# Share your Covidiot stories **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 29, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854 "2020-04-29T22:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/722 "2021-04-20T02:20:28Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > I do wonder how often people confronting customers over wearing a mask get caught up on insisting on mask use, and forget to say, if you can’t wear a mask, we will accommodate you by taking your order outside from a distance, or over the phone or by computer, etc. where those are possible. > > ADA accommodations don’t cease Is “can’t wear a mask” a legitimate disability? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/723 "2021-04-20T02:23:02Z")
Also, if you have legitimate medical reasons why you are unable to wear even a paper examination mask, what would a COVID-19 infection or the flu or pneumonia do to you? If you can’t wear a mask, you should probably stay home. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/724 "2021-04-20T02:25:47Z")
In @kayaker’s anecdote, the woman who refused to wear a mask claimed to have trouble breathing, which could have been because she _had f@%#ing Covid_ and would have been infecting everyone else by not wearing a mask. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/725 "2021-04-20T03:41:02Z")
I’ll drop it in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/726 "2021-04-20T11:02:29Z")
I have heard about people with rashes or swelling of the face who would find a mask very uncomfortable. But I would expect those people to have thought about the problem of how to safely obtain supplies or otherwise interact with people in advance, and not just try to enter a store maskless and hope for the best. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/727 "2021-04-20T11:26:29Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > I do wonder how often people confronting customers over wearing a mask get caught up on insisting on mask use, and forget to say, if you can’t wear a mask, we will accommodate you by taking your order outside from a distance, or over the phone or by computer, etc. where those are possible. Sorry, but I’m not going that far out of my way to accommodate people. I see people by appointment. They are told about our mask policy when the appointment is scheduled, again when someone calls to confirm. Can’t wear a mask? Sorry, maybe try elsewhere to see if they’ll accommodate your situation, I cannot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/728 "2021-05-08T16:51:48Z")
> FERRY COUNTY, Wash. — Ferry County has experienced a “sharp increase” in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations following a [three-day-long superspreader event](https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/what-we-know-about-a-covid-19-super-spreader-event-in-republic/293-5821f2e6-e272-4a79-b85e-25ff33946e58) in the small north-central Washington town of Republic, health officials said. > > The event was set up to recruit new [Fraternal Order of Eagles members the weekend of April 9-11.](https://www.facebook.com/Fraternal-Order-of-Eagles-68-Republic-Wa-538913033240287) Some said it was advertised as a protest against [COVID-19 restrictions.](https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/timeline-washington-governor-inslee-issued-stay-home-order-one-year-ago/293-cd547cb3-1e87-40c9-9e62-d5ae1e4c531f) Jeff King, the club president, said it was simply a dinner and poker night to attract new members. > **[In wake of Republic superspreader event, Ferry County has highest COVID-19...](https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/republic-superspreader-event-ferry-county-covid-outbreak/293-08367296-5165-40aa-bcbd-2b823a75dab2)** > > There have been 106 new COVID-19 cases reported in Ferry County residents since April 12, health officials said. One person has died. As of May 3rd, this event spawned 106 new cases. The article said that one person has died, but I thought I heard on the news this morning that two have now died. ‘Simply a dinner and poker night to attract new members’? More like a dinner and poker THREE nights. FWIW, it’s pretty conservative east of the mountains. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/729 "2021-05-09T03:01:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > the small north-central Washington town of Republic That’s where gubernatorial loser Loren Culp was from. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/730 "2021-05-09T14:48:15Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Standing in line for my Covid shot,… butt-hurt look on his maskless face. Around these parts, if you showed up for your shot _sans_ mask, you would be given one. And you would wear it (properly) for the duration. Or Mister Security Guard would remove you from the premises promptly. And everyone knows it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/731 "2021-05-09T21:58:23Z")
Found out today that my cousin’s son-in-law, who refused to wear a mask and declared COVID to be a hoax - well, he’s got it, and he gave it to his wife, too. Good job, dude. Hope your 3-y/o daughter is OK. Is it any surprise that he lives in Florida?? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/732 "2021-05-09T22:26:24Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > I’ve posted before about the knuckleheadery of our shared-wall neighbors. > > Yesterday they set up a bouncy house in their backyard (which is so small it could barely accommodate the bouncy house). I guess it was for a kids’ birthday party. All day long the bouncy house was filled with unmasked kids all sealed in together, shrieking and crashing in to one another. All the attending adults were crowded together in the one small patch of ground left clear. They were all unmasked and drinking steadily for hours and laughing in each other’s faces. As the day progressed and the adults got more drunk, they joined the kids in the bouncy house and were at it for an hour or more. > > I can’t think of a more efficient virus-exchanging event than a sealed-up plastic enclosure full of unrelated, yelling drunks mixed up with a dozen or so shrieking children. It’ll probably be a superspreader event, but undocumented because it was a private party in someone’s backyard. How did you miss the obvious explanation - they are conducting a selective breeding program for people who are very lucky. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/733 "2021-05-10T02:49:17Z")
Tesla Brown? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/734 "2021-05-10T13:46:05Z")
Nice one! ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/735 "2021-05-11T03:28:57Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Around these parts, if you showed up for your shot _sans_ mask, you would be given one. And you would wear it (properly) for the duration. Or Mister Security Guard would remove you from the premises promptly. And everyone knows it. TBH besides government buildings, the only place I’ve seen mask enforcement is at the dispensaries. We have our FREEDUMS here. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/736 "2021-05-11T11:34:28Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > TBH besides government buildings, the only place I’ve seen mask enforcement is at the dispensaries. I remember my first pandemic dispensary visit. I hadn’t yet been in a grocery or other store, but my cannabis supply was dwindling. They’re already setup with security in mind. They adapted quickly and effectively. And of course, stoners all complied. Kudos Cresco/Sunnyside! ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/737 "2021-05-11T16:55:44Z")
When the stay at home order was announced, I went right to my salon and bought them out of my favorite soap, shampoo and conditioner. Next stop was the liquor store to stock up and finally the dispensary where I filled my entire allotment. Other people had other priorities, of course. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/738 "2021-05-17T17:20:27Z")
Earlier this morning I went in for my yearly mammogram. The lab is at a Stanford-linked facility, so it’s not a rural, poorly-staffed place. The radiologist asked if I had been vaccinated, and when. She said it was important to know because they’ve been getting some false positives on the side you were vaccinated on, as the lymph glands there might still be a little swollen. I chatted with her a bit and said “I don’t need to ask if you’ve been vaccinated yet, as you’re a healthcare worker”. She looked a little sheepish and said, well, I was going to try to have a baby later this year, so no, I haven’t been vaccinated. I was so taken aback that I didn’t say anything. Then she proceeded to arrange me on the mammogram machine, and as all you ladies know, the radiologist gets her face to within about 10 inches of your face as she works with you. We were both wearing masks, of course. I’d like to contact the radiology lab and say something, but I know that if a healthcare worker refuses vaccination, there’s nothing the employer can do. But still! A radiologist might be seeing a dozen or more women a day, and given the close contact, I would hope they’d be among the first to be vaccinated. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/739 "2021-05-17T21:30:34Z")
Something like 20 to 30% of all healthcare workers aren’t vaccinated on a nationwide basis. Some a re clerks. SOme are home health or old folks’ home’s caregivers. Others are brain surgeons. But apparently none of them are rocket scientists because with vanishingly few exceptions they’re all making a really, _really_ dumb decision. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/740 "2021-05-17T21:37:44Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > I’d like to contact the radiology lab and say something, but I know that if a healthcare worker refuses vaccination, there’s nothing the employer can do. Can’t someone be fired for any reason? Seems a good enough reason to me. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/741 "2021-05-18T23:24:09Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Can’t someone be fired for any reason? Seems a good enough reason to me. As long as it’s not a religiously-inspired vaccine refusal, it would certainly be legal to fire such a person. Whether it’s desirable or practical may be answered differently by different people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=38)