So outrageous. Even setting aside that they are forcing us to become ill, this is something that should be a basic freedom. How you protect your own body —anything you do with your body should be a basic freedom.
Mask work & hospitals should use them especially to keep older patients healthy. 🤷♂️ anyone with daily contact with people with immune system issues should stay safe it's like putting on gloves when someone gets cut.
If that's how it sounds I apologize because that's not my intention but I think it's both true that the pandemic is ongoing but also that it has led to millions of deaths.
I personally read it as “has led”, so unconsciously that I had to check again to see just “led”. My best guess from the syntax used is that that was the intention, fwtw. Not a pro linguist
Please remember most readers are not native speakers. I am a very strong English speaker comparably, and even I do not intuitively grasp these subtle syntactical differences mostly. People will read what they want to read unless you express it unambiguously.
They are so stupid! I am immune compromised and I have a box of masks handy in case we have another freaking outbreak, which with these clowns running our health organizations, I predict we will have another epidemic!
I'm not panicking, I'm just ordering a good stock of the kind of masks I like. Yes the rest of the world isn't playing along, but our access to and price of desirable masks can change.
No masks allowed unless you’re ICE, snatching people off the street. Then by all means, don’t let anyone see your face. You might have to face consequences if your mama sees a video of you disappearing innocent people pop up on her socials.
You’re right. Their mamas are probably glad they covered their faces. Less awkwardness at their ladies’ Bible study when they’re reading the portion about welcoming the stranger…
Harder to act self righteous if your literal son is helping snatch people off the streets for political reasons. Not to protect the community from danger.
During COVID19 parents sent their kids to school & we’d get calls from the health department that they had tested positive for it & they’d expose us all to it at school. We’d then send them home after they’d exposed us all.
Why talk about it? Because it’s modern day Ugly Laws making the country unsafe for immunocompromised people???? Like, you truly don’t see the problem here?
Sorry, I just sent out another clarification. I must suck at communication sometimes. I am a big mask supporter! What I meant was why do MAGAts care whether or not anyone else wears a mask? Some states are trying to ban anyone from using one. Thats what I find ridiculous. Not the masks. I understand
But yeah, these laws are far from a MAGA thing. I live in Tennessee, we only have a law that masking can’t be required again. But New York, a Dem state, is trying to get them banned. It’s scary.
Whoa! New York? Wow. That is kinda shocking. But they have said that the outer areas away from NYC have been turning red. But I can’t imagine they would ban them. Argh!! But yeah, I was one of those that wore one in the grocery store when 75% didn’t. Argh!!
This is their Dem governor, not some republican legislator. Please look into this, it’s just one example of many and may help you contextualize why this is such an important conversation.
I think you missed my message or maybe I suck at as a communicator! lol. First, I’m a huge believer in masks What I meant by “get over it” was for those who fight against them Why do MAGAts care whether or not I or anyone else wears a mask? That’s what I find ridiculous!! I hope that clarifies. 😊
Vast majority of people wear masks to protect their health. A person's right to protect their health comes first. The outright stupidity, plus the disregard for people's lives is angering the hell out of the true patriots of America.
The isolation thing I was talking about was based on things like both of the previous presidential administrations absolutely bungled the response federally.
As I recently found out, it's basically illegal for me to protest in my own state because I have no doctor's note saying I need to wear a mask. I don't need a doctor's note to know better. And really, this whole law is full of holes, but everything is full of holes these days. 🤷♂️
Its not about masks, its about crushing political opposition. Ppl like to wear masks at protests, & they want to stop the Palestine solidarity movement. The reason Mahmoud Khalil was arrested is bc he was one of the few that didn't mask, so they could identify him
This is about ushering in police state crackdowns. You can't escape being identified if you can't wear a mask at protests, so ppl will be more afraid to protest if they can be identified, arrested & deported.
Plus the cops will love this, anyone they are targeting, has a warrant, can't evade them
once it was shown that corporate profits would be more negatively impacted by masking and other life-saving measures than by letting hundreds of thousands die, the ruling class shifted their priorities
Corporate profits are damaged by masking how? What is the mechanism for that? I wear a mask to buy a loaf of bread in a store because masking doesn't mean I don't need to buy bread. Where in this scenario are Corporate profits damaged?
Yeah, I'm not spending or purchasing any less, though, that's for sure. Restaurants have takeout for me, a table I'm not at for other folks dining in, and the rest of the long, invisible, line of online orders. They choose to lose money with outside delivery apps just fine already anyway.
I think the average take out spend is way less since typical restaurants make a ton of profit on selling drinks to patrons dining in. But it’s not just Covid; I think people just have less disposable income.
Dine-in drinks are absolutely a thing, without argument. It's down to a lot more than one thing, and some folks aren't spending on some or anything because they died or became disabled in a way that transformed their latitude in choosing what to spend on.
Places that rarely have dine-in customers save on cut wait staff, who are folks who I believe need a fair wage to survive, but I'm talking about the business owner's view. Those places can still have a line of online orders metaphorically stretching out their door.
Honestly, it's probably because cameras can't identify people who are wearing masks and they want to make masks illegal for protests. That way it's easier to identify protesters and, well I'm sure you know where it goes from there
exactly. it’s insane behavior to ban them. People have been masking on public transportation long before COVID, and people who are immunocompromised need them post covid. It’s all to geotrack your movements
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Is now parting on the right…
And the beards… have grown longer
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We should be encouraging MORE mask usage especially in dense public spaces like schools, hospitals, train stations, airports, malls etc.
(Nothing else makes sense).
"American car culture has led to millions of deaths" does not imply that someone won't be killed by a car tomorrow
Because there is no real resistance to this bullshit.
Also - the rest of the world is not playing along with this nonsense. Masks will continue to be manufactured.
Thanks
It’s the neighbors and potential future employers those ICE goons are hiding from with face masks.
Harder to act self righteous if your literal son is helping snatch people off the streets for political reasons. Not to protect the community from danger.
But yeah, these laws are far from a MAGA thing. I live in Tennessee, we only have a law that masking can’t be required again. But New York, a Dem state, is trying to get them banned. It’s scary.
This is their Dem governor, not some republican legislator. Please look into this, it’s just one example of many and may help you contextualize why this is such an important conversation.
2. it’s “ridiculous”
Nothing new under the sun at this point.
The isolation thing I was talking about was based on things like both of the previous presidential administrations absolutely bungled the response federally.
It's fuckery on all levels, really.
I'm trying to guage some plans that we have as a family...
From what I read last week I think Illinois is trying to codify law that would protect people who are disabled. Etc as a human right to wear PPE
Health protest - 👎
It's just a lose/lose situation for me. 🤷♂️
They want to make cops job easier
Plus the cops will love this, anyone they are targeting, has a warrant, can't evade them