one group was suppose to be the experts the other was just an uninformed person. both were wrong.
Your uninformed idiot President was more than an uninformed person. He was the highest official in the country.
And the people who said in effect “just let it kill off whoever it needs to“ get to feel like they were right… even though they weren’t.
I don’t recall anyone trying to prevent third parties from taking Covid tests, wearing masks, or going on vents….but ok. There are obviously people who argued that testing and mask mandates weren’t the answer in stopping the spread…who were proven largely correct. Officials are going to be wrong. The lack of accountability afterwards is the troubling aspect. Even if it’s only acknowledging the mistakes.
I saw a man late in his prime(late 40's) getting in the face of a woman in her mid to late sixties, in Tulsa for wearing a mask. It happens, and it probably happened a lot more in small towns. I told him to get the heck away from her, and leave her alone. It started when he infringed on her 6 ft of space, and she politely asked him to step back. He then was six inches from her face and yelling. This was in the first couple of months of covid.
Never saw anything like that but I’m sure it occurred. Obviously saw a lot of people yelling at people for not wearing them. Yelling is obviously different than attempting to force people not to wear a mask. I never will understand why people object to other people doing things which doesn’t adversely affect them…ala gay marriage, etc..
Not my point. In mass pandemics, it takes more than just the actions of one person to maintain public health. Will some things be overkill? Absolutely. But caution in the face of pestilence is not ever a bad idea.
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follow the science!Largest real world study I’ve seen for those sheep who still believe masks were effective in significantly reducing Covid spread. In fact, mask may have even been detrimental.
Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe
Masking was the single most common non-pharmaceutical intervention in the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Most countries have implemented recommendations or mandates regarding the use of masks in public spaces. The aim of this short study was to analyse the...
The science is that masks work. It's people who don't. The results of this study are driven by how humans actually do or don't use them. Two very different things.
Masks work in a laboratory under clinical conditions. Masks don’t work in real world conditions with normal humans. Which of those statements is applicable to the ability of masks in society to significantly slow the spread of Covid?
I think Masks didn't work in the real world because people refused to wear them or weren't as vigilant as they should have been... possibly because they kept being fed lines about how masks don't work. It's a vicious cycle.
Well….the largest study done and the one I last linked was from Europe. Let’s not pretend this was an American anomaly. The data was almost identical in Europe. In fact, might have been a bit worse for the mask bros.
get a shot. get a second shot. get a booster. its tha pandemic of the unvaccinated. states padded there stats so the could get more federal funds.
2035 is quite a long time to build new infrastructure. There’s a lot going on in the electrical industry right now that is aimed at preparing for this inevitability. Constructing renewables in varying areas with different seasonal wind and solar regimes, constructing additional transmission, constructing energy storage facilities….
2035 is the deadline and not when all these EVs all a sudden hit the power grid. You will see millions of EVs coming online in California in the next 5-7 years due to the coming state law. California’s power issues today are worse than they were ten years ago without the addition of the coming new demand. I’ve seen little to indicate the state will be ready as they can’t handle current demand. Reminds me of parts of Europe who dictated the switch to green energy before the infrastructure was in place to handle to same. I wish them the best. They’re going to need it.
I don’t think they’re having quite the issues you think they are. Increased demand will mean more work for the power companies. Instead of people’s money going towards funding the cost of oil wells, it will go toward funding the cost of solar panels, windmills, nuclear stations, carbon capture transitions, etc…
California ISO is asking people to turn thermostats up to 78, avoid using large appliance and charging ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
Cool? That has nothing to do with my point, which is that electric generation capacity is set to increase at a high pace in the next few years alongside the use of EV’s. Utilities aren’t in the business of creating vast amounts of spare capacity that won’t be used, unless your utility commissions deem that a prudent investment.
California hasn’t apparently created sufficient capacity to meet current demands though. This isn’t a new crisis but one which has been occurring for years in that state. I’m glad you believe they will now do a 180 and drastically increase capacity. Based on past experience, I have my doubts
They have the capacity to meet the vast majority of demand on any given day. There are occasional events that exceed capacity and there always will be unless you want to spend a bunch of money on generation facilities that are only used once a year.
