How long do you plan on wearing a mask in public?

[TLO]

Poll incoming. Please try to keep it non political so it doesn't get moved to DC.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by sedated

That is the biggest change IMHO - people have FINALLY realized that fighting through a sickness can actually affect other people.

I remember a co-worker a few years ago boasting about how she was toughing out a cold. I had a vacation coming up and let it slip that if she got me sick for my trip I would be pissed as ****. 20 minutes later she left for the day.

Let it slip, huh?

Yeah. We tell our guys to GTFO if they are sick. I don’t have time to catch your shit.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Let it slip, huh?

Yeah. We tell our guys to GTFO if they are sick. I don’t have time to catch your shit.

No one believed I was sick every time Monster movie week happened in my childhood.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Lzen

This vaccine was pushed through very fast and we don't understand or know what will be the long term effects, positive or negative.

It wasn't "pushed through." They didn't take any shortcuts.

They threw a ****ton of resources and man hours into it. From hundreds/thousands of people. With thousands of study participants in the trials. The same amount that other vaccines slowly accumulate over time.

If it's because we just don't know about the longterm side effects, I don't know what to tell you. Medicine has advanced tremendously since you've been alive, and you've no doubt had treatments throughout your life that were new or innovative at the time. It's the human body, man. We can't be sure of anything. But that doesn't mean people should avoid the new just because it's new.

Not trying to be condescending, and given your line of work, you have no doubt considered all of this before you reached your conclusion. I'm just saying-- think about it again.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Why is this funny? Why is everyone piling on about this? It seems to me that if someone doesn't buy into what the 'people in charge' say the they must be a nutjob. Well, that's just being dumb, IMO.

I'll tell you about my situation. I have always been a science person. Hell, my line of work is science related. I have gotten all of my vaccinations over the years. I am not some anti-vaxxer. That being said, I don't plan to get this vaccine, at least not for a long time. This vaccine was pushed through very fast and we don't understand or know what will be the long term effects, positive or negative.

Someone mentioned in this thread that it's for the better of society and also made fun of jj. Well, I might agree except that the field of science has gotten very political recently. Not to mention that the liability has been removed by our brilliant 'people in charge'.

As for masks, I wear a mask where I have to but I will stop as soon as I can. For all of you mask lemmings, the data does not show that masks make a difference. And before anyone gets uptight about that comment, go to Tom Woods website. He has some really good information on this.

Originally Posted by Fish

Lacking trust in the vaccine's safety after it's passed the standard safety tests is being anti-vax.

The truth is that we know enough about the vaccine to declare it safe for the overwhelming majority. And it's proven to be so. A lot of people with zero scientific knowledge of how vaccines work are ignoring health experts' recommendations. Not because they have better science that challenges the knowledge already established. But because they've created some random frame of time for them to feel safe. "I'll let others take it before I risk it." Like that's meaningful in the slightest.

Science hasn't gotten political. Science is just science. Politicians are using science for political means more than ever. Which is causing an abundance of misinformation that people from both sides are just gobbling up. Leading to more and more mistrust in actual science.

For the record, I choose the same option as you regarding wearing one where I have to, yet you label me as a "Mask lemming." I'll never understand that.

Yeah, I was going to basically say the same thing after Googling Tom Woods.... the three main words I got from a couple of sites were politics, author, historian. And all of the videos that popped up about Covid.

And I have no idea if that guy inserts politics into his Covid discussions, but I just don't see how his opinion should matter a ton either by looking at who he is, just like any other non-scientific research (and if he does use scientific research, I'd rather just read that than whatever commentary he has on top of it).

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by TLO

It has kind of just become routine for me at this point. It'll probably become an adjustment not masking at this point honestly.

You are definitely a "sheeple" then.

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Why is this funny? Why is everyone piling on about this? It seems to me that if someone doesn't buy into what the 'people in charge' say the they must be a nutjob. Well, that's just being dumb, IMO.

I'll tell you about my situation. I have always been a science person. Hell, my line of work is science related. I have gotten all of my vaccinations over the years. I am not some anti-vaxxer. That being said, I don't plan to get this vaccine, at least not for a long time. This vaccine was pushed through very fast and we don't understand or know what will be the long term effects, positive or negative.

Someone mentioned in this thread that it's for the better of society and also made fun of jj. Well, I might agree except that the field of science has gotten very political recently. Not to mention that the liability has been removed by our brilliant 'people in charge'.

As for masks, I wear a mask where I have to but I will stop as soon as I can. For all of you mask lemmings, the data does not show that masks make a difference. And before anyone gets uptight about that comment, go to Tom Woods website. He has some really good information on this.

There are some side effects. I got my second shot and my penis grew 8 inches.

I don't know dick about the science, but I ain't scared of it.

[dj56dt58]

I don’t. If they tell me to I leave and shop elsewhere. At the mall now, can’t believe how many people are wearing masks (it’s no longer required here and wasn’t enforced when it was)

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by dj56dt58

I don’t. If they tell me to I leave and shop elsewhere. At the mall now, can’t believe how many people are wearing masks (it’s no longer required here and wasn’t enforced when it was)

I'm not being political here and could care less about your leanings but you're a dick.

The one constant is that it not only adds protection for you and others. Your actions say **** everyone else.

I say that makes you a classless tally wacker.

Edit: Please tell me where you shop so I can avoid the other classless tally wackers.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

There are some side effects. I got my second shot and my penis grew 8 inches.

You still need proper lighting and some neat camera effects to make it on CP.

[ChiefRocka]

Whenever I need to legally avoid a face recognition scan

[eDave]

Originally Posted by ChiefRocka

Whenever I need to legally avoid a face recognition scan

I wonder if you can get out of a photo radar ticket if you have a mask on? Provided you got yourself served.

[Rasputin]

At work we are required to wear them but I keep the mask just under my nose whenever I can most of the time. I'll get told by a better than thou nurse to cover my nose sometimes.


In public I'll wear it if everyone else is wearing it but if several aren't wearing it I'll take it off as it's socially awkward either way lol So i kinda go with the flow. Dillons has mask Nazis telling you to put on the mask or cover your face.


I'm ready for the mask thing to go away. They compromise my breathing if i wear it properly.

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

The difference being that anyone wearing a mask in their car for whatever reason is still clearly putting more effort towards getting back to normal than the person crying about the importance of needing to get back to normal while contributing absolutely nothing (or a net negative) to that cause (just a wild guess!).

I could pray every night to the Flying Spaghetti Monster while wearing 75 masks and it would probably be more productive towards that cause you so desperately want for nothing.

You're welcome!

Sitting in a car by yourself wearing multiple masks is actually doing nothing more than making you look like a dumbshit.

And actually masks are hindering natural immunity which combined with vaccine immunity will get us to herd immunity faster.

[TLO]

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball

TLO will wear one forever

I've been fully vaccinated for over a month. My officemate is fully vaccinated so no need to mask while in the office. I mask when I'm around my clients in the field and where asked to by businesses.

I've largely returned to normal life at this point and I'll be one that stops masking when the mandates are lifted.

As I mentioned earlier I'll keep a few on hand to wear in the future if I have to be out in public when I'm ill, but I'm as ready as anyone to be done with them.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

It wasn't "pushed through." They didn't take any shortcuts.

They threw a ****ton of resources and man hours into it. From hundreds/thousands of people. With thousands of study participants in the trials. The same amount that other vaccines slowly accumulate over time.

If it's because we just don't know about the longterm side effects, I don't know what to tell you. Medicine has advanced tremendously since you've been alive, and you've no doubt had treatments throughout your life that were new or innovative at the time. It's the human body, man. We can't be sure of anything. But that doesn't mean people should avoid the new just because it's new.

Not trying to be condescending, and given your line of work, you have no doubt considered all of this before you reached your conclusion. I'm just saying-- think about it again.

I thought this was fairly well-known. Not sure why the "pushed through" type nonsense persists.