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Really, you couldn’t wait another 6 weeks so everyone will have the opportunity to be fully vaccinated? Also puts the burden on business establishments with bigger brains to continue requiring masks. We came so far to lax due to pressure from the public. Oh wait, he wants his cake and eat it to. We’ll continue to pretend we are in a state of emergency so we can continue getting federal funds. I hope that funnel is cut off so he can explain why the State is out of money.
I agree. I’ll only have one shot by April 6th and I’m at high risk. My second is scheduled for April 21st. He also should have waited a few weeks to see if the NCAA Tournament brings about a surge of new cases. I can’t believe he made such a stupid decision. He succumbed to pressure from his party.
Covid is dead. Let’s continue leading the way back, Indiana.
Covid is deadly*. There, corrected your spelling error for you.
Terrible policy. WTF? Thought Holcomb was a reasonable Republican. This is a really bad decision. Not yet nearly time to make this move. Dr Box? Where are you??!
Good question. Where is she? Holcomb obviously isn’t going to listen to her though anyway but political pressure from his party in the state legislature. Really, really bad decision when only about 12 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, on cue, 5.79% of cases come back positive (16,843 tests, 1455 new people tested, 976 positives).
To use a basketball analogy since our governor so loves the sport – we pulled our starters with a lead and put in that kid Johnny on the very end of the bench. Not because it’s the right thing to do, or because the game is fully in hand, but just to shut Johnny’s parents up because they’ve been riding the coach all season to let Johnny play.
Now we all wait and watch the clock slowly tick down and the score get closer and closer while Johnny makes mistake after mistake …
https://covidactnow.org/us/indiana-in/?s=1695622
What population do you want to be vaccinated–80%? 90%? You realize that even getting 50% vaccinated is a pipe dream, right?
Half of the country thinks (KNOWS) the pandemic is an overcooked attempt try to usher in authoritarianism. They’re not going to get vaccinated, and they’ll sue before they let the Gestapo try to get them jabbed, and if it comes to it, they will shoot the people at their doorstep.
By now we’ve had enough experience with friends/family getting the disease (including elderly ones) and seeing may 1-2 deaths, 3-4 serious sicknesses, and 15-20 who had next to nothing. And then there are those who are asymptommatic, never knew they had it, never got tested.
The reality that the authoritarian tankies here refuse to admit: we routinely see our political and medical leaders not abiding by social distancing or masking, long before the vaccine was available. What are we supposed to think?
A) They’re hypocrites
B) They think they’re better than the peasantry they’re supposed to serve, rather than preside over
C) They’re compromised by deep-pocketed interests who bribe them on what to say
D) They have insider epidemiological data (or even medical advancements) that render them immune
E) They’re deliberately sensationalizing a very mild pandemic with a 99.7% survival rate to manipulate the populace for ease of political control.
Which one is it? My vote is F) all of the above.
God please save us from idiot Republicans.
Let’s be clear Holcomb is in name only.
Democrat trail of tears. Hide in your mommy’s basement and wait for your government check
Did you donate your latest stimulus check to charity? I didn’t think so.
Hi Jim, I donated mine to businesses that were destroyed last summer in the left-wing riots.
This mask charade needs to end ; you all have been hoodwinked. Read the disclaimer on the masks from the manufacturers. “This will not inhibit COVID spread” you are all suckers to the woke elites who want to control your liberty.
your statement is not true, try again.
Not clear why gov says that wearing a mask is “the right thing to do”
He’s been vaccinated.
Either he’s immune or the vaccine is a fraud.
Not good that he thinks the vaccine might be a fraud.
If we are all going to be vaccinated and still act like the vaccine doesn’t work, what’s the point? Their answer is, “well we can’t be 100% certain. It’s only 95% effective.”
People who say this, apparently including Dr Box, don’t understand the math of cutting off 95% of all the virus pathways. And the infinitesimally small probability of someone who has been vaccinated becoming infected does NOT justify continuing to contort our daily lives.
If there are some number of people who want to continue to live in fear or constantly advertise their virtue signaling, let them. Let the rest of us return to normal.
Oh my! Do go on about how your daily life has been “contorted” by a health official requiring you to mask up.
How cowardly you must be, to fear this piece of cloth. Do some hats have this effect on you? Perhaps scarves? GASP – does the sight of a surgeon put you in a full panic attack? Perhaps the government should not be allowed to require underwear in public, too!?
Sadly, your understanding of the “math” of epidemiology leaves much to be desired. Masks, vaccines, hand-washing, distancing – none of it is 100% effective, and it was never intended to be – and being immunized to a disease through vaccination can not guarantee that you are not currently infected, will not become infected in the coming days, nor does it fully eliminate your ability to transmit a disease even if you do not become severely infected.
Everyone wants to return to normal. The issue is timing.
If the governor had said he was lifting all restrictions after everyone had a chance to get vaccinated, and the vaccine had time to take effect, then it’s fine. So, six weeks after vaccines are available to everyone? Sure, makes perfect sense.
But the governor has to deal with the Rainwater caucus at the Statehouse, and they can’t wait six weeks because they refuse to acknowledge the issue isn’t the restrictions, it’s the virus. (They also can’t be bothered to get vaccinated, but that’s another story. Quick aside to those under 40: drive to rural Indiana and you can quickly get vaccinated.) So Holcomb has to do something before the Legislature makes a worse decision to end the emergency, period, and take away the ability for counties/cities/towns to do what they need, if needed.
It would not surprise me if Holcomb was told to either lift the mandate before the end of the session … or we will do it for you.
Joe B – spot on. I thought I was the only logical one. We have been at this for a year, what is another 6 weeks for everyone to have the opportunity to receive their vaccination and be fully vaccinated. So frustrating, especially as a business owner and community member.
Makes it difficult to continue to mandate masks internally.
Joe B, considering how much you and the coronatarians love to come here and lecture everyone else, I don’t think for a minute you want things “to return to normal”. Either you love the complete subversion of basic liberties because you have become seduced by collectivism, or you’re too proud to ever admit that you’ve been gaslit by the “experts” who are completely politically compromised. Which one is it?
Charles, you’re unintentionally making the argument that we should resume our normal lives because, in the end, we can’t control everything in the world, no matter how high-tech we get. Perhaps you enjoy cowering in your basement for the next 10 years? Hey, you be you and I be me. Many of us just aren’t scared by this flu bug. But at least as you wet yourself you can rest assured that urine is sterile.
If you really think you’re going to get 50% of the population vaccinated on this one, your understanding of human nature is on par with a 10-year old. In other words, a leftist.
Oh, thank you Governor we aren’t worthy.
To keep you libbys happy Mark!
Wear a full gas mask rest of your life. Its your life. Leave me to decide for myself.
Finally, we will no longer have to step over the fallen bodies of the whining, Trump loving resistors who just couldnt get enough oxygen or function while wearing masks – especially to stop a fake virus. Talk about snowflakes. If only they had done the morally correct and intelligent thing sooner, thousands of lives, businesses, and jobs would have been saved.
agree 100%. sheer stupidity to spike the ball on the 5 yard line. how ridiculous is it that your political party determines your views of this virus.
That’s right, because one political party knows everything and one knows nothing.
I’m an independent who was quite afraid of COVID last March, but by April I smelled the stench of political manipulation. Now it’s a complete joke, just like Fauci and Birx. Absolute clowns.
Let’s get the body count up to a clean 3Mill!
marion county is retaining the mandate, i sure hope that joe hogsett wears his mask every day as he fills all the potholes that are destroying people’s transportation and enriching tire companies with federal stimulus money. at least if he fills potholes, he will have done one positive thing for this city