D&D and the rising pandemic

[Cadence]

Our school district (one of the few in the state requiring masks) has around 8,900 students and is down to:
77 student cases + 338 quarantined
5 staff cases + 2 quarantined

Two nearby unmasked districts:
One has about 3x the size with 277 student cases (2,865 quarantined) and 50 staff (56 quarantined)
One has about 2x the size with 161 student cases (871 quarantined) and 25 staff (15 quarantined).


The University requires masks but has a surprisingly low vaccination rate. 64% of students, 64% of staff, 74.8% of faculty. With around 33,000 students it is down to:
367 student cases
19 for faculty and staff.

 

[J.Quondam]

Overheard some antivaxxers this morning talking about an article they read about a child unable to have a surgery because "the hospitals are too obsessed with the stupid coronavirus."
Say what?

This nasty, willful stupidity is so wearisome. I don't know how (or even if) to confront this idiocy anymore.

 

[Umbran]

I don't know how (or even if) to confront this idiocy anymore.

Confronting idiocy has limited immediate beneficial effect on the idiot in question. So then we get into context as a gauge for when and how to engage.

 

[niklinna]

Info about a book published just before the big C dropped – The Psychology of Pandemics

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."

 

[Ryujin]

Confronting idiocy has limited immediate beneficial effect on the idiot in question. So then we get into context as a gauge for when and how to engage.

Like Twain said, "Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." On the other hand if you can maintain the high ground and there are sufficient witnesses, you might make educational use of such a person as counter-example.

 

[Umbran]

On the other hand if you can maintain the high ground and there are sufficient witnesses, you might make educational use of such a person as counter-example.

Yeah, but so many people lose the first part of that - maintaining the high ground.

 

[J.Quondam]

Unfortunately, maintaining the high ground isn't especially helpful when completely surrounded by well-armed loons, as one tends to be in those benighted places where idiocy is deeply woven into the local political cultural fabric.

 

[Zardnaar]

Our local looms aren't that bad or at least there's not enough of them.

 

[Thomas Shey]

If you're in the wrong place here, you can find virtually everyone you run into is one when it comes to COVID, or is at least faking it by keeping their head low.

 

[Zardnaar]

If you're in the wrong place here, you can find virtually everyone you run into is one when it comes to COVID, or is at least faking it by keeping their head low.

Doesn't get rewarded here politically. One bunch tried a US approach went from 47% 2017 to 21% few days ago in a poll.

I won't go into to many gritty details but they pulled the UK/US/Sweden Covid approach last year and got slaughtered during the election.