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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular masks have nothing to do with anxiety. It’s to protect others in case you’re an asymptomatic carrier. Stop scapegoating moms.[/quote]

JFC, thank you!
People on here are parroting the same truthy untruths reply after reply and claiming those who disagree have mental health issues.

We don't know how much the virus can travel, from a runner clearing their throat. We don't know how many of the neighbors and joggers from 2 miles away running past our front yard are infectious. We don't know whether our kids are infectious. We never know when a kid or adult neighbor will come up to our fence and strike a conversation. We do know it does travel, we do know the spread in China before the lockdown was probably driven by asymptomatic transmission. There are too many of you throwing out wild-ass guesses, packaging them as common sense and repeating each other ad nauseam in this thread.

Regardless, calling mothers mentally ill for making a different risk assessment from yours is bad. I'll admit, when I was rehearsing my grocery delivery disinfection procedure the last week of February, I did second-guess myself a little. When I was looking at [b]my modest stash of Lysol, wipes, and hand sanitizer mid-February, I did second-guessing myself a little bit. Even though it would have been reasonable to get 2 or 3 times that much, if I wanted to avoid buying more through the summer[/b], it did look like a lot back them, when the store shelves were still full, and it "was just a cold" and we "had a better healthcare system than those places" and we "were more sanitary and washed our hands better". I disagreed with all those truthy untruths then. I've experienced the contrast between my risk assessment and others' for the past two months and I haven't been wrong yet.

I do think that some parents are effing up pretty badly right now. They need their kids out of the house for their own mental health, and it makes them make some really irresponsible choices. They let their 7 year olds, of course without masks, play with their friends out of sight, riding bikes at full speed across and into alleys, while we have fewer and faster cars zooming into and out of alleys at full speed. They're crossing paths with unmasked adults on narrow sidewalks. Calling the more cautious parents the mentally ill ones is not helpful to the purpose of the lockdown.[/quote]

You sound a bit unhinged in certain sections and just as judgy as everyone that you are knocking for calling certain mothers mentally unstable. Do you work for the CDC or in the infectious diseases field? No, then you are guessing too. No one can say with any degree of certainty who is right or wrong here.[/quote]

No, it would not have been reasonable to hoard a 6+ month stash of Lysol wipes and hand sanitizer. If only you and every other hoarder would have listened to that little voice of reason ("second-guessing") and bought a normal amount, maybe we wouldn't have induced a full-scale panic and made it impossible for everyone to have supplies, including people who DIVERTED supplies from FRONT LINE individuals, who are not holed up in their homes practicing how to disinfect groceries. And probably soak their berries in soapy water. 
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