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I'm on day 4 of COVID and it fucking sucks. I haven't worn a mask in a while and I'm full of regret :(
Don't knock yourself too hard.
I'm fully for masks, but they are better at protecting others from your infection that you from catching one.
As long as you wear a mask unil you're well if you do mix with others.
Hope you feel better soon.
Agreed. The best things you can do to protect yourself from COVID are getting vaccinated and staying up-to-date with any boosters and maintaing basic hygiene like washing your hands before sticking your fingers in your mouth, etc.
Masks are best at keeping your germs to yourself, so you don't spread it to others.
Before the onset of this latest surge, if you weren't sick, and did the above, there was no real reason to regularly wear a mask. No reason for regret.
Not true if you have a high quality n95 mask
Hindsight’s 20/20 of course, but letting the term “mask mandate” proliferate was a huge mistake. That’s just daring people not to follow the rules. “Mask advisory” or “mask recommendation” wouldn’t have pissed off nearly as many people.
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And now if they were to come out with "masks recommended". All the idiots would rejoice that it's not mandated.
Given how some of those toddlers were the very police who would've needed to enforce said mandate, it's not as simple as "don't pander to them". Especially since, let's be honest, putting all the people who refused to mask up into jail cells would've been extremely counter-intuitive.
We claimed it was a mandate but it very quickly became clear that was in name only, which is my main gripe about it. They shouldn't have called it a "mandate" unless they were prepared to enforce it like one, which they weren't.
You sure? Are you seeing the reaction to a potential change to the USDA’s alcohol advice?
These people have an obsession with being treaded on.
Humans are geared for conflict and our minds are both powerful enough and stupid enough to create it if none exist. In America that's morphed into "if you tell me what to do I'm being oppressed " regardless of circumstance
It’s not always oppression per se but there are definitely people who hear about a rule or restriction and just think “challenge accepted!”
My mother told me that with my sniffle I shouldn't take a Covid test so I can go in to work if I need to.
Maybe the great filter is us.