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Old 03-16-2022, 01:53 PM
 
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I don't think it's a social experiment. I think it's a ritual. And a pointless one. There are rituals other cultures have that I do not want ours to adopt. To the extent that other cultures do have mask-wearing as a ritual, I have less than zero interest in American culture adopting it.

Here, it's dumb, divisive political theater, and it's mercifully come to a halt everywhere except for a handful of places known for their performative politics. If certain posters (one of whom is clearly obsessed with me and is therefore now on ignore) have a problem with that truth, then that's on them.
Slight benefit under certain conditions with medical masks, little to none for cloth masks. As it relates to overall viral spread very little evidence to suggest it has mitigated the spread to any significant degree. That has been discussed and sourced on this forum at length. Some people will continue to believe what they wish. Certainly not enough evidence to empirically link and support some arbitrary mandate with arbitrary dates of discontinuance and call it evidence-based. That's sort of like saying until further notice all males must wear condoms in the pool because they mitigate the spread of HIV, and when infection rates come down we will rethink the policy. Emotion-based decisions not evidence-based. I also think in many cases there are people doing it because they think it puts them into a hip "in the know" category when it's jut the opposite. The number of people who are still wearing them outdoors speaks volumes. It's actually scary.
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Old 03-17-2022, 02:32 PM
 
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Old 03-17-2022, 10:29 PM
 
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And there it goes again. First school closure due to covid in MA again. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local...chool/2672344/
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Old 03-18-2022, 06:53 AM
 
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And there it goes again. First school closure due to covid in MA again. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local...chool/2672344/
Yeah, that will happen, but hopefully just sporadically. My town’s school closed in 2019 for 2 days when the stomach virus whipped through and over 200 kids were out sick. I’d bet that no one in the Concord outbreak gets very sick - with vax rates over 80% there, it really might just a a cold or asymptomatic in the vast majority. I’d take a random day off for spread once a year to wearing masks all the time.

We aren’t pursuing Covid zero, folks. People will continue to test positive and spread it. That’s not news. When healthy, vaccinated people start getting hospitalized then that’s news and something to take seriously. Not this.
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Old 03-18-2022, 07:00 AM
 
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yes covid is not going away. Sheesh.
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Old 03-18-2022, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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Sorry to hear this. Had not heard, and was a fan of Mish Michaels when she was on TWC.
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Old 03-18-2022, 07:24 AM
 
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yes pretty crazy and sad. That seems to be the only site reporting the truth on what happened.
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Old 03-18-2022, 07:48 AM
 
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Damn. That's tragic. I grew up watching her on the news giving the weather report.



But why the hell does the article need to point out her anti-vax views? Completely tasteless.
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Old 03-18-2022, 07:56 AM
 
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Damn. That's tragic. I grew up watching her on the news giving the weather report.



But why the hell does the article need to point out her anti-vax views? Completely tasteless.
They seem to be implying that is ultimately why she took her own life. She lost her job with WGBH because of her views. Obviously there were issues at play that are hard to understand. She seemed to have it all but mental illness can take over anyone.
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Old 03-18-2022, 08:39 AM
 
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Damn. That's tragic. I grew up watching her on the news giving the weather report.

But why the hell does the article need to point out her anti-vax views? Completely tasteless.
The central committee does not allow dissenting opinions and will punish offenders, even posthumously. That is where we are now as a country and the media (regardless of ideology) bears a lot of the blame. She also had climate views, that while science based were more conservative than most in the MSM.
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