Didn’t know and I should have checked my assumptions at the door-I identify as a sister and that’s how I would like my brother to celebrate my birthday with me. That’s where the brother to sister came from.
Happy Birthday in spite of my clumsiness.
Honestly, I’m tired of being mask-cop and I don’t want to do it anymore so except for when I’m stuck at work and I have to interact with people face to face, I have ceased suggesting to people to wear their masks on correctly. Apparently, though, I have mastered a glare that seems to make some people conscientious about their mask ambivalence as I have seen several people put their masks back up after locking eyes with me.
But here’s what I want to rant about. I’m not thrilled with the substitution of face shields for masks, but I’ve been thinking it’s better than nothing, except…
…at my local Trader Joe’s some of the staff who have opted to wear face shields without masks have actually cut a large hole in the plastic in front of their eyes. I kid you not! I think ‘shield’ does not mean what we all think it means.
…at my local regional grocer several of the produce stockers are wearing their face shields so high on their foreheads that their mouths are completely exposed to the produce in front of them.
This is in a state in which masks (or face coverings) are required and the mandate specifically allows face shields as an alternative to masks. Between the jokers who let masks fall below their noses, the other jokers who wear masks so loosely as to negate the practice of wearing them, and these face shield yahoos, I’m simply throwing my hands up in the air and hoping for the best. It’s a lost cause here.
My attitude as well. I wear masks with the best filtration possible because it’s clear we can’t depend on the community to keep the environment safe. We have to expect that people will do little or nothing and that the environment will be very contaminated. Accept that is the reality and make sure you use sufficient PPE to keep yourself safe when you are in public.
I was at my gastro’s office the other day.
The reception area has a big desk area where the staff sit. It’s somewhat blocked off by plastic shields - though not terribly well. When I was signing in, there were at least 4 staff members sitting / standing in the area. No way were they maintaining 6 feet of distance.
They were all wearing masks. Except as with the previous visit, a month ago, one person had hers covering only her mouth. Sigh. I really need to complain about that.
Hell, the doctor himself never got within 6 feet of me (the nature of the visit did not require any contact). HE was wearing a mask, correctly.
I’m surprised you didn’t complain to the doctor. He seems like he’d care.
At local convenience store. A young guy who has a mask has it under his chin and is pacing back and forth while having a phone conversation. He claims it’s business, but this argument between the phone and the store owner takes precedence.
He spends a couple of minutes away from talking “business” to relay the “rudeness” of the store owner telling him to go outside and finish the conversation, instead of pulling off his mask in the store and yelling and pacing.
Evidentially, he was picking up an order from the store, but most likely for himself. 
Agree the rest of the vignettes in your post are appalling. Common enough, but appalling nevertheless.
Look at the bright side with this quoted one.
They’re still giving you about 95% of the safety from their emissions, they still have 95% of the inconvenience of wearing the darn thing, and they receive just about zero percent of the benefit an unmodified shield would have provided them.
Darwin will win in the end. He always does.
Because Georgia.
Health officials are still warning against even small gatherings, and states with relatively low spread of the coronavirus are ordering visitors from hot spots to self-quarantine.
But come Friday, about 250,000 people from across the country are still expected to start descending on a roughly 7,000-person community in South Dakota for one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world, a 10-day extravaganza so deeply rooted that Sturgis calls itself the City of Riders.
The mayor of Sturgis says there’s not much to do but encourage “personal responsibility,” set up sanitation stations and give out masks — though face coverings won’t be required.
“We cannot stop people from coming,” Mayor Mark Carstensen said Thursday on CNN.
Worried residents, however, say officials should have canceled the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in a state where Republican Gov. Kristi L. Noem resisted stay-at-home orders and mask rules — and last month welcomed another mass event, President Trump’s Fourth of July weekend speech at the foot of Mount Rushmore. A city survey found that more than 60 percent of Sturgis residents wanted the event postponed, the Associated Press reported.
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I miss the headslap emoji from the old board.
Cheese and rice. That’s a ton of covidiots if it comes true!
As I mentioned up above, I’ve given up on my fellow Americans being responsible.
I’m now cheering COVID onwards to every higher levels of Darwinian winnowing among the strident non-believers. Yes, each of those folks will have some bad effect on the rest of us. But along the way their monoculture of deliberate ignorance will take most of the damage.
In any war you have to accept taking some casualties while wanting to inflict far more on the enemy.
It’s a tragedy. But humanity is already a tragedy.
I’d agree if the “rest of us” didn’t include people I love dearly.
Some people have nicknamed it “Boomer remover” virus.
The Guardian lowers the estimate to “only” 100,000:
They are all taking appropriate precautions though:
“I’ve not seen one single person wearing a mask,” said Jessica Christian, who is working at a bar at the sprawling event.
“It’s just pretty much the mentality that, ‘If I get it, I get it.’”
Lemme FTFY:
"They are all taking equally appropriate precautions though . . . "
Which is pretty much the day-to-day mentality of anyone who rides a motorcycle without a helmet.
Leaving aside what an incredibly stupid, insensitive expression that is (not saying you came up with it, so fuck the “some people” who did 
), the three people I know of who have died from it were all from The Greatest Generation, i.e., parents of my (Boomer) generation.
My latest Covidiot - Yesterday I’m in the local equivalent of Whole Foods. They have a 30 foot long self-serve refrigerator cheese case with a bewildering array of fancy cheeses, both factory shrink-wrap packaged and those where the store has sliced a wheel or whatever into 4-8 oz chunks and wrapped each in heavy cling-wrap with a price/weight tag stuck to it.
I come up behind a middle-aged woman standing there eyeballing one cheese after another, comparing this and that. Pulling each one up close to her face so she can read the fine print. From behind I see mask loops around her ears. So far so good. I move some distance down the case & look for my cheese.
She finally turns towards me a few feet away and I see she’s wearing a standard disposable paper surgical mask with the bottom half folded under so her nose is double-covered but her mouth is 100% exposed. And she’s a mouth breather. Having just exhaled at close range on about $200 worth of various cheeses. Each of which she had put back after her careful examination.
I’ve dealt with the on-duty management at this store about other non-COVID issues and their bovine indifference is exceeded only by their staggering incompetence.
I didn’t buy any cheese that day.
Last Friday I went to CVS to get a prescription filled. The young man behind the pharmacy counter had on a paper mask very loosely, and was under his nose.
I said, “Hey, man, wear your mask right!” in a teasing, joking, but serious way. He didn’t fix it, and indicated (coldly? his attitude changed) that I should hand my ID through the plexi-glass slot.
After I got my prescription - and he still never pulled his damn mask up! - I talked to an assistant manager and hopefully got him in trouble.
He worked in the goddamn PHARMACY! Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The grocery store I go to has an idiot at the door to enforce the mask rule. He stands inside the store and wears his mask under his nose.