Wearing a mask is about respect. It shows you stand up when it counts. It shows you have joined the battle. It shows you care about your country. I can’t think of a more patriotic thing
But if a mask doesn't protect ME, how does it protect others?
are you serious?! By now you really still don’t get it? Maybe you don’t possess the intellectual capability to comprehend. In that case how about you just listen to Trumps corona virus task force... the VP and head doctors of our agencies that have lived and breathed this situation for months... all of whom say wearing a mask makes a difference.
Everyone says that the mask doesn’t protect the user. So if everyone is wearing a mask, no one is protected. Get it?
I’ve listed the counter points to this so many times so I’m going to try another approach. Let’s say you’re right and masks are ineffective. If that’s so then why would VP pence and all the experts on the Corona Virus task force lie and say otherwise? Please explain how that makes sense and why you think you know more than they do.
I'm going by what I hear, which is that masks don't protect the user. So the more people wearing masks, the more people aren't protected.
Just think, Taz, what you normally exhale you exhale for a reason. Your body wants to get rid of it. Now all of a sudden, you are wearing a mask all the time collecting and concentrating it on the inside of the mask then breathing it back in.
OSHA recommends that you change out a mask every 15 minutes. Know anyone going through 15-30 masks a day?
Do you spend every minute of every day right next to strangers? No. Take your mask off when you’re distanced and put it on when you’re in proximity. This shit isn’t complicated. Do you cover your mouth when you sneeze on the subway or do you spray it all over people?
That is a great compromise and one that I can live with. At work I am not required to have a mask covering my face when I am working on a piece of equipment where no one else is in close proximity but I do put it on when I have to be around others...not because I fear this bullshit virus but to make my co-workers feel more at ease. The machine operators do not come close to making the kind of wage that I do and there is a temp check-point before they are allowed into the building. So far, one out of 130 employees has been sent home and required to self-quarantine and unless they have sick leave or vacation hours? They would not be paid for that time off. I owe it to them to hedge their bets, as it were.
Don't agree with this cat on anything, because you were already doing the things you needed to do... It's called using your common sense, but because we have many idiots that won't do that, then we have to help them out by doing a little more in order to keep ourselves safe from them. I didn't need Slade or government to tell me that, but here we are. It's the ideology of the leftist to force everyone to accommodate the idiots in society, and this in order to be an inclusive society where if one wants to be an idiot then hey whose stopping them right ???, Then look at what the idiots do, they break ranks with the supposed rational minded, and they start looting, burning, protesting, gathering in large groups basically saying to hell with anything the rich man tells them and us to do. I said rich man because that is who they hate truly, and not the white race only.
Slade is an amature who thinks he has the answers to the problems in this country, when in reality he doesn't have a clue.
I stand by my contention that Slade is a "stand-up" poster here. Do I agree with everything he posts? Probably about as much as he agrees with things I post here. What I have found about Slade is that he is willing to meet someone half-way, hell, he will even be the first to reach across the aisle and offer a hand even knowing that it might be sneered at. I have respect for posters that will do that. In cyberville too few are willing to even attempt at finding common ground. I have been doing this for twenty years and I can detect the flame-warriors that simply want to vent and those that will honestly discuss an issue.
Just when I have come to the conclusion that the chasm that exists between these two warring factions can never be bridged? I will read something from Slade that gives me pause for thought because he is willing to consider the other side...that is, if he isn't being insulted. There are some decent posters here that are on the left-hand side of the equation that will articulately and concisely express with thoughtful reflection on an issue and will give you the respect of reading your rebuttal and the exchanges between those like Slade gives me hope that at the end of the day, we can be united instead of divided. Your opinion of Slade is your own and while I do agree with you 90 plus percent of the time? My opinion of Slade differs greatly from yours.....mileage will always vary.
That being said, I am sure Slade and me will butt heads on certain issues but at the end of the day, I can and will respect him even if I disagree. I wish we had more of that here and Slade inspires me to be a better communicator and less of a "shit-stirrer" because I am angry at what is happening to this country and the world.
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