Restrictions to continue!

[malahini]

Unfortunately I can't leave here. I spent too much money and went through too much trouble, and my father would be devastated. I went though so much trouble to get my dog here too, and she hated every second of it.

But I really do wish I could go back to the mainland at least until Ige's term is over.

I just can't believe people here accept this as some sort of good. Covid enforcers... really? This is scaring the absolute shit out of me. They can't even clean up the crime here and Ige wants to hire officers to enforce his mandates.

Epidemiologists and Covid... It's like listening to climate scientists about oil pipelines. They would have everyone bankrupted from high energy bills while China builds hundreds of new coal plants.

I also just can't stand living in a place where everyone is so hyper focused on this virus when they have such a high vaccination rate. Everything about the government's response has been a joke. I'm going to crack if this keeps on going. I just don't understand how anyone still takes this seriously at all any more.

Then there's the social strife this is creating... The extremely high unemployment is going to hurt people for at least a decade. There is more to health outcomes than just this one virus.

What's going to happen to the state budget? Are my taxes going to double at some point? Or are they just going to keep pulling in just enough from tourists not to hit residents more?

Chas, and as far as case counts go in whatever state you're in, plenty of counter examples... Florida vs California currently. It all depends on which phase you're in.  That's what I mean by cherry picking. I shouldn't even be responding though. While this doesn't mean that restrictions and mandates might suppress cases short term, these were meant to be temporary measures, not extended forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever...