Last week...or the week before, there was a whole side-tangent discussion in which a user on this site expressed those same opinions, about how they wouldn't wear a mask at Disney unless asked to do so, and even then, they would take their time putting it on. Almost everyone jumped on this person for selfishly making the Cast's job harder.
I wouldn't count on it. I thought the same thing, but was very wrong.
Yes, Mr. 50%. The rest of the world doesn't work on this principle for anything else, though. Look at how much Disney is ruining the guest experience to squeeze some extra dollars out of people. Certainly not 50% extra dollars. They go to bat for pennies. Do me a favor, the next time your employer institutes a procedural change ask if it results in a 50% change in anything, and then refuse to do it, if it's inconvenient to you. In cycling, the Sky Team called it "Marginal Gains" but in business I'm sure there are all sorts of terminology for it.
Learning to juggle things with kids is a true art form. Kudos to them. I know I shared a story where all 3 of our masks at the pool were blown off the lounger into water. I tried to text the friend back at our room but no answer. So we ran for it. Was stopped by fully masked family lost looking for their room. We did explain and they were like "no worries we're vaccinated too" so I get crap happens. It did to us, but the ones who flaunt it bug me.I agree. I'd estimate about 95% compliance indoors during my stay. I did forget once when going back to our room. We had been at the pool and I had put my mask inside a Ziploc bag in my backpack. My wife an I were the only ones on the elevator and for a moment I felt so normal again that I forgot to get the mask out until I stepped off the elevator and into the hallway. Fortunately, nobody else was in the hallway and our room was just 2 doors down from the elevator so I made it to the room quicker than I would have gotten the mask out and on my face (thanks to being tall and having a long stride). I saw a few others who caught themselves the same way and had that sudden realization of, "Oh no! I didn't put my mask on" look on their faces. The people who give dirty looks to people who are wearing them or roll their eyes and huff and puff when told to wear theirs are the ones I have no patience for anymore. So many people boarding our flight home looked like their parents just told them they had to finish their homework before they could play video games when the flight attendants told them to pull up their masks. Meanwhile, a father carrying a toddler and a suitcase had his mask slip just slightly below his nose as he was boarding the plane. The flight attendant saw his predicament and just politely said, "when you get seated and have a second, please remember to pull up your mask." He didn't roll his eyes or pout. He just somehow managed to use one of his hands to pull up his mask as he kept walking rather than waiting until he got to his seat - and didn't even drop the kid!
Those pesky situations, when an employee refuses to follow company policy , that person will not be employed there much longer. My way or the highway.
That's the point. People don't have expectations of things needing a 50% improvement to the bottom line to be motivated to do them. They are motivated to do them for other reasons all the time. Like remaining employed.
Yes that's true, if one wants to remain employed, you better play along to get along.
Even the flawed "study" posted earlier doesn't claim anything near 50%. It claimed around 27% improvement. The reality is likely lower, quite possibly a lot lower.
Early waning is only as good as the quality of the data we are looking at. I wish I could trust this data.
Other than kids, I don't think our adult numbers are going to change much in Vermont. The remaining holdouts are pretty hardcore, until they actually contract COVID.
The Ben & Jerry crowd?
More like the "government can't tell me what to do!" crowd.The Ben & Jerry crowd?
They've been reading too many license plates...
That's next door to Vermont.
Adaptability isn't a measurement in the presence of "good data." Adaptability is often measured to how effectively people responded when the data quality is poor and conflicting. Ask any battle commander in human history how much confidence they had in the data before they invoked a defensive strategy. If you wait too long, in the wrong circumstance, bad things happen. Unwillingness to act in one's own defense is not a long term winnable strategy. So what you are really demonstrating is that you don't think an exponential epidemiological curve is worth a defensive strategy because when the "real data" is in, it won't look anything like the same shape as it does now?
How many different ways does it need to be explained that this is simply not true?
It is true. Nothing we do in the US is going to stop mutations. The chance of me needing a hospital or ICU bed during a time when COVID patients are causing capacity issues is extremely low as it is for the overwhelming majority of people under 65. Therefore they are of no concern to me.
The data is the data however good (or bad) it is.
