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
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.
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.
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! 
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:
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.
So, instead of the Sharks and Jets, now it’s rumbles between the Masks and the Faces.
Gotta be a musical in there somewhere.
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. WTF is wrong with these people?!
No worries.
Here come the Masks
like a bat out of hell.
Someone coughs in our face,
someone don’t feel so well.
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.
:eek: Is there no limit?
‘Sorry, no mask allowed’: Some businesses pledge to keep out customers who cover their faces
So is “Please bare with us thru the ridiculous fearful times.” a typo or a deliberate pun?
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(much cussing)
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”).
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.
He’d have probably decided that SYG applied, so he could shoot you.