People still masking every day at work

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Anonymous wrote:Wearing a mask all the time is probably bad for the health

15 minutes in the supermarket or an hour at the germy doctor's office isn't all the time. I work from home.

Because covid only strikes at those places! This virus is so smart! Wear it all the time or dont wear it at all if you're that concerned or you're not doing yourself any favors

You think she should wear one alone at home?

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

People in surrounding counties are the most highly educated in the US.

We should probably dispense with the idea that the educated were somehow superior during the pandemic because of their education status. They were more likely to blindly follow “experts” even when experts weren’t making any sense at all (and have sense been shown to be making things up).

The educated were more likely to rigorously adhere to the 6ft rule, eschew all social interactions for nearly 2 years (including a long time after vaccine was available), supported opening bars and restaurants (high transmission risk) while also supporting keeping schools closed (low transmission risk), supported the ridiculous cloth masks, were smug about wearing masks being unnecessary in March only to become indignant at not wearing them by April.

So, maybe the education level of the DC area isn’t the best indicator to throw around. Covid exposed how little intellect actually exists among the educated.

+100 My thoughts exactly. I lost a lot of respect for the so called "experts."

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Anonymous wrote:Wearing a mask all the time is probably bad for the health

15 minutes in the supermarket or an hour at the germy doctor's office isn't all the time. I work from home.

Because covid only strikes at those places! This virus is so smart! Wear it all the time or dont wear it at all if you're that concerned or you're not doing yourself any favors

Did you get lost trying to find Reddit?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the cashiers at Trader Joe’s who wear masks but not covering their nose are weird. And at other businesses too but Trader Joe’s seems to have a lot of mask wearing employees. And then what’s interesting is the medical building where I work with 16 floors of doctors offices has very few mask wearing doctors or employees walking around. Not sure if they know less than the Trader Joe’s people? I wonder what the rate of illness is between the two groups. I work in a surgery center and they definitely wear the masks in surgery. But they did that even before Covid.

It's clear there's a typology that is attracted to wearing masks a byproduct of their progressive neurosis. Look carefully at the type of people working at Trader Joe's. Or MOMs (a small organic supermarket chain in the mid Atlantic for those who don't know). Then look at the protests of college age progressive kids, like the various sit-ins by pro Gaza or social justice people, who are *always* wearing masks even though they are the demographic least affected by COVID, and you see pictures/videos of them being arrested by unmasked campus security or unmasked deans and admins trying to talk to them.

An element of the progressive left has taken to wearing masks as a byproduct of their identity for various reasons, which is why the more left wing/progressive an area or business or environment is, the more masking you will see.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares if someone else is masked or not? I’m a cancer patient going through chemo now. I mask when I do high risk stuff (train, airplane) and on the days that my WBC is super low. No one has batted an eye.

BTW, my cancer center told me if I get COVID, I can’t step foot in the center for at least a week until after I test negative. That sends my chemo cycle really out of whack. So if you see someone masking, give them space and grace!

The final conclusion from this thread is that maskers are either the very sick suffering from cancer or the very paranoid suffering from delusion.

I understand and do support those who have genuine health issues. I'm more struck by that I spend a lot of time in DC and a lot of time in another city that is not DC and yet there are far more maskers in DC. Is there more cancer in DC?

Why in the world is it your business whether someone masks?

This ? is for anyone spewing about how others are blah blah for wearing one?

Masks are noninvasive, they do not affect anyone else ever. How is it your business?

Judgy church crowd should reread those Bibles.

NP but these maskers sure had an issue with anyone who didn't want to wear these silly do-nothing face rags. They sure had an opinion about it then. I say give it right back to them. Hell, they're the ones afraid of the air.

Don't tell me they stopped the spread because you know as well as I know they didn't.

The fact that you use the term face rag tells us everything we need to know about you.

The more appropriate South Park term is "Chin Diaper".

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JFC with all the judgment. I have a sister in law going through chemo and every time we visit her I mask with an n95 ahead of time and am super careful, and I don't even live with her. She's going to die soon in any case, but I don't want to be the one to give her covid and kill her any sooner than necessary. Should I wear a freaking sign around my neck with an explanation so people don't find it weird?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why mask if the vaccine does its job. Wasn’t that the point of the vax to make COVID transmission and symptoms easier ?

Uh. No. It lessens its impact.

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Anonymous wrote:Wearing a mask all the time is probably bad for the health

Who is wearing all the time? What?

In high density places. How is that all the time?

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Anonymous wrote:I saw someone at my work today wearing a cloth mask. That's truly puzzling.

Why? What don't you understand?

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Anonymous wrote:I saw someone at my work today wearing a cloth mask. That's truly puzzling.

Why? What don't you understand?

Cloth masks don't do anything. If you need to mask, wear the KN95 masks.

That's why some people here are pointing out we wore the cloth masks for a year because it was the "right thing to do" even though all along they did diddly squat.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the cashiers at Trader Joe’s who wear masks but not covering their nose are weird. And at other businesses too but Trader Joe’s seems to have a lot of mask wearing employees. And then what’s interesting is the medical building where I work with 16 floors of doctors offices has very few mask wearing doctors or employees walking around. Not sure if they know less than the Trader Joe’s people? I wonder what the rate of illness is between the two groups. I work in a surgery center and they definitely wear the masks in surgery. But they did that even before Covid.

It's clear there's a typology that is attracted to wearing masks a byproduct of their progressive neurosis. Look carefully at the type of people working at Trader Joe's. Or MOMs (a small organic supermarket chain in the mid Atlantic for those who don't know). Then look at the protests of college age progressive kids, like the various sit-ins by pro Gaza or social justice people, who are *always* wearing masks even though they are the demographic least affected by COVID, and you see pictures/videos of them being arrested by unmasked campus security or unmasked deans and admins trying to talk to them.

An element of the progressive left has taken to wearing masks as a byproduct of their identity for various reasons, which is why the more left wing/progressive an area or business or environment is, the more masking you will see.

This. This is the best explanation.

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I think low paid resentful workers in stores and food service wear them to intimidate customers and force some sort of respect from the customer “poor me I have to work at this low level job AND risk my life for you”. I see if at the post office - notorious for passive aggressive controlling people at the desk and also at supermarkets.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the anti mask pps here just have some anger they need to work out with a therapist.

The only angry person angry here is you. Everyone else just thinks you and the other car-maskers are nuts.

If someone is in a car with someone sick, has health issues or is an uber/lyft driver, it makes sense. For allergies, it makes sense... why do you care?

And if they're just driving around with their imaginary friend?

Then it still doesnt concern you.

Right. But it's still weird.

You should really talk to your therapist about your obsession with masking and lack of empathy.

There's a ton of empathy on this thread. Many feel very sorry for the maskers and concerned of their apparent untreated mental illnesses.

The anti-maskers on this thread are projecting big time!

What kind of sad sack are you that you post stuff like this anonymously? You shouldn't be talking about untreated mental illnesses to anybody until you get your own house in order.

You don't think it is important to treat mental illness?

Of course I do. Let's start with yours and the other bizarrely anti-mask people on this thread. Unlike the people who are masking for their own health reasons and not bothering you at all, you are taking out your anxiety on strangers on the internet.

You're the one bizarrely attacking others. Everyone else is just saying it's weird and sad.

Saying wearing a mask is "weird and sad" is insulting. And inaccurate. It is unfortunate that you don't realize that. PPs have given completely rational reasons for wearing masks.

Entreating someone with a terrible fear of masks to seek help for their anxiety isn't attacking them. They are irrationally angry about something that doesn't harm them. They are insulting people with medical conditions. This is concerning.

I don't know why you think anyone is angry here except for you. You're obviously upset that people are concerned about your mental wellness.

Nope. Not angry. Annoyed perhaps. People like you trot out the "why are you angry" in attempt to shut down people who disagree with you or catch you in your nonsense. I am no longer masking unless required and I am not one of the triggered anti-masker posters. I am simply tired of people who keep making these stupid threads and attacking people who choose to mask. it's at best ignorant and at worst mean-spirited.

You were the one that first trotted out the "why are you angry" line. How odd. No one here "attacked" maskers-- expressing confusion and concern is not an attack.

The anti mask people are very hostile.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the anti mask pps here just have some anger they need to work out with a therapist.

The only angry person angry here is you. Everyone else just thinks you and the other car-maskers are nuts.

If someone is in a car with someone sick, has health issues or is an uber/lyft driver, it makes sense. For allergies, it makes sense... why do you care?

And if they're just driving around with their imaginary friend?

Then it still doesnt concern you.

Right. But it's still weird.

You should really talk to your therapist about your obsession with masking and lack of empathy.

There's a ton of empathy on this thread. Many feel very sorry for the maskers and concerned of their apparent untreated mental illnesses.

The anti-maskers on this thread are projecting big time!

What kind of sad sack are you that you post stuff like this anonymously? You shouldn't be talking about untreated mental illnesses to anybody until you get your own house in order.

You don't think it is important to treat mental illness?

Of course I do. Let's start with yours and the other bizarrely anti-mask people on this thread. Unlike the people who are masking for their own health reasons and not bothering you at all, you are taking out your anxiety on strangers on the internet.

You're the one bizarrely attacking others. Everyone else is just saying it's weird and sad.

Saying wearing a mask is "weird and sad" is insulting. And inaccurate. It is unfortunate that you don't realize that. PPs have given completely rational reasons for wearing masks.

Entreating someone with a terrible fear of masks to seek help for their anxiety isn't attacking them. They are irrationally angry about something that doesn't harm them. They are insulting people with medical conditions. This is concerning.

I don't know why you think anyone is angry here except for you. You're obviously upset that people are concerned about your mental wellness.

Nope. Not angry. Annoyed perhaps. People like you trot out the "why are you angry" in attempt to shut down people who disagree with you or catch you in your nonsense. I am no longer masking unless required and I am not one of the triggered anti-masker posters. I am simply tired of people who keep making these stupid threads and attacking people who choose to mask. it's at best ignorant and at worst mean-spirited.

You were the one that first trotted out the "why are you angry" line. How odd. No one here "attacked" maskers-- expressing confusion and concern is not an attack.

what do you mean? The post just above yours calls everyone masking nutjobs. you don't think that's an attack?

let's call it out for what it is - an attack on people who have to mask because they have cancer or an immune deficiency, or live with someone who does.

+1. It’s nuts. I thought this area was supposed to be enlightened? I for one am most saddened by the vast number of pretty sick people in the DMV region. The vast majority of maskers mask because they or a family member are immune compromised or sick. We have a LOT of chronically ill people here, and should be asking why rather than attacking them for protecting themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the anti mask pps here just have some anger they need to work out with a therapist.

The only angry person angry here is you. Everyone else just thinks you and the other car-maskers are nuts.

If someone is in a car with someone sick, has health issues or is an uber/lyft driver, it makes sense. For allergies, it makes sense... why do you care?

And if they're just driving around with their imaginary friend?

Then it still doesnt concern you.

Right. But it's still weird.

You should really talk to your therapist about your obsession with masking and lack of empathy.

There's a ton of empathy on this thread. Many feel very sorry for the maskers and concerned of their apparent untreated mental illnesses.

The anti-maskers on this thread are projecting big time!

What kind of sad sack are you that you post stuff like this anonymously? You shouldn't be talking about untreated mental illnesses to anybody until you get your own house in order.

You don't think it is important to treat mental illness?

Of course I do. Let's start with yours and the other bizarrely anti-mask people on this thread. Unlike the people who are masking for their own health reasons and not bothering you at all, you are taking out your anxiety on strangers on the internet.

You're the one bizarrely attacking others. Everyone else is just saying it's weird and sad.

Saying wearing a mask is "weird and sad" is insulting. And inaccurate. It is unfortunate that you don't realize that. PPs have given completely rational reasons for wearing masks.

Entreating someone with a terrible fear of masks to seek help for their anxiety isn't attacking them. They are irrationally angry about something that doesn't harm them. They are insulting people with medical conditions. This is concerning.

I don't know why you think anyone is angry here except for you. You're obviously upset that people are concerned about your mental wellness.

Nope. Not angry. Annoyed perhaps. People like you trot out the "why are you angry" in attempt to shut down people who disagree with you or catch you in your nonsense. I am no longer masking unless required and I am not one of the triggered anti-masker posters. I am simply tired of people who keep making these stupid threads and attacking people who choose to mask. it's at best ignorant and at worst mean-spirited.

You were the one that first trotted out the "why are you angry" line. How odd. No one here "attacked" maskers-- expressing confusion and concern is not an attack.

what do you mean? The post just above yours calls everyone masking nutjobs. you don't think that's an attack?

let's call it out for what it is - an attack on people who have to mask because they have cancer or an immune deficiency, or live with someone who does.

Really? They HAVE to mask? What about all the cancer patients in 2019? Why weren't they masking? I'll wait.

It’s called progress. We know better now. Car seats were a joke 40 years ago too.