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Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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I will be very frustrated if I spent the last year social distancing, masking, and avoiding socialization with friends and family only to have bars, concerts, and socialization spring up everywhere else before I can get vaccinated. Sure, I'm young and healthy, but I don't want to risk potential long-term effects or spreading covid around to folks I socialize with. Can we please just wait for everyone to have vaccine access before we start easing regulations!?!

Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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This won’t end well

You're just (whether you're conscious of it or not) expecting that because it would vindicate your political beliefs.

People dying is not a political belief

Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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I will be very frustrated if I spent the last year social distancing, masking, and avoiding socialization with friends and family only to have bars, concerts, and socialization spring up everywhere else before I can get vaccinated. Sure, I'm young and healthy, but I don't want to risk potential long-term effects or spreading covid around to folks I socialize with. Can we please just wait for everyone to have vaccine…

Newsflash, it never stopped. In WI, many places here are just completely ignoring this ever happened. A lot of businesses openly challenge the law and i think like over half the sheriff's here signed a petition saying they wouldn't enforce the governor's mask mandate.

Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're just (whether you're conscious of it or not) expecting that because it would vindicate your political beliefs.

People dying is not a political belief

Shutting down the economy won't make your belief any more right though either.

Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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I will be very frustrated if I spent the last year social distancing, masking, and avoiding socialization with friends and family only to have bars, concerts, and socialization spring up everywhere else before I can get vaccinated. Sure, I'm young and healthy, but I don't want to risk potential long-term effects or spreading covid around to folks I socialize with. Can we please just wait for everyone to have vaccine…

Newsflash, it never stopped. In WI, many places here are just completely ignoring this ever happened. A lot of businesses openly challenge the law and i think like over half the sheriff's here signed a petition saying they wouldn't enforce the governor's mask mandate.

I am really baffled. Ok, opening or not opening businesses is a big topic with a lot of economic ramifications.

But Masks? Why can't people extend this simple courtesy to the rest of the population? People follow traffic rules so as not to kill others or themselves. Wearing a mask is at best an inconvenience. I don't understand this at all.

Re: Texas and Mississippi to Lift Covid-19 Mask Mandates, Business Capacity Limits

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're just (whether you're conscious of it or not) expecting that because it would vindicate your political beliefs.

People dying is not a political belief

The issue for you is that if the outcomes of a couple states like California and Florida are even in the same neighborhood for comparison in spite of supposedly vastly different policies - it means that your catastrophizing and support for violations of enshrined civil liberties are not justified.

It means that you have a flawed grasp of whats going on.

If Texas drops the "crucial" regulations on public life and numbers trend downwards, there's something wrong in your analysis.

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