the great mask debate

do you wear a mask when you go out?

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I am in the camp that it is a small price to pay to get through this mess. I think it has been a political tool but not for me. I don’t like wearing masks like most people but want to keep my family and friends as safe as possible and if wearing a mask helps, so be it.
 
bobscuda67 said:
Always wear one when I go to a place of business I always wear one. They have a sign right on the entrance requiring you to wear one on their private property. If I see a store not enforcing the mask order I leave and take my money someplace else.
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interesting
i am the exact opposite, there is one hardware store in particular that i have stopped shopping at because of their enforcement on the mask mandate

so i gladly scoot all the way across town to shop at a different hardware store that does have the sign stating violaters can be fined, but never batts an eye when i walk in there without a mask

i do believe you're the first one i heard making the opposite statement

good for you, find where you stand, and stand there
 
I only go inside a place when necessary, which is almost never right now. I get food with curbside pickup. If I have to go inside somewhere besides my home, I wear a properly fitted NIOSH N95 mask and gloves. I need lumber from Lowes, but have put that, and woodworking, off for the past three months.
 
If I get covid chances are that I will spread it to someone else. That's my understand of how pandemics work. I try to do my best (I'm not perfect) to not get covid by following the advice of people who's profession is the study of pandemics. I do it knowing that it is still possible to catch covid although less likely by some amount. I believe that if we all would make these small sacrifices the duration of the pandemic will be shorter by some amount and we could go back to our lives as they were before the pandemic. I also know not everyone will be on board with this for various reasons. Hopefully enough people will help out as this is sort of a numbers thing to make it work. For me it's more a practicl matter and not so much an idealistic matter. I'm not trying to make some statement about the kind of person I am when I wear a mask. I'm just using what I believe is the fastest path back to normal for all of us.
 
DodgeLad said:
I need lumber from Lowes, but have put that, and woodworking, off for the past three months.
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prolly for the best, lumber prices have gone through the roof
i guess that makes sense though, its not like lumber grows on trees or anything

:poke:

(i was actually gonna do some wood working today, but my chopsaw is in the back shed, and it is raining so bad, i cant make it there without the wood getting soaked, so ill do it some time next week
 
diymirage said:
prolly for the best, lumber prices have gone through the roof
i guess that makes sense though, its not like lumber grows on trees or anything

:poke:

(i was actually gonna do some wood working today, but my chopsaw is in the back shed, and it is raining so bad, i cant make it there without the wood getting soaked, so ill do it some time next week
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I need to build some shelving for my garage...pondering getting ahold of old pallets and recycling them. The shelves need not be pretty.
 
I wear a mask when I am in any place of business. At my age why not be as careful as possible. I find it curious when I am in a business that is posted for masks (which is all of them for us) and there is always one or two contrarians maskless and wearing an aggressive expression just waiting to be confronted. I move far away from those folks.
 
DodgeLad said:
I need to build some shelving for my garage...pondering getting ahold of old pallets and recycling them. The shelves need not be pretty.
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keep an eye on the free section of your local craigslist
i know mine has all sorts of free wood on there

i picked up one or two old decks that people replaced, must be 2 years ago now
that decking is my "go to" wood
ive used it to fix a broken bridge in the back yard, make a new ramp for one of the sheds, build a set of stairs for the kids to get unto the trampoline, even a front deck for another one of the sheds...all of which cost me nothing but time and hardware

i wouldnt think twice about building shelves out of it
 
I can yawn while you're talking when I wear a mask! Or stick out my tongue. Seriously I probably talk to 60 people a day. I give them a little space and wash my hands about 60 times a day. So far so good.
 
I question the masks because Fauci admitted he lied when he said they didn't work in the beginning of the pandemic because he was afraid mass amounts of people would buy them all and there wouldn't be any left for medical professionals. When you lie your credibility is already gone. We all wore masks many months past the two weeks we were originally told would flatten the curve and we social distanced. The numbers are allegedly going up so obviously something didn't work. Many will claim well that's because not everyone was wearing masks. Well how many that didn't wear masks were carrying the virus, you never head that statistic because I am sure it's very low. Then we were told kids cannot get it, they can get, they don't get it. Politicians literally told people step on wet sand but not dry at the beach. You could protest in the streets against the police but if you protested against the lockdowns you were spreading the virus. How can Walmart be open with potentially hundreds of people in the store most being stuffed through one entry and exit which seems contrary to the social distancing rule, and yet a little store that may have a few people in it at a time needed to close. People say wear a mask it's no big deal. That's life changing and for very young people this will be there norm and when will it end? It's like saying it's no big deal to wear a mask, well then it's no big deal for you to wear shoes and not sandals because I don't want too see your ugly feet! I have no issue with people who want to wear masks but don't be hostile if someone questions their effectiveness because of now there is no stats and the track record doesn't look too good.
 
I go to dozens of different places of business daily in my job. I very rarely wear a mask when I walk in to the receiving area, and never wear them when I'm outside. If I go to a restaurant I will wear it from the entrance to my table, and when I leave. I do wear one if I go to a store, but I don't know how the numbers keep going up if everyone is social distancing and wearing masks. Seems counterintuitive to me, but I'm no scientist, just a dumb truck driver.
 
340wedge said:
I have no issue with people who want to wear masks but don't be hostile if someone questions their effectiveness because of now there is no stats and the track record doesn't look too good.
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i find it interesting to see how they managed to promote masks as something you do "for the greater good"

i have found that most of the general population doesnt seem to mind me not wearing mine, but i think on 4 or 5 different occasions people have confronted me in a less then kind manner, and only half of them resorted to threating me/us with physical violence (i did not bother asking them how they intended to do that while also social distancing)
one of those people was escorted out of the establishment by the proprietor

on the other hand, i have also had strangers engage me in small talk when i was not wearing a mask and they were




as for the argument that physicians wear them, it always reminds me of this clip

 
diymirage said:
i find it interesting to see how they managed to promote masks as something you do "for the greater good"

i have found that most of the general population doesnt seem to mind me not wearing mine, but i think on 4 or 5 different occasions people have confronted me in a less then kind manner, and only half of them resorted to threating me/us with physical violence (i did not bother asking them how they intended to do that while also social distancing)
one of those people was escorted out of the establishment by the proprietor

on the other hand, i have also had strangers engage me in small talk when i was not wearing a mask and they were




as for the argument that physicians wear them, it always reminds me of this clip

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:rofl::rofl::rofl: Only Jerry and Kramer!
 
diymirage said:
i find it interesting to see how they managed to promote masks as something you do "for the greater good"

i have found that most of the general population doesnt seem to mind me not wearing mine, but i think on 4 or 5 different occasions people have confronted me in a less then kind manner, and only half of them resorted to threating me/us with physical violence (i did not bother asking them how they intended to do that while also social distancing)
one of those people was escorted out of the establishment by the proprietor

on the other hand, i have also had strangers engage me in small talk when i was not wearing a mask and they were




as for the argument that physicians wear them, it always reminds me of this clip

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chryslerfat said:
No mask and never a seat belt. I do require you keep your distance and did before this.
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Thinking outside the box . Is it possible that if nobody wore mask our positivity rate would be even higher? I have no evidence to support this.
 
Sorry didn't mean to quote anyone. Don't know what I am doing. Just a Question to no one in particular.
 
Other than wearing one all night while at work in the hospital, I rarely put one on. When I'm out, I keep one handy in case someone asks nicely and will gladly put it on for a few minutes.

I live in Northwest Georgia. The vast majority of folks here are not wearing masks. Hardly anyone. I do see some 70+ year olds wearing them.

Even though very few are wearing masks in my area, our rate of infection isn't any higher than a location that is "forced" to wear masks. How do you explain that?
 
92b said:
Thinking outside the box . Is it possible that if nobody wore mask our positivity rate would be even higher? I have no evidence to support this.
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That is possible. I work across from a testing site. Before Thanksgiving they were giving out free turkeys if you got the test even with no symptoms and line was 3 miles long. At that time the positive numbers doubled. Testing there this week was about 2 cars an hour and the numbers are way down. How many of those no symptom people are a false positive? There are alot of questions that can be asked.
 
missing linc said:
I go to dozens of different places of business daily in my job. I very rarely wear a mask when I walk in to the receiving area, and never wear them when I'm outside. If I go to a restaurant I will wear it from the entrance to my table, and when I leave. I do wear one if I go to a store, but I don't know how the numbers keep going up if everyone is social distancing and wearing masks. Seems counterintuitive to me, but I'm no scientist, just a dumb truck driver.
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That's the part that makes no sense to me. I would say at least 80-85% of people wear masks when we go out, so how are our numbers still going up?
 
toolmanmike said:
When I go in a store or to a office building. Not when I am outside, walking around the neighborhood, or driving.
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Me too. If the store or business requires it I have no problem with it. If I lived in a big city with crowded streets maybe outside but not where I live am I going to wear one outside.
 
One point on the "flatten the curve" thing: as somebody who studied Math for 4 years, that made me concerned. When you flatten a curve, you extend the the range of said curve, and if you have one that peaks very quickly, the range is shortened. Just my observations.
 
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