Covid-19,opinions how long will we be wearing the Mask?

Onomea said:
I do think it makes a very big difference whether one is in a rural environment where people are few and far between, or in a crowded, urban downtown where one needs to dodge fellow pedestrians on the sidewalks.

My own rule is as long as I can keep six feet apart, I don't wear a mask outside unless I am meeting someone, and I always put on a mask when going into a building — grocery store, liquor store, etc. — other than my home.
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I absolutely agree with you. However, a lot of replies make it abundantly clear there are those those who would refuse to wear a mask under any circumstance. I am obviously a product of my training and experience as we all are. As a 35 year Firefighter/Paramedic my opinions are tempered by that experience. I worked through the Aids, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, H1N1 and Anthrax issues and probably more I don't recall. I also frequently responded to a nursing home where many residents suffered from MERS and or C-Diff so I did not hesitate to wear a mask, gloves and gown to protect myself and not bring it back to the station or to my family as I felt it was my obligation.

I went through chemotherapy I often wore a mask and visitors to my home were required to wear a mask before entering to protect me, not them.

This is not an intellectual or political excercise to me, but rather based upon my personal experience and is perhaps why I am so passionate about it.
 
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From the CDC 10-26-18

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in the U.S. - STAT

How many of y'all wore masks, social distanced, and couldn't find stuff in the stores in 2018?

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Little back ground: I was drafted in '63, got an all expense paid vacation to SE Asia been "crop dusted" on more than one occasion with agent orange. I too am in the high risk group 77 years old; have COPD which make it almost impossible for me to breathe while wearing a mask.

I feel that I have earned the right to make my own choices when it comes to my quality of life, the wearing of a mask, whether I want to work or not, and I don't feel I should need a piece of paper stating I must be allowed to travel to my job.

I work part time 3 days a week (to keep active, get out of the house, and avoid the boredom of sitting home in front of the boob tube) considered to be essential. Damn it I am an adult, been working and paying taxes since the late 50's, and I don't need big brother to make my choices for me.
 
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ladder13 said:
So people choose not to wear masks or social distance, just what is supposed to happen to them?
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Public shaming would be a good start. This is not about politics, or religion; it is about public health. Since a third or more of infectious carriers of SARS-CoV-2 show and experience no symptoms, wearing a mask in public and social distancing are simply displays of respect for the welfare of everyone around us. Liberty is not license. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, ""we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately." The Greatest Generation understood this. Why can't this one?

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Those who have stated they have not
and will not wear a mask in public
display an ignorance of the virus
and how it can be transmitted.

But worse they display a disregard
for others and no, standing back
six feet, is not guarantee of safety.
But masks add a layer of protection.

Sadly, as the "lockdown" as it's called
may end in various locales these
very people will guarantee a return
of the virus where it seems, I stress
seems, to have abated.
 
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Gyms have been allowed to be open here for a couple of weeks but mine stayed closed and finally opened yesterday. The staff wore masks and there were signs and social distancing markers everywhere and every other workout machine was taped off. I don't think any of the customers wore a mask but there were spray bottles everywhere and everyone was constantly spraying and wiping their hands off and wiping the weight machines.
 
BlueRidgeBoy said:
Public shaming would be a good start. This is not about politics, or religion; it is about public health. Since a third or more of infectious carriers of SARS-CoV-2 show and experience no symptoms, wearing a mask in public and social distancing are simply displays of respect for the welfare of everyone around us. Liberty is not license. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, ""we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately." The Greatest Generation understood this. Why can't this one?

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You go ahead with it then. Go to the hood first. Be prepared when someone pushes back hard.
 
When someone else coughs or sneezes around you while out and about ignoring the virus, you will wish that person had a mask on.

The mask prevents droplets from flying through the air, Then everyone can debate how far those drops can spread.

One can not go into a Drs office or Hospital without a mask on.
But clearly all the Drs and Nurses are ignorant on these matters.:rolleyes:
Just go with the Herd Immunity theory, some have to die so others can build up immunity. Follow the lead of that Christie guy.:rolleyes:
 
Mask's are the Victory Gardens of our times. The silly home made contraptions that so many proudly wear do nothing but make the wearer feel good. The typical symbolism over substance, morale booster...like the Victory Gardens. The difference now is that some have adopted a Stasi like attitude towards anyone not wearing one. I wont wear one...but if I ever did it would be this one. Might as well have a little fun annoying people along the way.
 

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Mind blowing time :)
I was in the hospital for about four days two weeks ago. In the OR, ICU and regular unit. I was not Covid, not intubated. Not even tested for Covid. :eek:
I was the only one in either unit not wearing a mask for my whole stay, now why was that? :confused: No tubes in my mouth, nada, except some monitors. The doctors nurses were not in Haz Mat garb, :confused: some put their faces within a foot of mine.:eek:
Not one of them expressed any fear that I was a threat to their health. :confused:
 
ladder13 said:
Mind blowing time :)
I was in the hospital for about four days two weeks ago. In the OR, ICU and regular unit. I was not Covid, not intubated. Not even tested for Covid. :eek:
I was the only one in either unit not wearing a mask for my whole stay, now why was that? :confused: No tubes in my mouth, nada, except some monitors. The doctors nurses were not in Haz Mat garb, :confused: some put their faces within a foot of mine.:eek:
Not one of them expressed any fear that I was a threat to their health. :confused:
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Well that certainly brings a new perspective to things! Glad all worked out well!
 
I do wear a mask, dont like it, dont like being told to wear it. I hate the fact that this is where we are like it or not.

Yet just before for Easter the wife and I are at a local supermarket. We find our Congressman in the store (he lives just down the street from us), no mask, no distance, no following the lines...

Do as I say, not as I do?

Ignorant?

Knows its fake?

Just doesn't care?

Democratic immunity applies to the virus too?

It did make my wife and I kinda upset!
 
It is difficult to address this issue without getting political.

Restrictions that have been imposed are claimed to be relaxed once the curve is "flattened". How does the curve get "flattened " when hospitals are encouraged to inflate the fatality numbers by claiming that all deaths are attributed to COVID19 and that the patient was on a ventilator?

For me, a lot of the information being released doesn't add up to support what is claimed. Because I have been known to be wrong on occasion, I wear a mask when I step out. Honestly, I am going stir crazy, since I get off the property only two of three times a month, because my children and ex are terrified that I might catch the "virus". I actually look forward to chairing the monthly school board meeting!

While I have difficulty swallowing the current line about a "virus" , I can participate in the mask game. I personally feel that there is less deception by wearing a mask than there is behind why we are really wearing masks.
 
ladder13 said:
Mind blowing time :)
I was in the hospital for about four days two weeks ago. In the OR, ICU and regular unit. I was not Covid, not intubated. Not even tested for Covid. :eek:
I was the only one in either unit not wearing a mask for my whole stay, now why was that? :confused: No tubes in my mouth, nada, except some monitors. The doctors nurses were not in Haz Mat garb, :confused: some put their faces within a foot of mine.:eek:
Not one of them expressed any fear that I was a threat to their health. :confused:
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I suspect you passed the temperature test and
probably other tests you might not have even
been fully aware of or understood.

You did not say the purpose of your being in the
hospital. Yet you say all others, and I read that
to mean medical personnel, wore masks.

It does not seem that you are fully aware of
the fact that the medical people daily risk their
lives and quite a few have died.

Do not take your 4-day experience as some kind
of proof about the dangers or lack or dangers
of Covid 19.
 
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