tonight... young people outside restaurants, no masks, "car hood eating", in huge groups

[Demovictory9]

Huntington beach area... 18 to 22 age group. Restaurants blocked off the chairs because all food is to go. so groups outside eating around the car hood.

[diva77]

1. Efforts to educate the public on covid-19 have been atrocious. And we all know why.

[rusty quoin]

2. Are humans doomed and their history?

[MLAA]

3. Yes

We’ve destroyed the planet plus the republicans.

[roamer65]

13. We deserve it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Both Orange and Los Angeles counties...

... have been trending up with infections too, according to the maps and data at the New York Times.

[Demovictory9]

5. I'm seeing fewer masks.. among the young.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. It's surely worse in my city.

When I drive around my area, I see NOBODY wearing masks. Of the hundreds of people that I might see walking out of convenience stores and such, it has been ZERO of them wearing masks lately.

I also recently learned that there's far more Trump supporters here than I had previously guessed.

It's almost annoying to me that the local news isn't reporting new outbreaks!

Maybe they're all wearing masks at their jobs or other places where they're in confined spaces with others over a period of time, and that's been the main help? Ohio still requires employees to wear them at work (with some exceptions).

[OhioChick]

9. Everyone thinks they're invincible...

The youth are taking it home to their parents and grandparents, etc.

It doesn't help that our testing rate is so poor, that we're near the bottom of the list with testing per day.

As for DeWine, he shouldn't have caved into trump and republican lawmakers to change his mandate on masks, either.

We're going to see quite a surge here within the next few weeks and it's not going to be pretty.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. I keep anticipating it.

My city (a suburb of Dayton) is especially exasperating because so many people are flaunting it like they think, "We knew it was a hoax, like they said on Fox News!"

Contact tracing has shown it's mostly transmitted in confined areas over a long period of time, so maybe them acting nonchalant in stores shouldn't bother me so much? It still seems very reckless to me. Why not try to mitigate it all the time?

Yeah, I was very upset when Dewine quickly reversed course on requiring masks in public.

Edit: And what if another customer accidentally coughs or sneezes on you? That sort of thing has happened to me in the past and, sure enough, I'd have a cold or flu soon thereafter.

[OhioChick]

12. It's hit or miss here...

Some areas are all in masks whereas others, no one is wearing a mask, not even those that work in stores.

What are we testing now.....10,000 a day?

We can't even get an accurate count because the tests we do have throw a lot of false negatives, so people that are positive just go home and spread it further.

Why is it that China can test their entire population in less than a few weeks? (I'd link to that but am on information overkill)

We're in the middle of a pandemic and everyone's gone mad.

DeWine is talking about schools and day cares opening at the end of the Summer. How are they going to get kids to social distance? I've heard of teachers quitting in droves if they open.

They talk of a second wave coming, well, we haven't even gotten through the first wave yet.

DeWine is rambling on that Ohio is doing so well and possibly in decline. We're not, we don't have enough tests to confirm this.

Then you have King's Island suing Dr. Amy Acton because she claims it's not safe to open.

Who do you trust, a well-respected, intelligent doctor or a CEO of a water/amusement park?

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/coronavirus-kings-island-sues-ohio-department-health-director/y7POhStRYxE6imNMyj40kM/

The Republican legislature keeps trying to vote Dr. Acton out of her position, it's all about money, not the lives of the people.

The world is in shock and horror as to how the US is handling this pandemic.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Yes, the Republicans in the Ohio legislature have been...

... major assholes about it. I'm almost surprised that DeWine took ANY mitigating actions based on how they're behaving about the pandemic.

It's all about corporations and businesses turning a profit for those short-sighted idiots.

I keep thinking about how it was the industrialists in Germany who helped put the Nazis in power, mostly because they deemed them as the strongest opposition to the socialists and communists.

[Baclava]

6. What'd ud expect, they just watched 10s of thousands in packed crowds marching in cities for a week

[shanti]

7. Probably High school kids

What else do they have to do at the moment?

[greyl]

10. June will be bad. Attention spans are compromised and overtaxed. nt