patchythepirate

Apple urging retail staff to wear masks again even if they're vaccinated

July 2021

tmay said:

tylersdad said:

lkrupp said:

Xed said:

sdw2001 said:

It is amazing how we just keep repeating the insanity. We know that mask mandates and lockdowns don’t work. This is unequivocal. That is not to say masks don’t work at all, but the way we’re wearing them clearly will not be effective. We aren’t talking about wearing an N 95 or better mask when entering a high risk environment like a medical facility or a nursing home. We’re talking about wearing a piece of cloth or paper across your face while you shop for your new AirPods. It’s not going to do anything.

Sure they do. It's asshole republicans who can't seem to follow simple rules that keep exacerbating this problem.

I now see plenty of businesses saying that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask, but for unvaccinated people to wear them. Are unvaccinated people going to wear masks? Not the ones that I know.

Yep, the so-called ‘honor system’ is a joke. Someone who refuses to get vaccinated is also not going to pay attention to the honor system by wearing a mask. They see it as an excuse not to wear a mask and don't give a shit if they spread the virus. Time for vaccination passports and severe consequences if caught using a forged one.

But on the other hand, the government is so incompetent it would be a complete mess. I got a letter from my county health department saying they had no record of me getting my second Pfizer shot. I got both shots at the same county vaccination center and have my county vaccination card with both stickers showing the dates and time of both shots. See what I mean?

And it's the unvaccinated who are contracting severe cases, not the vaccinated. If the unvaccinated want to take their chances, let them.

I'm a democrat, and at this stage of vaccination in the U.S., I'm all for Darwin to have his day. The only negative is that the U.S. medical system is getting pretty tired of dealing with these hospitalizations of the unvaccinated. Myself, I'm concerned about the continuing pool of mutations that the world has yet to experience.

Are you virtue signaling that you're a democrat?

Then you go on to insinuate that you don't care about people dying just because they don't agree with you? Now it makes sense how 10s of millions of people died under communism.

Anyway, as someone who is a physician, medical director of a clinic, working in a large medical center, in a no mask mandate state, I can assure you that hospitals are doing just fine.

Apple urging retail staff to wear masks again even if they're vaccinated

patchythepirate

July 2021

canucklehead said:

sdw2001 said:

It is amazing how we just keep repeating the insanity. We know that mask mandates and lockdowns don’t work. This is unequivocal. That is not to say masks don’t work at all, but the way we’re wearing them clearly will not be effective. We aren’t talking about wearing an N 95 or better mask when entering a high risk environment like a medical facility or a nursing home. We’re talking about wearing a piece of cloth or paper across your face while you shop for your new AirPods. It’s not going to do anything.

And it’s this type of uninformed comment that has the US in the situation it’s in.

N95 masks are designed to minimize incoming exposure and transmission. Proper cloth masks are designed to reduce transmission. They help capture the viruses encapsulated in micro droplets as you breathe out, reducing the chance of a contagious person from spreading the virus.

Mask wearing has been proven to help reduce spread and the data can be easily seen when comparing places with and without mask mandates (along with how seriously the people take these rules).

And it’s this type of uninformed comment that has the US in the situation it’s in.

The virus is airborne. It has roughly the same particle size as the seasonal flu. Masks aren't doing much at all, if anything. There is even a 4,000 person study from Denmark specifically related to covid that's shown this.

But sheep will believe authority no matter how little sense it makes, no matter what freedoms are restricted, so long as it fuels their sense of self-righteousness and perceived moral authority.. And a lot of people are just governed by their neuroticism and are too anxious to make decisions on their own, so they enjoy being told what to do, and assume that's how it should be for everyone, totally blind to their own arrogance.

And the rest of us have to pay the price. The sad part is that people are willing to put kids at risk to mitigate their own selfish neuroticism. It's shameful that anyone is vaccinating kids for covid. Minors make up %0.05 of the total covid deaths (<350 cases out of around ~600k total). Basically %0. Yet cowards want to use mRNA vaccines, which have not gone through proper safety testing, not even FDA approved, for what?? Already, %90 of the elderly are vaccinated. So who are we protecting? We're protecting the sensitivity of neurotic cowards.