If lockdowns & masks work, why are the vast majority of Covid deaths in leftist states?

[Lesh]

What are you talking about?

You made a stupid claim about immunity with ZERO documentation to back it up.

You're a troll.

 

[kaz]

I'm not even sure what you think you argued. That Texas and Florida don't have major population centers?

None as densely populated as the NY Metro area

I'm saying states should be measured on what's happening NOW, and not what happened a year ago.

New York was hit hard, and hit early. Those numbers are on the record, but don't reflect what's happening in 2021.

Or for most of 2020 as well

Other States also didn't ship covid patients into retirement homes like New York did.

That the one most populous region of the country is the only relevant stat is just a stupid argument and no it doesn't doesn't explain the data.

New Jersey was #1, New York #2 even on a per capita measure. Then #3 is Rhode Island, then Massachusetts.

But New York is the most dense explains it. Sure it does

 

[kaz]

Both California and New York had subsequent flare ups. So you blame them for that? No, admit you don't. This is just partisan to you.

Just pointing out that Texas is leading in new cases, and new deaths. And based on that Gov Abbot is opening up Texas 100% and dropping all mask requirements.

All while Texas is lagging in vaccinations.

So who is playing politics?

Last week smaller New York was ahead of both Texas and Florida and not just on a per capita basis. This is why your arguing data points is stupid. You just wait until they flip to some data point you want and that's supposed to be an argument

 

[Turtlesoup]

And FLorida has not done well with nursing homes

Florida nursing home deaths from coronavirus spike but remain lower than US average

Deaths in Florida’s nursing homes doubled during the Thanksgiving holiday, according to statistics gathered by the AARP. But Florida’s rate was dramatically lower than the national aver…

www.sun-sentinel.com

You are an idiot....Did you even read the title...Florida nursing home deaths Spike (during our short winter here) with all of our elderly snow birds here but remain lower than rest of the nation.

FLORIDA continues to do FUCKING GREAT----with all of our old people here. We got everyone's old higher risk patients but we still keep beating the average. We haven't really locked down, we gather, go out, often don't wear our masks, have lots of visitors, but we still keep the deaths low.

 

[Lesh]

Other States also didn't ship covid patients into retirement homes like New York did.

Actually many did including Florida.

 

[Juicin]

What are you talking about?

You made a stupid claim about immunity with ZERO documentation to back it up.

You're a troll.

Again to believe that is to believe conventional vaccines will not work

Do you believe the conventional vaccines don't work?

Maybe you have some evidence people don't gain any immunity? I'm open to that. But the vaccine trials say taht's not true.

You're basically claiming the sky isn't blue if you really believe immunity isn't the obvious and only reason to expect cases to go down in the west.

You're not very good at this. And clearly do not understand the science here.

 

[bendog]

Population density

Go figure

I count four red states in your top ten here. Texas and Florida are #2 and #3 respectively.

U.S. State Population by Rank (Update for 2023!)

Discover the U.S. States ranked by population, population density, and growth.

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The states with the largest populations tended to have the most COVID deaths. Some were actually red states...

Population density
Go figure

I'm guessing that's too complicated an answer.

Dems claim rightwingers refuse to wear masks. Then explain why more people died in lefty states.

Bring some science, not "ORANGE MAN BAD"!

State	Deaths / 1M pop	Total Cases	Confirmed Cases	Confirmed Case Fatality Rate	Total Case Fatality Rate	Tests	Tests / 1M pop	Confirmed Cases / 1M pop	New Deaths	Deaths
California	1,336	-	3,563,618	1.48%	-	48,897,190	1,237,521	90,190	-	52,782
New York	2,470	-	1,693,580	2.84%	-	38,409,107	1,974,400	87,058	-	48,042
Texas	1,533	-	2,672,266	1.66%	-	23,204,166	800,257	92,160	-	44,453
Florida	1,450	-	1,918,100	1.62%	-	21,901,603	1,019,735	89,306	-	31,142
Pennsylvania	1,890	-	940,831	2.57%	-	10,476,323	818,336	73,491	-	24,193
New Jersey	2,626	-	795,785	2.93%	-	10,690,625	1,203,602	89,593	-	23,321
Illinois	1,800	-	1,189,416	1.92%	-	18,234,668	1,438,993	93,863	-	22,803
Georgia	1,646	-	1,011,807	1.73%	-	7,712,024	726,356	95,297	-	17,480
Ohio	1,484	-	970,583	1.79%	-	10,084,481	862,725	83,033	-	17,346
Michigan	1,657	-	649,057	2.55%	-	10,985,614	1,100,007	64,991	-	16,544
Massachusetts	2,329	-	582,844	2.78%	-	16,317,937	2,348,073	83,868	-	16,182
Arizona	2,206	-	818,670	1.96%	-	4,210,980	578,533	112,474	-	16,060
Indiana	1,875	-	662,750	1.90%	-	8,056,112	1,196,650	98,445	-	12,623
Tennessee	1,674	-	776,337	1.47%	-	6,797,475	994,776	113,613	-	11,436
North Carolina	1,076	-	863,409	1.31%	-	10,311,881	983,200	82,323	-	11,288
Alabama	2,045	-	497,154	2.02%	-	2,423,471	494,265	101,394	+38	10,029
Louisiana	2,075	-	431,271	2.24%	-	6,004,999	1,291,733	92,771	-	9,647
Virginia	1,048	-	578,559	1.55%	-	7,547,695	884,269	67,783	-	8,943
South Carolina	1,666	-	518,823	1.65%	-	5,999,533	1,165,249	100,767	-	8,576
Missouri	1,394	-	522,581	1.64%	-	5,490,487	894,591	85,147	-	8,555
Maryland	1,310	-	383,956	2.06%	-	7,948,627	1,314,761	63,509	+14	7,919
Connecticut	2,148	-	283,128	2.70%	-	6,804,929	1,908,662	79,412	-	7,658
Mississippi	2,266	-	295,675	2.28%	-	2,472,673	830,830	99,348	+19	6,743
Minnesota	1,163	-	485,655	1.35%	-	7,376,464	1,307,969	86,115	-	6,558
Wisconsin	1,106	-	564,592	1.14%	-	3,196,304	548,964	96,968	-	6,440
Colorado	1,035	-	430,615	1.38%	-	2,585,390	448,951	74,776	-	5,959
Iowa	1,743	-	364,892	1.51%	-	4,088,220	1,295,762	115,653	-	5,498
Arkansas	1,741	-	322,949	1.63%	-	3,169,449	1,050,243	107,014	-	5,254
Washington	664	-	344,660	1.47%	-	5,301,508	696,203	45,261	-	5,059
Nevada	1,613	-	294,289	1.69%	-	2,729,627	886,198	95,544	-	4,967
Kansas	1,630	-	296,954	1.60%	-	1,259,105	432,190	101,930	-	4,750
Kentucky	1,046	-	406,201	1.15%	-	4,521,249	1,011,992	90,920	-	4,671
Oklahoma	1,146	-	424,999	1.07%	-	3,516,251	888,622	107,405	-	4,534
New Mexico	1,784	-	185,542	2.02%	-	2,710,151	1,292,500	88,487	-	3,740
Rhode Island	2,384	-	126,849	1.99%	-	3,022,306	2,852,952	119,741	-	2,525
West Virginia	1,292	-	132,416	1.74%	-	2,198,226	1,230,020	74,094	+8	2,309
Oregon	528	-	156,037	1.43%	-	3,760,400	891,568	36,995	-	2,225
Nebraska	1,077	-	201,346	1.04%	-	967,551	500,179	104,087	-	2,084
Puerto Rico	641	-	183,432	1.12%	-	464,073	145,309	57,436	+8	2,048
Utah	608	-	371,979	0.52%	-	3,828,322	1,194,127	116,027	-	1,949
South Dakota	2,134	-	112,652	1.68%	-	423,463	478,674	127,339	-	1,888
Idaho	1,044	-	171,836	1.09%	-	1,092,871	609,839	95,887	-	1,871
North Dakota	1,899	-	99,957	1.45%	-	405,387	531,961	131,166	-	1,447
Delaware	1,464	-	87,193	1.64%	-	627,084	643,979	89,542	-	1,426
Montana	1,284	-	100,158	1.37%	-	1,081,562	1,011,961	93,713	-	1,372
New Hampshire	860	-	75,803	1.54%	-	1,662,742	1,222,864	55,749	-	1,170
District of Columbia	1,450	-	40,818	2.51%	-	1,233,983	1,748,473	57,836	+4	1,023
Maine	524	-	45,091	1.56%	-	1,871,610	1,392,347	33,545	+2	705
Wyoming	1,178	-	54,527	1.25%	-	641,380	1,108,199	94,214	-	682
Hawaii	310	-	27,623	1.59%	-	1,120,660	791,498	19,510	-	439
Alaska	409	-	56,428	0.53%	-	1,704,660	2,330,219	77,135	-	299
Vermont	330	-	15,372	1.34%	-	1,078,840	1,728,941	24,635	-	20

Coronavirus Updates (COVID-19) Deaths & Cases per 1M Population | RealClearPolitics

Coronavirus Updates (COVID-19) Deaths & Cases per Population | RealClearPolitics

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Population density for one thing. You're pretty dense but even you can figure it out (probably not but there is always hope).

That and your blob's DHS forced everyone returning from overseas--tens of thousands of passengers who were unscreened and untested through 13 major airports. Almost all were in Blue States and every county that had one of these airports was a Covid-19 Hotspot and had an infection spike.

U.S. State Population by Rank (Update for 2023!)

Discover the U.S. States ranked by population, population density, and growth.

www.infoplease.com

The states with the largest populations tended to have the most COVID deaths. Some were actually red states...

The other factor affecting death rates is when states first got socked with Covid. Early on we didn't know how to treat it or detect early.

The people most vocal about lockdowns and social distancing were silent during BLM protests

Not true

Did anyone see social distancing there?

Yes...and masks...and out doors

I actually attended several BLM marches and yes...masks and social distancing...unlike the Trump rallies. And I called out those cases where people were sloppy about masks and SD on this very forum.

Population density

Go figure

Wow good one. How about lack of population density in the skulls of Dim governors?

Democratic Governors took the hard decisions to shut down when the pandemic hit.

It was Republican Governors who had three months to prepare and left their states vulnerable.

It's the Dems fault nobody wants to live in third world shithole red states (-:

Flu is way down because people are wearing masks following safety measures & more people getting flu shots.

Dems claim rightwingers refuse to wear masks. Then explain why more people died in lefty states.

Bring some science, not "ORANGE MAN BAD"!

State	Deaths / 1M pop	Total Cases	Confirmed Cases	Confirmed Case Fatality Rate	Total Case Fatality Rate	Tests	Tests / 1M pop	Confirmed Cases / 1M pop	New Deaths	Deaths
California	1,336	-	3,563,618	1.48%	-	48,897,190	1,237,521	90,190	-	52,782
New York	2,470	-	1,693,580	2.84%	-	38,409,107	1,974,400	87,058	-	48,042
Texas	1,533	-	2,672,266	1.66%	-	23,204,166	800,257	92,160	-	44,453
Florida	1,450	-	1,918,100	1.62%	-	21,901,603	1,019,735	89,306	-	31,142
Pennsylvania	1,890	-	940,831	2.57%	-	10,476,323	818,336	73,491	-	24,193
New Jersey	2,626	-	795,785	2.93%	-	10,690,625	1,203,602	89,593	-	23,321
Illinois	1,800	-	1,189,416	1.92%	-	18,234,668	1,438,993	93,863	-	22,803
Georgia	1,646	-	1,011,807	1.73%	-	7,712,024	726,356	95,297	-	17,480
Ohio	1,484	-	970,583	1.79%	-	10,084,481	862,725	83,033	-	17,346
Michigan	1,657	-	649,057	2.55%	-	10,985,614	1,100,007	64,991	-	16,544
Massachusetts	2,329	-	582,844	2.78%	-	16,317,937	2,348,073	83,868	-	16,182
Arizona	2,206	-	818,670	1.96%	-	4,210,980	578,533	112,474	-	16,060
Indiana	1,875	-	662,750	1.90%	-	8,056,112	1,196,650	98,445	-	12,623
Tennessee	1,674	-	776,337	1.47%	-	6,797,475	994,776	113,613	-	11,436
North Carolina	1,076	-	863,409	1.31%	-	10,311,881	983,200	82,323	-	11,288
Alabama	2,045	-	497,154	2.02%	-	2,423,471	494,265	101,394	+38	10,029
Louisiana	2,075	-	431,271	2.24%	-	6,004,999	1,291,733	92,771	-	9,647
Virginia	1,048	-	578,559	1.55%	-	7,547,695	884,269	67,783	-	8,943
South Carolina	1,666	-	518,823	1.65%	-	5,999,533	1,165,249	100,767	-	8,576
Missouri	1,394	-	522,581	1.64%	-	5,490,487	894,591	85,147	-	8,555
Maryland	1,310	-	383,956	2.06%	-	7,948,627	1,314,761	63,509	+14	7,919
Connecticut	2,148	-	283,128	2.70%	-	6,804,929	1,908,662	79,412	-	7,658
Mississippi	2,266	-	295,675	2.28%	-	2,472,673	830,830	99,348	+19	6,743
Minnesota	1,163	-	485,655	1.35%	-	7,376,464	1,307,969	86,115	-	6,558
Wisconsin	1,106	-	564,592	1.14%	-	3,196,304	548,964	96,968	-	6,440
Colorado	1,035	-	430,615	1.38%	-	2,585,390	448,951	74,776	-	5,959
Iowa	1,743	-	364,892	1.51%	-	4,088,220	1,295,762	115,653	-	5,498
Arkansas	1,741	-	322,949	1.63%	-	3,169,449	1,050,243	107,014	-	5,254
Washington	664	-	344,660	1.47%	-	5,301,508	696,203	45,261	-	5,059
Nevada	1,613	-	294,289	1.69%	-	2,729,627	886,198	95,544	-	4,967
Kansas	1,630	-	296,954	1.60%	-	1,259,105	432,190	101,930	-	4,750
Kentucky	1,046	-	406,201	1.15%	-	4,521,249	1,011,992	90,920	-	4,671
Oklahoma	1,146	-	424,999	1.07%	-	3,516,251	888,622	107,405	-	4,534
New Mexico	1,784	-	185,542	2.02%	-	2,710,151	1,292,500	88,487	-	3,740
Rhode Island	2,384	-	126,849	1.99%	-	3,022,306	2,852,952	119,741	-	2,525
West Virginia	1,292	-	132,416	1.74%	-	2,198,226	1,230,020	74,094	+8	2,309
Oregon	528	-	156,037	1.43%	-	3,760,400	891,568	36,995	-	2,225
Nebraska	1,077	-	201,346	1.04%	-	967,551	500,179	104,087	-	2,084
Puerto Rico	641	-	183,432	1.12%	-	464,073	145,309	57,436	+8	2,048
Utah	608	-	371,979	0.52%	-	3,828,322	1,194,127	116,027	-	1,949
South Dakota	2,134	-	112,652	1.68%	-	423,463	478,674	127,339	-	1,888
Idaho	1,044	-	171,836	1.09%	-	1,092,871	609,839	95,887	-	1,871
North Dakota	1,899	-	99,957	1.45%	-	405,387	531,961	131,166	-	1,447
Delaware	1,464	-	87,193	1.64%	-	627,084	643,979	89,542	-	1,426
Montana	1,284	-	100,158	1.37%	-	1,081,562	1,011,961	93,713	-	1,372
New Hampshire	860	-	75,803	1.54%	-	1,662,742	1,222,864	55,749	-	1,170
District of Columbia	1,450	-	40,818	2.51%	-	1,233,983	1,748,473	57,836	+4	1,023
Maine	524	-	45,091	1.56%	-	1,871,610	1,392,347	33,545	+2	705
Wyoming	1,178	-	54,527	1.25%	-	641,380	1,108,199	94,214	-	682
Hawaii	310	-	27,623	1.59%	-	1,120,660	791,498	19,510	-	439
Alaska	409	-	56,428	0.53%	-	1,704,660	2,330,219	77,135	-	299
Vermont	330	-	15,372	1.34%	-	1,078,840	1,728,941	24,635	-	20

Coronavirus Updates (COVID-19) Deaths & Cases per 1M Population | RealClearPolitics

Coronavirus Updates (COVID-19) Deaths & Cases per Population | RealClearPolitics

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You dumb son of a bitch. The more population a state has, it is logical the more deaths they will have. To compare apples to apples you need to rank by deaths' per capita. You cannot be this stupid.
Guess who is on top for deaths per capita, Trump country.
You people are liars, you are stupid and you are disgusting. Other than that you are good people.

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Population density

Go figure

You're full of shit. Texas and Florida are larger than New York and have major population centers.

Fake news is your life

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

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Yesterday 275 people died of coronavirus in Texas.

That's more than New York, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.

(watch the loons piss their pink panties)
Do the populations of illiterate, ignorant, careless dark people have anything to do with it?

Community, Work, and School

Actions that communities can take to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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weird how it's only in white countries this is a problem....?

*looks at the third world*

haha the projection

let the chinese lead you around by the nose then blame the darkies? What teh fuck are you smoking whitey? This is your people's fault

Argue the data with the CDC raghead.

Community, Work, and School

Actions that communities can take to slow the spread of COVID-19.

www.cdc.gov

What data?

I'm an Asian we get better results on everything than whites

Have like an 80% acceptance rate for the vaccine. We are the model minority you fucking dolt. And not very fat

Coronavirus Disease 2019

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

www.cdc.gov

While white trash like you are busying cookin meth and suckin pecker for oxy

But I owe everything to the Bell Curve. (-:

 

[Lesh]

FLORIDA continues to do FUCKING GREAT----with all of our old people here. We got everyone's old higher risk patients but we still keep beating the average.

10,000 dead in nursing homes (and many more in assisted living ctrs) is far from doing "GREAT" unless you hate older folks

 

[Juicin]

Other States also didn't ship covid patients into retirement homes like New York did.

Actually many did including Florida.

Florida didn't have an empty navy hospital a few miles from a huge urban center tho

And florida is filled with old people

 

[kaz]

A third of the people weren’t wearing masks

That's YOUR biased estimate. Not in any way fact.

SOME weren't wearing masks...and SOME weren't distancing.

Most did both and there was no large spread from those events

Europe has had incredibly high mask usage and one devastating wave after another.

It's a virus, you shut down, it just comes back when you reopen. I mean duh. Get a clue

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Europe did better than we did dumbass

And then there's South Korea and Taiwan who actually took this seriously and their numbers were incredibly low in spite of high population density

You're still arguing total and not per capita, dumb ass

 

[Lesh]

What are you talking about?

You made a stupid claim about immunity with ZERO documentation to back it up.

You're a troll.

Again to believe that is to believe conventional vaccines will not work

Do you believe the conventional vaccines don't work?

Maybe you have some evidence people don't gain any immunity? I'm open to that. But the vaccine trials say taht's not true.

You're basically claiming the sky isn't blue if you really believe immunity isn't the obvious and only reason to expect cases to go down in the west.

You're not very good at this. And clearly do not understand the science here.

You're all over the place. Put down the meth pipe and focus. When you can make a consistent argument get back to us...troll

 

[Juicin]

What are you talking about?

You made a stupid claim about immunity with ZERO documentation to back it up.

You're a troll.

Again to believe that is to believe conventional vaccines will not work

Do you believe the conventional vaccines don't work?

Maybe you have some evidence people don't gain any immunity? I'm open to that. But the vaccine trials say taht's not true.

You're basically claiming the sky isn't blue if you really believe immunity isn't the obvious and only reason to expect cases to go down in the west.

You're not very good at this. And clearly do not understand the science here.

You're all over the place. Put down the meth pipe and focus. When you can make a consistent argument get back to us...troll

You have had two non sequitur responses in a row

It's not all over the place, the concept of vaccines and herd immunity are inherently connected. Especially in the context of a condition that won't hurt most of us. The whoel point is herd immunity or it's worthless.

Conventional vaccines work on the same idea as herd immunity. Do you remember chicken pox parties? Those work on the same principle as vaccines, which induce herd immunity.

Same concept with the rona, you spread it around enough and you'll all be naturally vaccinated. That is how you kill viruses if you can't properly quarantine them.

This really isn't complex although I'm not shocked you can't put this together. You clearly have no fucking idea what's going on if you think NY of all places handled the rona well.

 

[kaz]

Europe has had incredibly high mask usage and one devastating wave after another.

It's a virus, you shut down, it just comes back when you reopen. I mean duh. Get a clue

It's a matter of timing. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. We can win by running down the clock. There's a vaccine coming to a store near you.

And having an economy at the end of that is irrelevant. Kids losing years of education, suicides, depression. Just wait it out, breathing is all that matters!

 

[Lesh]

A third of the people weren’t wearing masks

That's YOUR biased estimate. Not in any way fact.

SOME weren't wearing masks...and SOME weren't distancing.

Most did both and there was no large spread from those events

Europe has had incredibly high mask usage and one devastating wave after another.

It's a virus, you shut down, it just comes back when you reopen. I mean duh. Get a clue

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Europe did better than we did dumbass

And then there's South Korea and Taiwan who actually took this seriously and their numbers were incredibly low in spite of high population density

You're still arguing total and not per capita, dumb ass

No. I am not. Jesus you're stupid

The claim was that Europe had a high mask usage rate and more deaths PER CAPITA. That is FALSE dumfuk. They have a LOWER per capita death rate

Are you people all on meth?

 

[Lesh]

You have had two non sequitur responses in a row

It's not all over the place

Conventional vaccines work on the same idea as herd immunity. Do you remember chicken pox parties? Those work on the same princple as vaccines

Same concept with the rona

This really isn't complex although I'm not shocked you can't put this together. You clearly have no fucking idea what's going on if you think NY of all places handled the rona well.

Again. All over the place. Put down the meth pipe. Take a nap and make ONE coherent consistent argument and I'll be glad to rub your nose in it. Till then you're a troll

 

[meaner gene]

So explain why the masks and social distancing have not worked on COVID.

Covid is more contagious

Is it though? 28 total influenza cases? Florida has been wide open since May.

Are you contending there should not be any influenza cases where everything is open and there is no mask mandates?

Actually the argument that masks don't work, is the same as claimning seatbelts don't work.

Well neither works if you don't wear them right or don't wear them at all.

DUH !!!

 

[kaz]

Yesterday 275 people died of coronavirus in Texas.

That's more than New York, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.

So States shouldn't be measured on total deaths, just for one day. That's as stupid an argument as it sounds.

I'm saying states should be measured on what's happening NOW, and not what happened a year ago.

New York was hit hard, and hit early. Those numbers are on the record, but don't reflect what's happening in 2021.

So instead of the usual Dimwinger tactic of revising history, you want to just ignore it.

Yes, it's his standard he wants to flip flop on this time

 

[kaz]

Other States also didn't ship covid patients into retirement homes like New York did.

Actually many did including Florida.

Well, no one could make that up.

Wait, you just did ...

 

[meaner gene]

If you believe in measuring by historical totals instead of by current numbers, I say go with it.

That makes white supremacists the number one terrorist organization in killing Americans, more than al-qaeda.

The last year isn't "historical." So just to be clear, you're going to attack any leftist who brings up Trump as focusing on "historical" data since that was last year and you reject last year as "historical."

If you focus on historical data, you have to go after white supremacists. They killed more americans than al-qaeda.
January 6th was just the icing on the cake.

 

[ColonelAngus]

So explain why the masks and social distancing have not worked on COVID.

Covid is more contagious

Is it though? 28 total influenza cases? Florida has been wide open since May.

Are you contending there should not be any influenza cases where everything is open and there is no mask mandates?

Actually the argument that masks don't work, is the same as claimning seatbelts don't work.

Well neither works if you don't wear them right or don't wear them at all.

DUH !!!

If we have eradicated influenza by wearing masks and social distancing and closing all businesses, we need to do it every flu season.