Coronavirus - II

[bigburly912]

Im wondering if most people in all of you in this thread wear mask? In my town its like 55 percent wear mask. It got a lot better a week or 2 ago.

I do because my wife is a nurse practitioner and it's hard telling who/what she sees every day in her clinic. Out of caring for other people I wear one any time I go in a building with other occupants.

 

[StarHalo]

Im wondering if most people in all of you in this thread wear mask? In my town its like 55 percent wear mask. It got a lot better a week or 2 ago.

I wear a mask or I get fired..

 

[turbodog]

MS opened sit down dining 2 weeks ago, barbers a week ago, and the casinos open this week. Yet, the numbers are not rebounding greatly, if at all.

They are very slightly trending upwards, like they did while still on lockdown.

We went for mexican on Saturday. I could have sat there all day eating chips and so on.

 

[wacbzz]

I wear a bandana...a mask was/is really uncomfortable with my beard and barring a legit report saying that bandanas don't work AT ALL, I'll stick with the current precaution. I dislike the fact that I go into grocery stores for instance, and there are folks not wearing a mask/bandana, but the is nothing I can do about it, but stay a good distance from them.

I was "essential," so I've been working since day one, but don't think for a moment that I wouldn't rather have been at home with my family instead of being at work. I'm the guy with zero empathy for folks clamoring to "get out" because they've been "cooped up" when they don't realize the risk "essential" folks have been putting up with simply because they don't want to be at home. Perspective. It's what all these assholes going to the beaches now don't have...

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Nice to see some things opening up in San Diego county. Santee drive in theater is open (it never should have been closed to begin with). Three of the larger lakes in the county are now open. I wish they'd open all the trails and drop the mask requirement. Until then, I'll stick to walking laps at home mask free. I'm not hiking in the heat with a mask and a messed up thyroid (body's thermostat is busted so I can't handle extreme heat or cold). Indian casinos are planning to open up this week. San Diego county's government is against the casinos opening and wants to stop it. Indian casinos are on tribal land so the city has no jurisdiction to do anything. We'll have to wait and see how that plays out. With the vast majority of people without jobs and pissed off because of it, I'm seeing a lot of people protesting with all the time in the world to do it. Can't see these lockdowns and restrictions lasting too much longer with so many people furious and elections coming up this year. Hopefully, the death toll continues to drop and we can return to some semblance of normalcy very soon. It can't come soon enough.

 

[jabe1]

I'm in the higher risk demographic so when I go out, I wear a mask.
I start working again this week, and I'll wear one while working also.
Be wise of our lack of testing, there is no way to know who is contagious and who is not.

 

[KITROBASKIN]

From Associated Press; a description of what is happening in the USA and reflected in our discussions here. My issue of not wearing masks at businesses is the risk working-poor employees have to deal with encountering many, many people over the course of the day, drastically increasing their chances of exposure because somebody has no mask on as an expression of a political bent. I avoid the mask whenever possible, but some people are going to die over this.

https://apnews.com/d1275651bc23d0ac3d35863b9f86c2ad

 

[bigburly912]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sa...nly-had-six-pure-coronavirus-deaths?_amp=true

Interesting read

 

[idleprocess]

I was "essential," so I've been working since day one, but don't think for a moment that I wouldn't rather have been at home with my family instead of being at work. I'm the guy with zero empathy for folks clamoring to "get out" because they've been "cooped up" when they don't realize the risk "essential" folks have been putting up with simply because they don't want to be at home. Perspective. It's what all these assholes going to the beaches now don't have...

"Essential" worker but working from home for more than two months now. Suspect I'll head into the office (which has remained open continuously) sometime this month just to break up the monotony since I gather census levels are <5% normal making it reasonably safe to visit. Otherwise I'm not much leaving the neighborhood and a tank of gas lasts a month or so.

 

[knucklegary]

Wacbzz, Don't know (don't care) where your North of South is located, but around my neck of the woods if folks don't have something covering their face, they are not entering any stores.. period

 

[bigburly912]

Wacbzz, Don't know (don't care) where your North of South is located, but around my neck of the woods if folks don't have something covering their face, they are not entering any stores.. period

There's a few like that here still but not many.

 

[bykfixer]

To mask or not to mask, that is the question.

I'm in the bandana/scarf camp. I have masks but ended up preferring a bandana.

I'm still practicing the big 3 reccomendations. 6+ feet apart, wash your hands and don't touch your face (with unwashed hands).

 

[knucklegary]

+1 Byk.. many of us do the bandana. It serves me only to get into grocery stores

One thing I find with folks wearing face coverings is the inability to read expressions, especially to my comments

The other day while feeling-up the tomatoes my bandana slipped off and the hot produce gal caught me smiling 🍅🍌

 

[bykfixer]

I've worn a bandana for years turned to cover my neck when in the sun a lot. I see several respected business folks wearing them everyday now. It's easy to deploy, easy to remove and you forget you have it around your neck when not doing the cowboy bank robber thing.

Plus it's kinda fun saying "reach for the sky pilgrim" in grocery stores. When it's hot it can be used as a head covering to soak up sweat, then wrapped around the neck like a cool wet rag. When I was a lad my grandma had one sewn like Aunt Jamima complete with a padded sweat band. She just slid it over her head like a wig. So it was just a natural thing when I started working road construction. My work truck has several so when the pandemic got cranked up I just grabbed one and started wearing after seeing a big time lawyer in my area wearing a tiger print one as an accessory to his "Matlock" suit. lol.

 

[turbodog]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sa...nly-had-six-pure-coronavirus-deaths?_amp=true

Interesting read

I read the article. Sounds like he's parroting Trump. So we disregard or trivialize the virus, or any virus, because people were going to die early anyway? WTH man?

There's a rather large coronavirus death gap that's being missed.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

 

[RedLED]

Bandanas. When I was a fireman for the CDF, here in California, on vegetation fires, we would wet them and wear them like the cowboy robbers to filter the smoke. Actually, they did an excellent job.

 

[raggie33]

This woman may be one of my fav non blood related person https://vm.tiktok.com/Tp5fmf/

 

[Greta]

I don't own a mask. Neither does Honey. We haven't worn one once since this whole mess started. In our city of 55,000 permanent residents, we currently have 52 confirmed cases in two and a half months - four deaths. Closest town to us is 40 miles away.

Today we got the results back from Honey's test last Tuesday - "Not detected". - We immediately started getting ready to go to the cigar bar. When we got there is was like Norm walking into Cheers - so awesome!! - Yes, I hugged a couple of people who are very dear to me and I haven't seen in 7 weeks. No one wore masks. We played three games of poker. We bet on whether the next customer in the bar would be a male or female. We bet on whether the next customer would have shoelaces or not. We bet on what color the next customer's underwear was. And I had my favorite vodka... Absolut Elyx. All is right with the world again. Honey goes back to work tomorrow. I will finally sleep well tonight... :tired::sleepy:

 

[raggie33]

I don't own a mask. Neither does Honey. We haven't worn one once since this whole mess started. In our city of 55,000 permanent residents, we currently have 52 confirmed cases in two and a half months - four deaths. Closest town to us is 40 miles away.

Today we got the results back from Honey's test last Tuesday - "Not detected". - We immediately started getting ready to go to the cigar bar. When we got there is was like Norm walking into Cheers - so awesome!! - Yes, I hugged a couple of people who are very dear to me and I haven't seen in 7 weeks. No one wore masks. We played three games of poker. We bet on whether the next customer in the bar would be a male or female. We bet on whether the next customer would have shoelaces or not. We bet on what color the next customer's underwear was. And I had my favorite vodka... Absolut Elyx. All is right with the world again. Honey goes back to work tomorrow. I will finally sleep well tonight... :tired::sleepy:

Do they have swisher sweets?

 

[Dave D]

Today we got the results back from Honey's test last Tuesday - "Not detected".

Excellent news!!!!:twothumbs