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I feel like this is mostly the boat weāve been in. Weāre lucky that both our kids were old enough to get vaxxed, pretty much everyone we saw regularly among family and friends got it with no holdouts, so we had a decent size circle of people to āget back to normalā with.
As far as things like school activities, taking additional precautions etc. itās just been a mixed bag. Still wearing masks in most indoor places and preferring outdoor dining, but being OK with indoor if itās the only option (def going out much less than pre-pandemic in any case). Kept my 16yo home last year until his grades really started to suffer as a result and we decided him not failing multiple classes was more important than the (minimal) increase in safety.
I definitely think the comparison to risk tolerance among people here is similar to how anyone that drives faster than you is an asshole, and anyone who drives slower is a dork. (Not a perfect analogy since on the highway both people can actually endanger you, but wrt COVID someone being overly cautious doesnāt affect me at all. I definitely think some people here are being crazily risk-averse but thereās certainly no way Iām gonna get annoyed about it or anything.)
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Yeah I was surprised the rules had been so strict. The previous rules gonna lead to a lot of shutdowns and quarantining so solution: change the rules. Am surprised they arent going to require rapid tests to stay though, thats what schools around here are doing.
We are about 3 weeks into school here. Our school system just had a 23 year old teacher die. This isnāt a big school system at all. A graduating class probably has 150 kids. There is a school board meeting tonight and the local batshit qanon lady that homeschools her kids is trying to organize parents to show up to stop them from implementing a mask mandate. She fuxking homeschools her kids!
Another even smaller school system in the county also just had a teacher die over the weekend.
I think the correct play is to show up and accuse local batshit qanon lady that homeschools her kids of being a local batshit qanon lady that homeschools her kids and throw as many personal attacks at her as possible.
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A German gas station attendant was shot and killed today because he refused to serve a maskless customer.
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Good lord. There is literally no better time to wear a mask than when you shoot somebody.
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Dude was packing? How common is that? How legal? Did Germany pass a 2nd amendment while I wasnāt looking?
https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxx-hospitalized/
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- However, the Aloha Freedom Coalition says it has not been swayed by its cofounderās experience.*
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https://twitter.com/BrettKelman/status/1440134938196692999
I canāt read the article to verify
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WTF, onion.
He actually was wearing a mask. Je was refused entry without a mask, left (probably to get the gun), came back wearing a mask and shot the gas station attendant.
So he probably wasnāt packing, but had a gun at home.
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He went home and came back with a revolver. A concealed carry license is impossible to get except in rare circumstances. Even to just own a gun one needs to be a licensed hunter or a member of a sports shooting club. Getting one for home defense is already quite difficult which leads me to believe that this revolver was more likely illegally owned.
7 DMA deaths passed 1900.