# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/141 "2020-06-24T03:00:26Z")
Have we noted this charming specimen yet? > **[Woman removes mask to cough on baby and is now wanted for assault](https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article243745267.html)** > > The San Jose Police Department is looking for help identifying an assault suspect who was seen coughing on a one-year-old child in a stroller at a frozen yogurt business on June 12. The mother believes the woman’s actions were racially motivated. Woman removes mask to cough on baby and is now wanted for assault ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/142 "2020-06-24T06:53:58Z")
The people in my town and surrounding metropolitan area are idiots. I leave the house ~1x per week to shop. I stay \>6’ from everyone else, wear an N-95 mask, wash my hands frequently and stay out no longer than I have to. My daughters do the same. I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks at the grocery store and the majority do not attempt to distance themselves, or even walk the correct, well-marked direction up and down the aisles, despite continuous loud-speaker announcements advising them to do so. Idiots. I browse a local online community forum. The general attitude is, _“nobody’s going to tell me what to do.”_ They cite obscure studies on surgical mask-induced deoxygenation and acidosis as an excuse not to wear masks (funny, I don’t see scores of surgeons dropping like flies). They bitched about the beaches and restaurants being closed for the first few weeks. Well, they opened the beaches and restaurants back up (too soon) and the local infection rate and death toll spiked significantly. One by one, the restaurants are closing back down because employees are testing positive in snow-ball fashion. But, the prevailing attitude is, _“where am I going to get a good steak now that Ruth’s Chris is closed, waaa!”_, _“what’s the problem, 90% of infected people survive!”_ (if 1 out of 10 of your friends and family keeled over dead, would you consider that _not so bad_?) Idiots. I’m one of the few posters on the community forum who [politely] posted good reasons to comply with the Covid-19 protocol, along with peer-reviewed cites backing them up. I was shot down decisively. One dimwit called me a moron. My post garnered “thumbs downs.” The pinhead’s reply garnered a bunch of “thumbs ups.” Idiots. My young teen daughter has a congenital disorder that causes strokes (moyamoya). Her first stroke was in utero. Her second stroke (age 15 months) was triggered _by the flu_ and left her with permanent foot drop and hand paralysis. She’s undergone 2 brain revascularization surgeries and thankfully has sustained only only 1 mild stroke since her operations. My oldest teen is asthmatic. The thought that these local idiots are putting my daughters at severe risk keeps me up at night. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/143 "2020-06-24T06:57:20Z")
^^ I am so sorry you have to deal with this. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/144 "2020-06-24T19:53:57Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > The people in my town and surrounding metropolitan area are idiots. > > I leave the house ~1x per week to shop. I stay \>6’ from everyone else, wear an N-95 mask, wash my hands frequently and stay out no longer than I have to. My daughters do the same. > > I see fewer and fewer people wearing masks at the grocery store and the majority do not attempt to distance themselves, or even walk the correct, well-marked direction up and down the aisles, despite continuous loud-speaker announcements advising them to do so. Idiots. > > I browse a local online community forum. The general attitude is, _“nobody’s going to tell me what to do.”_ They cite obscure studies on surgical mask-induced deoxygenation and acidosis as an excuse not to wear masks (funny, I don’t see scores of surgeons dropping like flies). They bitched about the beaches and restaurants being closed for the first few weeks. Well, they opened the beaches and restaurants back up (too soon) and the local infection rate and death toll spiked significantly. > > One by one, the restaurants are closing back down because employees are testing positive in snow-ball fashion. But, the prevailing attitude is, _“where am I going to get a good steak now that Ruth’s Chris is closed, waaa!”_, _“what’s the problem, 90% of infected people survive!”_ (if 1 out of 10 of your friends and family keeled over dead, would you consider that _not so bad_?) Idiots. > > I’m one of the few posters on the community forum who [politely] posted good reasons to comply with the Covid-19 protocol, along with peer-reviewed cites backing them up. I was shot down decisively. One dimwit called me a moron. My post garnered “thumbs downs.” The pinhead’s reply garnered a bunch of “thumbs ups.” Idiots. > > My young teen daughter has a congenital disorder that causes strokes (moyamoya). Her first stroke was in utero. Her second stroke (age 15 months) was triggered _by the flu_ and left her with permanent foot drop and hand paralysis. She’s undergone 2 brain revascularization surgeries and thankfully has sustained only only 1 mild stroke since her operations. My oldest teen is asthmatic. The thought that these local idiots are putting my daughters at severe risk keeps me up at night. Welcome to the world Isaac Asimov described, “in America, there is this belief that your ignorance is as good as my knowledge.” (paraphrased) Yeah, sorry you have to deal with that. America sucks… ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/145 "2020-06-24T20:06:17Z")
Last week, [Brandon Straka](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/passenger-removed-flight-for-refusing-to-wear-mask-trnd/index.html) was removed from a flight from New York to Dallas for refusing to wear a mask and was later banned from flying with American Airlines until the mask requirement is no longer in effect. What I’m wondering is when did wearing a mask during a pandemic turn into a political statement. Public health seems like it should be non-political. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/146 "2020-06-24T20:17:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > What I’m wondering is when did wearing a mask during a pandemic turn into a political statement. Public health seems like it should be non-political. [This article from The Dispatch](https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/face-masks-are-temporary-the-culture) (one of the few good conservative outlets these days) has a good take on it. Essentially, it’s not so much about the mask itself as people just want something to be tribal and us vs. them about. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/147 "2020-06-24T20:19:53Z")
Thanks but only the first couple of lines of that article are available without signing up for the site, which I have no interest in doing. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/148 "2020-06-24T20:49:27Z")
Elsewhere, I saw someone argue online that up to half of Vietnam’s population could already be dead from the virus but that it’s been covered up. 46 million dead would be the greatest cover-up in history. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/149 "2020-06-24T21:28:09Z")
Dead men don’t tell tales. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/150 "2020-06-24T22:57:12Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Welcome to the world Isaac Asimov described, “in America, there is this belief that your ignorance is as good as my knowledge.” (paraphrased) My [last post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-great-getting-up-morning-the-new-site-is-nearly-ready-for-you/855380/400) on the old board included my signature, which consisted of the original quote: > [@It's that great getting up morning: The new site is nearly ready for you.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-great-getting-up-morning-the-new-site-is-nearly-ready-for-you/855380/400): > > * * * > > _There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”_ —Isaac Asimov ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/151 "2020-06-26T14:23:48Z")
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaFSH0K4BdQ) is a YouTube video containing clips of residents of Palm Beach County, Florida objecting to mandatory mask wearing. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/152 "2020-06-26T16:34:35Z")
> **[Someone Edited Clips Of People Freaking Out About Face Masks Into A "Parks...](https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/parks-and-rec-face-mask-town-hall-meeting-video-twitter?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bffbbuzzfeed&ref=bffbbuzzfeed&&fbclid=IwAR04nB4TGbead8gKpkTP8rWisa3GKJduFeKKKP-RNp4uus5PaF-HOZ9BbuU)** > > "This is a hoax. It's a fraud. There is nobody dying." ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/153 "2020-06-26T16:43:07Z")
I’m surprised no one’s done “Hitler rants about face masks” yet… ---
**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:** [June 26, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/154 "2020-06-26T23:05:23Z")
That would be big news to my friend in Hanoi. She has family here in the Houston area and is worried about the rise in cases there. I’m trying to decide if she’d get a chuckle out of the “half the people in Vietnam” BS or if it’d just heighten her concern for family members living amidst such lunacy. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/155 "2020-06-29T01:02:46Z")
Tea shop in Seattle bans masks: > **[Fremont store bans customers from wearing masks](https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/fremont-store-bans-customers-wearing-masks/H6JTSINMYZANPFZJB3NCFHAT5I/)** > > The owner of a Fremont tea shop placed a sign at his front entrance, saying customers would not be allowed in his store unless they removed their protective masks. I wouldn’t have thought stores could afford to lose any customers nowadays… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/156 "2020-06-29T04:41:44Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’m on the board of my HOA and we need to meet to decide what to do about the pools. I’m going to recommend closing them for this season. I think it’s actually a little bit of a silver lining, as we need major repairs and wouldn’t be able to open for the full summer anyway. Now we have a good excuse. > > I’m also going to recommend that we give each homeowner a small rebate against their HOA fees since we won’t have the pool. Especially since I found out that our HOA is really good with budgeting and has a reserve fund of several years worth of dues. > > We were supposed to have a phone or video meeting today, the details weren’t ironed out. Because one member says that phone meetings aren’t “convenient“ for him and he wants to know why we can’t just meet at the clubhouse. > > WTF? It is a small group but still…how in the f can a phone meeting be LESS convenient than an in person meeting? I’m tempted to tell the guy to go to the clubhouse and we’ll all call him while he’s there. > > It also makes me think that the 2020 pool closure, which was a no-brained to me, may meet with some opposition. Well, it’s been 5 1/2 weeks. Did the meeting ever happen, did your recommendation for pool closure for the season get approved, and what about the rebate for the members? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/157 "2020-06-29T04:54:10Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Ace309’s post reminded of a Facebook video I saw of a woman who tried opening up her restaurant/bar and was complaining the police shut her down. She was denying that the virus was not that serious and she wouldn’t make her staff wear masks. > > The whole time I am thinking I would never eat at a restaurant this woman runs. If she doesn’t take Covid seriously how can I trust her that she take Salmonella, E. Coli, etc. safely? Why the hell would I want her cooking food for me? It’s a red flag to me that she doesn’t take food safety seriously. I am wrong in thinking this? Any restaurant owner that does this should get an immediate visit from the health inspector with an automatic C grade. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/158 "2020-06-29T12:43:57Z")
We visited a feed store in Williston on Saturday, and my husband and I were the only ones wearing masks. We were stared at like aliens the whole time by the other customers, the cashiers, and the cluster of good ol’ boys socializing just outside the door. That would be Williston FLORIDA, you know, the state that’s riding the crest of the wave? 😠 ---
**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:** [June 29, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/159 "2020-06-29T13:21:10Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Any restaurant owner that does this should get an immediate visit from the health inspector with an automatic C grade. A friend in Pittsburgh went to an Italian restaurant in Mt Lebanon called Il Pizzaiolo the other evening. When she got there she was shocked to see the place packed, with servers working without masks. Of course, she left. Curious, she contacted the Allegheny County Health Department and was pleasantly surprised that they took her concern seriously. They did an [unannounced inspection](https://pennsylvaniarestaurantinspections.com/il-pizzaiolo-in-mt-lebanon-slapped-with-11-violations-green-film-on-edge-of-deflector-panel-in-ice-machine-no-staff-wearing-masks/) that came up with a dozen various violations including the mask problem and lack of social distancing. I learned that they usually tell a restaurant when they’ll be stopping for an inspection. WTF? I hope they throw the book at the place. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854/160 "2020-06-29T15:44:35Z")
We voted to keep the pool closed. It was a difficult decision until it wasn’t - our cleaning company insisted on being indemnified, our liability insurer had a whole laundry list of COVID-related issues that they wouldn’t cover…not just people suing because they became sick, but lawsuit resulting from confrontations over distancing and accusations of discrimination with regards to the reduced capacity. Most people are accepting of the decision except for one asshole, which is sort of the way it usually goes. I was hoping to that the state would relax the restrictions but they didn’t, plus the mandatory masking adds another difficulty. I’m in favor of some HOA fee rebates, but until we hit the next benchmark I’m not sure if we will be closed all summer, and I don’t want to push for the rebate until we know the extent of the closure. Some of my fellow board members aren’t in favor of the rebate, but I’m pretty sure I can prevail, especially if we are closed all summer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-covidiot-stories/852854.md?page=9)