On the flip side those that wear them are not cool with others not wearing them. Go shopping in California without one and you’ll see what I mean. So that’s why they bother me.
It seems different by location. Down here in Florida they're the minority and they've been just as polite as everyone without one. Nobody gets upset either way.
I think it's the liberal areas who always have problems with other people. They're obsessed with telling others what to do and how to think.
I like how my local bartender handles cash, serves others, and then garnishes a drink with a piece of fruit w/o washing hands, but she’s wearing a mask so all is well.
This. There is no consistency to the bogus rules, and too many people are wearing the same mask for weeks, which has to be much worse for everyone than not having a dirty rag tied to your face.
Oh I know, I guess working in so many restaurants, and being concerned with handwashing and cleanliness. I’m just more worried about the plethora of other bacterial and viral illnesses, but I really don’t ever make a huge deal out of it. They’re working, they’re probably forced to wear the masks, and they’re friendly and do a great job otherwise. I’m just somewhat of a germaphobe. Haven’t gotten sick thus far so all is well.
If they are silent then you have no idea what they are thinking. This is like when feminists say that some guy is stalking them when they happen to cross paths twice in the same store. You cannot read people’s minds.
Reminds me of my dad’s friend. He’d show up for work a little early just to beat the traffic. He’d park in the parking lot, listen to the radio, relax a bit and drink a coffee. Some lady in the office park calls the police because it is “suspicious” he is there everyday sitting in his car.
Good. I never want to get to the point of California where they saw weird shit and didn't call so as not to be islamaphobes.
Cops CAN be called. Hell, they can even show up and ask questions. Doesn't mean answers have to be given. Just means they ran out there, took a look and carried on with life.
Wait, you can't? Shit! I just assumed everyone but me could read minds. My wife expects me to read hers, and is so pissed when I don't, I just figured it was just me.
North Florida here. Haven’t gotten any grief about the mask thing. Every now and then you can play spot the leftist store employee when they get snippy and loud about standing on arbitrary lines or something
Worst part is they don't even understand why or how the mask if supposed to work. I always ask when it comes up, "what is the specific benefit, to me, of wearing a face mask?" and it always stumps them. They will eventually settle on a dumb statement like "well if everybody wore them all the time then it would work."
It's like they're trying to explain how "Real Mask Wearing" has never been tried before. Sound familiar? All an ideological purity test mixed with people who are genuinely afraid of the Boogeyman.
you speak as if it is well established how CV spreads. it's not. I buy that a mask prevents the usual spread from asswipes who can't figure out how to sneeze or cough properly.
i'm still in a store touching a bunch of stuff touched by human hands so i'm exposing myself to the virus in public either way. masks make sense on a bullet train, airplane or when you are around the very vulnerable. in a costco or movie theater with mostly healthy ppl? not really.
As far as respiratory viruses go, they have to enter through a mucous membrane. So if you’re touching stuff with the virus on it, you’re only going to get it if you touch your eye or something before washing your hands. But if someone coughs and you breathe it in, you have a higher chance of getting it.
I don’t agree with forcing everyone to wear masks either but there is a logical difference between getting viruses on your hands and breathing them in
CDC says its also possible that improper use of masks may lead to an increase of cases. Now let me ask you, do you think people are using masks right or wrong?
Florida they're the minority and they've been just as polite as everyone without one.
Pretty much the same upstate SC -- have only had one person walk wiiiide around me. No comments, even tho i have no mask. Maybe a "look" or two - maybe - I mostly ignore ppl. I'm allegedly in the high risk group by age.
I'm from NYC and I never get any dirty looks or verbal abuse when I don't wear one. On the contrary, many people don't wear them either. I've never had any issue with it so I agree with top comment.
In my town, if you go to the whole foods, they will literally kill you if you are not wearing one. If you go to the Trader Joes or the upscale Kroger, you get the stink eye. But if you go to the regular normal non-faggy grocery store, nobody freaking cares.
Same with the hardware stores, if you go to the faggy hardware store, you are shunned... but if you go to the Home Depot or the local tack shop, no one cares.
I watched a Karen shame a women who went the "wrong way" down a isle. The women she shamed was maybe 5 ft from the end and actually turned around and went back the entire length of the isle.
Piss me off when I realize I already walked by the item I’m looking for. Fuck that whole concept. They gave up on that and took the signs down at my local grocery store because nobody cared and those who did probably found it impossible and annoying as fuck.
Those are removed here now. It actually does reduce closer contact. One-way traffic, some people (like me) may briskly walk past most in the aisle, but normies putz along at a similar pace so more physical distance between the masses.
I saw a Lowe's and Rural King literally side by side. At Lowe's, there was a long line outside to get in with everyone wearing masks, the employees only allowing people to enter one at a time. At Rural King, no line, no masks, people buying stuff, everyone happy. I went to Rural King.
Quit going to fruitcake, bug eating places like Trader Joe’s. No one needs to spend $12.50 for a pack of non-GMO, holistic, chakra stones included hot dogs.
REI was like that earlier today with some really draconic lockdown stuff.... If I knew of somewhere else that had crossbars for cars (as I'd like to get a set for mine) I'd consider going with that other store but I'm at a loss =/
I stopped shopping at REI when they stopped selling Camelbaks because the parent company makes ammo and posted only women on their social media accounts for a whole year (except on Father’s Day, when they posted a picture of a man in short shorts from the 80s and implied that it’s only because of men that women go outside. Hypocrites!)
Fuck that virtue signaling place right into the ground. How are you gonna tell me that hydration bladders cause school shootings and only posting pictures of women makes the world more equal?
I am a medical doctor who did over 20 years of biomedical research in the field of immunology and virology and am thus better qualified to assess the situation than 99.999% out there.
I say only low information cucks still wear masks or did you see those idiots running around every flu season wearing masks? Fear in general, e.g. of viruses, violence (antifa), etc makes people more malleable and more easily to control. I guess if you told those dumb sheeple they have to wear it for the rest of their miserable lives even without providing proof the virus is still out there, they would happily comply. .
Yes. I don't have a problem with vaccines. But I'd never exclude the possibility that a vaccine can have unexpected side effects. I even helped develop some cell based vaccines to treat cancer. In that case, what happens is that instead of attacking cells harboring a virus, the immune system attacks tumor cells that are mutated. Same principle. Also, if there'll be a COVID vaccine in the future, I'd get vaccinated once it's been shown to be safe.
Yep. Here in the cucked north east, they have been mandatory since early May (unless you are eating at a restaurant, then CCPVirus poses no danger) and now that the BLM stuff is dying down, they Karens are out again, "why can you just wear a little piece of cloth over your face for another month!? For all of us that way we can stay open." Uh, no it's 90 degrees outside and no one wears them right, constantly touching and adjusting them.
The reasoning against it is mainly a matter of control. The more say the government has over little things like wearing masks and the more society is conditioned to accept whatever they say, the more danger we're in when they want to tell us to do something less benign than masks in the future.
Do you trust the general populous to make decisions and vote for their best interests? If the whole of people had that much personal responsibility, we wouldn't be in this mess.
I guess I was making a sweeping generalization. Not trying to say everyone that wears one is loathsome towards those who don’t, just my personal observations.
the covid might not kill a healthy individual but the ICU unit being overwhelmed with critical covid patients when you've had a serious accident might.
This. They try to mask shame if you aren’t wearing one. My feeling is that if people want to wear one, go ahead, but if they work then don’t worry if I choose not to wear one. No mask shaming!
I don't get it either. I guess I've got libertarian leanings because I quite frankly don't care. You want to wear a mask, go for it. If a store requires that you wear a mask, it's a private business and can do what it wants. I can choose to put on a mask and shop there or I can go somewhere else.
In Virginia they are enforcing the policy through the Health Department. Although I chuckled a bit when the localities said not to bother phoning the police or local health departments over alleged violations.
Not that easy when a fucking judge faggot judge makes up an order whole cloth that will fine businesses for not making people wear masks- so they're basically mandatory in San Antonio, Texas again if you go into a business where social distancing isn't possible.
Other faggot ass liberal officials have followed suit in Texas. It's purely fucking politics and an end around governor Abbot giving people the choice to wear a mask.
HEB is the biggest supermarket chain here- there's no fucking mom and pop stores here- next us Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods.
Same thing just happened in Dallas County. No evidence except the inflated daily positive test numbers. Can't believe business owners are going along with it.
Right?? Like damn, there's a whole lot of other shit to be worried about right now, and people wearing facemasks while shopping is bedrock-level concern lmfao.
I draw the line at wearing one alone in your own car. Seen plenty of that. Virtue signaling on a whole other level. Other than that wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. Makes no fucks to me.
Virtue signaling, or they are taking a short trip between two places where the mask is required and they don't want to bother taking it off/on repeatedly.
its not like people touch their mask to reposition it or pull it down, a mask that is now moist with excreta of the last 30 minutes or more, or may or may not have been cleaned recently. And then touch everything else. That would never happen.
This is a genuine possibility. If a person can stand wearing a mask and not fidget with it, leaving it on may be better than possibly contaminating it with hands. (gloved or not)
Unless it's a cloth mask and wet, then it's just a breeding ground for disease.
It’s not virtue signaling, probably just reduces their own stress/anxiety if they’re wearing it out in public. Also, if you have to wear one constantly (like for work) it’s real easy to forget it’s on. I had to go to the hospital everyday for two months. Half the time I would forget it’s even on by the time I got in my car when I was headed home.
Same. This whole thing should've been about personal choices about the amount of risk you want to accept. Stay at home and quarantine if you want to. Wear a mask if you choose to do so. Just don't force me to do those things against my will.
People can make better choices for themselves than a government making choices for "the greater good"
They've killed over 115,000 thousand of us so far, as compared to what you would expect on Dr Z's protocol. It should be fair if we kill a mere 50 of them, right? But not all 50 Governors are guilty of this particular crime. SD and FL for example. Who else has allowed HCQ as an outpatient?
Also use common sense. If you are going to be packed into something like an a Basketball Arena, shoulder to shoulder, perhaps wear a mask. If you are the only customer in a 1500 square foot store, no need to wear a mask.
Yeah, same thing happened to me the other day. At first I was trying to stifle it, but wound up going into a pretty intense coughing fit. People fleeing the area, wound up busting out laughing mid attack. Thought the combo of the two combined with the oxygen deprivation of the mask was going to make me keel over.
This isn't the best thing to push. While there is marginal evidence of the efficacy of mass mask wearing, they might be doing it because they have to take care of an old family member or something. Best not to make assumptions.
Be prepared to get attacked for your comment. There's a bunch of morons here as well as shills. The morons don't understand that yes, you wear a mask to protect OTHER people not yourself. And that the virus is pretty contagious. And that the left is waiting for an opportunity to shut down cities because of "muh virus spikes" which there very well could be when you cram a bunch of people in a small area with no fucking masks.
The shills on the other hand, will make dumb assed comments to make Trump supporters seem like anti science cavemen. The goal is the same. Keep the economy shut down.
They don't give a fuck about masks and neither should we.
For real, you have to be completely retarded to object to other people wearing masks when you have no idea if they live with old people/diabetics/those with cardiovascular problems, have such issues themselves, or even suspect they might have been exposed.
It's not just about virus size, but about the means of transmission. My cheapo mask or bandana isn't going to stop any viruses, but if I sneeze while wearing it, it will prevent all those droplets of water from flying everywhere. My mask itself might be virus infected, but I'm not projecting the virus upon all those around me.
So it might make no real difference, even so, it's a minimal annoyance that doesn't kill economies, so if some people want to wear them, fine. Wear it. It doesn't bother me that you do.
If you aren't sick you shouldn't be wearing a mask. It's not going to do the elderly person you know any good. Only sick people should be wearing a mask.
So you would have to agree that wearing one isn’t fully going to protect you from getting the chyna virus. Right? So why would it fully protect from you spreading while wearing the mask? Are they only a one way mask?
I've read a ton of scientific journals on the efficacy of mask wearing of different types, both on the individual test level as well as some result studies of many people wearing them as a policy. Nothing is going to "fully" protect anyone.
The effectiveness of most masks (especially cloth) is dubious. There was one study that supported the general use of them, but most individual tests show they do nothing to filter micro-particles and can itself be a vector by touching the saturated fabric.
Even respirators in a few studies showed minimal benefits in the healthcare setting when donned and doffed frequently, and it only really had an improvement when left on continuously.
In a nutshell, it's probably doing jack shit. The only time it actually has genuine usefulness on a practical level is if a mouth-breathing retard is wearing one and he doesn't know how to shield his own cough/sneeze with his own shirt. It's basically only decent at stopping large particulate spray.
Totally agree. I agree that people should just let people be. If they want to wear them or not, their choice. BIG issue is the governors making laws on forcing people to wear them. Total bullshit. And the people judgments of the maskers making on people that don’t. Karen’s and what not.
Masks reduce OxSat levels. I avoid masks when possible. Even my cardiologist allowed me to remove my mask during my arteriogram because the levels got low. They are no problem for healthy people, but are not problem free/
i don't see why wearing masks has to be politicized. I had an uncle die from COVID19, he recovered from it, but it destroyed parts of his lungs which led to a pneuomonia infection a week after recovering... It's fake until your fam starts getting it.
My condolences. This is one of those instances that I would classify as a legitimate covid-19 death. People here go overboard with that problem. You can struggle to breathe and have a heart attack; legitimate covid-19 death. Most Drs know what they're treating their patient for. The reasoning behind "presumed deaths" can be legit. It's where Drs filling out death certificates KNOW that covid-19 had nothing to do with it and are forced to fill out the death certificate as a covid-19 death that is really the problem. And that's a BIG problem.
Something it seems most people aren't prepared for is the damage caused by the disease contributing to death soon after, thought to be usually in less than 2 years. That's expected to be a lot of people legitimately dying from covid-19, even though they're not infected at the time.
The only question is if everybody wearing masks reduces the spread of communicable disease. If you're wearing a cloth mask that's wet, you're increasing your odds of getting sick. If we all had medical grade masks that actually did some good, and guidelines were to wear it within 30' of anyone, I bet there'd be a lot less blowback. Right now it's a mess.
Nothing wrong with wearing a mask indoors. I respect everyone's natural right to make that decision for themselves. I don't think people would be ripping on others wearing masks if the government had never mandated it in the first place.
Wearing a mask is a personal choice. Wear one, don't wear one. Either option is fine by me.
However, just because someone appears healthy to you, doesn't mean that they are. Can you see the scar on a person's chest from open heart surgery while walking around the store? Can you tell someone is a diabetic if they aren't taking an insulin shot in the aisle? Probably not.
Costco in Anchorage, Alaska has early hours reserved for Seniors AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS!!!!! You would think you would want to separate those who are most at risk from those that are most likely to pick up the virus. But no they put them both in because they wanted to signal how virtuous they were for those that "served"
I work with my little brother who is at risk for covid. Over 50% chance of death if caught due to underlining issues. Working with others medically require masks still imo. Tho obviously those who wear it just for the sake of wearing it? I get it.
The people on here talking against masks are making the normal people here look like fucking fools. Wear your fucking masks you assholes.
Keep the virus from spreading to others, and keep the left from shutting down our cities by wearing your fucking masks. Fucking cucks too insecure to wear the mask. Fuck them.
I can’t go anywhere in NJ without a mask. I call it my clown shoes and I’ve magic marketed the NPC nose and mouth on mine. But fuck that I’m not staying home, mask up mother fuckers let’s get some BBQ.
So sad to hear this. What about restaurants, any dine-in eating? Water fountains all turned off? NJ has huge areas of wilderness and farms. So stupid to treat any State all the same way. In places where you cannot prevent being within 30' of people? Ok maybe I can see some sense to it. But it does NOT negate the benefit of 6' of physical distance.
Do NOT go to a hospital if you catch CCPvirus! Their main objective is to kill as many as possible. By all means, do NOT let them put you on a ventilator. Next comes the anesthesia to put you into a coma, then you never wake up. If you need oxygen and an IV? Ok, that may actually help.
Everybody else wearing cloth masks is not really going to reduce your risk all that much. If medical grade masks were available? That would be different.
You're the one that disinformed if you think a cloth mask is protecting anybody. Authorities aren't interested in the health of anyone, they've been kiling as many of us as possible.
None of this matters. if you are a grown man and not in a wheelchair, then you are obviously perfectly healthy and just a big pussy ass cuck. I go around looking for people like you so I can feel better about myself. What a sheep!! /s
Face masks are usually worn and tossed by medical professionals- I've seen every kind of rag, pillowcase, tshirt imaginable stuck to faces- we went from actual doctors and nurses worrying they wouldn't have enough to everyone having to wear one. But as soon as someone touches it after touching a surface it can't be said to be sterile. This is all pointless. I won't shop if one is required. Sure, people will leap out of my way and some scowl, but honestly who gives a fuck? I like having the right of way.
All i know is i wear masks for bad allergies and if someone starts being a wiseass they might not like the response. Wear one if you want or don't. Just STFU about it already.
Did some shopping at local stores in my town today. All but one of the places I went was a locally owned place. No one in the locally owned places asked me to wear a mask; heck no one in them, customer or worker, was wearing one.
At the one chain store I went into, the moment I opened the door I was told by staff that I needed to wear a mask. All the employees, and customers were wearing them - incorrectly, but that is a different issue.
There is certainly a metaphor for America in there somewhere...
Your use of disingenuous implies you know less than you do. Its required for most military regardless of the situation. The rules may be asinine but I enjoy defending the freedom for people to let the world know how stupid they are.
I dont give a shit if someone is wearing a mask or not, I do not judge them either way.
People can wear a mask if they want. Businesses can require masks if they so choose. But the government should NOT be allowed to require them. They should only be allowed to recommend them, if they feel it will help.
I only wear a mask if the business requires it. If it doesn't, I dont wear it cuz I dont give a fuck. Plus, for some reason, masks make me cough more, no clue why but every time I enter a store wearing one I have to be quick because the whole time I am fighting back the urge to start coughing uncontrollably.
Luckily, I’m in Texas, where the mask “theater” isn’t bad. But there are a few places that require a mask to go in. One store said we needed them; Me and the girl turned around and took our business elsewhere.
Our airline requires us to wear them in uniform, in public, but a lot of pilots ignore it. Only time I’ll half-ass wear one is when I deadhead on the plane. It’s mandatory or they’ll report you to the gestapo (airline SECURITY) and ban you from traveling. The whole thing really pisses me off.
Unfortunately, it's the law out here in Los Angeles - I can actually be prevented from entering a store if I don't have one on.
I always pull it down when I walk around outside - LA doesn't have many pedestrians, so I am automatically "social distancing", though if a cop rolls up I could get a ticket.
You're outside, at least 70 degrees, nobody within 30 feet, and if your mask is around your neck but not in position you can get a ticket; for how much?
Next I have to wonder if anyone has challenged this in Court and won. (Or lost, for that matter)
Was just told that I couldn't enter a store here in WA without on. Told the lady my kid and I couldn't wear one, she asked 'why not', to which I said 'medical conditions'.... she asked what they are.... (Not kidding, and my kiddo has them)... to which I replied 'You aren't allowed to ask that'... she said she could and that I couldn't go in. JFC, these people.
So sad. Thanks for the info. We all knew this was where the globohomos were going; plannedemic, plannedriots, then ratchet plannedemic back up again.
How about common sense? If you're in a crowd at the Grand Canyon, a mask might actually matter. If you're 20 feet away from that crowd, in bright sunlight and it's hot, with no one closer to you than 20 feet? You're not going to infect anyone unless you have a hella sneeze that can propel droplets 15 feet, and then if they catch a tail wind just right maybe add another 15 feet max. So no possible way that farther than 30 feet does a mask do anything except create a health risk to the mask wearer. Once a cloth mask is wet, it harbors disease.
We KNOW they aren't doing anything to promote public health. They've been killing as many of us as possible, and they've succeeded at killing over 115,000 of us that could've been just fine with some medicine.
Me outdoors and literally every store I go into and see this shit. Wife says I have a horrible poker face and they most likely know I look down upon them.
It makes me cringe every time someone comes to deliver something to my house with one on, but if people want to believe it keeps them safe they can do whatever.
Ultimately as long as no one tries to force me to wear one we'll be cool.
Yeah as a 3rd party vendor i get a little pissed off when I'm FORCED to wear the mask before i can even get into the store. And it makes it even worse when i walk in with all my tools and i hear a son/father behind me cracking jokes about me wearing the mask. I get it. He didn't know anything about me so i shouldn't take it personal, But fuck you for not explaining to your son about nuance or even taking the time to understand that I'm just doing it to feed my family. Sorry love you all, Just pisses me off sometimes.
Aussie here. No one wears masks here anymore except a few chinese. I live in a leftie area so that means even lefties here don't believe in wearing it anymore.
I am not against wearing masks.
In fact, I used to wear them back at the start of this pandemic outbreak, when WHO still refused to call it a pandemic. I have a stack of unused ones.
I don't wear them now.
I'd still wear them now if I ever have to go to a hospital or a closed airspace such as a plane. Everywhere else, no. Definitely not in a supermarket, or in a public open air.
I do not publicly rebuke anyone still wearing it. I do not know their circumstances. They maybe immuno-compromised or be living in close proximity with the elderly.
But I do think that healthy people still wearing AT THIS POINT IN TIME, are either sheep, extremely risk-averse or have inability to re-assess the situation when new facts come out.
At the very least, imagine how much landfill waste they are all generating.
I am in California and I don't want to wear a mask. Its a mandatory order from the Governor and I laugh as i get kicked out of businesses. Saying i'll just go shop on- line. I think people act really silly wearing masks while out excersing and in public and they see me without a mask, they fear I am going to give them germs. I make fun of them. People are silly they didn't listen to their mother when she said put on your sweater or you'll catch a cold, but they will listen to the Governor to put on their mask and be alert for germs. Look like desparate hypochondriacs. Additionally, your health is of no concern to me. Nobody cared when you gave me the flu last year. If we are doing this for the greater good then I am going to run up and take that donut out of your hand, your getting fat.
You don't know shit about that person. They could have heart disease or diabetes. None of that shit precludes them from going about their day looking like an otherwise healthy person.
Being American is being free to choose Take precautions for yourself if necessary and mind your fucking business.
Doubt I'll get a ton of people who agree with me on this one, but the ONLY good thing about the dumb-ass, horribly inconsistent mask policy is for air travel.
This is also under an assumption that the airlines have some sort of demonstrably effective decontamination/sanitation protocol between flights, which is a standard they do not come close to meeting today.
Sanitation between flights would likely require a redesign to their airplane's passenger cabin interiors to not be built from materials that are basically bacterial and viral sponges I imagine.
The only place I think mask and sanitation/containment procedures for everyone makes sense is with air travel, due to the high potential for it being a major conduit for the spread of any pathogen.
But I have ALWAYS thought this about air travel, considering the pressurized and recirculated atmosphere on planes. I held this opinion prior to Kung Flu and still do. But it shouldn't be a rule. It should be up to the airline as to the best way to conduct their business, IMO. But I digress.
I haven't personally worn a mask at all during this entire adventure, but I've also been able to avoid packed crowds in poorly ventilated environments. Some of the older members of my family have been wearing them only when entering stores, and to be honest I respect their choices given that we do know how it can more severely impact our elders. This virus is obviously not the apocalypse, but at the same time I think it's okay to be cautious on an individual basis. I'm simply against mandates.
i dont get the obsession with other people wearing masks..if one chooses to wear one then im cool with it.
On the flip side those that wear them are not cool with others not wearing them. Go shopping in California without one and you’ll see what I mean. So that’s why they bother me.
It seems different by location. Down here in Florida they're the minority and they've been just as polite as everyone without one. Nobody gets upset either way.
I think it's the liberal areas who always have problems with other people. They're obsessed with telling others what to do and how to think.
Maybe it depends on which part of florida youre in. I've definitely noticed people silently judge others for not wearing a mask
I like how my local bartender handles cash, serves others, and then garnishes a drink with a piece of fruit w/o washing hands, but she’s wearing a mask so all is well.
What bothers me is the irrationality of it...
This. There is no consistency to the bogus rules, and too many people are wearing the same mask for weeks, which has to be much worse for everyone than not having a dirty rag tied to your face.
That or wear a mask but not cover the nose. Just the mouth. What's the point, at that point?
It’s all good, you can’t get a respiratory virus from ingesting it.
Oh I know, I guess working in so many restaurants, and being concerned with handwashing and cleanliness. I’m just more worried about the plethora of other bacterial and viral illnesses, but I really don’t ever make a huge deal out of it. They’re working, they’re probably forced to wear the masks, and they’re friendly and do a great job otherwise. I’m just somewhat of a germaphobe. Haven’t gotten sick thus far so all is well.
If they are silent then you have no idea what they are thinking. This is like when feminists say that some guy is stalking them when they happen to cross paths twice in the same store. You cannot read people’s minds.
Reminds me of my dad’s friend. He’d show up for work a little early just to beat the traffic. He’d park in the parking lot, listen to the radio, relax a bit and drink a coffee. Some lady in the office park calls the police because it is “suspicious” he is there everyday sitting in his car.
Good. I never want to get to the point of California where they saw weird shit and didn't call so as not to be islamaphobes.
Cops CAN be called. Hell, they can even show up and ask questions. Doesn't mean answers have to be given. Just means they ran out there, took a look and carried on with life.
Wouldn't hurt to mind your own damn business too
Exactly, what kind of a thin skin liberal are you if you worry about other people silently judging you.
Amen, as long as they're silent, I couldn't care less.
I can't imagine having the kind of time and energy to care about something that impacts you so little.
I got bigger fish to fry.
You don't like me because I don't do X, Y, or Z?
That's just dynamite, get in line with the rest, and then go fuck yourself.
Wait, you can't? Shit! I just assumed everyone but me could read minds. My wife expects me to read hers, and is so pissed when I don't, I just figured it was just me.
How do you know he can’t read peoples’ minds? Can you read his mind to know this? What evidence do you have to support your claim?
If you keep asking the important questions like this and you might just earn yourself a spot in the White House press pool lmao
Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
North Florida here. Haven’t gotten any grief about the mask thing. Every now and then you can play spot the leftist store employee when they get snippy and loud about standing on arbitrary lines or something
Worst part is they don't even understand why or how the mask if supposed to work. I always ask when it comes up, "what is the specific benefit, to me, of wearing a face mask?" and it always stumps them. They will eventually settle on a dumb statement like "well if everybody wore them all the time then it would work."
It's like they're trying to explain how "Real Mask Wearing" has never been tried before. Sound familiar? All an ideological purity test mixed with people who are genuinely afraid of the Boogeyman.
well the virus is spread through spit droplets that are large enough to be caught by a mask.
you speak as if it is well established how CV spreads. it's not. I buy that a mask prevents the usual spread from asswipes who can't figure out how to sneeze or cough properly.
i'm still in a store touching a bunch of stuff touched by human hands so i'm exposing myself to the virus in public either way. masks make sense on a bullet train, airplane or when you are around the very vulnerable. in a costco or movie theater with mostly healthy ppl? not really.
As far as respiratory viruses go, they have to enter through a mucous membrane. So if you’re touching stuff with the virus on it, you’re only going to get it if you touch your eye or something before washing your hands. But if someone coughs and you breathe it in, you have a higher chance of getting it.
I don’t agree with forcing everyone to wear masks either but there is a logical difference between getting viruses on your hands and breathing them in
CDC says its also possible that improper use of masks may lead to an increase of cases. Now let me ask you, do you think people are using masks right or wrong?
Source?
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Pretty much the same upstate SC -- have only had one person walk wiiiide around me. No comments, even tho i have no mask. Maybe a "look" or two - maybe - I mostly ignore ppl. I'm allegedly in the high risk group by age.
Yup, PHYSICAL distancing is more effective than a mask anyway.
I'm from NYC and I never get any dirty looks or verbal abuse when I don't wear one. On the contrary, many people don't wear them either. I've never had any issue with it so I agree with top comment.
Bingo.
In my town, if you go to the whole foods, they will literally kill you if you are not wearing one. If you go to the Trader Joes or the upscale Kroger, you get the stink eye. But if you go to the regular normal non-faggy grocery store, nobody freaking cares.
Same with the hardware stores, if you go to the faggy hardware store, you are shunned... but if you go to the Home Depot or the local tack shop, no one cares.
Having the aisle direction arrows is even more fucking retarded than the masks, what the hell is that supposed to be doing?
It's supposed to get people conditioned to follow arbitrary rules so when the Democrats go all Kristallnacht they won't even question it.
^ this guy understands tyrants ^
I watched a Karen shame a women who went the "wrong way" down a isle. The women she shamed was maybe 5 ft from the end and actually turned around and went back the entire length of the isle.
Strange how women love to shame other women they think are weaker than them.
Piss me off when I realize I already walked by the item I’m looking for. Fuck that whole concept. They gave up on that and took the signs down at my local grocery store because nobody cared and those who did probably found it impossible and annoying as fuck.
Those are removed here now. It actually does reduce closer contact. One-way traffic, some people (like me) may briskly walk past most in the aisle, but normies putz along at a similar pace so more physical distance between the masses.
Yes, I find the ignore and act oblivious route is the best way to respond to these morons.
I act like I am completely clueless.
My husband and I intentionally walk the wrong way in the aisles.
I saw a Lowe's and Rural King literally side by side. At Lowe's, there was a long line outside to get in with everyone wearing masks, the employees only allowing people to enter one at a time. At Rural King, no line, no masks, people buying stuff, everyone happy. I went to Rural King.
Quit going to fruitcake, bug eating places like Trader Joe’s. No one needs to spend $12.50 for a pack of non-GMO, holistic, chakra stones included hot dogs.
LOL beer came out of my nose...
Same here, guess who is getting my money?
REI was like that earlier today with some really draconic lockdown stuff.... If I knew of somewhere else that had crossbars for cars (as I'd like to get a set for mine) I'd consider going with that other store but I'm at a loss =/
I stopped shopping at REI when they stopped selling Camelbaks because the parent company makes ammo and posted only women on their social media accounts for a whole year (except on Father’s Day, when they posted a picture of a man in short shorts from the 80s and implied that it’s only because of men that women go outside. Hypocrites!)
Fuck that virtue signaling place right into the ground. How are you gonna tell me that hydration bladders cause school shootings and only posting pictures of women makes the world more equal?
I am a medical doctor who did over 20 years of biomedical research in the field of immunology and virology and am thus better qualified to assess the situation than 99.999% out there.
I say only low information cucks still wear masks or did you see those idiots running around every flu season wearing masks? Fear in general, e.g. of viruses, violence (antifa), etc makes people more malleable and more easily to control. I guess if you told those dumb sheeple they have to wear it for the rest of their miserable lives even without providing proof the virus is still out there, they would happily comply. .
Based comment. Do you support the current vaccine schedule for children?
Yes. I don't have a problem with vaccines. But I'd never exclude the possibility that a vaccine can have unexpected side effects. I even helped develop some cell based vaccines to treat cancer. In that case, what happens is that instead of attacking cells harboring a virus, the immune system attacks tumor cells that are mutated. Same principle. Also, if there'll be a COVID vaccine in the future, I'd get vaccinated once it's been shown to be safe.
Hard pass
There's just something about all the lying, propaganda, and opportunism taking place surrounding the Wuhan Flu for me to trust a vaccine for it.
Thanks man. Your comment carries a lot of weight for me.
Yep. Here in the cucked north east, they have been mandatory since early May (unless you are eating at a restaurant, then CCPVirus poses no danger) and now that the BLM stuff is dying down, they Karens are out again, "why can you just wear a little piece of cloth over your face for another month!? For all of us that way we can stay open." Uh, no it's 90 degrees outside and no one wears them right, constantly touching and adjusting them.
The reasoning against it is mainly a matter of control. The more say the government has over little things like wearing masks and the more society is conditioned to accept whatever they say, the more danger we're in when they want to tell us to do something less benign than masks in the future.
Do you trust the general populous to make decisions and vote for their best interests? If the whole of people had that much personal responsibility, we wouldn't be in this mess.
I guess I was making a sweeping generalization. Not trying to say everyone that wears one is loathsome towards those who don’t, just my personal observations.
Flip it again - I'm getting an attitude to any swingin dick gets in my face telling me what they think I need to do.
it is everyone choice.
but consider all the potential consequences.
the covid might not kill a healthy individual but the ICU unit being overwhelmed with critical covid patients when you've had a serious accident might.
This. They try to mask shame if you aren’t wearing one. My feeling is that if people want to wear one, go ahead, but if they work then don’t worry if I choose not to wear one. No mask shaming!
I don't get it either. I guess I've got libertarian leanings because I quite frankly don't care. You want to wear a mask, go for it. If a store requires that you wear a mask, it's a private business and can do what it wants. I can choose to put on a mask and shop there or I can go somewhere else.
Until the government force the closure of stores if they don’t mandate the mask and then your free to choose what the they allow
In Virginia they are enforcing the policy through the Health Department. Although I chuckled a bit when the localities said not to bother phoning the police or local health departments over alleged violations.
Is there any legal basis to do that though?
Apparently yes - Dallas County just issued orders requiring stores to require masks for customers or else face a $500 fine per offense.
Not that easy when a fucking judge faggot judge makes up an order whole cloth that will fine businesses for not making people wear masks- so they're basically mandatory in San Antonio, Texas again if you go into a business where social distancing isn't possible.
Other faggot ass liberal officials have followed suit in Texas. It's purely fucking politics and an end around governor Abbot giving people the choice to wear a mask.
HEB is the biggest supermarket chain here- there's no fucking mom and pop stores here- next us Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods.
Same thing just happened in Dallas County. No evidence except the inflated daily positive test numbers. Can't believe business owners are going along with it.
We the People are the most powerful branch of government,. We need to re-assert that!!
That's total bs. Fortunately it's just over a mask so it's not the worst form of oppression, but it still sounds like tyranny and illegal.
What about HCQ? Has it been available for outpatient use, or restricted there?
Right?? Like damn, there's a whole lot of other shit to be worried about right now, and people wearing facemasks while shopping is bedrock-level concern lmfao.
I draw the line at wearing one alone in your own car. Seen plenty of that. Virtue signaling on a whole other level. Other than that wear a mask. Don’t wear a mask. Makes no fucks to me.
Virtue signaling, or they are taking a short trip between two places where the mask is required and they don't want to bother taking it off/on repeatedly.
I can think of no conceivable reaso to wear one in your car other than so others can see you wearing it in your car
spez: or you’re like a delivery driver or something. Just saying it’s ridiculous
you could be infected, asymptomatic, and rebreath your own viral shedding, giving you a more virulent reinfection of the ModeloVirus.
Utter nonsense. Wash you fucking hands. If anything maybe people learn the importance of hygiene again
its not like people touch their mask to reposition it or pull it down, a mask that is now moist with excreta of the last 30 minutes or more, or may or may not have been cleaned recently. And then touch everything else. That would never happen.
Hey you, leave that reasonable cause out of this!
This is a genuine possibility. If a person can stand wearing a mask and not fidget with it, leaving it on may be better than possibly contaminating it with hands. (gloved or not)
Unless it's a cloth mask and wet, then it's just a breeding ground for disease.
It’s not virtue signaling, probably just reduces their own stress/anxiety if they’re wearing it out in public. Also, if you have to wear one constantly (like for work) it’s real easy to forget it’s on. I had to go to the hospital everyday for two months. Half the time I would forget it’s even on by the time I got in my car when I was headed home.
Same. This whole thing should've been about personal choices about the amount of risk you want to accept. Stay at home and quarantine if you want to. Wear a mask if you choose to do so. Just don't force me to do those things against my will.
People can make better choices for themselves than a government making choices for "the greater good"
This is the issue right here. And King George never engaged in the level of tyranny that is denying medicine to sick people!
Exactly.
Why won't they legalize Hydroxychloroquine?
Because they want us dead, I guess. Sick fucks.
They've killed over 115,000 thousand of us so far, as compared to what you would expect on Dr Z's protocol. It should be fair if we kill a mere 50 of them, right? But not all 50 Governors are guilty of this particular crime. SD and FL for example. Who else has allowed HCQ as an outpatient?
Also use common sense. If you are going to be packed into something like an a Basketball Arena, shoulder to shoulder, perhaps wear a mask. If you are the only customer in a 1500 square foot store, no need to wear a mask.
I swallowed wrong at the store the other day, sent me into a coughing fit, it was funny to see people flee.
Username checks out
Gross lol
People are afraid to cough when they need to, for fear the stasi will collect them in a van, never to be seen again.
Like a side of beef
I sure hope DJT tells us tonight how We the People can overthrow this tyranny
Yeah, same thing happened to me the other day. At first I was trying to stifle it, but wound up going into a pretty intense coughing fit. People fleeing the area, wound up busting out laughing mid attack. Thought the combo of the two combined with the oxygen deprivation of the mask was going to make me keel over.
This isn't the best thing to push. While there is marginal evidence of the efficacy of mass mask wearing, they might be doing it because they have to take care of an old family member or something. Best not to make assumptions.
Be prepared to get attacked for your comment. There's a bunch of morons here as well as shills. The morons don't understand that yes, you wear a mask to protect OTHER people not yourself. And that the virus is pretty contagious. And that the left is waiting for an opportunity to shut down cities because of "muh virus spikes" which there very well could be when you cram a bunch of people in a small area with no fucking masks.
The shills on the other hand, will make dumb assed comments to make Trump supporters seem like anti science cavemen. The goal is the same. Keep the economy shut down.
They don't give a fuck about masks and neither should we.
For real, you have to be completely retarded to object to other people wearing masks when you have no idea if they live with old people/diabetics/those with cardiovascular problems, have such issues themselves, or even suspect they might have been exposed.
It would be interesting to see the same study with n95 masks, but I doubt there is much data available.
It's not just about virus size, but about the means of transmission. My cheapo mask or bandana isn't going to stop any viruses, but if I sneeze while wearing it, it will prevent all those droplets of water from flying everywhere. My mask itself might be virus infected, but I'm not projecting the virus upon all those around me.
So it might make no real difference, even so, it's a minimal annoyance that doesn't kill economies, so if some people want to wear them, fine. Wear it. It doesn't bother me that you do.
I pretty much summarized this further down in this discussion.
If you aren't sick you shouldn't be wearing a mask. It's not going to do the elderly person you know any good. Only sick people should be wearing a mask.
So you would have to agree that wearing one isn’t fully going to protect you from getting the chyna virus. Right? So why would it fully protect from you spreading while wearing the mask? Are they only a one way mask?
I've read a ton of scientific journals on the efficacy of mask wearing of different types, both on the individual test level as well as some result studies of many people wearing them as a policy. Nothing is going to "fully" protect anyone.
The effectiveness of most masks (especially cloth) is dubious. There was one study that supported the general use of them, but most individual tests show they do nothing to filter micro-particles and can itself be a vector by touching the saturated fabric.
Even respirators in a few studies showed minimal benefits in the healthcare setting when donned and doffed frequently, and it only really had an improvement when left on continuously.
In a nutshell, it's probably doing jack shit. The only time it actually has genuine usefulness on a practical level is if a mouth-breathing retard is wearing one and he doesn't know how to shield his own cough/sneeze with his own shirt. It's basically only decent at stopping large particulate spray.
Totally agree. I agree that people should just let people be. If they want to wear them or not, their choice. BIG issue is the governors making laws on forcing people to wear them. Total bullshit. And the people judgments of the maskers making on people that don’t. Karen’s and what not.
They won't let you in the store without one where I live.
Are you in Cuckistan?
I live in PA and it’s like this for me x_x
So sad to hear this. I hope that bs doesn't spread. Contain the bs!
Masks reduce OxSat levels. I avoid masks when possible. Even my cardiologist allowed me to remove my mask during my arteriogram because the levels got low. They are no problem for healthy people, but are not problem free/
So many zombies
So little time...
i don't see why wearing masks has to be politicized. I had an uncle die from COVID19, he recovered from it, but it destroyed parts of his lungs which led to a pneuomonia infection a week after recovering... It's fake until your fam starts getting it.
My condolences. This is one of those instances that I would classify as a legitimate covid-19 death. People here go overboard with that problem. You can struggle to breathe and have a heart attack; legitimate covid-19 death. Most Drs know what they're treating their patient for. The reasoning behind "presumed deaths" can be legit. It's where Drs filling out death certificates KNOW that covid-19 had nothing to do with it and are forced to fill out the death certificate as a covid-19 death that is really the problem. And that's a BIG problem.
Something it seems most people aren't prepared for is the damage caused by the disease contributing to death soon after, thought to be usually in less than 2 years. That's expected to be a lot of people legitimately dying from covid-19, even though they're not infected at the time.
The only question is if everybody wearing masks reduces the spread of communicable disease. If you're wearing a cloth mask that's wet, you're increasing your odds of getting sick. If we all had medical grade masks that actually did some good, and guidelines were to wear it within 30' of anyone, I bet there'd be a lot less blowback. Right now it's a mess.
It's a Free Country - Do what is BEST for YOU
Nothing wrong with wearing a mask indoors. I respect everyone's natural right to make that decision for themselves. I don't think people would be ripping on others wearing masks if the government had never mandated it in the first place.
It's not been mandated here. Can confirm.
1000%
Wearing a mask is a personal choice. Wear one, don't wear one. Either option is fine by me.
However, just because someone appears healthy to you, doesn't mean that they are. Can you see the scar on a person's chest from open heart surgery while walking around the store? Can you tell someone is a diabetic if they aren't taking an insulin shot in the aisle? Probably not.
I wear them in places that people who are at risk NEED to go. Basically, the super market and pharmacy.
Most supermarkets have special hours for high risk people, so it's up to them to get there for those times.
My local supermarket does this. It's the sanest, best solution I've seen.
Costco in Anchorage, Alaska has early hours reserved for Seniors AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS!!!!! You would think you would want to separate those who are most at risk from those that are most likely to pick up the virus. But no they put them both in because they wanted to signal how virtuous they were for those that "served"
I work with my little brother who is at risk for covid. Over 50% chance of death if caught due to underlining issues. Working with others medically require masks still imo. Tho obviously those who wear it just for the sake of wearing it? I get it.
The people on here talking against masks are making the normal people here look like fucking fools. Wear your fucking masks you assholes.
Keep the virus from spreading to others, and keep the left from shutting down our cities by wearing your fucking masks. Fucking cucks too insecure to wear the mask. Fuck them.
I can’t go anywhere in NJ without a mask. I call it my clown shoes and I’ve magic marketed the NPC nose and mouth on mine. But fuck that I’m not staying home, mask up mother fuckers let’s get some BBQ.
Just write “Trump” or “MAGA” on your mask.
So sad to hear this. What about restaurants, any dine-in eating? Water fountains all turned off? NJ has huge areas of wilderness and farms. So stupid to treat any State all the same way. In places where you cannot prevent being within 30' of people? Ok maybe I can see some sense to it. But it does NOT negate the benefit of 6' of physical distance.
Kek.
DEMOKKKRAT NOSE PANTIES
I'm going to start telling people to get their democrat nose panties in a wad. Or should I go with pedocrat?
demoKKKrat. they are the living inheritors of the KKK plantation legacy.
It's meme. Don't take it personal. Holy shit, this thread.
Do NOT go to a hospital if you catch CCPvirus! Their main objective is to kill as many as possible. By all means, do NOT let them put you on a ventilator. Next comes the anesthesia to put you into a coma, then you never wake up. If you need oxygen and an IV? Ok, that may actually help.
Everybody else wearing cloth masks is not really going to reduce your risk all that much. If medical grade masks were available? That would be different.
Nice "meme".
You know that this kind of retarded bullshit is being used to make you and other pedes to look bad and uneducated right?
I mean, what does it help you to act like some kind of "chad" for not wearing a mask while others actually try to be and keep others healthy.
You're the one that disinformed if you think a cloth mask is protecting anybody. Authorities aren't interested in the health of anyone, they've been kiling as many of us as possible.
None of this matters. if you are a grown man and not in a wheelchair, then you are obviously perfectly healthy and just a big pussy ass cuck. I go around looking for people like you so I can feel better about myself. What a sheep!! /s
I only wear one when they literally won't let me in the store otherwise. I'm sadly in a cucked state.
There's nothing wrong with wearing a mask.
You also can't tell if someone is immunocompromised just by looking at them.
Some people have elderly household members who they don't want to spread it to.
Are we really going to portray ourselves as obnoxious jackasses who give people shit for wearing ppe?
I'm only seeing old people with masks now with the occasional karen tossing daggers out her eyes at everyone else not wearing one.
Face masks are usually worn and tossed by medical professionals- I've seen every kind of rag, pillowcase, tshirt imaginable stuck to faces- we went from actual doctors and nurses worrying they wouldn't have enough to everyone having to wear one. But as soon as someone touches it after touching a surface it can't be said to be sterile. This is all pointless. I won't shop if one is required. Sure, people will leap out of my way and some scowl, but honestly who gives a fuck? I like having the right of way.
All i know is i wear masks for bad allergies and if someone starts being a wiseass they might not like the response. Wear one if you want or don't. Just STFU about it already.
No thanks!
Entire States: TX, NJ. Where else?
Did some shopping at local stores in my town today. All but one of the places I went was a locally owned place. No one in the locally owned places asked me to wear a mask; heck no one in them, customer or worker, was wearing one.
At the one chain store I went into, the moment I opened the door I was told by staff that I needed to wear a mask. All the employees, and customers were wearing them - incorrectly, but that is a different issue.
There is certainly a metaphor for America in there somewhere...
Or a service member that's required to wear one due to regulations.
It's a meme and it didn't say "people at work who have to", you disingenous twat.
Your use of disingenuous implies you know less than you do. Its required for most military regardless of the situation. The rules may be asinine but I enjoy defending the freedom for people to let the world know how stupid they are.
Buy a dictionary, cuck.
Gay
I'm taking care of two elderly people, so I wear one for their sake.
I dont give a shit if someone is wearing a mask or not, I do not judge them either way.
People can wear a mask if they want. Businesses can require masks if they so choose. But the government should NOT be allowed to require them. They should only be allowed to recommend them, if they feel it will help.
I only wear a mask if the business requires it. If it doesn't, I dont wear it cuz I dont give a fuck. Plus, for some reason, masks make me cough more, no clue why but every time I enter a store wearing one I have to be quick because the whole time I am fighting back the urge to start coughing uncontrollably.
Luckily, I’m in Texas, where the mask “theater” isn’t bad. But there are a few places that require a mask to go in. One store said we needed them; Me and the girl turned around and took our business elsewhere.
Our airline requires us to wear them in uniform, in public, but a lot of pilots ignore it. Only time I’ll half-ass wear one is when I deadhead on the plane. It’s mandatory or they’ll report you to the gestapo (airline SECURITY) and ban you from traveling. The whole thing really pisses me off.
Orange county here in Florida is just STARTING mandatory masks in all businesses...luckily i live in a neighboring county and can avoid it altogether.
Unfortunately, it's the law out here in Los Angeles - I can actually be prevented from entering a store if I don't have one on.
I always pull it down when I walk around outside - LA doesn't have many pedestrians, so I am automatically "social distancing", though if a cop rolls up I could get a ticket.
You're outside, at least 70 degrees, nobody within 30 feet, and if your mask is around your neck but not in position you can get a ticket; for how much?
Next I have to wonder if anyone has challenged this in Court and won. (Or lost, for that matter)
I don't know how much the ticket is. A parking ticket is LA is typically $75, though, so I imagine it's in that area.
You should find out. It wouldn't surprise me if it were multiples of that.
Sidenote: a $75 parking ticket?!? Yeeeesh
Was just told that I couldn't enter a store here in WA without on. Told the lady my kid and I couldn't wear one, she asked 'why not', to which I said 'medical conditions'.... she asked what they are.... (Not kidding, and my kiddo has them)... to which I replied 'You aren't allowed to ask that'... she said she could and that I couldn't go in. JFC, these people.
I think what a fucking beta douchebag...I can kinda see it if its the law...but Im going to order shit online before go into a store like that
Dude i just had some bitch at the airport freak out because I was less than 6 feet. I had a mask on and she was in full Ppe.
I lowered my mask laughed and told her she would be fine.
I hate to see her stress when she realizes people will be closer than 6 feet in a metal tube with recirculating air.
Is this everywhere in the State regardless?
So sad. Thanks for the info. We all knew this was where the globohomos were going; plannedemic, plannedriots, then ratchet plannedemic back up again.
How about common sense? If you're in a crowd at the Grand Canyon, a mask might actually matter. If you're 20 feet away from that crowd, in bright sunlight and it's hot, with no one closer to you than 20 feet? You're not going to infect anyone unless you have a hella sneeze that can propel droplets 15 feet, and then if they catch a tail wind just right maybe add another 15 feet max. So no possible way that farther than 30 feet does a mask do anything except create a health risk to the mask wearer. Once a cloth mask is wet, it harbors disease.
We KNOW they aren't doing anything to promote public health. They've been killing as many of us as possible, and they've succeeded at killing over 115,000 of us that could've been just fine with some medicine.
It's time We the People took this personally.
Me outdoors and literally every store I go into and see this shit. Wife says I have a horrible poker face and they most likely know I look down upon them.
It makes me cringe every time someone comes to deliver something to my house with one on, but if people want to believe it keeps them safe they can do whatever.
Ultimately as long as no one tries to force me to wear one we'll be cool.
Yeah as a 3rd party vendor i get a little pissed off when I'm FORCED to wear the mask before i can even get into the store. And it makes it even worse when i walk in with all my tools and i hear a son/father behind me cracking jokes about me wearing the mask. I get it. He didn't know anything about me so i shouldn't take it personal, But fuck you for not explaining to your son about nuance or even taking the time to understand that I'm just doing it to feed my family. Sorry love you all, Just pisses me off sometimes.
Aussie here. No one wears masks here anymore except a few chinese. I live in a leftie area so that means even lefties here don't believe in wearing it anymore.
I am not against wearing masks.
In fact, I used to wear them back at the start of this pandemic outbreak, when WHO still refused to call it a pandemic. I have a stack of unused ones.
I don't wear them now.
I'd still wear them now if I ever have to go to a hospital or a closed airspace such as a plane. Everywhere else, no. Definitely not in a supermarket, or in a public open air.
I do not publicly rebuke anyone still wearing it. I do not know their circumstances. They maybe immuno-compromised or be living in close proximity with the elderly.
But I do think that healthy people still wearing AT THIS POINT IN TIME, are either sheep, extremely risk-averse or have inability to re-assess the situation when new facts come out.
At the very least, imagine how much landfill waste they are all generating.
If you are even 1% sure you are sick, wear a fucking mask or even better, just stay home.
Otherwise, who cares.
It's like making fun of people using a rubber during the height of the aids era. It makes sense to use precaution rather than looking cool.
Except everyone was susceptible to AIDS and hardly anyone is susceptible to Covid.
Lol, I think you I have that one backwards buddy...
I know I said it badly. What I meant was, if you got AIDS you were definitely in a bad way, with Covid, probably not.
AIDS and condoms are for fags.
african bat-fucking & the CIA created AIDS...thanks obama
>implying this chikenshit virus is a death sentence like AIDS
Turn off the fake news, you dumbass.
Go fuck yourself.
Once the first riot broke out I finally understood why there was such a push to normalize them.
PHAGÉT (French) Definition: Chin wearing diaper sheeple triggered by your MAGA hat
I am in California and I don't want to wear a mask. Its a mandatory order from the Governor and I laugh as i get kicked out of businesses. Saying i'll just go shop on- line. I think people act really silly wearing masks while out excersing and in public and they see me without a mask, they fear I am going to give them germs. I make fun of them. People are silly they didn't listen to their mother when she said put on your sweater or you'll catch a cold, but they will listen to the Governor to put on their mask and be alert for germs. Look like desparate hypochondriacs. Additionally, your health is of no concern to me. Nobody cared when you gave me the flu last year. If we are doing this for the greater good then I am going to run up and take that donut out of your hand, your getting fat.
only cucks care about what others are wearing lol its only boomers who havn't ever taken biology
Sad.
You don't know shit about that person. They could have heart disease or diabetes. None of that shit precludes them from going about their day looking like an otherwise healthy person.
Being American is being free to choose Take precautions for yourself if necessary and mind your fucking business.
A cloth mask does nothing to protect that person wearing it.
Facts matter.
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I thought someone was taking my picture.
I couldn't agree more.
Doubt I'll get a ton of people who agree with me on this one, but the ONLY good thing about the dumb-ass, horribly inconsistent mask policy is for air travel.
This is also under an assumption that the airlines have some sort of demonstrably effective decontamination/sanitation protocol between flights, which is a standard they do not come close to meeting today.
Sanitation between flights would likely require a redesign to their airplane's passenger cabin interiors to not be built from materials that are basically bacterial and viral sponges I imagine.
The only place I think mask and sanitation/containment procedures for everyone makes sense is with air travel, due to the high potential for it being a major conduit for the spread of any pathogen.
But I have ALWAYS thought this about air travel, considering the pressurized and recirculated atmosphere on planes. I held this opinion prior to Kung Flu and still do. But it shouldn't be a rule. It should be up to the airline as to the best way to conduct their business, IMO. But I digress.
I haven't personally worn a mask at all during this entire adventure, but I've also been able to avoid packed crowds in poorly ventilated environments. Some of the older members of my family have been wearing them only when entering stores, and to be honest I respect their choices given that we do know how it can more severely impact our elders. This virus is obviously not the apocalypse, but at the same time I think it's okay to be cautious on an individual basis. I'm simply against mandates.
Chin diaper. I'm stealing that.