# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/101 "2020-05-26T21:08:52Z")
How about you walk further away since you’re the one not wearing a mask? Why should they be the one to move if they’re cooperating with the recommendations and you’re not? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/102 "2020-05-26T23:17:38Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > How about you walk further away since you’re the one not wearing a mask? Why should they be the one to move if they’re cooperating with the recommendations and you’re not? The drunken driver has the right of way [https://www.newappsblog.com/2010/12/ethan-coen-the-drunken-driver-has-the-right-of-way.html](https://www.newappsblog.com/2010/12/ethan-coen-the-drunken-driver-has-the-right-of-way.html) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/103 "2020-05-27T00:28:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > **[Trump’s promise of ‘Warp Speed’ fuels anti-vaccine movement in fertile corners of the Web](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-promise-of-warp-speed-fuels-anti-vaccine-movement-in-fertile-corners-of-the-web/2020/05/20/c2b3d408-9ab2-11ea-89fd-28fb313d1886_story.html)** > > More covidiocy… Well, here’s the thing. I have zero confidence in this government in rolling out a safe, effective vaccine. They have already demonstrated a rush to push “results”, putting out tests that are ineffective and faulty, in the name of speed. They have already demonstrated the bending of policies intended to provide safety, by implementing two stages of testing at the same time. With the President screaming for a vaccine by the end of the year and the pharmaceutical companies jumping in to get their share of the billions of dollars to be made\*, I do not feel the need to be in the first wave of any vaccine rollout in this country. > [@Monty](#): > > I wonder how an arrest would have changed that guy’s views on the matter. This was told to me by a customer in my store, so I can’t vouch for the veracity. She said she was in one of the smaller outlying communities further from the population centers, and they are not getting much of the difficult to obtain items. So she said she was at Brookshire’s and a man loaded up his shopping cart with toilet paper, and told everyone that he was taking it and not to bother trying to stop him, and he flashed his pistol in his waistband. First, I probably wouldn’t actually say anything to confront him, but I would be thinking - Dude, you’re committing a felony, you are surrendering you firearm rights over a silly display of them. I’m sure hoping someone knew who he was (video surveillance cameras) and he gets a visit from the local constabulary (i.e. Sherriff’s office). Sadly, this _is_ Texas, I suspect too many people are of the mindset I’ve heard too often of law enforcement not wanting to enforce gun takeaways. * * * - With the government promising to fund multiple vaccine productions prior to testing for efficacy and safety so they are primed to roll out when approval is granted, there is money to be made in just trying to develop a vaccine. Or seeming to. Let alone the money that will be made by whomever succeeds, if they do. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/104 "2020-05-27T01:41:23Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > My friend in Oklahoma was in a store there yesterday, and the only one in the whole place wearing a mask. A man came up to her, grabbed her arm, and demanded to know why she was wearing a mask because “You don’t need one.” She was too shocked and taken aback to answer. Apparently wearing a mask makes you suspect as a liberal there–ironic, because she’s conservative (but hates Trump). > > \ My first thought was the same as **Monty** ’s and **enipla** ’s, but on second thought, I think if he had done it to me, I’d have said, “Oh. I was wearing it to protect others, because I’m sick. But you’re right. I don’t need to wear one.” And then I would have taken it off and breathed right into his face. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/105 "2020-05-27T01:48:15Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > My first thought was the same as **Monty** ’s and **enipla** ’s, but on second thought, I think if he had done it to me, I’d have said, “Oh. I was wearing it to protect others, because I’m sick. But you’re right. I don’t need to wear one.” And then I would have taken it off and breathed right into his face. You silly scamp! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/106 "2020-05-27T01:56:13Z")
It would be worth it, just to see the momentary look of terror cross his face. Sounds like a gun-toter, though, so probably not a smart response on my part. I’m just so sick of these people. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/107 "2020-05-27T02:14:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I wonder how an arrest would have changed that guy’s views on the matter. My friend said she was afraid to say anything to the guy in case he returned with a gun. Again, she’s conservative, and her husband and son both hunt, so it says a lot that she was afraid of this man. And if you’ve never lived in a small, conservative town, you may have a hard time grasping this, but it’s dangerous to go against the grain. Law enforcement is less likely to help you, and you’re likely to be characterized as a troublemaker no matter what your political background. I wish we had a president who’d approached the crisis with a rousing speech about how Americans have always pulled together in hard times and how wearing a mask says you’re a good American who cares about fellow Americans, but we haven’t. There was nobody around to stand up for my friend. I don’t blame her for her silence. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/108 "2020-05-27T02:25:37Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > My friend said she was afraid to say anything to the guy in case he returned with a gun. Again, she’s conservative, and her husband and son both hunt, so it says a lot that she was afraid of this man. And if you’ve never lived in a small, conservative town, you may have a hard time grasping this, but it’s dangerous to go against the grain. Law enforcement is less likely to help you, and you’re likely to be characterized as a troublemaker no matter what your political background. > > I wish we had a president who’d approached the crisis with a rousing speech about how Americans have always pulled together in hard times and how wearing a mask says you’re a good American who cares about fellow Americans, but we haven’t. There was nobody around to stand up for my friend. I don’t blame her for her silence. I hope you don’t think I was implying your friend was to blame for remaining silent. She did the right and smart thing, of course. I _have_ lived in such towns and understand well why she refrained from offering a smart ass response such as I suggested – which is why I don’t live in such towns anymore. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/109 "2020-05-27T02:28:41Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > My friend in Oklahoma was in a store there yesterday, and the only one in the whole place wearing a mask. A man came up to her, grabbed her arm, and demanded to know why she was wearing a mask because “You don’t need one.” She was too shocked and taken aback to answer. Apparently wearing a mask makes you suspect as a liberal there–ironic, because she’s conservative (but hates Trump). > > About 90% of the people at the grocery store today were wearing masks, as is usual here now. I was putting mine on in the parking lot when a (maskless) woman walking shook her head and scoffed. I called out, “Just being a good American, protecting my fellow Americans!” I doubt it changed her views. So, instead of the Sharks and Jets, now it’s rumbles between the Masks and the Faces. Gotta be a musical in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/110 "2020-05-27T03:16:54Z")
My apartment building has a sign in the lobby saying that delivery people aren’t allowed in the elevator because of COVID-19. I didn’t even know about the ban on deliveries until I accidentally ran afoul of it. I was having stuff delivered, and the president of the condo board had just entered the building. The delivery guy had to call me to come down to the lobby because “some lady won’t let me up the elevator.” I came down to find the condo board president–wearing no mask–lecturing the delivery guy (and very soon, me) on why he couldn’t go up to my apartment. I got my stuff, let my displeasure be known, and got out of the lobby ASAP. The danger to residents and any staff here isn’t from deliveries. It’s from the other residents. I’ve had people without masks brush by me in the hall and stop to talk with each other in the lobby. The building is small, and all the shared areas of the building are all windowless and narrow, with limited air flow. I’ve asked the management company and my landlady to put up signs requiring everyone to wear masks whenever they’re outside their apartments. They said, “We’ll ask the condo board.” It’s been two weeks. I’m not holding my breath (though maybe I should every time I go in or out of my apartment.) We’re in New York, just north of NYC, on the same train line as what was the [New Rochelle Containment Zone](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/us/new-rochelle-coronavirus/index.html). WTF is wrong with these people?! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/111 "2020-05-27T07:41:43Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I hope you don’t think I was implying your friend was to blame for remaining silent. She did the right and smart thing, of course. I _have_ lived in such towns and understand well why she refrained from offering a smart ass response such as I suggested – which is why I don’t live in such towns anymore. No worries. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/112 "2020-05-27T07:44:28Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > So, instead of the Sharks and Jets, now it’s rumbles between the Masks and the Faces. > > Gotta be a musical in there somewhere. Here come the Masks like a bat out of hell. Someone coughs in our face, someone don’t feel so well. ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/113 "2020-05-27T14:16:54Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > How about you walk further away since you’re the one not wearing a mask? Why should they be the one to move if they’re cooperating with the recommendations and you’re not? Like I just said, I was at the absolute inner edge of the sidewalk, fence next to me, growler had room to move further. As a general rule I keep quite far away from other people. And again basic context is next to zero evidence of people infecting one another outside, let alone few seconds within feet of each other not speaking. The possible virus shedding from speaking ‘get a mask’ was probably the highest part of the probably infinitesimal risk of that encounter. You can’t discard all sense of proportion and common sense just because of a ‘recommendation’, noting that the official federal recommendation is mask outdoors _if you cannot keep social distance_. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/114 "2020-05-28T15:01:18Z")
:eek: Is there no limit? **[‘Sorry, no mask allowed’: Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/28/masks-not-allowed-coronavirus/)** > [@](#): > > … > “Sorry, no mask allowed,” read the poster taped to the front door of his bar [Liberty Tree Tavern, Elgin TX] Friday. “Please bare with us thru the ridiculous fearful times.” > > As statewide coronavirus orders are easing, many stores and restaurants nationwide have taken the opposite route: They have made face coverings a requirement, kicking out those who fail to comply and even going to court to enforce their directives. > > Yet in the emergent culture war over masks, a handful of businesses — the Liberty Tree Tavern among them — are fashioning themselves as fortresses for the resistance. > > “If we’re only allowed to be at 25 percent capacity, I want them to be the 25 percent of people that aren’t p-----, that aren’t sheep,” [owner Kevin] Smith told The Washington Post. “Being scared all the time isn’t good for your health. It suppresses your immune system.” > > At one Kentucky gas station, no one is allowed inside the adjacent convenience store if they are wearing a mask. Near Los Angeles, a flooring store encourages hugs and handshakes while prohibiting face coverings. The owner of a campground in rural Wisconsin vowed to treat clients sporting them inside her facilities as she would “a robbery in progress.” > … > > A town of about 10,000 people, Elgin has reported 53 coronavirus infections and one of the two deaths in the county. Even as local officials continue to encourage residents to cover their faces, Smith said he does not believe masks are necessary. > … ---
**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:** [May 28, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/115 "2020-05-28T15:03:56Z")
So is “Please bare with us thru the ridiculous fearful times.” a typo or a deliberate pun? ---
**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:** [May 28, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/116 "2020-05-28T15:12:28Z")
GOP in Penn. House of Reps covered up testing positive for Covid-19. [Redirecting...](https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=683102628927090&ref=watch_permalink) (much cussing) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/117 "2020-05-28T15:32:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So is “Please bare with us thru the ridiculous fearful times.” a typo or a deliberate pun? I took it to be an oh-so-clever pun. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/118 "2020-05-28T18:03:37Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I took it to be an oh-so-clever pun. I didn’t. Anyone dumb enough to prohibit mask-wearing during a pandemic is dumb enough to misspell “bear” (or mix up “bear” and “bare”). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/119 "2020-05-28T21:18:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > :eek: Is there no limit? > > **[‘Sorry, no mask allowed’: Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/28/masks-not-allowed-coronavirus/)** The (dark humor) funny thing is, it’s a total self-own on their part. Say I normally wear a mask, and for some reason I had to enter such an establishment. Why should I keep my mask on? _My_ mask is to protect _them_. If they don’t want me to do them that courtesy, I’m good with that. But I damn sure wouldn’t spend a second longer than I had to in such a place. I’d get out of there fast, and let them get back to infecting each other. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/120 "2020-05-28T21:20:12Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > My first thought was the same as **Monty** ’s and **enipla** ’s, but on second thought, I think if he had done it to me, I’d have said, “Oh. I was wearing it to protect others, because I’m sick. But you’re right. I don’t need to wear one.” And then I would have taken it off and breathed right into his face. He’d have probably decided that SYG applied, so he could shoot you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=7)