What % of people will want masks forever?

dunes runner wrote:

End the BS wrote:

What % of people will want them to stick around forever?

100% of the people already wearing them.

Because no one would be wearing them now unless that's what they wanted to do.

You seem to having trouble with simple definitions. Here, let me help you out:

now (adverb): at the present moment

forever (adverb): for a limitless time

dunes runner wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

No one wants to have to wear a mask. But we will probably have to wear masks in the US in high risk situations for a few years after an effective vaccine becomes available because the COVID deniers and antivaxxers won't take the vaccine. This will delay achieving real herd immunity and make it important to keep wearing a mask.

Exactly. The fact that there are healthy people like me around means that people like you who get vaccinated with toxic and deadly vaccinations should always keep wearing your masks so you... uh... won't get sick.

Oh wait, an anti-vaxxer. In that case, never mind.

End the BS wrote:

Germaphobe paranoiac types seem to like them, equating them with banning smoking in public.

What % of people will want them to stick around forever?

What does forever mean? As long as there are humans around? What if we eradicate all viruses, including the flu and the cold? What if there is a new virus that is as deadly as the plague and kills 50% of those infected?

This is probably accurate.

Precious Roy wrote:

No one wants to have to wear a mask. But we will probably have to wear masks in the US in high risk situations for a few years after an effective vaccine becomes available because the COVID deniers and antivaxxers won't take the vaccine. This will delay achieving real herd immunity and make it important to keep wearing a mask.

Just to play devils advocate why should we continue to wear masks if some people don't get the vaccine? If the vaccine works anyone who doesn't get it joins society at their own risk and those who get it are protected. If the vaccine sucks then who gets in and who doesn't really doesn't matter and we need to get to herd immunity naturally sooner or later anyway.

If people don't want the vaccine and have negative health consequences shouldn't that be on them?

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Same as the rating for this thread.

I suspect we'll need masks *available* for quite some time: To protect their employees (and other customers), some stores are likely to require that everyone in-store be masked.

But I think everyone should be cool with that, right? I mean, if an individual store owner chooses to run a "no shirt, no shoes, no mask: no service" operation, s/he should have that right, no? People who don't like that policy can of course shop elsewhere--and no doubt will.

Covid-19 has given a sense of meaning to those who never found it elsewhere and they’d rather live under lockdown than give it up.

Masks are the symbol of this new found meaning even as it leaves them oxygen deprived.

Do not underestimate the level of neuroses that has always been percolating in these people.

There are also large numbers of people that feel "put out" and wonder why those who refuse to wear masks can't just suffer along with them. They think in terms of "what makes you so special" instead of alleviating their own suffering.

dunes runner wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

No one wants to have to wear a mask. But we will probably have to wear masks in the US in high risk situations for a few years after an effective vaccine becomes available because the COVID deniers and antivaxxers won't take the vaccine. This will delay achieving real herd immunity and make it important to keep wearing a mask.

Exactly. The fact that there are healthy people like me around means that people like you who get vaccinated with toxic and deadly vaccinations should always keep wearing your masks so you... uh... won't get sick.

Why even bother responding- he's the prototype of the New Gauleiter. He just channeled- nearly verbatim- Pope Fauci and hasn't had an original non-bureaucrat thought in decades if ever.

When are you knuckleheads going to understand that healthy people are the biggest spreaders of the virus and actually contribute to the most deaths?

Allen53 wrote:

Covid-19 has given a sense of meaning to those who never found it elsewhere

Look in the mirror.

You are thinking about mask wearing only with respect to covid-19. When it's gone there will be other viruses we don't have vaccines for. Mask wearing was around in Asian countries before covid and it will be around (probably, even more prevalent) after.

And given the fact that most Asian countries handled covid with far fewer deaths there is reason to try and understand if mask wearing was a factor. Just remove US politics from the equation and ask yourself if there are some situations where masks might be appropriate.

Suppose you had a big marathon coming up in two weeks and you needed to do a lot of traveling where you would likely be exposed to some virus in crowded planes and other places. Would it be worth wearing a mask if it reduced the chance of you getting sick the week before you ran?

No, I would not wear a mask. I almost never get sick and I'm not going to start freaking out because other people are now more aware of a threat I've always known existed. There are a million things that could derail my upcoming marathon some of which, like injury, are more likely. Some of us have no problem continuing to live our lifes with the understanding bad things happen that we cannot control and its better to accept some low levels of heightened risk for overall enjoyment.

I think people who are sick wearing a mask is a good habit we can pick up. But I don't think there was mass mask wearing in Asian countries amongst healthy people before this.

Better vaccines may be developed over time. As such, your argument holds no water.

Allen53 wrote:

dunes runner wrote:

Exactly. The fact that there are healthy people like me around means that people like you who get vaccinated with toxic and deadly vaccinations should always keep wearing your masks so you... uh... won't get sick.

Why even bother responding- he's the prototype of the New Gauleiter. He just channeled- nearly verbatim- Pope Fauci and hasn't had an original non-bureaucrat thought in decades if ever.

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"Pope Fauci"?

Try again. Next time use logic rather than cute 6th grade rhetorical devices.

[quote]Allen53 wrote:

Covid-19 has given a sense of meaning to those who never found it elsewhere and they’d rather live under lockdown than give it up.

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Weird... because... Jamin is on your side?

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

I don't think there was mass mask wearing in Asian countries amongst healthy people before this.

So you haven't spent much time in East Asia, eh?

Using a term like "freaking out" just reinforces my point that an individual's decision about whether or not to wear a mask is at least somewhat determined by how they might be perceived by others. In the week leading up to a marathon if I try and get more sleep, I'm more careful about what I eat, and structure workouts to reduce my chance of injury am I "freaking out" or just taking sensible precautions?

Democrats love the lockdowns and especially the mask mandates. Those are not going away.