Ducks4brkfast said:

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CowtownAg06 said:

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I read it as 400 cases per day and either 5% positive or 15% of medical resources. Regardless it's a ridiculous set of criteria.

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The below quote is bolded in this article:

https://www.readyharris.org/a-roadmap-to-reopen-schools

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To move down the ladder of the threat level system, all the thresholds for the indicators must be met sustainably.

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And Orange is still only 25% in-person and that's special ed, homeless kids, etc.

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This sh-t is almost criminal.

Their "exit strategy" here is complete garbage. They would keep us locked up until cases are effectively zero and apparently they reserve the right to count as creatively as they please.

Then they get Karen Facebook to applaud them for "being brave" for restricting others' lives and paying no price for being wrong. They have successfully exploited the safety angle into a political heads I win, tails you lose because people do not care for truth, evidence or reason, only feelings.

One of y'all (looking at you, Keegan) ought to create a twitter campaign to get this info out, something like "Harris County Held Hostage" and rip the mask off of some of this stuff. Tweet at the TV stations and Michael Berry and Crenshaw and Cruz or whomever.

I don't know how there's going to be any changing any of this. It's certainly not helping being buried on a Tine board on Texags.

It's almost like they picked the stats that are easiest to manipulate and moved the goalposts so they're unobtainable. I wonder why death rate isn't included in their metrics? I wonder why number of deaths isn't included? I wonder why they're stockpiling positive tests and trickling them out?

Hmmm....

They used to tar and feather mother ****ers for less than this.

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candidly I'm shocked a left leaning advocacy group hasn't fired up a federal lawsuit alleging the suffering minority and economically disadvantaged children will suffer due to scientifically dubious policy.

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Maybe you missed this, but Lina is a Democrat.

My problem is its gone from flattening the curve to make sure no one gets it..Making sure no one ever gets sick from this is not realistic.

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we don't know the long term effects of bat aids tho

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So what? Pneumonia has long term effects. The flu has long term effects. Diabetes has long term effects. Obesity has long term effects.

We haven't shut everything down to protect people from those illnesses.

We are to the point where protecting yourself and your family needs to transition from being a group effort to an individual effort.

Preventing hospitals from becoming overwhelmed and running out of PPE necessitated a collective group effort.

Hospitals are not overwhelmed and they have sufficient PPE.

It's time for people to take personal ownership. If you don't want to get sick, stay home.

If you want to venture out in public, wear a mask and socially distance.

Evaluate your risk tolerance for yourself and your family and act accordingly.

We cannot prevent 100% of infections. It's impossible, EVEN IF we keep things shut down. And in the process, thousands of people will suffer needlessly and die from other causes because everything is shut down. Why is suffering with or dying from coronavirus more tragic that suffering or dying from hunger, diabetes, the flu, depression/suicide, domestic violence, etc? The answer is, it's not.

As a society, we have to accept that some people will get sick with this virus and some people will die. That's not being cruel and insensitive; that's accepting reality.

It's pointless to create a hierarchy for tragedy and suffering. We do our best to prevent all forms while also accepting that they are an inevitable part of life.

Edited to add: I don't know why I even bothered to reply to this poster, as he admitted on another thread that he would not send his kid to public school if the school required masks. Because masks are psychologically harmful to children. So, it's clear he/she is all about the 'buts' and 'what ifs' as long as he or his family isn't personally inconvenienced.

He's a coronabro one day, open it up advocate the next

I'm honestly kind of to the point where I believe everyone is just cashing in on their laziness. Maybe I'm overly skeptical, who knows. Outside of a small percentage that truly believes we can't let anyone get sick, the rest are just cashing in on the fear porn to enjoy a free ride.

But people got to work from home, government stimulus checks, bonus unemployment checks. And they just don't give a ***** Keep it all locked down, I'm enjoying not doing jack **** and the government will keep printing money and keep paying me to do jack *****

As if it wasn't abundantly clear what the election was about

Absolutely absurd and as expected on cue