Mask Census Pole

Fishpo31 said:

We have gone out to dinner in a restaurant exactly once...saw some friends, they come over (mask-less, after a few pops) for a hug, and my wife drops a “WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!”...
That is my wife, she is very protective, and I am at risk (not AIDS)...

My pugilistic skills are rusty (unused for 30 years or so), so we stay home...

Only issue is our next-door neighbors, who are very nice, but have never worn a mask that I’ve seen. Every time the issue comes up, it’s either “fake news”, or “God protects us, it’s His will”...We live in a throw-back neighborhood, gather for drinks in the cul-de-sac, yada-yada. Everyone distances and has masks but that couple.

I don’t trust anyone to look out for me but me (never have)...

MikeDamone said:

HuskyJW said:

I wear my mask everywhere. It’s prolly 20% though

I now my 6 year old daughter pointing them out....”look Dad...they are spreading disease.”

“Yep”

So you brainwashed your 6 year old. Good to know.

Truth hurts

Plus at 6 she already knows the selfish shitty people walking around.

I wish they would just own it...you don’t care about anyone else or if this spreads. Fine. Own it.

I don’t know if I have it...pretty sure I don’t but I really don’t want to give it to anyone I care about as some family members will become gravely ill. I would feel awful

If you wear a mask outside you are a moron.

HuskyJW said:

RaceBannon said:

HuskyJW said:

Fishpo31 said:

We have gone out to dinner in a restaurant exactly once...saw some friends, they come over (mask-less, after a few pops) for a hug, and my wife drops a “WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!”...
That is my wife, she is very protective, and I am at risk (not AIDS)...

My pugilistic skills are rusty (unused for 30 years or so), so we stay home...

Only issue is our next-door neighbors, who are very nice, but have never worn a mask that I’ve seen. Every time the issue comes up, it’s either “fake news”, or “God protects us, it’s His will”...We live in a throw-back neighborhood, gather for drinks in the cul-de-sac, yada-yada. Everyone distances and has masks but that couple.

I don’t trust anyone to look out for me but me (never have)...

MikeDamone said:

HuskyJW said:

I wear my mask everywhere. It’s prolly 20% though

I now my 6 year old daughter pointing them out....”look Dad...they are spreading disease.”

“Yep”

So you brainwashed your 6 year old. Good to know.

Truth hurts

Plus at 6 she already knows the selfish shitty people walking around

Kids do their learning at home

Yep

You are a horrible shitty person if you don’t wear a mask in a public place. And you’re spreading disease.

At first it was weird. The Internet was telling me that everyone was going to die, we were going to go into a second Great Depression (TBD), and Grandma's horrible death was going to be my fault. Then I go to Home Depot, and there's a 100 person line to get in, butts to nuts, no masks. "Uh, yeah, I'll save this project for later." Definitely 19% mask wearing at first--at best.

Then, to my surprise and building cognitive dissonance, not much happened in my world. The streets in my town weren't at all littered with bodies, and the staff of the local giant hospital have been largely twiddling their thumbs. I've gone back and forth on the mask thing a lot because in my neck of the woods (very low case numbers), it seems a bit like carrying a lightning rod around to fend off rogue lightning strikes. The pandemic--at least the scary news version--doesn't seem to exist here.

Which made me glad when the indoor mask mandate was finally issued. Since the mandate, it's well over 81% masked in businesses, which is fine by me. Honestly, I'd be fine (in my city; I recognize the situation is more dire elsewhere) if either nobody wore them or everybody, just as long as it's not some stupid fucking political decision that I didn't volunteer to make. Before the mandate, I felt like if I didn't wear a mask, 50% of the people around me were thinking I'm an asshole, and if I did wear a mask, 50% of the people around me were thinking I was an asshole. They're both right, but that's besides the point. If the masks save a life or two, I'm all for it, and the mandate making everyone do it means the stupid politicization of every fucking thing in this country can't wrap me up in its dysfunction against my will in this one case.

The reality is that wearing a mask does little to prevent you from catching COVID and might even make your odds worse due to increased touching of your face with your hands to deal with the mask. It's proven to slightly decrease the odds of one spreading the disease to someone else, though, and that's a good thing. (Which also means anytime you see somebody wearing a mask that has one-way valves on it, they're uninformed idiots, btw.) Interestingly, since there's no way a paper thin slice of cotton can stop microscopic aerosol viruses, wearing the mask under the nose might not be the end of the world, as the mask would still be doing its job stopping the much greater threat of spread via droplets from the mouth, things that a paper thin layer of cotton can actually stop.

I don't know. At this point, it's 99% wearing masks inside (and I've never seen anybody say shit to the 1%) and about 50% outside.

/Tequilla

RaceBannon said:

HuskyJW said:

RaceBannon said:

HuskyJW said:

Fishpo31 said:

We have gone out to dinner in a restaurant exactly once...saw some friends, they come over (mask-less, after a few pops) for a hug, and my wife drops a “WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!”...
That is my wife, she is very protective, and I am at risk (not AIDS)...

My pugilistic skills are rusty (unused for 30 years or so), so we stay home...

Only issue is our next-door neighbors, who are very nice, but have never worn a mask that I’ve seen. Every time the issue comes up, it’s either “fake news”, or “God protects us, it’s His will”...We live in a throw-back neighborhood, gather for drinks in the cul-de-sac, yada-yada. Everyone distances and has masks but that couple.

I don’t trust anyone to look out for me but me (never have)...

MikeDamone said:

HuskyJW said:

I wear my mask everywhere. It’s prolly 20% though

I now my 6 year old daughter pointing them out....”look Dad...they are spreading disease.”

“Yep”

So you brainwashed your 6 year old. Good to know.

Truth hurts

Plus at 6 she already knows the selfish shitty people walking around

Kids do their learning at home

Yep

You are a horrible shitty person if you don’t wear a mask in a public place. And you’re spreading disease.

At age 6 the only horrible shitty people she knows are at home

To make an omelette you got a break some eggs.

Wearing a mask is hard

BleachedAnusDawg said:

HuskyJW said:

RaceBannon said:

HuskyJW said:

Fishpo31 said:

We have gone out to dinner in a restaurant exactly once...saw some friends, they come over (mask-less, after a few pops) for a hug, and my wife drops a “WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!”...
That is my wife, she is very protective, and I am at risk (not AIDS)...

My pugilistic skills are rusty (unused for 30 years or so), so we stay home...

Only issue is our next-door neighbors, who are very nice, but have never worn a mask that I’ve seen. Every time the issue comes up, it’s either “fake news”, or “God protects us, it’s His will”...We live in a throw-back neighborhood, gather for drinks in the cul-de-sac, yada-yada. Everyone distances and has masks but that couple.

I don’t trust anyone to look out for me but me (never have)...

MikeDamone said:

HuskyJW said:

I wear my mask everywhere. It’s prolly 20% though

I now my 6 year old daughter pointing them out....”look Dad...they are spreading disease.”

“Yep”

So you brainwashed your 6 year old. Good to know.

Truth hurts

Plus at 6 she already knows the selfish shitty people walking around

Kids do their learning at home

Yep

You are a horrible shitty person if you don’t wear a mask in a public place. And you’re spreading disease.

Not true if it's outdoors. Science and fact.

BleachedAnusDawg said:

HuskyJW said:

RaceBannon said:

HuskyJW said:

Fishpo31 said:

We have gone out to dinner in a restaurant exactly once...saw some friends, they come over (mask-less, after a few pops) for a hug, and my wife drops a “WTF ARE YOU DOING?!?!”...
That is my wife, she is very protective, and I am at risk (not AIDS)...

My pugilistic skills are rusty (unused for 30 years or so), so we stay home...

Only issue is our next-door neighbors, who are very nice, but have never worn a mask that I’ve seen. Every time the issue comes up, it’s either “fake news”, or “God protects us, it’s His will”...We live in a throw-back neighborhood, gather for drinks in the cul-de-sac, yada-yada. Everyone distances and has masks but that couple.

I don’t trust anyone to look out for me but me (never have)...

MikeDamone said:

HuskyJW said:

I wear my mask everywhere. It’s prolly 20% though

I now my 6 year old daughter pointing them out....”look Dad...they are spreading disease.”

“Yep”

So you brainwashed your 6 year old. Good to know.

Truth hurts

Plus at 6 she already knows the selfish shitty people walking around

Kids do their learning at home

Yep

You are a horrible shitty person if you don’t wear a mask in a public place. And you’re spreading disease.

Not true if it's outdoors. Science and fact.

Agree

Wearing a mask is hard

RaceBannon said:

I rock out with my cock out

Rock hard at your age?