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Post by zeke on Aug 30, 2020 7:40:05 GMT -8
As I sat down at a lunch counter in Creede, Co., I sat with 2 empty spaces between me and the lady at the end. While still masked up, I asked her if this was far enough away for her to be comfortable. She was not masked, as she was paying her tab to get ready to leave. Her reply to me was, "I'm not afraid." She repeated that mantra a few moments later. I ate my dinner, paid my bill, and left, all the while having only come into close proximity to the server and the boss. That was my penalty for sitting next to the terminal they used to convey orders to the kitchen and to print out my bill.
Florida is one hot spot in America. Most of those people I came into contact with should've been concerned about where I came from. I can say without equivocation that I am confident I spread no virus of any kind, and I do not believe I contracted any in the last 2 weeks to bring home to my wife. I'll know more in a week.
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Post by ErnieW on Aug 31, 2020 5:00:41 GMT -8
I personally believe that risk of transmission outdoors from passers by and from surface contact are both very low. But I always have a mask in my pocket when outdoors and if people coming my way are masked, I just put mine on. It's not a big deal, doesn't cost me a thing to extend that courtesy. Otherwise, I give them a really wide berth. We walk regularly in our neighborhood and don't weak masks. We will cross the street to have space. We do not ever pass in opposite directions on a sidewalk. But I have been carrying a cloth mask for some time now. What occurred to me was if I came across someone that was having a health issue, older person non able to stand up to a kid's bike accident, I would want to help. I would need a mask to step into a situation like this and I would want to be ready.
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Post by jazzmom on Aug 31, 2020 5:17:39 GMT -8
My son and I noted (jokingly) yesterday that we now have doggy poop bags AND masks in all our pockets. I'm regularly rescuing them out of pockets whenever I do laundry
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 31, 2020 6:41:34 GMT -8
And my son noted that masks hanging from the rear-view mirror have replaced other ornaments. It’s convenient, but still a bad idea to hand anything where it limits your view of the road.
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Post by desert dweller on Aug 31, 2020 8:39:18 GMT -8
masks hanging from the rear-view mirror A couple friends say they put their masks on the dash. The reasoning is that the intense heat and sun here in Tucson will help sterilize the mask. I hand wash mine every couple of days and hang them in the sun to dry.
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Post by ErnieW on Aug 31, 2020 17:54:56 GMT -8
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 31, 2020 19:53:38 GMT -8
I am wondering if there will be school yard shaming for the kind/pattern mask you wear. Oh, almost certainly. "Oh, look, Suzy has a baby mask! My Little Pony is for babies!"
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 1, 2020 5:14:51 GMT -8
Pfff... My Little Pony rocks!!!
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Post by ErnieW on Sept 1, 2020 5:43:05 GMT -8
Pfff... My Little Pony rocks!!! Brony Alert!!!
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 1, 2020 5:50:40 GMT -8
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Post by toejam on Sept 1, 2020 6:36:15 GMT -8
After huffing and puffing my way up Glen Pass last week some people were running off the trail scared on the other side because I didn't wear a mask. Did they think someone with the virus could climb a 12,000' pass and then blow germs through mountain sun and wind on them?
It all seems so much more ridiculous after a week in the mountains. The promised stacks of corpses have never materialized.
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Post by zeke on Sept 1, 2020 7:00:34 GMT -8
That death toll may well reach 200K by Oct 1.
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Post by balzaccom on Sept 1, 2020 10:31:29 GMT -8
Which is roughly five times the number of deaths from the "normal flu" over the past few years.
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Post by gabby on Sept 1, 2020 10:57:32 GMT -8
And my son noted that masks hanging from the rear-view mirror have replaced other ornaments. It’s convenient, but still a bad idea to hand anything where it limits your view of the road. I started putting mine there to dry in the Texas sun but, yeah, you gotta move them when driving. I originally started hanging them on the rearview mirror for visibility: I have far too many times left in the car thinking there was at least one mask in the console, only to discover there were none, meaning I had to return home to get one or buy one somewhere - which, of course, also requires a mask now. I keep thinking someone should set up a kiosk in parking lots to sell them to those who forgot. I only use the paper discardable ones. The wife and daughter tend toward the washables because they treat the paper ones as "single use", while I dry them (on the rearview mirror or some other prominent spot) and re-use them all the time. Like discardable grocery bags, they start to collect. I probably have a half dozen in the console compartment by now, another half dozen on the bedside table I've removed from pockets. I keep using them until the earbands come loose. No one else in my household will do that - I get harangued all the time. That death toll may well reach 200K by Oct 1. We're now at nearly 184K deaths. We're averaging 1K deaths per day, more-or-less. Assuming that doesn't come down, yeah. 200K. (I keep getting reminded of the "death poll" we took some months back. I think I guessed 250K - 300K by the end of the year, while most others guessed 200K.) There are 16 weeks - 120 days - left in the year. Without any major change in the death rate, I will unhappily find that I was right. Did they think someone with the virus could climb a 12,000' pass and then blow germs through mountain sun and wind on them? "Irrational" is what we do best these days. There are just too many examples to cite all (and this isn't TPA). "Observe and adjust and accommodate" is probably the best policy, maintaining a "soft approach" to the perceived threat or reaction to the threat. Watching one of those "house renovation" shows the wife favors last night - this one on Galveston Island - I noted that Galveston Island is flat. A quick check on my phone confirmed that, yes, the highest place on the island lay at 20 feet above sea level. Building there seems, well, relatively short-sighted, considering the future rise in seawater. But my point is: we're all headed in the same direction to the same destination (more-or-less). Not much sense getting all worked up about the means or the timing or the relative difference in attitude about that fact when it really amounts to so little any way you look at it. But, HYOH. :^D
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 1, 2020 11:51:16 GMT -8
After huffing and puffing my way up Glen Pass last week some people were running off the trail scared on the other side because I didn't wear a mask. Did they think someone with the virus could climb a 12,000' pass and then blow germs through mountain sun and wind on them? It all seems so much more ridiculous after a week in the mountains. The promised stacks of corpses have never materialized. Asymptomatic people are just that: no symptoms. So infected and transmitting people can as easily climb a 12,000 foot pass. as they could before becoming a disease transmitter. Much the same as asymptomatic giardiasis carriers spread that disease.
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