The following is commentary intended for discussion. Add your comments.
There are many places, not often depicted on the news, where Americans been living life fairly normally since fall of 2020.
This means they returned to school (no masks), played sports, and went about their normal business with few accommodations for Covid-19.
In these places where I have visited for stories, they suffered no inordinate spikes. In fact, they appear to have fared better than places where we hear of endless alarm and lockdowns.
Not many of those places are discussed on the news which is why some people who live in some big cities seemed so stunned by images of hundreds of thousands of football fans unmasked in stadiums enjoying college games this past weekend.
When such images were circulated on social media, many commented that all of those people were going to soon be dead, or that they were super spreader events.
Yet the dire predictions, so far, haven’t happened where people have congregated in great numbers outdoors.
In fact, there hasn’t been word that any of the international outdoor protests over lockdowns and vaccine passports have led to spikes in disease. And the hopes on the part of Trump opponents that his rallies, both before the election and now, would result in major spokes in illnesses didn’t materalize.
What does this tell us about the national approach?
Do you live in a place where people have been living normally? Or do you live where Covid still rages? Or where fear of Covid rules?
Do kids have to mask at school where you live?
Why do you think attention is focused on the places in crisis to the exclusion of places that haven’t had major issues?
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Californians – Here are the states that most likely would accept you:
Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Hawaii, New Jersey. You can also go to Detroit, Chicago, Denver, and Seattle. Otherwise, please stay in California and work on fixing the mess there, please do not come to the remaining good places because even though you think you’re going there to enjoy it and consider yourselves “like-minded”, you are not. You come to our good places and they end up a mess, just like California.
In SD, we never locked down, and never had state-wide mask mandates. I have never not lived a normal life… I mean I live on the border of MN and SD, so when MN required masks I chose to shop in SD instead because I didn’t want to wear a mask. It was maybe an extra 5 minutes to my shopping trips.
Some people willingly wore some. But I would say it was never more than half of the people in the store wearing them, probably a quarter of the people or less wore them.
So it’s been surreal to see what other states were doing through social media in 2020. I’m still shocked that people are carrying on about the masks as they are. If people were really afraid they would willingly wear masks. If someone is afraid, they can stay away from the unmasked. If the vaccines work, then people who wanted one have likely gotten them, and the rest aren’t afraid, so I don’t see why people are still worried.
We live in Saint Augustine. Life was weird for the 6 mo of the pandemic. Kids were in school with masks. Luckily no masks this yr. We went on a family vacation & during a day of river rafting 70 adults crammed in a school bus. It definitely had super spreader potential. We had the best time, I never knew how much I enjoy seeing people laughing, smiling, living. We never got COVID TG & we have great memories. In my county 54% jabbed.. I notice younger- college age being very dutiful with masks, but they’re at least out and about- baby steps I guess. It’s pretty incredible when you acknowledge all this fuss is over a virus with a survival rate of 99.6,7,8,9. Terrifying to consider what would happen if COVID had a 97.% survival rate.
SC. Very few people wear masks public. Medical offices are about it. Public Schools are not allowed to require masks. Guess what? Nothing has happened. For the most we laugh at people wearing masks. However, the private university I attend mandates masks for everyone and has a reporting system in place to rat on classmates not wearing a mask correctly. I’m dissenting in as many passive was as I can, but teetering on the edge of being disciplined by the university. The people filling our hospitals with Covid are obese, diabetic, etc. and unvaccinated. And a huge percentage did not get vaccinated because the Democrats initially told them not to trust the vaccine. When in reality they are the very people the vaccine was designed for. I’m a vaccine proponent for those that are susceptible to the disease, but I believe blanket vaccinations are incredibly dangerous under these circumstances.
In central New York, many people seem to be consumed by fear and have continued wearing masks even after requirements were dropped. I feel sorry for those people, suffering from fear and delusion. Mask requirements are returning, but I have entered such areas mask free and have not yet been accosted. I’m not sure what I will do if another customer asks me to wear a mask—probably push back.
In my church we have gone mask free for many months, hugging and kissing each other. I refuse to wear a mask in church. The presumption that people walking around without symptoms can give people covid is, frankly, insane. No science supports it. The only people for whom that might be true are the vaccinated ones, who can carry a viral load 251 times greater than an unvaccinated person, without showing symptoms. But even with vaccinated people, I would rather take my chances.
Oregon is awful for COVID tyranny, and Kate Brown is disgusting.
I live on acreage in the country near a town of about 500 where I don’t have to “mask up.”
But I’m required to wear a mask for an office job (when I’m not alone in my office) in the nearest city. I wear a single layer, breathable gauze mask that looks legit. Still sucks in an hour-long meeting.
Kate Brown may soon require vaccination at my work, and if I don’t get an exemption, I’ll be facing unemployment and financial hardship in an area that saw home prices jump 30% in a year.
Grew up in the Midwest, and my family moved to Oregon 35 years ago. Thinking of moving back.
I live in a small town in the Deep South. I had COVID in November 2020. Not the worst that I have ever felt. I am thankful that my symptoms were not severe and that I recovered quickly. After my recovery, I quit wearing a mask. I saw no point in participating in the nonsense. My life went on as usual until the Delta variant reared it’s ugly head. Our “illustrious” governor clamped down again. I do not follow his directives. I go to church where 98% of the parishioners, as well as the pastor, do not wear masks. I shop at WalMart and local grocery stores without a mask and no one blinks an eye. The majority of the shoppers are like minded.
I know of scores of people who have had Covid PRE-Vaccine and POST-vaccine. They all survived. The survival rate does not warrant the vaccine mandate. I also know many who have had adverse reactions to the vaccine, including DEATH!
Why would I even consider putting this “vaccine” into my body? My antibodies are fine (and tested).
People need to get loud. I located all my state Senators and Assemblymen and women on the health committees and have been writing them emails with supporting documentation to support natural immunity and vaccine injury as well as informed consult and anything that questions this tyrannical behavior. I wrote the governor and the Senate and House representatives in DC for my state. I live in NY so they ignore me but make your voices heard!
Last year, southern CA (San Diego) was insane. Masks were required AND they had to be pulled up over your nose… lolol. I have only worn a mask when required to enter a store. I bought a plastic shield type that is open at the top, and usually tilt it downward on my chin so that I can breath freely.
I visited San Diego a month ago, and now you can enter many stores and restaurants without a mask. It was very exciting to see. But as I write, LA may be requiring vaccines for the school district…. what a freaking travesty.
I already had covid in Feb or last year, treated with liquid herbal antivirals echinacea/goldenseal combo, high dose Vit A and Vit C, Selenium and Zinc and was over it in about 7 days. Symptoms were mild. It did start with wheezing/rattling in my lungs and probably would have progressed if I had not immediately begun the liquid herbal antivirals (clinically proven in Germany btw to beat flus/colds… I always have it on hand.)
I just read a recent study that estimates between 50 and 62% of Americans in cities have had covid. Isn’t it odd how lame stream media never talks about natural immunity at all? /sarcasm
This is a great topic Sharyl. Thank you.
Meh. I have been exposed to 17 PCR tested positive people, that I know of these past 19 months, and haven’t had so much as a sniffle despite ignoring the mandates and face diapering. And the majority of those who were tested PCR positive didn’t know they had it, until they were compelled by the Tele-Vision scare experts to get tested. I don’t know of a single person who has dropped dead in a China Psyop Street. There is no “Covid”. There is only the repurposed Influenza exacerbated by the Viral/Bacterial Overload System called the Face Mask.
I think you are quite right!
What we have lived through is PSYOPS, how to make humans tremble in fear.
When tyranny is abroad, submission is a crime.
I live in Central Illinois where Chicago unfortunately rules everything, our Governor is a fear-monger, and the legislature is ruled by the Left. One size fits all is the mantra here. Masks have been mandated for all public schools and private schools have been basically forced to comply due to threats of their schools being excluded from sports activities. Now, teachers are being forced to be vaccinated or comply with weekly testing. Considering “the science” shows that vaccinated individuals can still contract and spread COVID, I find it hard to believe singling out unvaccinated individuals is really about “safety”; in fact, it feels a lot more like “control”.
Covid is going to be part of life from now on, so we might as well accept it. Living in fear is not a viable option, for many of us, at least (and it nearly killed me the end of May) and the notion that vaccines will make it go away is misleading and naive.
Few people realize that the seasonal flu is still the same flu virus from 1918, just variants. And it mutates every year, which is why the vaccines are mostly useless, with a very low efficacy rate.
It’s sad that most people, with the help of the media and self serving politicians, choose to embrace the fear.
Life on this planet will never be the same, thanks to the CCP.
Nevada is tyrannical! Governor Sisolak has complete control of casinos and school boards. The Delta. started spreading right around graduation and graduation parties. Students were wearing masks at ceremonies. Several contacted Covid at that time, including me,
Central Jersey. I only wear a mask if required (schools, dr offices, etc) and I mask up when entering a prospective client’s house ( just as a courtesy). Otherwise, never. For a while people where going barefaced (except the elderly and sick) but lately many people are hiding behind them again. Especially young adults—go figure. Even people *outside* and by themselves. It’s baffling. But then, I don’t watch msm, scroll social media or trust anything coming from Joe’s office, so I’m hardly anxious. Instead, my new sources include Sharyl, The Epoch Times, Dr. Mercola, and Alex Berenson. Therefore, knowledge—and not emotion—is allowed to dictate my decisions.