I just saw a group of high school boys doing a long run together. Acceptable or Stupidity?

high school xc coach wrote:

Thank god there were people with brains at the beginning of this. I can remember those first three months feeling like a criminal getting with my group of 4 or 5 friends to go for a long run.

2 weeks to flatten the curve. blah blah blah. as soon as you saw that artificial and arbitrary time frame, it should have been your sign that our leaders were full of SH!T.

just seeing those words, "flatten the curve" gives me ptsd.

Bad Wigins wrote:

All the crazy people who pushed this panic 3 years ago should be deported. They don't belong in the USA

Mask Guy Run wrote:

Wow, this thread is incredible. I am glad it was re-posted.

I have told this story before, but in the summer of 2020, I had to drive up to DC for a work trip (yes, an awkward in-person meeting with a client across a large hotel ballroom). I got up at 5:00 am to do a 7-miler from M Street through Georgetown. I remember running up Tunlaw at like 5:15 am and it was a ghost town and very dark. I was wearing one of those gator masks around my neck in case I needed to pull it up for any reason. I had not seen a single soul at this point, and out of nowhere, someone yelled from across the street and down a side street, "Put a mask on you a$hole!"

I still think about how crazy that was.

DanM wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

Because its DanM and we don't give his spam-posting any notice in the vaccine thread anymore so he has to look for attention elsewhere...

Did you support the removal of hoops from backboards at OUTDOOR basketball courts across the US in 2020 ? Tell the truth. We're waiting.

Bad Wigins wrote:

All the crazy people who pushed this panic 3 years ago should be deported. They don't belong in the USA

2600 bro wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

All the crazy people who pushed this panic 3 years ago should be deported. They don't belong in the USA

1M dead Americans is slightly more than 2600 cases. No?

2600 bro wrote:

DanM wrote:

Did you support the removal of hoops from backboards at OUTDOOR basketball courts across the US in 2020 ? Tell the truth. We're waiting.

The only time discouraging outdoor activities was reasonable was in the first ~4 weeks before it become very clear from data in China that the vast majority of cases came from indoor contact.

Mask Guy Run wrote:

Wow, this thread is incredible. I am glad it was re-posted.

I have told this story before, but in the summer of 2020, I had to drive up to DC for a work trip (yes, an awkward in-person meeting with a client across a large hotel ballroom). I got up at 5:00 am to do a 7-miler from M Street through Georgetown. I remember running up Tunlaw at like 5:15 am and it was a ghost town and very dark. I was wearing one of those gator masks around my neck in case I needed to pull it up for any reason. I had not seen a single soul at this point, and out of nowhere, someone yelled from across the street and down a side street, "Put a mask on you a$hole!"

I still think about how crazy that was.

really dude wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

All the crazy people who pushed this panic 3 years ago should be deported. They don't belong in the USA

Deporting US citizens? Mr 2600?

Bad Wigins wrote:

really dude wrote:

Deporting US citizens? Mr 2600?

Even now, you act like claiming I was wrong about something 3 years ago is a flex?

Keep showing how it's all about your emotions. No argument except to somehow shut people up, whether through censorship, attempted ridicule, snark, whatever. Entertaining yourself.

YES you should be friggin deported. Time to pay the piper.

KraftMacAndCheese wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

The only time discouraging outdoor activities was reasonable was in the first ~4 weeks before it become very clear from data in China that the vast majority of cases came from indoor contact.

It was never reasonable.

Bad Wigins wrote:

really dude wrote:

Deporting US citizens? Mr 2600?

Even now, you act like claiming I was wrong about something 3 years ago is a flex?

Keep showing how it's all about your emotions. No argument except to somehow shut people up, whether through censorship, attempted ridicule, snark, whatever. Entertaining yourself.

YES you should be friggin deported. Time to pay the piper.

KraftMacAndCheese wrote:

2600 bro wrote:

The only time discouraging outdoor activities was reasonable was in the first ~4 weeks before it become very clear from data in China that the vast majority of cases came from indoor contact.

It was never reasonable.

2600 bro wrote:

KraftMacAndCheese wrote:

It was never reasonable.

Sure with perfect hindsight! You're correct.

I would argue a novel, possibly > 1% IFR respiratory viruses that overwhelmed hospitals in China ... is reason to be cautious until we known the dynamics better.

Almost all localities relaxed outdoor recommendations by ~late May 2020. I agree forcing people to train outdoor with masks on in fall 2020 and later was absolutely stupid and insane.