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If you’d like some optimism, the infection rate for Indiana is lower than at any point in the pandemic. If Indiana can maintain the current trajectory in declining case numbers one can hope mask mandates in schools can go away after spring break.
https://covidactnow.org/us/indiana-in/?s=28951774
Michael Q., that was quite an intelligent rebuttal!! About what I usually expect from your ilk. Why bother letting any facts derail your “opinions”.
Hey Joe, how about you talk about the hospitals being full and the number of daily deaths nationwide being at all-time highs for the entire pandemic and the total now surpassing 900,000 deaths in the US, which, BTW, has the highest death rate of any 1st world country.
It’s nice that the rate of new infections is coming down from 1,000,000 a day to 300,000, but that’s still higher than EVER.
But you just continue going about your business of refusing the vaccine, not wearing a mask, and forcing schools to not have the option to require masks. And let’s just let kids under age 5 and the immunocompromised fend for themselves. Because, you know… it’s *your* free-dumbs we’re talking about.
Thank you, Republicans!
Hey Randy,… uh, forget it. Not worth taking any time slamming a sky is falling, head-spinning, liberal progressive sheep like yourself.
Michael Q., that was quite an intelligent rebuttal!! About what I usually expect from your ilk. Why bother letting any facts derail your “opinions”.
Randy, have you ever read my stuff? I am pretty sure that several folks find it funny that I’m now an anti-vaxer.
I’m vaxed, boosted, and still wearing a mask in public. We stayed home for a long time until everyone in my family could get vaccinated. We stayed home again during the worst of Omicron.
If the numbers tell us when to mask up and restrict activities, they also have to tell us when to open up. Based on everything I am seeing, those hospitals should be emptying out soon enough. We have vaccines. We have antivirals. The time to stay home to protect the willfully unvaccinated has passed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/end-coronavirus-restrictions/621627/
Joe,
I’m sure I’ve probably read your comments since I’m a frequent commentor myself, but, no, I wasn’t aware that you are not an anti-vaxxer.
I’m happy you took the responsible road for yourself, your family, and the public at large with whom we all interact.
Which makes it sort of interesting that you were so quick to insult with “…sky is falling, head-spinning, liberal progressive sheep”. So, which is it – are you as reasonable as you claim in your post or do you attack anyone that suggests we take it just a bit slower than “Open everything up now, and don’t tell my kid he has to wear a mask in school”, etc.?
I, too, am sick of being careful, wearing a mask in close spaces, not feeling entirely comfortable going to a sporting event or a concert – though I’ve done some of those things sparingly since I am vaccinated and boosted. It sucks.
What angers me most of all is we didn’t have to have such a crappy two+ years of this had politics not gotten in the way of the sensible step of getting vaccinated. So, it’s ironic that the people who want to end all the restrictions are the same ones that caused us to have to be in this situation.
But my point was as I stated. Deaths have not slowed down – they are still at a peak. Hospitalizations are also at a peak and the # of empty ER beds is miniscule. You even say, “those hospitals *should be* emptying out *soon*.” Well, that’s *likely* true. But it is factually correct to say there aren’t yet.
I advocate to go just a little slower than the apparent trend of dropping the whole thing as if this is completely over. It isn’t – not quite yet.
Joe,
I’m sure I’ve probably read your comments since I’m a frequent commentor myself, but, no, I wasn’t aware that you are not an anti-vaxxer.
I’m happy you took the responsible road for yourself, your family, and the public at large with whom we all interact.
Which makes it sort of interesting that you were so quick to insult with “…sky is falling, head-spinning, liberal progressive sheep”. So, which is it – are you as reasonable as you claim in your post or do you attack anyone that suggests we take it just a bit slower than “Open everything up now, and don’t tell my kid he has to wear a mask in school”, etc.?
I, too, am sick of being careful, wearing a mask in close spaces, not feeling entirely comfortable going to a sporting event or a concert – though I’ve done some of those things sparingly since I am vaccinated and boosted. It sucks.
What angers me most of all is we didn’t have to have such a crappy two+ years of this had politics not gotten in the way of the sensible step of getting vaccinated. So, it’s ironic that the people who want to end all the restrictions are the same ones that caused us to have to be in this situation.
But my point was as I stated. Deaths have not slowed down – they are still at a peak. Hospitalizations are also at a peak and the # of empty ER beds is miniscule. You even say, “those hospitals *should be* emptying out *soon*.” Well, that’s *likely* true. But it is factually correct to say there aren’t yet.
I advocate to go just a little slower than the apparent trend of dropping the whole thing as if this is completely over. It isn’t – not quite yet.
First, I don’t get the double quotes.
Second, I never said that. You have me confused with what Michael Q wrote.
Third, I have no issues with giving people hope.
Joe B. – Please accept my apology. As you may have noticed, a poor night’s sleep caused me to double post twice on this thread, and then confuse which person said what. I agree completely with your initial post. The infection rate is declining, and, with that trend, it is expected hospitalizations and deaths will decline and we can move to a much more open society. Again, my bad.
No worries, Randy. Hope you got some rest.