Posted on 05/26/2021 6:01:41 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Edited on 05/26/2021 10:47:21 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
It’s common to wear a mask in some crowded Oriental cities. And has been since before Covid. The risk of a viral infection is high in many crowded urban environments.
I had a friend with an auto immune deficiency disease. He has since passed, but he most certainly wore a mask in public.
Point is, the average person does not need to mask up. But there are always some rare exceptions.
I feel sorry for neurotic people. At least it will be easier to spot them as they continue wearing masks and face shields.
PHOOEY to the pro-”gay”, pro-trans, pro-mask ELCA!!!!
I’m glad to be fully-vaccinated, non-”vulnerable”, and Orthodox Christian!!!! We’re looking forward (Lord willing) to no-mask Divine Liturgies followed by Serbian Picnics outdoors!!!!
Many people in “Oriental cities” wear masks not to protect them from infection as to filter out the particulates from uncontrolled vehicle exhaust emissions (lots of 2-cycle engines running around the cities, y’know). Filtering particulate emissions is something a mask can do. Filtering a “viral infection”? Not a chance.
Yes.
Sorry about your friend.
If I knew someone (physically) near me was auto-immune or similar, I would wear a mask and keep socially distanced.
I wore a mask because I lived with someone who probably would have died had they caught covid. If some people here had seen me, maybe you would have thought I was a Karen or virtue-signaling, or whatever.
I am not sure masks were a hill to die on. I was always ambivalent about that since lots of people had very good reason to wear them, and some of them you couldn’t tell by looking.
Good points.
At least in my neck of the woods, “Karens” make themselves WEY well known.
I saw two different people with little kids, like about 3 years old, and both the parents and kids were masked up.
It was all I could do to not say something about masking kids that young but it is their own business.
The idiots. They walk among us.
In the *Live free or die* state.
That happens in the liberal areas. The Upper Valley has its share.
The moment I saw this thread I went to Urban Dictionary to see if the term “Ultra Masker” was a thing.
It wasn’t.
I changed that real quick like.
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