gougler08 said:

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FHKChE07 said:

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That is very optimistic.

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Agreed, hasn't he basically said a lockdown is needed?

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Y'all just wait. As soon as he is in office the covid death and case charts will be replaced with a number of vaccines administered chart and a "return to normal" narrative. Lockdowns aren't popular and Ds won't push them when they can no longer blame a republican President.

Pretty sure he said in one of the debates he would not call for a lockdown but would call for a nationwide mask mandate.

But never trust what a politician said yesterday...

LostInLA07 said:

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gougler08 said:

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FHKChE07 said:

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That is very optimistic.

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Agreed, hasn't he basically said a lockdown is needed?

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Y'all just wait. As soon as he is in office the covid death and case charts will be replaced with a number of vaccines administered chart and a "return to normal" narrative. Lockdowns aren't popular and Ds won't push them when they can no longer blame a republican President.

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I think you are dead on about the 'return to normal' narrative; however,

I think they'll force a national mask mandate and lockdown first.

Biden expertly guides the country out of the lockdown like yoda lifting an x-wing out of the dagobah swamp. Sometime around summer he'll hand the reigns over to Kamala.

Thats their plan, the way i see it.

jetch17 said:

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Good thing we only have restaurants now and no bars.

"so don't go to bars, because if you do, you might not be able to go to bars"

attn: Lina

now would be the time to stand up field hospitals and vacc centers

not just send text msgs to everyone

Wait, isn't cone supposed to be a Coronabro on odd numbered pages?

rhoswen said:

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Just got word that my district will be offering free covid tests on campus for in-person learners.

Oy vey.

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Asuming it's just offering and not requiring, what's wrong with that?

CDUB98 said:

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rhoswen said:

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Just got word that my district will be offering free covid tests on campus for in-person learners.

Oy vey.

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Asuming it's just offering and not requiring, what's wrong with that?

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Because it encourages kids who have symptoms to go to school to get the free test.

Kids who are symptomatic should be staying home.

Kids who are not symptomatic do not need to be tested. When I had it, our school nurse specifically told me to not have my son tested unless he developed symptoms.

CDUB98 said:

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rhoswen said:

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Just got word that my district will be offering free covid tests on campus for in-person learners.

Oy vey.

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Asuming it's just offering and not requiring, what's wrong with that?

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I think we need separate but equal schools for people that want the vaccine and one for everyone else.

cone said:

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now would be the proper time for Lina to get that field hospital up and going again

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What'd she say when you told her that?

wessimo said:

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Should we wait until they are before taking extra preventative measures? I'd rather not see Houston in the situation being described here:

https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3173429

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I'm really not trying to be an argumentative jerk here - but what "extra preventative measures" should we take?

Some people are staying home. Some (most) people are wearing masks. Kids still have the option for online school.

What else do we do? Close restaurants and non-essential retail again? Close schools? Tell the airlines to stop flying planes? Go back to the shutdown we had in March-May?

Am I missing something that falls in between?

I honestly don't think those are viable options, but I can accept that some people do believe that's what we should do.

It is a legitimate question. What would help is for the majority of individuals to actually take the virus seriously and limit risky interactions.

wessimo said:

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It is a legitimate question. What would help is for the majority of individuals to actually take the virus seriously and limit risky interactions.

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The problem is we've been inundated with fear porn for months (when it wasn't a big deal) and now that it actually is becoming an issue, people are over it.

Case in point, we've been code red forever in Harris County, even when there were basically no cases/hospitalizations after the summer. People don't trust anything anymore and are in a "I'm going to live my life as best I can mode" and I don't blame them

wessimo said:

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Should we wait until they are before taking extra preventative measures? I'd rather not see Houston in the situation being described here:

https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3173429

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they are not going to be overrun give it up

wessimo said:

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It is a legitimate question. What would help is for the majority of individuals to actually take the virus seriously and limit risky interactions.

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While I don't disagree, we can't make anyone do anything. Heck, seems like many of the people I see engaging in "risky behavior" are the ones who clearly have underlying conditions that make them more susceptible to having a worse case. They just don't seem to care.

Anecdotally, when my son and I went to Colorado back in September, we were having lunch at a restaurant in Vail. It was Labor Day weekend, so it was pretty crowded. A family walked by, and one of the children looked like a childhood cancer patient. I can't think of many other reasons why a young kid would be completely bald. Obviously, this family made the decision that they thought was best for their situation.

And frankly, the more people who get this virus and have mild symptoms and make a full recovery, the harder it's going to be to convince people to limit "risky behavior".

Life has not been the same for almost a year now. People clearly want to get back to living. Telling them to suspend the activities that make life enjoyable for some indefinite period of time was never going to work.

I also had a conversation with a friend/coworker yesterday where I said I'm ready to accept that this virus may just become one of the "top 5" things that kills a significant number of people every year. Like heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.

It's not a pleasant, thought, but no one ever promised that there would never be a new disease that killed people.

And just like some of the other diseases, there are things people can do to mitigate (or maybe even eliminate) their risk of dying from Covid.