You can't fix stupid. An unfortunate number of people just are not mentally equipped to deal with an insidious threat, and they will just magnify the danger for everyone. The cynical manipulation these same folks receive from RWNJ propagandists just adds fuel to the fire.

These are the people in this combination Michigan protest / Trump Rally.

My son lives in Michigan and is working on the "front line" as a produce stocker at Target. He's a little nervous these days when an unmasked patron with a MAGA hat ignores protocol and taps him on the shoulder to ask when the next shipment of toilet paper is due in.

Darwin awards for sure!

[thailandmedical.news] I just read this full article from a post below and if this is fully true or even partially we are in for one of a hell of a long ride

When they fall ill let them treat themselves, without any sort of evil government help. Like, you know, trained doctors, or medicine produced in a federally regulated facility.

The Raleigh NC Police Department broke up a protest last week & tweeted out "Protests are not essential activities."

Maybe we can encourage more of those.

Suicidal morons

Saw a news article where they were mentioning the mutations of the Corvid-19 virus. I did further research and found this: [thailandmedical.news]
I know this may not be on topic but if stupid people want to do stupid things perhaps reading this will make you laugh or cry.

We're gonna catch a wabbit!
We're gonna catch a wabbit!

SMDH ‍

Quoting from the Washington Post editorial on this very subject:

"The irony, of course, is that what’s being protested is, in broad strokes, what Trump himself has advocated at the state level: efforts to reduce interactions and, therefore, limit the spread of the virus.

What’s noteworthy is that the original order appears to have had an effect. The goal of stay-at-home orders is to limit person-to-person transmission of the virus. Since it can take two weeks for symptoms of the virus to appear, it’s generally assumed that the effects of limiting interactions will be seen about two weeks after those limits were put in place.

Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University show that about two weeks after the March 23 order, the number of confirmed cases in the state each day began to drop. A few days later, the number of deaths from covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, did, as well. In recent days, though, those figures have moved back up.

One conservative group supporting the protest, Michigan Freedom Fund, used that drop as a rationale for rescinding the order. This is a false dichotomy. Rates of infection are dropping almost certainly because of the stay-at-home order. As we’ve seen elsewhere, the effectiveness of a measure to contain the virus is being used as a rationale for revoking the measure."

Or, to put it in a nutshell: They're tired of being safe, they want to go back to getting sick.

It's a mad, mad world