in the world and have been so for over a century. You haven't had a war on your own soil for over a century. You lead the world in so many areas.

But, for some reason, everyone wants to blame the government for incompetency. You don't get to be number one in the world if your government is incompetent. It always completely baffles me.

They're not number 1 per capita anymore.

Even if you cut out the fake country Micro states and Petro states.

Throw in the way money is distributed and yeah.

To get me to move to the USA is a free green card and six figures.

Australia is probably one place I would be looking at all things considered.