How did such a simple, sensible thing as protective masks get politically weaponized? Oh, wait, I know … our president for months sneered and mocked and disdainfully snatched his off on the White House Balcony after returning from expensive treatments at the hospital. And jeered at Biden wearing a mask at their debate. What a guy.
Consider wearing masks as part of the fire drill against the coming Plague that will inevitably appear in future years. Such childish whining — pretend it’s Halloween. There are certainly plenty of ghosts and political goblins around these days.
If you wear your mask, and are right, then there is no issue. If you wear your mask and you are wrong, then there is no issue. If you don’t wear your mask and you are right, then there is no issue. If you wear your mask and you are wrong … too late at that point for either you or the other person.
Well, there are still variants out there that masking might help and still some stores require masks be worn by all who enter. There’s nothing really stupid about being vaccinated and continuing with masking. It may well be the patriotic and Christian thing to do.
As I understand it, a person who is fully vaccinated — but not wearing a mask — can transmit Covid-19 to an unvaccinated person in close proximity. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Isn’t “better safe than sorry” the reason most folk go to church? But on the subject of masks… If (completely vaccinated) you would be comfortable unmasked spending time in the presence of known carriers.. you’re a fool. But, it’s your right to be one, freedom afterall.
Rall’s disgusting comparison of contemporary medical advice he cannot grasp or credit (despite his IMPLIED medical-training and expertise) to ancient human sacrifice reveals his deliberate refusal to be constructively critical. Rall THRIVES on chaos, NOT on solution. Rall should be ashamed, but, if he were, it would jeopardize his personal income, so it’s out of the question.
Well Ted now has my looking for the history of the Aztecs. Even though I have two degrees in history, I’ve read virtually nothing outside European-American, and even Canadian history would have to be a minor for a PhD. I am personally waiting for a week Friday (11 June) when it’s two weeks past my second shot before I go maskless but stay two meters away. Happy Kamehameha Day and birthday to Shane Meier!
Huh? This one doesn’t work for me at all. Mabe I missed the point. If it’s a riff on psychotic anti-maskers, OK. If it’s implying that there’s some harm to wearing masks, then it’s a dud. Better to compare masks for the vaccinated to Mormons’ magic underpants.
I did not think of Ted Rall as a radical pro-Trump republican anti-masker. Is he against vaccinations, too? Or is there some satire here that’s going over my head?
The real issue is that we can have no confidence that people not wearing masks are vaccinated. Here in Massachusetts, one of the best states for vaccinations, we only have 52% fully vaccinated and two-thirds with one shot. Herd immunity is going to take AT LEAST 75% or higher – and as we get more virulent mutations, definitely higher.
I don’t wear a mask outside away from crowds, but I keep one available and, indeed, visible, as I live in a city.
There is still reason to wear masks. Covid-19 is not gone. Not even half the country is vaccinated. Even though I am vaccinated, I could still catch it and spread it to the morons who refuse to get vaccinated. The result of that might be over run hospitals and more variants of the Corona Virus.
I didn’t take you for the MAGA type, but now I’m beginning to wonder.
I really think you’ve lost your marbles. There is absolutely no way to know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t. Until herd immunity, the virus will continue to mutate and get more deadly. So yeah, wear an effing mask and get vaccinated.
Liberals’ Bizarre Fear of an Unmasked NationJune 1, 2021
During last year’s campaign Joe Biden promised to “listen to the scientists.” He repeatedly said his coronavirus-response policy would be “informed by science and by experts.”
On issues from the environment to teaching evolution in public schools to the public health response to the COVID pandemic, liberals often accuse conservatives of putting emotions ahead of facts. While recognizing that the scientific process of acquiring knowledge and putting hypotheses to an empirical test can and often does lead to shifts in consensus, we on the left claim to trust scientists like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease specialist and unlikely media icon.
After Dr. Fauci and other authorities like the Centers for Disease Control told us to wear masks, Blue America listened. As of late June 2020, 86% of Democrats wore a facemask whenever they left home, compared to 48% of Republicans.
Now scientific consensus has changed. But lefties are choosing to ignore the new reality—not that it’s new. Beginning nearly a year ago in July 2020 the CDC stated that wearing a mask outdoors was unnecessary unless one is less than six feet away from someone else. Aside from crowded events like rallies, sports and concerts, risk of outdoor transmission is lower than a rounding error; there has only been one documented case of COVID transmission outdoors, between two Chinese villagers.
Clarifying its long-held stance, the CDC said on May 13th that people need not wear a mask outdoors unless we are in a crowd of strangers, or inside with our “pod” of friends and family members. Masking outside is “optional,” Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told The Washington Post. Optional, as in unnecessary.
Let’s pivot toward hope. Nearly half of American adults have been fully vaccinated and Pfizer is vaccinating children ages 12 to 15. We can go outside, have fun and socialize within the new liberalized guidelines yet too many people remain traumatized and grimly coasting on paranoid inertia. “It’s the return of freedom,” said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Weeks after the latest CDC guidelines were issued, however, normalcy and freedom are still in short supply in liberal bastions like my neighborhood in Manhattan, where Biden won 91% of the vote. In compliance with the CDC, I walk outside without a mask because it’s unnecessary. Moreover, I’m fully vaccinated. Rules require that I put one on when I go into a store or ride the subway.
Furrowed brows, glares and general stink-eyes still abound. My neighbors are ignoring the CDC as much as right-wingers in West Virginia did last summer.
One would expect attitudes to evolve with the passage of time but that hasn’t been the case so far. When a fellow tenant confronted me recently about my masklessness in the lobby—where I’d been alone prior to her arrival—I informed her that I’d been fully vaccinated. “Everyone in the building has probably been vaccinated,” she said, “but here we still wear them.” I asked why. “It’s just the right thing to do,” she replied.
At a full-serve gas station in Manhattan the attendant demanded that I put on my mask before giving me a fill-up. “We’re outside,” I pointed out. It was windy to boot. “The CDC says you don’t need a mask.” “I don’t care what the CDC says,” he told me. “I’m going to keep wearing a mask forever, like in Asia.”
Half-empty streets in majority-Democratic areas—where people are far more likely to get vaxxed—are still, CDC be damned, dotted with people wearing one or two masks on sidewalks where no one can be seen for hundreds of feet. Many of the bemasked will tell you that they been fully vaccinated. You’ll see people jogging down lonely country roads, riding bikes and driving cars while wearing masks.
“You can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time that it may take time for them to adjust [to the new mask rules],” Fauci said May 21st. “So I would not say that that’s irrational. I’d say that’s understandable.”
Go ahead, wear a mask indoors if you want to despite being vaccinated. Wear one outside if you feel like it. However, you are—sorry, Dr. Fauci—acting irrationally. What’s the point of the jab if you behave the same way as a year ago when we wiped down our groceries, bleached our counters and wore plastic gloves out of since-debunked worries over surface transmission?
Masks have devolved from medical imperative to virtue signaling. According to a May 5th Ipsos poll 63% of even vaccinated Americans were still wearing masks, outdoors down from 74% in April but still a surprisingly high number. That number ticked up to 65% the following week on May 11th. President Biden has begun appearing in public with his face fully exposed yet his supporters are not following his example.
What’s the harm in a fashion accessory that, as the vaxxed-yet-masked crowd informs you, merely tries to make other people feel more comfortable while also sending a subtle anti-MAGA message? It’s about thinking straight. Democrats can’t credibly claim the scientific high ground unless they adapt to the latest medical consensus.You have the right to be anxious and illogical, not the right to be catered to. No one should wear a mask outside. Vaxxed Americans shouldn’t wear them at all.
Being a relatively free country, for some anyway, I’ll continue to make my own decisions, thank you. I infer by your last two sentences you are ‘telling’ me what I should do, since I am indeed, an American. One of our founders (Ben Franklin) said, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Seems simple yet good advice to me. Once the pandemic reduces itself to a trickle, I will then decide how to respond to mask wearing (Dr. Fauci, CDC or others notwithstanding). Not a cartoonist with limited drawing skills. Sorry about criticizing you drawing skills. Maybe you ‘should’ take some lessons. See how that works? Irritating isn’t it?Ain’t freedom grand?Keep up the good work though, we need your voice to make sure we are still thinking and not just following.
Again, COVID-19 is a living entity. We have seen over the past 20 months several mutations and new ones announced just this past week. We’ve seen the CDC and Dr. Fauci chastised and called ‘flip-floppers,’ for changing the messaging as the virus changed, and as we have dealt with it. We’ve seen people claim and violently protest that the suggestion of wearing a mask violated their rights when they made no such protest when the government has actual laws making them wear pants. And we’ve seen the number of COVID-19 cases level off and go down prior to the vaccine by adhering to Fauci and the CDC guidelines (NOT laws) of social distancing, hand washing and wearing masks.
Telling others to not wear a mask is not your business nor your concern. You make your decisions for yourself. Others make their own decisions for themselves. And if you’re wrong, just as tRump with far more information than you have was wrong in his advice, you’ll offer the same guarantee as tRump has. DEATH.
Even leaving aside coronavirus concerns, wearing masks can be great for allergy sufferers, people with “ordinary” viruses, and people who live in areas with polluted air. I don’t know why you want me to cough and sneeze all over the place.
Mr. Rall makes some very good points. Personally I have a underlying condition that makes the virus more deadly to me. While I have been vaccinated I wear a mask in public places as it is still possible to catch and suffer symptoms from Covid-19 even after being vaccinated. I might not die but who can afford to use the American Medial System if they don’t absolutely have too? A day or so in the hospital would bankrupt me and many Americans…
Did Rall miss the statistics on influenza cases? Virtually none. Why? Masking, social distancing, etc. And yes, the flu does kill people, still. I wear a double layer mask with a 2.5micron filter. I don’t want your infection to become my infection. And the flu shots given are based on a “best guess” at the likely form of the flu that will be the one circulating. Help save people from the misery of the flu. Wear a mask.
Nearly half of American adults are vaccinated. So that means that MORE than half still aren’t? Me, I’m vaccinated and go without a mask except where it’s mandated, but I’m cool if somebody else wants to play it safer. Maybe some words instead about Texas Republicans trying to sneak in new laws legalizing election theft?
I’ve had the first shot and am partially vaccinated, yet I carry a mask in my pocket just in case I become uncomfortable with the number of people who seem unable to grasp the severity of the situation. I am also heartily sick and tired of arguing with people over the number of people allowed in elevator cars, so now simply put on the mask until I’m well clear of these dumbos. As a regular attendee at hospital clinics, I know that hospital staff feel the same way as I do. Now if people who are front line providers, feel that masks, hand washing and social distance is still required, then who am I, a mere old painter and decorator, to argue with them?
If I wish to wear a mask at the supermarket after being vaccinated, nobody is harmed, and I feel safer. Plus we know that all the masks and social distancing, etc. virtually erased the 20/21 flu season. So, as a free American, it is my call and you can go F-Off.
Rall, you have some gall to be explaining to us scientists how we should treat scientific data. Your hysteria is not helping, and your knowledge on the subject is shallow. BTW, both Motivemagus and Baslim are trained scientific researchers, as am I. When I see some real scientific sophistication in your posts, maybe I’ll pay attention.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
OK. It IS silly. Have you noticed that people are silly?
Daeder almost 3 years ago
Maybe there are slightly fewer consequences to wearing a mask than there are to ripping someone’s heart out of their chest.
Maybe.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Want to be like India, I guess.
PraiseofFolly almost 3 years ago
How did such a simple, sensible thing as protective masks get politically weaponized? Oh, wait, I know … our president for months sneered and mocked and disdainfully snatched his off on the White House Balcony after returning from expensive treatments at the hospital. And jeered at Biden wearing a mask at their debate. What a guy.
Consider wearing masks as part of the fire drill against the coming Plague that will inevitably appear in future years. Such childish whining — pretend it’s Halloween. There are certainly plenty of ghosts and political goblins around these days.
descabro almost 3 years ago
Old habits are the best habits.
dragonbite almost 3 years ago
If you wear your mask, and are right, then there is no issue. If you wear your mask and you are wrong, then there is no issue. If you don’t wear your mask and you are right, then there is no issue. If you wear your mask and you are wrong … too late at that point for either you or the other person.
preacherman almost 3 years ago
Well, there are still variants out there that masking might help and still some stores require masks be worn by all who enter. There’s nothing really stupid about being vaccinated and continuing with masking. It may well be the patriotic and Christian thing to do.
superposition almost 3 years ago
As I understand it, a person who is fully vaccinated — but not wearing a mask — can transmit Covid-19 to an unvaccinated person in close proximity. Correct me if I’m wrong.
rmfrye Premium Member almost 3 years ago
And you don’t see the difference Ted? Sad.
guyjen2004 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I have to give this a like simply because Ted worked an Aztec god in to it.
countoftowergrove almost 3 years ago
Mask shaming. As usual Theodore, you ride the wave of current events. Hang ten, pal!
Rayzor63 almost 3 years ago
I have never seen so many people in one country get so wound up about a few square centimetres of cloth. Circus tents must make them apoplectic.
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Isn’t “better safe than sorry” the reason most folk go to church? But on the subject of masks… If (completely vaccinated) you would be comfortable unmasked spending time in the presence of known carriers.. you’re a fool. But, it’s your right to be one, freedom afterall.
cocavan11 almost 3 years ago
Rall’s disgusting comparison of contemporary medical advice he cannot grasp or credit (despite his IMPLIED medical-training and expertise) to ancient human sacrifice reveals his deliberate refusal to be constructively critical. Rall THRIVES on chaos, NOT on solution. Rall should be ashamed, but, if he were, it would jeopardize his personal income, so it’s out of the question.
VegaAlopex almost 3 years ago
Well Ted now has my looking for the history of the Aztecs. Even though I have two degrees in history, I’ve read virtually nothing outside European-American, and even Canadian history would have to be a minor for a PhD. I am personally waiting for a week Friday (11 June) when it’s two weeks past my second shot before I go maskless but stay two meters away. Happy Kamehameha Day and birthday to Shane Meier!
Durak Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Our county health department reported TWO flu cases last year. TWO.
Why? Masks and social distancing.
It isn’t always about Covid, Ted.
And the farmer crack? That was cheap.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
Isn’t that what republicans plan to do to dems when they declare themselves to be the winners in the next election?
Cerabooge almost 3 years ago
Huh? This one doesn’t work for me at all. Mabe I missed the point. If it’s a riff on psychotic anti-maskers, OK. If it’s implying that there’s some harm to wearing masks, then it’s a dud. Better to compare masks for the vaccinated to Mormons’ magic underpants.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Good false equivalence there, Teddy.
hmofo813 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I did not think of Ted Rall as a radical pro-Trump republican anti-masker. Is he against vaccinations, too? Or is there some satire here that’s going over my head?
tims145 almost 3 years ago
I did like Ted’s series about “The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done”. I think it ran on gocomics long ago but I might be mistaken.
Motivemagus almost 3 years ago
The real issue is that we can have no confidence that people not wearing masks are vaccinated. Here in Massachusetts, one of the best states for vaccinations, we only have 52% fully vaccinated and two-thirds with one shot. Herd immunity is going to take AT LEAST 75% or higher – and as we get more virulent mutations, definitely higher.
I don’t wear a mask outside away from crowds, but I keep one available and, indeed, visible, as I live in a city.
ChristopherBurns almost 3 years ago
Mr Rall. “Uncomfortable”? Really?
There is still reason to wear masks. Covid-19 is not gone. Not even half the country is vaccinated. Even though I am vaccinated, I could still catch it and spread it to the morons who refuse to get vaccinated. The result of that might be over run hospitals and more variants of the Corona Virus.
I didn’t take you for the MAGA type, but now I’m beginning to wonder.
halvincobbes Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I really think you’ve lost your marbles. There is absolutely no way to know who has been vaccinated and who hasn’t. Until herd immunity, the virus will continue to mutate and get more deadly. So yeah, wear an effing mask and get vaccinated.
Ted Rall creator almost 3 years ago
Liberals’ Bizarre Fear of an Unmasked NationJune 1, 2021
During last year’s campaign Joe Biden promised to “listen to the scientists.” He repeatedly said his coronavirus-response policy would be “informed by science and by experts.”On issues from the environment to teaching evolution in public schools to the public health response to the COVID pandemic, liberals often accuse conservatives of putting emotions ahead of facts. While recognizing that the scientific process of acquiring knowledge and putting hypotheses to an empirical test can and often does lead to shifts in consensus, we on the left claim to trust scientists like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease specialist and unlikely media icon.
After Dr. Fauci and other authorities like the Centers for Disease Control told us to wear masks, Blue America listened. As of late June 2020, 86% of Democrats wore a facemask whenever they left home, compared to 48% of Republicans.Now scientific consensus has changed. But lefties are choosing to ignore the new reality—not that it’s new. Beginning nearly a year ago in July 2020 the CDC stated that wearing a mask outdoors was unnecessary unless one is less than six feet away from someone else. Aside from crowded events like rallies, sports and concerts, risk of outdoor transmission is lower than a rounding error; there has only been one documented case of COVID transmission outdoors, between two Chinese villagers.
Clarifying its long-held stance, the CDC said on May 13th that people need not wear a mask outdoors unless we are in a crowd of strangers, or inside with our “pod” of friends and family members. Masking outside is “optional,” Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told The Washington Post. Optional, as in unnecessary.
Ted Rall creator almost 3 years ago
Let’s pivot toward hope. Nearly half of American adults have been fully vaccinated and Pfizer is vaccinating children ages 12 to 15. We can go outside, have fun and socialize within the new liberalized guidelines yet too many people remain traumatized and grimly coasting on paranoid inertia. “It’s the return of freedom,” said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Weeks after the latest CDC guidelines were issued, however, normalcy and freedom are still in short supply in liberal bastions like my neighborhood in Manhattan, where Biden won 91% of the vote. In compliance with the CDC, I walk outside without a mask because it’s unnecessary. Moreover, I’m fully vaccinated. Rules require that I put one on when I go into a store or ride the subway.
Furrowed brows, glares and general stink-eyes still abound. My neighbors are ignoring the CDC as much as right-wingers in West Virginia did last summer.
One would expect attitudes to evolve with the passage of time but that hasn’t been the case so far. When a fellow tenant confronted me recently about my masklessness in the lobby—where I’d been alone prior to her arrival—I informed her that I’d been fully vaccinated. “Everyone in the building has probably been vaccinated,” she said, “but here we still wear them.” I asked why. “It’s just the right thing to do,” she replied.
At a full-serve gas station in Manhattan the attendant demanded that I put on my mask before giving me a fill-up. “We’re outside,” I pointed out. It was windy to boot. “The CDC says you don’t need a mask.” “I don’t care what the CDC says,” he told me. “I’m going to keep wearing a mask forever, like in Asia.”
Ted Rall creator almost 3 years ago
Half-empty streets in majority-Democratic areas—where people are far more likely to get vaxxed—are still, CDC be damned, dotted with people wearing one or two masks on sidewalks where no one can be seen for hundreds of feet. Many of the bemasked will tell you that they been fully vaccinated. You’ll see people jogging down lonely country roads, riding bikes and driving cars while wearing masks.
“You can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time that it may take time for them to adjust [to the new mask rules],” Fauci said May 21st. “So I would not say that that’s irrational. I’d say that’s understandable.”
Go ahead, wear a mask indoors if you want to despite being vaccinated. Wear one outside if you feel like it. However, you are—sorry, Dr. Fauci—acting irrationally. What’s the point of the jab if you behave the same way as a year ago when we wiped down our groceries, bleached our counters and wore plastic gloves out of since-debunked worries over surface transmission?
Masks have devolved from medical imperative to virtue signaling. According to a May 5th Ipsos poll 63% of even vaccinated Americans were still wearing masks, outdoors down from 74% in April but still a surprisingly high number. That number ticked up to 65% the following week on May 11th. President Biden has begun appearing in public with his face fully exposed yet his supporters are not following his example.
What’s the harm in a fashion accessory that, as the vaxxed-yet-masked crowd informs you, merely tries to make other people feel more comfortable while also sending a subtle anti-MAGA message? It’s about thinking straight. Democrats can’t credibly claim the scientific high ground unless they adapt to the latest medical consensus.You have the right to be anxious and illogical, not the right to be catered to. No one should wear a mask outside. Vaxxed Americans shouldn’t wear them at all.
https://rall.com
DoneThat Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Being a relatively free country, for some anyway, I’ll continue to make my own decisions, thank you. I infer by your last two sentences you are ‘telling’ me what I should do, since I am indeed, an American. One of our founders (Ben Franklin) said, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Seems simple yet good advice to me. Once the pandemic reduces itself to a trickle, I will then decide how to respond to mask wearing (Dr. Fauci, CDC or others notwithstanding). Not a cartoonist with limited drawing skills. Sorry about criticizing you drawing skills. Maybe you ‘should’ take some lessons. See how that works? Irritating isn’t it?Ain’t freedom grand?Keep up the good work though, we need your voice to make sure we are still thinking and not just following.
ncorgbl almost 3 years ago
Again, COVID-19 is a living entity. We have seen over the past 20 months several mutations and new ones announced just this past week. We’ve seen the CDC and Dr. Fauci chastised and called ‘flip-floppers,’ for changing the messaging as the virus changed, and as we have dealt with it. We’ve seen people claim and violently protest that the suggestion of wearing a mask violated their rights when they made no such protest when the government has actual laws making them wear pants. And we’ve seen the number of COVID-19 cases level off and go down prior to the vaccine by adhering to Fauci and the CDC guidelines (NOT laws) of social distancing, hand washing and wearing masks.
Telling others to not wear a mask is not your business nor your concern. You make your decisions for yourself. Others make their own decisions for themselves. And if you’re wrong, just as tRump with far more information than you have was wrong in his advice, you’ll offer the same guarantee as tRump has. DEATH.
[Unnamed Reader - 64b33a] almost 3 years ago
Even leaving aside coronavirus concerns, wearing masks can be great for allergy sufferers, people with “ordinary” viruses, and people who live in areas with polluted air. I don’t know why you want me to cough and sneeze all over the place.
walkingmancomics almost 3 years ago
Mr. Rall? Do the term “false equivilency” have any meanin’ for ya?
Steveh16 almost 3 years ago
Mr. Rall makes some very good points. Personally I have a underlying condition that makes the virus more deadly to me. While I have been vaccinated I wear a mask in public places as it is still possible to catch and suffer symptoms from Covid-19 even after being vaccinated. I might not die but who can afford to use the American Medial System if they don’t absolutely have too? A day or so in the hospital would bankrupt me and many Americans…
superposition almost 3 years ago
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html
gcottay almost 3 years ago
This is a great bit of insight into the mind and heart of Ted Rall.
People have died and are still dying but he wants to pitch a fit about some people taking an almost certainly unnecessary precaution.
Sick. And Sad,
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
So, this cartoonist thinks protecting life is the same as taking life?
XtopherSD almost 3 years ago
Came here and was not disappointed by the utter inanity of Rall’s comic today.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Did Rall miss the statistics on influenza cases? Virtually none. Why? Masking, social distancing, etc. And yes, the flu does kill people, still. I wear a double layer mask with a 2.5micron filter. I don’t want your infection to become my infection. And the flu shots given are based on a “best guess” at the likely form of the flu that will be the one circulating. Help save people from the misery of the flu. Wear a mask.
Phillip Hicks Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Equating a kindness to a human sacrifice is itself barbaric.
JRobinson Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Nearly half of American adults are vaccinated. So that means that MORE than half still aren’t? Me, I’m vaccinated and go without a mask except where it’s mandated, but I’m cool if somebody else wants to play it safer. Maybe some words instead about Texas Republicans trying to sneak in new laws legalizing election theft?
grumpypophobart almost 3 years ago
I’ve had the first shot and am partially vaccinated, yet I carry a mask in my pocket just in case I become uncomfortable with the number of people who seem unable to grasp the severity of the situation. I am also heartily sick and tired of arguing with people over the number of people allowed in elevator cars, so now simply put on the mask until I’m well clear of these dumbos. As a regular attendee at hospital clinics, I know that hospital staff feel the same way as I do. Now if people who are front line providers, feel that masks, hand washing and social distance is still required, then who am I, a mere old painter and decorator, to argue with them?
Boomer Premium Member almost 3 years ago
If I wish to wear a mask at the supermarket after being vaccinated, nobody is harmed, and I feel safer. Plus we know that all the masks and social distancing, etc. virtually erased the 20/21 flu season. So, as a free American, it is my call and you can go F-Off.
martens almost 3 years ago
Rall, you have some gall to be explaining to us scientists how we should treat scientific data. Your hysteria is not helping, and your knowledge on the subject is shallow. BTW, both Motivemagus and Baslim are trained scientific researchers, as am I. When I see some real scientific sophistication in your posts, maybe I’ll pay attention.