I was listening to Bill Maher (because I hate myself) and he was anecdotally talking about how inane it is that people have to wear masks going into a restaurant just to take it off to eat.
I don’t know the specifics. But I really doubt bars are closed in a city like LA. Fucking OKC had a concert in a 4,000 person indoor arena last weekend.
Outdoor restaurants only.
There are some places that seem to be pushing the boundaries with say an indoor section that has full open windows on 2 sides.
It is dumb. You have to wear a mask for 10 seconds while you walk to your table. It’s the kind of stuff that gives people no faith in govt.
Bars are definitely closed in LA. Only restaurants and the tables have to be pretty much outdoors.
Everyone in LA is not wearing masks. Maybe in grocery stores because they’re required to do so, but lots of people having parties and gatherings. Also lots of factories etc where protocols are loose at best.
So there really is no good reason for why LA is exploding in new cases even with high mask compliance? Because I don’t think out door restaurants would do it.
In LA we have a massive immigrant population who work essential jobs and are super family-oriented. If LA was just well off white suburbs like where me and Microbet live we’d have very low case #s.
Also LA isn’t really exploding. It’s more of a slow burn. Look at per capita compared to other places.
Gyms are supposed to be closed but apparently a lot of them are going rogue. I haven’t seen any bars going rogue.
@jwax13 I feel your pain. We have a very close set of friends who both have compromised immune systems. Through early June they were taking it quite seriously. We went camping with them and we all got tested before we went. In the two months since they are dining indoors at restaurants twice a week or so, have asked us to go to the comedy club twice, took a trip to LOLBranson (WTF) and are going to Nashville here shortly. The vast majority of my friends and family are back to resuming normal activities. I do know several people who got pozzed but no one who got seriously ill or died yet.
Meanwhile my wife works in a Covid unit and we haven’t been to a bar or restaurant since this started and, while we normally travel 2 months a year, the extent of our wildness has been going camping a couple times. I guess i have played 5 rounds of golf or so also.
The two things that have me holding on is my parents take it quite seriously and I want to continue to see them and the stories from my wife’s job of plenty of people in the 35-55 seriously damaged from Covid or dead. Granted she sees the worst cases in the ICU.
I am very close to the who gives a shit level as well. As you said if people can’t be bothered to protect themselves why should I be sacrificing my life when I am unlikely to get seriously ill even if i get it.
Found out one of my neighbors had it in June and is still having issues. I have seen them having backyard drinking get togethers all summer. I’ve been tempted to have a social distancing bon fire with a few people over but that shit sketches me out. Also talking about camping/mountain biking/kayaking with a few people this fall. Meh.
She doesn’t really know that the cases “are skyrocketing.” CA’s data are still fucked. LA’s had a ton of cases, especially because they opened bars and restaurants early, but it’s not really clear what’s happening there now.
This is the thing I just tried explaining to my partner. Normies drastically underappreciate the reality of small probabilities. As poker players, we know what < 1% really means. I’ve seen perfect perfect multiple times. I’ve been dealt quads in PLO. I’ve been one outed more times than I can count ( I know not <1% don’t @ me). The possibility of us getting seriously ill or having lasting damage keeps me deterred, but I’m not sure how much longer I can hold out. Like, I’m becoming so much more unhealthy by missing the gym and normal social interaction that when I inevitably do get sick from my partner via the funeral home, my prospects will be worse.
We gave in a little bit lately and have started hanging out 6 of our closest friends (not necessarily all at once) and it has helped a lot with our mental state. Only outside at one of our places or the local brewery that has the best COVID setup. Risks are super low and greatly help not feeling depressed.
I constantly have to remind myself that I’m doing the right thing and that every day is another opportunity to take this as seriously as possible or to think about the risks i’m taking in my life and try my best not to get infected. It helps that I’m single, have a small family, no job, a good living situation, I can still see all of my friends because they surf and all of them are also staying home as much as possible though.
I live with roommates and we don’t allow guests inside our house at all right now so I had a friend over last week and I brought two TVs outside and were watching games on mlb tv but also two of roommates inexplicably decided to join us outside and it was a little cramped because I wasn’t expecting them to take a sudden interest in watching baseball outside at night and they kept coming in and out of the door we were sitting near despite their being 2 other doors so ya I dunno how effective it was but at least I’m trying.
I would tell your mom that you can’t visit her anymore.
Because the long-term effects are still not fully known, and some of what we do know is not good at all. I don’t want to not be able to hike up a mountain or ride a bike for the rest of my life.
We are supposed to have dinner outdoors at my parents this evening, but I feel like it’s positive reinforcement for their reckless and irresponsible behavior. It’s also way over 105 heat index basically every day here.
Ignorance is bliss. I’m just going to ignore the virus and politics. Works well for the majority of people.
Oh I agree with you. I am more just venting than anything. I am pretty committed to staying the course for the foreseeable future. It is just getting increasingly frustrating doing it.
This is what I’m currently struggling with. I don’t know what other options I have. But they’re getting way more exposure in their idiotic day to day lives of dining inside restaurants and going to fucking weddings.
You can’t put yourself and your partner at risk because of the risks they take. Don’t go. And you’re only going again if they’re quarantined for two weeks straight.
I’m having a really hard time with school. Every day my kid begs me to go to in person school so he can make friends. Everyone in my neighborhood is living life completely normally with zero precautions. It is soul-crushing.