How do you deal with people who refuse to wear a mask? Experts weigh in with advice

Pennlive ^ | 14 July A.D. 2020 | Sue Gleiter

[who knows what evil?]

Really? Might have to scoot over to NC to do a little ‘shopping’...with my beverage of choice.

[CodeToad]

[RummyChick]

Its possible I had it early on from the casino and knocked it out with my protocol after some Asians coughed on me.

It’s not going to change the fact that I am still going to protect myself.

[CodeToad]

You really need to take a course in microbiology. Old wive’s tales ain’t cutting it.

[kaehurowing]

They need to make sure their papers are in order.

[kaehurowing]

The way we were played is that the media refuses to acknowledge the present spike is because of the “protests,” riots and looting.

[AmericanMermaid]

The face shield isn’t effective, either, because a virus can find its way under the shield. They are more comfortable, that I agree with, and at least you can breathe. My job is requiring us to wear the shield AND the mask, and they are health professionals, leading me to believe NEITHER is particularly effective.

[RummyChick]

I am watching the Drs and biochemists and scientist on texags site talking and hashing it out. And Medcram

You can pretend masks dont help all you want

I dont care.

I really think people like you should go to Covid parties and intentionally get it so we can have a better understanding.

[AmericanMermaid]

Very good point, about believers.

[RummyChick]

I repeat

LESSEN THE VIRAL LOAD

[Not_Who_U_Think]

Masks do three things:

1. They make you anxious and afraid. You are constantly reminded of something to fear.

2. Wearing one makes you resentful at those not wearing masks.

3. Masks isolate you from others and make common interactions almost impossible. No more smiling and joking in the checkout line, or anywhere else. Social behavior breaks down because you can’t see the expressions of others. We stop communicating unless it’s absolutely necessary.

Want to break society? I’d say, ‘mission accomplished’.

[Iowa Slim]

We don’t have a mask mandate in my state. Don’t have much COVID-19. We do have a longstanding culture of being civil and minding our own business.

I’ve only encountered one business that required masks on customers to enter. My employer requires masks on all employees and vendors in our retail locations. I’m never in them for more than thirty minutes at a time, so it’s no big deal.

I get enough sleep, eat well, supplement, and keep my hands super-clean. The people I see wearing them in public are mainly older or evidently disabled. They have their masks on, so they’re perfectly protected. Unless the masks are as useless as tits on a bullfrog, in which case me wearing one wouldn’t do them any favors.

I’m glad I chose to move away from the petri dish city a long time ago. Glad also to live in a state that’s not run by hysterics and hyperventilating control freaks.

[HIDEK6]

Oh for God’s sake.

[Fireone]

““Or maybe while visiting Target,”
You mean there’s still a Target? Haven’t been in one in years, after the whole “homo bathroom” fiasco. Not one dime.

[lightman]

+1

Excellent points.

Masks are systematic dehumanization.

[HIDEK6]

That “argument” cuts both ways.

[Svartalfiar]

but you can only do so much when someone acts like that with a reckless disregard for those around

But just how reckless is that disregard?

Dallas County is a 'hotspot' for new cases. Currently, they have had 35M positive tests, and include a population of 2.6MM. (Ignoring people coming in and out of the surrounding Collin/Rockwall/Tarrant/etc). So, this means that for any given person you bump into, they have a 1.34% chance of having the ChinaVirus. But wait! Only about 40% of those have been in the past two weeks, so now that person only has a .54% chance of being an active case. But wait some more! 850 of those people are currently hospitalized, so that knocks your chances down by another .03%, and if we considered that many people who are positive are quarantined, that likely knocks that .51% down by 90% or so.

So you bumping into someone in Dallas County, a known 'hotspot', has a tiny chance of being a positive testee. Asymptomatic carrier? Definitely more likely, but from several articles it sounds like they are very low-risk for infection spread.

Most of the new cases are people who have been going to house/block parties, rioting, or other big events with lots of people packed together. Walking around the grocery store or down the street is almost a nil chance of catching ChinaVirus.

[AmericanMermaid]

Well said.

[who knows what evil?]

Most places in TN don’t require them.

Careful...four counties to your east mandated masks over the past four days, and three more are expected to join them soon. I will be a one-issue voter in the primary 8/6. Did the REPUBLICAN candidate support mask mandates? Then you do NOT get my vote...you do NOT get my wife's vote. I have my write-in candidate standing by...

[RummyChick]

Those are valid points but they are geared to be one sided

As an example, have you not seen those not wearing a mask beat on employees and berate them for doing their job and act like strident fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f456x1Zvz3U

there is also the flip side of that where people get beat down for not wearing a mask.

but that old man shoving an employee is ridiculous.