ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Given the volume of discussion around this topic, we're gonna be doing things a bit differently until further notice. Instead of one thread, we'll be using two and a half threads.
An updates and information thread. News about response efforts, updates on the spread of the virus, new resources to keep track of news, political developments directly related to the virus, etc. No rumors, no twitter randos, do your best to make sure it's verified information before posting to this thread.
A general coronavirus discussion thread. How things are happening in your town, how you're doing, how your family is doing, and other things you don't think go into the updates thread this goes in the general thread.
The existing chat thread. There are lots of 'fun' or interesting things, posts tangentially related to the disease, cool videos, twitter posts, etc, that aren't news, or really something to discuss. Feel free to post them in the existing chat thread, because it's there for you, even if you don't usually post there. They're not all bad people. It's there, you might as well use it.
This should help us have some readable threads, given the current volume of posts.
I'll be using my move posts powers occasionally, to keep things where they belong, so don't be surprised if that happens.
Burrack made a thread for lockdown resources, so you might want to look at that as well.
This thread has shown itself to be more than willing to go romping off into fields filled with discussions of secession and civil war and alien invasions and what have you, and it shouldn't do that.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
It was political from the start. Like Trump claimed back in February it was going to be gone, so from the start the GOP has been running bullshit screen to back that up.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
While I'm all for calling the GOP out for racism, the virus was political as soon as someone told Trump he had to actually do something in response. When confronted with needing to actually take action, read things, and listen to briefings and advice that aren't just about how awesome he is Trump was obviously going to dig his heels in any insist that no, in fact he doesn't need to do any of those things. The GOP instantly rushed to have his back by agreeing that obviously nothing needs to be done and, as is their wont, blaming any evidence to the contrary on Those Gosh Darned Democrats. And now here we are.
The fact that the virus is especially hard on minority communities and the poor is just icing on the shit cake for the GOP.
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
Some of them seem to have taken it as white people are genetically resistant. This means they have put it in the "not our problem, who cares, LOL" mental bucket. Given the situation in Italy this is obviously wrong. They could be in for a rude awakening.
In reality, black people are probably more affected due to issues of poverty (overcrowding, earlier ill-health) and location (more likely to live in cities)
It was political from the start. Like Trump claimed back in February it was going to be gone, so from the start the GOP has been running bullshit screen to back that up.
Aye. What made it political was that Trump ignored it and the results of it affected Trump's re-election chances. So Trump made it a thing and everyone on the right is just following his lead.
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HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
So, you want to send kids back to school. Step one is controlling the pandemic, as has been done where I live (two new cases of covid in a 5 million population yesterday).
A five-staged approach has been developed to operate schools.
Depending on risk of transmission, for the remainder of the 2019/2020 school year:
For Kindergarten to Grade 5, this means most students will go to school half time (such as alternating days)
Grades 6-12 will go to school about one day a week
Children of essential service workers and students needing additional supports will have the option to attend school full time
Families that decide not to send their children to class may continue learning from home
If you want a huge government response to deal with the pandemic so kids going back to school is possible, the way to do it is to control the pandemic, not draft non-trained people and force them to be in close proximity to children.
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Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
While I'm all for calling the GOP out for racism, the virus was political as soon as someone told Trump he had to actually do something in response. When confronted with needing to actually take action, read things, and listen to briefings and advice that aren't just about how awesome he is Trump was obviously going to dig his heels in any insist that no, in fact he doesn't need to do any of those things. The GOP instantly rushed to have his back by agreeing that obviously nothing needs to be done and, as is their wont, blaming any evidence to the contrary on Those Gosh Darned Democrats. And now here we are.
The fact that the virus is especially hard on minority communities and the poor is just icing on the shit cake for the GOP.
This is true, but when you had the Republican governments shift from taking it seriously to "Fuck it, we're reopening." was right after the news about how it was hitting the Black community started to come out.
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
While I'm all for calling the GOP out for racism, the virus was political as soon as someone told Trump he had to actually do something in response. When confronted with needing to actually take action, read things, and listen to briefings and advice that aren't just about how awesome he is Trump was obviously going to dig his heels in any insist that no, in fact he doesn't need to do any of those things. The GOP instantly rushed to have his back by agreeing that obviously nothing needs to be done and, as is their wont, blaming any evidence to the contrary on Those Gosh Darned Democrats. And now here we are.
The fact that the virus is especially hard on minority communities and the poor is just icing on the shit cake for the GOP.
This is true, but when you had the Republican governments shift from taking it seriously to "Fuck it, we're reopening." was right after the news about how it was hitting the Black community started to come out.
I remain unconvinced that Trump himself gives a fuck about anybody dying, regardless of skin color. His advisors on the other hand...
Hakks when you finish school I'm sending you a very nice, tastefully framed SUPER LAWYER so it turns out Super Lawyers is a genuine lawyer rating service. Congrats to Taylor.
Every time I have to go out I just want to scream at people not wearing masks. It's not for your protection so much as for mine you asshole
yes, but they don't care about you.
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HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
I'm starting to feel weary about getting pissed about people outdoors without masks. Outdoors, especially fleeting contact outdoors, seems to not be the main vector of transmission. As long as a decent number of people are masked I'm too tired to get stressed about the others, as long as they're not also just lingering in tight quarters in groups. Yeah it's sloppy. So's stranger sex without a condom. You can't stop people from banging and you can only expect so many others to voluntarily do it safely. it's just a lot more visible when it's a condom for your face.
Indeed. Our top health official has said the chance of infection for outdoor interactions is very low. The point of masks is for indoors when distancing isn't possible. If you're out for a solitary walk or run or whatever, there's probably not much point to the mask.
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HakkekageSpace Whore Academysumma cum laudeRegistered Userregular
Indeed. Our top health official has said the chance of infection for outdoor interactions is very low. The point of masks is for indoors when distancing isn't possible. If you're out for a solitary walk or run or whatever, there's probably not much point to the mask.
i mean you should still have one with you in case you find yourself in a situation where you can't distance. I haven't gone running in a while because of ~still fucking working on school shit oh my god please make it stop~ but I don't need old ladies yelling at me again, masks are useful as a social signaling technique. But if I'm out for a run I just can't keep the mask on the whole time, it's suffocating. The risk of infection is likely low enough that not pulling the mask up every time is not hugely risky behavior.
Now if you're having a picnic for several hours and talking into each others faces from close quarters? Different story.
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
Some of them seem to have taken it as white people are genetically resistant. This means they have put it in the "not our problem, who cares, LOL" mental bucket. Given the situation in Italy this is obviously wrong. They could be in for a rude awakening.
In reality, black people are probably more affected due to issues of poverty (overcrowding, earlier ill-health) and location (more likely to live in cities)
Currently in the US it is a poor man's disease. That is only because the poor are disproportionately likely to have jobs that cannot be done remotely and so have to continue exposing themselves while everyone else can quarantine. (It's not a universally true proxy, but true often enough to matter) However, people are leaving quarantine. Meaning they are now increasingly exposing themselves like essential workers have been doing throughout. There is nothing about the virus that cares about your race or your status; just your exposure.
It won't be a poor man's disease come July. At least, across the South where they're masqueing the red death.
Every time I have to go out I just want to scream at people not wearing masks. It's not for your protection so much as for mine you asshole
Hmm, "asshole?" Singular?
Here when I'm out and about I might, might run into one other person who has a mask. When I go to the office to do some physical work, I'm literally the only person on-site with a mask, all the sales counter folks point at me and laugh like they're in a high school being depicted on TV or in a movie.
I live in what is described as the "coronavirus hotspot" for our state and yet the population of said hotspot largely feels that it's all blown out of proportion. They will sagely nod that it's truly terrible how many of our elderly have died in our local nursing homes these past few months from coronavirus and then, without hesitation nor blinking, talk about how the media has blown it out of proportion and they see masks on TV and shake their head.
There is no dichotomy of thinking here, for them. They are the "reasonable people" who know coronavirus is bad but whenever you talk about protective measures, c'mon, it's not that bad.
Unless you live in Texas or one of these other red states that is throwing open the floodgates once more it is difficult to comprehend just how buck wild it is. Growing up I would never have expected for a virus that kills people to be politicized but here we are.
Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
Some of them seem to have taken it as white people are genetically resistant. This means they have put it in the "not our problem, who cares, LOL" mental bucket. Given the situation in Italy this is obviously wrong. They could be in for a rude awakening.
In reality, black people are probably more affected due to issues of poverty (overcrowding, earlier ill-health) and location (more likely to live in cities)
Currently in the US it is a poor man's disease. That is only because the poor are disproportionately likely to have jobs that cannot be done remotely and so have to continue exposing themselves while everyone else can quarantine. (It's not a universally true proxy, but true often enough to matter) However, people are leaving quarantine. Meaning they are now increasingly exposing themselves like essential workers have been doing throughout. There is nothing about the virus that cares about your race or your status; just your exposure.
It won't be a poor man's disease come July. At least, across the South where they're masqueing the red death.
Even if exposure is equal, poor people are more likely to have comorbidities and less likely to have good healthcare
There are reasons one wouldn’t need to wear a mask that aren’t irresponsible though right
If you've had it and recovered from it, the best evidence shows that you can't get it again, nor serve as a vector.
But I'm pretty sure tine 50% of the Home Depot crowd I saw without masks the other day were not all COVID survivors, soooooo.
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The american evangelical community has been part of a long-running trial on whether you can stop people from banging and the results are pretty conclusive. The best you can do is deflect them to another hole.
So my girlfriend's uncle was just diagnosed with terminal cancer of the everything and has two years left if treatment goes perfectly. Which it probably won't, and the treatment makes him susceptible to everything, ESPECIALLY shit like COVID, so she can't go visit, and also he lives on the opposite coast.
It's especially rough because she had ANOTHER uncle who got sick and died and she was never able to visit him before he passed for various reasons, and now it looks like the same thing might be happening again, and fuck everything.
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
here in NZ, schools opened on Monday.
We have had several days of 0 new cases, we are holding steady so far at only 21 deaths, and all of our currently known outbreaks are well, known.
My child's daycare has lines at the front door and out the one entry gate. a staff member is waiting inside with a thermometer to check the temps of the kids going in. We are to bring our own pen and fill out contact tracing forms every morning. Name, child's name, phone number, childs' temp. has your child been unwell in the last 24 hours? are you the one picking up the kid, or is somebody else?
Then you sanitise your hands, go into the kids classroom, drop them off, do the normal sign in sheet there saying that you dropped the kid off and are now leaving, say goodbye and leave through the one exit gate.
overall, i feel pretty confident in my daycare, and I'm pleased with the levels and things they are doing. Are they distancing the kids from each other? Yes, to the best of their ability. they're doing rolling lunch time so each group only has 10 kids sitting at the table at a time. But other than that, they're letting the kids play as kids should be doing.
there is running outside, playing in sand, painting and colouring and the kids are being just normal kids and let me tell you, that makes this momma's heart grow. All the things that I cannot do for her at home, she is getting there.
I just wish that my experience wasn't the outlier here
The american evangelical community has been part of a long-running trial on whether you can stop people from banging and the results are pretty conclusive. The best you can do is deflect them to another hole.
I'm starting to feel weary about getting pissed about people outdoors without masks. Outdoors, especially fleeting contact outdoors, seems to not be the main vector of transmission. As long as a decent number of people are masked I'm too tired to get stressed about the others, as long as they're not also just lingering in tight quarters in groups. Yeah it's sloppy. So's stranger sex without a condom. You can't stop people from banging and you can only expect so many others to voluntarily do it safely. it's just a lot more visible when it's a condom for your face.
This is where I'm at. I don't wear a mask if I'm out alone walking around or running outdoors. I do wear it in busy environments and stores, or if I'm in a situation where I'm in close confines with other people.
We have had several days of 0 new cases, we are holding steady so far at only 21 deaths, and all of our currently known outbreaks are well, known.
My child's daycare has lines at the front door and out the one entry gate. a staff member is waiting inside with a thermometer to check the temps of the kids going in. We are to bring our own pen and fill out contact tracing forms every morning. Name, child's name, phone number, childs' temp. has your child been unwell in the last 24 hours? are you the one picking up the kid, or is somebody else?
Then you sanitise your hands, go into the kids classroom, drop them off, do the normal sign in sheet there saying that you dropped the kid off and are now leaving, say goodbye and leave through the one exit gate.
overall, i feel pretty confident in my daycare, and I'm pleased with the levels and things they are doing. Are they distancing the kids from each other? Yes, to the best of their ability. they're doing rolling lunch time so each group only has 10 kids sitting at the table at a time. But other than that, they're letting the kids play as kids should be doing.
there is running outside, playing in sand, painting and colouring and the kids are being just normal kids and let me tell you, that makes this momma's heart grow. All the things that I cannot do for her at home, she is getting there.
I just wish that my experience wasn't the outlier here
As someone stuck at home with a four year old, that sounds pretty awesome. Though I hope someone is developing an app for childcare providers so that all those forms and things can be done touchless in the future
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WhiteZinfandelYour insidesLet me show you themRegistered Userregular
I don't think you have to wear a mask while running if you know for a fact that nobody is going to come within a couple meters of you or pass through the same space that you occupied within, say, thirty seconds of you doing so.
But since you can only really know that to be a fact for the next twenty seconds, you better have a mask to put on when a couple hikers pop up on your ordinarily lonely, seven foot wide trail. Assuming you're on a trail in the first place. If you're in a cityscape, huffing and puffing in the vicinity of handrails, doorknobs, etc, then you'd better be wearing a mask the whole time.
We have had several days of 0 new cases, we are holding steady so far at only 21 deaths, and all of our currently known outbreaks are well, known.
My child's daycare has lines at the front door and out the one entry gate. a staff member is waiting inside with a thermometer to check the temps of the kids going in. We are to bring our own pen and fill out contact tracing forms every morning. Name, child's name, phone number, childs' temp. has your child been unwell in the last 24 hours? are you the one picking up the kid, or is somebody else?
Then you sanitise your hands, go into the kids classroom, drop them off, do the normal sign in sheet there saying that you dropped the kid off and are now leaving, say goodbye and leave through the one exit gate.
overall, i feel pretty confident in my daycare, and I'm pleased with the levels and things they are doing. Are they distancing the kids from each other? Yes, to the best of their ability. they're doing rolling lunch time so each group only has 10 kids sitting at the table at a time. But other than that, they're letting the kids play as kids should be doing.
there is running outside, playing in sand, painting and colouring and the kids are being just normal kids and let me tell you, that makes this momma's heart grow. All the things that I cannot do for her at home, she is getting there.
I just wish that my experience wasn't the outlier here
As someone stuck at home with a four year old, that sounds pretty awesome. Though I hope someone is developing an app for childcare providers so that all those forms and things can be done touchless in the future
My childcare provider has an app we use to sign in. We can even sign in specifically from our own phone device to minimize like surface contact
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
This might help convince people you know, so I am posting it here. The incredible difference in the rate of death is just staggering.
IDK what to do with my coworkers, they flat out don't believe the deaths are covid related at all, everyone's just making them up
they have glommed onto the single data point that prisons have 95+% asymptomatic positive rates, and the low death count in prisons nation wide as proof that the virus is not a threat at all
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Addendum: it should have been obvious that as soon as the GOP learned that black people were dying in disproportionately high percentages, this virus would become political
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While I'm all for calling the GOP out for racism, the virus was political as soon as someone told Trump he had to actually do something in response. When confronted with needing to actually take action, read things, and listen to briefings and advice that aren't just about how awesome he is Trump was obviously going to dig his heels in any insist that no, in fact he doesn't need to do any of those things. The GOP instantly rushed to have his back by agreeing that obviously nothing needs to be done and, as is their wont, blaming any evidence to the contrary on Those Gosh Darned Democrats. And now here we are.
The fact that the virus is especially hard on minority communities and the poor is just icing on the shit cake for the GOP.
Some of them seem to have taken it as white people are genetically resistant. This means they have put it in the "not our problem, who cares, LOL" mental bucket. Given the situation in Italy this is obviously wrong. They could be in for a rude awakening.
In reality, black people are probably more affected due to issues of poverty (overcrowding, earlier ill-health) and location (more likely to live in cities)
Aye. What made it political was that Trump ignored it and the results of it affected Trump's re-election chances. So Trump made it a thing and everyone on the right is just following his lead.
https://youtu.be/DPUbnzTGyU8
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Then you have a plan
If you want a huge government response to deal with the pandemic so kids going back to school is possible, the way to do it is to control the pandemic, not draft non-trained people and force them to be in close proximity to children.
This is true, but when you had the Republican governments shift from taking it seriously to "Fuck it, we're reopening." was right after the news about how it was hitting the Black community started to come out.
I remain unconvinced that Trump himself gives a fuck about anybody dying, regardless of skin color. His advisors on the other hand...
Thank fuck.
Do they make paintballs filled with disinfectant? Then we could just kind of hose them down for the benefit of the general public...
yes, but they don't care about you.
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i mean you should still have one with you in case you find yourself in a situation where you can't distance. I haven't gone running in a while because of ~still fucking working on school shit oh my god please make it stop~ but I don't need old ladies yelling at me again, masks are useful as a social signaling technique. But if I'm out for a run I just can't keep the mask on the whole time, it's suffocating. The risk of infection is likely low enough that not pulling the mask up every time is not hugely risky behavior.
Now if you're having a picnic for several hours and talking into each others faces from close quarters? Different story.
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Currently in the US it is a poor man's disease. That is only because the poor are disproportionately likely to have jobs that cannot be done remotely and so have to continue exposing themselves while everyone else can quarantine. (It's not a universally true proxy, but true often enough to matter) However, people are leaving quarantine. Meaning they are now increasingly exposing themselves like essential workers have been doing throughout. There is nothing about the virus that cares about your race or your status; just your exposure.
It won't be a poor man's disease come July. At least, across the South where they're masqueing the red death.
Hmm, "asshole?" Singular?
Here when I'm out and about I might, might run into one other person who has a mask. When I go to the office to do some physical work, I'm literally the only person on-site with a mask, all the sales counter folks point at me and laugh like they're in a high school being depicted on TV or in a movie.
I live in what is described as the "coronavirus hotspot" for our state and yet the population of said hotspot largely feels that it's all blown out of proportion. They will sagely nod that it's truly terrible how many of our elderly have died in our local nursing homes these past few months from coronavirus and then, without hesitation nor blinking, talk about how the media has blown it out of proportion and they see masks on TV and shake their head.
There is no dichotomy of thinking here, for them. They are the "reasonable people" who know coronavirus is bad but whenever you talk about protective measures, c'mon, it's not that bad.
I guess, maybe, if you have severe breathing problems
Even if exposure is equal, poor people are more likely to have comorbidities and less likely to have good healthcare
How defeatist
We’re all in this together
If you've had it and recovered from it, the best evidence shows that you can't get it again, nor serve as a vector.
But I'm pretty sure tine 50% of the Home Depot crowd I saw without masks the other day were not all COVID survivors, soooooo.
The american evangelical community has been part of a long-running trial on whether you can stop people from banging and the results are pretty conclusive. The best you can do is deflect them to another hole.
The people who have a legitimate reason not to wear a mask in public are also the people at the highest risk if they actually catch the disease.
It's especially rough because she had ANOTHER uncle who got sick and died and she was never able to visit him before he passed for various reasons, and now it looks like the same thing might be happening again, and fuck everything.
We have had several days of 0 new cases, we are holding steady so far at only 21 deaths, and all of our currently known outbreaks are well, known.
My child's daycare has lines at the front door and out the one entry gate. a staff member is waiting inside with a thermometer to check the temps of the kids going in. We are to bring our own pen and fill out contact tracing forms every morning. Name, child's name, phone number, childs' temp. has your child been unwell in the last 24 hours? are you the one picking up the kid, or is somebody else?
Then you sanitise your hands, go into the kids classroom, drop them off, do the normal sign in sheet there saying that you dropped the kid off and are now leaving, say goodbye and leave through the one exit gate.
overall, i feel pretty confident in my daycare, and I'm pleased with the levels and things they are doing. Are they distancing the kids from each other? Yes, to the best of their ability. they're doing rolling lunch time so each group only has 10 kids sitting at the table at a time. But other than that, they're letting the kids play as kids should be doing.
there is running outside, playing in sand, painting and colouring and the kids are being just normal kids and let me tell you, that makes this momma's heart grow. All the things that I cannot do for her at home, she is getting there.
I just wish that my experience wasn't the outlier here
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I was just doing a bit :P
This is where I'm at. I don't wear a mask if I'm out alone walking around or running outdoors. I do wear it in busy environments and stores, or if I'm in a situation where I'm in close confines with other people.
This might help convince people you know, so I am posting it here. The incredible difference in the rate of death is just staggering.
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As someone stuck at home with a four year old, that sounds pretty awesome. Though I hope someone is developing an app for childcare providers so that all those forms and things can be done touchless in the future
But since you can only really know that to be a fact for the next twenty seconds, you better have a mask to put on when a couple hikers pop up on your ordinarily lonely, seven foot wide trail. Assuming you're on a trail in the first place. If you're in a cityscape, huffing and puffing in the vicinity of handrails, doorknobs, etc, then you'd better be wearing a mask the whole time.
And also it's bad social distancing and therefore we shouldn't
But every time I see someone with their mask down under their nose (but otherwise covering their face)
I just
I just wanna march up to them
And just
boop
My childcare provider has an app we use to sign in. We can even sign in specifically from our own phone device to minimize like surface contact
pleasepaypreacher.net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQPZe7cD7w
IDK what to do with my coworkers, they flat out don't believe the deaths are covid related at all, everyone's just making them up
they have glommed onto the single data point that prisons have 95+% asymptomatic positive rates, and the low death count in prisons nation wide as proof that the virus is not a threat at all