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The Tallest Man on Earth: "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground" [VIDEO]

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lawhawk4/05/2020 6:09:26 am PDT

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Totally scary. And people in red states think that they’re not going to get this so they’re not going to bother with social distancing or stay at home orders? They’re fucking insane.

Why? Because this disease is in all states and regions. And it takes just one person to infect dozens or hundreds. A single church gathering could result in 100s or 1000s of cases from direct contact. We’ve seen that repeatedly here in the US and around the world.

The New Rochelle outbreak was centered on a bar mitzvah. A single person infected spread it to dozens of other people, who spread it to dozens of other people, and pretty soon you had it ripping through NYC. South Korea had over 1000 cases tied to a single church gathering. It’s nuts.

Georgia’s Gov. Kemp issued a shelter in place, and immediately rolled back the rule to allow people to go to the beach. Other states, like FL issued shelter in place late, but then loosened stricter rules in the localities that were trying to get ahead of the problem since DeSantis dragged his feet.

DeBlasio in NYC fucked this up in any number of ways, including not shutting things down sooner, but without the public complying with these rules, it’s even harder. You can’t assume that even a statewide shelter in place will get 100% compliance. But NYC and urban areas have it even harder since getting food requires going into dense population areas - going into an elevator for instance, or on buses and public transportation.

If this were a zombie apocalypse, I don’t think we’d be doing any better because people would ignore the facts in front of them.