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Pretty much the same story in South Carolina. Outside retail workers, mask usage in my hyper local area is about 2%. Life has been basically completely normal s

Pretty much the same story in South Carolina. Outside retail workers, mask usage in my hyper local area is about 2%. Life has been basically completely normal since June 2020.

40four 5y ago
I live in South Carolina as well, and I can confirm (I think you meant 2021 not 2020?). Most people in my city have been going about life as usual since ~ May if this year. Almost nobody wears masks. Everything is open. And guess what? We’re all good! The sky isn’t falling. Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Life is good, and I can remember the last time I worried or had anxiety about Covid. There seems to be a group of people who still believe we can ‘beat’ Covid. That somehow we make it go away, with endless restrictions. In reality, it is here to stay, and we will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.
- VRay 5y ago
  https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/south-carolina?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout... Doesn’t look too bad so far as the USA goes, although if legal gun owners or Mexican cartel members were out there killing 40 people a day, you’d be screaming bloody murder about it
  - NullPrefix 5y ago
    How many people are dying because of obesity? There's an epidemic going on and I hear no bloody murder screams near any McDonald's
    - robflynn 5y ago
      Let me know when a fat person walking into a room makes other people fat.
      - NullPrefix 5y ago
        He carries donuts. Frosted with layers or sugar.
- tzs 5y ago
  South Carolina has had a pretty high number of cases since mid year [1]. Higher than the late 2020/early 2021 surge which was before vaccination. It hasn't been doing all that great on death rates, either [2]. A bit worse than the Southern average, and quite a bit worse than the other regions of the US. South Carolina has now reached the same death total per capita as the Northeast [3], which is quite astounding. The Northeast got there by having a large number of people die early in the first couple of months of the pandemic as it tore through high density communities of especially vulnerable people while we were still trying to figure out basic things like how to treat it and what measures were practical and effective for limiting spread. That should have cemented the Northeast as the US COVID death leader for the rest of the pandemic. But South Carolina in the last couple of months, despite over half the people being vaccinated, as managed to get a death rate that looks almost like an early pandemic Northeast death rate, eliminated the death gap. [1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
frealy 5y ago
Here in San Francisco, a.k.a. East Germany the Stasi are very strong. Even 5 year olds now have to show proof of vaccine and wear a mask to enter most private companies. Either masks work or they don't. Either vaccines work or they don't. Pick one asssholes. The mayor herself won't follow her very own draconian covid orders. The governor of California won't follow his very own draconian covid orders. He also won't vaccinate his own daughter. FUCK EVERY PIECE OF LOW-LIFE DEMOCRAT LIBERAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT IN SAN FRANCISCO. I know you all are reading this so please go jump off the big beautiful bridge of ours or jump in front of Cal-Train. You people are FUCKING LOSERS. I hope you all get FUCKED! If you somehow survive the next year just wait cause the right wing death squads are coming for you. We will throw you out of planes at 30,000 feet over the fucking ocean. LIBERALS: You ARE FUCKED!
zapdrive 5y ago
Being in BC, Canada sucks. I went in to an Apple store to buy the fully loaded MacBook M1 max, with 6000 dollars in my hand (literally). And was told to leave the store because my mask didn't cover my nose. I'm buying a Razer 15 now. And I'm fully vaccinated. Not because I was scared of getting sick (i already contacted COVID twice before the vaccine, including the Delta variant), but because I was shamed into getting it (think about the immunocompromised!!!). And now I'm being told that vaccine doesn't prevent transmission? So now I'm being shamed into wearing a mask. And now the govt is trying to bully the 10% teachers who are not vaccinated. They might lose their jobs if they don't get the shots. Think about the children!!! But wait a minute, the vaccines don't prevent transmission. So even if the teachers get vaccinated, how is it going to help the children?
- jjwiseman 5y ago
  If you don't understand by now that vaccines significantly reduce transmission, you just need to google "do covid vaccines reduce transmission". The top results are links to the CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, all saying that vaccines significantly reduce transmission. Vaccines significantly reduce transmission, so if someone is telling you they don't, you need to re-evaluate whether you should trust that person and any information they're giving you. (P.S. SARS-CoV-2 is a virus with airborne transmission that loves nasal passages, so it's probably pretty important that your mask cover your nose. So far, there's no evidence that the virus cares at all about how much money you have in your hand.)
  - ldehaan 5y ago
    You must be young.
  - throwawayboise 5y ago
    > CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet None of these sources are trusted by the people who don't want the vaccine.
  - lborsato 5y ago
Panther34543 5y ago
Where in South Carolina are you?

Pretty much the same story in South Carolina. Outside retail workers, mask usage in my hyper local area is about 2%. Life has been basically completely normal since June 2020.

40four 5y ago

I live in South Carolina as well, and I can confirm (I think you meant 2021 not 2020?). Most people in my city have been going about life as usual since ~ May if this year. Almost nobody wears masks. Everything is open. And guess what? We’re all good! The sky isn’t falling. Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Life is good, and I can remember the last time I worried or had anxiety about Covid. There seems to be a group of people who still believe we can ‘beat’ Covid. That somehow we make it go away, with endless restrictions. In reality, it is here to stay, and we will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.

VRay 5y ago
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/south-carolina?view=daily-deaths&tab=trend https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout... Doesn’t look too bad so far as the USA goes, although if legal gun owners or Mexican cartel members were out there killing 40 people a day, you’d be screaming bloody murder about it
- NullPrefix 5y ago
  How many people are dying because of obesity? There's an epidemic going on and I hear no bloody murder screams near any McDonald's
  - robflynn 5y ago
    Let me know when a fat person walking into a room makes other people fat.
    - NullPrefix 5y ago
      He carries donuts. Frosted with layers or sugar.
tzs 5y ago
South Carolina has had a pretty high number of cases since mid year [1]. Higher than the late 2020/early 2021 surge which was before vaccination. It hasn't been doing all that great on death rates, either [2]. A bit worse than the Southern average, and quite a bit worse than the other regions of the US. South Carolina has now reached the same death total per capita as the Northeast [3], which is quite astounding. The Northeast got there by having a large number of people die early in the first couple of months of the pandemic as it tore through high density communities of especially vulnerable people while we were still trying to figure out basic things like how to treat it and what measures were practical and effective for limiting spread. That should have cemented the Northeast as the US COVID death leader for the rest of the pandemic. But South Carolina in the last couple of months, despite over half the people being vaccinated, as managed to get a death rate that looks almost like an early pandemic Northeast death rate, eliminated the death gap. [1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=cases-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [2] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths-daily-7&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-... [3] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=(None)&show=agg-only&y=both&scale=linear&data=deaths&data-source=jhu&xaxis=right&extra=South%20Carolina#states-normalized http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

frealy 5y ago

Here in San Francisco, a.k.a. East Germany the Stasi are very strong. Even 5 year olds now have to show proof of vaccine and wear a mask to enter most private companies. Either masks work or they don't. Either vaccines work or they don't. Pick one asssholes. The mayor herself won't follow her very own draconian covid orders. The governor of California won't follow his very own draconian covid orders. He also won't vaccinate his own daughter. FUCK EVERY PIECE OF LOW-LIFE DEMOCRAT LIBERAL FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT IN SAN FRANCISCO. I know you all are reading this so please go jump off the big beautiful bridge of ours or jump in front of Cal-Train. You people are FUCKING LOSERS. I hope you all get FUCKED! If you somehow survive the next year just wait cause the right wing death squads are coming for you. We will throw you out of planes at 30,000 feet over the fucking ocean. LIBERALS: You ARE FUCKED!

zapdrive 5y ago

Being in BC, Canada sucks. I went in to an Apple store to buy the fully loaded MacBook M1 max, with 6000 dollars in my hand (literally). And was told to leave the store because my mask didn't cover my nose. I'm buying a Razer 15 now. And I'm fully vaccinated. Not because I was scared of getting sick (i already contacted COVID twice before the vaccine, including the Delta variant), but because I was shamed into getting it (think about the immunocompromised!!!). And now I'm being told that vaccine doesn't prevent transmission? So now I'm being shamed into wearing a mask. And now the govt is trying to bully the 10% teachers who are not vaccinated. They might lose their jobs if they don't get the shots. Think about the children!!! But wait a minute, the vaccines don't prevent transmission. So even if the teachers get vaccinated, how is it going to help the children?

jjwiseman 5y ago
If you don't understand by now that vaccines significantly reduce transmission, you just need to google "do covid vaccines reduce transmission". The top results are links to the CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, all saying that vaccines significantly reduce transmission. Vaccines significantly reduce transmission, so if someone is telling you they don't, you need to re-evaluate whether you should trust that person and any information they're giving you. (P.S. SARS-CoV-2 is a virus with airborne transmission that loves nasal passages, so it's probably pretty important that your mask cover your nose. So far, there's no evidence that the virus cares at all about how much money you have in your hand.)
- ldehaan 5y ago
  You must be young.
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  > CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet None of these sources are trusted by the people who don't want the vaccine.
- lborsato 5y ago

Panther34543 5y ago

Where in South Carolina are you?