The denialism here is off the charts. The entire state of CA is closing down because transmissions and covid deaths are skyrocketing due to their denialism. Even the city of Phoenix has said no go to a soccer tournament, and that is saying something. All of this is being driven by real science about how covid is spread and based on the recommendations of epidemiologists, hospitals and ICU doctors, yet we’ve still got idiots claiming we should have big soccer tournaments in Oceanside. They claim these decisions are political, although denying people their livelihoods serves no positive political purpose and, in fact, is resulting in (an albeit ridiculous) recall campaign when there otherwise would be none. They claim that science says kids can’t transmit it, but are so stupid they can’t comprehend that these kids don’t magically appear at the field at the whistle and then teleport back to their houses right after, and that there are virtually always more dumbs**t parents at games than players. They can’t comprehend that there is a low risk of transmission for virtually any individual interaction, but that when you add up a lot of people having a lot of individual “low risk” interactions, the overall risk of spread is high. They simply cannot comprehend that the reason for restricting soccer tournaments and other things is to reduce the number of any interactions which, in turn, reduces spread. They also can’t see past themselves as to what is important to society and require exceptions to be made, and that kiddie sports is not one of them.
The complete lack of brainpower is astounding. The Internet has truly enabled the idiocracy. When once dumb people understood they were dumb and therefore avoided saying stupid things other than with a handful of fellow idiots at church and klan meetings, now they can say even stupider things and find validation regardless of how irrational the thoughts coming out of their pea-sized brains. A pizza parlor with a tunnel to the white house to trafficking children? Makes a lot of sense and Qanon says it’s true! ICUs are typically this full the same time of year? Look there are 10 anonymous people in Parler saying it so it must be true also.
