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Originally Posted by twowheels
People who refuse to wear masks are  s and are responsible for the deaths of thousands. |
I agree with the first half of your sentence, but not necessarily the second half.
I'll bet you're surprised that I always wear a mask in public, and have been vaccinated. I don't shout at others or cause scenes on airplanes. I socially distance. I stay in my home for the most part. I have never disobeyed a "mask required to enter" sign on any establishment.
And you were thinking I was the boogeyman, right?
But none of the above convinces me, deep down inside, that masks do a while lot
in the general population. Just look at how people are wearing them. Probably a third of the people have their stupid nose sticking out. Probably 90% have huge gaps between the mask and their face where it crosses their nose (if they even bothered to cover their nose in the first place). You can see their lips and teeth through the gigantic gaps between their mask and cheeks. They take them on and off, shove them in pockets, on car seats, drop them on the ground then pick them up, touch them with their hands after scratching their butts... Tell me again how that mask is going to do one dang thing?! Might as well pick up a rag that's been soaking in a cesspool and strap it to your face.
Unfortunately, that is the reality of masks. Things are much different in the medical and trained person communities where people actually know how to use a mask correctly and have been fit tested with them. But a gaping mask with your nose sticking out is simply not going to do anything for anybody, even if you wear three of them at a time.
And then promoting that vaccinated people should still wear masks (even though I personally still wear one) is just laughable. My comments were that I am not going to
do this forever. And you can see the same thing in the population at large. People are starting to realize that stupid advice is just stupid advice. It should be obvious to even a cretin that a microscopic virus is going to have zero problems escaping from a one square inch gap in a poor mask-to-face fit. And that mask is supposed to protect you? Tell me how that works.
Yet, I still wear a mask. I will for a while longer. But after everybody has had the vaccine made available to them (and had the time for it to take effect), the masks should go. This is my opinion. If someone wants to address what I said above, I'd be happy to read it and discuss. But please address what I have actually said, not an intentionally twisted version of it.