Masks. For/Against?

[Terrierman]

19 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

The ones that puzzle me are the oversized measuring cups.   I mean whaddya doin'?   Measuring your piss?      

Do ya get all proud if you hit the 1 1/4 pint line ?   🤘😎👍

They're hospital leftovers is all.  Relax and have a beer.

[fishinwrench]

14 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

You seem infatuated with other peoples bathroom routines.   Maybe it’s you not them😂

Well.....I mean.....You think you know somebody, then you find out that they like to play with their piss. 🙄 

It's kind of a let down, ya know? 

[fishinwrench]

44 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

🤣🤣🤣🤣

That’s like saying, more people came to my rallies, I couldn’t have lost!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pretty much, yeah.    

It ain't hard to figure out the most desirable automobile colors.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Most people dont wear masks properly to begin with, and when they do they are constantly touching it and spreading their crap everywhere so a lot of the mask wearing actually is worthless.       

I travel MO and KS working in a different  hospitals and every one has their own standards and what not, they are just running off the cuff of what they think is right.. I love if they ask if ive traveled out of the county. I say yes and they let me in, they ask if i have symptoms and i say, well i coughed and had a sneeze today, they still let me in...... they use worthless forehead info red thermometers that read wrong every time. Hell today the thermo read to low to pick up anything so they let me in anyways.  

[Al Agnew]

7 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

Being a liberal I expect exaggeration.  Obviously you do not believe that we will have a Covid pandemic for the rest of your life.

If you are high risk, it is YOUR responsibility to take precautions.  It is not my responsibility.  Anyone with an immunodeficiency issue has dealt with this for years.

Using your logic, if you are allergic to peanut butter, they should ban anyone from having it because it may affect you, which of course is asinine. 

Let me see if I can explain myself respectfully and calmly.  First of all, yes, I don't think we'll have a Covid pandemic for the rest of my life.  But at this point, there is no clear time frame for when it will be over.  And I don't expect it to ever be over, just at some point well covered by vaccination, which will probably have to be renewed every year.  

Second, I'm taking precautions.  But what I hope I can make you understand is, this is DIFFERENT than anything medical we've ever had to deal with.  We are not talking about immunodeficient people here.  We are not talking just about people with serious existing health problems.  I now have had three people, healthy but my age or a little older, that have died from it, and several more that spent time in ICUs.  We are talking about those kinds of people, healthy, no serious existing health problems that would be expected to kill them in the next few years.  Those are some of the people at risk.  Those are some that are dying from this.  I am 68 years old, high blood pressure controlled with medication, occasional irregular heartbeat that has been examined more than once and determined not to be of medical significance at this point.  That's it.  I should expect to live for quite a few more years.  Yet I'm at risk for this virus.  

Now add in people who live with people like me.  Or people who live with people who DO have serious health problems already.  Not only do the people at risk have to take serious precautions, but the people living with them do, too.

So what you are proposing is that all of us and all those other people, who never had to take any real precautions before, now have to take drastic precautions, as in isolating themselves, so that you and everybody else who isn't worried about this can do whatever they want.  Why is it so horrific for you to wear a mask in the grocery store?  Why is your convenience more important than other people's health?  Or, even the very real levels of stress you cause other people who have to be in the same store or quick shop or room with you, if nothing else?  

Your peanut butter analogy makes absolutely no sense.  Peanut butter is not contagious.  You can't be a peanut butter carrier and pass the allergy on to someone else.

This is the key thing I keep harping on.  Wearing a mask isn't about protecting you as much as it is protecting others from you.  It might be a little inconvenient for you to not drive 60 mph down residential streets, but doing so endangers not just you but others.  Come on.  Have some respect and empathy for other people on this, even if you don't care about it yourself.  Please.  And that respect and empathy also includes wearing a mask just because it will ease the mind a bit of a lot of people who have to be around you.  Is that so much to ask?  Think of it as being polite enough not to light up a cigarette in the grocery store.  Smoking it might not harm you, probably won't harm others, but why annoy the crap out of a bunch of people who have to share the space with you when all you have to do is wait until you walk out the doors?

And by the way, I didn't make this a political thing.  You did, apparently assuming that every liberal and no conservative is "for" mask wearing.  This shouldn't be political.  It should be a matter of living in a civilized society and caring just a LITTLE bit for your fellow man, and last time I checked, that wasn't a liberal or conservative thing.

I'm done.  

[moguy1973]

On 2/2/2021 at 5:49 PM, Mitch f said:

So if a construction worker wears a hard hat he keeps things from falling on other people?

No, but if all construction workers are wearing hard hats it lessens the likelihood of someone getting hurt.  If everyone wears masks it lessens the likelihood of the spread of disease.

[Terrierman]

8 hours ago, gotmuddy said:

Being a liberal I expect exaggeration.  Obviously you do not believe that we will have a Covid pandemic for the rest of your life.

If you are high risk, it is YOUR responsibility to take precautions.  It is not my responsibility.  Anyone with an immunodeficiency issue has dealt with this for years.

Using your logic, if you are allergic to peanut butter, they should ban anyone from having it because it may affect you, which of course is asinine. 

Try and get a package of peanuts on a commercial airline.

[moguy1973]

On 2/2/2021 at 2:16 PM, David Unnerstall said:

Math must be really hard.

Not sure what my comment had to do with math.  If you want to try to beat me in a math contest give it your best shot though.

 

[fishinwrench]

5 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

If you want to try to beat me in a math contest give it your best shot though.

How many seconds are there in a year?

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 minute ago, fishinwrench said:

How many seconds are there in a year?

Leap year or not?😁