RahSkiUMah
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While I agree with you on many points, there are some things to keep in mind. This has been an ever evolving situation, as doctors and scientists learn more we have been able to adjust. This is science and medicine, changing practice and views with new information. That practice is something politicians and the general public find hard to swallow. We shouldn't judge the actions of 8 weeks ago based on what we know now.If I had any health concerns regarding obesity, diabetes, compromised immune system, lung capacity, heart disease, elevated blood pressure, ect. I would stay clear of any public venue, including TCF Bank Stadium.
I am not in this category.
Yes I am old.
I am over 50, have low body fat, and I push my heart pretty damn hard every day. I ride my carbon fiber road bike 30-40 miles 27/31 days a month, as fast as I can.. Until the club shut down I played pick up basketball 3 to 5 days a week at lunch.
Covid is not going to kill me, but half the people slightly less healthy as me are terrified by the propaganda put out by the Star Tribune and Walz The average citizen thinks COVID will kill them if they get it, and that is not at all true. This explains some of the recent polls.
This is not about me, but the people that are in the danger zone should have been protected, the rest of us, and the economy should have been spared. The data has been clear on this for at least 7 or 8 weeks, but Waltz has not changed course.
For anyone that thinks they are at risk, they need to self isolate. The Walz administration, aside from not protecting the bulk of the at risk in eldercare, has not made it clear to at risk people that they need to isolate. The message needs to be that you need to honestly evaluate your risk and quarantine if you are in the grey area. If your are worried, call your doctor, or just stay at home.
The great minds like Justin Gaard keep pontificating about how we all need to go into a shell to protect those we love from being infected by us "heathy". (or at least not showing symptoms). My answer to Gaard is to stay the hell away form all at risk people until this is over, and shut up.
If you are worried about someone stay the hell away from them and quite trying to destroy the economy and judge the rest of us. Self isolate, that is your choice!!
. I have not seen my elderly mother since late February and I am avoiding her until this gets better. Otherwise, game on.....
The whole mask thing is out of control too, and self righteous symbol for the SJW/ Snowflake community. Wear it as you see fit, but it is out of control.
I see a lot of old timers running on fumes at TCF every year, and I bet even with the current environment, at least half of them would rather see one more season no matter the consequences. That is their choice.
The 99.5 percent of us that will never die from COVID are not part of that discussion, and the old timers will be okay with our decisions as well. This is the nanny state on steroids.
There have been many unknowns throughout this whole process. Yes we've known that younger, healthier people are at very low risk, but what we did know was the hospitalization rate of the susceptible was so high that it could easily over run the hospital systems, it was looking like with only 3% of the population being infected every ICU bed would be full. That means if someones 18 year old son gets in a car accident and needs ICU admission, he might be SOL. All the sudden the mortality rate on non-covid patients get out of control. That was a big fear. Did you know approximately half of the drop in the economy was due to healthcare spending? A large part of that is elective surgeries. So should we prioritize people being able to get a drink at the bar? Or should we make sure the hospitals don't get overwhelmed going forward? Something to consider.
We had (still don't really) no real treatments or standard of care that seemed to help these patients, this is what scares so many doctors (including my fiance), even though the overall # of patients has been low here in WI.
Now we know the mortality rate is less then what we thought and there have probably been more asymptomatic infections then we thought (but how many???). There's still many unknowns. While we continue to figure those things out, let's open things up, but let's be cautious. Wearing a mask looks like it helps slow the spread and that's all we're looking to do at this point, we keep it to a point where hospitals aren't overwhelmed and we should be looking like we're back to normal in a couple months. But that depends on not having overwhelming surges and that can only be accomplished if everybody does their part.
I carry my pistol almost everywhere I go, even if I "don't need it." So why not wear a mask? To show how tough you are? I don't mean to beat the mask thing like a dead horse but it's just silly to me that people don't want to make some minor sacrifices out of an abundance of caution so that we don't have to go back to where we were before. If we show we can be a responsible populace we don't need the "nanny state on steroids." Just my 2 cents.