context: this meme is 3 years old. think about what everyone including that gentleman in the back did to protect everyone around them.
A lot of people still don’t understand that most masks are only really good for protecting others rather than the wearer and that this was the main point of asking people to wear them. I’ve seen people have revelations and change their opinion about masks upon having this explained.
I’ve seen people have revelations and change their opinion about masks upon having this explained.
I’ve seen more who openly don’t give a fuck.
America hates masks
Did you ask her?
You want me, to wear a mask, to protect other people? It’s not even going to help meee? Well fuck you then!
High quality masks like N95s are incredibly effective at protecting the wearer when used properly.
Have you tried wearing an n95 mask while doing anything more strenuous than walking? I have no health issues at all and I can find it difficult to breathe. I don’t think obligating (legally or socially) people to wear n95 masks is realistic. Unfortunately, just like many socially charged issues in 2023 it just takes some common sense. I’m not implying you’re lacking, just my .02.
I’ve played basketball wearing an N95 and was perfectly fine, and that’s coming from someone who has shit conditioning and gets out of breath easily. I actually had a harder time breathing in a cloth mask because it was directly in contact with my face while playing. The N95 on the other hand provides an air pocket.
Wildland firefighters wear n95s while in 400 degree Fahrenheit heat. All while wearing up to 75 lbs of gear and carrying around heavy equipment. They literally choose to wear n95s for outdoor scenarios because they are lighter weight and easier to breathe in than their normal indoors masks.
If they can do that, I think we can wear them while we’re in a store or whatever.
I carried my 55L pack on my back and my spouses 35L pack on my chest last week through the airport wearing an N95 mask just fine. The other person is just making excuses.
I agree they are not comfortable. They aren’t hard to breathe through, the real issue imo is communication, it’s very difficult to have a conversation with one on. I wear one on a regular basis, I would prefer not to, but I personally find it worth the tradeoff.
I blacksmith bro. I swing a 5 pound hammer with one hand for hours with a 1400° fire a few feet away from me, while wearing heat insulation gloves in the summer. I wear an N95 because if I don’t I’ll cough out coal dust for the next 2 days, and I’m sure as shit not looking forward to finding out how that feels when I’m 80. Oh and I’m significantly overweight. If I could do it everyone else is just removed.
Why wouldn’t you use an appropriate respirator for that task? Any respirator would probably be okay, but I’m a big fan of the 3M 7500 series for comfort and exhaust control in case you’re wearing a face shield.
Cause I’m lazy and cheap and would rather throw on one of the hundreds of N95s I have lying around in my garage
Fair enough.
Yeah, I found the same issue once I finally got my hands on any real N95s. Earlier I had built a mod for a cheap ARF-A gas mask that filtered both intake and exhaust using 3M P100 filters and that was dramatically superior to the airflow, moisture control, and overall comfort of the N95s I tried. As an added benefit, the eye coverings also kept me from absently touching my eyes like I often do, which is a major disease vector. I just look like a dork wearing it, but I’m used to that.
I repeat this to everyone I can. Obviously there is some personal benefit to wearing a mask but unless you’re being insanely careful about what you touch ALL the time it’s just not gonna do a whole lot. On the other hand if you’re hacking and spewing all over the place and you absolutely have to be out in public please, for the love of fucking God put politics aside and keep your bodily fluids to yourself.
I’m disappointed to see that Lemmings hate this truth.
I wonder if she’s eligible for a Herman Cain award.
people are still dying from COVID & people think it’s “old news” lol
In the “quiet” COVID month of July 1990 people died of COVID, compared to 86 people with influenza.
And that’s a quiet month.
Read July 1990 as a date not: in July, 1990 people
God thank you for the clarification. For a quick second I thought I had jumped the timeline to one where Clinton handled COVID.
“I did not have sexual relations with that chinese bat”
Sure you didn’t, buddy. We know it was thick and don’t blame ya.
I too was perplexed… 😂
Read “read” as imperative rather than past tense
mentally inserted a comma between past and tense, tense
Lmao so did I. I was so confused.
Yeah, it took me way too long.
Read “Read” as a command instead of a past tense :)
Tough day for keyboards today
I will send back this PR as an incorrect date format, I already am triggered by this lack of a comma
worldwide, US or other country?
US.
This includes deaths from covid-induced pneumonia, and influenza has higher seasonality. Including deaths from influenza-induced pneumonia, not cherry picking a summer month, and using a per capita statistic shows that covid is more deadly than the flu, but only about twice as deadly, not almost 24 times more deadly as your comment implies. Further, if you are under 50, the mortality rates for influenza are roughly equal or lower than covid depending on your age. Flu is much more likely to be disastrous for young children than covid.
I too would wear a mask, headphones and probably a sleepmask if I were forced to sit next to someone who enjoys Ayn Rand.
It’s not very safe though, you never know when such person would have idea to excercise their freedom and virtues on your belongings and/or body.
Yeah you’re definitely getting pickpocketed.
“how to look punchable with this one simple trick!”
Daddy Peterson books work just as well btw
“I got handed an Ayn Rand sandwich Straight from a can it tasted so bland (…)”
I’ve got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas Shrugged.
What? I don’t really now anything about Ayn Rand. I just remembered the lyrics 🎶
Haha no it’s a Run the Jewels lyric.
Have her blasting with a speaker as well and coughing on everything wiping her nose on the seat n shit.
Selfishness as a virtue?
Christ, how can anyone listen to Ayn Rand after becoming an objectivist and not getting serious are we the baddies energy
Oh because they aren’t wearing a mask?
There’s a new type of long covid where you can’t stop posting about the covid years.
I know of 4 people who have had it within the last 2 months. We’re still in the COVID years.
I just had it. Only ever got hit midly, but man does it ever linger. That tiny cough stays for weeks. Probably useful from a virus’s evolutionary pov. I’m not sick enough to stay at home, but I am sick enough to infect others. Those dubious fucking viruses man!
Got it a month ago, not the worst worst (I have collected them all :-/ ) but quite bad.
1 week after no longer being sick at all I just wheezed for moving up two flights of stairs. Normally I’m in quite OK shape but this sucker is just draining your lung capacity.
Which place are you visiting where you get non-stop covid posts?
This sub, apparently.
There have been over 30 posts to this community in the last 24 hours. This is the only one that mentions COVID.
Damn I guess I got owned with facts and logic
Yes, do better next time.
implying “the covid years” are over
Yes, they are
My brother in Christ, I have covid right now
It’s definitely not over dude.
I caught it after one person infected over a dozen people at a birthday party last week.
I spent over two days locked to a couch unable to handle any food with a 104 fever and now I’m mostly just dealing with the leftover sinus & upper respiratory infection it caused.
And this is honestly one of the first covid posts I’ve seen here in a bit. No idea what you are talking about.
I avoided COVID for 3 years and have had it twice since July.
What on earth are you talking about.
