More serious than I may have thought

Originally Posted by kss

Yes everyone is taking it differently and parts of the country that are sparsely populated are less effected. However in the more (or even mildly) populated areas of the country it is an issue. Most people around me know someone who has had it and either been hospitalized or died, so it is a very real threat, even if your anecdotal evidence of one person not getting it makes it seem otherwise. People say



"oh well if you don't want to catch it just stay home, Im not wearing a mask"

But when people say "if you don't want to wear a mask, just stay home" the no-maskers get all angry. Or when businesses say you cant come in my store without a mask, the no-maskers feel like its their right to be able to go into any private business they want, when it is not. This is America, and if business doesn't want you on their property or as a customer, tough-luck (assuming the reason that they dont want you is not discriminatory/a protected class, which in this case, it is not).

I already had corona so I don't really care one way or another, Im less likely to re-get it and if I do Ive proven I can fight it off. But I still wear a mask when out in public just so other people around me arent uncomfortable. I dont need the attention of being the only person in a place without a mask.

It doesnt seem like a political thing to me it seems like a machismo thing to me "look how tough I am with an unobstructed mouth, Im not afraid of no virus".. or "No ones gunna tell ME what to do! Im the most important person around!" ... but everything now-a-days is a political statement so... meh

For me, it is not some "machismo thing". It is an "I'm not going to let this control my life" thing. Cars crash every day and I still drive a car. People get cuts and die from infections every day, and I still break down dirty as hell stuff to get the scrap. If you are concerned about a cold that kills even the dying at less than 1%, then you stay inside. To keep the healthy confined, is backwards in my opinion. If someone is so scared they worry about being around other people, they are the ones who need to sequester. It is the right of the worried to imprison themselves, it is not the right of the worried to imprison others to satisfy their fear. Logic tells me that wearing a mask to protect me from a virus is akin to putting up a chainlink fence to keep mosquitoes out of my yard. Also, a mask is not going to keep your hands clean in public and prevent transmission through contact. As far as I am concerned, let the healthy go about their lives and let the compromised and scared wear a mask and stay in their homes and keep the sick away from public and wearing the protection.