Anyone changing behavior due to the latest uptick in Covid?
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Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
...I don't think they're pretending. |
Anonymous
I've gone from three masks to four masks. |
Anonymous
Why just four? |
Anonymous
You can’t be too careful PP. Please be sure that you’re wearing them in the car or walking down the street by yourself. |
Anonymous
Lucky you. Others not so much. |
Anonymous
No one is my family has had it either. |
Anonymous
That's basic science. An N95 is only 95% efficient. To get five 9s of reliability, you need at least four masks. However, those of us with Six Sigma black belts wear five masks. |
Anonymous
Oh you mean like mostly peaceful protests before a vaccine was available? Shut down the playgrounds but gather enmasse and scream your lungs out! Because science. |
Anonymous
You make a good point. I have been terribly reckless. I am increasing to 5 masks. Thank you! |
Anonymous
| Nope. |
Anonymous
| yes still masking and going in places less. |
Anonymous
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The snarky posters here who are too cool for masks and mocking all concern about covid right now had better be people without kids in local schools. Go over to the forum for FCPS, for instance. Look at the thread about teachers and other staff being out an unusally high amount right now, and since school started, due to covid. Teachers are posting about it there and in other online teacher forums I follow. Covid, not colds or flu or stress. It's rampant in my spouse's workplace right now too. It's spreading fast and while you can claim it's "no worse than a cold," the outcomes for anyone who has other health issues, even fairly minor ones, can still be devastating. We still don't know enough about long covid or other outcomes to be so stupidly cavalier. Sadly, the "get over it/it's a cold" crowd feels less than zero responsibility for public health, or for the health of strangers they'll never meet, but to whom they can still infect through community transmission. They figure those vulnerable, even marginally vulnerable, folks should just stay home forever -- the one thing they, themselves, scream they should never have to do. Hypocritical AND science-averse at the same time. Yes, I go out. About to leave for the grocery store and Target. Will mask and carry on. We go to church, to theaters, on trips, etc. We just mask and don't go when the hordes are there. We're not hiding in the basement like the anti-maskers and science deniers love to claim we are. We're not cowering indoors. But we also are not stupid enough to think we're magically going to be perfectly fine if we get infected. Oh, yeah -- the whole "once you have it, you have antibodies" thing? True, for a while. But repeated infections also apparently increase the chances of long covid, which the deniers want to pretend Isn't A Thing. We'll stick with living life and getting out, but doing it on our own terms with masks indoors and avoiding crowds. Keep thinking we're all paranoid and trembling inside our houses. It's a lie you tell yourselves so you feel superior and strong. |
Anonymous
The smug "I haven't gotten it and no one in my family has gotten it so no worries" people aren't worth your time, PP. They believe that their own individual experiences are the yardstick for everyone, everywhere. One thing the pandemic has shown us is how ignorant and self-centered many people really are. Only their own experiences matter--no one else's. |
Anonymous
I see your four masks and I raise you four masks PLUS goggles. You can get it through your eyes, you know. |