Same thing here. I live next to a river trailhead, and it's been BOOMING here. People can't go anywhere else so EVERYONE comes to the trail to ride their bikes...in groups, or kayak, or bring their kids out to play.

America's problem is we all have the mentality of "freedom", "don't tread on me" and more generally "IDGAF (I don't give a fuck) until it affects me personally".

And we can see where this is getting us just by looking at that above graph. When travel comes back in Europe etc. we'll be sitting over here in America with the same people infected two to three times over because we can't do what we're told. Y'all gonna have to travel ban us.

Exactly. The antiscience ones. That's why I refer to sciencebasedmedicine.org for the experts on things medical and https://skepticalscience.com/
on things about climate.

If one wants to be a contrarian to the mainstream, then at least be RIGHT, FIRST.
Remember: science has no heroes. Anyone can question anyone else, no matter what their fame, something Trump is too fucking stupid to comprehend.
Yes, "the" mainstream science/scientists is/are right 99.9% of the time about,
or, rather 100% of the time, FOR THE THINGS THEY RIGOROUSLY STUDY & RESEARCH,
such as the climate, evolution.
But their armchair philosophy pronouncements about all ufos & all possible Bigfoot sightings,
when they have NEVER READ OR STUDIED ANY ACCOUNTS, proves they are full of shit ON THOSE TOPICS only.

However, if you're going to be a contrarian JUST FOR THE SAKE OF BEING CONTRARIAN,
then you had damned well better support SMALL political parties ("third" parties, a bullshit term) in the West: Greens, Marxists, Libertarians, Socialists, Transhumanists, and ACTUAL anarchists. You had better allow differences of opinion ABOUT ANYTHING:
about economics, about the law, about what is legal or illegal, ABOUT ANYTHING.

Flat-earthers, evolution-deniers & AGW-deniers have NO special rights to pull bullshit stories & accusations out of their ass. ANYBODY is allowed to do that (even ones I may disagree with) about ANYONE & ANYTHING: the military, somebody's relative dying, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, the pope, all religion, all religious people.

P.S. I am really quite sick & tired of defending "the UFO crowd", for lack of a better phrase.
I've NEVER had a weird or paranormal experience in my life, personally, so I am only assuming THEIR honestly on reporting ONLY on THEIR direct experiences. But, unfortunately, since they are so disloyal to each other, so disloyal to the science & to "truth" about so many things NOT related to ufology, and believe so much either unfalsifiable crap (e.g. religion) or provably false crap (in politics) that I don't waste my time on this subject as much as I might make myself seem I do.

Fighting for truth/fairness/proof/science, in general, anywhere, should be one's top priority.

Agreed. A few elections ago, Rick Santorum stood in front of America and claimed repeatedly that education was for idiots. If I remember right, he has three degrees. The dumbing down of America is complete. No importance upon education results in us being one of the dumbest countries on Earth.

As a result of that, roughly 60% of us believe in ghosts, devils, angels, heaven, hell, spirits, bigfoot, yeti, mothman, and space aliens, yet don't believe in viruses, climate change, or science in general.

Now we have Drumpf, Nazi's infiltrating every walk of life, 4.4% of the world's population taking 75% of the pharmaceuticals and 80% of opiods, everyone on drugs, alcohol and weed, and a whopping 60% of us believing that the end of times will be in their lifetimes.

But, b-b-b-but the emails! The 1% want us fat, dumb, sick, poor, uneducated, and doped up. They can control us better that way.

Educate your children.

80% on drugs. 100% on drugs. So what? Doesn't matter. Who's define what number is "bad"?
That's like saying 100% of people are on food & air & water: they're
If the drug relieves pain & increases pleasure & outweighs the harms, then it's a non-issue.

Whereas millions of people eating animals physically testably quantifiably causes & forces
billions of animals to be tortured - by forced breeding, confinement - & killed compared
to if those non-vegetarians didn't. It's that simple, given no other specific useful or relevant information.

2 incredibly important lessons critical thinkers consider
1) One should evaluate the value (moral, political: it's all just the same) of choices, decisions, opinion, actions based upon all possible choices, actions one could take. NOT on what some pre-existing opinions by others happen to be.
2) the issue of whether to be loyal to the truth/facts/honesty & maximizing fairness or loyal to a person/political party/ideology (nationalism, communism, anarchy, capitalism, whatever). Granted, if one is going to be loyal to a person/party above truth & fairness, then one will have to expect others to do the same for whatever THEIR reasons are.

With lockdowns being extended, and major events banned, in many countries, at least one festival is still going ahead. Really looking forward to seeing Panic at the Tesco on the Sunday night.

Here is the best coronavirus musical parody, in fact, the best Queen coronavirus musical parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7UBs8oYSY

Still on lock down and still broke and still thinking....my god I should dog up this playground I made and bring back mud pit fun!!! Hahahaha maybe I'll do both!!! Love and miss y'all!

All in all, this thread did not age well.