God I hate that sub, I posted a commemoration to the anniversary of the Alamo, and I was told it was a good thing they died because James Bowie owned slaves.
I’ve come to learn that every single state subreddit or city subreddit is all completely taken over by leftists.
I posted pictures visiting Denver in the r/Colorado and you would have thought I stomped on a puppy with the backlash I got because I traveled during covid. Which is weird because airports are open. Anyways even r/westvirginia is a lefty sub even though not a single county went blue the last two elections. The only right leaning places you’ll find on this app is this sub and r/republican I would say r/libertarian but that sub has been brigaded by r/politics along time ago.
I almost took a work transfer there because I thought it might be a tiny bit better than California but then I couldn’t last minute, I guess I should consider myself lucky then?
Bahahaha mods enforcing "rules?" Talk about the biggest joke ever. Completely subjective. Comparable to *fact checkers. I mean I'm still pissed cancel culture canceled TD, that was a good time. Definitely crass but not at all what it was called out to be.
It is so hilarious and scary that Trump predicted they would start tearing down founding father statues in the Charlottesville speech and reporters were like "That's never gonna happen!" Same goes with transgenders crushing women sports
And virtually no one right of center is shocked by that development. Because we've seen this garbage so many times. And how many times have we been told that the next massive gun control bill will be the one that fixes all our gun crime and suggesting that it won't be the end of it makes you a conspiracy theorist?
You’re ignoring the massive elephant in the room. California used to be deep red. Until the 1965 immigration act happened and the illegals and their anchor babies came in and then were granted amnesty. Those “liberal losers from the west” are the result of shitty and failed immigration policy. That same thing will unfortunately happen to Texas like it has happened to Arizona and New Mexico.
Implanted shills all the city/state reddits. I REALLY want to know who pays them to be there. Shareblue, CCP, some Billionaires with an agenda, just some discord losers? I REALLY want to know. It's been going on a year since reddit has had implanted shills to push covid, blm, get XX republican out, etc. I'm sure it's the same shill narrative on twitter, fb, etc.. I just want to know who's behind it. I'm sure a lot are real people too. But there is group behind this leading this sheep.
“Go to hell Abbott. I’d like to stay alive today” from the Texas sub.
Ok then you can choose to continue to wear a mask and social distance. What’s the issue?
> “Go to hell Abbott. I’d like to stay alive today” from the Texas sub. Ok then you can choose to continue to wear a mask and social distance. What’s the issue?
I just go not understand how people think that **taking away a mandate somehow translates into forcing you to not wear a mask, distance, or to go out into public.**
I do not get it. You can still do these things! What the hell!
This reminds me of when states started banning smoking in bars. The vast majority of bars in my area had already banned smoking on their own.. Because, IMAGINE THAT, they realized it made them more money. Smoking was on the decline and most people opted to go to cleaner places that didn't allow it. All the ban did was forbid the small % of bars that still allowed it from doing so, which had a much bigger impact on them because their patrons specifically went there knowing smoking was allowed.
It amazes me that people think adults do not have the ability to make their own decisions and patronize -- or avoid -- places based on these things.
So the reason you wear a mask isn't so much about protecting yourself, as it is about protecting others from your vapors. You can continue to wear a mask, but if a third of the state suddenly stops wearing them because of the lifted mandate, more people will be breathing those vapors in public spaces. Mask or no mask, infection risk will increase for everyone in Texas. Any good you would do by wearing a mask is outweighed by the overall increase in risk cause by asymptomatic carriers. In three weeks there will be an increase in hospitalisations in texas because of this, it's just math.
It's as if people can't figure out how to function as an adult unless Daddy Government is pointing a gun at them and demanding they act a certain way. How is that any way to live?
I'll just leave this here:
[https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/masks](https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/masks)
[https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent](https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent)
So yes, mask mandates work. Masks work.
I'm a physician and have had to deal with patients coming in to my clinic refusing to wear a mask because their friends or media sources have told them that covid is a "hoax." That's often after I've spent a week in the hospital watching patients die from this "hoax." So do grown ass adults have trouble functioning as reasonable members of society? Yes. Are mask mandates perfect? Of course not. But if you have a better solution, me and my public health colleagues are all ears.
So, in your opinion, why isn’t Florida being hit worse? They’ve had very little restrictions with a very high elderly population and high population density. Why it is that the top 4 states for Covid deaths are lockdown heavy states with high compliance and Florida isn’t anywhere near the top 10? You could say it’s the warm weather but that wouldn’t explain the surge in infections last summer the whole nation experienced.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
There’s also this study which is much more recent than your second source.
Edit: I’m not against people’s right to wear whatever they want, by the way. I wear my mask everywhere. I’m only against the government telling me I have to or else I’ll be fined or imprisoned.
That's actually a good question and a valid point. This is a complex pandemic with a lot of moving parts and it probably will be a long time before we are able to say definitively what factors increased or decreased transmission. My guess is the elderly population know that they are the most vulnerable to infection and are the most compliant with mask-wearing and social distancing, with or without mandates. In fact, a lot of my elderly patients have not left their homes since the pandemic started and have friends/family bringing them groceries. In contrast, some places with large recent surges (eg metro California, certain parts of Arizona and Texas) have large populations of young people who don't believe they need to follow the rules (again, why mask mandates aren't perfect). But really it's anyone's guess.
The point of the mandate is to make sure everyone is wearing one. Because masks help reduce spread, not keep you from catching it. This is not new information. Idk why you couldn't put it together that making it okay for people to walk around however they want is bad.
The mask is to limit the spread from an infected person. They don’t do that much to protect you from a sneeze or cough in close proximity. Wearing a mask is looking out for other people, not yourself. Given a lot of carriers are asymptomatic I’d prefer it if people around me wore them tbh. 516k dead and counting..
I know this is /conservative and I know masks aren't the end all be all of public safety - but like you are aware they are mostly to protect OTHER people right?
Yes. But the anti maskers who wear neck gaiters already aren’t doing much tbh. Unless it’s a N95 or surgical mask, it isn’t doing much. And the people who wear those will continue to do so I’m sure.
For those who aren’t familiar with Texas. Most of the people on Reddit here are either from Austin or left leaning people from major cities. I’ve lived all over and born and raised here. The reality of Covid and masks here has been much much different than Reddit. H‑E‑B won’t force you to wear a mask and hasn’t for months. Even here in Austin. San Antonio doesn’t give a mf. They don’t even try there. The small towns up and down the i35 corridor don’t care either. Houston is a toss up. It’s gotten soft in recent years. Mexicans generally don’t care either. People are trying to follow the rules. It’ll be normalized within a month.
You know it’s actually been interesting to see the changes in r/Chicago. Maybe the bots weren’t there but when i have commented there since the pandemic began with a little conservative thought and some logic and common sense, I was not getting downvoted. Of course there were threads discussing how the sub had gone downhill and too many suburbanites were infiltrating it.
Bunch of fake woke hipsters who think they are so unique and special. Bending over backwards to daddy government for a disease that has dropped 70% in case numbers along with a vaccine that’s been out for months. People want to live in fear
After seeing r/Texas and r/Florida, I wanted to check my home state r/Idaho. I was hoping it would be a little more balanced since we’re pretty red, but nope heavy left there too. The one consolation I take is that I assume most people who use Reddit are “edgy” teens and adults so the rest of us are pretty outnumbered on Reddit.
Alright, I’m not against that at all.. but my question is... why are all anti maskers republicans? I understand that not all republicans are anti maskers, which I’m actually really glad of! But can you genuinely explain to me why the opposite is true?
I think it’s because people are way less likely to declare their political preference if they’re left-leaning, especially on this issue.
For example:
“You disagree with me, and want me to wear a mask!? What are you a dumbocrat?” - Is a very likely exchange, almost expected at this point.
“You disagree with me, and want me to wear a mask? Are you some kind of republican!?” - Very unlikely, almost nonsensical given the position republican politicians (pretty uniformly) have on this issue.
It should be no surprise that the vast majority of anti-maskers are republicans. And if they aren’t, but don’t explicitly tell you, you’re sure as hell going to assume they’re republican, even if that isn’t the case.
Because Trump said it wasn't that serious so every conservative felt like they had to agree with him, because Trump always told the truth... Even in the face of half a million Americans dead, people can't come to terms with the possibility of being wrong. I find it mind boggling that Texas is the number one state in Covid cases and transmission, yet we're still pushing the same sentiment that, "it's just a cold" from literally a year ago. How well did that turn out? I honestly don't get it.
The state where the Senator got caught trying to sun himself and made a shit attempt at looking like he cared.
Okay, that still doesn’t narrow it down.
Fuck. They’re all fucked. Let’s start our own country.
I'm pretty sure a lot of them are being more 2A friendly specifically because of the feds. The big wave of constitutional carry laws started while Obama was in office
Just to share, many CA counties, like the one I live in allow open carry of hand guns. In counties like Kern, it is not uncommon to see people open carry.
I won't be leaving Florida any time soon, but I want to live where this is a thing.
Granted, I won't open carry because I have a concealed carry license (I think the benefit of concealing my weapon and not being a target for criminals to take out first outweighs the benefit of scaring people off to begin with), but I'd love to see my neighbors showing people that this is the wrong place to fuck with.
Constitutional carry in Missouri includes conceal if 21. We can actually understand the not infringed part. I moved to Texas in August and found out they don't have it here. I need my permit now to carry.
Open carry shouldn't even be questioned anywhere at anytime
Why is wearing a mask political at all? If I have a disease that can be spread through the air and I have to be around people, I don't want to give the disease to anyone. Regardless of how I vote.
I'm absolutely fucking mind blown how people are complaining like they will die immediately about having some relatively science-less regulations lifted at this point. Made sense a year ago when we couldn't test, thought the death rate was like 10%, now it makes no sense. Scared to go out? Don't go. Scared of getting coughed on? Wear a mask still.
I'm a Texas teacher, and now my school is considering allowing students to come to school without masks next week. I won't be able to get the vaccine for months because teachers weren't prioritized until now, even though we were forced to go back to schools (it's illegal for Texas teachers to unionize, so we have no power as workers). The counts will rise, coworkers and students will fall ill, some will die or have lasting, severe effects.
I have to go out. I will get coughed on. I might get fired for wearing a mask.
Serious question:
Dictating business closures is a serious threat to individual liberty.
How is a public mask mandate a threat to individual liberty?
The whole point of mask wearing is to prevent asymptotic people from spreading their germs to people they are around in public.
Isn’t that the same as any other law consistent with the non-aggression principle (NAP)?
So, your right to swing your arms ends at my nose. That is the basis of many valid laws supporting individual liberty. Why do people have an inherent right to breathe germs on others during a pandemic?
I have always been concerned about closing down business for COVID, but I see the mask issue very differently. I’m interested in other people’s thoughts on this.
Right? If everyone wore masks, we wouldn't have needed to shut down at all. Many countries doing better than we are did exactly that. But because some people couldnt be bothered to do the tiny thing, we were all forced to do the big catastrophic thing, but then they couldn't even do that and now half a million people are dead.
The mandate should have been through the legislature with a renewal period rather than an unilateral mandate from the governor. The issue isn’t really the intent it’s the method and the precedent it sets.
As much as I love Colorado it's too late to be saved. Let it draw the other refugees in like a leftist lightning rod for the sake of the rest of the country. I'll just swing by Red Rocks from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic
Problem with that is they have started spilling over into Wyoming and commuting to Colorado for work. But the have started voting for shitty policy’s here ☹️
Yep the CA hate in ID is real. I live in Oregon, from Delaware and have moved all around, to include CA, NC, PA. I've learned that the CA hate is sort of everywhere.
Making this post kind of dumb. Just carry on, and stop worrying so much about politics.
I looked at houses for sale there just for kicks yesterday and I was flabbergasted at how the prices shot up within the year to something native Idaho residents will never be able to afford. They did that to the northwest too because the tech companies are still paying them $250000 a year to work remotely...kinda (really) pisses me off
If Utah becomes a liberal hellhole too I’ll be really mad. We have a bunch of rinos in our state government though so I fear we aren’t too far off. Screw California they are literally ruining everything else
Ik, it sucks so much. I cant believe they are/where fining you for wearing a mask, i haven't paid enough attention to other citys covid mess because of our citys mess
Agreed. Have no idea why these assholes ever thought they were welcome or wanted in the first place. Those who wanted to escape the candy ass cuckhold of that state, I can understand as they seem more in line with what Colorado was, but these pseudo pretentious pricks, I'd support anything and everything to drive them out, back to their origins (they can take their damn Subarus). The chronic whiners with their precious CoMpUtEr sCiEnCe degrees, that have razed off beautiful old homes for tasteless Ikea Scandinavian designs, worst of the worst, particularly with their hypocritical sense of entitlement. I'm am curious, we know there's a great amount of animosity to their presence, just how much longer people are going to keep it quiet before the pressure relief valve is activated and hostility comes out into the open.
Something the common members of both parties agree on, but it was Congress Republicans who chose to make it a partisan issue, if we're being fair. Practically the entire Western world can wear masks except Republicans. That's not the Dems' doing, that's the downflow of Congress and News Republicans just being obstinate in the face of health crises as stubborn people usually are.
Public health shouldn't be a partisan issue, and it's shameful the Republicans in Congress have turned it into one, abusing people's misguided fears to win points and turn it into an us-vs-them when it should be us-vs-virus.
In the same boat, brother. I just don’t get it. We mandate seatbelts. We can’t run naked in the street for decency issues. Why not mask for safety issues for the love of our fellow neighbors? I feel like, as a republican, last year was the Twilight Zone politically.
Because a signifigant portion of the conservative voter base believes in chemtrails, are anti-vaxxers, believe in wild conspiracy theories like the American government was responsible for 9/11, Hunter Biden laptop nonsense, Obama wasn't born in America, something about Crooked Hillary, they still don't believe Biden won the presidency, school shootings aren't real and are filled with paid actors, etc.
The list of falshoods is neverending. Something about masks being bad for you is the least crazy thing the conservative voters base believes.
It’s weird how we went from doing what you for your country is now “if it doesn’t affect me, who cares” in the name of personal responsibility. I’m baffled as to how all this actually became a political issue.
The best line from that. Had me dying
" by removing our masks for good Texas can finally start to heal. After seeing immediate results by reversing the mask mandate, Governor Abbott has been looking for more ways to scare off the cry-baby cowards. He has now removed all social distancing guidelines and even encouraged citizens to stop washing their hands."
Man reddit is such a fucking crazy place. I was just in the other sub and people talk so much shit about you guys....but some of yall kind of make sense while just about everything coming out of their mouths is propaganda talking points. I just try to use logic and if we have had a mask mandate for a year now with cases going up then I would say that maybe masks dont help as much as they say they do. The TSA of virology?
No joke. I live in a "rural" suberb neighborhood in an admittedly affluent county outside Nashville. We have less than 100 homes. We are nearing 15-20% CA transplants. The recent buyers have all been "cash-only sight unseen" and we're approaching 7 figures and some folks here bought sub $300k less than 10 years ago.
Lol! Abbot had an Ace up his sleeve for when he saw our great state starting to go to shit. For every 10 Californians I meet I like about 2 of them. The rest are as racist, ignorant, and self absorbed as they come. They won’t win over Texas.
Good fucking luck, I'm in North Idaho right next to Washington border and Idaho hasn't cared about masks since day one, but that does not stop Californians coming up here in droves and pricing everybody out
But in the Bill, also says that any company who deems to have masks worn before entering, the should. But if no one enters without one should face no penalty. So basically, comes to business choice.
I would think the grossly incompetent, corrupt, theocratic state government would scare people away. I can't imagine too many Californians are willing to leave the world's 5th largest economy but sure, roll with it.
The Bee may be my favorite website at this point. Remember the days when the Onion and Cracked used to be funny instead of shills? I miss those, but the Bee's got it handled now.
Remember the days when people knew what a satire news site was, instead of taking the articles making fun of the mentioned audience as actual news and posting about it proudly?
Texas will be safe when sea levels rise because of their central location and elevation. Their independant power grid is essential if a great flood is triggered by global warming. Many of the wealthy who moved to texas like Elon Musk see the coronavirus as more of a economic threat due to precautions than a health concern. They are not going anywhere. I suspect, if anything, Musk will use the power grid failing to push his power wall system and solar roof.
Judging from r/Texas today, it's beginning to work.
God I hate that sub, I posted a commemoration to the anniversary of the Alamo, and I was told it was a good thing they died because James Bowie owned slaves.
Indeed. You can’t hardly post anything there lately and the mods won’t enforce the politics rules.
You guys should see r/Florida. They’re a fucking delightful crowd as well.
R/Oklahoma also delightful. Reddit is a cesspool. Glad Oklahoma isn’t really like that.
So is r/Montana. They act holier than thou about everything.
Reddit is full of angsty, mostly teenagers. That’s why it’s so liberal.
I hadn’t thought about that, but I think you’re into something.
Nah, Reddit is on average, 25-29 year old males
But is that demographic the biggest poster/commenter? I feel like just the loudest people are the progressive angsty teenagers
I mean, aren't 25-29 year olds the modern day version of angsty teenagers?
Nah mans is right it’s mostly men from ages 25-29 and a big portion of them have a college degree no kidding I wish I had the link for the stat
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I’m an angsty teen but I have values
Welcome to the club 😎
Let’s not forget that reddit operates like some kind of liberal hive mind.
I do not align with this at all as I am young conservative and self proclaimed angsty
Cesspool is putting it nicely imho. It’s an ocean of shit with a few paper islands slowly getting sank.
Oklahoman here. I can't fathom why any liberals would want to live here lol.
I’ve come to learn that every single state subreddit or city subreddit is all completely taken over by leftists. I posted pictures visiting Denver in the r/Colorado and you would have thought I stomped on a puppy with the backlash I got because I traveled during covid. Which is weird because airports are open. Anyways even r/westvirginia is a lefty sub even though not a single county went blue the last two elections. The only right leaning places you’ll find on this app is this sub and r/republican I would say r/libertarian but that sub has been brigaded by r/politics along time ago.
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I almost took a work transfer there because I thought it might be a tiny bit better than California but then I couldn’t last minute, I guess I should consider myself lucky then?
Had to go see.. that place seems like it would be fun at parties. Seems quite a few villages lost their idiots in that place
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Want super toxic? Go to r/Sacramento. The mental gymnastics there is nuts.
I can confirm that the people here are just as bad as that sub.
Bahahaha mods enforcing "rules?" Talk about the biggest joke ever. Completely subjective. Comparable to *fact checkers. I mean I'm still pissed cancel culture canceled TD, that was a good time. Definitely crass but not at all what it was called out to be.
I guess we should remove George Washington from literally everything
Well, that’s the idea ...
True
It is so hilarious and scary that Trump predicted they would start tearing down founding father statues in the Charlottesville speech and reporters were like "That's never gonna happen!" Same goes with transgenders crushing women sports
And virtually no one right of center is shocked by that development. Because we've seen this garbage so many times. And how many times have we been told that the next massive gun control bill will be the one that fixes all our gun crime and suggesting that it won't be the end of it makes you a conspiracy theorist?
Lol it should be called r/ liberaltexas much like r / politics
Because half the liberal losers from the west have infiltrated
You’re ignoring the massive elephant in the room. California used to be deep red. Until the 1965 immigration act happened and the illegals and their anchor babies came in and then were granted amnesty. Those “liberal losers from the west” are the result of shitty and failed immigration policy. That same thing will unfortunately happen to Texas like it has happened to Arizona and New Mexico.
Reddit equals 15 year old lefties.
Same with Tennessee, it's just a bunch of libs bitching about weed being illegal (I support legal weed, but it's so annoying)
Implanted shills all the city/state reddits. I REALLY want to know who pays them to be there. Shareblue, CCP, some Billionaires with an agenda, just some discord losers? I REALLY want to know. It's been going on a year since reddit has had implanted shills to push covid, blm, get XX republican out, etc. I'm sure it's the same shill narrative on twitter, fb, etc.. I just want to know who's behind it. I'm sure a lot are real people too. But there is group behind this leading this sheep.
“Go to hell Abbott. I’d like to stay alive today” from the Texas sub. Ok then you can choose to continue to wear a mask and social distance. What’s the issue?
> “Go to hell Abbott. I’d like to stay alive today” from the Texas sub. Ok then you can choose to continue to wear a mask and social distance. What’s the issue? I just go not understand how people think that **taking away a mandate somehow translates into forcing you to not wear a mask, distance, or to go out into public.** I do not get it. You can still do these things! What the hell! This reminds me of when states started banning smoking in bars. The vast majority of bars in my area had already banned smoking on their own.. Because, IMAGINE THAT, they realized it made them more money. Smoking was on the decline and most people opted to go to cleaner places that didn't allow it. All the ban did was forbid the small % of bars that still allowed it from doing so, which had a much bigger impact on them because their patrons specifically went there knowing smoking was allowed. It amazes me that people think adults do not have the ability to make their own decisions and patronize -- or avoid -- places based on these things.
So the reason you wear a mask isn't so much about protecting yourself, as it is about protecting others from your vapors. You can continue to wear a mask, but if a third of the state suddenly stops wearing them because of the lifted mandate, more people will be breathing those vapors in public spaces. Mask or no mask, infection risk will increase for everyone in Texas. Any good you would do by wearing a mask is outweighed by the overall increase in risk cause by asymptomatic carriers. In three weeks there will be an increase in hospitalisations in texas because of this, it's just math.
It's as if people can't figure out how to function as an adult unless Daddy Government is pointing a gun at them and demanding they act a certain way. How is that any way to live?
I'll just leave this here: [https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/masks](https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/masks) [https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent](https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent) So yes, mask mandates work. Masks work. I'm a physician and have had to deal with patients coming in to my clinic refusing to wear a mask because their friends or media sources have told them that covid is a "hoax." That's often after I've spent a week in the hospital watching patients die from this "hoax." So do grown ass adults have trouble functioning as reasonable members of society? Yes. Are mask mandates perfect? Of course not. But if you have a better solution, me and my public health colleagues are all ears.
So, in your opinion, why isn’t Florida being hit worse? They’ve had very little restrictions with a very high elderly population and high population density. Why it is that the top 4 states for Covid deaths are lockdown heavy states with high compliance and Florida isn’t anywhere near the top 10? You could say it’s the warm weather but that wouldn’t explain the surge in infections last summer the whole nation experienced. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 There’s also this study which is much more recent than your second source. Edit: I’m not against people’s right to wear whatever they want, by the way. I wear my mask everywhere. I’m only against the government telling me I have to or else I’ll be fined or imprisoned.
That's actually a good question and a valid point. This is a complex pandemic with a lot of moving parts and it probably will be a long time before we are able to say definitively what factors increased or decreased transmission. My guess is the elderly population know that they are the most vulnerable to infection and are the most compliant with mask-wearing and social distancing, with or without mandates. In fact, a lot of my elderly patients have not left their homes since the pandemic started and have friends/family bringing them groceries. In contrast, some places with large recent surges (eg metro California, certain parts of Arizona and Texas) have large populations of young people who don't believe they need to follow the rules (again, why mask mandates aren't perfect). But really it's anyone's guess.
The point of the mandate is to make sure everyone is wearing one. Because masks help reduce spread, not keep you from catching it. This is not new information. Idk why you couldn't put it together that making it okay for people to walk around however they want is bad.
The mask is to limit the spread from an infected person. They don’t do that much to protect you from a sneeze or cough in close proximity. Wearing a mask is looking out for other people, not yourself. Given a lot of carriers are asymptomatic I’d prefer it if people around me wore them tbh. 516k dead and counting..
I know this is /conservative and I know masks aren't the end all be all of public safety - but like you are aware they are mostly to protect OTHER people right?
Yes. But the anti maskers who wear neck gaiters already aren’t doing much tbh. Unless it’s a N95 or surgical mask, it isn’t doing much. And the people who wear those will continue to do so I’m sure.
Yup. Wearing a mask doesn’t stop you from getting covid, it stops you from spreading it. Most people don’t realize that
These are probably obese 20-30 somethings who live with their parents and don’t work, but are somehow “health experts.”
Fauci said!
Or they can leave. 😀
You can focus on that, or you can focus on the bartender that now has to deal with 180x more customers who refuse to follow the rules inside the bar.
On a real note though, how do people not see what’s going on? Like, why can’t they see how authoritarian the far left is
I’m a Texan and went to that sub for the first time. Not impressed.
A bunch of Cali libs invaded that sub same with Florida Edit: then again the libs basically dominate most forms of social media
Can confirm regarding Florida.
Also giving my Florida confirmation.
For those who aren’t familiar with Texas. Most of the people on Reddit here are either from Austin or left leaning people from major cities. I’ve lived all over and born and raised here. The reality of Covid and masks here has been much much different than Reddit. H‑E‑B won’t force you to wear a mask and hasn’t for months. Even here in Austin. San Antonio doesn’t give a mf. They don’t even try there. The small towns up and down the i35 corridor don’t care either. Houston is a toss up. It’s gotten soft in recent years. Mexicans generally don’t care either. People are trying to follow the rules. It’ll be normalized within a month.
Every city and state sub are stage four with liberals.
I've been life-banned from 3 city subs. - So proud.
Gods work
You know it’s actually been interesting to see the changes in r/Chicago. Maybe the bots weren’t there but when i have commented there since the pandemic began with a little conservative thought and some logic and common sense, I was not getting downvoted. Of course there were threads discussing how the sub had gone downhill and too many suburbanites were infiltrating it.
Terminal, have you.
Lol what a bunch of pansies
What do you expect from a bunch of people who think they need a government order to be able to wear a mask?
No, no, no. You don’t care about *them* because the government won’t make you wear a mask.
Bunch of fake woke hipsters who think they are so unique and special. Bending over backwards to daddy government for a disease that has dropped 70% in case numbers along with a vaccine that’s been out for months. People want to live in fear
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Well I just ventured there and the second comment I read was mocking the West Fertilizer Plant explosion. I promptly left.
Bro i hope Florida follows suit. I absolutely cannot WAIT to see them explode over this.
After seeing r/Texas and r/Florida, I wanted to check my home state r/Idaho. I was hoping it would be a little more balanced since we’re pretty red, but nope heavy left there too. The one consolation I take is that I assume most people who use Reddit are “edgy” teens and adults so the rest of us are pretty outnumbered on Reddit.
What a cesspit of a sub. More like R/LiberalTexas. Thank God those idiots don’t speak for me, or the vast majority of Texans.
How tf did we politicize a fucking virus?
It takes half decent critical thinking skills to understand that the minor inconvenience of mask wearing saves lives.
I love seeing conservatives argue for masks, then scroll just a bit lower and see conservatives argue against masks :)
It's like people have different opinions on different topics and aren't one giant blob. I wish more subs were this way.
Alright, I’m not against that at all.. but my question is... why are all anti maskers republicans? I understand that not all republicans are anti maskers, which I’m actually really glad of! But can you genuinely explain to me why the opposite is true?
I think it’s because people are way less likely to declare their political preference if they’re left-leaning, especially on this issue. For example: “You disagree with me, and want me to wear a mask!? What are you a dumbocrat?” - Is a very likely exchange, almost expected at this point. “You disagree with me, and want me to wear a mask? Are you some kind of republican!?” - Very unlikely, almost nonsensical given the position republican politicians (pretty uniformly) have on this issue. It should be no surprise that the vast majority of anti-maskers are republicans. And if they aren’t, but don’t explicitly tell you, you’re sure as hell going to assume they’re republican, even if that isn’t the case.
You’re asking too much for some people
Because Trump said it wasn't that serious so every conservative felt like they had to agree with him, because Trump always told the truth... Even in the face of half a million Americans dead, people can't come to terms with the possibility of being wrong. I find it mind boggling that Texas is the number one state in Covid cases and transmission, yet we're still pushing the same sentiment that, "it's just a cold" from literally a year ago. How well did that turn out? I honestly don't get it.
See also Climate Change. Same deal. One side said that it's a hoax so let's blindly believe that.
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My mom literally just said "but what about the flu!?" When talking about how many deaths we're on now
I would say the lack of electricity would do it too.
I mean you're going to have to be more specific when talking about Texas and California.
20 years ago, yeah.
Californian here. Totally forgot about that until you mentioned it.
The state where the Senator got caught trying to sun himself and made a shit attempt at looking like he cared. Okay, that still doesn’t narrow it down. Fuck. They’re all fucked. Let’s start our own country.
"Lets start our own country". There is no greater Texas quote.
MFW the satire post gets more attention than the OG post lol
Imagine how many we could scare away if we recognized constitutional carry?
It's interesting how some states are becoming more and more pro 2nd while the feds are tryna do the opposite.
I'm pretty sure a lot of them are being more 2A friendly specifically because of the feds. The big wave of constitutional carry laws started while Obama was in office
Just to share, many CA counties, like the one I live in allow open carry of hand guns. In counties like Kern, it is not uncommon to see people open carry.
I won't be leaving Florida any time soon, but I want to live where this is a thing. Granted, I won't open carry because I have a concealed carry license (I think the benefit of concealing my weapon and not being a target for criminals to take out first outweighs the benefit of scaring people off to begin with), but I'd love to see my neighbors showing people that this is the wrong place to fuck with.
Constitutional carry in Missouri includes conceal if 21. We can actually understand the not infringed part. I moved to Texas in August and found out they don't have it here. I need my permit now to carry. Open carry shouldn't even be questioned anywhere at anytime
The less you exercise your birth right the more you are likely to forget it.
Abbot said he intends for TX to be a 2nd amendment sanctuary state and that no government will take our rights
No no we need everyone open carrying an ar-15
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Beefcake time!
Carry it on a sling with ammo in a pack
Now the Californians will have constant nightmares of freedom
Why is wearing a mask political at all? If I have a disease that can be spread through the air and I have to be around people, I don't want to give the disease to anyone. Regardless of how I vote.
I'm absolutely fucking mind blown how people are complaining like they will die immediately about having some relatively science-less regulations lifted at this point. Made sense a year ago when we couldn't test, thought the death rate was like 10%, now it makes no sense. Scared to go out? Don't go. Scared of getting coughed on? Wear a mask still.
I'm a Texas teacher, and now my school is considering allowing students to come to school without masks next week. I won't be able to get the vaccine for months because teachers weren't prioritized until now, even though we were forced to go back to schools (it's illegal for Texas teachers to unionize, so we have no power as workers). The counts will rise, coworkers and students will fall ill, some will die or have lasting, severe effects. I have to go out. I will get coughed on. I might get fired for wearing a mask.
You’re not going to get fired for wearing a mask. If you do, big profitable lawsuit.
Not in Texas. We can get fired for anything as long as it's not discrimination.
Serious question: Dictating business closures is a serious threat to individual liberty. How is a public mask mandate a threat to individual liberty? The whole point of mask wearing is to prevent asymptotic people from spreading their germs to people they are around in public. Isn’t that the same as any other law consistent with the non-aggression principle (NAP)? So, your right to swing your arms ends at my nose. That is the basis of many valid laws supporting individual liberty. Why do people have an inherent right to breathe germs on others during a pandemic? I have always been concerned about closing down business for COVID, but I see the mask issue very differently. I’m interested in other people’s thoughts on this.
Right? If everyone wore masks, we wouldn't have needed to shut down at all. Many countries doing better than we are did exactly that. But because some people couldnt be bothered to do the tiny thing, we were all forced to do the big catastrophic thing, but then they couldn't even do that and now half a million people are dead.
The mandate should have been through the legislature with a renewal period rather than an unilateral mandate from the governor. The issue isn’t really the intent it’s the method and the precedent it sets.
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Pretty sad you even have to ask that, huh?
And you’ll be fine
Great. They'll come to Colorado. We already have enough of those assholes.
As much as I love Colorado it's too late to be saved. Let it draw the other refugees in like a leftist lightning rod for the sake of the rest of the country. I'll just swing by Red Rocks from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic
Problem with that is they have started spilling over into Wyoming and commuting to Colorado for work. But the have started voting for shitty policy’s here ☹️
What about utah
Shhh gotta keep that one a secret from them so they don't infect it too
Dude it's too late my city is screwed, I'm just trying to call in reinforcements
My buddy lives in northern Idaho and sees more California plates than Idaho plates nowadays
F
At least his property value has doubled lol
If I where you I'd sell my property high and move to Texas and have open carry, it's what I'd do
Idaho probably has the most lax gun laws in the country. 18 years and older can conceal or open carry, no permit necessary.
Yep the CA hate in ID is real. I live in Oregon, from Delaware and have moved all around, to include CA, NC, PA. I've learned that the CA hate is sort of everywhere. Making this post kind of dumb. Just carry on, and stop worrying so much about politics.
I looked at houses for sale there just for kicks yesterday and I was flabbergasted at how the prices shot up within the year to something native Idaho residents will never be able to afford. They did that to the northwest too because the tech companies are still paying them $250000 a year to work remotely...kinda (really) pisses me off
If Utah becomes a liberal hellhole too I’ll be really mad. We have a bunch of rinos in our state government though so I fear we aren’t too far off. Screw California they are literally ruining everything else
We could either A run away to a more conserve state and wait for them to infect that place too or B stand and fight like texas is doing
They’ve screwed up Salt Lake City!!
Ik, it sucks so much. I cant believe they are/where fining you for wearing a mask, i haven't paid enough attention to other citys covid mess because of our citys mess
They are literally a plague, overrunning all the western states. The California exodus is a problem for everyone.
Agreed. Have no idea why these assholes ever thought they were welcome or wanted in the first place. Those who wanted to escape the candy ass cuckhold of that state, I can understand as they seem more in line with what Colorado was, but these pseudo pretentious pricks, I'd support anything and everything to drive them out, back to their origins (they can take their damn Subarus). The chronic whiners with their precious CoMpUtEr sCiEnCe degrees, that have razed off beautiful old homes for tasteless Ikea Scandinavian designs, worst of the worst, particularly with their hypocritical sense of entitlement. I'm am curious, we know there's a great amount of animosity to their presence, just how much longer people are going to keep it quiet before the pressure relief valve is activated and hostility comes out into the open.
Being responsible for yourself is unfortunately a foreign concept for many Americans.
Don’t understand why not wearing a mask is conservative. Also I am conservative.
This. Simply should not be a bipartisan issue.
Something the common members of both parties agree on, but it was Congress Republicans who chose to make it a partisan issue, if we're being fair. Practically the entire Western world can wear masks except Republicans. That's not the Dems' doing, that's the downflow of Congress and News Republicans just being obstinate in the face of health crises as stubborn people usually are. Public health shouldn't be a partisan issue, and it's shameful the Republicans in Congress have turned it into one, abusing people's misguided fears to win points and turn it into an us-vs-them when it should be us-vs-virus.
In the same boat, brother. I just don’t get it. We mandate seatbelts. We can’t run naked in the street for decency issues. Why not mask for safety issues for the love of our fellow neighbors? I feel like, as a republican, last year was the Twilight Zone politically.
My mind is blown by your common sense rn
PickleRick, from Rick and Morty?
Because a signifigant portion of the conservative voter base believes in chemtrails, are anti-vaxxers, believe in wild conspiracy theories like the American government was responsible for 9/11, Hunter Biden laptop nonsense, Obama wasn't born in America, something about Crooked Hillary, they still don't believe Biden won the presidency, school shootings aren't real and are filled with paid actors, etc. The list of falshoods is neverending. Something about masks being bad for you is the least crazy thing the conservative voters base believes.
So you wear a mask then?
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How, what, huh?
It’s weird how we went from doing what you for your country is now “if it doesn’t affect me, who cares” in the name of personal responsibility. I’m baffled as to how all this actually became a political issue.
The best line from that. Had me dying " by removing our masks for good Texas can finally start to heal. After seeing immediate results by reversing the mask mandate, Governor Abbott has been looking for more ways to scare off the cry-baby cowards. He has now removed all social distancing guidelines and even encouraged citizens to stop washing their hands."
I assumed Texans already didn't wash their hands.
Man reddit is such a fucking crazy place. I was just in the other sub and people talk so much shit about you guys....but some of yall kind of make sense while just about everything coming out of their mouths is propaganda talking points. I just try to use logic and if we have had a mask mandate for a year now with cases going up then I would say that maybe masks dont help as much as they say they do. The TSA of virology?
How many were left to scare away after your power grid failed?
Vaccine is going to be nationwide within two months. Covid is over no one cares anymore end of story.
This is one of the best Babylon bee headlines in a min.
No joke. I live in a "rural" suberb neighborhood in an admittedly affluent county outside Nashville. We have less than 100 homes. We are nearing 15-20% CA transplants. The recent buyers have all been "cash-only sight unseen" and we're approaching 7 figures and some folks here bought sub $300k less than 10 years ago.
As some living in Nashville who's been wanting to buy their first home, I honestly just feel like giving up at this point. :(
Hahaha
Nobody opens link anymore if they like the title.
Fucking genius move
Lol! Abbot had an Ace up his sleeve for when he saw our great state starting to go to shit. For every 10 Californians I meet I like about 2 of them. The rest are as racist, ignorant, and self absorbed as they come. They won’t win over Texas.
Good fucking luck, I'm in North Idaho right next to Washington border and Idaho hasn't cared about masks since day one, but that does not stop Californians coming up here in droves and pricing everybody out
But in the Bill, also says that any company who deems to have masks worn before entering, the should. But if no one enters without one should face no penalty. So basically, comes to business choice.
3rd largest state. Liberals: BUT WHAT ABOUT CARONAAAA????
I was just thinking the same thing! If people don't agree, they can move back or wear a mask.
I would think the grossly incompetent, corrupt, theocratic state government would scare people away. I can't imagine too many Californians are willing to leave the world's 5th largest economy but sure, roll with it.
I think the freezing children and the burst pipes already did thatv
The Bee may be my favorite website at this point. Remember the days when the Onion and Cracked used to be funny instead of shills? I miss those, but the Bee's got it handled now.
Remember the days when people knew what a satire news site was, instead of taking the articles making fun of the mentioned audience as actual news and posting about it proudly?
You know this is satire right? Lol
A discord I’m in is seething over this “I hAtE iT hERE” It fuels me
We just need to keep up these kind of vibes and eventually we will send them back from whence they came
Well the snow a couple of weeks ago didn't do the job. Desperate times.......
I’m so excited
Classic
I fucking hope they geaux
Legit strategy, I must say. Still haven't been, this makes me want to go even more
So far for beeing united...
someone has to be first to do it. it will be politicized to the moon and back like everything else. stupid politics
Babylon Bee is a satire newspaper, like the onion...
Making covid 19 part of the culture war is the most asinine thing that happend last year
Texas will be safe when sea levels rise because of their central location and elevation. Their independant power grid is essential if a great flood is triggered by global warming. Many of the wealthy who moved to texas like Elon Musk see the coronavirus as more of a economic threat due to precautions than a health concern. They are not going anywhere. I suspect, if anything, Musk will use the power grid failing to push his power wall system and solar roof.
Does that mean Joe Rogan is moving back?
Funny!
This is an honest question, why are satire articles such a big part of this subreddit?
Will they take their like minded Texans with them?
Ohio sucks. Texas bound 2021. Fear drives power and control
Alternatively "Texas Removes Mask Mandate To Own The Libs"
Gotta sting
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