To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

sabat wrote: »

So you believe there's a deadly virus running free that poses an immediate threat to your life and you're walking around in public?

Not if I can help it, but I still go over to family members who are cocooning. I pop into the petrol station because otherwise I wouldn't be able to fuel up my car. I can't think of a workaround but by all means throw out a suggestion if you have one. It's a low-risk activity.

And that those poxy masks are sufficient to protect you?

The masks worn by medical professionals are likely good enough to protect me for thirty seconds if everyone else wears one, socially distances and is conscious of behaving correctly when they have symptoms. I go at off-peak times.

That doesn't really tally does it? Why aren't you wearing a hazmat suit or staying indoors in a plastic bubble?

Like, I don't know what you want me to respond to this. Do you want me to actually explain why a person wouldn't do that?

I know you think your post is some "voice of reason" plea for the common good, but it's not. You're a cowardly little fascist getting a buzz from being part of the mob vilifying dissenters. This is your real message:

I note how you left out the part where I said that it's not going to be forever. As has been noted many times, people wore masks, socially distanced and self-quarantined during Spanish flu as well but we clearly haven't assimilated it into our culture. I'm not vilifying dissenters, I'm just trying to convey why I personally really appreciate people who can see my perspective and are willing to take the time and effort to consider the outcomes for people who are high risk. Other than calling me a fascist you haven't really given any insight as to your personal existential burden. Did a mask molest you or something?

This is just the same 'theatre of fear' nonsense as making 80 year old Irish pensioners take off their shoes in airports.

I mean, I'm not in favour of this happening, so I guess we agree..?

I know I'll get a ban for this post, but enough is enough.

Not edgy enough, tough luck bud.

This has been bollocks for at least four months now. Where were the masks in April, May and June?

Likely the demand for masks would have been too great and most cases were in healthcare settings back then, so they were being kept for healthcare professionals who needed them more. They would have been directly in contact with covid patients in many cases, which is why NPHET gave that recommendation; to prevent supplies from running out. Simple as that I'd say, but it ended up being a damaging message because they lost a huge amount of public trust for intentionally misleading people.

When they introduced face coverings, nobody was really using medical masks. Now that there are more cases in the community there's a higher risk of catching covid. Everyone has proper masks now because it's easy to get them. I bought a pack of 50 back in January when I read about covid first because I have respiratory issues. I did the same during SARS as well but never needed to use them.

Go ahead and call me names or question my intelligence-remember the 80% of Americans who believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11? That's who you mask fascists are. Programmed credulous suckers.

I just wanted to quote this bit for posterity.

Graham wrote: »

You're not another one of those "it's not a serious illness if it needs a test" brigade are you?

Othering and belittling through the use of the word "brigade." Well done.

That other poster clearly said you need a test to see if you have cancer in order to make a point about people with zero symptoms testing positive for covid.

Quite simply, many people who test positive for covid would never have known otherwise, because there's nothing wrong with them. This has been going on since the cruise ships back at the start.

People with cancer will eventually know because it is highly symptomatic-the most severe of which is death.