BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Facing a Justice Department lawsuit over Alabama’s notoriously violent prisons, state lawmakers on Monday began a special session on a $1.3 billion construction plan that would use federal pandemic relief funds to pay part of the cost of building massive new lockups.

Gov. Kay Ivey has touted the plan to build three new prisons and renovate others as a partial solution to the state’s longstanding troubles in its prison system. The proposal would tap up to $400 million from the state’s share of American Rescue Plan funds to help pay for the construction.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus- … 8a9604fda9
This is an excellent idea. More prisoners = less workers.

Yes, I think we don't have to. Even if we don't I will for a while.

I face mask virtually everywhere, even outdoors. If I'm on a trail I still have one around my wrist in case I come across other hikers.

The only time I don't actively wear one is if I'm at a restaurant eating. Even then, I'll put the mask on if I have to get up and go to the bathroom.

I've been spending the last few years focusing on minimizing waste, but I use disposable masks and swap them out, sometimes multiple times a day as needed. I keep a box in the trunk and another in my backpack.

The clam deaths will be offset by my use of reusable grocery and produce bags

I know, it was annoying. I have a bunch of plastic bags in my pantry now. I use some for when I have to take clothes to the dry cleaners and I keep my cleats for softball in another. At this rate it will take me about 5 years to run through all the plastic bags I have.

I kept hearing people say they took their masks off when the guidance came up that vaccinated people could. I kept wearing one in public even after I was vaccinated 1) for the extra protection anyway and 2) to not look like an antimask pigman.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I shopped for groceries at a richer area awhile back. I think I noticed more people without masks than the usual budget grocery store. I think perhaps yuppies are just as much responsible for this sort of thing as stereotypical Trump poor. Maybe if I shopped up more I could finally witness a public freakout about masks.

According to statistics, higher income people vote R. Lower income people vote Democrat. This has stayed true through Trump.

There are plenty of low income minorities who "DoNt GiVe A fUcK" (rat people) and will not do the right thing for 5 minutes. The mainstream media is hesitant to that point that out though. Mixed feelings there. It annoys me to no end when I see young black people not taking precautions. The first big COVID wave that hit NYC was in the minority neighborhoods. Low income housing etc. It's like "didn't you see all of you people dying on T.V. awhile back? Do you know how even more fucked you are if you get sick?"

uziq wrote:

they were also the people forced to continue working retail, also the people working as nurses and low-paid frontline medical staff, also the people driving buses and trains and taxis to keep the city open.

I am not critical of whatever that community did in March 2020. Nobody deserves to have their tenement building become a COVID hive. But people in 2021 still going around pretending nothing bad can happen to them right after we watched something bad happen to their community on international television....grating to say the least.

"All of America is your community"
Okay but not really, right. A closet case pretending to be a cowboy while rolling coal in Texas...hardly my community.

They developed a COVID treatment pill. Cuts death by 50%.  The mono whatever treatment has like a 80ish rate but that is an intensive and expensive treatment. This could be mass produced and self administered.

Huge breakthrough. Some people get are unbelievably unlucky and eventually everyone gets unlucky and taken out by something. But between this, vaccines, and mono thing we should be out of this by now.

It would be even more interesting if it was true.

Our government has pretty much abandoned the elimination strategy.

Now, thousands of NZers are going to die because of the anti crowd couldn't be bothered sitting on their couch for a month, rolling up their sleeve or wearing a mask.

"Lockdowns don't work therefor I'm not going to respect them"...*spreads covid*..."see, it didn't work"

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Most of my social circled is jabbed or on the way to being.  I know a handful of anti types but thankfully my only interactions with them are electronic these days.  A few more vax hesitant, those I don't mind, they at least will listen.

A lot are just hesitant about the Pfizer jab, which is the only one currently available here.  The top three concerns are fertility, DNA and it just feels rushed.