Posted on 05/21/2020 11:16:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Have you run into any COVID busybodies? I'd love to hear your stories and personal experiences. Post them here!
Only on the Conservative side. Too many conservatives shaming and bullying people wearing masks. I’m not stopping wearing mine during flu season for any busybody, conservative or liberal. Some of us wear them certain times of year. Some of us have asthma, like me. Some are going through chemo. Some have autoimmune diseases. There are a lot of reasons why people wear them and it’s not all about the CDC and Covid. When you bully and harass people with a mask on you don’t know why they have them on. If anybody, conservative or liberal, approaches me about my mask they will probably get a fist in the face.
Not yet, but have my reply, courtesy of a Little Johnny joke at the ready.
Busybody: Why aren’t you blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Me: You know, My grandpa lived to be 98.
Busybody: Did your grandpa live during this pandemic?
Me: No, he got to that age by minding his own damm business!
“Busybody” is a compound word. Both parts can already stand alone; one as an adjective; Busy, and the other as a noun;
Body. “Business” is a word in and of itself, with no modifiers needed. It can be many things, an adjective a verb or even a noun!
94? That’s amazing. Bless you for having him home.
Nope. None whatsoever. I live in a Texas town not named Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston.
What the heck??!!??!
Masked creatures? For real? Judgmental much? I’m starting to dislike some conservatives as much as I dislike libs.
Hear hear.
They might not have gotten a fist in the face with me, but they did get an argument and a refusal to step aside.
I live in one of the reasonable states. Had dinner at a restaurant the other night and watched what had to have been an agonizing choice for a woman at another table. I overheard her husband say “take that stupid thing off- what are you going to do- eat with it on?” She could either be a “correct” or let her husband be right...
I went to pick up take out food the other day. When you call in they ask that masks be worn. I pulled up and observed 3 people walk in without masks. So I didn’t wear one either. Nothing mentioned inside. Told the guy I was glad he was able to be open and good luck. He said thanks.
i defer to kevin james...
Good for you! I have too much temper sometimes and I don’t usually take crap for long, from either side. :-)
I don’t know what conservatives you’re referring to, but I have not bullied or shamed anyone wearing a mask.
For all I know that person does have some health condition which dictates that they take precautions. This thread is pretty much about the importance of minding your own business anyway.
Though I will admit, when I see someone outdoors wearing a mask, taking a walk with no other human being with 50 yards, of them, I do shake my head and think “how stupid!”
Wow, that’s just awful! Was some snitch watching backyards with binoculars from a block away?
I think the (as of this afternoon) 93,431 people who died in the USA from COVID-19 (in the last two months) are going to be OK with it. I think their families will be too busy mourning their loss to care.
Yeah...I think he was trying to shame me. He is a major-league liberal and suffers from severe TDS.
Not only that, I believe his numbers are WAY off. Not feeling like getting into an argument with him.
The stupid thing is that, if you went down the “correct” aisle and came back into the aisle with the product you wanted, you would probably pass a LOT more people than if you just dashed down the “wrong way” to grab it.
You’re already in a argument with him.
... the busybody started spewing “F.U.”s.
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The mind controlled sure are a mean lot. When driving, if I
switch lanes, after putting on my blinker, I get the FU finger.
They sure look ugly. I just wave.
(ok,maybe I jumped lanes too close, but come on...)
I have found the opposite in most of my grocery stores. People generally obeying the arrows, but not 100% of the folks 100% of the time(I violate them myself on occasion), and no one getting in a tizzy over it.
The busy bodies have herd mentality and cannot use reason enough to see that a rational look at a context is superior to a universal one-size-fits-all rule every time. They are being indoctrinated to stop reasoning and just follow rules.
Nobody has threatened me in person but some of the local online groups are getting pretty out of control about it talking about ripping them off of people they see and about how we are “complying” with the government, etc. No, we are not.
I also think it’s weird to see people outside with them on. IMO this whole mess is a huge scam to hurt the President. The virus is real and might be dangerous to some but things are totally out of control. They need to leave people alone that have on a mask because they have no way of knowing why the person is wearing one and it’s actually none of their business. We haven’t been forced to wear them here. Some stores request it but don’t enforce it. I don’t understand the hate over people wearing one if they choose to for any reason.
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