You people wear your mask if it makes you feel better. I just ignore you and continue to live my life without wearing one. 7 months later and I still don’t know anyone who has contracted the china virus.
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Yes, people do it to protect others. But the fact is it doesn't protect others. So some of us ask, then why do it? I think it's a fair question.
Agreed. The hysteria and the acceptance to wearing masks is really interesting. The mask shaming almost turns to violence at times, amazing. I've read that some folks will wear one indefinitely going forward, no matter the situation. The 30% of all common colds are caused by a strain of the corona virus family (known for over 5 decades). We'll likely all be exposed to it eventually..
To me, this isn't political at all, I'm not a rabid Trump supporter nor do I agree with the leftist ideologies that are being embraced by some "progressives". But to our politicians it sure appears to be. The mayor of LA is shutting down utilities to people who have large gatherings at their house, but joins thousands of people not complying with state guidelines during these mass protests? I'm sure I'll be ridiculed for speaking my opinion, but that's the standard response to anyone that doesn't agree with your view. Shout and shame me all ya want.
An example of why it's harder to deal with something like a pandemic in various places.
Most things don't need to be certified to be real. If they are from China, then they are most likely following Chinese standards GB12345 etc. When you see N95 on masks from China, that means they are N95 equivalent, in some cases, you will see KN95.I know it won’t be certified as a N95 in the USA, due to having ear loops instead of straps that go behind your head.
Counterfeit Respirators | NPPTL | NIOSH | CDC
Misrepresented respirators include all respirators that are falsely marketed and sold as NIOSH Approved respirators when they are not. Counterfeit respirators specifically refer to products trying to copy an actual NIOSH Approved modelwww.cdc.gov
For bullet vests, we have NIJ IIIA etc, ones from China are NIJ rating equivalent. They are not rubber-stamped by NIJ, aka, they did not pay fees to the US government, that doesn't mean they are fake.
The certification business is a money-grabbing monopoly.
There is no real or fake in Engineering Standards. Only meets or doesn't meet the standard.
It’s a good thing you aren’t here in the US. We’ve had nearly 6.5 million cases of the Trump virus, and almost 200,000 dead. You probably don’t know any of them either. But they’re still dead.
How many of them would still be alive if Trump hadn’t lied to us over 8 months ago, when there hadn’t even been a single death yet in the US? 50,000? 100,000? 150,000? Hard to say...
PS Patriotic Americans wearing masks do it mostly to protect others. Those who are frightened of them and refuse to wear one are still able to infect us Patriots, even if they’re not showing symptoms yet.
You’re wrong. Face masks do protect others—and yourself.
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I know 6 people who got it. One co-worker, three close friends and the family of one of those friends. But I’m in NYC which was, until we started wearing masks in public, the global epicenter of the virus transmission. And while I know 6 people who got it, none contracted it after April.
Only that he's got more accomplished in 4 years than he competitor has in nearly 50.
Yeah, doctor here too. It doesn't make you right. So you'd be ok with everyone wearing masks forever because it decreases risk from everything we've been around forever too right?
Tell that to your President. He did a 180 on 20 July. How did you miss that?
He says wearing a mask is patriotic, but I guess you don’t want to hear that. So you just keep right on being... you.
I, on the other hand, as a proud, patriotic member of the Democratic Party, will continue to wear a mask 🤷♂️
Trump tweets photo of himself wearing coronavirus mask: 'nobody more Patriotic than me'
President Trump, after months of refusing to wear a coronavirus face mask in public, posted a photo on Twitter Monday of himself wearing a face mask, declaring that “There is nobody more Patriotic than me.”www.foxnews.com
Your president HAS to say that...he has to conform and play the game. He's doing a spectacular job as well. And there is also no such thing as a patriotic member of the wacko democratic party.
If Apple offered those masks for sale to consumers, I would certainly buy a few if they were about $5 each. The only thing I don't like about them is that the straps wrap around the ears. I prefer straps to wrap around the head. All my N95 mask straps wrap around my ears and they have a tendency to slip off from my ears.
It's all about risk...the risk with this is so low it's so dumb to even think about shutting stuff down, masks, etc.
Seems like those might not be actual N95 masks as the real (certified) ones have headbands rather than ear loops:
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Will wait for the Apple Face Mask Pro
I'm blessed with a large brain and therefore a large head (or at least that's what I tell myself) so I'll be waiting on the Apple Face Pro Max.
Does it come with AppleCare is my question?
Yes but AppleCare only provides service if the mask ear loops break. If you actually contract COVID-19 with sympthoms, you need AppleCare+ which has a $99 a month premium and a $1000 deductible (with 20% coinsurance if you use an out of Apple Ecosystem physician).
I agree. Just because there are people that have decided to take a position opposite to scientifically and medically prudent behaviors in response to a pandemic, does not make the issue “political.” It simply means that there are irresponsible people out there; we shouldn’t allow irrational decisions and stubborn people to co-opt society’s response to a life and death situation.
It’s not political. It’s science. If losers want to politicize or deny science they are uneducated simpletons and I have no time for them. If you were not smart enough to be able to take physics, chemistry and calculus in high school or college that’s not my problem, it’s yours. Obtain an education then we can have a debate. An opinion is one thing, facts are another and they are not up for debate.
Ok, lets skip the first page where all the "wanna be funny" people post cheesy comments and lets get on topic.
Speak for yourself. It’s why I’m here!
I know people who have died, and I know people who have been sick for months, and will have to live with organ damage. And this is in Canada where there is a tiny fraction of the number of cases elsewhere. Don't be an idiot. The longer idiots go around maskless the longer they'll need to be worn. And the more parents and grandparents who will die.
Basically this:
Please consider not allowing anti-mask threads here at MR
not sure it says anything except mask/corona discussions always trend toward politics. So rather than deleting political posts for a day and then finally moving the thread to politics, we decided to skip that step and just start in politics.
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And now I know why this is marked as "Political" ... MR was well aware the crazy racists would come in spewing nonsense about a non political topic, and of course those of us with brain cells would have to react and correct them.