# Fucking maskholes and vaxholes **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 14, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339 "2020-07-14T21:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/861 "2021-07-14T20:50:41Z")
Doing my duty here in Cecil’s honor. Trying to fight ignorance. Don’t know if it helped… A neighbor “kid” is up visiting her parents. Moved down to Missouri a few years ago to a small town. Around the same age as my oldest kids. When she walked over, I teased her about getting too close, because Missouri and the vaccines, etc. Later on, we’re chit-chatting and I mention the vaccine. “Hell no! I ain’t getting that. There’s been recalls and this side effect and that side effect…” My response was “You do know that the side effects from actually contracting COVID are much more common than the side effects from the vaccine, and most are worse, right?” Added in a few more facts in a non-confrontational way, let it go. I hope this changes her mind; not terribly optimistic. It’s really obvious that the pro-vaccine message is getting drowned out by the “well, all my friends think it’s evil” message. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/862 "2021-07-16T20:22:58Z")
You have to remember: Conservatives do not believe it’s real until they, _personally_, are afflicted. See Sara Palin and Ted Nugent. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/863 "2021-07-16T23:25:40Z")
The Tokyo Olympics are shaping up to be a disastrous super spreader event. The Japanese authorities seem to be making not much of an effort (or none at all) to keep the athletes in their bubble (viz. Japanese news reports showing some foreign athletes sightseeing in the streets with no mask). And apparently a Ugandan athlete has disappeared from his hotel room and bought a ticket to Nagoya on the bullet train, leaving a note saying he wants to stay in Japan. With Japan being so oddly slow to get going with vaccination (vaccinated people are in the 100’s of thousands, not the millions they should be) and trying to control things by shutting down for a few weeks and then letting up too soon, the outlook there is grim. They should have just canceled, but the IOC would not allow it, making it clear that their dollars for media coverage outweigh the deaths of a few thousand Japanese citizens. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/864 "2021-07-17T15:50:56Z")
Well, anybody who has ever played Plague, Inc. knows that the Olympics not getting cancelled gives a huge boost to your pathogen spread! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/865 "2021-07-28T15:51:41Z")
In the wake of an increasing number of Covid cases and new mask guidelines from the CDC, Arizona governor and Republican maskhole Doug Ducey put out the following statement: > [@](#): > > Arizona does not allow mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports or discrimination in schools based on who is or isn’t vaccinated. We’ve passed all of this into law, and it will not change. > > The CDC today is recommending that we wear masks in school and indoors, regardless of our vaccination status. This is just another example of the Biden-Harris administration’s inability to effectively confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Fuck Ducey and the Republican-led legislature for enforcing a law against mask mandates. It’s maskholes like these and people who don’t get vaccinated who are making this pandemic last as long as it has. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/866 "2021-07-28T17:20:48Z")
What an asinine statement from Ducey. So the CDC recommends masks indoors in order to prevent transmission of the new strain of Covid which is leading to increased cases in Arizona and nationwide… … and yet Douchey somehow sees this as an “inability to effectively control the pandemic”? What now? It’s like if your doctor tells you your blood sugar is high, and you are pre-diabetic, and you should change your diet so you don’t get full blown diabetes… and you tell him to fuck off, because changing your diet would be an example of the doctor’s inability to lower your blood sugar levels. _It makes no fucking sense at all._ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/867 "2021-07-28T18:35:11Z")
It is actually more unusual for a Republican to make sense than to not make sense; it’s been that way for awhile now. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/868 "2021-07-28T20:29:04Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > and yet Douchey somehow sees this as an “inability to effectively control the pandemic”? What now? I approve of this spelling. For a long time, I thought that was how it was pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/869 "2021-07-28T21:23:38Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > In the wake of an increasing number of Covid cases and new mask guidelines from the CDC, Arizona governor and Republican maskhole Doug Ducey put out the following statement: > > > [@](#): > > > > Arizona does not allow mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports or discrimination in schools based on who is or isn’t vaccinated. We’ve passed all of this into law, and it will not change. > > > > The CDC today is recommending that we wear masks in school and indoors, regardless of our vaccination status. This is just another example of the Biden-Harris administration’s inability to effectively confront the COVID-19 pandemic. > > Fuck Ducey and the Republican-led legislature for enforcing a law against mask mandates. It’s maskholes like these and people who don’t get vaccinated who are making this pandemic last as long as it has. Arizona GOP: Hell no, you can’t make me do anything to slow down Covid! Also Arizona GOP: Fuck Biden for not slowing down Covid! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/870 "2021-07-28T21:34:15Z")
No mention of [Shriekin’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/3) Kevin McCarthy yet? > **[Pelosi calls McCarthy 'a moron' for his mask mandate criticism | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/nancy-pelosi-kevin-mccarthy-mask-mandate/index.html)** > > House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a "moron" after being asked by a reporter about his criticism of the Capitol physician's mask mandate in the House, another sign of the souring relationship between the two House... ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/871 "2021-07-28T22:12:14Z")
I was at a Mexican food place in Redlands California yesterday. It was the sort of place where you line up at one window to order your food then pick it up at a different window to take out or find a table. There was a divider between the two lines. Half and half masked, semi-distanced. Maskhole got his food bagged and came back and started pushing his way past the people waiting in line instead of walking the other way were there weren’t people. This would have been rude before the world ended, but he got called out by a rather large man who stopped him and demanded to know why he was getting into everyone’s space unmasked, Maskhole told him to mind his own business, man told him that it was _his_ business and Maskhole should do several impossible physical acts. Maskhole loudly displayed his own limited volucabulay and then shoved past man. Maskhole was so distracted that he didn’t see the woman he had shouldered aside grabbing and squeezing his bag with both hands. It looked like a bag full of Mexican Mush when the security guard finally separated them. Everyone else in the place acted like this was a normal, everyday thing. I’m glad I’m home. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/872 "2021-07-28T22:28:22Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > {…} squeezing his bag with both hands. It looked like a bag full of Mexican Mush when the security guard finally separated them. {…} How’d the food look? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/873 "2021-07-28T22:41:47Z")
OOPS!!! LOL. Very bad wording on my part, probably because I couldn’t laugh then (didn’t want Maskhole in my face), but I was totally cracking up while I was posting. It was soooo funny. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/874 "2021-07-29T01:48:48Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Maskhole was so distracted that he didn’t see the woman he had shouldered aside grabbing and squeezing his bag with both hands. It looked like a bag full of Mexican Mush when the security guard finally separated them. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > How’d the food look? > 😉 I can’t get this out of my head now… ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/875 "2021-07-29T02:08:00Z")
I was almost a maskhole today. I was at my physical therapy wearing my mask. When it came time to do some massage, tens unit and hot blankets my PT said I could slide my mask off as I would be breathing at the floor. When we were done I sat up and thanked her because I was feeling so much better. She said “OMG, you are so pretty! We don’t usually get to see people’s faces nowadays!” I immediately pulled my mask up and thanked her for the compliment. To me that was the best gentlest reminder to put my mask back on that I have read about (here, facebook, or on reddit). I know I am not pretty. Different, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/876 "2021-07-29T02:14:00Z")
Some maskholes go above and beyond in their assholery. > **[Omaha police arrest man accused of attack over mask-wearing](https://apnews.com/article/shootings-arrests-omaha-8ea07126f840b811e9894eeb1aedd398)** > > OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a man accused of attacking and shooting another man in the neck with a BB gun for wearing a face mask. The incident happened Tuesday in the vestibule of a midtown grocery store as one man was leaving and... ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/877 "2021-07-29T02:30:53Z")
Thanks for posting that, **Morgyn**. IMO, that’s the most disturbing maskhole story yet. I’ll bet the next one doesn’t involve a BB gun, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/878 "2021-07-29T02:34:07Z")
I’m sure we can count on things escalating, because that’s what these idiots do. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/879 "2021-07-29T05:10:09Z")
Tucker Carlson tells his minions to confront people wearing masks. They do. And of course some of them will take it a step beyond. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/880 "2021-07-29T13:48:52Z")
From the AP article: > The injured man told officers that when he demanded to know why he was attacked, the unmasked man responded, “You’re on the other team.” Trump’s America. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339.md?page=45)