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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy response to "why are you wearing a mask?"
So next time somebody asks me that, I'll say, "Well, see, I'm one of those moron idiot shit-for-brains assholes who really believes it's easier to prevent a fire than to put it out. So I'd rather wear this thing than find myself in a hospital plugged into a ventilator. Besides, I don't like hospital food."
Aristus
(66,478 posts)"Take off yours!"
"I'm not wearing a mask!"
"Holy shit! That's your face?"
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)In Seattle? I wear my mask everywhere where people are, and it has just not happened to me. That seems so weird on every level.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)I like to think we in Western Washington are more enlightened than people living in the below-average half of America.
But I still see people sauntering around in the grocery store without wearing masks.
I'm a little nervous that sooner or later, some bulbous, biscuits-and-gravy bastard is going to get on my case for "scaring people with this hoax!"
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)few occasions I have ventured out. But no one has ever confronted me about wearing one. People seem to mind their own business around here. I cannot imagine someone doing that, but if they did I would just reply I do not want to get sick. Period.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)Maybe people are being more cautious because everyone knows someone who has the infection. That's the thing about the perception of COVID-19: it stops being a hoax when it starts being you.
BComplex
(8,073 posts)was intentional & that the Chinese have more of them they're going to let loose on the world.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)If they do however, I will take my mask off as I step up to them and tell them that since they think it is a hoax they will not mind me breathing on them despite the fact I tested positive for COVID-19.
Of course I don't and I would not know any way because tests are not available.
Don't worry, I really would not do that but it sure would be tempting.
HAB911
(8,922 posts)"I'm positive for Covid and I'm trying to protect you"
elias7
(4,029 posts)+1
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,184 posts)HAB911
(8,922 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)A mask is fear, but a gun is protection.
???
essme
(1,207 posts)I feel completely fine"
and then cough.
safeinOhio
(32,736 posts)pull your mask down and repeat it while hacking.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)I think that is all one needs to say to the jackasses and immediately RUN in the another direction?
If they tried to stalk me in the store or get grabby and/or violent, they might just not see tomorrow.
My stun gun will be with me if OH MERCY I have to venture out among these assholes.
2M volts should shut them the fuck up for at least a second?
I'll be sure to blast them in the crotch 3 times extra in hopes they can't breed.
^Fantasy, never going out to a store this year, will be pleasantly surprised if in '21?
CanonRay
(14,121 posts)and the mask was to protect him. He scurried away.
pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)That is the reason we wear a mask. Wearing the mask, unless it is an N95 does not protect us.
MissMillie
(38,587 posts)...because
1) I've been out to the grocery market in the last week or so, and not knowing whether or not I've picked something up, this is how I try to keep other people safe from what I may have;
2) It really doesn't cost much.. homemade mask, and very little of my time and/or energy;
3) It doesn't hurt anything; and
4) There's no good reason not to."
ananda
(28,885 posts)Oh wait, I already have cv, so let me take it off now
and have a good spit.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Then FUCK OFF"
Luckily I haven't had any confrontations yet, but I rarely go out into public.
Talitha
(6,625 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)My son works at a nursing home with dozens of Covid patients and I wear the mask to protect them, not me.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)Not everybody in my community wears one but many do. I am more concerned about people who wear masks but don't wear then properly. i have seen some people covering their mouths while leaving their noses exposed. The virus could very easily be expelled through their noses and render the mask useless.
malaise
(269,219 posts)Do I know you?
kairos12
(12,882 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)Would you like me to take it off?
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...it protects the people around you if you happen to be infected and asymptomatic. Of course, right wingers are so self-centered, that they don't give a shit about other people. What's in it for them?
Fla Dem
(23,785 posts)From what I understand, most masks used by the general public, prevent to a high degree, your spittle and infectious miniscule particles from your mouth traveling into the air. But are pretty ineffective at preventing virus particles from flowing into your breathing unless you have the high grade N-95 masks.
But what about the other way around? When the wearer of a mask coughs or sneezes, the barrier might be enough to contain a lot of that initial jet of grossness even if there are gaps in the fabric or around the sides. That's what the new mask studies aimed to address: Whether surgical or fabric masks did a good job of containing viruses.
https://www.livescience.com/are-face-masks-effective-reducing-coronavirus-spread.html
"I hope to increase my chances of being alive in November so I can vote total Midnight Blue."
Probably too much for that tiny brain to process.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)"to protect you idiot, just in case I'm infected"
jmg257
(11,996 posts)You make ur own choice
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,697 posts)I was fairly well taken aback. I'm pushing 80 and barely 5 feet tall. This was a big man but I've always had a mouth. My first instinct was "go fuck yourself" but managed to spit out "quit being a bully" instead. I could afford to be brave. My 6'6", 310 pound retired Marine nephew was with me.
Next time, and hopefully there isn't one, I hope I can remember to say "I don't like hospital food". I really like that one.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)Harker
(14,056 posts)I was, though, once told, "that mask ain't gonna do you no good, bud."
My reply was that I wasn't wearing it for me, but for everyone else.
Even that didn't stop the patter.
Ford_Prefect
(7,925 posts)You shouldn't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Raine
(30,541 posts)and they won't let if I'm not wearing this hot miserable mask that's the reason I wear it. No one has ever asked me though because they're all stuck wearing them too.
egduj
(807 posts)Unless maybe a toddler, and in that case I'd time it down a tad.