What do the non mask wearers think today when they see someone wearing a mask
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Anonymous
DP but it was on CNN’s homepage two days ago. Easy to find and they name the sources. |
Anonymous
| If you are going to wear a mask, please use a KN95/N95. Anything else is useless in my opinion. |
Anonymous
Let me guess, you hail from a communist island? |
Anonymous
| I would typically assume they’re from Korea or China. It’s common there. |
Anonymous
Medstar. The director of their urgent cares is doing TV interviews and confirming a noticeable/significant uptick. Cue the people who’ll yell Medstar doesn’t know, they know better as all important lawyers and consultants. |
Anonymous
Link? |
Anonymous
Not correct. Masks work if everyone uses them properly. Which a lot of people didn't in the US during the height of covid, which contributed to the perception that masks don't work. People still mask who are sick, or immune compromised. It's not performative, it's an attempt at self-preservation. And your nasal flush nonsense isn't helpful. |
Anonymous
Narcissistic. |
Anonymous
I’m not your junior associate, figure out how google works. |
Anonymous
CDC is reporting it: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/28/1190443473/the-cdc-sees-signs-of-a-late-summer-covid-wave https://www.forbes.com/sites/davewessner/2023/07/28/cdc-reports-increasing-number-of-covid-19-hospitalizations-should-we-be-worried/amp/ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-07-18/covid-19-metrics-see-first-increase-since-january-cdc Hospitalizations are ticking up in the past couple of weeks: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/ |
Anonymous
They aren't smart enough to actually keep track of information and don't really care. That's why I posted the links, but they probably won't read them anyhow. I posted for the rest of us. If you aren't wearing a mask inside now, I would recommend you start. |
Anonymous
I ask because I googled "medstar dc covid" and other variations and got nothing. |
Anonymous
Is this the beginning of a summer surge? "Before getting too concerned, it’s important to put these numbers in context. At first glance, a 10% increase sounds alarming. But the actual numbers are low. The 7,109 new hospitalizations last week? A year ago, there were over 40,000 new Covid-19 hospitalizations per week. In fact, the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States is at its lowest level since the very early days of the pandemic. The positive test rate needs to be contextualized, too. Yes, the positivity rate has increased from 4.1% to 7.6% over the past six weeks. But a year ago, over 14% of tests were positive. And many more tests were being administered." "But overall, the numbers remain very low — far lower than in the last three summers. "If you sort of imagine the decline in cases looking like a ski slope — going down, down, down for the last six months — we're just starting to see a little bit of an almost like a little ski jump at the bottom," Jackson says. Most of the hospitalizations are among older people. And deaths from COVID-19 are still falling — in fact, deaths have fallen to the lowest they've been since the CDC started tracking them, Jackson says. That could change in the coming weeks if hospitalizations keep increasing, but that's not an inevitability, Jackson says. So the CDC has no plans to change recommendations for what most people should do, like encourage widescale masking again. "For most people, these early signs don't need to mean much," he says. Others agree. "It's like when meteorologists are watching a storm forming offshore and they're not sure if it will pick up steam yet or if it will even turn towards the mainland, but they see the conditions are there and are watching closely," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health." |
Anonymous
| Still wearing my mask happily. I do not care what others think. Where I go to get my hair done still requires the mask or no service. |
Anonymous
Could you say where/are they taking new biz or is this some private hair cutter situation? I find the Maga babes working at the salons to be the worst. I had one telling me in 2021 how she didn’t need the Covid vax bc she got the SARS 1 vax years ago which covered Covid and Obama had made a disaster of SARS 1. Fascinating that Obama had power over SARS in 03 or that she was vaccinated for it when a vax was never made and that vax covered a SARS strain that emerged some 16 yrs later. |