R0CKnR0LLA

Everyone in the world, not even close. There are plenty of countries where 100% of people wear masks anytime they are outside and the virus has been largely contained. It's only the stupid and selfish people in the US (and to some extent certain areas in Europe) that can't be bothered to do these very simple things and end up with a big explosion in cases.

i think that's basically the playbook now, say something stupid and ridiculous and outlandish, almost forcing a response and correction, just to steer the conversation away from legitimate concerns and then stupid people will still be like "well I guess (when confronted with obvious lies and nonsense vs. hard facts and science) the truth is somewhere in the middle"

yeah i almost said something earlier, like who does that, post a link like a normal person it's 2020 do you not know how to use the internet yet

maybe but that doesn't change the point he was making

life just isn't worth living unless I can sit in the stands drinking luke warm $13 budweisers while cheering on the panthers to an inevitable 3-13 season

Since some seem to miss this point completely, the mask isn't there solely to prevent you from catching the virus. It's also there to prevent you from spreading it to other people if you have it. It's not enough to "cover your mouth when you need to" when you cough or whatever. You spread droplets from your mouth just from talking and breathing. Wear a mask people, again, it's not that hard.

No, wearing a mask is not pointless. It makes a significant difference in transmission in every single study that's been conducted. Yeah, you should keep your hands disinfected too. It's not one or the other and would be a logical fallacy to look at is as such. Your statement that "I do my part, more than most" isn't true when compared to the rest of the world. You're doing less than every single one of the 100+ million people where I live. You're not following the most simple basic guidelines. And LOL at "the straps hurt my ears", I couldn't help but bust out laughing. Suck it up buttercup.

Wearing a mask definitely helps, this has been studied extensively. You should do it, as should everyone. I don't know why you need to add some separate qualifier to it. Yeah, you should disinfect your hands ALSO. Talking to my parents and several of my friends still in the US, they said that (in NC at least) whenever they go out nobody is wearing a mask, nobody is distancing. It's just crazy, these are very simple things you can do, and yes they make a significant impact. This stuff really isn't that hard, stop acting like spoiled children people.

Well luckily I am not in the US. Where I'm at has 1/3 the population of the US, but 700 deaths instead of 90,000+. The US routinely has more deaths in a single day than we have had this entire time. But here we actually take it seriously, 100% of people wear masks at the bare minimum. Unlike you spoiled man children in the US that can't be bothered even as thousands die. And OF COURSE your response to someone trying to explain this all to you and actually help you is "hurr hurr cry more hurr hurr get mad"

What is this "cover my mouth when needed" stuff. I asked if you wear a mask, such a weird answer. And what is this "but muh county" crap. This is a global pandemic, just because it hasn't hit your area YET doesn't mean you shouldn't be... hey you know what just forget it you're not worth trying to explain this too Go to the lake, the mall, go get your haircut, hit up the gym and then hit up Ruby Tuesdays and of course don't take two seconds to wear a mask, enjoy!

So I asked why you thought things will go back to 100% normal in a month. You said people aren't dying anymore, I pointed out that this is completely untrue, and your response is "whatever man I'm just going to do what I want anyway". Let me take a wild guess, you can't be bothered to wear a mask either.

Apparently the "plan" is to go on as normal and ignore the fact that we're in the midst of a global pandemic. Enjoy your Outback bloomin onion, just ignore the pile of bodies in the corner. Honestly, what the hell is wrong with people in the US. So many can't even be bothered to put on a mask which takes all of 2 seconds. Bunch of spoiled children.

10,000 died in a single week, now you're just ignoring facts.

It's weird to hear people keep referring to it as waves. A wave refers to a big spike and then a fall back down to zero (or close to zero), like an inverted V. We were ramping up exponentially, then with lockdown measures that leveled off (although still kept slowly rising). Taking that away you're just going to return to the exponential increases in cases again. Nothing about that resembles a wave, or second wave.

Wrong, the quarantine measures very clearly stopped the exponential growth of cases.

Thousands dead every day, and the Applebee's is closed. ...and now... Thousands dead every day, and the Applebee's is back open. WOOHOO! Everything is back to normal guys!

So you meant "100% back to normal" as far as what stores are open for you to go to, not that the virus is actually taken care of and we're not looking at thousands dead every single day. Okay then.

Not sure why you think that. We're not going to have a cure a month from now. We're not going to have a vaccine a month from now. The virus isn't going to magically go away, it will be just as widespread if not more so. It will be just as deadly as it is now. What exactly are you expecting to change?

roll out of bed, fall on the floor, declare victory?

I don't see where it says they are developing symptoms again, only that they tested positive. Pretty important distinction.

source?

If you look at projection models, delaying a proper response by one DAY leads to a massive difference in infected cases. That's how exponential growth works. How many weeks (or months) did we sit around doing nothing? The US response has been amongst the worst in the world. Compare it to what South Korea has done, it's night and day. This is has literally gotten my fellow Americans killed. At least now we seem to finally be taking this seriously, but it will still never undo the damage already done. And don't tell me not "get political" by criticizing the goverments garbage response for one of the very things we all pay them money and depend on them for in the first place.

I have no issue with someone being optimistic. Hell, you should be. It does nobody any good for you to mope around thinking the world is going to end. The issue with Trump downplaying the severity of the virus, is that we need a proper response from our government and leadership. They needed to take this seriously, and they didn't. The lack of response has already lead to the death of Americans, and will lead to more in the future. It's a serious misstep. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. And yeah our resident Trumpster sheep will pie you for this, because of course.