Well unfortunately most people don't understand and probably only will when it hits close to home or they lose their job due to lockdowns.
Even then I doubt they will. I expect those kind of people to go riot for their liberties instead of wearing a mask and washing their hands
“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
― Anthony Hopkins
Well, in some parts of Europe (as in mine for one), there's actually not only VERY few measures taken by the authorities (although plenty of "advices on a completely voluntary basis") but the use of face masks is also straight out dissuaded from (here, by the very state epidemiologist himself). So, you really shouldn't paint with such a broad brush when it comes to Europe and corona, attitudes and responses vary a LOT.
Well, I can only speak for my city of course but here we have, I'd say 95% adherence. It's quite rare to spot a person w/o mask in a shop or a bus.
Disabilities exist (I was one of them until temperatures came down and allowed me to wear a mask), so I refuse to label everyone w/o a mask as a "covidiot".
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Yop, we start seeing Christmas sweets as early as friggin' September. >.<
Has anyone been able to wrap their heads around the idiocy that was the Whitehouse's mall Santa plan...?
https://news.avclub.com/the-white-ho...-to-1845482502
Wait...was this the repurposing of the $300M that was supposed to go to a big "optimistic and uplifting" ad campaign featuring Hollywood celebrities that fell apart when the best they could do was Dennis Quaid and Shulem Lemmer?
Mall fuckin santas?
This administration is the very definition of, "Just put some makeup over your black eye and the problem will be solved. Yes, your husband will still be beating you but nobody will notice, and that's all that matters."
Karma continues her winning streak
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-...rs-quarantine/
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5...er-coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/u...ite-house.html
White house again, Fox news..... what denier group will be next?
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Well, it sort of makes sense.
A typical Santa is male, overweight, and elderly, right? All risk factors, and working close to lots of persons makes it even more important.
HOWEVER, they normally work between Halloween and Christmas - and you are not immune to covid immediately after being vaccinated - and the vaccine is not yet approved; so too late.
Oh, and it's not clear that the vaccine will be 100% effective. Having a mall santa getting covid and dying is a bit bad - having a mall santa doing that after vaccination is worse.
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Hmmm... What percentage is infected in the White House/Fox?
when the fuck this shit ends?
If the general population is okay with their approach: no, they won't.
My town is at 50.5 cases/100.000 in 7 days incident rate. It has 216.000 inhabitants.
Unfortunately, I do not know how much we test, so it is difficult to put these numbers into perspective.
We only have 2 dead people since this whole thing started though, so I'm guessing we're doing okay.
Still, music teacher told me yesterday that they decided to forego having a Christmas market this year. Bold move.
Mitch McConnel just adjourned Senate until the 9th... no covid relief for at least 2 weeks... with cases climbing... hang on to your butts...
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Eh...not sure if you're joking or not, to be perfectly honest. Who do you think has any control, then? The Public Health Agency? Because if you think it's them that in practice does the "ordering" and makes things actually happen, visavi limitations in attendance-numbers at events and the like, i think you need to go and re-examine this whole matter. The government enforces the stuff they ask for to happen. It's the government that controls THEM if they so choose - which they quite visibly do not chose to do (one sometimes wonder if Tegnell is the new prime minister, or what), something which in the end is probably very wise indeed anyways, seeing the sheer brilliance the government at large exhudes every time any of them opens their mouth (although it VERY obviously is more of a try to escape responsibility, just in case that would be needed later on). If you refer to the extreme measures some countries have taken (such as for example military police controlling curfew in the streets, ie martial law), then yes, as far as i know that isn't legal here outside of what would be tantamount to a state of war, basically.
I'm genuinely quite nonplussed at what you're refering to, really, unless I entirely missed some caveat or similar. Haven't you seen how for example the Swedish Football Association desperately tries to have the Minister for Culture lessen the limitations on attendance numbers? How some regional politicians have refused to simply adhere to the response of the Public Health Agency and instead added on more severe restrictions themselves, locally? Etc etc, and so on. Or are you thinking about the press conferences where the Public Health Agency tells everybody how people are to behave to lessen the effects of the pandemic? Because in the latter case, it's due to the fact that what they say is technically advice - i.e. voluntary. There's a reason that it wasn't them but the government that declared that the new limit on public attendance at sports events is 300 people.
You do realize that the government is, overall, entirely free to dictate what an agency is to do, right? Actually even at a detailed level. Ministerial governance pertains to indivual cases, perhaps also for very local ones (not entirely sure), hardly to overall stratagems or a general pandemic-response, or anything else pertaining to corona on a national level. Oh, and it's nice if your town is faring well, corona-wise...here, on the contrary, it's worse than it ever was.