Shutdown II... the Death Blow

[Tsing Tao]

If you did not believe in the pandemic, why did you have masks in your possession in the first place?

Letting out a rebel yell may be fine with a political basis, but not a health one.

I was just thinking today how sorry all though Trump adherents will be feeling, after attending his rally without a mask and getting sick with the COVID. Will be a true "I told you so" moment.

Why are people so averse to wearing a mask? If you are near your home while it's old asbestos insulation is being removed, would you refuse to wear a mask because you do not believe in cancer?

If your doctor is going to perform surgery on you, will you tell him, right before you are put under general anesthesia, "Please, take off you mask. I don't believe in them. You are germ-free"! FREEDOOOMMM!


I hardly think so.

People, wear the bloody mask and use hand sanitizer. Why is this still a thing?

Can I ask you a few honest questions? Why is it now that masks are a thing? Why weren't they a thing during other high flu seasons?

I have no problem with wearing a mask. I have no issues with people who think we should wear masks. I have no issues with using hand sanitizer.

Why do many European countries believe that wearing a mask doesn't offer much in the way of protection?

 

[Snarkhund]

People, wear the bloody mask and use hand sanitizer. Why is this still a thing?

No. Its only a thing for you and others who wish to destroy the economy. I've returned to my normal routine. You support one of the dumbest actions taken in human history. The stupid meter is pegged and that ends my participation.

 

[Overnight]

Can I ask you a few honest questions? Why is it now that masks are a thing? Why weren't they a thing during other high flu seasons?

I have no problem with wearing a mask.

I was not addressing you, but Snarkhund.

 

[Tsing Tao]

I was not addressing you, but Snarkhund.

I understand. But my questions are to you. Do you not want to answer them?

 

[Overnight]

No. Its only a thing for you and others who wish to destroy the economy. I've returned to my normal routine. You support one of the dumbest actions taken in human history. The stupid meter is pegged and that ends my participation.

How does wearing a mask destroy the economy? You do everything you have been doing, but wear the mask WHEN YOU CANNOT MAINTAIN 6 FEET OF DISTANCING!

 

[Snarkhund]

How does wearing a mask destroy the economy? You do everything you have been doing, but wear the mask WHEN YOU CANNOT MAINTAIN 6 FEET OF DISTANCING!

Mandating masks is intended to suppress retail stores, bars, restaurants and other business that have just reopened. It works well actually. Who wants to go somewhere if they have to wear a mask?

I don't think you understood my OP. In this state, staring tomorrow, mask are mandated in public indoors for everyone. It isn't allowable to simply augment with a mask when distancing is perhaps not sufficient. You have to wear one here. The police have indicated that they are "ready to enforce".

The reopening schedule here is being shelved. There is no intent to open the schools in the fall. No doubt you folks will insist on cancelling debates, lol. Dems will scream for addition trillions of dollars to be flushed.

I'm done with it all. Starting tomorrow my intention is to simply ignore the subject. The upside is that you won't have to read my objectionable posts on the subject. Gotta see the glass half-full.

 

[Overnight]

I understand. But my questions are to you. Do you not want to answer them?

Ahhh.

"Why is it now that masks are a thing? Why weren't they a thing during other high flu seasons?"

This isn't an Influenza virus. And what I mean by a "thing" is, why are masks NOW being made out to be bad by so many? I don't recall any reports of masks being bad last month or the month before that, or the month before that.

"Why do many European countries believe that wearing a mask doesn't offer much in the way of protection?"

I do not know what EU countries believe. If that is true, that they do not believe masks offer protection, well, each country in Europe probably had protocols in place differing from the US, and were probably more restrictive on movement. Maybe they reached their herd immunity, so now they don't believe in the masks?


We are far from that level here yet, so people should just do the basics.

 

[RRY16]

No. Its only a thing for you and others who wish to destroy the economy. I've returned to my normal routine. You support one of the dumbest actions taken in human history. The stupid meter is pegged and that ends my participation.

Your normal routine is posting on ET all day and never going out. One day your in Panama, next day your in Calif then Seattle and then FL. So Where’s it going to be tomorrow?

 

[Overnight]

Mandating masks is intended to suppress retail stores, bars, restaurants and other business that have just reopened. It works well actually. Who wants to go somewhere if they have to wear a mask?

I don't think you understood my OP. In this state, staring tomorrow, mask are mandated in public indoors for everyone...

Here in MA, we've had to wear masks going out in public (not just indoors, but anywhere outdoors where you cannot social distance) since, ohh, early April? We're getting along fine here.

 

[Snarkhund]

Here in MA, we've had to wear masks going out in public (not just indoors, but anywhere outdoors where you cannot social distance) since, ohh, early April? We're getting along fine here.

I could live with that.

Wear the mask around the neck, if someone is close in the grocery aisle I pull it up. When I'm going through the checkout I pull it up. That was working.

But the Governor is mandating mask usage for all starting tomorrow. There is no discretion to exercise, just the extra-legal mandate of a extreme leftist Governor who wants to do her part to harm the economy and by extension harm President Trump.

There is no point to further compliance with reasonable requirements. Now people will be forced. Give the government an inch and they take mile.