Yep, I'm one of those incognito, West Coast Trump supporters. I've witnessed far too many co-workers, acquaintances, and clients openly express violent fantasies directed towards Trump supporters without them knowing my political bent. I'm not going to stick my neck out. I am keeping quiet and moving to Texas as soon as finances allow.
I was homeschooled my entire life... did not have as much success, but my parents came from families on welfare, drugs and alcohol abuse and mulitple felonies. They successfully raised seven children who went on to be upstanding citizens in the upper-lower class/lower middle class, all of whom have no felonies, no drug addiction, and no children out of wedlock. I credit homeschooling with breaking the cycle of Amerindian poverty on my mom's side and Midwestern poverty on my dad's side.
WION is an Indian English language news channel. They don't seem to be particular fans of the president, but they have both praised and criticised him in various segments. It's just so much less heavily biased towards the Democrats that it feels like a news channel from a parallel dimension.
If you live in a rural or suburban area the hospitals probably will not be overrun. Most of the cases are in NY and NJ. Basically, if you are a Trump supporter, you are less likely to live in a hot zone than have the virus.
Yes, even a bandana or balaclava with a kerchief where the mouth and nose would be, or a scarf fastened in place. Something is better than nothing and if you do catch it (which you probably will) the amount of viral load is lower, so you and those around you are more likely to recover without symptoms or a mild case.
This has been known for months, but since the US did not have an adequate stock of medical supplies for emergencies, the US government pushed a campaign against wearing masks to ensure there were enough for doctors and nurses. Short term gain in exchange for a long term loss.
Complex problems sometimes have very simple solutions. People will still die if everyone wears masks, but the numbers as demonstrated by Korea, Czechia etc are very low. Also, facial recognition is no longer something to worry about :D.
Most Africans, Europeans, and Middleastern and central Asian peoples have the gene that allow them to digest milk. It's only east Asian, Pacific Islanders, and Amerindians that by in large lack the gene. It was originally a 4chan meme that only whites could digest milk in order to convince lefties to believe milk was a white supremacist symbol.
I assure you, it's lily-white progressives pushing it. I've regularly heard white Seattlites push for anti-hatespeech laws. You don't hear that from Asian or Black Seattlites (who openly express their opinions about other races or ethnicities or sexuality). No, censorship from America comes from the white left demographic who merely use the occasional minority as their mouthpiece. Edit: Also per the Hidden Tribes studies, the progressive demo of America (8%) are the second most racially homogenous demographic being primarily white (80%) only behind devote (Maga) conservatives (88% white)
Masks are really important. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Czechia have all avoided shutting down their economies by encouraging their citizens to all wear masks. They are still getting cases of WuFlu, but the rates are kept low enough that the hospitals are able to handle all the serious cases with room to spare. The only reason the US, Canada and Europe insisted that only sick people should wear masks is because they lacked the foresight to stock up on them and were caught with their pants down by Daigo traders shipping all our masks and PPE to China. Also there is an addition perk of increasing privacy, facial recognition does not work if you wear masks.
This does not look like the heart of New Orleans. Rural, suburban, and smaller cities will get hit last and have the easiest time to hand the disease due to lower population density. It's really only the city centres that need to be under lockdown rules.
I am fortunate that my nuclear family are all conservatives while my grandparents were racist democrats to the bone. I am very close with a cousin but we have gradually been growing distant as he has embraced Marxism. It is driving a wedge between him and his brother and he does not even realise it. I am hoping someday he wakes up from his delusion but I fear that college brainwashed him so thoroughly and preyed upon aspects of his good nature that he now feels that to be anything but Marxist would be immoral. In the meantime, as long as he is willing to interact with me, I am willing to be there.
He would have been a great president.