We need people to stop whining about masks. The reason the US has more cases than any other country is because of people who won't wear them. No other country had problems wearing masks and look how much fewer cases there are.

Every 1st world country has fuckloads of tests and the majority of false positives are the shoddy tests. A bunch of different kinds of tests exist and some of them aren't super reliable, but now that the people doing the tests know which one to use the problem is mostly gone now. Yes the case numbers do matter because the more people that get infected the more people have a possibility of dieing. I never said it was gone in other countries just less of a problem, still a huge fucking problem but not th the insane level it is here. Define isolated, because going shopping once a week or anything like that is all you need to potentially get infected, your risk is far lower than if you're in a casino daily but the risk is still there (both of those places were just examples)

Ahh a conspiracy theorist... alright I suppose I'll finish with this: I have asthma and work as a janitor (not the most strenuous job sure but still manual labor). If I can wear a mask without issue you have no excuse.

Ohh they absolutely do use and abuse situations to their own end, never let a crisis go to waste and all that. But what exactly are they getting out of telling people to wear masks? If you want to talk about long term some of the long term effects of covid are lung and heart problems that weren't there before.

The generally (I assume you meant generality)... please be more vague. That could mean a number of things and I don't know you well enough to know which one you mean. I'll say again the case numbers matter because no matter how low the survival rate of any illness, the more people it infects the more people it can potentially kill. Where did you hear that most cases are asymptomatic, because I don't think I buy that. I'll admit that I don't know how common the long term effects are, I only know that they exist. I'd like to ask why you keep talking about different aspects of this every time I comment. I argue against your claims and you just start talking about some other part of the same subject (no hate just genuinely curious)

I'm rarely on during the day, that first back and forth was a coincidence because I happened to have the time that morning though I won't fault you for not being omnipotent. The flu isn't hyper contagious though, one of the main reasons covid is so contagious is the asymptomatic period where you literally have no way of knowing you're infected bar being tested, but you have no reason to suspect you might be infected because of said asymptomatic period. Same methods? Are you sure that every government official with any real power have been ignoring the constant new discoveries and doing the same shit they were doing back in march and april? You mentioned ratio... I don't think you actually looked at it though. Just go to the site you linked me and filter that list by Total Cases/ 1Million population. South dakota is number 2 only beaten by north dakota. If you can't be bothered to do that then here:
Total Cases/ 1Million population: South Dakota: 116,993
That's 1 in 9 people.

Masks a such a turnoff. Good art though! ^^

Is a kink for me in a way! Thank you though, Sulfer ^^

I agree with the message this is sending.

Keep it up, if we stop it'll get a lot worse.

The raptor is 100% right!