Posted on 05/06/2023 9:11:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Long after covid ceased to be a “thing,” and long after we’ve learned that all the rules were wrong, people in the SF Bay Area won’t let go of their masks.
Memo to all: WHO has ended the Pandemic. You are now free to take off your mask and leave the darn thing off. Unless, like so many here in the sunny Bay Area, you’re (a) going to commit a crime and don’t want your face showing, or (b) are among the “vaccinated and multi-boosted” who seem to cling to the mask as a talisman, perhaps the better not to worry what ill health will befall them next.
I know the rest of the country isn’t necessarily like this, but here we seem stuck in a twilight zone of willful masking, most notably among our large Asian population, but also very strikingly among the heavily indoctrinated teenage population. I see people struggling to breathe behind cloth or paper/plastic nosebags in stores, offices, in their cars, in the gym, and walking on the street. Will this latest news flash from WHO change that? I can only hope!
The talisman aspect can’t be denied. The sad fact is that the “vaccinated” and “boosted” are far more susceptible to COVID (and death, and so many other ills, small and large) than those of us who eschewed the jab.
Pressure to keep masking is surprising. I talked with a checkout clerk I have known for years at my favorite independent grocer. He said he’d had to get vaccinated to work, like so many others. I asked why he was wearing a mask. His answer shocked me. He said he needed his job, had a child to raise, and workers who take their masks off at that store don’t get shifts on the schedule...
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SO WHAT?!
Again WHY DO YOU CARE?!
So the person is stupid. BFD.
Just
leave
people
alone
Really. It’s not that hard to not be an ass. Treat it like any other fashion faux pas and move on.
I live near Asheville NC. There are idiots that drive around alone in their cars with those stupid masks on. Go over to east Tenn. and dont see any.
I don’t care if other people want to wear a mask or not as long as I’m not required to. I don’t see the point of getting ourselves worked up about other people’s personal choices when Bidenflation is still eating away at our economy and limiting irreversible surgeries to adults is seen as “controversial”.
You’re back!! Did energy kick you out?
I never left. And you still haven’t added anything intelligent to the discussion.
You must not have been ready to be pure energy. Its ok, I did see that coming although I didn’t mention it out of politeness and humility.
But with my help we can get you back on track. Stick around on here I will take you under ‘ol Sarcazmo’s wing.
Your first lesson is to think deeply on the following truism:
discostu listens, but he does not hear.
Think on this for a few hours and tell me what you think it means.
I’m excited, this is going to be fun. I love helping people. Warms my heart.
Federal hospitals like Indian health services still insisting on masks. Albuquerque VA hospital also insists on mask wearing. No need for it.
I don’t even know what dumb crap you’re babbling on about now. “Pure energy”. You’re clearly high as well as stupid.
Actually I hear you just fine. A lot of blathering idiocy cause things crawl up your ass.
Should help yourself. LEARN. READ. Don’t do drugs that make you blather about pure energy.
Anyway, I’ll be off to dinner soon. And you are definitely not interesting enough for day 2. Have a good life. And don’t be an ass to people. No matter what has crawled up yours.
There are people who don’t really have the mental bandwidth that you might have, nor the information. They might have busy lives.
I just assume they are immunocompromised in some way let it slide.
As for culling the herd and all your other very strong remarks: let’s not act like the worst of the leftists but with the opposite philosophy.
I wish I could take that attitude, that people wearing the silly masks don't affect me. But that's not true.
All during the COVID hysteria, I got constantly hassled for not wearing a mask. Back then, it wasn't "your life, your choice." Everybody was compelled to wear one or they would get harrassed.
I have nothing but contempt for citizens who put on the masks like good little doobies, even though they knew they were useless all along. Because of them bending their knee to the government, they made it harder for the rest of us.
Well, you’re back on the asses again. That didn’t take long. Do you dabble in the field of proctology? Meh, no matter.
You didn’t take the two hours. Impatience. Yes, you have much to work on.
Take some time with your dinner Stu and reflect on the knowledge and inspiration you have been provided this evening.
You might consider meditation, it could help with the impulsiveness and hostility.
Except of course they really didn’t bend their knee. Really it was the other way around. The really paranoid people kept demanding the government “do something”, so the government did the only thing government has ever been good at, made a bunch of dumb rules. We see it all the time. That’s how we got the drug war, and Amtrak, and plenty of other failed government crap.
I never got hassled. Those of us who kept coming to the office were not paranoid. My most frequent store was the some shop. You want to find a group of people not concerned with head colds? Find your nearest tobacconist. Nobody there wore masks.
But really we’re 3 years on. There have always been people wearing masks. Whether for their health concerns, or yours, or just knowing they live someplace that stinks. Maybe we got more now. But even the most paranoid people I’ve known in this have pretty much moved on. And the ones still doing it aren’t hassling people. So really, why worry. Maybe they affected you 3 years ago, but this ain’t Sicily, we don’t need “revenge”. Move on. Think they’re dumb if you must, but leave them to their dumb. Just like the guy wearing the Madonna shirt.
Great title!
Just yesterday my wife and I were contemplating the term “mask hysteria“
“Maskerade” is much better!
‘Their lives, their choices.’
cute line; try it on the authorities when they decide to rein us in when the next ‘crisis’ comes; and come it will...
Different situation entirely. We’re talking about PEOPLE who CHOOSE to wear ANYTHING. Strawmaning that into anything about the government is just making crap up.
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