You bet your life I’m sanctimonious. I’m protecting my family. My dad is over 60. My mom is also, but also has a lung disease. And if people would just care about other people and wear a mask, her life would be in much less danger.
Last study I saw, over 54,000 people of the then less than 100,000 people who died in the US would have survived if only we had full mask compliance. Those not wearing masks are literally killing people. And that’s not even covering the people who become severely disabled. (I still wonder if my mom somehow caught it, as she got so much worse around the time this stuff started. Now she’s in wheelchair we have to push everyone, because she literally can’t exert effort–and this is while on oxygen–without her oxygen dropping to dangerous levels.)
So, yeah. I’m sanctimonious. Wear a mask any time you are close enough to people where it matter. Please.
You get 65% protection from wearing a mask. And then you’d get even more protection if others would wear masks, too–more like 95%. But you can’t tell them to do what you will only due when forced.
Wear a mask. You would literally be saving lives. Maybe even of people you care about, or even you.
The worst thing is that, around here, these people claimed to be Christians, claiming to care about other people. Now the only thing they care about is if you’re “nice” to them. Yeah, I know that being mean is less convincing, but the utter callousness and hypocrisy of these people makes it so, so hard.
I prefer a statement I see in facebook arguments from time to time “FFS, could you think about someone other than yourself for the 5 or 10 minutes you’re in the store?”
I don’t intentionally, of course. It happened when I was looking for a specific product and walked back a couple of feet to find the one I wanted. It happens.
That’s one for sure, there are also, among others:
Fuck other people
Fuck you
(Mods, I am not saying Fuck You to Kayaker. I wouldn’t do that outside the Pit. Also, I wouldn’t do it in the Pit.)
Yeah, this one is weird. Big arrows on the floor at my grocery, they’re hard to miss. The only people I see ignoring/missing them at my grocery are elderly people. You’d think they’d be on board with, like, every precaution.
Eh, it’s easy to get momentarily disoriented when you’re dodging people, waiting for other people to move away from the product you want that they’re standing in front of, figuring out if the the rice has been relocated or it’s just out of stock, trying not to sneeze in a mask, etc. And many stores don’t have one-way lanes. It’s a learning process, for sure.
ETA: it’s possible there haven’t been any one-way arrows in the few stores I go to, so take what I wrote with a grain of salt.
I missed them a few times at first, but now I’ve gotten used to them and know to watch out for them. I’m still tempted to go the worng way sometimes, especially when there are no people in the aisle I want to enter. And I’m not sure how much those one-way aisles really help, and how much they’re “hygeine theater.”
IME, Giant has them but Harris Teeter doesn’t. I haven’t been to Harris Teeter in quite a while so maybe they’ve changed. There is no Safeway nearby anymore so I don’t know about them.
If they keep people from cramming together, they’ve got to help a little, I’d suppose. This weekend I had to violate the “liquor and beer aisle closed at this time in the morning” at my store by moving the barricade carts out of the way as I passed. It was the only way to hit the next aisle in the proper direction without passing it up!
I get terrible pushback in the office from patients wearing masks with vents. They keep saying that the masks protect them and ignire the fact that the masks are supposed to protect others and the vents basically get rid of that protection. I’m thinking of sending out another patient mass email explaining that they will have to change to a surgical mask if they want to bee seen.
Purple area of North Carolina ( blue-ish area in a red state )
In public, not the slightest sign of snide glances askance, let alone hostility. Nothing spoken, except questions as to where I got mine. ( mine have two loops, upper & lower, that go around the back of the neck and head, not the ears ) I don’t like anything touching behind or pulling on my ears, apparently some others feel as I do.
At work, other than a couple of “free-dumb” types that refuse to wear them under any circumstance, they are worn seemingly willingly where distancing is not possible.
I did jinx it. We have a new case today, said to be travel-related. The state as a whole is having trouble tamping things down; the headline in the paper says the dept of health will probably announce 200 new cases today, which for Hawai’i is a new and unwelcome record.
The one time I ran afoul of this was the first (and only) time I have was in a big grocery store after this all started. It was new to me, the concept of one-way aisles and I just didn’t know or notice the pale gray arrows on the floor. Not intentionally. Embarrassing, so I haven’t gone back.
The only time I have been in Target the checkout line ropes and stanchions were so badly thought out no one could have followed them and I had to start all over again at the back of the line once it became apparent. Plus there were the entitled cheaters who jumped the line, plus the ones who left a child in line while they went away to shop for 20 more minutes, then came back and stepped back in line, lifting the ropes. Plus, Target lets their staff get away with wearing their masks below their noses and getting nasty when a high risk elderly person asks them to slide it back up. So I spend my money somewhere else now. F**k ‘em.