re: If you’re older than 65 or at risk, stay home

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It's clearly time to quit trying to talk sense into these folks. If I didn't know better, I would swear this clown is my FIL. Doesn't matter how many times you try to explain to them how transmission of this virus works, they don't get it. They think if they don't feel sick, they aren't sick. It's not terribly unlike when people get too old to drive.....it's different from everything they've ever known, so they won't stand for someone changing their routine.

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I was responding to Vanilla who was in essence, telling us what to do. Truthfully, I wear a mask most of the time, except when I have trouble breathing with it on (respiratory issues). I am smart about what I am doing, and yes, I will go the hospital if I get sick. Yes, I can be infectious but how long are we going to play the game of "what if"? I am very considerate of those around me; I stay home if I am sick, and I am extra careful if others are sick. But damn it if I am going to live my life in fear and allow the herd to tell me what to do. I still do not know anyone with COVID, nor do I know anyone who does.

It's my problem = it's my responsibility and I have no one to blame.

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Truthfully, I wear a mask most of the time, except when I have trouble breathing with it on (respiratory issues).

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That's good and I understand. And all the more reason for you to do so.

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I am smart about what I am doing, and yes, I will go the hospital if I get sick. Yes, I can be infectious but how long are we going to play the game of "what if"?

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There's my FIL. Listen. If you go inside a public place, wear a damn mask. Seriously. It's not difficult. For you. For everyone around you.

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I stay home if I am sick, and I am extra careful if others are sick.

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And yet (here we go again), if you DON'T HAVE SYMPTOMS, how will you know in either case? You will have infected others before you ever figure it out, assuming you ever do. You may not.

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But damn it if I am going to live my life in fear and allow the herd to tell me what to do.

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Wear a mask for a couple of months in public. Is that really degrading the entirety of the rest of your life? You don't have to be fearful to be smart.

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I still do not know anyone with COVID, nor do I know anyone who does.

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Fun fact. Strangers are carriers, too.

Seriously, I do hope you stay well.

Nor surprisingly you got a few down-votes. Don't you think the old folks may have to go to the drug store occasionally - or shop for milk, bread, etc. occasionally.

Wearing a mask is more to protect the other folks. Are you seriously the kind of person that cares nothing at all about the other folks who reside in this state (or planet) ??

Gee whiz, man. Get a MAGA mask or a Trump mask - then you can alienate 40% of the citizenry while doing your part to protect 100% of them.

Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people.

Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people.

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Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people.

Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people.

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Bringing the goods!

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Masks don’t work

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Your brain doesn’t work

This would go away quicker if you had a brain

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They worship at the altar of the Orange One.

Never question what the Orange One says cause he is never wrong in their eyes.

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Well, let’s be clear......I’m a Trump voter. Have been from the beginning and will be again. But I agree that he is the main problem with why people aren’t taking this seriously. He has done himself no favors lately with how he’s done a 180 on the seriousness of the virus. I truly believe that when it became clear that people weren’t dropping like flies and unemployment was skyrocketing, undoing all of the good economic work that he’s done, he saw the dems’ line of attack and has worked swiftly to sell that narrative that this is a political hack job aimed at ousting him in November. And his voters are buying it, as you point out.

People get all bent out of shape because they’re being asked to distance, wear masks, etc because TYRANNY! They claim they could have done all of this mitigation without the government telling them to, yet they can’t even figure out six feet or directional arrows. That much has been blatantly obvious. Consider how many people we have learned don’t even wash their hands on a regular basis. It’s simply amazing that human civilization has gotten as far as it has.

“I saw someone wearing a mask wrong, therefore masks don’t work”

It’s this kind of idiotic logic that gets so old.

Masks work on a population level. They don’t prevent every infection. They likely prevent a small percent of infections, therefore having an effect when looking at the spread of the virus among large populations of millions of people.

Surgeons wear masks in surgery to control respiratory secretions.
Doctors wear N95 masks when treating tuberculosis patients (much more infectious than COVID)

The principle and physics of a mask is well established.

If you don’t want to wear one then don’t. Just stop making yourself look like an idiot by saying they don’t work.