Wear a mask while driving

[Jazzy]

People who wear a mask while driving alone in their car. Why?

 

[tango]

If you're travelling between places that enforce mask mandates maybe it's just easier to leave it on your face. If you're going to take it off apparently you're supposed to carefully handle it by the ear loops, fold it so the part that went against your mouth is on the inside and put it somewhere it won't get dirty. I guess if you're only traveling a short distance it's easier not to bother.

It's also possible people are just paranoid. When I was on the beach a few weeks ago I saw people fishing who were in the sun (the UV light is known to deactivate viruses), well over 100 feet from anyone else, obviously outside (known to be lower risk than inside) sitting with a cloth over their face. I'm not sure why they felt the need but since it didn't affect me I just left them to it. If people want to hide under the bed and cower in fear it's their choice to make.

 

[Member4592]

Yeah because Covid can get you in your car lol. No I don't see the point in wearing it outside or inside my car. People give Covid too much credit.

 

[tango]

Yeah because Covid can get you in your car lol. No I don't see the point in wearing it outside or inside my car. People give Covid too much credit.

It does highlight, yet again, the yawning chasm between differents bits of the rhetoric we're fed about this thing.

When we were first told to put socks on our heads the rhetoric was that it was about protecting other people. Now all the whining about mask mandates ending is that people who take them off face a future of death. So apparently now that scrap of fabric is about protecting us. When those tasked with spreading information can't make up their minds whether a scrap of cloth is about protecting me or those around me it's easy to see why "we the people" are less likely to take them seriously.

 

[JRT]

The primary point of face masking is to prevent YOU from infecting others. Keeping YOU safe from others is very much secondary with masking,

 

[tango]

The primary point of face masking is to prevent YOU from infecting others. Keeping YOU safe from others is very much secondary with masking,

So we were told in the early days. Now the rhetoric is increasingly "protect yourself and others", and much of the talk about double-masking is about protecting the wearer.

And still nobody can explain how a droplet knows which way through a mask it's trying to travel.

 

[Stravinsk]

And still nobody can explain how a droplet knows which way through a mask it's trying to travel.

Covid is super smart like that. It sticks to money but not to food. Adults can pass it but children under X age are immune. It completely avoids people sitting down at restaurants while they are eating, opting instead to sneak attack just before re-masking.

Honestly, I've come to conclude from my experience with others that the people who believe in this are terminally mentally handicapped individuals, not innately, or by birth, but by a combination of willingly being hypnotized by television (especially the corporate kind), and radio, would never research something that goes against a new social "norm" (cowardly - afraid of being called a conspiracy theorist/paranoid etc), and have been brought up from birth to auto-trust anything that presents itself as an authority figure or body, dismissing all profit and other motive as "conspiracy theory/paranoid et al" because powerful men with $$ (cough, Bill Gates, and his friends at Big Pharma and WEF) are the true philanthropists they are always telling the world that they are, and certainly not quotable when speaking on Eugenics and population control.

 

[tango]

Covid is super smart like that. It sticks to money but not to food. Adults can pass it but children under X age are immune. It completely avoids people sitting down at restaurants while they are eating, opting instead to sneak attack just before re-masking.

Honestly, I've come to conclude from my experience with others that the people who believe in this are terminally mentally handicapped individuals, not innately, or by birth, but by a combination of willingly being hypnotized by television (especially the corporate kind), and radio, would never research something that goes against a new social "norm" (cowardly - afraid of being called a conspiracy theorist/paranoid etc), and have been brought up from birth to auto-trust anything that presents itself as an authority figure or body, dismissing all profit and other motive as "conspiracy theory/paranoid et al" because powerful men with $$ (cough, Bill Gates, and his friends at Big Pharma and WEF) are the true philanthropists they are always telling the world that they are, and certainly not quotable when speaking on Eugenics and population control.

Not only that but in the US children over 2 are a threat but in Europe children aged 2-10 are not. And if you're in a bar ordering a beer you're a risk but if you order food with your beer you aren't a risk. In some places the virus knows to leave people alone until 10pm.

Who would have thought an inert strand of RNA could muster so much intelligence?

 

[Forgiven1]

Just because government sponsored mandates are going away does not mean they are going away. Here in Texas, it is now up to the business whether to continue with the precautions or not. Also, an individual can decide for their self if the want to continue wearing a mask where no longer required. Many businesses are currently staying the course for now. In my not so humble opinion, this is the way it should have always been.

 

[tango]

True, the way some people talk you'd think that the lack of an official mandate to do something was the same as a prohibition. I've been saying for months now that people should be left to make their own risk assessments. Instead we have wild hysteria from the media, inconsistent drivel from politicians (not to mention them breaking their own rules and then wondering why others don't listen) and the entirely predictable split between some people who panic at the drop of a hat and others who just stop caring.

 

[Empire]

You aren't supposed to touch your face or anything near it so I wear the mask when I go to public areas and I leave it on in case I forget to sanitize after touching something. If you touch your face or your mask and you're in public then you're proving the mask ineffective and this is why I have gripes with people who force others to wear a mask. I'll do it out of respect for you but if you aren't going to handle it the right way then why to are you even wearing it.

 

[Member4592]

The primary point of face masking is to prevent YOU from infecting others. Keeping YOU safe from others is very much secondary with masking,

That's worked out wonderfully for those that did wear a mask and still got infected and died from it. It hasn't been that effective I'm afraid.

 

[JRT]

That's worked out wonderfully for those that did wear a mask and still got infected and died from it. It hasn't been that effective I'm afraid.

Airborn droplets ate not the only vector for transmission. The virus will survive for a time on surfaces and can be picked up by contact and enter the body through mouth, nose and eyes --- hence the advice to sanitize hands frequently. There are other factors at work here as well --- carelessness, ignorance, negligence and stupidity all play a part.

 

[Member4592]

Airborn droplets ate not the only vector for transmission. The virus will survive for a time on surfaces and can be picked up by contact and enter the body through mouth, nose and eyes --- hence the advice to sanitize hands frequently. There are other factors at work here as well --- carelessness, ignorance, negligence and stupidity all play a part.

I get where you're going with this. Either you did go to school for a degree in virology or you're suddenly an unofficial expert in the field and don't actually have a doctorate or a medical degree. Sickness and death are all apart of life.

 

[tango]

Airborn droplets ate not the only vector for transmission. The virus will survive for a time on surfaces and can be picked up by contact and enter the body through mouth, nose and eyes --- hence the advice to sanitize hands frequently. There are other factors at work here as well --- carelessness, ignorance, negligence and stupidity all play a part.

Presumably if the things we're told make a big difference actually made a big difference the places that are locked down tightly would show much better statistics than places that are largely open. So, for example, we might expect California's figures to be much better than Florida or Texas. And yet it appears that's not the case.

It's almost as if there's something going on that doesn't relate to people putting socks on their heads.

 

[Bluezone777]

Can you solve this Covid conundrum because apparently Dr. Fauci can't?

 

[Lamb]

Can you solve this Covid conundrum because apparently Dr. Fauci can't?

Exactly! The states with strict lockdowns have cases rising but the states that are removing restrictions are dropping in cases. Hmm.

 

[tango]

Exactly! The states with strict lockdowns have cases rising but the states that are removing restrictions are dropping in cases. Hmm.

It's almost as if the best course of action was to protect the most vulnerable and let the rest of us get on with it. Whodathunkit?