Who's Still Wearing A Dem Diaper?

[Good Ol' Boy]

My wife and I have been working since this whole mess started like theres nothing going on.

She works in the medical field so she half-assed wears a dem diaper if there are patients around.

My job has posted signs but at least a 1/3 of employees don't adhere, myself included.

We don't wear commie diapers at all when we're out in public or various stores and have yet to be confronted even though we live in a commie state.

Anywho I'm just wondering how many other folks are still pandering to this BS, or are not.

 

[WrongHanded]

I and my wife have been working the whole time.

If by "dem diaper" you mean mask, yeah we wear them. Honestly the only public place I go where there are plenty of people is the grocery store. Mask on as I approach. Mask off once back in the parking lot. She works with the public, so she wears one for work, and not just because it's required.

We both have a firm grasp of basic science.

 

[Pontotoc]

If I am going to be in extended (more than a few seconds) close proximity of random people, I will cover. I do fully understand the science(s) involved.

 

[Ilbob]

I see people out on the bike paths in the park wearing their masks when there is nobody within 100 yards of them. I don't get that. I see people driving around town in their cars with their masks on, by themselves. Who is going to infect them when they are by themselves? Who are they going to infect if they are by themselves?

At least the place I work has not gone crazy about it like some places have. We have a relatively rational rule about such things which requires people who are in relative close proximity to wear masks. So most of the day when I am at work I am unmasked. Usually I put a mask on if I leave my chair for some reason and take it off when I get back to my chair.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I serve the public.
I wear a mask.

 

[edwardware]

I wear a mask on the rare occasion that I go to the office (as required) but not other than that.

I'm not participating in a virtue signalling costuming ritual of which the most significant possible effect is mental comfort for other people. If you're that unreasonably scared, stay home; in the rare cases that someone is reasonably scared. . . you really should stay home because the mask makes very little difference.

Yeah, "science", "because physics". . . do much filter design? I'd guess not. The mask catches some, at best perhaps a skinny majority, of exhaled droplets. It's also marginally useful catching incoming droplets. . . but not very which is why we never used them for dusty environments. . . too much bypass. Mostly, they demonstrate your woke.

At my age, I'm more than an order more likely to die in a car accident than to become seriously ill with the Chinese panic. I'm still driving. . . My kids are more likely to be struck by lightening. My parents are just getting to the point where the risks are coming up even; they finished up their Chinese flu bout with two days of fatigue and mild fever.

So, mask up if you feel the need; I'll think you're a compliant pushover or a panicky fool, but I won't tell you to your face. If you're an engineer who I know has the education to know better, I'll despise you for your foolishness and I might ask you how you can bear the overwhelming risk of driving a car.

We live in a country where a majority of people die of the consequences of their own dietary choices, eating crap and too much of it, for their entire lives. That's a boring risk no one wants to talk about, but boy howdy we can sure burn down an economy for an exciting sexy risk like this year's novel flu.

 

[WrongHanded]

Yeah, "science", "because physics". . . do much filter design? I'd guess not. The mask catches some, at best perhaps a skinny majority, of exhaled droplets. It's also marginally useful catching incoming droplets. . . but not very which is why we never used them for dusty environments. . . too much bypass. Mostly, they demonstrate your woke.

Obviously, the best mask to protect me is a tight fitting half mask with atleast P95 filters. I use one for work, but it's for keeping smoke and grinding wheel dust out of my lungs. It's not the best thing to protect other from me though, because it has a valve which let's my exhaled breath directly out, unfiltered.

What a face covering does is diffuse a person's breath as it leaves their body. If someone tells me masks aren't effective I tell them this: Light a birthday cake candle and put it in the middle of a table, then try to blow it out. Next, try it whilst wearing a face covering.

There's also a psychological value to wearing masks, and no it's not that it makes people feel safe. It's that it reminds them that they are NOT safe. Which encourages them to keep their distance from others, and leave as quickly as possible.

Are the crappy paper or cloth masks most people wear the best choice? No. But they help. And they're easily available. I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to just put one on and help stop the spread of this virus. If everyone had taken the prevention measures seriously from the beginning, we would have the virus well contained by now. But maybe I'm just not understanding how vitally important it is to most people, emotionally speaking, to socialize with large groups of people they don't live with.

 

[Pontotoc]

A lot of people miss the physical, spiritual and emotional need for all to be relationally connected with others, especially outside the family unit. Heck, many miss it WITHIN the family unit. Covid’s impacts pale compared to the impacts of people being separated from one another.

 

[The Last Outlaw]

I wear a mask all day at work. Wear one whenever I am out in public. I figure if it helps to protect the community then why not wear one? People are too selfish in this country, too spoiled. That is the real issue.

 

[Alexx1401]

I work in health care so have no choice. Have to wear one at work. All bushiness have to wear one now. Since the Governor sends people around to fine the business if they do not enforce, most have some poor slobs standing there to tell people they have to wear one. So I wear one with a Thin Blue Line flag and LOVE how I get lots of really pissed off looks from the snowflakes.

 

[Elkins45]

I went to the store yesterday and saw a bunch of people wearing coats and hats. I had a good laugh at those sheep because I did my own research. Only 1500 people die of hypothermia in the US every year. That’s only 0.0005% of the population. That means those people are living in fear of something that 99.995 of the population survives. And to make matters worse, a whole bunch of those people who died from hypothermia were wearing hats and coats anyway and they still died.

Wake up people, hats and coats don’t work.

 

[Magnum]

Here in IL it's required to go in businesses, do I think It does anything? No.
Yes I understand science, a random piece of fabric neither protects you or keeps your germs from floating around.
My wife works at a hospital and us a mask fanatic , she even wears one when she drops our kids off at the sitters house, like that could be further detached from reality.

I work in the automotive industry and do not wear a mask at work unless face to face with people, but it's tough.
I had a guy walk in and have a melt down because I was sitting at the counter without a mask. I asked him to give me a minute, put on a mask and came back to make him feel like the biggest idiot on earth. I simply told him that there was no reason for him to be standing in front of me right now, explained there is a drop box and he can just drop his keys in there and when the cars finished he can pay with a credit card and pick up his car whenever he would like. Zero reason for the guy who is so concerned to come face to face with me, I'm not servicing his needs but the needs of an inanimate object that can't get sick. He thought about it for a second and said he wss sorry and he was just scared.

Around here you won't see anyone unmasked at any store , none. My wife who has gotten her first dose of vaccine plans to continue wearing the mask even after her next dose just to not make people uncomfortable. It's a gigantic crock of shit and these politicians have even normal people so screwed up it isn't even close to funny.

I wish I would gave gotten the kung flu on day one and just ignored all the bs in between. Oh well, what can you do....

 

[Alexx1401]

They started offering us the vaccine a couple weeks ago since I work "front line". It was originally by invitation according to risk. That went out the window in days and it was open to all. Then it became you had to tell them in writing no thanks. It soon was easy to see a LOT of people were taking a wait and see and saying no. So they had a lot more vaccine than they had takers. While I suspect it will be fine I don't like something being rushed out so unless they force us to take it, like they do with Flu vaccine I will skip this one.

 

[theotherwaldo]

They polled our city employees on whether or not that they would take the vaccine.
I was one of the three that said that they would.
Of course, roughly a third have already had Covid... .

 

[AlaskanIronworker]

Havent worn one throughout this entire “pandemic,” no matter the store or setting. Most folks in this area are the same, and Im still wondering why our hospitals arent over-run. My wife is a nurse and shes damn tired of the hype. Since march theres been less than 100 come through her hospital.

 

[WrongHanded]

Havent worn one throughout this entire “pandemic,” no matter the store or setting. Most folks in this area are the same, and Im still wondering why our hospitals arent over-run. My wife is a nurse and shes damn tired of the hype. Since march theres been less than 100 come through her hospital.

Good for you guys. Seriously! Where in Alaska are you?

 

[The Last Outlaw]

Havent worn one throughout this entire “pandemic,” no matter the store or setting. Most folks in this area are the same, and Im still wondering why our hospitals arent over-run. My wife is a nurse and shes damn tired of the hype. Since march theres been less than 100 come through her hospital.

Here in NC, we are steadily being overwhelmed. Local beds are full, cooler trucks in the hospital parking lot filling up with bodies. Consider yourself lucky, man.

 

[George P]

They polled our city employees on whether or not that they would take the vaccine.
I was one of the three that said that they would.
Of course, roughly a third have already had Covid... .

Doesn't mean they can't get it again, that's been proven.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Another of my clerks is out recovering from the couf.
Just lost a chief of police,
Between the Winter Texans visiting their out-of-state families and all of the sick Illegals, things are getting rough... .

 

[JohnKSa]

My sister's entire family caught it about a month ago at a wedding. In fact, everyone at the wedding caught it--they still don't know who brought that particular wedding gift. Her family is mostly over it now, still some fatigue and other minor issues. They were pretty serious anti-maskers--also they all swore they had it in February of last year even after one of them tested negative for antibodies. At least they came through it pretty well. I'm hoping that none of them are in the 10% that seem to have long-term symptoms even after recovery.

Next door neighbor's uncle and his family caught it. Thought they were almost over it and then his uncle died.

One of my coworkers lost both his mother in law and father in law from it over the holidays. They got together with family at Thanksgiving and it turned out their daughter & her family had just come back from a vacation to FL and didn't know they had it yet. That really makes for some fun family discussions. "Hey, remember that Thansksgiving when you guys killed mom and dad because you were careless? Yeah, those were good times..."