Not Wearing Mask Outdoors

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is not once single case in the entire world of covid being transferred passing someone on a sidewalk. No mask.

If you're huddled and staying close to people outside, yes, not a bad idea.

But just a pass of someone? Totally and completely unnecessary.

No one can possibly know if covid was transferred by an umasked person on the sidewalk. Why wouldn’t this highly contagious virus be transmitted with one sneeze outside?

Better safe than sorry. Plus it’s easier for my kids to accept “always” rather than “sometimes”. We are all masked anytime we leave our yard or house.

Of course it can be traced - if one highly infectious person is walking and passing people, surely a couple of people will get infected. They ask where they've been lately, and this would be their commonality. I get that tracing isn't happening often, but if there is not ONE SINGLE CONFIRMED CASE in ANY city, ANY county, ANY state, or ANY country? It's not happening. And all data points to viral load + time being a major, major concern. Someone would have to sneeze directly into your mouth for this to happen. Don't let other people sneeze directly into your mouth.

You can be cautious, and then there's being irrational against all evidence. This is the latter. Clustered and huddled outside? Sure, mask up. An incredibly brief pass? Pretty much impossible.

No, my mother assumes that she got covid from someone she passed outside on her daily walk as she has absolutely zero contact with anyone else for two months. No grocery store, no friends, no doctors - no one. She couldn’t have been infected any other way.

Sorry, I don't believe this. It defies all science. Everyone says I've basically been isolating except for that one time!" There's a lot of dishonesty about many infectious people and how much they've actually not been social distancing.

Disbelieve at your own peril, PP. My mother walked every single day and simply passed other walkers outside. It’s the only place she could have contracted it (and possibly spread it).

[Anonymous]

Saying someone is being irrational is straight up dismissive. Find another word or leave it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids hate masks too but we insist they wear them outside if we are going to pass anyone closer than six feet - like another person on the trail or sidewalk.

If you cannot guarantee a six foot or more distance, you need to wear a mask.

no you don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is not once single case in the entire world of covid being transferred passing someone on a sidewalk. No mask.

If you're huddled and staying close to people outside, yes, not a bad idea.

But just a pass of someone? Totally and completely unnecessary.

No one can possibly know if covid was transferred by an umasked person on the sidewalk. Why wouldn’t this highly contagious virus be transmitted with one sneeze outside?

Better safe than sorry. Plus it’s easier for my kids to accept “always” rather than “sometimes”. We are all masked anytime we leave our yard or house.

Oh how low we have fallen. The safety meme is a gateway on the road to serfdom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is not once single case in the entire world of covid being transferred passing someone on a sidewalk. No mask.

If you're huddled and staying close to people outside, yes, not a bad idea.

But just a pass of someone? Totally and completely unnecessary.

No one can possibly know if covid was transferred by an umasked person on the sidewalk. Why wouldn’t this highly contagious virus be transmitted with one sneeze outside?

Better safe than sorry. Plus it’s easier for my kids to accept “always” rather than “sometimes”. We are all masked anytime we leave our yard or house.

Of course it can be traced - if one highly infectious person is walking and passing people, surely a couple of people will get infected. They ask where they've been lately, and this would be their commonality. I get that tracing isn't happening often, but if there is not ONE SINGLE CONFIRMED CASE in ANY city, ANY county, ANY state, or ANY country? It's not happening. And all data points to viral load + time being a major, major concern. Someone would have to sneeze directly into your mouth for this to happen. Don't let other people sneeze directly into your mouth.

You can be cautious, and then there's being irrational against all evidence. This is the latter. Clustered and huddled outside? Sure, mask up. An incredibly brief pass? Pretty much impossible.

No, my mother assumes that she got covid from someone she passed outside on her daily walk as she has absolutely zero contact with anyone else for two months. No grocery store, no friends, no doctors - no one. She couldn’t have been infected any other way.

Sorry, I don't believe this. It defies all science. Everyone says I've basically been isolating except for that one time!" There's a lot of dishonesty about many infectious people and how much they've actually not been social distancing.

Disbelieve at your own peril, PP. My mother walked every single day and simply passed other walkers outside. It’s the only place she could have contracted it (and possibly spread it).

Impossible she got it that way.
Entirely possible she got "it" from a past flu vaccine. You heard that right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saying someone is being irrational is straight up dismissive. Find another word or leave it out.

It's dismissive of you to say that doing things in the absence of scientific evidence *isn't* irrational. Find another word, or leave it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is not once single case in the entire world of covid being transferred passing someone on a sidewalk. No mask.

If you're huddled and staying close to people outside, yes, not a bad idea.

But just a pass of someone? Totally and completely unnecessary.

No one can possibly know if covid was transferred by an umasked person on the sidewalk. Why wouldn’t this highly contagious virus be transmitted with one sneeze outside?

Better safe than sorry. Plus it’s easier for my kids to accept “always” rather than “sometimes”. We are all masked anytime we leave our yard or house.

Oh how low we have fallen. The safety meme is a gateway on the road to serfdom.

Total nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

I like this! Giving the kids a reason beyond their own health. Great way to teach social responsibility and good citizenship!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

I like this! Giving the kids a reason beyond their own health. Great way to teach social responsibility and good citizenship!

+2. We need more Americans who feel this way. Do it for others.

[Anonymous]

I only wear a mask when I am indoors. Otherwise I pretty much avoid being anywhere where being six feet apart is difficult. Just about any socializing we do is outdoors with like minded people. I’ve been playing a lot of golf which is great for social distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

I like this! Giving the kids a reason beyond their own health. Great way to teach social responsibility and good citizenship!

+2. We need more Americans who feel this way. Do it for others.

Except it's not true. This disease is spread primarily person to person. Your children are old enough to start understanding this. Mask use is VERY important but not necessary at all times, for example playing in their fenced yard, canoeing with their parents, hiking in the forest or swimming in a backyard pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

It's great training for something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

I like this! Giving the kids a reason beyond their own health. Great way to teach social responsibility and good citizenship!

+2. We need more Americans who feel this way. Do it for others.

Except it's not true. This disease is spread primarily person to person. Your children are old enough to start understanding this. Mask use is VERY important but not necessary at all times, for example playing in their fenced yard, canoeing with their parents, hiking in the forest or swimming in a backyard pool.

Yes, obviously, but walking in a city sidewalk is what’s being discussed. That’s how the kids protect the “babies and grandmas”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

It's great training for something.

Yes, it’s great training for thinking beyond your own selfish needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 4 and 6 year olds wear their masks whenever we’re outside. They don’t like it, of course, but they are proud that they’re “protecting babies and grandmas”.

It’s great training for if they go back to school.

I like this! Giving the kids a reason beyond their own health. Great way to teach social responsibility and good citizenship!

+2. We need more Americans who feel this way. Do it for others.

Except it's not true. This disease is spread primarily person to person. Your children are old enough to start understanding this. Mask use is VERY important but not necessary at all times, for example playing in their fenced yard, canoeing with their parents, hiking in the forest or swimming in a backyard pool.

Yes, obviously, but walking in a city sidewalk is what’s being discussed. That’s how the kids protect the “babies and grandmas”.

That's not what the PP said. She said she teaches her 4 and 6 year old to mask up whenever they are outside. No indication of city living or sidewalks in that post. I do agree that city sidewalks would warrant a mask.