Shouldn't virus cases fall since the mask orders?

Which mandate? Destroy your business? 6 feet distance which hardly anyone is following? Wear a mask that has marginal effectiveness? Clean flat surfaces that seems to have gone by the wayside? Wash your hands? Total shutdown for two weeks so we can "reset?" Don't send kids to school? Originally Posted by gnadfly

Thanks again for a reminder of what a complete and utter schmuck you are.


I don't know where you get your numbers, but there were far more than 1 death in Dallas and 0 deaths in Tarrant yesterday. Here is the chart:


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/


Yesterday, there was 207 deaths in Texas, including 31 in Dallas County and 7 in Tarrant County.


Texas now has 7,660 deaths, is less than 200 behind Florida, and is about 2,400 behind California.


The days when TX had 1/15th the number of deaths of NY and 1/8th the number of deaths as CA are long gone. We are slowly, but surely catching up.


California (39M) has about 1/3rd more people than Texas (29M), but CA has less than 1/3rd more deaths then TX. CA has 246 deaths per million, TX has 264 deaths per million. So Texas is doing worse on a per capita basis. The chart:


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us



You have been in denial about Covid from the start. You constantly downplay the threat to protect whatever business it is you have. You will sacrifice as many people as needed to protect your own wealth.

Gee look at LA locked down from the start with "mask" orders an -- cases sky-rocketing ????

Attachment 873025 Originally Posted by PythonLeeJackson

Ah - thank you - showing the plans for the socialized medicine for anyone opposing Your marxism - they will be sent to re-education camps and faux hospitals for psychiatric re-education.

Interesting way to propose the plans without alarming the populace.



And - U are welcome to go to Venezuela and use their wonderful marxist and Socialist hospital system,.

Please stay there and enjoy the hospitality of maduro.

You will like it - for a day or so - then be desperate for the free enterprise of the US.

Oeb, Have you become more optimistic about our chances of having a widely available vaccine before we get close to herd immunity? Regardless, I don't see how we loose by wearing masks, social distancing and washing hands frequently. If a safe, effective vaccine comes along reasonably quickly and people will take it, then you'll end up with many fewer people infected in the long term. And if not, as you say, you slow the spread. You also unburden the health care system and potentially avoid shutdowns. Originally Posted by Tiny

Tiny - I agree the measures you mention are reasonable and far less damaging to the economy than the lockdowns our leaders are so fond of implementing.



Vaccine - lots of effort - lots of LSM trumpeting that i don't believe. I am pessimistic about a vaccine coming out in the next 5 months - and may be in mid 2021. Add to that - the rabid anti-Vaxxers will refuse - and even a DPST Biden administration will have issues trying to force all Americans to take the vaccine. There will be fear-mongers all over the internet about a vaccine - and i think many folks - likely a plurality of America - will refuse it for their kids.



Unfortunately , rational science as a foundation is not acceptable to those for whom math, science, and civics are all relative to their politics- and expendable for a Marxist narrative.



The Wuhan virus will work through the world population regardless - i think a vaccine will be so under-accepted it will have no difference in the outcome.