Quote Originally Posted by Johnson85 View Post
I don't get why people always engage in straw men. Nothing I said has anything to do with an all or nothing approach.

AGain, you can flagellate yourself in the streets if you'd like. But we don't have a pandemic because people aren't doing that. We have a pandemic because of there is a novel coronavirus that's very contagious and pretty bad. It was going to be bad no matter what we did. It's going to be worse because we spent the spring and parts of the summer with empty hospitals while asking people to make sacrifices that aren't sustainable. We'd be in much better shape if we had told people to live more or less normally but to wear masks when near people in public and waited until cold and flu season to ask people to lock it down for a couple of weeks to let the hospitals get some breathing room. But that's not going to happen now because we have a state health officer that is apparently unaware that cold and flu season comes every year.
This is where it gets tricky because we have people in this state who for whatever reason(political, stubbornness, etc.) will not wear a mask no matter what. And these aren't healthy people either. It's obese people, older people, or people who have actual comorbidities. And then you have people like Robert Foster who is openly telling people to not wear their masks. Now I'm in the camp that it should be your choice whether you wear one or not, but if you're not going to wear one then don't A)complain when you get the virus or B) go into large public areas (grocery stores, restaurants, ballgames, etc.) where close contact is unavoidable and just straight up refuse to wear one.

I guess I say all that to say that some parts of the state haven't done a good job of controlling it, but at the same time it was unavoidable that we were going to have a flu season spike. Everyone has been saying that since March. We're in it now though so we have to do our best and live it with at this point. Heck, we might as well just steer into the skid and let it run it's course.