Those of you who can go out...

blueize said...
The theory that you can contract the virus through your eyes has been around for awhile.Thats where eyeglasses come in handy!!! Unfortunately like it or not masks good hygiene and social distancing are all we have at the present with the death toll well over 120,000 here in the US...but I guess to some people that’s not significant?

Certainly is significant!

astroman said...

The truth: Its still effective for the mask user, just not as much.

Thank you for the explanation of what I instinctively and experientially know!! Like I said, I already wore masks in public not to protect others but to protect myself. I have mold and chemical sensitivities and even a flimsy non-surgical mask like you see in the doctor’s office offers some measure of protection for me without undue discomfort. Is it enough to protect me from poison gas or while doing mold remediation work? - no. Is it enough to reduce a direct hit from everyday amounts of fragrance, chemicals, odors, or mold? - yes.

I don’t need scientific proof of anything that common sense and experience have already taught me, and no human authority could convince me that what I already learned by instinct and experience is false.

To me it's quite simple. Even if there were 50/50 statistics on whether or not the masks are going to protect me and/or protect someone else, the right thing to do is to take the side of precaution and just wear the mask when I'm in public. To me, it's the kind, neighborly, compassionate, Christian stance to take.

The surgeons in my family wear tight fitting N95 masks during sometimes 8 hour surgeries with no risk of hypoxia, hypoxemia or hypercapnia affecting their performance. If they can do that, I certainly can wear an N95 or a looser fitting pollution grade mask when I go to the grocery store.

We all are suffering to some degree of virus fatigue but unfortunately this virus shows no signs of fatigue.Everyone please do what you can to stay safe PLEASE!

Astroman Thank you! My sentiments exactly!

We have very few mask wearers in my city - most likely because we have very few cases - as in less than 10

No new cases in the past few weeks

I go out with a mask, when I need to. Everyone else wears masks too. I live in a part of the US that was hit hard early. At least one person I know died from it, and several other people got sick. I was getting really paranoid whenever my friends or relatives started to not feel well, but now since cases are going down, and I probably had it already, I'm not too worried.. I've started running with friends again.

Strange thing—myself and pretty much everybody I know in my town came down with the same stomach bug, even though no one's seen each other for months. I'm thinking that there must be some kind of batch of produce at the store that everyone bought that had something bad in it.

ChristianWithLyme said...
We are being conditioned to think that freedom is selfish.

I hope it's not this view that comes first for you, clouding your view of the threat of the virus, and of whether or not masks are effective.

Would you say the same things about freedom and liberty if the mortality rate of Covid actually WAS that of the Spanish flu?

I think you should stick to arguing about the threat of the virus, and leave the freedom and liberty stuff out of it.

Post Edited (potsnpans) : 6/22/2020 1:40:17 PM (GMT-6)

potsnpans, I'm sure if we were living through the Spanish Flu, things would be different in more ways than one.

My arguments in this thread are based upon the current time period and current perceived Covid risk.

Fair enough CWL. Just trying to point out that under certain circumstances, we can agree that governments should be able to take away some of our freedoms for the greater good

10LymeB - "Are you going out? With or without a mask? I just realized I haven't left my house in 100 days."


Back to your question. I went out yesterday. "Road biked" twelve miles on a combo of trails, and less used roads. There were people (this is not the big city though), but it was windy. Went to do some shopping beforehand, most had masks on. The local burger joint had customers dining outside with spaced tables and the employees had masks.

Christian..

That’s the mindset that our Provincial Health Officer has had -

[..."BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday he and his wife have COVID-19 after he played in a series of exhibition matches he organized in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Raising questions about the full-fledged return of tennis, including the U.S. open, planned for August, Djokovic — who stands third in the history of men's tennis with 17 Grand Slam titles — is the fourth player to test positive for the illness after participating in the matches held in Belgrade and Zadar, Croatia.................


..............Djokovic has been in the news frequently in connection to the COVID-19 outbreak, which led to the suspension of the ATP and WTA professional tennis tours in March. Plans were announced last week for the sport's sanctioned events to return in August.

In April, he was criticized for saying he would not want to take a vaccine for the virus in order to be able to compete, even if it were mandatory for travel.

In May, when he was staying in Spain, Djokovic broke local lockdown rules by practicing at a tennis club about a week before it was allowed.

More recently, Djokovic complained about the U.S. Tennis Association's plans to try to protect people from the virus during the U.S. open with such measures as limiting the size of players' entourages, going so far as to say he didn't know whether he would go to the tournament in New York........." .]