Exactly.  But no one is saying Brady won't be inducted his first year.  We still have people who think they're living in a dictatorship and Trump will  be in office come January 21st.  They can't tell you how we're in a dictatorship or how they've been affected, but they'll howl really really loud.

It was breath taking when the clouds didn’t block the city. I was on the 76th floor overlooking millennium park and sent plenty of tinder dates in Pittsburgh shots of the bean from up there.

I was totally a tourist living out of a downtown hotel for 1 week a month the 2 years I worked for Kraft out of Aon. But I made it a point to eat dinner in the different neighborhoods and had colleagues who lived all over the city.

At this point there is no excuse for the governments of the world having commissioned a study proving the efficacy of masks and social distancing.  Not some bull shit data sample with 5 data points with data from a unique environment back in April.  They should be able to explain why wearing certain types of masks work, and how likely a person is to be exposed in a specific, real-world environments.  They can't because no model shows a giant decline with the adoption of cloth masks alone, especially over a 6 month period they have no excuse for not monitoring at the county/parish level.   My own county leaked every positive COVID patients' PHI they're aware of by placing it unrestricted on a public facing website.  And this is in a major American city that's now had almost a year to get their shit together - one of the few counties able to act autonomously from the state. 

Social distancing and sanitization are the only things that are going to stop any kind of communicable disease.  We have people who wear the same gloves to touch every surface rather than use hand sanitizer regularly, infecting everything they touch with everything they've been in contact with.  We have people who wear a $4 cotton mask they haven't washed in weeks/months that they often keep under their nose.  And social distancing goes out the fucking window in any populated area.  The protests this summer told us what the governments of the world really think about social distancing. 

I wear my mask like a good little sheep because I don't like feeling like a social pariah.  I've mainly worked from home since March, so I have little reason to venture out with my governor keeping the entertainment and food industry sporadically and arbitrarily closed since March.  And I constantly washed and sanitized my hands long before COVID.  It's not that I'm not doing it, it's that I know I'm an educated and intelligent person, and I can't explain why we're doing the things we're doing.  I know whose most affected by COVID, and I know what the CDC says is necessary to protect those rare and isolated populations.  I don't see us doing that, and I see far too many people acting fanatical in their support of lockdowns and isolationism unable to explain why they're so devout. 

No one wants to have a discussion and explain why shutting down bars or movie theatres indefinitely is acceptable or productive in combatting COVID.  They just link to a news anchor or a public official saying so, and never look at the underlying data to see if they draw the same conclusion.  It's a blind obedience and lack of individual thought and agency that scares me.   

I'm fine with disagreement.  And I'm fine with informed discussion.  But just because you didn't think to ask and research the question doesn't mean that it's not a question worth having.

How long does this continue?  When do we hold the governors of our states accountable for bungling who gets the vaccine?  Last I heard we'd made 11 million pfizer vaccines, but roughly 2 million had been administered.  How is this Trump's fault when states have had months to prepare for the eventual vaccine everyone accepted would ever manifest?  It's not brave to not think and question the road you're (we're) on.  And a lot of people feel very bold about their ignorance.

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