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I respectfully disagree. Mask wearing is political. Trump ALWAYS said masks were an option and he * almost never wore one himself, while Dems like Pelosi were mandating them. I may be wrong, but Democrats are much more likely to believe government is the solution and therefor follow their party line. I live in a very red region, so my experiences are probably just different.

Of course there are exceptions, but I believe in most instances its virtue signaling and that is the cause.

The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID
 
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Muppet said:
Agreed, you're not wrong. Though, we will certainly see this fall if thus shit comes to fruition. Question bro, will you resist, if work makes it so?
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No. We have some high-risk areas that required masks pre-COVID; now they still require masks whereas everywhere else in the hospital has dumped them. So if the hospital goes back, I won't fight it. In the gen pop I will still not wear one, but here I will simply because I don't know if the person I am around has, like, 1 WBC floating around.
 
Topkick said:
I respectfully disagree. Mask wearing is political. Trump ALWAYS said masks were an option and he * almost never wore one himself, while Dems like Pelosi were mandating them. I may be wrong, but Democrats are much more likely to believe government is the solution and therefor follow their party line. I live in a very red region, so my experiences are probably just different.

Of course there are exceptions, but I believe in most instances its virtue signaling and that is the cause.

The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID
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Political party may be part of the equation, but it can't be the entire reason. I live in a pretty liberal area; what I am seeing is specific to Asians and blacks. I don't see this with white people nor Latino. So there has to be something else, something more than political persuasion.
 
Devildoc said:
No. We have some high-risk areas that required masks pre-COVID; now they still require masks whereas everywhere else in the hospital has dumped them. So if the hospital goes back, I won't fight it. In the gen pop I will still not wear one, but here I will simply because I don't know if the person I am around has, like, 1 WBC floating around.
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I generally refused to wear a mask during covid but I have also never had a problem wearing a mask in appropriate conditions such as a hospital. Its respectful if nothing else.
 
Topkick said:
I generally refused to wear a mask during covid but I have also never had a problem wearing a mask in appropriate conditions such as a hospital. Its respectful if nothing else.
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I appreciate that. I was once one of those people walking around with 1 white blood cell, so someone's cough could give me a horrible infection requiring hospitalization. So when I was in that state, I often wore a mask not in all public spaces, but in some public spaces with high density. But I could not care less if others in the public did not wear a mask around me; the burden was mine, not theirs. In the hospital the probability of running into a bunch of people like me goes up a lot; in any ID or oncology space, it goes up exponentially, so it makes more sense.
 
I'll take that for oncology. That's been a constant forever. Otherwise, no. I stopped wearing masks at work and going into EDs 2 years ago.

I had one nurse tell me to mask up. I told her, well, you're masked up and I'm sure you're vaxxed, theoretical, you're safe, right? I refuse to participate in this charade, she walked away.

I certainly will follow that same concept if this charade returns.
 
Muppet said:
you're masked up and I'm sure you're vaxxed, theoretical, you're safe, right?
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In public spaces, I also said that a few times during Covid. Wal Mart had an employee standing outside the store telling people to mask up before going in. I said "why, if everyone concerned is wearing a mask then they shouldn't worry about me" followed that up with "our Sheriff said he wouldn't respond but you can call him if you want, I'm going on in now" he chuckled and said "okay, have a good day"
 
Topkick said:
In public spaces, I also said that a few times during Covid. Wal Mart had an employee standing outside the store telling people to mask up before going in. I said "why, if everyone concerned is wearing a mask then they shouldn't worry about me" followed that up with "our Sheriff said he wouldn't respond but you can call him if you want, I'm going on in now" he chuckled and said "okay, have a good day"
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In the beginning, I had one toad tell me "it's law!".
I said, who the fuck voted on this? Nobody did. It's an arbitrary "mandate" that nobody has to legally follow, get out of my fucking face. Yeah, I was that guy.

I wanted to buy that bird plague mask from the black plague days, wife vetoed it, she's no fun! Lol.

My friend had 2 masks, 1 said "obey", the other said "PSYOP".
 
its ok - that shits already been memory holed - even initiating a conversation that the lie was a lie gets painted as disinformation

eat your peas mother fuckers - and start filling out your 2024 mail in ballots
 
Muppet said:

Nor should we forget.

I won't forget the collaborators, friends and family that alienated us for questioning, not falling into lockstep under the guise of "being socially and morally right".
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Yep. Happened here on the site, happened in real life.

People are far too ready to inflict thrower fears and their politics and their beliefs on others. Carnage of an untold magnitude was wreaked upon our country over COVID, and no one was, nor will they ever be, held accountable.

Be that as it may, but I’m not going to forget.
 

Not a plug for Vivek, you all know how I feel about politicians and the government.

Just the other day, my wife's copay for her diabetic med, Rybelsus went from 42 bucks to 176 bucks. Why? "Donut hole" per insurance.

You wonder why I'm so fucking pissed off about how things are. You can say, let it roll off your shoulders, you can't control it.

But, until almost 200 bucks per month for a med us coming out of pocket for a med you need, as I'm sure we all know, this is the reason Oliver Anthony's song is so popular.

It's the fat cock suckers in DC that cause this, along with government controlled big pharma.
 
Muppet said:

Not a plug for Vivek, you all know how I feel about politicians and the government.

Just the other day, my wife's copay for her diabetic med, Rybelsus went from 42 bucks to 176 bucks. Why? "Donut hole" per insurance.

You wonder why I'm so fucking pissed off about how things are. You can say, let it roll off your shoulders, you can't control it.

But, until almost 200 bucks per month for a med us coming out of pocket for a med you need, as I'm sure we all know, this is the reason Oliver Anthony's song is so popular.

It's the fat cock suckers in DC that cause this, along with government controlled big pharma.
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I just watched the whole interview. He's honestly the best sounding political candidate, I've seen in a long time. He understands the threats and how to eliminate them.
 

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