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bigbailes said:
It's great to see as the mid-term primaries are approaching, that numbers are going down and mandates are being lifted ... I'm sure there's no correlation between the two.
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Is this a pattern only in the USA or are other countries experiencing similar numbers?

USA Only: OMG, CONSPIRACY! :Sly:

Other countries similar: OMG, NO CONSPIRACY!
 
bigbailes said:
It's tongue in cheek for the most part but I don't think the mandates have helped all that much or we would have been out of this mess a long time ago. More likely we are coming out of cold/flu/covid season (yes it's time to add it to the mix) plus some other factors but I also struggle to think the mandates are being ditched so quickly for anything other than political reasons. Sorry but in the game of politics, self preservation seems to be the name of the game, and any incumbent holding onto these mandates was going to face an uphill battle. Maybe it's all coincidence but my cynical mind finds that hard to believe.
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Infection rates are going down.

Hospital occupency rates are going down.

The numbers show it's time to ease off the restrictions and mandates.

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SlyPokerDog said:
Is this a pattern only in the USA or are other countries experiencing similar numbers?

USA Only: OMG, CONSPIRACY! :NOTMARIS:

Other countries similar: OMG, NO CONSPIRACY!
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One more time ... coming out of cold/flu/covid season, yes the numbers should be plummeting, but save me the polly anna thinking that these politicians aren't doing it for their own numbers as well. Two things can be true at the same time!
 
bigbailes said:
One more time ... coming out of cold/flu/covid season, yes the numbers should be plummeting, but save me the polly anna thinking that these politicians aren't doing it for their own numbers as well. Two things can be true at the same time!
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Yes, there are politicians that have and are using covid for personal gain and "numbers". This has happened throughout this entire pandemic. Is it logical according to scientific data to reduce or eliminate some mandates? Yes.
 
bigbailes said:
Two things can be true at the same time!
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You're right!
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SlyPokerDog said:
You're right!
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I not a full blow conspiracy theorist, just see the world for what it is. Sorry if I'm not naïve to think that anything these politicians are doing is any thing other than self preservation. People like the one above are idiots just as much as the people who think that nothing is ever connected.
 
bigbailes said:
I not a full blow conspiracy theorist, just see the world for what it is. Sorry if I'm not naïve to think that anything these politicians are doing is any thing other than self preservation. People like the one above are idiots just as much as the people who think that nothing is ever connected.
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Ok, so I am putting you in the 'believes mandates should be left intact and in effect longer' category. Thanks.
 
andalusian said:
Ok, so I am putting you in the 'believes mandates should be left intact and in effect longer' category. Thanks.
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They probably should be. As we have been down this road before. There will be other variants, Some will be stronger and some weaker. They will always come out with new articles or tweets about how we can get rid of covid but the truth is there are too many idiots out there to actually put an end to this pandemic. The good news is that we do have the vaccines but vaccinating the whole world is impossible. But I guess the weather is warming up.
 
bigbailes said:
It's great to see as the mid-term primaries are approaching, that numbers are going down and mandates are being lifted ... I'm sure there's no correlation between the two.
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You mean exactly as was predicted pretty much the whole time?

Yeah... It was always going to be a "bad winter, but should be better by spring/summer".
 
LA has the strictest COVID19 restrictions in the country, and pretty much has all along. And just hosted the superbowl

 
andalusian said:
Ok, so I am putting you in the 'believes mandates should be left intact and in effect longer' category. Thanks.
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Fine by me … I’m fully vaxed and boostered but still rock a mask in public indoor spaces 95% of the time, including when I’m teaching and I live in the red state of Texas. We’ve seen the numbers let up and then they come back, so why the rush to ditch the mandates? Are they truly ‘following the science’ or is there something else to gain?
 
Phatguysrule said:
You mean exactly as was predicted pretty much the whole time?

Yeah... It was always going to be a "bad winter, but should be better by spring/summer".
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Yes it should be worse in the winter months but sorry if I find this sudden rush to ditch all mandates a little fishy. I mean politicians are all altruistic and never think only of themselves, right? Here’s something no one ever says on these boards, I MIGHT BE WRONG, but something just doesn’t smell right.
 
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bigbailes said:
Fine by me … I’m fully vaxed and boostered but still rock a mask in public indoor spaces 95% of the time, including when I’m teaching and I live in the red state of Texas. We’ve seen the numbers let up and then they come back, so why the rush to ditch the mandates? Are they truly ‘following the science’ or is there something else to gain?
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Well, I am vaccinated and boosted too and I do use a mask anywhere in public, I just understand why they are easing the restrictions.
 
bigbailes said:
Yes it should be worse in the winter months but sorry if I find this sudden rush to ditch all mandates a little fishy. I mean politicians are all altruistic and never think only of themselves, right? Here’s something no one ever says on these boards, I MIGHT BE WRONG, but something just doesn’t smell right.
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We dropped the mask mandates last year as well. They didn't come back until cases spiked...

Just seems like the pattern they followed last time. And this time about 85% of us will have some immunity.
 
One of the so called freedom truckers in Canada has a 9 year old daughter in hospice dying of childhood cancer. Which is terrible. Because patients are severely immunocompromised, all visitors must be vaccinated against Covid. He and his wife proudly declared they are unvaccinated and won't visit their dying daughter because freedumb.
 
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