R0CKnR0LLA

9 minutes ago, CatTower said:

So with everybody pushing this mask thing, how many restaurants are going to go bankrupt?  It's impossible to eat out with wearing a mask and social distancing in a smaller sized restaurant would be very difficult.

The country I'm in they space the tables out and everyone wears a mask up until the point that they are at their own table with their food. The really, really small hole-in-the-wall restaurants have stayed take-out only. I don't see anything going bankrupt and the amount of cases we have are minimal, so it seems to be working reasonably well.

9 minutes ago, CatTower said:

Where do you take a date?

To your couch with Netflix and a bottle of liquor like anyone else that gets laid.

5 minutes ago, stirs said:

Almost like you could be plagiarizing just a bit there RnR.  Thinking this guy said it first

I have no idea who that guy even is but OK, I get it, your mommy told you that you were a special little man and you don't like people telling you that your stupid ass little opinion doesn't matter. Go cry some more bitch, I'm done responding to you.

Yeah I totally sound like a Trumper saying we should listen to facts, science and experts, not dumbass unfounded conspiracy theories. That's totally what Trumpers are known for. Thanks for yet another "hot take" dumbass.

YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY IGNORANT OPINION BASED ON IMAGINARY NONSENSE!  STOP WITH THE CANCEL CULTURE!

Bunch of special snowflakes that think their dumbass opinions are just SO fuging important. No, just cause some random idea popped into your stupid head doesn't mean it's relevant and we need to give it the same attention as actual useful information coming from experts. Dumbass.

Heaven forbid we have an "echo chamber" of people posting useful information based on evidence and facts.

17 minutes ago, rippadonn said:

I did nothing wrong but respond truthfully and respectfully to others. We need MORE viewpoints NOT less. Some people trust government/politicians 100%, some people don't trust them at all. That's what's GREAT about America, you can choose.

This is the spoiled ignorant entitled attitude that is precisely the problem.

The idea that someone's dumbass retarded opinion, based on made up BS they saw on facebook, is just as valid as facts and scientific findings coming from the worlds top experts.

No, the world doesn't need more of these dumbass "viewpoints" thrown in to muddy the waters and give people that are already selfish toddlers an excuse to be idiots.

If you don't have useful information to add, based in reality and facts, then just STFU, you're only making things worse.

14 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

He obviously didn’t help things but lets be honest there were complete fuging idiots who ignored science wayyyy before trump and there will be fuging idiots after trump. I’m not a fan of Obama but imagine “America’s left” in power telling people to wear masks. People would go batshit fuging crazy. Because this country is full of fuging idiots who think they know better than literal scientists. This country was founded on rugged individualism not solidarity.

people were calling what we’re seeing now months ago.

11 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

No disagreement there. I think it just has a huge normalization and empowering impact when you have a sitting POTUS spewing the anti-intellectual propaganda.

Trump obviously made things worse, but let's be real here, the only reason Trump is even president to begin with is because America has so many of these dumbasses. The federal government's response has been horrible but it was always going to be an uphill battle dealing with all of these retarded man-babies.

That being said, there's a lot of leftist/Democrat types that hate Trump that don't bother to wear masks either. When you go out in public in CALIFORNIA of all places and nearly 100% of people are not wearing masks, you can't say that it's only Republicans.

I've personally seen plenty of people whine endlessly about Trump when they can't be bothered to take 2 seconds to put on a mask themselves. Like yeah, Trump has been a useless incompetent moron, but you're part of the problem too, dumbass.

2 hours ago, Paa Langfart said:

gonna be interesting to see how many people are shot stabbed etc in walmarts now that they have a mask requirement.

Many of the stores had it already (it just wasn't done nationally). Talking to a bunch of people, the consensus is that there's a sign on the front door saying it's "required" but enforcement is non-existent and a huge percentage of people still walk around with no mask. None of the employees want to confront a non-mask wearer due to fears of them reacting violently.

Murica!

Most of the rest of the world has the virus largely contained. It's weird seeing so many Americans talk as if the massive amount of cases there are just inevitable and nothing could be done.

Countries where 100% of people wear masks have almost no cases. But Americans would rather argue over dumb crap than to take the easy solution that's obvious to the rest of the world.

But hey, don't let me interrupt you guys spouting your retarded nonsense, carry on.

10 hours ago, MechaZain said:

Our government's got the money to let everyone take the rest of the year off if we needed to but they decided that tens of thousands of American lives weren't worth the cash. 

They could have done that with just the money they ALREADY spent, but they decided to give over 99% of relief funds to the super rich and huge corporations instead of our citizens.

6 hours ago, electro's horse said:

that's not just your obviously immuno compromised, that's > 65, obese, a smoker, or diabetic.

who does that population sound like?

half of the posters here?

34 minutes ago, stirs said:

as opposed to straight homosexuals?

this isn't a shipping service thread you gay homosexuals

5 minutes ago, Tbe said:

Singapore has seen similar results.

Masks are not a cure, but all evidence points to the fact that they help. Some studies show they help significantly. Show me a credible study that says they do absolutely nothing, and I’ll be with you.

https://theconversation.com/masks-help-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus-the-science-is-simple-and-im-one-of-100-experts-urging-governors-to-require-public-mask-wearing-138507

The top expert in South Korea says the same thing, significant reduction in transmission. I'd listen to them before anyone else.

But I don't think there's any number of studies, facts or evidence that will matter to some of these people. They've made up their minds that "masks bad" and there's no convincing them otherwise.

Watching people fight against wearing masks during a global pandemic has to be the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

I remember that movie Contagion a few years back with Matt Damon, thinking that it was a very realistic depiction of a pandemic. If it had a bunch of people running around in public saying "Whatever, I'm not wearing a mask! Don't tell me what to do!" I would have thought that it was stupid as hell. Too unbelievable, something like that would never happen.

I get that people don't want to be stuck in their homes forever, they want to be able to get back to a somewhat normal life. That's perfectly understandable. But damn, at least be responsible about it.

This is basically the US right now

5 hours ago, Tbe said:

Maryland....working on their social distancing and mask wearing.

yikes

33 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Heard immunity was the only way to realistically get past this.

You don't know what heard immunity means.

33 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Social distancing by largely confining everyone to their home was never going to work.

You don't know what social distancing means.

Stop spreading misinformation. Be part of the solution, not the problem.

The death toll has surpassed that of the Vietnam war

Closing in on the death toll from WW1 (in all likelyhood we've already surpassed it once you factor in numbers being fudged)

Do your part people... don't spread misinformation, wear a mask, distance and follow other basic guidelines, and encourage others to do the same.

7 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Without a vaccine, nearly everyone in the world is going to be exposed and to think otherwise is foolish IMO. Just try and even the spread so hospitals aren't overwhelmed.

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"

5 hours ago, Inimicus said:

Seriously dude

Screenshots from your phone with no actual link to the stories are pretty much ass.

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

35 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

I guarantee NY and NJ are fudging numbers, too.

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