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Just pointing out stare decisis doesn’t always work out.

Just because the court made a ruling in 1905, doesn’t mean it was correct. Ever heard of Plessy v Ferguson? Can you tell me what that was and what case overturned it? No google cheat.

Same in Massachusetts. There’s about 230 in the hospital out of 18,000 beds in the states. Deaths have been flat for 2 months. Right now we’re at about 1000 positives per day and 2 deaths a day on a 7 day average. Back in April of 2020, the peak back then, there were 2000 positives per day, 4000 in the hospital and 200 deaths a day. Very different place than today. Yet the hospitalizations and deaths play no part in the CDC metrics for their current guide lines. It’s all cases. Why?

What I wouldn’t give for a couple weeks of sunny

There’s no local sports ball team game on tonight. They got pounded this afternoon. So this is the entertainment tonight.

Now that’s funny.

And the CDC director is from Boston. Of all people she should know what the situation is out there. Maybe she’s sheltered and has no idea. But somebody should have pulled her aside and clued her in.

Yes. To use the p- town situation to make policy for the whole US is irresponsible.

Pot, meet kettle

After 10 seasons, we just cancelled our subscription to the Hanover’s Broadway series. The theater is requiring masks this season so we decided to take a walk.

(Said Butthead) Uh,, huhuhuh You thought he was serious.. (Said Beavis) yea, hehehe.

lol Put “people of” and drop the “Ed” and it’s fine.

Corporate, guarantee.

I can deal with stuff that makes sense. This doesn’t. And like Taunton said, it’s the metric most of us have issue with. Totally based on cases, period.

I know who you blame. But that’s somewhat misguided blame. This new CDC guideabce is based on P-town, almost exclusively. They did it because there were vaxed people in p-town that picked up virus in the nose at levels seen in unvaxed. Never mind the vaxed weren’t symptomatic or had a sniffle. Never mind the hospitalization numbers were a grand total of 7 with no deaths. They blatently used an event that had so many caveats to basically make a federal mandate. They new business would react just to keep lawsuits at bay. You can blame the unvaxed all you want but this was really based on vaxed people getting what amounts to a cold and pushing us toward a zero Covid policy. My company is 80% vaxed. Unvaxed we’re required to wear a mask and do a once a week Covid test. But yea, let’s put masks back on the rest of us 8 hours a day. It didn’t affect 75% of the rest of the company because they let them sit on their fat ass at home on zoom while the lab workers and managers are at work pushing new drugs through the pipeline that keeps the company a float.

Tell that to the millions of employees who’s company’s imposed mask mandates the last couple of days. Workers across the country are required to wear one. People can choose not to patronize a business if they require it for customers, but for all these employees, myself included, that wear one day in and day out, life isn’t normal. I was talking with a couple of coworkers today, and we do t see how the masking ends now for employees. As long as the CDC metrics for mask recommendations stay where they are and based just on cases, it’ll never end. 50 positives per 100,000 on a weekly average basis is a recipe for forever masking.

Good for you. With the exception of the last few weeks, some of us have done it for the last 14 months and counting.

Most of the people who say they don't mind a mask do not sit in the office all day with their face covered up breathing through that thing with their glasses so fogged they cant see shyte. When you have to wear one 5 days a week, 8-9 hours a day straight, then we can talk. Because that's where me and my folks are at. And 90% of the rest of the company is sitting home on their couch calling in on zoom. We had a lot of people back in since the end of May when the order was lifted. Yesterday and today, if you able to count to 20, you can count the number of people I've seen today. And 8 of those are my department and that's only because i have 2 out on vaca..

Biden cant find a napkin to wipe the drool off his chin.

I haven’t seen more than 2 years. Most that go that long are dementia patients.

We halted the “return to work” initiative that was supposed to be in place by Labor Day. That got pushed off to mid/late October. But with the holidays, it’ll be pushed back until winter, then another surge will occur, and that will get pushed to spring. So 2 full years at home.

It’s only activated on the second dose

So at work today, we all sat at our little desks with a mask down around our chins and pulled them up when we got up to get coffee, bathroom, etc. 80 seats on our floor and 10 of us were up there today. Average distance was about 10 feet to our closest other person. At lunch 6 of us went to the lunch area on the floor, took our masks off, ate lunch and talked for 45 minutes, got up, through away our trash and put our masks back in to work. We all laughed our ass off at how ridiculous it was. And we’re all vaxed

Only time I ever got yelled at in HD was by some customer that screamed “MASK MASK MASK” at me.

I’m gonna roast next week in Dallas. 98/78 every day.