Overheal wrote: » Appeal to authority fallacy to dismiss your own personal responsibility to public health and safety.
GT89 wrote: » I've worked throughout the height of lockdown as a frontline essiential worker so I think I've done my part.
[Deleted User] wrote: » 8 people in hospital in the whole country. The illness is mild if you are under 65 and in half decent health. If people want to wear masks, well for them. Should it be mandatory? Absolutely not
Graham wrote: » I'm not convinced coronavirus will take your contributions into account.
GT89 wrote: » Oh how many times have heard that line being trouted. I've throughout the plandemic without getting the virus. I think I will be fine
Zardoz wrote: » This chap on Primetime just now :rolleyes:
Overheal wrote: » Costco handles it great. It's as simple as don't ring up the pint of milk. After the examples are made, the Karens will diminish. It can be done.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » 1) opening up at the current scale has been happening for just over a month now and the numbers have remained extremely low. This despite no masks being required for half of this time and at no time before it 2) Masks have been mandatory for almost 2 weeks. Despite many more wearing them the numbers have increased anyway. Conclusion : some of them may be effective but the majority are little more than a placebo
_Kaiser_ wrote: » 1) opening up at the current scale has been happening for just over a month now and the numbers have remained extremely low. This despite no masks being required for half of this time and at no time before it 2) Masks have been mandatory for almost only 2 weeks. Despite many more wearing them and many not bothering the numbers have increased anyway. Jumping to Conclusion : some of them may be effective but the majority are little more than a placebo Let's not forget that... A) Infections and deaths were unfortunately inevitable. Despite no masks and shutting down most of the country, causing hardship for thousands of people, we still managed to "flatten the curve" anyway. Despite more people moving around the numbers have stayed low . A global pandemic causing less than 2000 deaths after 5/6 months (many of whom had serious underlying issues as already) is actually very low when some perspective is applied - especially when talk of 50000 deaths was suggested in March if we did nothing Today's figures are one day's results. If it becomes a trend over the coming days maybe it's time to be concerned C) in my opinion the only thing masks have really done is allow those who previously criticised anyone who didn't STAY HOME to attack them for not MASKing UP even though this barely happened, if at all. It's exposed a very ugly and unpleasant side to some ignorant people both pro and anti mask, and the result of the constant statistics (as if this is a bad thing), negative reporting (like, lets get the positive spin going) and (over) analysis, and fear mongering on the part of the Irish media plus, you know, the actual numbers of the people who died or were severely impacted by having the virus.
s1ippy wrote: » The Netherlands doing the plonker on it still even as they discover that their deaths are probably over 10000 and 100 times higher than reported.
CalamariFritti wrote: » To all the folks who are so dead sure about their mask conclusion and how it's 'not rocket science' etc. The same was said with the same conviction about smear/surface transmission and how we're all killing grannies by wanting to go to the beach or driving beyond 2km in April. I'm not anti mask but I'm taking the current public craze for them with a pinch of salt.especially with all the to-ing and fro-ing on them and the still divided expert opinion. Not to mention the non existing spread in shops & supermarkets throughout the height of our community transmission. Its hard to see how their advocates can be so 100% sure and almost ready to burn non-maskers at the stake in the light of that. Masks may well be a factor in certain scenarios but just because the herd opinion says so right now doesn't make them the must-have silver bullet.
Sconsey wrote: » would it be that big a deal if you just wore a mask anyway on the off chance that you might be helping others?
ShyMets wrote: » This morning on the upper deck of a bus a young woman comes up wearing a mask. Seats about 3/4 in front of me, then immediately removes the mask and starts doing their make-up. Makes you want to despair!
Away With The Fairies wrote: » What does she think the mask is for exactly?
Elmer Blooker wrote: » Make up or no make up a lot of people take them off as soon as they sit down, I think most people are astute enough to know that if we didn't have to wear them in March, April and May why do we need them now but are just going along with it rather than be called a 'granny killer'!
xhomelezz wrote: » Cover for her lipstick in case of rain
Loafing Oaf wrote: » See most of the crowd in the front rows at the snooker are not wearing masks, but there seems to be social distancing between the seats. I wonder what the protocol would be at something like that. Maybe people would be expected to wear them on the way in and out?
