From the beginning of this mess I’ve been wearing a N95 mask from 9 -1 Monday through Friday at work. I remove it to eat lunch. It’s no big deal unless you make it a big deal.
Right! You’re the store owner who is adamant about mask-wearing. I’m happy you’re being so strict!
Not a store owner, but I’ll cop to being “strict” if strict is following the state’s mandate and using common sense.
Even among a group of fairly intelligent people, the number of “You’re doing it wrong, here’s what you should be doing” followed by “Nuh-UH!” responses is rather dispiriting. Though it does help explain the 5,100,000 reported cases of Covid-19 in the United States.
Ok, I read the article about this, one single non-peer-reviewed study at Duke university with lots of waffly language like “may” and “possibly,” and I’ll concede it sounds bad. And I’ll even concede that using just a single layer is probably not the best way to go.
But when I use two layers (which I didn’t see any data for in the article), very little light passes through and there’s a noticeable decrease in breathabilty. So I’m sticking with the assumption that a double layer of neck gaiter does more good than harm, and I’ll continue to do so until the CDC or my state government tells me otherwise.
What is your medical expertise on this subject? Where did you get your medical degree, and why does it differ from that of other medical professionals?
I know the quoting on Discourse can be weird, but I really have no idea why you quoted me on this post as I’ve never expressed the sentiment you are railing against.
I think it’s from a different thread altogether. From a now-banned poster, IIRC.
I think it’s from a different thread.
Lol!!
So you are locked in a vault, isolated from all outside contact, including deliveries (that can have surface contamination)? Or do you think you can’t get it because you live somewhere rural with a low population exposure? Or are you thinking of you feel symptoms then you will isolate so no one is exposed?
What is your justification for your statements? Because people are dying - as said, 165,000 + in the US. People are catching it from loved ones and friends at parties and social get togethers. People are getting it in stores and factories, day cares and schools. People can catch it and be asymptomatic but contagious.
So someone out there is literally killing people by not following guidelines like wearing masks and social distancing. How are you so certain it cannot be you?
Perhaps that poster tested positive, quarantined for 14 days, and now is not contagious anymore?
I imagine you’re tongue in cheek here, but just in case – I feel like that poster would have mentioned that. Even so, I don’t know if it’s really proven yet that you can’t get it again.
It’s still recommended that you wear a mask in public, even where it’s not mandatory. I recovered from Covid, and I intend to keep wearing mine. As RitterSport said, it’s unknown if you can get it again, or spread it if you do.
I’m still not getting it. I did post in another thread that if someone KNEW they had COVID-19 and intended a large gathering without a mask with the intention of deliberately infecting the attendees and if someone died as a result, that would be murder.
In same post I think I said that a presumably uninfected person that wasn’t wearing a mask was NOT committing murder, manslaughter or any other “killing people” crime and that those accusation were hyperbolic.
I have never, in any post on this forum or elsewhere, accused unmasked grocery shoppers of killing people. I know that because I don’t feel that way at all and I don’t agree with people that make that accusation.
The thing is, you could have it and not have any symptoms, but still spread it. So, wearing a mask is just a sensible precaution. No one’s saying you’re killing anybody, but you don’t want to spread the virus and get other people sick.
Oh, I know that and I always wear a mask. People shouldn’t go out without a mask.
People shouldn’t drink and drive, either - but if you get buzzed and drive home from bar without incident I’m not going to accuse you of attempted murder. It was DUI and you shouldn’t have done it but you I’m not going to accuse you of “literally trying to kill people”.
Shows you how effective his gaiter was.
Except in cases where people were going to protests and then suddenly despite all the images you see of maskless people standing shoulder to shoulder in tight confines apparently NOBODY got COVID from them.
Please provide a cite for this. Thanks!