Oh hey, we're still magically talking about COVID 65 days after the election. That happens when 4,000 Americans have died from COVID within the past 24 hours.

[Tears of the Cows 1,209]

My immunity is running out 😢

[Twinblade★ 3,922]

2 hours ago, Mr. Impossible said:

lol I remember when I got in trouble here for talking about "white fragility." No one is shitting on anyone for contracting a virus. Yes, people do shit on people for refusing to wear mask or social distance. Christie was on TV the other night going on about how he doesn't get why this is politicized, and it's because Republicans made it that way. If people are social distancing, being clean, wearing mask and get COVID. Things happen, there's no 100% effective way for it not to happen. However there is this stupid right winger flex of pointing that out as some sort of intellectual capital? Basically if someone regardless of part refuses to do anything preventive and gets COVID is radically different than someone being careful and getting....again, regardless of party. 

 

Why is it that a state filled with the same people who swore by mask wearing and social distancing suddenly become the Covid hotspot? It begs the question about whether or not they're following their own rules, or maybe they're just being hypocritical and like to blame conservatives for everything.

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25 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Why is it that a state filled with the same people who swore by mask wearing and social distancing suddenly become the Covid hotspot? It begs the question about whether or not they're following their own rules, or maybe they're just being hypocritical and like to blame conservatives for everything.

 

Is your argument that masks don't work?

 

Is your argument that California only has Democrats living there in the entire state?

 

To put it in perspective more people voted for Trump in California than the entire population of 35 other states.   How many of this 6 million Trumpets also don't believe in masks and believed it were a hoax? 

 

 

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43 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Why is it that a state filled with the same people who swore by mask wearing and social distancing suddenly become the Covid hotspot? It begs the question about whether or not they're following their own rules, or maybe they're just being hypocritical and like to blame conservatives for everything.

lol Dude are you ok? 

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1 minute ago, Mr. Impossible said:

lol Dude are you ok? 

I think he's indirectly trying to prove a point that masks don't work. Jeez, he's really fallen off the edge, hasn't he?

[Delita 698]

That’s pretty ridiculous. California is a massive state. As liberal as it is, there are way more republicans here than most red states. While the state is not doing too great the legit “hot spots” are located in the LA metro area and the Central Valley. 
 

No state is some liberal or conservative utopia. The country is freakin purple

Edited January 8, 2021 by Delita

[jehurey 3,230]

3 hours ago, Twinblade said:

 

Why is it that a state filled with the same people who swore by mask wearing and social distancing suddenly become the Covid hotspot? It begs the question about whether or not they're following their own rules, or maybe they're just being hypocritical and like to blame conservatives for everything.

Because that state still has 1/3 of the population that has ALWAYS been hardcore right-wingers.

 

Did you honestly think that California was some monolithic super-liberal state?  Have you ever been to its capital city of Sacramento?

 

Of course there were PLENTY of Californians who weren't following social distancing rules to the best of their ability, Trump absolutely conned them into being "defiant".

 

Secondly, interstate travel is still allowed, which means people from Red states would be entering California.

 

And lastly, here's the real answer that has had the most effect.

 

Trump and the federal government FUCKED UP the handling of the virus in April and May. They didn't commit to a real lockdown, a HARD lockdown.

 

Which is why it came back in July and August, and people still were in a state of not fully returning back to normal.

 

Which led to "pandemic fatigue" by September/October. People were just tired that it seemed like nothing was getting fixed, so they started getting even sloppier with following the rules.

 

And thus we entered November, with pandemic fatigue, and the government FORCED ALL STATES that they had to send children to school or else they'd lose federal funding for education.

 

That's why.

 

Had we taken care of business in May all the way through June, we could really opened up and get back to normal during July and August and most of September, and then warned people to get ready in October to go back to lockdown so that we could flatten the curve as much as possible during this contagious season.

Edited January 9, 2021 by jehurey

[Ike★ 2,908]

 

It's just like the flu