reo Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, IsntLifeFunny said: From a NYT article on what’s happening in India: A new variant known here as “the double mutant” may be doing a lot of the damage. The science is still early but from what we know, this variant contains one mutation that may make the virus more contagious and another that may make it partially resistant to vaccines. Doctors are pretty scared. Some we have spoken to said they had been vaccinated twice and still got seriously ill, a very bad sign. Why have we not cut off travel from India? In New Delhi they have a 35% positive rate with a double strain. Cut that place off immediately & send them as much help as possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/world/asia/India-delhi-covid-cases.html I think I also read somewhere that a high percentage were people under 40 but that might be wrong and since I can't remember where I read or saw it, I can't confirm it either. Edited April 28, 2021 by reo IsntLifeFunny 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 6 hours ago, TitansFan777 said: Was called out for this actually the other day by someone who actually followed and then drove by me to call me a pussy for wearing a mask in my car. I had just left a store at one end of the strip mall and drove a few hundred yards to the other end of the strip mall to visit another store. Didn’t even bother pulling my mask down for such a quick 20 second drive. Somehow, this action of seeing such insane behavior really got to him. Last year, I was in KY, getting gas. I went into the store and came back out. I was wearing a mask and a rather drunk looking dude in the passenger seat of a rather large truck shot me a bird...or I assume it was directed at me. And then as they were exiting, the guy made throw up sounds. I'm not sure the thought process here. Seems thoughtless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 23 minutes ago, nine said: It wasn't until the pandemic that I started to comprehend the incredible power of confirmation bias. All too often, humans will believe what they want to believe..and they'll support leaders who tell them what they want to hear. Even if it literally kills them. That's where we are. Seemingly impossible to penetrate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 8 hours ago, tgo said: Haha sometimes people just forget to remove them, I've done the same thing accidentally. I live in a colder environment. Someday's so much I liked wearing my mask outdoors. wiscotitansfan, MadMax, tgo, and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 29 minutes ago, reo said: I think I also read somewhere that a high percentage were people under 40 but that might be wrong and since I can't remember where I read or saw it, I can't confirm it either. I believe I’ve read that as well, but I read so much it might have been about a different variant. Reading what’s happening over there I imagine it holds true either way. They’re literally cremating people in parking lots. It’s crazy. All because Modi and his band of idiots have suppressed science, pushed for large gatherings, and been extremely slow on the uptake to getting their vaccines distributed. As a matter of fact, before last month, they were exporting their 2 vaccines made in India. Fucking idiots...and it’s the people who will pay the price. reo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, Rogue said: I live in a colder environment. Someday's so much I liked wearing my mask outdoors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 6 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said: It's not to suggest I haven't forget to grab my mask. Several times I've done that. I've just been in really cold ass, beard freezing conditions, in which I've taken notice that I liked wearing a mask in those conditions MadMax, and IsntLifeFunny 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nine Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 In January/February 2020, Americans heard about a new virus in Wuhan, China and heard how it was spreading into Europe and thought to ourselves, "That's all the way on the other side of the world.....America is safe. That could never happen here." Sixteen months later, restrictions are being loosened everywhere and the numbers are headed in the right direction...Americans are letting our guards down and acting as if the war is over. Now we're hearing about a new variant that's absolutely wreaking havoc in India, and we tell ourselves, "India is all the way on the other side of the world.....we're safe. That won't happen here." ChemEngr79, pat, and reo 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 1 hour ago, nine said: In January/February 2020, Americans heard about a new virus in Wuhan, China and heard how it was spreading into Europe and thought to ourselves, "That's all the way on the other side of the world.....America is safe. That could never happen here." Sixteen months later, restrictions are being loosened everywhere and the numbers are headed in the right direction...Americans are letting our guards down and acting as if the war is over. Now we're hearing about a new variant that's absolutely wreaking havoc in India, and we tell ourselves, "India is all the way on the other side of the world.....we're safe. That won't happen here." I’m still somewhat beside myself we haven’t shut down travel with them. The Biden admin will be fully to blame if a variant takes hold that breaks through the vaccine efficacy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeFan Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 25 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said: I’m still somewhat beside myself we haven’t shut down travel with them. The Biden admin will be fully to blame if a variant takes hold that breaks through the vaccine efficacy. Blatant racist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkiller Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 40 minutes ago, IsntLifeFunny said: I’m still somewhat beside myself we haven’t shut down travel with them. The Biden admin will be fully to blame if a variant takes hold that breaks through the vaccine efficacy. We can shut down all travel with India and it still won’t matter unless we plan to shut down all travel with the rest of the globe. pat 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschool Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 8 minutes ago, Starkiller said: We can shut down all travel with India and it still won’t matter unless we plan to shut down all travel with the rest of the globe. Some estimates put the infection numbers in India at 500K or higher. Damn right the entire globe should have closed their borders to India. Why it hasn't happened yet makes no sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 9 minutes ago, Starkiller said: We can shut down all travel with India and it still won’t matter unless we plan to shut down all travel with the rest of the globe. Which is what new zealand did early on. Otherwise, one is playing whack a mole until herd immunity is reached. Everything else is temporizing. As for India, arent they wearing masks? I suspect true distancing is impossible in such a densely populated country. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 17 minutes ago, Starkiller said: We can shut down all travel with India and it still won’t matter unless we plan to shut down all travel with the rest of the globe. We can at least mitigate. Come on now. You weren’t saying this last year when it came to China and Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsntLifeFunny Posted April 28, 2021 Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, El Guapo said: Which is what new zealand did early on. Otherwise, one is playing whack a mole until herd immunity is reached. Everything else is temporizing. As for India, arent they wearing masks? I suspect true distancing is impossible in such a densely populated country. Their leader told them they were through the worst of it and then held massive political rallies and actually pushed up a major holiday a full year so it could be held under the year of the Cow...I shit you not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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