Have we noted this charming specimen yet?
Woman removes mask to cough on baby and is now wanted for assault
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.
^^ I am so sorry you have to deal with this.
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…
Last week, Brandon Straka 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.
This article from The Dispatch (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.
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.
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.
Dead men don’t tell tales.
My last post on the old board included my signature, which consisted of the original quote:
Here is a YouTube video containing clips of residents of Palm Beach County, Florida objecting to mandatory mask wearing.
I’m surprised no one’s done “Hitler rants about face masks” yet…
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.
Tea shop in Seattle bans masks:
I wouldn’t have thought stores could afford to lose any customers nowadays…
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?
Any restaurant owner that does this should get an immediate visit from the health inspector with an automatic C grade.
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? 
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 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.
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.